College Basketball 2007-2008

[Derwood]

wow, PSU notches one for the Big 10

[SouthSideRyan]

Bold prediction: Big 10 wins the Challenge in 2 years.

[OleMissCub]

:shock: :shock: :shock:

 

Had to take a screenshot because I'm sure it'll be the only time I'll ever see it:

 

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/8543/olemisspointsjg8.jpg

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/ncaa/men/stats/team/

[TruffleShuffle]

holy cross moves to 6-0 after a 60-39 barnburner against yale

[snoodmonger]

50 rpg? brick city.

[Warpticon]

Hate I missed that game last night. Go Hogs.

[snoodmonger]

rumor has it that KSU's Bill Walker pissed himself right in front of the KSU bench last night. that's not figurative language. he stuffed a towel down his shorts and peed into it.

[Keener98]

rumor has it that KSU's Bill Walker pissed himself right in front of the KSU bench last night. that's not figurative language. he stuffed a towel down his shorts and peed into it.

 

LMAO

[CuseCubFan69]

rumor has it that KSU's Bill Walker pissed himself right in front of the KSU bench last night. that's not figurative language. he stuffed a towel down his shorts and peed into it.

 

I wish I thought of that one because I had to pee once and couldn't leave the darn game and had to wait until the end.

 

We had a kid (3rd baseman)on the Varsity call timeout, talk to the ump...and ran to go #2. He came back 5 minutes later and the other coach was livid because they stopped the game and waited for him.

[Guest]

From the Kansas City Star's website.

 

http://www.kansascity.com/static/media/ksuoregon_112907/images/KSUvsORE_SP_112907_rs_088f.jpg

[Jon]

Don't forget the caption:

 

When nature calls...With just seconds left in regulation and K-State lined up to inbound the ball and run a last second play, Bill Walker was overcome with an urge too strong to control. he stepped to the sideline and relieved himself with several towells. KSU lost to Oregon in overtime, 80-77.

 

Which school's football student section a few years back was having a big problem with students relieving themselves in their seats because it was too packed to get to a bathroom?

[TruffleShuffle]

Don't forget the caption:

 

When nature calls...With just seconds left in regulation and K-State lined up to inbound the ball and run a last second play, Bill Walker was overcome with an urge too strong to control. he stepped to the sideline and relieved himself with several towells. KSU lost to Oregon in overtime, 80-77.

 

Which school's football student section a few years back was having a big problem with students relieving themselves in their seats because it was too packed to get to a bathroom?

 

sounds bill walker needs the Stadium Pal

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Iowa blew a 16 point 2nd half lead to lose to Louisiana-Monroe in OT tonight.

 

Suck it, Vance!

[snoodmonger]

^^^I heard Vance Nicholson messed around and got himself a triple/double. BALLIN'.

[ISUCubsFan]

ISU gets a good road win @ Oregon State in OT, 71-64. Craig Brackins had 23 points and 10 rebounds to make up for a bad night from Wesley Johnson, who still isn't 100% back from an ankle injury. The win also makes the "BigXII-Pac10 Hardwood Series" 3-2 in favor of the Pac10, with most of the games comming up this weekend (just do better than the B10 did and I'll be happy).

[hawkeyecub]

Iowa blew a 16 point 2nd half lead to lose to Louisiana-Monroe in OT tonight.

 

Suck it, Vance!

 

29 turnovers (yes that was 40% of their possessions tonight) and 14-26 from the FT will do that to you.

 

Unbelievable. This was the first game this year where I really didn't think the coaching staff did a very good job. When they went zone our offense was baffled, we overhelped defensively to no end in the last 16 minutes leading to wide open 3's, could not get the ball inside despite having a major advantage and had some questionable substitution patterns.

[inari]

Just an unbelievable game for the Hawkeyes last night. No one thought this was a team to be reckoned with or anything like that, but it's certainly a team that should win a game against Louisiana-Monroe at home.

[Guest]

ISU gets a good road win @ Oregon State in OT, 71-64. Craig Brackins had 23 points and 10 rebounds to make up for a bad night from Wesley Johnson, who still isn't 100% back from an ankle injury. The win also makes the "BigXII-Pac10 Hardwood Series" 3-2 in favor of the Pac10, with most of the games comming up this weekend (just do better than the B10 did and I'll be happy).

 

No offense, but beating Oregon State isn't a good road win unless you're a high school basketball team.

[SouthSideRyan]

Iowa won't win 8 games this year. And that's with the bottom of the Big Ten being very very bad this year. Well, so's the middle of the Big 10. And the top. Big 10 seems to take crap every year for being down, and I think it's usually unfair. But we deserve all the hate we're gonna get this year. Penn St. might make the NIT just from beating up on the dregs.

 

I'm starting to worry about Illinois's tourney chances, cause I could see a scenario where we only get 3 teams in the tourney. I do think it's possible for us to finish top 3, but there's a real mess of similar teams with us, Wisconsin, Ohio St., and Purdue, and if we're all fighting for 1 tourney spot, it's gonna be trouble. The one thing in our favor is some masterful OOC scheduling, not wasting a lot of time with bottom of the barrel teams, instead getting teams like Weber St., Hawaii, Northeastern, and Miami(OH)(along with BCS games against ASU, Duke, OK St., MD, Mizzou, and Arizona.)

