Re: College Basketball 2008-2009

[manbearcub]

Another awesome offensive performance, and the defense was great too until the last couple minutes. Tate really handled Brackins well. Gives me some confidence for the conference season.

[bcl412]

Another awesome offensive performance, and the defense was great too until the last couple minutes. Tate really handled Brackins well. Gives me some confidence for the conference season.

 

Tate seems to step up his game when he is challenged with facing a good player. He never does a whole lot against the poor teams but when he is facing someone tough he more than holds his ground against him. Brackins really wasn't impressive, he forced a lot of shots and you could tell he was frustrated, that had a lot to do with Tate.

[hawkeyecub]

Jermain motherscratching Davis is my homeboy. This team is a treat to watch after last year. As was said, this was a 20-25 point win until the scrubs came in. We're guaranteed 10 wins in the non-conference. 11 if we can beat Drake.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Temple beat #8 Tennessee by 16 at Temple. Temple has losses to Miami Ohio and Buffalo.

 

UMass held off #23 Kansas in Kansas City. The win brings UMass to 3-6 on the season(with losses to Jacksonville State, UW-Green Bay, and Toledo)

[Guest]

Temple beat #8 Tennessee by 16 at Temple. Temple has losses to Miami Ohio and Buffalo.

 

UMass held off #23 Kansas in Kansas City. The win brings UMass to 3-6 on the season(with losses to Jacksonville State, UW-Green Bay, and Toledo)

 

Wow.

 

Can't lose to DePaul...in Anaheim.

[Derwood]

I feel (slightly) better about Penn State losing to Temple now

[Mark_R]

Indiana is reaching epic levels of awfulness.

 

Kentucky is stomping on their throat.

 

As I type that, some scrub nails a 3.

[Exile on Waveland]

Indiana is reaching epic levels of awfulness.

 

Kentucky is stomping on their throat.

 

As I type that, some scrub nails a 3.

 

Matt Roth was a 3-star recruit (from Illinois) who chose Indiana over Notre Dame, Purdue, St. Louis, et al. He's not a scrub.

 

Of course, you are right that Indiana isn't good at all.

[cubswin2009]

36-13 at the half. Awesome to see Indiana play like [expletive].

[snoodmonger]

Collins tries too hard to take over games. It's already cost us twice this year. I suspect it will continue to do so.

[Hosak8]

Temple beat #8 Tennessee by 16 at Temple. Temple has losses to Miami Ohio and Buffalo.

 

UMass held off #23 Kansas in Kansas City. The win brings UMass to 3-6 on the season(with losses to Jacksonville State, UW-Green Bay, and Toledo)

 

This is what I love about basketball, and the difference between it and football. This was a good loss for Tennessee today. On the road, and getting beat by a team who has no business beating you, because you cannot shoot worth a flip and you cannot stop one player, while overranked greatly is a god loss, imo. Pearl will be able to use this one to teach. Of course, if Prince is out Tuesday night as well, he might have another loss to back up his points, and I'm not so sure I'd like back to back "good losses".

[Guest]

Walkon freshman Tyler Trapani made his UCLA debut just now in the John Wooden Classic; he's Coach Wooden's great grandson.

 

UCLA didn't beat DePaul as badly as Northwestern did. Ruh roh. :(

[Butterscup1679666578]

Mizzou beats Murray State by 11. Record is now 8-1, with Stetson next Saturday before Illinois the following Tuesday.

[Derwood]

Penn State should be doing a little better than barely beating Mt. St. Mary's....at home

[CubbieBum]

Purdue won, although closer than I would like, and Hummel had a great game. His average is now up to 15.6 to go with 6.9 rebounds. He's averaging more points, rebounds, assists and steals than last year while playing a couple minutes less per game.

[CubInOK]

Penn State should be doing a little better than barely beating Mt. St. Mary's....at home

Didn't Mt. St. Mary's make the tournament last year?

