The Big 5 College Basketball Thread

eeriepadave

The Fixer wrote:

bye bye nova

pat skerry doing work...best 1 year improvement in ncaa hoops history. tourney berth next year looks feasible as they have everyone coming back (would have been possible this year if not for the stink that pat kennedy left on this program). great year for my alma mater

Benimon will be in the nba. dude is an absolute monster. Finalist for the Lou henson award...goes to best mid-major player nationally.

TOWSON, Md. -- Jerome Hairston and Marcus Damas scored 17 points each as Towson ended a remarkable turnaround season by defeating Hofstra 67-64 Saturday.

The Tigers (18-13, 13-5 Colonial Athletic Association), who are ineligible for the postseason because of NCAA academic progress rules, improved by 17.5 games over last year's 1-31 finish, based on the difference in both wins and losses, divided by two. That bettered the mark of plus-17 by Mercer in 2002-03 and UTEP the following season.

Jerrelle Benimon had 14 points and 13 rebounds for Towson for his 20th double-double this season. His two free throws tied the game 55-55 with 3:52 left, and two by Rafriel Guthrie made it 57-55. Benimon's three-point play stretched the lead to 62-55 with 1:08 remaining.

Nova needs to make a good run at the Big East tourny or they'll be in the NIT again.

The Juggler

yeah, nova's in with a win on wednesday. even if they lose , they should be in with 2 wins in the garden...still bubbling it up with one.

something like 95% of big east teams with 10 conference wins have made the tourney in the league's existence. they got 9 right now.


nit would still be an improvement. they didn't play in the post season at all last year, erie.

The Juggler

JK_Livin wrote:

I din't see TU's or LaSalle's game v. Duquense but how in the hell did TU lose to them. The only consistency in college basketball is it's inconsistency. It should be a great NCAA's. I was reading that both LaSalle and TU both need 2 more wins to be off the bubble. Not sure about Nova.

lunardi has nova as one of the last 4 in still. lasalle's pretty much in at this point right?


i love how wide open it is this year. so many teams have a chance. it's gonna be a fun month.

JK_Livin

Zack hurt his foot for LaSalle on Saturday and left the game. He's going to miss the next 2 games for sure. It he's out much longer, we're pretty much screwed because we have no size after Wright. Maybe SLU won't know how to defend 5 guards on the floor?

pjhawks

The Juggler wrote:

JK_Livin wrote:

I din't see TU's or LaSalle's game v. Duquense but how in the hell did TU lose to them. The only consistency in college basketball is it's inconsistency. It should be a great NCAA's. I was reading that both LaSalle and TU both need 2 more wins to be off the bubble. Not sure about Nova.

lunardi has nova as one of the last 4 in still. lasalle's pretty much in at this point right?


i love how wide open it is this year. so many teams have a chance. it's gonna be a fun month.

i love Nova to beat Georgetown Wednesday night for the following reasons. and I'd bet the house if i didn't dislike nova so much
1 - a somewhat do or die game for nova (i can't help thinking nova's wins over cuse, ville and marquette are going to look really enticing to the committee when compared to other teams wins so i think they are closer to being in than maybe being thought of now. even if lose to gtown one win in the Big East tourny gets them in i think),
2 - vs. an opponent who is on a long winning streak, is very good but probably a bit overrated (not a #1 seed type team) and who has some close calls recently so totally due for a loss
3 - possibly a more than half-empty building with students on break and possible snow which lessens g'town's motivation even more
4 - conspiracy theory of georgetown wanting to help the new C7 conference look better by having Nova make the tourny this year as well

bet nova wednesday night.

i think all 3 temple nova and lasalle are getting in. with one at least playing in the play-in games.

The Juggler

pjhawks wrote:

The Juggler wrote:

JK_Livin wrote:

I din't see TU's or LaSalle's game v. Duquense but how in the hell did TU lose to them. The only consistency in college basketball is it's inconsistency. It should be a great NCAA's. I was reading that both LaSalle and TU both need 2 more wins to be off the bubble. Not sure about Nova.

lunardi has nova as one of the last 4 in still. lasalle's pretty much in at this point right?


i love how wide open it is this year. so many teams have a chance. it's gonna be a fun month.

i love Nova to beat Georgetown Wednesday night for the following reasons. and I'd bet the house if i didn't dislike nova so much
1 - a somewhat do or die game for nova (i can't help thinking nova's wins over cuse, ville and marquette are going to look really enticing to the committee when compared to other teams wins so i think they are closer to being in than maybe being thought of now. even if lose to gtown one win in the Big East tourny gets them in i think),
2 - vs. an opponent who is on a long winning streak, is very good but probably a bit overrated (not a #1 seed type team) and who has some close calls recently so totally due for a loss
3 - possibly a more than half-empty building with students on break and possible snow which lessens g'town's motivation even more
4 - conspiracy theory of georgetown wanting to help the new C7 conference look better by having Nova make the tourny this year as well

bet nova wednesday night.

i think all 3 temple nova and lasalle are getting in. with one at least playing in the play-in games.

this is nice to hear. nova is actually favored. -1.5 right now...that is a nova line.

if they can keep porter relatively in check and somehow not get killed by the 3 pt shot (tall order for this team), i think they win too. nova's bigs should clean up on the boards.


interesting take on the students being on break though. kind of think that benefits gtown. nova could use all the energy from the crowd they can get so i was thinking they should have scheduled this at the dupont. i guess it can go both ways though.


i can't wait. feels like a tourney game...

