College Basketball Thread

“I emailed him saying that even Violin wants him back. That ought to do it.”

“Congrats to Wisconsin. They did to us what they do to everyone, slow down the game and win.”

“Bucky is indeed tough at home. But let it out dayhiker. You know some of those calls down the stretch stank of home cookin'.

How about the classy three that Wilkinson jacked up at the end of the game. Gottfried didn't look so happy shaking Bo's hand after that.

Thanks for leaving Illinois the opportunity to crush the hearts of Wisky fans by beating them in their temple.”

“Lobos clobber Troy by 20 in the Lobo Comcast Invitational. Who the hell is Troy??
last edited: 12/29/04 10:58:49 PM”

“Was the officiating bad? I worked late and just kept up with it on cbssportline.com. A Bama board was fussing about the officiating but it's hard to tell if that's just sour apples. If you're saying it sucked, well, it sucked then. You don't have an dog in that fight.”

“Is it OK to talk about women's basketball on this thread?

No?

Tough #&%!$!


I'm very pleased with Rutgers' Lady Knights. Last night they really embarrassed #8 Tennessee.

From the Star Ledger

Rutgers so dominated last night's game in the first 20 minutes that Tennessee coach Pat Summitt broke her clipboard at halftime.
<snip>
"They made us look very bad at times, very bad," said Summitt, whose team was the NCAA runner-up last season.
<snip>


This will be a tough week as they take on #4 Texas on Sunday and #1 LSU next Wednesday. I think I'll have to take my girls to a few games this season.”

“dayhiker, your fans had reason to complain about the officiating. However, no more so than most opponents that play at Kohl. I am suprised that anybody is willing to play them OOC at Kohl, you just can't win.”

“We beat up on Wisconsin last year at our house, so I guess turnabout is fair play. Last year we had the toughest schedule in the country in both basketball 03-04 and football 03.

V - if you have daughters that like sports consider taking them to a college gymnastics meet. We went to them while in college. It's a big deal at Bama. Bama is always top 5 and has won several NC's. It's actually a revenue sport. There can be lots of pagentry at one of those things. Being at one with a full colesium and the speakers blaring is just as exciting as a b-ball game.....well, almost.”

“Latest AP Poll:

1. Illinois (27)
14-0 771 1
Last Week: Def. Longwood 105-79 (12/27), Def. Northwestern St. 69-51 (12/30), Def. No. 17 Cincinnati 67-45 (12/31)

This Week: 1/5 vs. Ohio State (11-2), 1/8 at Purdue (4-6) Tickets


2. Kansas (4)
9-0 742 2
Last Week: Def. No. 9 Georgia Tech 70-68 (1/1)

This Week: 1/5 vs. Texas A&M (11-0), 1/9 at No. 8 Kentucky (9-1) Tickets


3. Wake Forest
12-1 689 4
Last Week: Def. N. Carolina A&T 98-76 (12/30), Def. No. 25 Virginia 89-70 (1/2)

This Week: 1/8 at Clemson (9-4) Tickets


4. North Carolina
12-1 672 5
Last Week: Def. NC Wilmington 96-75 (12/28), Def. Cleveland St. 107-64 (12/30), Def. William & Mary 105-66 (1/2)

