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Damn wussies, WCW replayed Sid Vicious breaking his leg in two non-stop over & over an entire week when it happened.
It'll heal!
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NCAA Men's College Basketball 2012-2013 Season |OT|
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Damn wussies, WCW replayed Sid Vicious breaking his leg in two non-stop over & over an entire week when it happened.
It'll heal!
Grover Cleveland
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Yep. That's horseshit.
I know most people don't like to hear Calipari's take on this stuff, but he was absolutely right on the money about all this back when Noel tore up his knee. Said the NCAA needs to work way harder as far as protecting kids with serious injuries.
Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaah...the NCAA isnt that assholish & clandestine. No program or organization wants the bad PR that'd come w/ yanking the scholly of a kid that suffered the worst injury I've ever seen, on the biggest stage in the sport. They don't want that at all.
shitty..
yeah i think we're out of the wiggins race. dude sounds too ecstatic talking about their team next year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PE44ahgxiQ&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PE44ahgxiQ&feature=player_embedded
Thats just speculation.
At least let the NCAA/school say or do something before you grab the pitchforks.
Yeah, there are so many players at UK already. They'll technically have two last scholarships open for Wiggins and Aaron Gordon if either of them happens to commit to UK, but I'll be shocked if either does.
Also, the McDonald's All-American game is this week. Wednesday I think. I'm looking forward to it (have nothing else to cheer for as a UK fan =[ )
And I like seeing this: six UK commits already bonding!
Also, the McDonald's All-American game is this week. Wednesday I think. I'm looking forward to it (have nothing else to cheer for as a UK fan =[ )
And I like seeing this: six UK commits already bonding!
vas_a_morir
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Dude, if he is as great as they say, he'll start no matter who is on his team.
GoldenEye 007
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Yeah, a lot of jumping to conclusions there in that article. UL isn't going to do that to him - that being said, the overall premise that the NCAA are scumbags is valid, though. And from reports I've seen the injury shouldn't be a career ending one. Would have been much worse with torn ligaments/tendons in the process. This was just hopefully a clean break for the most part.
Elfforkusu
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Moreso pot-stirring than speculation. He won't lose his scholarship or have to pay for his medical bills, but the shameful thing is that legally, there's nothing ensuring that.
Cauley-Stein and Wiltjer return for next season at UK, Goodwin to enter the draft.
http://www.ukathletics.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/040113aaa.html
Grover Cleveland
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That's what disgusts me about this. I'd assume that Louisville will do right by Ware and honor his scholarship and take care of the medical costs (especially when, as Domino said, they're on such a visible stage). But the fact that they don't have to is an absolute disgrace.
GoldenEye 007
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In happier news, UCF just unveiled their new court design. Much better and part of a continued effort to minimize the amount of athletics logos floating out there. Love the contrast on the court - always liked those designs. The wood is coming from one of the NCAA tourney sites. Just can't put a conference logo there since, well know know, we don't have a conference name yet.
Hashtags and all. THANKS, TWITTER!
Hashtags and all. THANKS, TWITTER!
So you stole the armies' colors and name?
GoldenEye 007
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Basically. We used to be briefly called the Citronauts. Probably should have held onto that one. A cross between the Syracuse Orange and the Jetsons.
But we're now the Knights[of Pegasus] - compliments our academic logo pictured in my avatar actually.
In the 10 years since Roy has been back. Make of it what you will...
Roy:
2 National Titles
3 Final Fours
6 Elite 8s
6 ACC Regular Season Titles
2 ACC Tournament Titles
9-12 vs. K
K:
1 National Title
2 Final Fours
3 Elite 8s
3 ACC Regular Season Titles
5 ACC Tournament Titles
12-9 vs. Roy
Early Entrants
2012 Harrison Barnes, John Henson, Kendall Marshall
2010 Ed Davis
2009 Ty Lawson, Wayne Ellington
2007 Brandan Wright
2005 Marvin Williams, Raymond Felton, Sean May, Rashad McCants
vs.
2011 - Kyrie Irving
2009 - Gerald Henderson
2007 - Josh McRoberts
2005 - Shavlik Randolph
2004 Luol Deng
Roy:
2 National Titles
3 Final Fours
6 Elite 8s
6 ACC Regular Season Titles
2 ACC Tournament Titles
9-12 vs. K
K:
1 National Title
2 Final Fours
3 Elite 8s
3 ACC Regular Season Titles
5 ACC Tournament Titles
12-9 vs. Roy
Early Entrants
2012 Harrison Barnes, John Henson, Kendall Marshall
2010 Ed Davis
2009 Ty Lawson, Wayne Ellington
2007 Brandan Wright
2005 Marvin Williams, Raymond Felton, Sean May, Rashad McCants
vs.
2011 - Kyrie Irving
2009 - Gerald Henderson
2007 - Josh McRoberts
2005 - Shavlik Randolph
2004 Luol Deng
Hey, you forgot that NIT runner up for Huckleberry
. The early entrants certainly looks like more of an issue for UNC, but keep in mind A LOT of those players came back for additional seasons when they would have been gone after one at other schools. Just the way it is. Honestly I think the biggest difference between the two is that 05 recruiting class which was pretty good for UNC (Hansbrough, Green) and a complete disaster for Duke (Paulus, McRobust lol). Your 06 class was better, but we got a championship out of ours too.
