Given Ohio States recent losing streak that is a great win for the Buckeyes, maybe give the team a boost. MSU though has had it's own problems this year, they recently lost at home to Northeastern and to Penn State so this might not be a vintage MSU team right now. I wonder if they are dealing with injuries? I watched a little of the FSU/Duke game and FSU looked like an NBA team that night, then they went to UNC and the Tarheels handled them pretty easily. But then UNC is probably the only team in the ACC with the size inside to do that, the Irish have to travel to FSU Wed and I'm not very hopeful that we'll come out with a win. On the women's side can you believe that UConn is now at 91 straight and the rest of their games are in the AAC where they are not likely to lose a game. The streak could easily hit 104 or more. And to make it more impressive they went out and scheduled a very tough non-conf slate. beating current #2 Baylor and then #1 ND handily, along with about 8 other ranked teams. They have good players, yeah great players, but it's not like the other teams don't have them. Both Baylor and ND have as many McDonald's AA's as UConn. Yet couldn't touch them. It's Geno Aurieama their coach, he has the in the zone much like that Women's Soccer coach at UNC or John Wooden at UCLA. But Wooden only ran off 88 wins 1 time, Geno has done it twice now.
Let's put Connecticut's streak in perspective. while a deservingly amazing accomplishment, you can't compare it to UCLA. The most games UCLA played in a season - one time - was 31. In the other seasons during Wooden's NC run, they played 29-30 games. Connecticut plays 39-40 games each season. Who can say that with 40-game seasons, Wooden wouldn't have run up a streak of 110 or more games? Auriema clearly is a great coach, possibly the greatest ever in women's BB, but he's no John Wooden.
Stu, I was aware of that, but like you , it did not make much sense to me either. I kept waiting for the team to fold, but fortunately the held their ground for a change.
Good story on Stu's Boilermaker, Caleb Swangan, he once weighed 400lbs. He was awesome in the game vs the Irish. http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/18523734/purdue-caleb-swanigan-overcoming-obesity-homelessness-become-big-nba-prospect
Also for the first time the College Basketball committee will reveal their seedings... http://sports.yahoo.com/news/selection-committee-to-give-in-season-look-at-ncaa-tournament-bracket-155236742.html
Nova, Kansas and Kentucky all lose this evening. Looks like Louisville might move up to # 1 in the polls.
Not a good week to be a ranked team. Kentucky, 'Nova and UCLA all went down and then a very good FSU team, ranked in the top 10 got absolutely crushed by a unranked Ga. Tech team and UCLA was beaten twice once by Az at home and then on the "road" to USC last night. Irish losing to UVA was technically an upset, but we've lost to those guys 10 x in a row. Mike Brey has never beaten a Tony Bennett coached team. edit: Forgot about Kansas losing as Don pointed out. I'm guessing Gonzaga will be the new #1, they have a good chance of finishing the regular season undefeated. Their conference is not that tough.
UCLA just threw the ball away all night. Someone needs to explain to Alford that losing to some teams is just not acceptable.
Thanks...don't know how we pulled that off...a lot of sloppy play. Kept going inside and sometimes it worked but too often it didn't. When we threatened to go down 12 or so Painter switched the lineup and put in shooters...hit some three's and got back in the game...then went back to the inside strategy and the game stayed tight the whole rest of the way. Did you see that travel call at the end? Haas caught the ball with a couple seconds left and everybody was giving up...game over... and he celebrated and traveled with 0.5 sec still on the clock. Coulda cost us the game and almost did. I was a little surprised they called it but a travel is a travel.
Pretty much the entire tjavascript:emoticon(':shock:')op 10 lost today! :shock: :shock: :shock: Plus the fans cost St. Bonaventure a win over VCU. they stormed the court with time left on the clock and were accessed a technical and VCU made the technical free throw forcing OT where they won!
Florida beat Kentucky 88 - 66 tonight, the largest margin we have ever beat them by. We play them again in Kentucky in the next to last game of the regular season.
Yeah, you almost wonder if the rankings won't get changed all that much...with 6 of the top 10 losing yesterday.
Haven't seen the Gators look that powerful since the 06-07 back to back championship years although Billy D did recently take them to a couple of Final 8s and a Final Four. But last night UF played extremely tough...
Article in today's USAToday about the Gators, say they are a dark horse for the Final Four. I think most bracketology guys put them at a 4 seed right now. ACC still considered the strongest conference top to bottom, maybe 10 or 11 teams will get into the NCAA's.
Tom Izzo was very kind after their 29 point loss to arch rival Michigan last night. I doubt that he slept very well! :roll:
It's been a rough year for Izzo and Mich State. It's also been an odd year in the B1G in general. Mich, Mich Stae, IU, and Ohio State have all had subpar years. Those 4 are usually amongst the top of the B1G and now are mired in the middle. Injuries, recruiting misses, etc I guess because all of them have great coaching.
UF was strong again last night with a 12 point W on the road vs. a scrappy Georgia team. If they can keep this new look Florida team going they have a chance to make a deep tournament run.