This Week: 1/8 vs. No. 21 Maryland (8-2) Tickets


5. Duke
9-0 660 6
Last Week: Def. Clemson 62-54 (1/2)

This Week: 1/5 vs. Princeton (8-4), 1/8 vs. Temple (4-5) Tickets


6. Oklahoma State
9-1 574 3
Last Week: Lost to No. 21 Gonzaga 78-75 (12/28)

This Week: Def. TX A&M Corp Chris 86-61 (1/3), 1/8 at Texas Tech (7-3) Tickets


7. Syracuse
13-1 568 8
Last Week: Def. Albany 72-55 (12/28), Def. Hofstra 80-75 (12/30)

This Week: 1/5 at St. John's (6-4), 1/8 vs. Seton Hall (8-3) Tickets


8. Kentucky
9-1 557 10
Last Week: Def. Campbell 82-50 (12/29)

This Week: 1/5 vs. South Carolina (8-3), 1/9 vs. No. 2 Kansas (9-0) Tickets


9. Connecticut
8-1 493 11
Last Week: Def. Sacred Heart 73-55 (12/28), Def. Quinnipiac 123-71 (12/30)

This Week: 1/5 vs. Boston College (11-0), 1/8 at Georgetown (8-3) Tickets


10. Georgia Tech
9-2 477 9
Last Week: Def. Lafayette 92-58 (12/28), Lost to No. 2 Kansas 70-68 (1/1)

This Week: 1/6 vs. Miami (9-2), 1/8 vs. Virginia (8-2) Tickets


11. Texas
10-2 439 12
Last Week: Def. Tex San Antonio 100-82 (12/29), Def. UNLV 89-82 (1/2)

This Week: 1/6 vs. Memphis (7-6), 1/9 vs. Baylor (7-3) Tickets


12. Pittsburgh
10-1 390 7
Last Week: Def. South Carolina 72-68 (12/29), Lost to Bucknell 69-66 (1/2)

This Week: 1/5 vs. Georgetown (8-3), 1/8 at Rutgers (6-4) Tickets


13. Arizona
11-2 389 14
Last Week: Def. Eastern Wash. 79-45 (12/28), Def. Richmond 84-71 (12/30), Def. Arizona State 97-79 (1/2)

This Week: 1/6 at California (8-4), 1/8 at Stanford (6-6) Tickets


14. Washington
12-1 385 16
Last Week: Def. California 81-67 (12/31), Def. Stanford 76-73 (1/2)

This Week: 1/6 at USC (8-6), 1/8 at UCLA (7-3) Tickets


15. Iowa
12-1 343 18
Last Week: Def. Air Force 73-63 (12/28), Def. St. Louis 67-58 (12/31)

This Week: 1/5 vs. Michigan (8-5), 1/8 at Ohio State (11-2) Tickets


16. Louisville
11-2 277 19
Last Week: Def. Morehead State 104-40 (12/27), Def. Eastern Kentucky 78-63 (12/30), Def. Tennessee State 98-64 (1/2)

This Week: 1/5 at Houston (8-5), 1/8 vs. TCU (10-4) Tickets


17. Gonzaga
10-2 240 21
Last Week: Def. No. 3 Oklahoma State 78-75 (12/28), Lost to Missouri 63-61 (12/30)

This Week: 1/6 at Santa Clara (7-8), 1/8 at St. Mary's (CA) (11-4) Tickets


18. Alabama
11-2 239 13
Last Week: Lost to Wisconsin 76-62 (12/29), Def. New Orleans 68-57 (1/1)

This Week: 1/5 at Vanderbilt (9-4), 1/8 vs. LSU (6-4) Tickets


19. Michigan State
8-2 227 20
Last Week: Def. NC Asheville 92-63 (12/29)

This Week: 1/5 at Penn State (6-7), 1/8 vs. Northwestern (7-5) Tickets


20. Cincinnati
11-1 202 17
Last Week: Def. Miami (OHIO) 77-53 (12/27), Def. Longwood 95-69 (12/30), Lost to No. 1 Illinois 67-45 (12/31)

This Week: 1/6 vs. DePaul (8-3), 1/8 at St. Louis (2-10) Tickets


21. Maryland
8-2 143 23
Last Week: Def. Liberty 112-68 (12/28)

This Week: 1/4 vs. Mt. St. Marys (3-6), 1/8 at No. 4 North Carolina (12-1) Tickets


22. Mississippi St.
12-2 131 24
Last Week: Def. Virginia Tech 71-65 (12/30)

This Week: 1/5 vs. Auburn (9-4), 1/8 at Mississippi (9-4) Tickets


23. West Virginia
10-0 98 NR
Last Week: Def. No. 22 Geo Washington 71-65 (12/29), Def. No. 15 N.C. State 82-69 (1/2)

This Week: 1/5 at Villanova (7-1), 1/8 vs. St. John's (6-4) Tickets


24. N.C. State
10-3 59 15
Last Week: Def. Columbia 84-74 (12/28), Lost to St. John's 63-45 (12/30), Lost to West Virginia 82-69 (1/2)

This Week: 1/9 at Miami (9-2) Tickets


25. Geo Washington
8-2 55 22
Last Week: Lost to West Virginia 71-65 (12/29)

This Week: 1/5 vs. La Salle (3-7), 1/8 at Duquesne (3-10) Tickets


ok, so the formatting didn't turn out so bad.

