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Watch Dash Harris from Texas A&M if you ever get a chance. Teams will leave dude wide open and he'll be afraid to take a shot...and if hetakes it, there's no way in hell it's going in
On the season: 11-51 FG (21.6%), 0-9 from 3 (0%), 12-25 FT (48%)
That's so terrible for a PG
Why are there so many PGs in the NCAA that can't shoot free throws to save their life?
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GameDay live from Spokane.
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'Nova over 'Cuse.
Memphis over 'Zaga.
And ND with the upset out west
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Memphis over 'Zaga.
And ND with the upset out west
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Having Cal and Few on together is so awkward... Reece is basically asking them to blow each other on national tv.
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Yeah, Marquette is going to get exposed eventually because they have absolutely nothing besides the 3 guards. Nothing at all in the middle and absolutely nobench. So anytime they have an off shooting night (like against USF) there is a good chance they'll lose. I hate to think what Thabeet might do to them.A triple double wouldn't surprise me. Marquette won't have an answer.
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Hayward has played tough, and he's been great all year.
but yeah....he's 6'6...and they've had him at the 5.
that's just, wow.
but yeah....he's 6'6...and they've had him at the 5.
that's just, wow.
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Does Bob Knight ever smile on the set with these guys? They'll be laughing up a storm and he's just sitting there stone-facing them... i swear he'sgonna strangle Digger one day.
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i'd be so uncomfortable if I was one of the other guys
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III just yanked all 5 starters 3 minutes in.
good lord, some of these kids are a joke right now.
good lord, some of these kids are a joke right now.
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We need to play a lot better defense then we are. Need some movement on offense. AO and Jackson really need to play today.
dacomeup
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Damn allen.
You hear Dajuan yell while he walked to the bench? Hopefully G'Town keeps this play up
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III sending a message with the five for five substitution though.
You hear Dajuan yell while he walked to the bench? Hopefully G'Town keeps this play up
III sending a message with the five for five substitution though.
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Allen who you got for my Tigers vs Bulldogs tonight?
Lets get it
Lets get it
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I can't believe people are talking about him getting back into coaching... Could you imagine this guy walking into an 18 year old kid's living room andsitting down with his family for dinner?
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G'Town is finally showing up. Hopefully we don't wilt under pressure on the road.
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This team is so bad at times. Allen called it yesterday with a noon tip.
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WOOOOWWWWWW why would you keep trying to drive and keep turning it over. %*@
take your time on offense. go inside a little. I am sick of seeing devo or flynn blow it up
take your time on offense. go inside a little. I am sick of seeing devo or flynn blow it up
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Could you imagine this guy walking into an 18 year old kid's living room and sitting down with his family for dinner?I'd shut the door in his face...
R.I.P.
Syracuse.
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I saw him speak this past fall at Penn State, and he actually is really funny and really entertaining to listen to his stories... but he's oneof those guys that just won't laugh at anything anyone else says. It's like he has a sense of humor, but if you don't have the exact same sense hethinks you're a moron. Such an old cranky bastard.Originally Posted by Nowitness41Dirk
The only time I ever seen him laugh is when he was on College Football Gameday when they were in Lubbock, and he couldn't stop laughing when Corso was poppin off the Red Raider rifles...Other than that, he always looks like a grumpy old fart with no personality...
I can't believe people are talking about him getting back into coaching... Could you imagine this guy walking into an 18 year old kid's living room and sitting down with his family for dinner?I'd shut the door in his face...
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R.I.P.Originally Posted by Kiddin Like Jason
Could you imagine this guy walking into an 18 year old kid's living room and sitting down with his family for dinner?I'd shut the door in his face...
Syracuse is crumbling...
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nice effort
were a joke
were a joke
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those off court problems/rumors have to be true.
no reason for this.
no reason for this.
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Jesus Christ Villanova getting everything they want.
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Now that it's February, we can have a little more confidence in what the conference-only tempo-free stats are telling us. You'll remember that these numbers measure how teams do on a possession-by-possession basis, giving us a much more detailed look at a team's true on-court performance.
February 6, 2009
[font=times new roman, times, serif]Conference Check[/font]
Emerging Reality Edition
by John Gasaway
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While it's true that big changes are almost certainly still in store--a year ago today Kansas State looked like a legitimate Final Four threat; eventually they limped into the tournament as an 11-seed--it's also true that with each passing game our read on any team is becoming more complete. Here's how things look right now.
