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NCAA Men's College Basketball 2012-2013 Season |OT|

Amory

Amory

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giga said:
Fuck that. I'd rather take Georgetown. We will always suck at football. Would rather stress academics and basketball than get another shitty school like Miami.
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Draxal said:
You don't want to piss of FSU/Clemson right now, they split then both Techs are gone, along with NC state.

If tobacco road is smart louisville's the choice, if it's not they'll take Uconn.
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Now that I've been looking at it, Cincinnati might actually be the smartest choice lol. They're competent in both football and basketball, and have a bigger viewer market than Louisville and only slightly less than UConn.

Sleeper pick.
 
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truly101

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giga said:
Fuck that. I'd rather take Georgetown. We will always suck at football. Would rather stress academics and basketball than get another shitty school like Miami.
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I don't necessarily think Louisville or Uconn will make us great at football. I'd rather have more teams Duke could actually beat once and a while. But the conference needs to be solid and financially solvent. L'ville seems like a better deal than UConn, but UConn is more than adequate to make up for UMD. Actaully I don't think Cincy is out of the picture either.
 
Amory

Amory

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Branduil said:
Who is Chaminade? I can't even click on their name on ESPN.
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They're the school that hosts the Maui invitational every year in Hawaii. They're D2 I think and pretty much always get torched. I think they've never won a game in their own tournament.
 
Amory

Amory

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perfectchaos007 said:
They have won 7 games since 1984. About to be 8
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7 games total? Shit.

Wikipedia said:
In 1982, Chaminade, then a member of the NAIA, defeated Virginia in what is considered the biggest upset in college basketball history. Virginia, which featured Ralph Sampson and Rick Carlisle, was the top-ranked team in NCAA Division I basketball entering the game after posting victories against Georgetown (with Patrick Ewing) and Phi Slama Jama of Houston. But in the Blaisdell Arena, the 3,500 fans in attendance — most of whom had come to see the nation's #1 team — witnessed the historic 77–72 upset. Many newspapers reportedly checked sources several times to make sure the story was right — that 800-student NAIA Chaminade had actually defeated the NCAA's top-ranked Virginia.
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Amory

Amory

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lol unbelievable. Paradise Jam championship game is now not being shown due to "technical difficulties". Everything about that tournament seems so incredibly shoddy
 
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Bowser

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Gary Parrish straight trolling:

@GaryParrishCBS Imagine how pissed Texas fans would be right now if Texas fans cared about college basketball.
 
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Randolph Freelander

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Ol' Roy weighs in on this realignment fiasco

North Carolina coach Roy Williams said Monday he was stunned and shocked by the news that Maryland would be leaving the ACC to join the Big Ten.

“I’m an old ACC guy,” he said after his team’s 95-49 victory against Mississippi State in the quarterfinals of the Maui Invitational. “I’ve been around a long time. I’ve been around probably longer than the league has, I don’t know. So I was shocked by it and didn’t see it coming whatsoever.”

Williams referenced the ACC’s $50 million exit fee and said, “It will be interesting to see what happens there.”

“If they have that extra money, maybe they could pass it around to some other people kind of thing,” he said. “But it’s strange to me. What’s going on with college athletics is strange to me. I mean, give me a break – the Big East goes all the way to freaking Hawaii. Or close, anyway.”

Williams has competed extensively against Maryland. He graduated from North Carolina in 1972 and was a Tar Heels assistant coach under Dean Smith from 1978 through ’88.

“I’m one of those guys that if somebody doesn't think that my house is the right place to be, then go ahead and leave,” Williams said. “I've got no problem with that. So for me, it’s a shock. That’d be the biggest thing. I hate to see them go but if they feel like that’s what’s best for them, then see you.”

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/20...ds-exit-a-stunner-for-uncs.html#storylink=cpy
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TheNatural

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Looks like UCONN is going down. Way too much made of their win over Michigan State, I think they're in for a fairly rough year with the new coach and all those transfers, but Napier looks to be a beast.
 
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Randolph Freelander

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Salty piece in the Charlotte Observer on Maryland

DeCock: Maryland’s loss won’t hurt ACC

The whole thing is salt. Here's some of the choicer quotes

The ACC without Maryland is like a car without a spare tire. Life goes on unabated.

If Maryland felt disregarded and overlooked in the ACC, wait until it gets a look at life in the Big Ten. All those checks from the Big Ten Network aren’t going to change the fact that Maryland will be as relevant to its new conference home as a third nipple.

These are the same people who thought Randy Edsall would make a good football coach.

And it’s a move made out of desperation as much as anything by an athletic department with the crushing debt load of a third-world country, one slashing programs left and right.