My Questions:

How is
OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES
Boston College 49, Wisconsin 49, Oklahoma 44, Marquette 41, Virginia 12, Wichita State 10, UAB 8, New Mexico 8, Iowa State 7, Southern Illinois 7, Florida 6, Notre Dame 6, Providence 3, LSU 2, Oregon 1, Arkansas 1, TEXAS AM 1.

DROPPED FROM RANKINGS
Virginia 25.

ok, maybe the formatting isn't so bad


My questions about the rankings:

How is Gonzaga not in the top 10?

How is NC State still in the top 25?
last edited: 1/03/05 11:13:07 PM”

“Razorbacks 13-1 beat up on Old Siss last night. Up next? Those no account Gators.

Dayhiker, I see Bama lost their annual trip to Vandy last night. What a horrible gym for bball.”

“We ALWAYS get beat in Vandy. ALWAYS.”

“The problem isn't that we got beat, it's that we got BEAT.

arc, were they running the score up? j/k”

“Also, did yall see the Auburn score last night? 90-53, State. That's gotta hurt.”

“The Zags have some top wins and they should be higher that a 17 seed. I hate seeding teams. Of course it makes it more interesting for us when you see a 3 and a 5 seed playing.

Illinois has some competition again, which will be good to see.”

“Villanova beat the tar out of West Virginia last night.”

“Blalock, UT beats those puppies last night in b'ball and on the puppies home floor..lol”

“My guys (Stanford) were already struggling: rebuilding year, new coach. Now they had a kid become academically ineligible for the season - first time it's happened in 23 years. Also, another guy quit the team - Evan Moore, who wants to focus on football instead.

I read that they are planning to appeal the academic thing, since the rules are there to prevent athletes from skipping even the most useless basketweaving-type courses. This kid is a pre-med student taking some of the toughest human biology core courses and failed one, dropping him under the minimum number of units. I doubt the appeal will get anywhere - rules are rules. But it certainly does discourage student-athletes from challenging themselves.”

“Rutgers' Lady Knights just capped off a fantastic 8 day stretch last night by 'upsetting' #1 LSU.

I put 'upsetting' in quotes because after knocking off then #8 UT, ending then #4 Texas' 41 game home winning streak and beating the AP's #1 team in the span of a week, is there really any doubt about who deserves to be ranked #1?

I'm only sad that I couldn't interest either of my older daughters in going last night.”

“Women can't play basketball!


Can't wait to see what happens here”

“Congratulations. It's not so much that KU beat us, it's just that they sucked slightly less tonight than the Cats did. But a win is a win. I believe it's the first time you guys have beat us at Rupp. The season is young though.”

“shoot me”

“I have no idea why Gottfried left the starters in. There was no reason for that. I don't think I've ever seen Bama shoot that well for that long though.

Somebody let the dawgs out.”

“Congrats on the win.

Still can't believe what I saw last night. There was a reason...Gottfried is an ass.”

“We've been beaten by both in the last week or so. Imagine how I feel but damn 49 points. That's gotta hurt.”

“The 2 coaches do hate each other. I don't know if that's it or not. Surely there is more to it than that. We still have to play at the Hump.”

“That was a mad stomping!

You could see the frustration on the other teams faces all night.”

“I hope there is more to it than that. Leaving the starters in up 40+ until 1:42 to go and firing up a tre every trip down the floor...totally uncalled for.

Doing this again at the Hump just doesn't have as much luster to me after the way we played last night. Ugh.

"When you go to Heaven after you die, tell St. Peter you're a Mississippi State fan. He'll say, 'C'mon in, I don't care what else you've done, you've suffered enough.'"”

“This kinda thing usually comes back to bite you in the ass.”

“WK - that's my point.”

“It will be interesting to see the re-match”

“Whoo Whee! The squakeyes came to play at Champaign tonight. I'm sorry Illinois played like crap and didn't blow them out like I would prefer every time the Illini matched up against these chit eaters.

