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I agree with you on Tenn... if they could get the crap together they could be a very dangerous team... lot of talent... but way too inconsistent... good game so far today... I still expect UConn to win... but won't be surprised if UT pulls it out.
UConn really got rolling at the end today, but Tenn made me nervous. I really wish that we could play Ohio State. Conn does work on the basketball court.
Next year we'll be competing for a title, for sure. I thought our freshman would play pretty well, and UConn would be good (top 25), but I didn't think we'd be doing work like this. Jeremy Lamb could end up being an NBA player, and Roscoe Smith will be one too.
But yeah, Conn impresses me more and more every week. I love this team. Last year's team didn't have heart. Stanley Robinson was always a dissapointment, phenomenal athlete but without the drive to be great. Jerome Dyson was a good player, but he wasn't a leader and couldn't make the guys around him great.
This year, the team is very close knit, they play great defense, and they all back each other up. We can beat anyone in the country on a good night (except may be Pitt, I just don't see how we can D up with McGee, we'd need to find a way to make him a non-factor. May be if Charlie Okwandu plays a great game).
But yeah, College Basketball World, We are the Huskies: Come Get Some!
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In other news, Kansas is really laying into Texas. And you know I gotta give some love to Colt McCoy's Alma Mater Go Long Horns! Shut this "number 2" team down.
I wish UConn could get their hands on these guys. This Selby kid just seems like a cocky punk. I'd definitely go of OSU over the Jay Hawks
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This apparently is where I differ with so many people about the tournament, the fact that a team can get hot and tear it up even though they didn't have a great reg season is what annoys me the most about the tournament. What about the games in December and January?
December and January get you a better seed... if you are a top seed and you can't beat a lower seed then you deserve to go home.
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I love how you ignored my Butler example.
I guarantee they would have beaten the all mighty Big East teams.
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I love how you ignored my Butler example.
I guarantee they would have beaten the all mighty Big East teams.
Butler earned a 5 seed at the tournament last year, it wasn't like they were a forgotten team. They hadn't lost since December that year, although they lost four in the beginning of the season, all to ranked teams besides UAB.
Given they were a small school, but they were sort of recognized as a decent team (17-20 in the pool with the 5 seed). And it's rare that a school like that comes along and goes to the final.
So I guess you did get me there (wish they were a 4 and then I could have still had my argument), but I just feel like that's a very rare example.
I just get annoyed when teams lose 10 games in a season or so and have a chance to win a National Championship. With the short three point line, a team can get hot shooting (and another cold) and all of a sudden an upset happens and a better team's season is ruined by a team that has no reason to be there, they just manage to win one game.
But yeah, Butler showed they deserved to be there, unfortunately they didn't play any ranked teams since December and it was hard to see if they were any good
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Notre Dame just beat Pitt!
I imagine this is good news for Conn, it should move Conn further up the rankings because we got upset by the Irish also. ND is a good team though, very deep and all five starters can shoot.
Tomorrow night should be good basketball. OSU vs Purdue and Conn vs Marquette
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I watched Baylor for the first time last night to get a look at Perry Jones. He didn't stand out to me like I would have expected a top 3 pick to. Anyone have an opinion on him/seen more Baylor games this season?
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I watched Baylor for the first time last night to get a look at Perry Jones. He didn't stand out to me like I would have expected a top 3 pick to. Anyone have an opinion on him/seen more Baylor games this season?
body up Perry Jones and he disappears. The Kansas boys made him look silly.
he's crazy athletic with Amare upside, but I really don't think he has the mindset for it (especially on a team like the Cavs where he'd have to be THE guy)
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Perry should not be playing the 4 spot. It takes away all of his playmaking ability. However Baylor is kind of forced to do it. He is a 6'11 small forward.
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Looking forward to it. On TV,...
We're taking a lot of heat in Central Ohio for "not showing up" and supporting the team.
Nine o'clock start, 25 minutes away, parking, night driving, traffic, no good seats available beside nosebleed. I'm staying on the couch in front of my high def.
I pay taxes and buy advertised products. They're doing fine without me there.
