College Basketball 2006-2007

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Haha, after the shot, Acie said to his teammates: "That's what I do! That's what I do!"

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Hahaha, Law is unbelievable. That shot had zero rotation too.

[CubColtPacer]

Man, what a great game in Austin.

 

Thanks for posting this Raisin-little things like this make me turn on the game just in time to see the series of timeouts and than Law's shot. It's always nice to see the end of a great game.

[Flames24Rulz]

What does Law do for an encore? Hit a shot to send it to double OT.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Wow, Acie Law AGAIN!

 

That kid definitely coulda gotten a better look for TAMU. But second OT should be fun.

[reggiemiller rules]

Law just hit another three to send it to a second overtime.

[dalgreen]

It's funny to hear how quiet it gets in Austin every time Law takes a shot.

[illiniguy]

come on aTm

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Wow, what a game.

 

Rough loss for A&M.

[snoodmonger]

it's impossible to dislike acie law iv.

[illiniguy]

it's impossible to dislike acie law iv.

True, I dislike the Big 12 though for having too many teams. You guys never play the Texas schools twice in a year huh?

[Andy]

Acie Law seems like the type of guy that can throw a team on his back and take them to the Final Four by himself. Wow.

 

I think that game proved that A&M is not going to go quietly in the tournament.

[texascub]

I'm not much of a basketball fan, but I am a UT fan. I happened to flip past the game in the first OT and decided to watch it, and it was a heck of a game.

[snoodmonger]

it's impossible to dislike acie law iv.

True, I dislike the Big 12 though for having too many teams. You guys never play the Texas schools twice in a year huh?

 

No. at the beginning of the big XII, when ISU and MU were decent, it wasn't so much a problem. Three good teams in each half (KU, ISU, and MU + UT, OSU, and OU). Now it's KU and nobody in the North. Until KSU and Mizzou get back, it sucks.

[TruffleShuffle]

Acie Law seems like the type of guy that can throw a team on his back and take them to the Final Four by himself. Wow.

 

Yeah unfortunately for aTm, Kevin Durant is also that type of guy.

[TruffleShuffle]

oh by the way duke lost at home to maryland, and anytime someone comes in and beats duke in front of those loser fans in cameron, it's fun to enjoy it.

[SouthSideRyan]

IU woulda been in some tourney trouble with a loss there. Pity Northwestern plays like it looks, and disgraceful that the game sounded like an IU home game half the time.

 

Thanks for the loss Iowa, I wanted to play a pissed off Haluska where a win means little because it's against a team that lost to PSU.

 

Yeah, Wilmont bailed them out big time.

 

They would have to really screw up to lose the #3 seed in the Big 10 Tourney though.

 

Finish up at home against PSU on Saturday.

 

There's no way IU loses to PSU at home, it's locked up. After that there's a reasonable chance of 4 different teams (Illinois, MSU, Iowa, UM) finishing in 4th. It's also possible(though very unlikely involving an IU loss to PSU, MSU over Wisky, and UM over OSU) for there to be a 6 way tie for 3rd through 8th place with every team at 9-7. The Big 10 Tourney is gonna be huge for at large bids.

 

The way I see it shaking out.

 

OSU: 15-1

Wisky: 13-3

IU: 10-6

UI: 10-6

Purdue: 9-7

MSU: 8-8

Michigan: 8-8

Iowa: 8-8

Minnesota: 3-13

Penn St. 2-12

Northwestern: 2-12

[SouthSideRyan]

Whoever the generic guy with Hubert Davis on College Gamenight just said the Big 10 by all accounts is having a down year. When was the last year that the Big 10 wasn't "down by all accounts"??

 

You have 2 teams in the running for #1 seeds(1 probably locked up), and looking like 5-6 teams overall in the tourney and it's considered down?

[Andy]

oh by the way duke lost at home to maryland, and anytime someone comes in and beats duke in front of those loser fans in cameron, it's fun to enjoy it.

Duke will finish .500 in conference if/when UNC beats them on Sunday. Luckily for them they played a strong out-of-conference schedule.

 

BTW, Duke's a 5 in Bracketology. Which is complete crap.

[Flames24Rulz]

Whoever the generic guy with Hubert Davis on College Gamenight just said the Big 10 by all accounts is having a down year. When was the last year that the Big 10 wasn't "down by all accounts"??

 

You have 2 teams in the running for #1 seeds(1 probably locked up), and looking like 5-6 teams overall in the tourney and it's considered down?

 

These so-called "experts" believe that if a conference has parity (as much as the 3rd-8th place teams in the Big 10 have), that the conference is having a "down year."

 

Look at the MVC this year. In my mind, there's no doubt that the conference is better than last year. Yet the conference is getting far less publicity than last year and people are saying the conference isn't as good because of the parity the conference has.

[snoodmonger]

Whoever the generic guy with Hubert Davis on College Gamenight just said the Big 10 by all accounts is having a down year. When was the last year that the Big 10 wasn't "down by all accounts"??

 

You have 2 teams in the running for #1 seeds(1 probably locked up), and looking like 5-6 teams overall in the tourney and it's considered down?

 

When people say a conference is down, you have to look past the two top teams. The Big XII has two teams who could, theoretically, lay claim to a 1 seed. But aside from them and UT, the conference isn't that good. So it's a down year for the Big XII.

 

Same with the B10. Yeah, they may get 5-6 teams in the tourney. That doesn't mean the conference is particularly strong. It's got two great teams, and a bunch of other middling ones.

[lowest]

it's impossible to dislike acie law iv.

 

and he's ernie banks' great-nephew.

[SouthSideRyan]

I wouldn't try and argue that the Big 10 is having a great year, but it seems to odd to argue it's down. I'd say the same thing about the Big XII. The Big East I would argue is down with no real upper echelon team and not great depth when you consider it's a 16 team league. The SEC is down with 2 legit teams, and 2 that are barely removed from the bubble. Pac 10 and ACC are having great years.

 

Re: The Valley, I'd argue it's about as good as last year, the problem is the 2nd tier teams fell off and the bottom teams got much better. The bottom 4 of the Valley has 15 top 100 wins this season compared to 8 of last year. Last year you had the top 6 Valley teams at RPI 39 or better and then you had the bottom 4 at 163 and under. The problem they're facing is all perception, that when a potential at large team is losing to an 8th place finisher it looks really bad, but really the difference between 8th and 5th this year isn't that great. It's a consistently decent conference and leads to no gimmes on the conference schedule.

 

And now i've gone and searched those top 6 teams and my quick math shows 48 top 100 wins last year and 46 top 100 wins which is just about guaranteed to go up with the conference tourney, so maybe I'm just full of it. I just don't think the talent level is the same this year specifically from the 3-6 spots. I think SIU is better than any team from last year, but I just don't know if that's enough to consider them better.

[soccer10k]

it's impossible to dislike acie law iv.

True, I dislike the Big 12 though for having too many teams. You guys never play the Texas schools twice in a year huh?

 

What do you think of the Big East then? :D

[illiniguy]

it's impossible to dislike acie law iv.

True, I dislike the Big 12 though for having too many teams. You guys never play the Texas schools twice in a year huh?

 

What do you think of the Big East then? :D

It sucks for the same reason. The Big Ten needs to lose a team as well. Oh and the last time the Big Ten was so down according to the experts we had two teams in the final four and three in the elite eight.