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How did ESPN manage to show a Duke game without Dickie V. calling it?
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02-04-2009, 10:23 PM | #602 |
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Texas/Missouri has definitely been the game of the night. Mizzou by 1 with 4:30 to go.
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M-I-Z Z-O-U!!!!!!!!!
HUGE win for the Tigers in Austin tonight!!! The league is basically a three horse race now with OU, KU, and MU 1 1/2 games clear of the rest of the league. MU plays on the road against ISU this Saturday while KU hosts OSU. Assuming both teams win, it sets up a monster game at Mizzou Arena on Big Monday with both teams likely being ranked! LET'S GO TIGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Business to attend to with Okie State and Iowa State this weekend.
Then it's time to take our young and inconsistent but talented show on the road for a nice Big Monday showdown. SI
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Wow, how did Clemson get away with having Duke and UNC only once each this year? If Purnell can avoid the problems he's had in the past with road games (typically, Clemson is good for a couple of dropped road games to far inferior teams per season), Clemson could be set up nicely for a top-3 conference finish, with 6 of their last 9 games against the bottom 6 in the conference.
That was one of the most satisfying college basketball games I have ever watched. Coach K just sat most of the 2nd half and watched his team get dismantled.
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02-05-2009, 07:52 AM | #607 |
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I really liked Coach K trying to make sure the players got the point.
CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) -Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski called a timeout in the final minute, gathered his beaten Blue Devils around him and let them listen as the Littlejohn Coliseum crowd celebrated a Clemson win like few others. Prolonging the agony as a teaching tool, I like it, especially if (as a Clemson player said afterwards) Duke quit at the end.
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02-05-2009, 05:21 PM | #609 |
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It will be pretty awesome game on Big Monday...of course, you always have to watch out for Hilton Magic, especially in a look-ahead game on Saturday.
I feel better about OU beating KU at home rather than Mizzou on the road for sure. Mizzou is a good team and Coach Anderson has them playing hard and you have to respect that. They also bring legitimacy to the Big 12 North (and thus makes the conference look better in general). Of course, the conference is so down this year we can use legitimacy wherever we can. |
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As Pat Summitt goes again tonight for win number 1,000, the injury bug for the Lady Vols is getting ridiculous. Already this season they lost Cait McMahan to a series of knee injuries that proved to be career ending. Then last week it's a second torn ACL in two years for sophomore Vicki Baugh, season ending at best.
20 seconds into tonight freshman Alicia Manning goes down & out for the night with some sort of thigh injury. And now in the opening minutes of the second half they have to carry Shekina Stricklen off with what looked at first to be a knee but while I'm typing this we hear an eavesdrop from the bench with Pat telling the team that it's a groin injury & she'll be okay. And none of that gets into the ridiculous run of concussions they went through during practice at the start of the season. Of the original 12 player roster, only 4 of the 12 players have not missed at least one game this season. I know it's a sidebar to the main focus for the men's game here & everything but watching this really makes me think that there's something to the feature I saw CNN run over the weekend about how the physiology of young women was so different from that of young men and the role that plays in increased injuries, specifically knee injuries. Something to the effect that lateral movement was more natural for growing boys while growing girls tended to be more vertically oriented & that explosive lateral movement wasn't something they were designed for. I'm sure that rankles some folks but I didn't make it up, the core of of the story was a female researcher who wasn't saying anything needed to be done differently or suggesting any restrictions but just dealing with the reality of the physical differences.
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Honestly, the Big 12 North has a real argument for being the better division. 2 of the top 3 and 4 of the top 6 teams are in the North. The North has a winning record in the head-to-head matchups against the South. Baylor and Texas have to be considered the biggest disappointments in the league thus far. KSU and NU have been relative surprises considering nothing was expected of either team, yet their right in the middle of the pack. |
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02-07-2009, 03:00 PM | #612 |
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Duke survives against Miami after shooting 19% in the first half and trailing by as many as 16 early in the 2nd half. Jack McClinton carried Miami and forced an overtime, but Miami went completely cold in the OT. 78-75 Duke in OT in Durham.
That drops miami to 4-6 in the ACC. 3 of their final 6 games are on the road and 1 of the home games is vs UNC next Saturday. They are definitely on the bubble and need to make something pretty big happen in their final 6 games or in the ACC Tourney to get in I would think. |
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Meanwhile, Nebraska is up 4 on Texas with less than a minute left. Go Huskers!
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Tennessee loses to Auburn on the road, slips to 14-8 overall. Just an incredibly disappointing season this year for a team that was supposed to be at least Sweet 16 caliber.
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02-07-2009, 03:47 PM | #615 |
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UCLA crushes Notre Dame on national TV. Good win, even though Notre Dame has really fallen off in its losing streak. I am thinking a lot of people saw UCLA for the first time today, and it will be interesting to see what sort of jump they make in the polls.
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Michigan is hanging tough in Storrs...I wonder if Thabeet could be the #1 overall pick. He seems to still have loads of untapped potential.
