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[Fjordson]

Not a great first half, but not terrible. Aaron Harrison having a nice game so far, as is Willie Cauley-Stein. Already has 4 blocks.

Andrew Harrison has really struggled with foul trouble so far this season. Guess it's a tough year for freshmen guards. Has to adjust not only to faster players in college than he faced in high school, but also to the new rules with handchecks and contact with the ballhandler.

 

[KingGondo]

OSU down by 1 with a minute left.

 

[KingGondo]

Pokes gonna lose.

Oh well. Still clearly the better team, but there was no execution in the second half.

 

[NewLib]

Soooo Cauley-Stein has been unbelievable the last few games for Kentucky. If they could get consistent guard play, they are going to be tough.

 

[lush]

Holy hell, pastner won a game against a ranked opponent.

 

[Grover Cleveland]

I dunno what's up. Everybody is slippin. I chalk it up to these top teams being overrated due to an abundance of Freshman talent that has a lot of potential, but will still have to develop.

For Duke and Kentucky and Kansas sure.

UNC's not that good and they're not going to get that much better without Hairston and McDonald. They a huge gaping hole now at the 2/3 with Bullock moving to the NBA and Hairston in NCAA limbo.

 

[Fjordson]

Pretty happy with that performance by UK. Didn't come out too slowly, perimeter D was much better, and our zone offense looked much improved.

We need a lot more from Andrew Harrison, but Cauley-Stein, James Young and Aaron Harrison played great. WCS in particular was excellent. 15 points and 9 blocks from him was huge.

Edit: interesting that the line for this game was only Kentucky by 7. Covered that pretty easily.

 

[Bowser]

We lost to UAB?

Lose to Belmont, beat Louisville, lose to UAB.

...ok.

 

[Grover Cleveland]

ESPN Stats & Info
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Duke and North Carolina each have multiple losses before January for the first time since the 1999-2000 season.

If I recall correctly, Carolina got all the way to the FF as an 8 seed that year.

 

[Randolph Freelander]

That was the year Duke lost Brand, Avery, Maggette, Langdon, and Burgess and Domzalski to NBA, graduation (Domzalski), or transfer (Burgess) but brought in Williams, Dunleavy, and Boozer. They started 0-2, losing to both Stanford and UConn, that was also the year they lost that home non-conference game to St. John's. But they ended up going 15-1 in the ACC, win the ACC tournament, made it to #1 in the polls, and.... lost in the Sweet 16 to Florida.

 

[Grover Cleveland]

My Picks:
Syracuse
Illinois
Pittsburgh
Michigan
Notre Dame
FSU

Ohio State
Virginia
Northwestern (Go Chris Collins!)
MSU
Purdue
Nebraska

ACC-5
B1G-7

 

[Randolph Freelander]

I agree with everything but I'll take Wisconsin over Virginia. I know nothing about Wisconsin, but I never trust Virginia.

 

[Randolph Freelander]

And how does Maryland get in the challenge? Kick those scrubs out. Clemson, Wake Forest, or Virginia Tech should be in it.

 

[thefro]

Here's how I have it

Syracuse (will be a much closer game than IU/Syracuse in NCAA tourney though)
Illinois
Pittsburgh
Michigan
Iowa
Florida State

OSU
Wisconsin
NC State
Michigan State
Purdue
Miami

 

[bucknuticus]

We have to be the worst 3rd ranked team ever

 

[Randolph Freelander]

Laura Keeley @laurakeely 10m
#Duke's streak of consecutive weeks in the top 10 survives. Make it 118 weeks in a row, dating to 11/26/2007. Duke No. 10 this week

One more week, I guess. Duke's 10 in AP, 8 in coaches.

