Hey, look at the bright side, at least you're probably not going to the NIT a year after winning the title!
*still has nightmares from 2009-2010 season*
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NCAA Men's College Basketball 2012-2013 Season |OT|
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Hey, look at the bright side, at least you're probably not going to the NIT a year after winning the title!
*still has nightmares from 2009-2010 season*
Pollux
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Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Hopefully Nik Stauskas can improve on his 62% shooting from behind the arc tonight. 
Elfforkusu
Member
Bwahahaha. The Illini have one of the B1G network's "let's have some students do the commentary and sideline reporting from this game, it'll be awesome!" games tonight.
perfectchaos007
Member
The Longhorns stagnant offense sucks.
HerbertFish
Member
Jay Wright to resign tomorrow?
ErasureAcer
Banned
Hopefully Nik Stauskas can improve on his 62% shooting from behind the arc tonight.
Andre Hollins is 6 for 7 in the first half from 3. 85%
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Not too shabby!
Elfforkusu
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Cracking 30 against Georgetown is like cracking 60 against a normal team!
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Why even be a college coach if you can't even bang hot young college girls?
Mgoblue201
Won't stop picking the right nation
Another 3 for 4 tonight. He might be my favorite Michigan player at the moment, but it's hard to choose just one.Hopefully Nik Stauskas can improve on his 62% shooting from behind the arc tonight.
perfectchaos007
Member
UCLA v. Texas in womens CBB before the men play. Maybe the men can learn something from the women teams.
Pollux
Member
Well I guess that's that, then. Thanks for the update.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
No surprise there. Would have been cool if Michigan could have gotten him on campus (he was supposed to but plans fell through) even if we had no real shot at him. But since he reclassified we have had the new 2015 #1 Diamond Stone on campus recently.
PotatoeMasher
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This is going to be a dumb question probably, but how can kids reclassify like they do? They just take extra classes to graduate a year earlier than planned? Or are held back in some cases to graduate a year later? I think Wiggins from next year's class did the same thing if I'm not mistaken.
(wasn't in America until I was basically done with school so I"m not totally familiar with the high school system)
(wasn't in America until I was basically done with school so I"m not totally familiar with the high school system)
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Yeah I think they just take a bunch of summer classes.
Even us schooled here don't quite understand it. I believe you need X amount of credit hours and certain classes to graduate and declared eligible. One of the rubs of the new NBA rule that you have to be 20 I think to be in the draft (can't remember if that passed) is your blue chippers will still reclassify, transfer to a basketball academy for their extra year and still only spend one year in college.
Not that Townes commitment was a surprise to anyone, but it would have been funny had he picked someone else after Cal spent that time coaching that sorry ass national team.
It's possible to graduate HS in 3 years some places if you take specific classes and maybe summer classes. I had that option in the 90s, but it's not really smart unless you have real support for college- it's hard enough for an 18-yr old to adjust to college, let alone a 17-yr old. One of my best friends was 15 when he started college while I was in, and he really had a rough time outside of the academics.
PotatoeMasher
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I think the rule is either you have to be turning 19 within the draft year or be a year removed from high school graduation. So the new path is to essentially replace your senior year of high school with Kentucky.
a lot of the big time recruits are a year behind anyway.
when noel did it he was returning to his original class.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Plenty of interesting match ups tonight.....
