November 13, 2008
This is long overdue…
- Injury bug. Va Tech forward JT Thompson will be out 4-6 weeks with a hernia. Tyler Hansbrough appears “extremely doubtful” for UNC’s opener against Penn on Saturday. Ole Miss guard Trevor Gaskins tore his ACL and will miss the entire season.
- Nevada’s sticky-fingered trio of Brandon Fields, London Giles and Ahyaro Phillips will be held out of the season opener against Montana St. on Saturday. Not sure why Fields is still suspended, his charges were dropped.
- UCLA’s Nikola Dragovic got into a dispute with his girlfriend last week and was arrested for misdemeanor battery. He did not dress during last night’s game against Priarie View A&M.
- Tennessee freshman PG Daniel West was ruled academically ineligible to play for the Vols this season, leaving juco transfer Bobby Maze and junior JP Prince as the only two legitimate ballhandlers to run Bruce Pearl’s attack this season.
- Georgia Tech senior guard Lewis Clinch is also academically ineligible, but he can earn his spot back on the team after the semester ends. He’ll miss a minimum of seven games though.
- Don’t expect any slicing or dicing of the current 16-team Big East arrangement on his watch, says newly voted Commish John Marinatto, who will begin next July 1. He takes over for uber-successful commisioner Mike Tranghese.
- More meaningless exhibitions. Stephen Curry (41 pts on 15-19 FGs) appeared rusty in an 84-54 Davidson win over Lenoir-Rhyne. The defending champs, led by Sherron Collins (22 pts) and Cole Aldrich (17/10), handily defeated Emporia St. Wisconsin plowed through a slogfest to win 64-47 over UW-Whitewater. UConn’s Jerome Dyson and his 18 pts led the Huskies past UMass-Lowell 82-63. Luke Harongody’s 21/10 helped Notre Dame to an easy win over Stonehenge Stonehill 79-47 last weekend. Pitt’s Sam Young filled the stat sheet with 18/7/4 blks in an 82-30 mauling of La Roche as well on Sunday.
- Jeff Goodman gives his version of preseason bracketology, and he also went with the upset over UNC in the finals (Michigan St.). We see ya with your #15 Belmont (over Tennessee) and #14 Portland St. (over Purdue).
- RTC correspondent Baker (he covers the A-Sun and the SoCon) has launched his new site, Mid Major Review, which got off with a bang this week with his podcast interview of Belmont head coach, Rick Byrd, and we expect will provide great substance and analysis of the mid-major world throughout the season. Welcome to the blogosphere, MMR.
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November 9, 2008
- Louisville 84, N. Kentucky 69. Louisville is looking shaky in the preseason, but Samardo Samuels isn’t (29 pts).
- UNC 102, UNC-Pembroke 62. Tyler Hansbrough wasn’t on the floor, but it didn’t matter much.
- Purdue 81, Northern St. 61. JaJuan Johnson went nuts for 22/14/7 blks.
- Oklahoma 94, Cameron 39. Blake Griffin with 17/11 as OU rolled.
- Marquette 94, Colorado St.-Pueblo 73. Lazar Hayward with 23 and Jerel McNeal with 22.
- UCLA 76, Biola 42. Darren Collison with 14 pts; Jrue Holiday with 11.
- Wake Forest 97, Mt. Olive 62. AFA had 15/12, but LD Williams led all scorers with 22 pts.
- Florida 82, Rollins 53. Nick Calathes with 16/6 assts.
- Indiana 103, Anderson 71. Will this be Tom Crean’s best win of the year?
- Kentucky 94, Ouachita Baptist 72. Perry Stevenson with a near trip-dub (16/20/7 blks).
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November 5, 2008
We really can’t wait for the real games…
Seems as if rims were soft tonight.
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November 4, 2008
We don’t put any much stock in Exhibition Games, because, well, they’re exhibitions. But maybe we should – last year, Findlay defeated Ohio St. and Grand Valley St. beat Michigan St., and both of those teams had worse seasons than expected (OSU in particular – NIT). Someone should do a correlation on this. Anyway, here are some exhibition tidbits for the discerning fan…
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Syracuse 76, Cal St. LA 55. Jonny Flynn led with 13/6 assts, as Cuse celebrated the returns of Andy Rautins and Eric Devendorf from injuries.
Red Flag – SU was 10-26 from the foul line.
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Florida 108, Warner 49. Alex Tyus led the way with 16/14, in a game that was a clear mismatch from start to finish.
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November 4, 2007
As we get closer to “opening night,” teams have been going through their exhibition schedules with varying degrees of success. Well, actually, most of them are kicking the shit winning comfortably against their opponents except for Michigan State. Here’s a quick roundup of recent notable games:
- The Defending Champs (2x) aren’t exactly starting from scratch… (Florida 97, Flagler 51)
- Kevin Love just might be the real deal… (UCLA 111, Azusa Pacific 61)
- Even if Michael Beasley is better… (Kansas St. 95, Fort Hays St. 59)
- It appears ole Majerus has a long way to go at SLU… (St. Louis 71, Missouri-St. Louis 54)
- While Tubby may be ready to roll at Minnesota… (Minnesota 94, Minnesota St. – Mankato 68)
- Pitino’s guys are showing no signs of rust… (Louisville 93, Georgetown College 66)
- While Bill Self’s squad played like it was any non-Elite 8 game… (Kansas 94, Pittsburg St. 59)
- America’s #1 team showed Shaw what’s up… (UNC 114, Shaw 62)
- Two nights after Duke already emasculated them… (Duke 134, Shaw 55)
- Maybe Kyle Singler is for real after all… (Duke 105, Barton 44)
- And UConn slipped by Assumption… (UConn 90, Assumption 75)
- While Gillispie proves an (early) hit in Lexington (Kentucky 82, Seattle 63)
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