 

[jakefromstatefarm]

In case anyone's interested:
AP Top 25

RK TEAM RECORD PTS
1 Michigan State (63) 7-0 1,623
2 Arizona (2) 7-0 1,547
3 Kentucky 7-1 1,473
4 Syracuse 7-0 1,375
5 Ohio State 6-0 1,340
6 Kansas 6-1 1,240
7 Louisville 6-1 1,139
8 Wisconsin 8-0 1,094
9 Oklahoma State 7-1 1,070
10 Duke 6-2 1,021
11 Wichita State 8-0 911
12 Connecticut 7-0 836
13 Oregon 7-0 801
14 Villanova 7-0 785
15 Florida 6-1 758
16 Memphis 5-1 748
17 Iowa State 5-0 623
18 UCLA 7-0 548
19 Gonzaga 7-1 380
20 Baylor 7-1 377
21 Massachusetts 6-0 274
22 Michigan 5-2 223
23 Iowa 7-1 171
24 San Diego State 5-1 150
25 Dayton 6-1 90

USA Today Coaches Poll

RK TEAM RECORD PTS
1 Michigan State (31) 7-0 799
2 Arizona (1) 7-0 758
3 Ohio State 6-0 695
4 Kentucky 7-1 683
5 Syracuse 7-0 682
6 Louisville 6-1 607
7 Kansas 6-1 597
8 Duke 6-2 547
9 Wisconsin 8-0 517
10 Wichita State 8-0 484
11 Oklahoma State 7-1 476
12 Florida 6-1 426
13 Oregon 7-0 417
14 Connecticut 7-0 410
15 Memphis 5-1 311
15 Gonzaga 7-1 311
17 UCLA 7-0 261
18 Iowa State 5-0 245
19 Villanova 7-0 201
20 Baylor 7-1 195
21 Michigan 5-2 156
22 Massachusetts 6-0 122
23 Indiana 6-1 76
24 Iowa 7-1 63
25 North Carolina 4-2 62

Highest Arizona's been since Jason Gardner and Luke Walton were seniors.

 

[Randolph Freelander]

North Carolina held on in the coaches poll because Pitino voted them 2nd.


I can't back that up.

 

[jakncoke]

Pitt march to ranked

AP

week 5 36 points
week 4 10 points
week 3 7 points
week 2 6 points
week 1 6 points

Coaches

week 5 33 points
week 4 18 points
week 3 19 points
week 2 13 points

Going to go into the Cincy game 10-0 and unranked. Hopefully if we beat Cincy and the other game we are at least #25 after

 

[DominoKid]

 

[BendingUnit]

So to belong here do I have to declare myself? I'm an Arizona fan who graduated in 2004. Hi.

 

[pxleyes]

fuck me...

injuries, last second loss, why even bother?

 

[Karakand]

So to belong here do I have to declare myself? I'm an Arizona fan who graduated in 2004. Hi.

When you waxed fondly about the Luke Walton era it was kind of a give away. (Hoops-GAF is a smart bunch.)

Also FYI we are mortal enemies.

e: Wow sorry that was the OTHER Arizona fan. I am not a regular Hoops-GAF poster, so the smart label still applies imo.

 

[bachikarn]

You should post a gif of the entire sequence to show the BLATANT double dribble before the shot that wasn't called. Fucking refs watched and just let it go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SsFEE6Ns7lE

Also, Scottie injured too? What the hell is with Gator athletics and injuries this year?

 

[jakefromstatefarm]

So to belong here do I have to declare myself? I'm an Arizona fan who graduated in 2004. Hi.

Welcome to the family breh. Bear Down.

 

[BendingUnit]

When you waxed fondly about the Luke Walton era it was kind of a give away. (Hoops-GAF is a smart bunch.)

Also FYI we are mortal enemies.

Luke Walton is a great American. But I never waxed him fondly. Only Richard Jefferson did that. Zing!

 

[Karakand]

Luke Walton is a great American. But I never waxed him fondly. Only Richard Jefferson did that. Zing!

heh, I edited my post to reflect my idiocy.

 

[Amory]

You should post a gif of the entire sequence to show the BLATANT double dribble before the shot that wasn't called. Fucking refs watched and just let it go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SsFEE6Ns7lE

Also, Scottie injured too? What the hell is with Gator athletics and injuries this year?

It wasn't a double dribble if the ball was tipped away from him, which it definitely appeared to have been.

Either way it wasn't "BLATANT".