 

I thought by now the BCS schools would figure out thow to game the RPI like this. Especially after we heard so much griping when the Valley schools were rated so high in the RPI based on avoiding the Western Carolinas of the world and instead playing the top schools from the low majors. I understand wanting a few warm up games in there against some cupcakes you don't have to worry about, but to load up on these schools in non-con is going to kill you come tourney time, especially in a year when Iowa's looking at an RPI in the 200s, and Northwestern might be threatening to join them. UM and one of PSU or Minnesota could easily be 100+ RPI teams as well.

 

For comparison's sake, U of I played 2 low major schools with (2007)200+ RPI(Tennessee St. and West Carolina)

 

MSU: 5 (Jacksonville, Chicago St., Louisina-Monroe, IUPU-Fort Wayne, San Jose St.)

 

IU: 7 (Chattanooga, Longwood, NC-Wilmington, Tennessee St., West Carolina, Coppin St., Chicago St.)

 

Wisky: 5 (IUPU-FW, Savannah St., FL A&M, Wofford, UW-Milwaukee)

 

OSU: 6 (Columbia, VMI, Coppin St., Presbyterian(1st year D1), Cleveland St., MD-Balt. County)

 

Purdue: 5 (Bethune Cookman, Ball St., TX Southern, Wofford, FIU)

 

Granted, these teams aren't guaranteed to finish with RPIs above 200, nor are some of the others guaranteed to be below it, but success is decently static when it comes to low-major schools.

 

IU could wind up running roughshod over the Big 10(only playing MSU and Wisky once, though they're both roadies) and still wind up with a lower seed due to bad scheduling(and the awfulness of teams like Iowa/NU.) Missing MSU and Wisky at home will actually hurt them, taking away 2 likely wins over top 50 opponents.

Edited December 1, 2007 by SouthSideRyan

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

First the Warhawk football team beats Bama at Bama and now the basketball team beats Iowa at home!

 

Go Warhawks!

 

Of course, this just means we'll lose coach Orlando Early to a big time program in the offseason.

[rawaction]

Big game for IU tonight. Their only true road game of the non-conference schedule. A win tonight, and IU will probably not be seriously tested again til Jan. 31 at Wisconsin.....as they only travel to Iowa, Michigan, and Minnesota. The only teams that look like tourney teams til 1/31 are UK and U of I, both of which are in Bloomington.

[rawaction]

 

IU could wind up running roughshod over the Big 10(only playing MSU and Wisky once, though they're both roadies) and still wind up with a lower seed due to bad scheduling(and the awfulness of teams like Iowa/NU.) Missing MSU and Wisky at home will actually hurt them, taking away 2 likely wins over top 50 opponents.

 

We play MSU and Wisconsin twice. We only have Michigan and Purdue once.

 

I was just looking at the schedule too. IU should be favored in all but 2 of their remaining games (the 2 you mentioned).

[SouthSideRyan]

 

IU could wind up running roughshod over the Big 10(only playing MSU and Wisky once, though they're both roadies) and still wind up with a lower seed due to bad scheduling(and the awfulness of teams like Iowa/NU.) Missing MSU and Wisky at home will actually hurt them, taking away 2 likely wins over top 50 opponents.

 

We play MSU and Wisconsin twice. We only have Michigan and Purdue once.

 

I was just looking at the schedule too. IU should be favored in all but 2 of their remaining games (the 2 you mentioned).

 

Huh, really messed up on my quick scan of the schedule. I'd put the SIU, OSU, and U of I road games as toss ups. OSU and U of I really depending on development of young guys(for OSU and you guys mainly) and how tight we play in what's going to be a crazy environment in Champaign. Adding in how difficult Big 10 roadies are, I'd probably put you guys as dogs vs. OSU and us.

 

The one thing the top half Big 10 teams absolutely cannot do this year is choke away one of the easy wins. The top 6 have a great oppurtunity to load up with a gaudy win total, and they cannot whiff on that chance, while adding in a 100+ RPI loss to their resume.

[ISUCubsFan]

ISU gets a good road win @ Oregon State in OT, 71-64. Craig Brackins had 23 points and 10 rebounds to make up for a bad night from Wesley Johnson, who still isn't 100% back from an ankle injury. The win also makes the "BigXII-Pac10 Hardwood Series" 3-2 in favor of the Pac10, with most of the games comming up this weekend (just do better than the B10 did and I'll be happy).

 

No offense, but beating Oregon State isn't a good road win unless you're a high school basketball team.

 

Lol, I didn't mean to imply Oregon State was any good, but when you're something like 15-51 in road games since 2002 like Iowa State, any road win is a good one.

[Productive Outs]

UK got it to a respectable score there at the end of the game, but UNC was in total control from the start of the second half on. the loss of meeks and jasper hurts, but UK won't be a good team until Gillispie gets a legitimate big man to go along with Patterson inside.