Maryland is great for the Big Ten, which has become a television network with an athletic conference attached, but there’s no guarantee the Big Ten will be great for Maryland. Maryland is willing to gamble that its future is better in the Big Ten because it has nothing left to lose.

Moving to the Big Ten isn’t going to make Maryland football competitive or Edsall a better coach.

It’s not going to help lacrosse or soccer or other nonrevenue sports that now face recruiting and travel nightmares.

It will make more money for an athletic department that is awash in enough red ink to dye the football field 10 times over, enough to make the $50 million ACC buyout worth it.

Safe to say the ACC would be happy to keep Maryland around for old times’ sake, but what’s really lost here? Tradition, of course, but that matters little in these crazy, silly days of conference-swapping money grabs. Geography? Academics? Connecticut can fill Maryland’s spot in the fabled footprint on both fronts without anyone really noticing.

If anything, the big loss here for the ACC isn’t Maryland. It’s missing out on Rutgers as the potential 16th ACC school. In terms of geography and common purpose, Rutgers was a perfect fit. Alas, moving to the Big Ten, and fleeing the disintegrating Big East, is as good a move for Rutgers as it is questionable for Maryland.

So long, Maryland. You’ll be missed. But not for long.
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ccbfan

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As a Uconn fan I have 0 confidence they're heading to the ACC.

They will forever be first one out.

Might as well congrats Lousiville on the ACC invite. They deserve a seat in the big table table though. They have a better atheletic department than more than half the schools in the the big table.

Man its gonna suck playing basketball in this new league with no Pitt, SU and Louisville. Hell if the non-basketballs split, might as well drop football and create a conference with the non-footballs and add a team like Xavier or something.
 
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TheNatural

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ccbfan said:
As a Uconn fan I have 0 confidence they're heading to the ACC.

They will forever be first one out.

Might as well congrats Lousiville on the ACC invite. They deserve a seat in the big table table though. They have a better atheletic department than more than half the schools in the the big table.

Man its gonna suck playing basketball in this new league with no Pitt, SU and Louisville. Hell if the non-basketballs split, might as well drop football and create a conference with the non-footballs and add a team like Xavier or something.
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I'm not buying your reverse jinx.

I expect UCONN to be named the 14th, 15th, and 16th member of the ACC tomorrow. Hasim Thabeet will be named new ACC commish.
 
Amory

Amory

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ccbfan said:
As a Uconn fan I have 0 confidence they're heading to the ACC.

They will forever be last one out.

Might as well congrats Lousiville on the ACC invite. They deserve a seat in the big table table though. They have a better atheletic department than more than half the schools in the the big table.

Man its gonna suck playing basketball in this new league with no Pitt, SU and Louisville. Hell if the non-basketballs split, might as well drop football and create a conference with the non-footballs and add a team like Xavier or something.
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i still think they're in the lead. I'm a bit worried, but not too much. We'll see.

I was a lot more excited about the ACC before I found out that it's pretty unstable right now too.
 
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PotatoeMasher

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TheNatural said:
We've been about as responsible with our budget and revenue as anyone in the country, that's why it annoys me. Maryland and Rutgers are getting the sports equivalent of the auto industry bailout, and U of L is building up facilities with a lot of fundraising and no help, so it's frustrating.
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No help? You following the mess that is the Yum! Center?

UofL's sweetheart lease agreement it was able to "negotiate" out of a board comprised primarily of people affiliated with the university—giving it control of scheduling for half of the year and a huge percentage of revenue from every single event that happens to occur in the arena—is at the expense of the ability of the Arena Authority to keep up with payments on the bonds. With the bonds now considered junk, they're already leaning on the city to make up the difference and the payments are only going to get larger.

The Yum! Center is brilliant. It's really a marvel and I give UofL major props for pulling it off. I'd maybe reconsider calling the budget "responsible" when the University is syphoning huge revenue from a massive financial liability for the city and state.
 
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alstein

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I expect Lousiville and UConn to get invites.

I also expect FSU to look to the Big XII, with Clemson/NCSU watching closely- both those schools hate the ACC in general due to Swofford and would bolt a the first chance.

If they went in on a three-team parlay, it would be super-hard to get the $50mil.

At least Texas's crapping the bed makes me feel better about the Okie State game now.
 
scoobs

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Just chiming in with the weekly Ben McLemore dunking all over the place .gif

Here we have Ben jumping over Jamari Traylor to complete the very rare "posterize your own teammate" dunk.
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alstein

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bucknuticus said:
One sport schools, lol



:p
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Duke has a lacrosse team, and they're actually going to a bowl in football this year.

You guys beyond football, you have baseball , then what?

Then again, I go to a school where the top sport is bass fishing, so I can't say much yet.
 
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