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We're taking a lot of heat in Central Ohio for "not showing up" and supporting the team.
This is because of a few things
1. The time of the games and when they happen.
2. The arena is not as good as St. Johns arena period. St. Johns was always loud even with smaller crowds. Nationwide holds more people but it's not as loud for some stange reason.
3. The student section doesn't show up unless it's a big game. When they do it's like the horseshoe.
4. I have read that it sounds quite on the big 10 network because that network sucks. They edit out most of the crowd volume so viewers can listen to the analysts more.
5. OSU is a football school and it has nothing to do with the fans not being passionate because the horseshoe is always rocking.
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I would pay to go see the students have a raucous section like Duke does,...but we don't have that setup here. And to my knowledge, kids aren't getting in to games free at Duke either.
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Man, for the cost of going to Duke I hope they're getting into basketball games for free!
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 That was kinda my drift,...yes they ought to, and they ought to at OSU too. Somehow, I would not be surprised to learn they don't though. The other point is, Duke has a section set up just for students to wreak their fan havoc. The Buckeyes are no where near that situation because of all the high end priced seating. I went to a small college and we paid -- not much -- and seating was "reserved" but first come, first served, in the student section. We'd go early just to make sure we got to sit courtside.
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The other point is, Duke has a section set up just for students to wreak their fan havoc. The Buckeyes are no where near that situation because of all the high end priced seating.
This is a huge part of it.
The prices for certain sections at OSU are ridiculous.
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Boiler Down!
And a 3 by Sulinger to to add to the beatdown...
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Man sully is as dominate on offense as Greg Oden was on defense. It's just not fair really. He's just so powerful and skilled.
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Man sully is as dominate on offense as Greg Oden was on defense. It's just not fair really. He's just so powerful and skilled.
I hope my Huskies play your Buckeyes in the tourney, then we'll see how skilled and "fair" it is to face this Sully character.
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They'll both, or either, have to get past Duke,....
Haha, the team that is my number 1 arch enemy! You guys destroyed us UConn last year.
I hope Conn gets in the same bracket as OSU (I'd take a number 2 seed to make that possible). We could see you guys in the final four if necessary, last I remember, we beat Duke in the Final Four to go on to win a championship with Emeka Okafor and Ben Gordon, and we beat Duke to win the championship with Rip Hamilton.
Know that if Conn plays those Blue Devils in the tourney, we'll have your number. Huskies hate Blue Devils
(Otherwise I respect your squad, my number 1 arch-rival, just know that we'll have something special for the Dukies if we play them. Don't think Kemba Walker forgot about last year's game)
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I'm by no means an all-out Dukie,....I just admire and respect Coach K to the n-th degree,...(kinda grew up on ACC ball while in the service.)
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Man sully is as dominate on offense as Greg Oden was on defense. It's just not fair really. He's just so powerful and skilled.
I hope my Huskies play your Buckeyes in the tourney, then we'll see how skilled and "fair" it is to face this Sully character.
And I hope OSU plays UCONN to see how "great" kemba walker is.
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the one negative (and really it would be a great matchup, so it's likely the only negative) is that Sully and Walker would rarely actually matchup against each other on the floor.
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Man sully is as dominate on offense as Greg Oden was on defense. It's just not fair really. He's just so powerful and skilled.
I hope my Huskies play your Buckeyes in the tourney, then we'll see how skilled and "fair" it is to face this Sully character.
And I hope OSU plays UCONN to see how "great" kemba walker is.
OSU has playmakers at every spot on the floor. Double team the interior, and we have 4 players that can consistently knock down the 3 ball. Play us on the perimeter and Sully will destroy you inside. Play us man to man, and we can beat you off the dribble. Hell, even Diebler has started showing his ability to drive the lane when the 3 is not there.
When this team is on, like it was yesterday, nobody can beat them. There is just too much firepower.
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Hell, even Diebler has started showing his ability to drive the lane when the 3 is not there.
Yeah Diebler has really improved his game with his ability to do that. All great shooters have to have some ability to drive into the lane. Everybody has improved their game this year. Even Dallas Laurderdale is still playing decent defense and his hook shot is a lot better.