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02-07-2009, 06:27 PM | #617 |
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Nova's win against Syracuse has to put them into "lock" category.
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02-08-2009, 09:33 AM | #618 |
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The table is set for the biggest Border War match-up in several years. 19-4 Kansas at 20-4 Mizzou. The hatred in me boils without control.
OU, Kansas and Mizzou are all but locks in the Big 12 at this point. It looks like this will be a 5 bid league, meaning that KSU, NU, and Texas will be fighting for the last two spots. If Texas doesn't turn things around in a hurry, we could easily see 4 of the 5 Big 12 bids go to the North Division. The South has really disappointed this year. |
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And in historical Clemson fashion a huge win is followed up by a disappointing loss. The program was and os progressing nicely under Purnell, I just hate this atypical performance.
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Neither KSU nor NU have any guaranteed shots. Neither did anything in the non-conference so even 10-6 would require a decent Big XII tourney showing. Texas has a nice non-conference to fall back on but they will need to close strong to get a spot. SI
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I don't know, man. FSU looks to be a tournament team this year. Disappointing to lose at home I'm sure, but I wouldn't be too broken up about it.
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St. Mary's are looking WOEFUL without Pat Mills. 1-2 since he went down, with 18 point losses to both Santa Clara and Portland. They play like a completely different team.
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Proving once again there are always new and unique ways to lose a game, State blows an 18-point second half lead at Virginia Tech and loses in OT, 91-87. The intentional foul call that basically flipped the entire game around was complete and utter BS and resulted in a five-point possession for the Hokies, but there was plenty of time and lead to regain their footing after that, which they naturally didn't do.
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Classic hangover game, I wouldn't worry too much. The thing that makes it the most galling is that Clemson had a 16 point lead with under 8 minutes left. Blowing that type of lead almost takes effort.
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Sure, but you could say that about a lot of the middle of the pack teams in a BCS conference. Someone's going to emerge out of those three, while another will likely limp in thanks to a 9-7 record and a good run in the conference tourney. Similar stories will occur in the other big conferences. |
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WVU travels to Pittsburgh tonight. WVU has a really high RPI, based mostly on very good losses (neutral sites against Kentucky and Davidson and BE games against 'Cuse, UConn, Pitt, Louisville, and Marquette), rather than very good wins. We have beaten Ohio State on the road and Georgetown on the road (although that doesn't look too special nowadays), but we really need to knock off one of the big dogs we have remaining (@ Pitt or at home vs Louisville or Villanova) to get a protected seed.
I'm not too confident going against Pitt and DaJuan Blair, but if we could somehow get his giant butt in foul trouble and shoot well, we could steal one here. |
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Allright SI and KU... should be a good one tonight!!!
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Just gotta chime in here with a "ROCK CHALK! JAYHAWK! KU!"
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I think it's important to note just how despicable a breed these Jayhawkers really are................
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Both sides had the proverbial (and literal, in this case) raping and pillaging. Missouri was the slave state, Kansas was the free state. Scoreboard. Take your little propaganda elsewhere
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Yeah, tho she's at a conference in Albuquerque SI
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Rankings are out. MU was the big mover in both polls. Mizzou jumped from unrated to #17 in the AP poll and #19 in the Coaches poll.
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It's most certainly nice too see Florida State ranked at 25, hopefully we can break through and make the tournament.
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Yeah, sorry....Kansas wins that battle.
As an aside, I just came into $13,500, and I was thinking of putting it all on Missouri tonight. Thoughts?
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I'd give Mizzou about a 60% chance to win. According to Yahoo, it's bid 200 to win 100 with Mizzou or bid 100 to win 160 with Kansas so I'm not too far off from Vegas. The Tigers are at home and, frankly, we've been inconsistent, like any young team (yeah, I know, most teams would kill to be as "inconsistent" as we are this year). Frankly, I think Mizzou's D will frustrate us and they will build a lead in the first half. We'll see if KU can come back. SI
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Game on
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What a terrible half of basketball in Missouri, heh. Kansas D deserves a little credit for sure but Missouri is just playing awful. And really Kansas hasn't looked great but when Missouri is shooting under 25% it doesn't take much!
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I bet Karl's breaking something if he put all that dough on Mizzou.
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Here's a good article on it. I remember this being a somewhat big topic years ago. Knee Injuries are More Common for Female Basketball Players |
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as bad as the first half was, I'm glad I stuck with it, Mizzou/Kansas tied with 1:15 to go.
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And tied again with 0:23 to go
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congrats mizzou fans!
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Well, that played out almost the exact opposite as I said it would.
Fun second half, tho a lot more fun for Mizzou fans SI
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Man, that was a pretty shot
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The Big 12 is gonna be lucky to have any teams make it to the Sweet 16 this year.
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Hmm, apparently UCLA's thrashing of a number of opponents of late has drawn attention, jumping six spots in the AP, and I am not sure how many in the ESPN poll, but they're #6 now, and I am certain they weren't in the Top 10 before.
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