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11-20-2009, 11:04 PM | #202 |
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Syracuse looks really really good, congrats to them, great performance.
The first 10 minutes of the second half were a total embarrassment for UNC. Airballing 3's, hardly trying to go inside at all, and the defense was just an abomination. I don't think a Syracuse shooter had a hand in his face during a shot for about 6 or 7 minutes. This is pretty much what I expect for awhile though, capable of beating anyone, capable of losing to anyone/totally collapsing against a good team. Larry Drew was completely and totally worthless tonight. They'll gain experience and consistency I am sure, but WOW just total shit play at PG tonight. |
11-20-2009, 11:12 PM | #203 |
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I think I jinxed the Big East. They started out 40-0 (if I am not mistaken), but have lost their last 2! Luckily, I was smart enough to do it at a time when WVU was not playing.
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Sorry for the dickish tone in my last one. I just know BE defenders are going to be throwing that out there in discussions for the last at-large berths vs. teams like St. Joseph's and Xavier, when each team should be judged on its merits - instead of BE teams 8-11 getting credit (other than the obvious RPI and SOS bumps) for other teams being decent while A-10 teams 2-4 are torn down by association with St. Bonaventure, Fordham and sadly, UMass this year. (shocklingly enough 8 freshmen/transfers in the rotation, the DDM and no Calipari to lure 5* recruits is a bad combination.) Last edited by BishopMVP : 11-20-2009 at 11:45 PM. |
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11-21-2009, 03:53 AM | #205 | |
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BishopMVP, see Final Four, circa 2006-08. BTW, the team this year is certainly not all that good. But if you're going to be a hater, at least don't prove your ignorance at the same time.
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11-21-2009, 07:26 AM | #206 |
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Seriously, if you are going to bag on programs that are living in the past and suck now I'm not sure how you don't mention Indiana.
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11-21-2009, 09:44 AM | #208 |
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Hmm, I guess I'm reading impaired? You sure you did not add them in the last edit?
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Indiana is bringing in some serious talent but yeah they're not good right now. With the kids they have though right now I think they will continue to improve and be a pest in Big 10 play. Also, homer alert, but Manny Harris and ugh, yes even Evan Turner (damn Buckeyes) are two of the best players in the Nation. Cannot wait to see them go one on one again. |
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I think then the issue is the definition of "marquee program". This term is not used for "best team this year." It's a statement about the general strength of the program, and in this specific instance, how it stands against other programs in its conference. IMO, that is the more accepted understanding of what "marquee" means, not what you believe it is. And under that definition, it's hard to argue that UCLA is not the Pac 10's marquee program. Putting aside all of the historical reasons this is true and only looking at recent history, there's really only three teams with a claim, and that's UCLA-Arizona-Washington. Arizona has largely been behind UCLA for most of Howland's tenure, and Washington has been the closer competitor (in fact, last year and this year, UDub is the top program, although I don't that makes it the "marquee"; it's going to take more time than that). Frankly, I'm not sure how you read "marquee" the way you did. I haven't seen anyone read so tight a definition of the term in the way you chose to. It's similar to "prestigious" in my mind. You don't use one season (and actually predictions for that season, really) to describe a program as the "most prestigious". That's an argument that takes years to build. It's the same with marquee, IMO.
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11-22-2009, 07:57 AM | #211 |
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Last couple of days have been very telling for a couple of Big 12 teams. Kansas State has been really struggling on the defensive end and looked horrible against Old Miss.
Oklahoma is also quickly finding out what happens when you lose an elite post player and are forced to rely on the outside shot. They went 5-26 from three point range and lost to a VCU team by double digits. It'll be interesting to see how the Big 12 sorts itself out considering many think they are one of the deepest conferences in the nation. |
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OU and KSU will be fine. If you look at OU you'll notice they were strong inside. Their guards were abysmal from beyond the arc, but I don't think you're going to see that very often with a guy like Willie Warren.
Miss just ripped KSU up on the offensive end. Surprising given Martin's squads are usually very physical and solid on defense ala Huggins' squads. They have to feel good about the production of Curtis Kelly and Wally Judge. Nebraska put up 90 on TCU. I don't know if TCU is that bad or NU just got hot since it's rare to see Sadler's NU squads put up that many points. Sadler's a very good coach, but just can't seem to pull in the recruits at NU. Quote:
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11-22-2009, 08:02 PM | #214 |
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Who the f is Texas Pan American?
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11-22-2009, 08:12 PM | #215 |
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I don't care who you're playing. If you lay a 46-5 run on a team as Mizzou did today, it's very impressive. That game looked like a scrimmage against a high school team at times. Bowers is becoming a regular on ESPN's top 10 thus far. He had two more sick dunks today. He's an amazing athlete. |
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After a close win over George Mason, Villanova makes a solid early season statement by playing two great games against Dayton and Ole Miss to win the Puerto Rico Shootout.