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By the way pete lets be real here.
You only want a reduced tourney because it would favor your team. Don't spew the BS of "Well it takes away from the regular season!!!" No it doesn't because if it did, then why do you still watch?
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Man sully is as dominate on offense as Greg Oden was on defense. It's just not fair really. He's just so powerful and skilled.
I hope my Huskies play your Buckeyes in the tourney, then we'll see how skilled and "fair" it is to face this Sully character.
And I hope OSU plays UCONN to see how "great" kemba walker is.
Your college basketball opinion just lost a lot of respect from me for you putting the word "great" in quotation marks like you don't think Kemba Walker is great.
Kemba Walker is the best player in college basketball, period.
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Man sully is as dominate on offense as Greg Oden was on defense. It's just not fair really. He's just so powerful and skilled.
I hope my Huskies play your Buckeyes in the tourney, then we'll see how skilled and "fair" it is to face this Sully character.
And I hope OSU plays UCONN to see how "great" kemba walker is.
Your college basketball opinion just lost a lot of respect from me for you putting the word "great" in quotation marks like you don't think Kemba Walker is great.
Kemba Walker is the best player in college basketball, period.
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By the way pete lets be real here.
You only want a reduced tourney because it would favor your team. Don't spew the BS of "Well it takes away from the regular season!!!" No it doesn't because if it did, then why do you still watch?
I watch the regular season because I like to watch my team no matter what.
The tourney doesn't ruin that for me. It simply annoys me because I feel like it waters down the national championship.
Some school can get hot and take that underdog role, hit a bunch of three pointers and knock out a big school that they generally wouldn't beat 9 out of 10 times.
It just annoys me. I've always felt that way. But believe what you want........ I have some ulterior motive for wanting the tourney smaller this year because UConn is ranked high.
May be my team's consistent high ranking might have subliminally made me disagree the tourney. (Although that garbage loss we had to George Mason did really get me angry. That whole season did though, hence why I hate Rudy Gay the most disappointing player I've ever come across. Him and Charlie Villenuevia from his underperformance the year before) But as for it suddenly making me feel the way I do this year, nope.
I just like watching my squad play, the same way you like to watch yours. As I said, I also love the Big East and the competition it provides, so I like to see how we do in our conference. And when Conn's in the tournament, of course I watch them and get into it.
I just wish the tournament had less teams so that good teams wouldn't pay for a fluke game to a much lesser team. I don't get why that's hard to understand........
As for the Kemba Walker comment, I only made the comment about this Sully guy because you said it wasn't fair to face him. I don't think I ever said that Kemba Walker was that great. I just thought your post was silly, so I had to let you know what was up
Although Kemba is very good. Possibly the best player to come out that I've seen. Ray Allen was a great scorer. So was Rip Hamilton and Ben Gordon (esp when he would shoot more, at Conn he was the opposite of ball hog). Because of his athletic ability I knew Kemba would be good, and I've always said he'd be an NBA PG. But I didn't think he'd get himself together the way he has this year. His shot has improved tremendously, and he always had the issue of being almost too athletic, so he'd often be out of control (like Rajon Rondo used to be) And I never thought he'd be as clutch as he is either. He just makes big shot after big shot. This Conn team sure is special this year. The rest of the team is very good too. If we only had a real center (although somehow this player who used to be awful, Okwandu, is playing better too!)
But yeah, you've noticed I love to trash talk, especially when I get excited about my team. Since this is a board with people from all over (and a bunch of OSU fans), it's perfect for me. So don't take offense, we're still Browns fans and all. I just like representing my squad and letting everyone know that I think we will beat any team in the nation. May be those Rex Ryan interviews I hear so much are rubbing off on me.
That's right baby, UConn's gonna take the watered down National Championship Tourney in 2011 BABY! (And it still will be great, even though I disagree with the size of it) 
May be we'll take the men's and women's being the second team to ever do that (the first being......... UConn!)
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By the way, anyone see SDSU's loss to BYU.
That should shake up the rankings. I knew that team was overhyped. They hadn't played anybody, they play one tough team and they lose. It's like Utah Football.
