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Thursday, December 18[table][tr][th=""]Game[/th] [th=""]Network[/th] [th=""]Coverage Notes[/th] [th=""]PPV?[/th] [th=""]Time[/th] [/tr][tr][td]Cincinnati vs. Mississippi St.
(at Cincinnati, OH)[/td] [td]
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[/td] [td] [/td] [td] [/td] [td]6:30pm[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Evansville at N. Carolina[/td] [td]
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[/td] [td] [/td] [td] [/td] [td]7pm[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Charleston Southern at Florida St.[/td] [td]
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[/td] [td] [/td] [td] [/td] [td]7pm[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Niagara at Drexel[/td] [td]
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Time Warner-Rochester
Time Warner-Syracuse[/td] [td] [/td] [td]7pm[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Robert Morris at Lafayette[/td] [td]
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[/td] [td] [/td] [td] [/td] [td]7pm[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Oakland at UW-Green Bay[/td] [td]
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[/td] [td] [/td] [td] [/td] [td]8pm[/td] [/tr][tr][td]W. Kentucky at S. Alabama[/td] [td]
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[/td] [td] [/td] [td]8pm[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Louisville vs. Mississippi
(at Cincinnati, OH)[/td] [td]
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[/td] [td] [/td] [td] [/td] [td]9pm[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Texas Southern at Gonzaga[/td] [td]
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Look for Louisville to play a close one against Mississippi...they have something like a 16% winning percentage in neutral site OOC games over the last fewyears (I read about it in an article not too long ago, but can't find the article anymore...I think 16% since 2000 was the number they gave).
 
Tyler Hansbrough will make history tonight.

Speak on it Allen, Dre, Cake, Malta, majority of the people that view this thread ...
 
Kennedy, AD meet following arrest in Cincinnati

By Andy Katz
ESPN.com


Mississippi coach Andy Kennedy was meeting with athletic director Pete Boone in a downtown Cincinnati hotel, sources told ESPN.com, after Kennedy was arrested early Thursday morning for allegedly assaulting a cab driver.
The pair were expected to release a statement later Thursday after the meeting, which will determine if Kennedy would be allowed to coach Thursday night's game against No. 9 Louisville (9 p.m., ESPN).
According to Cincinnati police, the 40-year-old Kennedy was arrested on a misdemeanor assault charge for allegedly punching 25-year-old cab driver Jiddou Mohammed Ould in the face while shouting racial slurs. The assault happened at 1 a.m. ET in downtown Cincinnati, according to the police report.
Mississippi spokesman Joey Jones, traveling with the team, said Thursday that a decision on Kennedy's status would be made after the meeting.
According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, Kennedy has hired former Hamilton County prosecutor Mike Allen to represent him.

Allen entered a not guilty plea on Kennedy's behalf on Thursday morning and said Kennedy "emphatically denies this and emphatically denies making any racial slurs," according to the Enquirer.
The newspaper reported that William Armstrong was also arrested during the incident and charged with disorderly conduct. According to Mississippi's athletics Web site, Armstrong is the Rebels' coordinator of basketball operations.
If Kennedy doesn't coach Thursday night, then assistant Michael White would coach the team against the Cardinals, according to Jones.
According to the Cincinnati Police Department arrest report, Kennedy "was the aggressor that punched listed victim with a closed fist. [Kennedy] also was using racial slurs while punching victim. There was an unrelated witness that observed the whole incident."The victim, according to the police report, sustained injuries described as a "swollen left face."The Rebels (7-3), considered one of the best teams in the SEC West entering this season, are playing Louisville as part of the Big East/SEC Invitational.Kennedy, in his third season with the Rebels, was the interim head coach of Cincinnati after his good friend Bob Huggins was fired prior to the 2005-06 season. He had been an assistant with the Bearcats for the previous five seasons.
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Originally Posted by The Wizard

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Originally Posted by dreClark

"This summer we got about 40 college coaches at our games," Malone says. "We'd have had 50, but our two top players [Josh Hairston and Tyler Thornton] had already signed." And Duke's Mike Krzyzewski is the one who landed them
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I'm willing to bet that Gary Williams wasn't one of them....
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I laughed, but come on, NT stays on Gary's recruiting.
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you've seen all that talent that passed through the DMV area the last 5 years, and you make that comment. you're obviously delusional.
It's the same with Norm Roberts and SJU and how he hasn't been able to really recruit the NYC area that well.
if you have all that talent within a hour or two of your campus, why the !%#% aren't you out there making noises on the recruiting trail?
UMD is a state school, they got the resources. Your boy Gary just isn't doing a good job and you know that.

Local kids only want to stay home these days if they're getting great coaching. Which explains why only 3 talented NYers are staying home togo to SJU.

Gary's getting up there in age and isn't as good as a coach he was a few years ago. It might be time for him to get ready to hang it up.
 
UPDATE: From a reader of "The Big Lead":

"They just had the cab driver on the radio here. Apparently AK and his crew were kicked out of a bar (The Lodge Bar) in downtown Cincy. The cops were willing to let him go provided he would leave. He got in a cab and asked the driver to pick up a couple of his other friends down the street. When the cab pulled up, there were too many people and AK got pissed when the driver would not cram everyone in…that's when the punches and name calling started."
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wow! anyone think kennedy could lose his job over this?

ole miss and miss. state are both in cincinnati tonight. our coach suffered severe migraines earlier in the week and his coaching status was uncertain at onepoint... so both teams could be without their head coaches tonight.
 