ACC: Wake Forest is a Throw-Back, and That's the Problem
Through games of February 5, conference games only
Pace: possessions per 40 minutes
PPP: points per possession
Opp. PPP: opponent points per possession
EM: efficiency margin (PPP - Opp. PPP)
A few weeks ago who would have believed that Wake Forest would be failing to score a point per trip in ACC play? Well, they are, and it's killing them. Miami's shockingly easy 79-52 win over the Demon Deacons on Wednesday only put an exclamation point at the end of a sentence that had already been started by opponents like Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech. Wake is simply getting too few bites at the apple on offense: the Deacons don't "do" offensive rebounds, which is fine--as long as you take excellent care of the ball and shoot, and make, a lot of threes. None of the above, particularly the part about threes, describes Dino Gaudio's team. Forget the obvious differences in tempo and athleticism, the team that the Deacons are really starting to remind me of is Bob Knight-era Texas Tech. There will be only one shot per possession, and you know that shot will be a two.Code:Opp. Pace PPP PPP EM 1. Duke 67.3 1.03 0.85 +0.18 2. North Carolina 76.8 1.15 1.00 +0.153. Clemson 70.7 1.06 0.98 +0.084. Florida St. 70.3 0.98 0.96 +0.025. BC 68.2 1.08 1.07 +0.016. Wake Forest 75.1 0.99 0.99 0.007. Miami 66.5 1.08 1.09 -0.018. Virginia Tech 66.8 1.08 1.10 -0.029. Georgia Tech 72.5 0.89 0.97 -0.0810. Maryland 71.4 0.97 1.06 -0.0911. NC State 65.6 1.00 1.13 -0.1312. Virginia 71.1 0.96 1.11 -0.15
Big East: How Many Bids Do You See Here? (Continued)
I'll admit to being a bit taken with the question of whether or not the Big East is going to receive a record nine NCAA tournament bids this season. After all, it would be historic, and history's always interesting, right? (Ask me about the presidential election of 1840 sometime.) Alas, if the bids went out today, nine of them going to Big East teams would clearly be a stretch. The nine-team scenario, at least in my mind, was going to involve nine teams separating themselves, however subtly, from the bottom seven. That hasn't been what's happened, to say the least. If anything four teams--Connecticut, Marquette, Pitt, and Louisville--have separated themselves from the bottom 12. Not that four bids is the correct number, of course. Merely that Georgetown and particularly Notre Dame have been way less formidable than a lot of us thought they would be.Code:Opp. Pace PPP PPP EM1. Connecticut 66.4 1.14 0.94 +0.202. Marquette 68.6 1.18 0.99 +0.193. Pitt 66.2 1.15 1.00 +0.154. Louisville 69.2 1.00 0.88 +0.125. Villanova 70.8 1.06 0.98 +0.086. Syracuse 71.3 1.09 1.03 +0.067. West Virginia 66.9 1.00 0.98 +0.028. Providence 73.1 1.08 1.08 0.009. Georgetown 65.1 1.04 1.08 -0.0410. Cincinnati 65.9 1.02 1.08 -0.0611. Notre Dame 70.0 1.06 1.14 -0.0812. S. Florida 63.1 0.96 1.06 -0.1013. Seton Hall 69.5 1.07 1.17 -0.1014. St. John's 67.6 0.96 1.08 -0.1215. Rutgers 66.1 0.95 1.09 -0.1416. DePaul 66.0 0.93 1.13 -0.20
Big Ten: Indiana is the Best 6-15 Team in the Country
I understand if you haven't been paying attention, but Indiana is suddenly within honest-to-goodness striking distance of not being the worst team in the Big Ten. Remember this: Tom Crean can coach. This season has been like some brutal twisted just-for-coaches version of Cast Away, where Crean had to paint a face on a volleyball in his own blood just to get a team on the floor. He could have just "coached" in pantomime this year, focused his energies on recruiting and, really, who would have been able to tell the difference? Instead Crean has channeled his inner Norman Dale and worked a mini-wonder. Over their past three games these allegedly scrappy and overmatched Hoosiers have actually morphed into a pretty reasonable facsimile of Michigan State, scoring 1.13 points per trip. (Yes, the defense is still woeful. Work with me.) Just think what Crean might do when he adds some fresh talent. You've been warned, Big Ten.Code:Opp. Pace PPP PPP EM1. Michigan St. 63.2 1.13 0.99 +0.142. Purdue 63.8 1.03 0.95 +0.083. Illinois 61.1 0.99 0.94 +0.054. Wisconsin 59.1 1.08 1.04 +0.045. Ohio St. 63.7 1.07 1.03 +0.046. Minnesota 63.1 0.99 0.99 0.007. Penn St. 62.1 1.04 1.05 -0.018. Michigan 61.8 0.99 1.03 -0.048. Northwestern 62.6 1.02 1.08 -0.0610. Iowa 58.8 0.98 1.09 -0.1111. Indiana 64.1 0.97 1.11 -0.14