JK_Livin

LaSalle has to win tonight with SLU on tap after.

I'd like to know how Otto Porter isn't in the POY talks? Every time I watch Indiana, Cody Zeller does dick. Oladipo is their best player.

pjhawks

JK_Livin wrote:

LaSalle has to win tonight with SLU on tap after.

I'd like to know how Otto Porter isn't in the POY talks? Every time I watch Indiana, Cody Zeller does dick. Oladipo is their best player.

agree on Zeller and Oladipo. Big Ten is stacked though. I think their top 4 are 4 of the best 6 or 7 teams in the country. i will be going heavy on the Big Ten in the tournament.

The Juggler

vaca lined up for 3/23....took friday the 22nd off just to get hammered and watch day 2 of the tourney all day long.


thank god it's march.

pjhawks

here is a cool list. smallest schools ever to be ranked #1 in the AP Poll. check out #2 and #3

http://extramustard.si.com/2013/03/04/t ... ap-top-25/

JK_Livin

pjhawks wrote:

here is a cool list. smallest schools ever to be ranked #1 in the AP Poll. check out #2 and #3

http://extramustard.si.com/2013/03/04/t ... ap-top-25/

That's a cool list and I'm shocked at how small some of those big programs are.

The Juggler

JK_Livin wrote:

pjhawks wrote:

here is a cool list. smallest schools ever to be ranked #1 in the AP Poll. check out #2 and #3

http://extramustard.si.com/2013/03/04/t ... ap-top-25/

That's a cool list and I'm shocked at how small some of those big programs are.

why wouldn't villanova be on there? i think they have 10,000 or so students.

The Juggler

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand we're dancing


:wave:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4d7Wp9kKjA

this is the kind of team nobody wants to play come tourney time....

GO. CATS.

pjhawks

The Juggler wrote:

JK_Livin wrote:

pjhawks wrote:

here is a cool list. smallest schools ever to be ranked #1 in the AP Poll. check out #2 and #3

http://extramustard.si.com/2013/03/04/t ... ap-top-25/

That's a cool list and I'm shocked at how small some of those big programs are.

why wouldn't villanova be on there? i think they have 10,000 or so students.

because they've never been #1 in the AP Poll. they don't do a poll after the tourny.

JK_Livin

Nice wins for all last night. I'll be a big TU fan come Sunday if LaSalle can pull the upset of SLU on Saturday. LaSalle has a chance to win the A10 outright.

Thanks to UNC for possibly knocking MD off the bubble.

The Juggler

jerry palm's up to date brackets have lasalle playing kentucky in a play in game...nova as an 11 seed playing vcu...and temple as an 11 seed playing michigan state:


http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/bracketology

JK_Livin

The Juggler wrote:

jerry palm's up to date brackets have lasalle playing kentucky in a play in game...nova as an 11 seed playing vcu...and temple as an 11 seed playing michigan state:


http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/bracketology

Fuck him and his play in game.

I like this one better.
http://www.bustingthebracket.com/2013/0 ... kdown.html

pjhawks

The Juggler wrote:

jerry palm's up to date brackets have lasalle playing kentucky in a play in game...nova as an 11 seed playing vcu...and temple as an 11 seed playing michigan state:


http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/bracketology

lasalle should be a seed or two higher than that. they are playing for 1st place in the A10 on saturday although i think a loss can drop them to 4th or possibly 5th depending on what temple and butler do.

and those would be bad matchups for temple and nova. you don't want any part of playing michigan state.

eeriepadave

The Juggler wrote:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand we're dancing


:wave:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4d7Wp9kKjA

this is the kind of team nobody wants to play come tourney time....

GO. CATS.

yeah that cemented them in the tourny. Thinking Temple and Lasalle will also make it. Love this time of year.

Johnny Abruzzo

Owls can punch their ticket with a win over VCU tomorrow. Should be a fun one. They're doing the white-out thing, which always looks like a Klan rally to me but I guess if it gets the crowd riled...

VCU is undefeated when they get at least 15 turnovers and winless when they don't. Owls turn it over 11 times a game. Should be a fun one.