11/26-11/28 GOI

[HometownHoya]

So when I posted previous GOI threads I used to just go on ESPN and manually copy down the TOP 25, Big East, then go through G-town's schedule individually. This year I felt like doing something a little easier (for me) but it will include EVERY TEAM in CBBall. Georgetown games are BOLD, Big East game are italicized, and OOC game are underlined. If this doesn't work out let me know and I can try the old way. EDIT: Looking back on it, this method sucks for finding important games and the unimportant ones are, well, unimportant. I'll delete games as I update Top 25, BE, and OOC in this thread. For the future I won't be so lazy ;D

All times are EST

Thursday November 26, 2009


12:00 pm Creighton 76 @ Michigan #15 83 OT ESPN2
2:00 pm West Virginia #8 85 @ Long Beach St. 62 ESPNU
2:00 pm Marquette 71 @ Xavier 61 ESPN2
4:30 pm Texas A&M 69 @ Clemson #19 60 ESPN2
8:30 pm Minnesota #22 82 @ Butler #12 73 ESPN2 apparently Minn hit 5 3s down the stretch to pull away and win
11:30 pm Oklahoma #25 @ Houston

I'm deleting unimportant games as they finish...if you rly want to know the final, you can find them.

Friday November 27, 2009
12:00 pm Marquette 79 @ Michigan #15 65 sry forgot it earlier

2:30 pm Texas A&M 66 @ West Virginia #8 73
5:00 pm Clemson #19 87 @ Long Beach St. 79
5:00 pm Connecticut #13 59 @ Duke #7 68
5:30 pm Siena 68@ St. John's (N.Y.) 77
5:30 pm Massachusetts 75 @ Rutgers 83
7:00 pm Col. of Charleston 69 @tennessee #9 86 CSS
7:00 pm Columbia 60 @ Syracuse #10 85 SNY
8:00 pm Florida 77 @michigan St. #2 74 FSN-Florida
8:00 pm Tennessee Tech 75 @ Kansas #1 112 Jayhawk TV
8:30 pm Old Dominion 61 @ Missouri 66
8:30 pm Virginia Tech 50 @temple 61
8:30 pm Northwestern 72 @ Notre Dame #23 58 Big Ten Network
9:30 pm Portland 61 @ Minnesota #22 56
10:30 pm Utah 60 @ Illinois #20 58
11:30 pm UCLA 67 @ Butler #12 69

Saturday November 28, 2009
11:30 am Central Mich. 38 @ Purdue #6 64 Big Ten Network
12:00 pm Lafayette 64 @ Georgetown #18 97 MASN
12:00 pm Youngstown St. 56 @ Pittsburgh 72 Big East Network
2:00 pm American 58 @ Md.-East. Shore 65
2:00 pm Detroit 66 @depaul 68
2:00 pm George Mason71 @ Tulane 76
3:30 pm La Salle 63 @villanova #4 81 ESPN2
4:00 pm Louisville #16 71 @unlv 76 Versus
5:30 pm St. Francis (Pa.) 47 @ Ohio St. #17 110
7:00 pm Mt. St. Mary's 65 @ Navy 56
7:00 pm Boston College 82 @ Providence 77
8:00 pm LIU-Brooklyn 65 @ Seton Hall 99
8:30 pm St. John's (N.Y.) 55 @ Temple 48
#2 Michigan St 106 @massachusetts 68

[Nevada Hoya]

The Portland Pilots demolished UCLA in the palindromic score of 74-47 at the 76 Classic in Anaheim yesterday. I expected UP to play Butler, but Minnesota beat them yesterday (unfortunately for us and our RPI). UP might challenge Gonzaga in the WCC this year.

[hifigator]

Just for clarification, the Michigan St.-Florida game is actually at a neutral site -- New Jersey, I believe. I do expect more Spartan fans there than Gators though -- especially since it coincides with Senior weekend here in Gainesville against FSU in football. I just hope we can pull off the upset. I'd love to be able to watch the basketball game LIVE tomorrow night after our football game, instead of watching it on DVR, almost certainly knowing the outcome as well.

[LizziebethHoya]

Marquette just picked up a HUGE win over #15 Michigan in the Old Spice. This is after they lost their only center for the year earlier this week and were only 8-deep for the game.

[HometownHoya]

Nov 27, 2009 13:20:42 GMT -5 hifigator said:

Just for clarification, the Michigan St.-Florida game is actually at a neutral site -- New Jersey, I believe.

Just for clarification about 1/2 of the games today are neutral site, surprisingly it doesn't really matter!!! Nor that Florida has a football team...no one cares.

[vcjack]

Nov 27, 2009 14:08:30 GMT -5 LizziebethHoya said:

Marquette just picked up a HUGE win over #15 Michigan in the Old Spice. This is after they lost their only center for the year earlier this week and were only 8-deep for the game.

That was a good win for them.

In related news WVU is having some trouble with Texas A&M right now, even though Ebanks has finally returned to the court. And the Aggies have a Hibbert playing for them so that's cool

[SDHoya]

Nov 27, 2009 12:56:55 GMT -5 Nevada Hoya said:

The Portland Pilots demolished UCLA in the palindromic score of 74-47 at the 76 Classic in Anaheim yesterday. I expected UP to play Butler, but Minnesota beat them yesterday (unfortunately for us and our RPI). UP might challenge Gonzaga in the WCC this year.