[Derwood]

Penn State should be doing a little better than barely beating Mt. St. Mary's....at home

Didn't Mt. St. Mary's make the tournament last year?

 

could be, but they were like 3-6 coming into the game

[Sosa21MVP]

IU is not a good team but hey, we can get 7 wins before Big Ten play starts. I wasn't sure if we would win 7 games all season.

[SouthSideRyan]

IU is not a good team but hey, we can get 7 wins before Big Ten play starts. I wasn't sure if we would win 7 games all season.

 

They've done better than I thought. I woulda had them losing to Cornell. Northeastern too, though I still think that'll be a game.

 

The bad news for IU is that the Big Ten's bottom looks better than expected. I had them beating Iowa in Bloomington, but after Iowa's play thus far, I'm thinking that game's more of a toss up. The other teams I thought they'd have a chance against(UM and NU) are probably the 2 most overachieving teams in the conference.

[Andy]

Notre Dame scared the crap out of me tonight but extended their homecourt win streak to 41, 74-67 over Boston U. Harangody racked up 23 and 15, taking over in the 2nd half. McAlarney rang up 16.

[CubInOK]

UMass held off #23 Kansas in Kansas City. The win brings UMass to 3-6 on the season(with losses to Jacksonville State, UW-Green Bay, and Toledo)

This is actually very bad for the Big 12.

[Sosa21MVP]

IU is not a good team but hey, we can get 7 wins before Big Ten play starts. I wasn't sure if we would win 7 games all season.

 

They've done better than I thought. I woulda had them losing to Cornell. Northeastern too, though I still think that'll be a game.

 

The bad news for IU is that the Big Ten's bottom looks better than expected. I had them beating Iowa in Bloomington, but after Iowa's play thus far, I'm thinking that game's more of a toss up. The other teams I thought they'd have a chance against(UM and NU) are probably the 2 most overachieving teams in the conference.

 

Yeah the Big Ten overall looks tougher than expected. There really are not any games that I expect Indiana to win. I do think we will get 3 conference wins at home, one way or another. But I'm not expecting anything. All I can do this season is hope for the best and even then, it won't be much.

[Derwood]

Notre Dame scared the crap out of me tonight but extended their homecourt win streak to 41, 74-67 over Boston U. Harangody racked up 23 and 15, taking over in the 2nd half. McAlarney rang up 16.

 

you guys have some pretty lax "favorite team" rules in Indiana

[Exile on Waveland]

IU is not a good team but hey, we can get 7 wins before Big Ten play starts. I wasn't sure if we would win 7 games all season.

 

They've done better than I thought. I woulda had them losing to Cornell. Northeastern too, though I still think that'll be a game.

 

The bad news for IU is that the Big Ten's bottom looks better than expected. I had them beating Iowa in Bloomington, but after Iowa's play thus far, I'm thinking that game's more of a toss up. The other teams I thought they'd have a chance against(UM and NU) are probably the 2 most overachieving teams in the conference.

 

People on here make fun of this IU team, but they've done much better than expected. I thought a split between Cornell and TCU would be a good result, they won both with relative ease. Yesterday's game was ugly to begin with, of course, but that was probably only one of two halves I've been terribly disappointed with (the second half against St. Joe's being the other). According to Sagarin, IU has played easily the most difficult schedule in the Big Ten (No. 37 to Michigan's No. 80 then Michigan State's No. 116). That's made them look worse, too.

 

Problem is, as you said, the Big Ten is much better than anyone expected. I figured on 2-4 conference wins. That has become a more difficult goal than I would have thought, but one I still think reasonable. I'm not sure there will be a single game they're favored in, nor a game I will expect them to win. Still, it's college basketball and upsets happen -- especially with a strong homecourt advantage.

[Andy]

Notre Dame scared the crap out of me tonight but extended their homecourt win streak to 41, 74-67 over Boston U. Harangody racked up 23 and 15, taking over in the 2nd half. McAlarney rang up 16.

 

you guys have some pretty lax "favorite team" rules in Indiana

Come again?