Any way, Illinois won and Wisky's up next. Bucky, are you ready to put your nation-best home winning streak to test? I hope you survive Michigan (which I'm not certain you will} to at least retain momentum and allow for UI to test your mettle. But maybe a loss will spark you. It’s not easy to win at the Kohl Center and we want you (and the refs) at your best.”

“Thanks to Villanova, that middle of the pack Big East team, for showing just how underestimated the league is.”

“Bama finally beat Ole Miss at Ole Miss. We'd lost 7 consecutive years at their place. Roll Tide!”

“Illini unanimous number 1.

Record Pts Pvs
1. Illinois (72) 21-0 1,800 1
2. North Carolina 17-2 1,707 3
3. Kansas 16-1 1,603 6
4. Duke 16-1 1,514 2
5. Boston College 18-0 1,505 8
6. Kentucky 16-2 1,497 7
7. Wake Forest 17-3 1,337 5
8. Syracuse 20-2 1,318 4
9. Louisville 18-3 1,208 12
10. Oklahoma St. 15-3 1,062 9
11. Alabama 17-3 982 14
12. Michigan St. 14-3 916 15
13. Washington 17-3 910 10
14. Arizona 17-4 815 11
14. Oklahoma 16-3 815 13
16. Pittsburgh 14-3 738 20
17. Gonzaga 15-4 569 17
18. Cincinnati 17-3 558 21
19. Wisconsin 14-4 496 18
20. Texas 15-5 396 16
21. Utah 17-3 305 25
22. Maryland 13-5 259 -
23. Connecticut 12-5 256 19
24. Villanova 12-4 228 -
25. Georgia Tech 12-6 213 22
Others receiving votes: Iowa 113, Wichita St. 85, Pacific 52, Mississippi St. 46, Florida 19, Notre Dame 17, Vermont 17, Charlotte 16, St. Mary's, Cal. 9, Marquette 4, Stanford 4, Texas Tech 4, Old Dominion 3, Texas A&M 2, Holy Cross 1, UTEP 1.”

“Bama up to 11. If we can squeek by UF this weekend we could really start to make some noise.”

“Word on the street is that Pierce at Iowa is in some trouble again. If it's serious, it could be Alfraud's swan song since he stuck up for Pierce the last time.”

“I'm seeing UCONN V Villinova on Wed.”

“If you guys don't beat Florida by 10+, I'll be shocked. Florida, as usual, is an overrated bunch of selfish ball hogs and even Gottfired can outcoach Donavan...”

“We just always seem to have trouble with Florida. I don't know what it is. Heck, even John Brady can beat the poodles.
last edited: 1/31/05 4:07:47 PM”

“The way Villanova is playing lately, that game could change the rankings a bit. I watched them hand Rutgers an old fashioned ass whoopin' on Saturday. I was hoping for a closer game so I could goad the invisible man from Kansas some more. C'est la vie!
last edited: 1/31/05 4:10:27 PM”

“by poodles, I assume you mean my Dawgs? As for LSU, I'll take 19 of the last 24 against anyone ;)”

“My team is so bad. Going to see them lose to Washington on Thursday.

But we'll take football champs over basketball any day of the week. We're thankful for that. Can't have everything, right?”

“Illinois invades the Breslin Center tonight. It should be a war with the Spartans.”

“I'll be watching”

“. . .and the way UCONN's been playing . . .”

“Go Spartans!

My guys (Stanford) have actually received a few votes in the polls the past couple weeks. I guess winning 6 in a row'll do that. They travel to the AZ schools next.

Meanwhile, the Lady Cardinal are 2nd in the coaches' poll and 4th in the AP. John Elway's daughter broke her hand in practice last week, and they had another season-ending injury, too. But all of their top players are still doing OK, including leading scorer Candice Wiggins, a freshmen who is the daughter of the late San Diego Padre Alan Wiggins.”

“(1) ILLINOIS 81, (10) MICHIGAN ST 68

Illinois stands a good chance to go undefeated the rest of the season. Weak schedule upcoming”

“dawgs biatch...football basketball, never get tired of beating florida ;)”

“Oh great, WK. Now you did it.

You had to use the "u" word.

Doomed I tell you, we're doomed.”

“Have faith Hub”