Games of Interest -December 5 through December 12, 2016

[njhoya78]

Villanova ascends to the top spot in the Associated Press Top 25, up one spot from #2 last week, after Kentucky’s home court loss to UCLA. The Big East continues to have four ranked schools: in addition to ‘Nova, Creighton remains at #10, Xavier drops six slots to #13, and Butler moves up two spots from #18. Two new additions to the AP Top 25, with Cincinnati coming in at #22 and Notre Dame debuting at #23. They replace Syracuse and Rhode Island, who both dropped out of the ranking after losses this past week.

#4 Baylor and Arkansas State have no games scheduled over this eight day period.

All times listed are Eastern Standard Time.

Monday, December 5

BIG EAST CONFERENCE
California State Northridge at St. John’s, 6:30 pm (Fox Sports 1)

OUT-OF-CONFERENCE
Syracuse vs. Connecticut at New York NY, 7:00 pm (ESPN 2)
Mars Hill at North Carolina Greensboro, 7:30 pm

ASSOCIATED PRESS TOP 25
Southeast Missouri State at #9 Indiana, 4:00 pm (ESPN 2)
Nebraska Omaha at #25 Iowa State, 8:00 pm

Tuesday, December 6

BIG EAST CONFERENCE
Brown at Providence, 7:00 pm (Fox Sports 2)
#1 Villanova vs. La Salle at Philadelphia PA (ESPN 2)
Fresno State at Marquette, 7:30 pm (CBS Sports Network)
Lamar at DePaul, 9:00 pm
Seton Hall vs. Hawaii at Pearl Harbor Classic, Pearl Harbor HI, 9:30 pm (Fox Sports 1)

OUT-OF-CONFERENCE
North Carolina Asheville at Elon, 7:00 pm

ASSOCIATED PRESS TOP 25
East Carolina at #14 Virginia, 7:00 pm
#18 Purdue vs. Arizona State at Jimmy V Classic, New York NY, 7:00 pm (ESPN)
Missouri Kansas City at #3 Kansas, 8:00 pm (ESPN 3)
#5 Duke vs. #21 Florida at Jimmy V Classic, New York NY, 9:00 pm (ESPN)
Indiana Fort Wayne at #23 Notre Dame, 9:00 pm (ESPN-U)
California Irvine at #20 Arizona, 10:00 pm (Pacific 12 Network)

Wednesday, December 7

BIG EAST CONFERENCE
#16 Butler at Indiana State, 7:00 pm (ESPN 3)
Seton Hall vs. California at Pearl Harbor Classic, Pearl Harbor HI, 7:00 pm (Fox Sports 1)
#10 Creighton at Nebraska, 9:00 pm (Big Ten Network)
#13 Xavier at Colorado, 9:00 pm (Pacific 12 Network)

OUT-OF-CONFERENCE
Coppin State at Akron, 7:00 pm
Idaho State at #17 Wisconsin, 8:00 pm (ESPN 3)
Howard at Maryland, 9:00 pm (ESPN-U)

ASSOCIATED PRESS TOP 25
Southern Illinois at #11 Louisville, 7:00 pm
#15 West Virginia vs. Western Carolina at Charleston WV, 7:00 pm
Valparaiso at #2 Kentucky, 8:00 pm (SEC Network)
Davidson at #7 North Carolina, 9:00 pm (ESPN 2)
Washington at #8 Gonzaga, 11:00 pm (ESPN 2)

Thursday, December 8

BIG EAST CONFERENCE
Fordham at St. John’s, 6:30 pm (Fox Sports 1)

OUT-OF-CONFERENCE
No games scheduled

ASSOCIATED PRESS TOP 25
#25 Iowa State at Iowa, 8:00 pm (ESPN 2)
Texas-Arlington at #12 Saint Mary’s,10:00 pm

Friday, December 9

BIG EAST CONFERENCE
Longwood at #10 Creighton, 7:30 pm (Fox Sports 1)

OUT-OF-CONFERENCE
Wake Forest at North Carolina Greensboro, 7:00 pm (ESPN 3)

ASSOCIATED PRESS TOP 25
No games scheduled

Saturday, December 10

BIG EAST CONFERENCE
DePaul vs. Temple at HoopHall Miami Invitational, Miami FL, 11:30 am (ESPN-U)
Massachusetts at Providence, 12:00 noon (Fox Sports 1)
#1 Villanova vs. #23 Notre Dame at Newark NJ, 12:00 noon (CBS)
Georgetown vs. La Salle at HoopHall Miami Invitational, Miami FL, 2:00 pm (ESPN 2)
#17 Wisconsin at Marquette, 2:00 pm (Fox Sports 1)
#22 Cincinnati at #16 Butler, 4:30 pm (Fox Sports 1)
Utah at #13 Xavier, 5:30 pm (FOX)

OUT-OF-CONFERENCE
Boston University at Syracuse, 12:00 noon
Saint Peter’s at Maryland, 12:00 noon (Big Ten Network)
Coppin State at Buffalo, 2:00 pm (ESPN 3)
Virginia-Wise at South Carolina Upstate, 2:00 pm (ESPN 3)
Elon at Radford, 4:00 pm
Howard at George Washington, 4:00 pm
Oklahoma State at Tulsa, 5:00 pm (CBS Sports Network)
Connecticut at Ohio State, 6:00 pm (Big Ten Network)