With Pitt losing to Notre Dame, Conn and Pitt should be neck and neck. I imagine, 3 & 4. Duke number 2. Pitt beat Conn handidly but lost to Tennessee. Conn beat Tennessee by a bunch. Both Pitt and Conn lost to Notre Dame. I wonder how that'll work out.
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I agree with what you are saying about the tourney and being watered down. But, then you go and contemplate what ranking UConn gets this week?
with M-BBall, I don't care what ranking the Buckeyes get. I honestly hope they lose a few games (to keep their focus on getting better). It makes the regular season sort of an exhibition season to me when I know the team I like is definitely good enough to get a good seed in the tourney (honestly, seeds 1 through 4 aren't much different other than the occasional 13seed that was slotted way too low).
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This is exactly why football stinks without a playoff.
because the regular season matters and isn't an exhibition season like in basketball?
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I agree with what you are saying about the tourney and being watered down. But, then you go and contemplate what ranking UConn gets this week?
Of course I care how UConn is ranked. Having a high ranking through the regular season is part of the battle. I look at the rankings as the regular season standings, and it feels good to be ranked high.
As for playing in the watered down tourney, it's better than nothing (i just think it can be improved by having FAR less teams). Everytime UConn has won the championship (and both times I was around to see it, I believe we were one of the four number 1 seeds) I have gotten very excited and called Conn the natonal champions. (we played great in the reg season and the tourney) I just like to take the regular season seriously also, and so ranking is something to be proud of.
Every game is exciting to me, I watch them all (especially since our schedule is so competitive). But yeah, of course I take the rankings seriously, it's all part of the competition. While people don't remember who was ranked where months after the tourney, it feels good to know that your team is good and regarded highly (at least at the current time).
It's all part of the game to me. UConn is usually good, we usually have a competitive rating, and I like the recognition/respect that a rating gets. There's nothing I'd love more than to take that number 1 ranking from OSU and keep on kicking butt this season (that's why I got so annoyed at Big East Coaches (and candyman) for giving Conn such a low ranking in the pre-season polls)
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This is exactly why football stinks without a playoff.
because the regular season matters and isn't an exhibition season like in basketball?
No,...because in some cases the regular season doesn't matter even if you go undefeated. You can also go undefeated without being tested, but in basketball you have a tournament where you have to prove yourself, 5/6 times if you go far enough. We don't have that in D-1 college football.
I know it's not the same game,...but that's doesn't mean I can't wish for a playoff in addition to otherwise "important" regular season(s).
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It'll never happen because of the $$$ involved, but I would love to see basketball do 3 things.
1. Go to a tourney with 2 auto-qualifiers from each "AQ" conference (14: BE, B10, ACC, P10, B12, A10, MWC) and 1 each from all other conferences (25).
2. Final bracket actually 32 teams. Lowest 14 seeds "play-in" to bracket (or highest 25 seeds get a bye, whichever way you want to look at it). Note: Determined by same selection committee they have today.
Think about the battles just to get into the tourney. Each conference would get to determine how their teams qualify (suggest regular season champ and post-season tourney champ, which means OOC still exhibition and still will get great cross-conference matchups).
3. Final 4 matchups are best-of-3 (semi's and finals).
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It'll never happen because of the $$$ involved, but I would love to see basketball do 3 things.
1. Go to a tourney with 2 auto-qualifiers from each "AQ" conference (14: BE, B10, ACC, P10, B12, A10, MWC) and 1 each from all other conferences (25).
2. Final bracket actually 32 teams. Lowest 14 seeds "play-in" to bracket (or highest 25 seeds get a bye, whichever way you want to look at it). Note: Determined by same selection committee they have today.
Think about the battles just to get into the tourney. Each conference would get to determine how their teams qualify (suggest regular season champ and post-season tourney champ, which means OOC still exhibition and still will get great cross-conference matchups).
3. Final 4 matchups are best-of-3 (semi's and finals).
There's a good idea !
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I thought you might approve of that last one. I think we've discussed it before. Can't remember if it was my idea or I stole it from you 
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