Down by 19 at the half!...Huge OT win!...Stormed the court!...I took out Bucky with a forearm shiver!....s/b on sportscenter.
Buckeyes travel to Iowa today Stu, we'll see if that holds up! Bit of trivia apparently Fran McCafferty's son is dating Catlin Clark. His youngest son is reportedly interested in leaving Iowa City and might have some interest in Notre Dame. Fran was on Diggers staff and his mom played basketball at ND.
From Stu's article above: "Nebraska is on pace to go undefeated at home but winless on the road in Big Ten play." Good thing AJ doesn't travel to NE away games. He might storm the court for the wrong reasons.
Besides Purdue/Wisconsin today is filled with some big time games. Houston@Kansas UConn@St.Johns Tenn@Kentucky Duke@UNC Iowa State@Baylor Texas@TCU Longhorns need a good road win badly. Marquette@Georgetown
Longhorns got that much needed road win at TCU. Been some minor grumbling about Rodney Terry as the coach. He's not going to get fired, but he's no Chris Beard. That nice run to the elite 8 sealed the deal for him as the coach no matter what the powers that be thought, no way were they going to by pass a guy like him for a "national" coaching search. So they are stuck with him for better or worse for probably 3 years. Hopefully he'll recruit well and do a great job, that would be a win/win deal.
Houston got a lesson in how hard it is to win at the Phog! KU rolled them yesterday. Tenn went to Lexington though and proved winning on the road can be done with a big win over Kentucky.
Looks like Catlin Clark will break Kelsey Plum's NCAA Scoring record either at Nebraska on Feb 11th or at home vs Michigan on Feb 15th. Interesting is that it's the NCAA scoring record, there is another women's colllege scoring record that was set before the NCAA got into the women's basketball business. She now has 3,462 points. Plum scored 3,527. Former Kansas star Lynette Woodard holds the women's major college basketball record with 3,649 points from 1978-81 -- before the NCAA took over women's sports from the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. That record is within her reach as well, if she averages 27 points/game for the rest of the regular season it's hers. But there is the Big 10 tournament and the NCAA tournament, just a guess but that's maybe another almost 10 games...so baring injury she's going to get that record as well.
Road woes for top 25 teams continue as KU lost on the road in OT at KState, although KState is a ranked team. I watched most of the game and it was very exciting game to watch between 2 very good teams. when AP top 25 teams go on the road against unranked teams. This stat goes back to last Thursday, but top 25 teams are only a little above .500 when playing away games against unranked opponent. AP Top 25 teams finding life on the road difficult.
Gene Keady always said protect your home court and win half your conference road games, and in the end you'll be 15-5 ish and right there near or at the top.
a bit of trivia....Jerome Tang has been at KState for 2 years now, has played 11 OT games and has never lost, is 6-0 this year in OT. Also I was wrong, KState is currently not ranked!
Complaining about the refs is ingrained in just about every sport, but also in every sport it's verboten to publicly critical of those officials. Send tape/report of the calls/plays that you believe that were wrongly called by the refs. Going public after the game leads to at least a fine and possible more like a suspension. So given all that, Baylor coach Scott Drew was ejected from the game which Baylor won and the AD complained about the game officials. He'll be fined for sure, but I'm glad he had the nerve to say it out loud. The ejection came after Drew was assessed his second technical foul with about 11 1/2 minutes left. Only seconds later, the Baylor bench was assessed another technical foul. In that less than a half-minute span with a personal foul and those technical fouls against Baylor, the Cyclones made all eight of their free throws. That was part of a 20-0 run that put them in the lead before Baylor rallied to win 70-68. “Tonight was an embarrassment for this league,” Rhoades said. ”Scott (Drew) said it, we have the best basketball league in the country. And the officiating tonight did not match that. Period, end of story. This league needs to get better when we think about our officiating. And we have some great, great officials. Baylor AD critical of Big 12 officials after coach Scott Drew ejected in win over Iowa State
Kept my eye on 3 games, started with Houston v Oklahoma State...Coogs were running them out of the gym, switched to Texas vs Iowa State, still going on but Cyclones have had the upper hand the whole game...watched the last 3 minutes of UNC/Clemson...Clemson got the win only their 2 win all time at UNC vs 60 losses.