ASSOCIATED PRESS TOP 25
#20 Arizona at Missouri, 12:00 noon (ESPN 2)
Cleveland State at #18 Purdue, 12:00 noon (ESPN 3)
Texas Southern at #11 Louisville, 2:00 pm
Virginia Military Institute at #15 West Virginia, 2:00 pm
Nebraska at #3 Kansas, 3:15 pm (ESPN)
Houston Baptist at #9 Indiana, 4:00 pm (Big Ten Network)
#5 Duke at Nevada Las Vegas, 5:15 pm (ESPN)
Michigan at #2 UCLA, 8:00 pm (ESPN 2)
Akron at #8 Gonzaga, 10:00 pm

Sunday, December 11

BIG EAST CONFERENCE
St. John’s at Long Island Brooklyn, 12:00 noon (Fox Sports 1)

OUT-OF-CONFERENCE
Alabama at #24 Oregon, 6:00 pm (ESPN-U)

ASSOCIATED PRESS TOP 25
#2 Kentucky vs. Hofstra at Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival, Brooklyn NY, 3:00 pm (ESPN)
#21 Florida at Florida State, 4:00 pm (ESPN-U)
Tennessee at #7 North Carolina, 5:00 pm (ESPN)
California Irvine at #12 Saint Mary’s, 8:00 pm

Monday, December 12

BIG EAST CONFERENCE
Seton Hall vs. #19 South Carolina at Under Armour Reunion, New York NY, 9:00 pm

OUT-OF-CONFERENCE
Jacksonville State at Maryland, 7:00 pm (ESPN-U)

ASSOCIATED PRESS TOP 25
No games scheduled

[hoyarad]

This Syracuse UCONN game is horrible....wow

[FrazierFanatic]

Best line of the night by Bilas - "They may have to decide this one with penalty kicks".

[hoyarad]

Syracuse shooting 25%

[SSHoya]

Hoyas against either of these teams projects to an ugly ugly game. And what an ending. FTs for the win because of a failure to block out by Cuse.

[njhoya78]

Dec 5, 2016 21:00:47 GMT -5 SSHoya said:

Hoyas against either of these teams projects to an ugly ugly game. And what an ending. FTs for the win because of a failure to block out by Cuse.

So, in a revisionist history kind-of-way, UConn and Lower Canada Community College having departed the Big East was a net positive.

[guru]

Dec 5, 2016 22:07:27 GMT -5 njhoya78 said:

Dec 5, 2016 21:00:47 GMT -5 SSHoya said:

Hoyas against either of these teams projects to an ugly ugly game. And what an ending. FTs for the win because of a failure to block out by Cuse.

So, in a revisionist history kind-of-way, UConn and Lower Canada Community College having departed the Big East was a net positive.

Ugly as the game was, the Garden was rocking - especially for an early December game that means nothing. Made me miss the old Big East Tourney. Meanwhile, we are playing before intimate gatherings of family members.

[hoyainla]

I think the lack of talk about the UConn-Cuse game is another indicator of the lack of interest in the Hoyas right now. If we were feeling good about the year this thread would be full of comments about last nights game. I will be honest my general lack of big time excitement for college basketball as a whole is down thanks to the start of our season and I didn't know the game was going on until I saw the score on ESPN.

[hoyasaxa2003]

It's also because those teams aren't in our conference anymore. Yes, we are playing both this year, but in a bigger sense, they just don't matter that much.

[SSHoya]

Based upon the first six minutes of the Nova/La Salle game, our guards are going to have problems keeping
La Salle's guards from penetrating. Going to need interior defense. . .

[hoyarooter]

Dec 6, 2016 19:11:29 GMT -5 SSHoya said:

Based upon the first six minutes of the Nova/La Salle game, our guards are going to have problems keeping
La Salle's guards from penetrating. Going to need interior defense. . .

I sometimes wonder if our guards would have trouble stopping the guards on a middle school team from penetrating.

[hoyaboya]

UNC-Asheville 78, Elon 67

At Elon.

[rockhoya]

Dec 6, 2016 23:06:28 GMT -5 hoyaboya said:

At Elon.

Isn't there a games of interest thread? Or do u just need attention?

[hoyaboya]

Thought it would be worth its own thread given some posters' claims that Elon is a good team.

[dense]

Dec 6, 2016 23:44:55 GMT -5 hoyaboya said:

Thought it would be worth its own thread given some posters' claims that Elon is a good team.

So by transtivity UNC Ashville is 22 points better than Kansas St?

[rockhoya]

Dec 6, 2016 23:51:44 GMT -5 dense said:

Dec 6, 2016 23:44:55 GMT -5 hoyaboya said:

Thought it would be worth its own thread given some posters' claims that Elon is a good team.

So by transtivity UNC Ashville is 22 points better than Kansas St?

Exactly. Great logic around these parts...

[rockhoya]

Dec 6, 2016 23:44:55 GMT -5 hoyaboya said:

Thought it would be worth its own thread given some posters' claims that Elon is a good team.

So the latter I see....

[hoyaboya]

Rockhoya do you think Elon is a good team? Daytonahoya is on the record as saying so.

[rockhoya]

Dec 7, 2016 0:28:04 GMT -5 hoyaboya said:

Rockhoya do you think Elon is a good team? Daytonahoya is on the record as saying so.

Give it a rest already, you sound like you're in the third grade.

[dense]

Dec 7, 2016 0:28:04 GMT -5 hoyaboya said:

Rockhoya do you think Elon is a good team? Daytonahoya is on the record as saying so.

I definitely think they are. 5 players who can all shoot the 3. They lost because they didnt hit their shots, it happens when you play that way. UFGC the year they beat us lost to some dregs of the Atlantic Sun but obviously that team had talent since they made the sweet 16. I dont think your point is proven by 1 game. Wait till the season is over. Before us their only loss was by 4 to Charlotte. Now they are 6-3 with a win over Kansas St. Most small conference schools would love that record