Jesus, the SWAC is terrible. I'm not at all familiar with the schools (Gonzaga plays Texas Southern tonight), but how can one conference collectively bethis bad?

12-79 combined record
Most wins any one team has is 3
Three winless teams (0-12, 0-9, 0-9)
 
[table][tr][td] [h1]Rough gems: This year's freshmen just trying to fit in, not stand out[/h1] [/td] [/tr][/table]
By Mark Beech


In the two years since the NBA's age-minimum rule took effect, so many preternaturally gifted freshmen have flitted through college basketball on theirway to the first round of the draft (24, to be exact) that the recently matriculated class of 2012 suffers by comparison. That's not exactly fair,considering that the recruiting crops of '06 and '07 were two of the best ever, but a quarter of the way through this season, no first-year playershave emerged as surefire lottery picks next spring, or even appeared capable of leading their teams to a national title.

"There are five or six guys who are doing well," says Memphis coach John Calipari. "But only one or two [of them] willprobably be in position to leave [for the NBA] next year."

Still, this year's freshman crop has its potential gems. Consider Georgetown center Greg Monroe, who has elevated his team by fittingin rather than standing out. In the then 19th-ranked Hoyas' high-energy 79--70 overtime win over No. 17 Memphis last Saturday, the 6'11",250-pound Monroe put on a remarkable show. Though he struggled from the field, making two of seven shots, he filled out the box score with three blocks, twosteals, six rebounds and three assists. Compared with the player he replaced -- the lumbering 7'2" Roy Hibbert, since graduated --Monroe seems a mere wisp, but his athleticism has added some much-needed spring to coach John Thompson III's version of the Princeton offense, and hisinstincts for the system's screening and ball movement have been spot-on.

Indeed, Monroe may already be one of the best-passing big men in the nation. In one nifty sequence on Saturday, with the Hoyas clinging to a 69--68 leadlate in the overtime period, he drove to the basket off a pick-and-roll, then deftly delivered a no-look bounce pass to trailing forward DaJuanSummers, who laid the ball in for an easy two. "Most big guys are used to just [staying] in the post," says Thompson, "but Greg can bea playmaker from anywhere on the floor. He's invariably in the right spot, making the right cut. He makes everybody better."

Monroe isn't the only refreshing freshman. Second-ranked Connecticut (8--0 through Sunday) has been buoyed by the slashing, hyperquick play of pointguard Kemba Walker, who, despite starting just one game, ranked fourth on the Huskies in both scoring (averaging 12.0 points) and minutesplayed (28.9). At Louisville, center Samardo Samuels has not only given the No. 9 Cardinals a physical presence in the paint -- thus easingsome of the pressure on forwards Earl Clark and Terrence Williams -- but also has shown a nimble scoring touch, averaging ateam-high 17.0 points.

At Memphis, after mentoring last spring's No. 1 overall draft pick, point guard Derrick Rose, Calipari is now shepherding one of thisseason's top recruits in Tyreke Evans. The 6'6", 219-pound guard has an NBA-ready frame, but his game remains a work in progress.Against the Hoyas, he occasionally flaunted the slashing, ankle-breaking style that will one day make him a dominant player. However, Evans must improve hisshot selection and develop a consistent jumper that will serve him better than the bailout fallaway he resorted to against Georgetown. (He finished with 20points but went a lackluster eight of 24 from the field.) In his defense Evans is still feeling the effects of the right-ankle strain he suffered on Nov. 1 andis "just getting rid of high school habits," he says.

"He's showing signs of 'wow,'" says Calipari. "You'll see a different Tyreke at some point this year. But he's not thereyet." Of course, neither is anybody else. But clearly, freshman orientation is in full swing.
 
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UPDATE: From a reader of "The Big Lead":

"They just had the cab driver on the radio here. Apparently AK and his crew were kicked out of a bar (The Lodge Bar) in downtown Cincy. The cops were willing to let him go provided he would leave. He got in a cab and asked the driver to pick up a couple of his other friends down the street. When the cab pulled up, there were too many people and AK got pissed when the driver would not cram everyone in…that's when the punches and name calling started."
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Some people man ... risking their career over some dumb %*$$.
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AK comes back to Cincinnati acting a damn fool.
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Can you imagine if He was still our coach and that happened? Man it would be the Huggins situation all over again.
 
RANDOM NOTES: Former Providence guard Dwain Williams, who was supposed to go to Oregon State, has committed to Kent State, according to sources. … USC'sNikola Vecevich was cleared by the NCAA. … Nevada's Brandon Fields, who was suspended for the first couple games of the season and struggled after beingreinstated, scored a game-high 21 points in a victory over Arkansas-Pine Bluff last night. … Michigan State big man Goran Suton returned to the lineup, played17 minutes and had four points and five rebounds in a win against The Citadel. … Santa Clara coach Kerry Keating watched as Decensae White, who transferredfrom Texas Tech, made his debut and scored 10 points and grabbed five boards in 30 minutes in a loss to UNLV. … Southern Utah coach Roger Reid suspended threeplayers - including starting point guard Mike Josserand - for breaking a team rule. The Thunderbirds lost to Utah State, 72-65. … College of Charleston coachBobby Cremins won his 500th game in a 73-58 victory against Coastal Carolina. Cremins is the 69th coach to reach that plateau and the 17th active coach to winat least 500 games. ... Louisiana-Monroe coach Orlando Early has been without his top player, Tony Hooper (suspension), until after Christmas. Hooper has onlyplayed three of the team's nine games this season.
 
I wonder how many people remember that Dwain Williams was once #2 in his class back in like 01...right behind Lebron
 
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