Still a long way to go, but it's a nice way to start out the nonconference part of the season. |
11-22-2009, 10:38 PM | #217 |
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It's definitely nice to already have two blowout neutral-site wins against ranked teams. I doubt anyone else in the country has that yet. Last edited by molson : 11-22-2009 at 10:39 PM. |
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Considering that Tx-Pan Am was #333 of 347 teams in Sagarin's end of season ratings last year & about the same so far this year, I think there's a pretty good reason it looked like that, it wasn't far from it.
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I think Mike Anderson has achieved his goal: He has recreated Nolan Richardson's Arkansas team at Missouri. Do we have Scotty Thurman and Corliss Williamson yet? Remains to be seen. Is Steve Moore looking better? Was reading today about how he's dropped 40 pounds from last year. His weight definitely hurt him last year. |
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KSU just beat a top 25 school in Dayton. You were saying about KSU?
OU had a bad game. It happens. It happens especially when you're relying on young players as the Sooners are this year. Their best players are sophomores or freshmen. Yes, NU is extremely inconsistent. Sadler hasn't been able to recruit the talent he'd like to NU, but he has them playing solid basketball. They beat two quality teams in Texas and Missouri last year. Sadler's teams play some ugly basketball, but they have a tendency to force other teams to play ugly basketball as well when they are in Lincoln thus giving them an opportunity to win. They definitely don't have the talent that the other Big 12 north squads minus CU have, but Sadler finds a way to win games at home. So I won't lock them in as a cellar dweller just yet. Speaking of the Big 12, Iowa State seems to be playing well. I don't know that you could call them a sleeper given Brackins returning, but they could do some damage in the Big 12. Quote:
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11-22-2009, 11:05 PM | #221 |
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St. Mary's started 2-0, including a big win over San Diego St., but fell yesterday to Vandy in a close one. Aussie freshman guard Dellavedova is one to watch. I don't know that he's the next Patty Mills, but I saw him play a fair bit for our national team over the past few months and he's a heck of a player for a guy his age, great defender especially. Averaging 18.3 pts 3 rebs and 4.7 assists on .471 shooting over the first 3 games.
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11-22-2009, 11:28 PM | #222 |
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Mizzou's OOC schedule is pretty embarassing. Were all the NAIA schools taken when they put it together?
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Ugh. Dayton's strength is usually defense and rebounding, but they got killed all tournament on the boards, and their perimeter defense against KSU's guards was awful. Those are some talented guys, but to have both KSU's starting guards go for over 20 was an embarrassment. Disappointing not to pull 2 wins out of the tournament, but frankly after the Georgia Tech comeback, UD was lucky to get 1.
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Not too sure about that. Got some pretty good competition in the non-con schedule. Old Dominion should be one of the better mid-majors. Mississippi State is a top 25 team. Illinois is expected to be very good. Oregon and Georgia aren't very good, but they're certainly big-conference teams. Tennessee-Chattanooga was a NCAA tourney team last year. Vanderbilt on the road should be a very good test. FWIW.......the game yesterday against Pan American and the Tennessee-Chattanooga game are the preliminary round games of the South Padre Invitational. Coach Anderson prefers not to schedule teams quite that bad (Pan-American), but he didn't have any say in the matter in this situation. Last edited by Mizzou B-ball fan : 11-23-2009 at 07:55 AM. |
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Agreed. KSU isn't a very good team. Really disappointing to see Dayton lay an egg like that. They'll be fine in the end, but will look back on that game as one they should have easily won. With that said, it doesn't hurt the B12 power rankings, so I won't complain. Last edited by Mizzou B-ball fan : 11-23-2009 at 07:21 AM. |
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11-23-2009, 07:26 AM | #226 |
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College Basketball Hall of Fame inductions were held yesterday in Kansas City. Fans loved seeing Bird and Johnson together. Nice tribute by Tisdale's wife.
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Given that UCLA has arguably the most success in both overall and recent history, that makes them the Pac-10's marquee team. It would take 10 straight final fours for someone to overcome everything UCLA brings to the marquee team argument. I would indeed call Georgetown one of three Big East marquee teams (with SU and UConn) despite the fact that Villanova and Pitt have been more successful recently. But, I am old, younger folks may have no memory of Georgetown being a top 10 program. And "marquee" does not mean "best team this year." The term stems from Broadway, where they put the biggest star's name on the marquee to get people to pay to come watch. In Pac-10 basketball, that is unquestionably UCLA. In Pac-10 football, its still USC, even if they finish fourth this year. Even in years where Oregon is clearly better, people pay more attention to what happens at UCLA. That's what makes them the marquee program.