Ohio 6-1 (Road: 0-1)
Memphis 4-2 (Home: 3-0)
Tennessee 4-2 (Road: 0-1)
Virginia 6-2 (Home: 5-1)
(6) Florida 6-0 (Road: 0-0)
Florida St. 4-3 (Home: 2-3)
Stephen F. Austin 5-0 (Road: 2-0)
Texas A&M 6-1 (Home: 4-0)
Charlotte 7-0 (Road: 0-0)
Davidson 4-3 (Home: 1-0)
Dayton 5-2 (Road: 0-0)
Alabama 6-1 (Home: 4-0)
South Florida 5-2 (Road: 1-0)
(23) Oklahoma St. 5-1 (Home: 2-0)
Temple 5-0 (Road: 2-0)
Villanova 4-3 (Home: 2-1)
USC 3-4 (Road: 0-1)
(18) New Mexico 8-0 (Home: 4-0)
Colorado St. 6-0 (Road: 2-0)
Colorado 6-1 (Home: 3-0)
(10) Gonzaga 8-0 (Road: 0-0)
Washington St. 5-3 (Home: 5-0)
The Pac 12 has the chance to knock off 3 undefeated mid-majors. Colorado is probably the only one of the 3 that actually gets the job done though.
Ohio 6-1 (Road: 0-1)
Memphis 4-2 (Home: 3-0)
Tennessee 4-2 (Road: 0-1)
Virginia 6-2 (Home: 5-1)
(6) Florida 6-0 (Road: 0-0)
Florida St. 4-3 (Home: 2-3)
Stephen F. Austin 5-0 (Road: 2-0)
Texas A&M 6-1 (Home: 4-0)
Charlotte 7-0 (Road: 0-0)
Davidson 4-3 (Home: 1-0)
Dayton 5-2 (Road: 0-0)
Alabama 6-1 (Home: 4-0)
South Florida 5-2 (Road: 1-0)
(23) Oklahoma St. 5-1 (Home: 2-0)
Temple 5-0 (Road: 2-0)
Villanova 4-3 (Home: 2-1)
USC 3-4 (Road: 0-1)
(18) New Mexico 8-0 (Home: 4-0)
Colorado St. 6-0 (Road: 2-0)
Colorado 6-1 (Home: 3-0)
(10) Gonzaga 8-0 (Road: 0-0)
Washington St. 5-3 (Home: 5-0)
The Pac 12 has the chance to knock off 3 undefeated mid-majors. Colorado is probably the only one of the 3 that actually gets the job done though.
PotatoeMasher
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That makes sense. It's becoming common to hold kids back a year, presumably so they have an extra year of development to look better to colleges. The coaches son at my high school did that even though he was a pipsqueak and it was a little controversial, so I have to assume it's a way to beat the whole Gladwell/Outliers/Canadian hockey birth date phenomenon. If you're already #1 in the class you might as well skip back up.
Ah, thanks for the answers. Pretty interesting. Hard to relate to changing around everything in your life to better suit basketball, but I'd probably do something similar if I was ever good enough to make mountains of cash from it :lol
I just wish the NBA would do away with the 19 year-old minimum to enter the draft. Let the kids who aren't interested in college bball go out of high school. Sure, some kids would be making a mistake, but it's their responsibility I think. And some of the best players in the NBA over the last 10-15 years came straight out of high school.
I just wish the NBA would do away with the 19 year-old minimum to enter the draft. Let the kids who aren't interested in college bball go out of high school. Sure, some kids would be making a mistake, but it's their responsibility I think. And some of the best players in the NBA over the last 10-15 years came straight out of high school.
We're shooting so good. hate this team so much.
nearly losing to Texas Southern, then losing to Wyoming. Wouldnt be so sure
nearly losing to Texas Southern, then losing to Wyoming. Wouldnt be so sure
Yeah. I wasn't expecting this. Wait, they lost to Mercer?
yeah, and South Alabama. I thought it might be closer because it's our first away game and it's a "rivalry," but damn.
PotatoeMasher
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Pour it on, Gata. Hope it's so nasty that it sours the visit for Wiggins.
PotatoeMasher
Member
It might not be enough
Yeah, I've been following all of that through one of my troll accounts. A banner day for feminists.
It might not be enough
*jealous*
It's widely known that Wiggins will decide between UK and FSU. FSU is only in the picture because both his parents are alums.
Oh, really? That kind of surprises me. Isn't he a shooting guard? He'll basically be our third after one of the Harrison twins and James Young. Unless I'm mixed up and one of those guys plays the 3.