Re: College Basketball 2008-2009

[imb]

i can't explain how much i already hate bj mullens

 

oh yeah, i can, he looks like an idiot

[Smack]

Ugh. Dick Vitale is calling the Purdue game.

[hawkeyecub]

Iowa is getting absolutely mauled inside. I think we've given up 12-13 offensive rebounds in the first half. They send at least 4 to the glass every shot. At some point we need to get it and beat them in transition.

Plus it seems like 80% of their points are coming in the paint.

 

Still only down 3 at the half because we're shooting well.

Edited December 3, 2008 by hawkeyecub

[bcl412]

Ugh. Dick Vitale is calling the Purdue game.

 

It is a Duke game. I think Duke pays him as a part of their broadcasting staff.

[bcl412]

Iowa is getting absolutely mauled inside. I think we've given up 12-13 offensive rebounds in the first half. It seems like 80% of their points are coming in the paint.

 

Still only down 3 at the half.

 

I just started watching, is it good defense or awful offense? I imagine it's the second option considering both teams aren't that good.

[hawkeyecub]

Iowa is getting absolutely mauled inside. I think we've given up 12-13 offensive rebounds in the first half. It seems like 80% of their points are coming in the paint.

 

Still only down 3 at the half.

 

I just started watching, is it good defense or awful offense? I imagine it's the second option considering both teams aren't that good.

 

Slow paced game. We started at least 0-6 from the field. We were playing very good defense for a long stretch but then they started beating us up inside. They aren't shooting well but are getting 2 shots every possession.

[Smack]

Ugh. Dick Vitale is calling the Purdue game.

 

It is a Duke game. I think Duke pays him as a part of their broadcasting staff.

 

I wonder if he's taken down his shrine to J.J. Redick yet?

[bcl412]

Ugh. Dick Vitale is calling the Purdue game.

 

It is a Duke game. I think Duke pays him as a part of their broadcasting staff.

 

I wonder if he's taken down his shrine to J.J. Redick yet?

 

Ugh, I hope he cleans it first.

[Exile on Waveland]

Today's BT/ACC games based on updated Sagarin ratings:

Duke-Purdue: EVEN

Clemson-Illinois: EVEN

Ohio State-Miami: Miami by 5

Iowa-Boston College: Boston College by 7

Virginia-Minnesota: Minnesota by 9

 

Even though it isn't going to matter, it's a little weird that the ACC gets 6 home games while the Big Ten gets 4 and one "home-neutral" game. Usually it's 5-5 with one neutral site.

 

I also find it odd that an IU team that will win single-digit games has to play on the road against a top-25 team. But that's just me.

 

It's good for the Big Ten, you figure IU was losing their matchup no matter who they played. I guess matching them up with UNC would have been going too far.

 

Ha ha, I suppose that is true. I'd still have preferred IU play the sacrificial lamb against, say, Virginia (who IU could possibly beat at Assembly Hall).

 

Playing UNC would've been payback for the Heels, I suppose. The best IU team in the Challenge era, 2001-02 national runners-up, played the worst UNC team during the stretch, the 8-20 squad. That's pretty much been IU's luck in the Challenge. Their best team two teams have played poor teams, while their worst two teams have played good teams (remember 2003-04 IU which finished 14-15 having to play at Chris Paul's Wake Forest team -- a 100-67 loss). Nevermind IU -- which hasn't been anywhere near the best Big Ten team over the Challenge era -- also getting saddled with a defending national champion, a national champion-to-be and a #1 ranked team.

 

If your going to have a sacrificial lamb (which is what IU is in this Challenge) you don't use one of your home games. IU was going to lose in this Challenge pretty much no matter what so you mine-as-well have them play on the road and give a team that has a real shot the home game.

 

"Your"? "Mine-as-well"? Oh, right, I should be banned.

 

I understand the sacrificial lamb paradigm. However, I care much more about IU than I do the Big Ten.

[imb]

MINE AS WELL?

 

WITH HYPHENS?

 

oh good gravy

[snoodmonger]

wowlolwowlolwowlol

[woodchip2153]

Keller with 2 good plays. I'm liking him.

[radarluv1]

Keller with 2 good plays. I'm liking him.

i didnt notice him until he watched his guy score RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM after he loafed down the court in transition. since then he's got some scrap buckets so i'm less mad now. if the staff keeps him from pulling that crap again maybe he'll be ok.

 

nice finish UI!

[woodchip2153]

Keller with 2 good plays. I'm liking him.

i didnt notice him until he watched his guy score RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM after he loafed down the court in transition. since then he's got some scrap buckets so i'm less mad now. if the staff keeps him from pulling that crap again maybe he'll be ok.

 

nice finish UI!

 

Oh, I missed that play. That must be why he doesn't get too much playing time.

[SouthSideRyan]

See IG, there's the benefit to having a guy who can't shoot, he actually looks to pass on the last shot rather than being your standard dribble out of control and hoist a 35 footer point guard.

[SouthSideRyan]

I don't know what surprised me more: When I found out BJ Mullens was white, or when I just saw him and found out he was Asian.

[SouthSideRyan]

YOU'VE GOTTA BE KIDDING ME

 

The PBP guy is basically saying the OSU player started it. He swiped at the ball and accidentally grazed the Miami player's face. Now he's asking for at least a double technical.

[SouthSideRyan]

I can't believe how much I hate Miami already.

[radarluv1]

if anyone cares OSU was down maybe 12-14 pts or so and came back to tie it. miami's best player mcclinton was ejected after he weakly slapped at a guy who bumped him. the refs used the replay monitor to verify said slap. at the time, this guy was 4-4 from 3 and had as many points as OSU. now miami up again.

[Smack]

Ohio State finally making it a game.

[SouthSideRyan]

Just keep giving it to Diebler.

 

Oh and play some defense douchebags.

[radarluv1]

ogglesby looks like areal ahole

[SouthSideRyan]

WHAT THE [expletive] IS WRONG WITH YOU

[SouthSideRyan]

Tisdale earning Sulley's scorn.

[radarluv1]

awful start to second half.