But I get it. If I were a Florida fan I'd probably be saying the same thing. Good game though.

Edit: Found this video someone took right on the baseline http://instagram.com/p/hcUJlmEYRv/#

shows pretty definitively that the ball was deflected

 

[bachikarn]

bah

 

[pxleyes]

Are you kidding? That instagram makes it MORE blatant.

 

[Amory]

Are you kidding? That instagram makes it MORE blatant.

No way. Watch the player trapping Napier on the right, #24 I think it is? His arm comes down and right as it passes the ball is when Bazz loses control. He tipped it.

The foul on the three pointer on UConn's prior possession was bs though, I'll give you that. But UConn was called for questionable fouls all game so in my mind it evens out.

 

[Fjordson]

Yeah, I dunno, it looks like it gets deflected to me in that instgram vid. Tough to call either way for sure, though.

 

[Randolph Freelander]

I'm confused, Florida lost to Georgia Southern in basketball, too?

 

[jakncoke]

Never would know what a rival Penn St/Pittsburgh was with the recent drought. 146th meething

 

[Grover Cleveland]

Time for the one time a year I root for UNC.

I'm trying to get my conference a W, fuck a rivalry.

 

[Suburban_Nooblet]

Alright GAF, I'm confused and google isn't helping. I just saw them show someone drinking a beer at the Syracuse IU game. I didn't think they served beer at NCAA basketball games and google is doing me wrong. The answer I find the most is that they serve it at off campus arenas but the Carrier is on Syracuse campus right?

Someone help me here.

 

[TJ Verboten]

First post in here this season, just want to say as an IU fan that this Syracuse game is the regular season game I've least looked forward to since I've been watching IU bball (1990).

Im still apoplectic about losing to Syracuse in the tourney last yr, I still haven't gotten over it. IU should have handled Syracuse w/ the Oladipo/Zeller crew and the great outside shooting that team had. Unfortunately, Crean had his worst gameplan as an IU coach that night. Zeller shooting only one ft jumper the entire night (which he made) was inexcusable, as was waiting till 2 min left in the 1st half to put Oladipo on MCW (wasting him on Southerland the first 18 min of the game). Yeah Hulls separated shoulder, but they still should have beaten that team

Having said that, this matchup is the toughest matchup all season for IU's offense given the dearth of outside shooting IU has on their team this yr. They are rebounding well against the zone (which was expected) so far and IU's length is doing good work defensively. So I'm cool w/ being w/in a couple possessions.

 

[DominoKid]

Time for the one time a year I root for UNC.

I'm trying to get my conference a W, fuck a rivalry.

i'm such a hater that i root for the rest of the conference to lose.

unfortunately this year we'll have one of the more embarrassing losses in this competition.

 

[TJ Verboten]

Troy Williams is nasty. Wow

 

[perfectchaos007]

ACC asserting its dominance as the best conference. What else would you expect for a conference with half the old Big East in the mix?

 

[jakncoke]

Tonights performance so far is pretty fucking terrible

 

[Randolph Freelander]

Time for the one time a year I root for UNC.

I'm trying to get my conference a W,

I root for the ACC to go 11-1.

 

[jakncoke]

Thankfully Penn St keeps fouling us

 

[Grover Cleveland]

Troy Williams put-back dunk in IU/Cuse game

 

[jakncoke]

Michael Young failures makes me want to jump off a bridge.

 

[Elfforkusu]

And how does Maryland get in the challenge? Kick those scrubs out. Clemson, Wake Forest, or Virginia Tech should be in it.

Sleeper cell!

 

[Randolph Freelander]

Sleeper cell!

Seriously, they're totally tanking this one for their new overlords.

 

[Grover Cleveland]

Actually I lied, screw the Turtles.

I really want them to lose.

 

[jakncoke]

Zanna is my hero

 

[Elfforkusu]

Good lord, the refs are going all out to keep Ga Tech in this game. It was an evenly called game for a while, but now they're pulling out all the stops.

Unfortunately, Ga Tech appears to suck dick.

e: the ref just called a UI big for a moving screen before the screen was set.