USD is also looking really good right now in the WCC. They dismantled Willie Warren and Oklahoma yesterday, and earlier beat up Stanford. The WCC this year could be a bit like the CAA or the Valley was a few years back.

[SDHoya]

Also, Marquette crushing Michigan. So much for the Big East "down year"....

[HoyaSinceBirth]

Oklahoma is really struggling with out Griffin. Losses to VCU, SDU, and Houston.

[Nevada Hoya]

Nov 27, 2009 16:14:55 GMT -5 SDHoya said:

Nov 27, 2009 12:56:55 GMT -5 Nevada Hoya said:

The Portland Pilots demolished UCLA in the palindromic score of 74-47 at the 76 Classic in Anaheim yesterday. I expected UP to play Butler, but Minnesota beat them yesterday (unfortunately for us and our RPI). UP might challenge Gonzaga in the WCC this year.

USD is also looking really good right now in the WCC. They dismantled Willie Warren and Oklahoma yesterday, and earlier beat up Stanford. The WCC this year could be a bit like the CAA or the Valley was a few years back.

Good to hear. St. Mary's usually has a good team too. I am excited about their tournament, which will be in Las Vegas again this year.

[HoyaSinceBirth]

so apparently the duke and uconn teams have decided not to play defense everything is a open layup or 3. I like uconn in this one if they play some D and the refs don't screw them.

[sleepy]

The first half of this game I think the story is Uconn has the better talent, Duke has the better team. We will see what happens in the second half though.

[FLHoya]

Wonder if Jim Calhoun actually has a play call motion where he simulates chopping the head off of a chicken.

ESPN using a Dashboard Confessional song as a bumper for the highlights of a Duke game. Seems about right.

[grokamok]

The typical Duke moment happened partway through the half. After UConn had gotten a few emotionally-inspiring plays in a row, a Duke player, sliding over late to cover Edwards, planted his face in a stationary Edwards' elbow and "went down" immediately, taking Edwards down on top of him. Edwards was called for the foul and on the ensuing play, Dyson was called for a marginal bump on an agressively-driving Scheyer. The looks on the faces of the UConn players all went blank ("Great -- they're just going to get all the calls this game") and Duke proceeded to edge ahead for the remainder of the half.

Calls are going to go Duke's way sometimes, and it will almost always be more than their share, given the planned theatrics, Coach K's pressing the refs and their general reputation. The key is in the players not letting it get to them and the coach giving it to the refs with equal effectiveness to Coach K (i.e., working them in off times, not just whining when a call goes the wrong way). Hard things to do, though.

[HoyaSinceBirth]

Duke running away with this. oh well.

[FewFAC]

Pretty sure the calls went for UConn in a horribly officiated match. Regardless, we should match up pretty well against either. Controlling pace puts us in a good position against either, though we will have to make open jump shots, because we'll get plenty. We'll also get our share of back door cuts.

[FLHoya]

Nov 27, 2009 18:18:31 GMT -5 grokamok said:

The typical Duke moment happened partway through the half. After UConn had gotten a few emotionally-inspiring plays in a row, a Duke player, sliding over late to cover Edwards, planted his face in a stationary Edwards' elbow and "went down" immediately, taking Edwards down on top of him. Edwards was called for the foul and on the ensuing play, Dyson was called for a marginal bump on an agressively-driving Scheyer. The looks on the faces of the UConn players all went blank ("Great -- they're just going to get all the calls this game") and Duke proceeded to edge ahead for the remainder of the half.

Calls are going to go Duke's way sometimes, and it will almost always be more than their share, given the planned theatrics, Coach K's pressing the refs and their general reputation. The key is in the players not letting it get to them and the coach giving it to the refs with equal effectiveness to Coach K (i.e., working them in off times, not just whining when a call goes the wrong way). Hard things to do, though.

Keepin' those conspiracy theory fires alive!: John Cahill was the lead official on the game.

If there's one coach in CBB capable of "giving it to the refs with equal effectiveness to Coach K"...that'd be the gentleman standing opposite him on the sideline tonight. Shocked ESPN lingered so long on a close up of Calhoun arguing with an official in the first half.

Really a poorly played game I thought--low shooting percentages and very ragged play. Duke won because UConn couldn't do anything when they weren't able to get out in transition or get to the rim--what actually killed UConn I thought was in the first half, having built all the momentum from the high energy play and runouts/dunks, they started settling for contested mid-range jumpers and allowed Duke to build their initial lead going into halftime. The second half seemed to be a succession of missed floaters and contested layups--Duke wasn't letting them get to the rim for easy shots, and UConn had nothing to offer beyond about 5-6 feet tonight.

And please, both of you--we don't need to attempt the follow jam on every offensive rebound opportunity, mmmmmkay?

[HoyaSinceBirth]

Rutgers beat Umass and St. John's beat Sienna.

[LizziebethHoya]

In a shocker, Syracuse beat Columbia. The best part of being held hostage in the living room while the game was on local TV was watching the Gerry McNamera commercials for the local Kia dealership. Oh, to be a Syracuse has-been

[Just Cos]

8:30 pm Northwestern @ Notre Dame #23 Big Ten Network

Potential upset - ND down 10 with 11:30 to go