Big 12: At 22-1, the Sooners Don't Care about this So-Called "Efficiency Margin"
Oklahoma may not exactly jump out at you here, but as a Big 12 team with a 22-1 record on February 6 the Sooners are in fact ideally positioned for a one-seed next month. Jeff Capel's team simply has a less scary schedule the rest of the way than do the likes of Connecticut, North Carolina, Duke, Pitt, et al. Sure, OU will likely drop a game or two along the way, but their record will almost certainly still be gaudy on Selection Sunday.Code:Opp. Pace PPP PPP EM1. Kansas 66.5 1.13 0.93 +0.202. Oklahoma 68.4 1.13 0.98 +0.153. Missouri 74.7 1.10 0.95 +0.154. Texas 69.1 1.02 0.97 +0.055. Nebraska 63.8 1.00 0.97 +0.036. Oklahoma St. 73.4 1.05 1.08 -0.037. Texas A&M 66.4 1.03 1.06 -0.038. Kansas St. 67.6 1.00 1.04 -0.049. Baylor 71.4 1.05 1.10 -0.0510. Texas Tech 71.2 0.96 1.08 -0.1210. Iowa St. 66.0 0.89 1.05 -0.1612. Colorado 63.6 0.92 1.08 -0.16
The other thing to note here is that if Baylor somehow slips into the field of 65 at or near their current level of performance, it will raise at least one eyebrow. Mine.
Pac-10: UCLA? Ringing a Bell? Anyone?
Someone needs to explain to me why UCLA is being overlooked this year. By "overlooked" I mean right now I'm seeing them projected as a five-seed (!) in the NCAA tournament. (Imagine being the lucky four-seed that has to face the "underdog" Bruins in the second round. Good luck.) Why is this happening? Yes, Ben Howland's team lost by three at home to Arizona State but, hey, last year they lost by nine at home to USC and no one freaked out. Mark me down as utterly baffled: this team is outscoring Pac-10 opponents by 0.17 points per trip. Last year's team? The one that received a one-seed? You'll probably find they outscored conference foes by, yes, 0.17 points per possession. UCLA 2009 has a PR problem.Code:Opp. Pace PPP PPP EM1. UCLA 63.4 1.16 0.99 +0.172. Washington 69.9 1.13 1.04 +0.093. Arizona St. 59.4 1.10 1.01 +0.094. USC 63.0 1.02 0.99 +0.035. Cal 65.2 1.06 1.03 +0.036. Arizona 63.3 1.02 1.03 -0.017. Stanford 65.6 1.04 1.08 -0.048. Washington St. 57.2 0.98 1.02 -0.049. Oregon St. 57.6 0.96 1.09 -0.1310. Oregon 64.9 0.94 1.15 -0.21
SEC: Yes, Every Team Plays the No-Respect Card, but LSU Actually Has a Point
I'm not predicting that LSU will make the Final Four, however there is surely a happy medium between Detroit-or-bust euphoria and intimations that the Tigers are somehow on the proverbial bubble. To this point in the SEC season LSU has had both the conference's best offense and its best defense. They won at Tennessee. Sure, their conference is down and I, for one, think that losing at home by ten to Xavier pegs the Tigers about where they really are. Nevertheless, they are playing the games that are on their schedule and doing far better than anyone could have expected in Trent Johnson's first season. They could implode tomorrow, but today LSU is quite simply the SEC's best team.Code:Opp. Pace PPP PPP EM1. LSU 69.6 1.12 0.91 +0.212. Florida 72.5 1.09 0.98 +0.113. Kentucky 70.2 1.03 0.93 +0.104. Tennessee 70.9 1.09 1.05 +0.045. Mississippi St. 68.1 1.00 0.97 +0.036. South Carolina 76.1 1.02 1.01 +0.017. Ole Miss 68.4 1.04 1.07 -0.038. Auburn 70.2 0.97 1.00 -0.049. Alabama 69.9 1.01 1.07 -0.0610. Vanderbilt 68.6 0.99 1.07 -0.0811. Arkansas 70.2 0.95 1.08 -0.1312. Georgia 70.0 0.84 1.04 -0.20
John Gasaway is an author of Basketball Prospectus. You can contact John by clicking here or click here to see John's other articles.
a few interesting things there...
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JUST GIVE HIM THE @%$%@+! BASKET AND TOP TURNING IT @%$%@+! OVER!
