Maybe I am paranoid. Mississippi State could present a challenge to us, if we played them in the tournament. If Sidney actually tried against us he could give us problems inside.
True, but we were outrebounded by PENN STATE until the last 2 minutes of the game and barely outrebounded Old Dominion
Zeller/Henson > Davis/Jones on the glass.
I think we're more talented and more athletic than North Carolina at 4 of 5 spots on the floor, but that won't mean much if we give up 75 shot attempts.
Penn State had 67 shot attempts, due to 18 offensive rebounds against us.
If we give up 18 offensive rebounds to North Carolina, they beat us by 20.
Talent wise ...
Teague > Marshall Lamb > Strickland Kidd-Gilchrist < Barnes Jones > Henson Davis > Zeller
But, with the matchups ...
Marshall is a smarter, more experienced player, and won't turn the ball over the way Teague has.
Lamb is just better than Strickland.
Barnes is just better than Kidd-Gilchrist
Henson won't disappear the way Jones has. He's consistent.
Zeller will own Davis on the glass, and is more physical down low.
So not only does Taylor get hip checked and not get to go to the line to tie it, but Curry travels, and then some nobody hits a prayer that never should go in ever. Unbelievable.
Gophers who were a borderline team for a tourney team are no longer one cause Trevor M'Bakwe (spelling questionable) is done for the year with a ACL injury. Sully is just going to destroy the Big Ten.
Gophers who were a borderline team for a tourney team are no longer one cause Trevor M'Bakwe (spelling questionable) is done for the year with a ACL injury. Sully is just going to destroy the Big Ten.
Right now, I'd be ok with destroying Duke tmr night. I took the night off.. most of my friends did too.
My main concern is Coach K and the officials. The dude has pull, nobody can really question that. It's amazing what a couple questionable charge/ticky tack type calls can do to change a game like this.
Defending Brian Kelly will be a pain in the ass for this team.
Please draft a Huskie this year. Either Lamb or the future man child.
I never thought you'd say something like this CandyMan. Haha.
Conn lost an early game this year, and I really can't talk about any other team's schedule anymore (our non-conf is a joke).
But I do think the defending champs have as good a shot as anyone else at the title. Same guys that we had last year one year older (besides Kemba of course) and Andre Drummond improving every game.
Once he and Alex Oriaki start playing well together, they'll be a dominant inside duo. We really have a ton of talent. The only thing that makes me nervous is that new grade requirement thing the NCAA instituted. I've heard UConn won't be allowed in the tourney next year. That means Drummond and Lamb probably will be leaving this season for sure. Plus I fear Jim Calhoun could be leaving any year now.
If he could only hand the team over to ex-UConn fav of mine Kevin Ollie! (who is an assistant coach)
Holy cow. I leave work to pick up pizza with OSU up by 3, when I finally find the station on the sat radio they are up by 11, I get out of the pizza joint and it is 15 and when I get back to work it is 19. Wow. Tempering my excitement, 19 against Duke is still achievable (can you tell I'm a Browns fan??)
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
Man was that a whoopin or what!? I think OSU players were jacked up...they had so many x players come back(oden, conley, ET, and many many more) also D wade n LBJ were in the house....it was insane.
Great game by OSU... In the end they seemed to get every break and everything they threw at the basket seemed to go in and Duke couldn't ever seem to find a rhythm .... I don't think Duke is nearly as bad as they looked or that OSU is as good as they looked.. but on this night, OSU was almost unbeatable. If OSU can shoot just a reasonable % from the outside, they are going to be hard to beat.
I was pretty happy with the way Maryland played considering they are missing 3 guys including their only true point guard...
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