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KSU's guards are actually pretty solid and have put up some big numbers against some pretty good teams (Clemente put up 40+ against Texas, 30+ against Missouri, and 20+ against Kansas last year while Pullen put up 20+ against UT, KU, and MU). Dayton struggled in the tournament and are obviously out of the top 25 after it, but they played some pretty good squads. Barring some injuries KSU has a good shot of making the NCAA tourney.
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I think you're going to be surprised by KSU. KSU beat MU and UT last year and they return their best players along with adding some athletic size in the front court. KSU is a good team. The loss to Mississippi surprised me, but it's understandable given Pullen and Clemente's struggles in the game. Either Mississippi played some great defense on KSU's guards or their shots just weren't falling. Either way it's a good win for Mississippi.
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Colorado giving Gonzaga quite a game right now at the Maui Invitational. 63-63 with 5 minutes left.
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Let's not get crazy here. Everyone plays some cupcakes. Mizzou has plenty of good teams on their schedule. Outside of the mid-major teams that are forced to schedule big dogs in most non-conference games, most big conference teams usually have a half-and-half schedule much like Mizzou with some cupcakes mixed in with some solid opponents. Last edited by Mizzou B-ball fan : 11-23-2009 at 04:10 PM. |
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Gonzaga survives by 4 points over Colorado.
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Purdue beats Tennessee by 1 in the Paradise Jam final. Wrong result but a darned good b'ball game for November.
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Washington picks up a very intriguing commitment today from Turkish native Enes Kanter. He's a 6'9", 240lb frontcourt player, considered a pretty good athlete with high basketball IQ. He's considered one of the top big men in the 2010 class, and has been called the best player born in 1992 out of Europe.
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Texas picks up a solid 85-60 win over Iowa. Tomorrow's game against Pitt should be a good one.
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I have heard a lot of good things about him. I know Huggins and co. thought he was scholarship-worthy (in a year w/ limited scholarships available), but a lot of folks think he will have trouble gaining eligibility with all of the stupid, arbitrary NCAA rules. In any case, he sounds like an NBA-prospect and, at worst, Washington loses nothing by trying to get him on-board. |
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Yes, because playing on a club team overseas that has one guy getting paid to play is 10 times worse than directly receiving benefits from your AAU coach stateside. |
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Preaching to the choir with this crowd, I imagine. Dragovic had to sit out ten games his freshman season because of that rule. I don't know too much details about Kanter's professional experience, but the scuttlebutt on the UCLA sites on why they didn't target him is because they're not sure he will ever be eligible. Don't know how much there is to that.
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I'll admit to being wrong on marquee, even if I do think the context (specifically the 2009-10 season) allows for more flexibility. (i.e. Indiana is still the marquee Big 10 program going forward, but this year they're not.) |
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Iowa's terrible, so that's no surprise.
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The only surprise there was that it was a 38-38 game at halftime. Texas finally figured out they were supposed to play some defense in the second half. Iowa should have never been there anyway. They actually lost both games in the preliminary rounds of this tournament, but they have a screwy rule where the host sites advance regardless of preliminary round results. The teams that beat Iowa would have put up a better fight. |
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On the other hand, the fact that he enrolled in and left two prep schools before landing at Stoneridge Prep is a red flag. And I've heard Stoneridge has a rep as a prep school of last resort. We'll see. I have a lot of faith in Romar's judgment of character, so I'm optimistic there won't be any issues once Kanter is eligible to play. He may have to sit out some games per the NCAA due to playing on a team in Turkey that included some professional players, but the sense I'm getting is that it's unlikely to be a lot of games, if any. |
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Currently, I believe the NCAA institutes a "one for one" punishment - sit out one game for every game played on a team with professionals. I'm not sure how many such games Kanter played, so I don't know what the maximum possible penalty would be, but it might all be moot soon. |
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I think it was 2 NCAA games for every 1 game played with a pro for Kilicli. It is such a silly standard. From what I have heard, he was playing with an amateur club team and a professional, that was working his way back into shape from an injury, joined his team for 10 games. |
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Mizzou continues to thump some opponents at home. Tennessee-Chattanooga is actually supposed to give Davidson a run for the conference title this year, but Mizzou just kicked them in the junk tonight. MU will be ridiculously difficult to beat when Kimmie English is shooting well.
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The Big East picks up another win over a ranked opponent, with Cincinnati beating Maryland. Pitt and #3 Texas look pretty evenly matched early on.
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Cuse looking Final 4 good.
Rutgers might have their worst team in some time this year, and that is saying something, but one of their fans has a good sense of humor about it. Quoted from some Rutgers board I was checking out: Re: VERMONT @ PROVIDENCE tonight 7PM at the Dunk even better.... we lose to VT by 6 Prov beats VT by 40 Ala beats Prov by 9 Cornell beats Ala by 4 Syracuse beats Cornell by 15 Equals Syracuse over Rutgers by 74 But since it is at the RAC and Syracuse fans will probably outnumber us I'd ADD 5. Syracuse by 79.
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