Grover Cleveland
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that team looks so bad in retrospect lol.
at least from the duke fans i know, they hang their hat on beating UNC. whereas we hang our hat on the overall season.
i've heard more shit talk about the sweep than them making it farther than us in the tournament. surprising because the latter has been a rarity in the Roy era.
at least from the duke fans i know, they hang their hat on beating UNC. whereas we hang our hat on the overall season.
i've heard more shit talk about the sweep than them making it farther than us in the tournament. surprising because the latter has been a rarity in the Roy era.
You must not know that many Duke fans if all they said they cared about was just beating UNC. Beating this particular UNC team wasn't that impressive really. The only time I can think that was debated was 2011, where Duke was 2-1 vs UNC but was bounced by Zona in the sweet 16, UNC made it one round further before losing to UK. If I remember though, UNC didn't have a particular hard bracket and your sweet 16 matchup was an unimpressive Marquette team that we also beat by 10+ earlier in the season. Finishing first that year in the ACC was impressive, but if Irving doesn't get hurt, it never happens.
State fans might hang their hat on beating UNC. Duke has 4 NCAA championships, and our fanbase will always want more than just beating UNC.
i know a lot of duke fans. i know about 3x as many UNC fans. i know 3 state fans lol. i can imagine my friends get tired of the UNC onslaught so that probably matters.
NC State looking like a dumpster fire right now. Warren might be the only holdover from their rotation.
Brown & Leslie leaving
Purvis transferring - word is he was gassed on his own abilities and caused problems, surprisingly not CJL. kinda stupid if you ask me. he'd get all the mins he could handle this season.
Lewis rumored to transfer to Davidson.
Gottfried...is still Gottfried lmao. he's gonna have to re-evaluate his approach.
NC State looking like a dumpster fire right now. Warren might be the only holdover from their rotation.
Brown & Leslie leaving
Purvis transferring - word is he was gassed on his own abilities and caused problems, surprisingly not CJL. kinda stupid if you ask me. he'd get all the mins he could handle this season.
Lewis rumored to transfer to Davidson.
Gottfried...is still Gottfried lmao. he's gonna have to re-evaluate his approach.
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You forgot Austin Rivers' Punchable Face for 2012 early entrants. I know it's probably painful to remember him after that shot ; )
And yeah, I agree with truly. None of my friends would place beating UNC on a pedestal above tournament performance. After 4 years in a row of losing in Cameron, it certainly grew in importance for the past few meetings, but the overall season and NCAA tournament performance is what we're more hungry for.
TheNatural
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Early entrants are such a lame metric. I remember Hansborough was like a projected top 5 pick after his freshman year, stayed 4 years, because he loved being in college, and lost all kinds of draft slots.
Just heard about his. So happy WCS and Wiltjer are back. Wish Goodwin was coming back also, but hopefully he goes decently high in the draft. Despite his early struggles, he had started playing really well towards the end of the year.
Edit: just read that Rodney Purvis is transferring. Damn.
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Any word on Poythress leaving or staying?
TheNatural
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I heard he's declared for the draft. As in Miller Geniune. That's about all he'll have an option for.
Grover Cleveland
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Randolph Freelander
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If we're exchanging anecdotal tales of the fans we know, the loudest Carolina fans I know will say stuff like "if Carolina only wins two games this year, but those 2 are against Duke, then it was a good season."
Still went 13 though
The travel is forever.
I guess. Hansbrough got away with about 10 uncalled a game.
To be fair, he was handicapped and couldn't jump.
TheNatural
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Wiggins is going to UK, according to some insiders on the 247 boards. Not that shocking or anything though, pretty much figured that.
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Espn reporting einfield to USC is done deal
PotatoeMasher
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Well that escalated quickly.
I'm available to coach FGCU if they let me live in the dorm on the beach.
I'm available to coach FGCU if they let me live in the dorm on the beach.
PotatoeMasher
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We really ought to get this locked and move into the March Madness thread. It just keeps popping up in my subscription list with replies but we'd be better off in a single thread.
I've been sort of using this as an off-season thread. Don't want to clog up the march madness talk with Kentucky recruiting news and other non-tourney stuff, lol.
Anyways, this is a really suspicious story:
Pac-12 Head of Officials being investigated for targeting Sean Miller of Arizona. PAC-12 says nothing insidious went down, but it sounds like that technical foul on Miller in the UCLA game was pretty suspect. Weird.
Also, top 5 recruit Aaron Gordon is announcing tomorrow. Sounds like it's down to Arizona or Kentucky. I've actually seen him play live a lot since my nephew plays high school ball in the same league as him out here in San Jose. Amazing player, though all signs point to him staying somewhat near the west coast. I'm gonna guess Arizona since two of his friends from AAU are playing there (Nick Johnson is one, can't remember the other).
Anyways, this is a really suspicious story:
Pac-12 Head of Officials being investigated for targeting Sean Miller of Arizona. PAC-12 says nothing insidious went down, but it sounds like that technical foul on Miller in the UCLA game was pretty suspect. Weird.
Also, top 5 recruit Aaron Gordon is announcing tomorrow. Sounds like it's down to Arizona or Kentucky. I've actually seen him play live a lot since my nephew plays high school ball in the same league as him out here in San Jose. Amazing player, though all signs point to him staying somewhat near the west coast. I'm gonna guess Arizona since two of his friends from AAU are playing there (Nick Johnson is one, can't remember the other).