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Post by RockawayHoya on Jan 13, 2007 9:53:52 GMT -5
Besides the obvious one in primetime...
BE:
Louisville def. Providence, 78-63
Marquette def. West Virginia, 81-63
Syracuse def. Villanova, 75-64
Depaul def. @rutgers, 60-37
UConn at St. John's
OOC:
Navy def. Lafayette, 60-44
George Mason def. JMU, 73-52
Hartford def. Stony Brook, 50-47
Georgia def. Vanderbilt, 85-73
Old Dominion def. Drexel, 84-57
Towson at VCU
Oral Roberts at UMKC
Michigan at Purdue
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Post by TBird41 on Jan 13, 2007 13:59:41 GMT -5
Marquette is smacking West Virginia in Milwaukee. Looks like having three home games to start off BE play had a lot to do with the Mountaineers fast start.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Jan 13, 2007 14:08:43 GMT -5
Well there goes Providence and WVU. Declared "surprise teams" by starting off at a whopping 2-0 and 3-0 respectively, they're now 2-1 and 3-2 and in the same boat as everyone else.
If the Hoyas can take care of Pitt's zero in the loss column, we pretty much reset the conference season.
Parity and mediocrity continue to rule in the Big East.
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Post by Big Dog on Jan 13, 2007 14:46:50 GMT -5
Meanwhile, Nova looks terrible against a clearly flawed Syracuse team. Watching this game and Marquette's win, it is nice (if frustrating) to see teams score some transition points and run things out on the break rather than always play patiently and allow defenses to take it to you.
I'm just sayin'...
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Post by Filo on Jan 13, 2007 15:21:30 GMT -5
Amen to that. 'Cuse wins 75-64. All I have to say is...
SEE! This is why there was some understandable venting after our loss to "Nova (not saying all of the venting was reasonable). They just aren't a very good team and, much like with Duke, we squandered an opportunity against a mediocre opponent.
Let's beat Pitt tonight!
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Post by Hoya50 on Jan 13, 2007 16:07:42 GMT -5
watching the su guards beat that press made me sick today. i only hope the hoyas worked on it for about 40 hours this week.
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Post by Big Dog on Jan 13, 2007 16:19:26 GMT -5
This game tonight is a big deal for us. I'd really like to stay out of that tough pack of 2-loss teams.
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Post by RockawayHoya on Jan 13, 2007 17:12:11 GMT -5
Not on the list, but Va. Tech is smoking UNC out of the building right now, up 22 with under 12 min to go. Definitely didn't see that coming.
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Post by Just Cos on Jan 13, 2007 17:28:16 GMT -5
Chalk up VT as grabbing a spot in the tourny. Lets go Hoyas!
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Post by Big Dog on Jan 13, 2007 17:47:00 GMT -5
a lot of close contests in the top 5 today, including Wisconsin narrowly edging Northwestern and UCLA escaping with a win at USC. For my money, Florida is quite clearly the best team in the country right now.
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Post by RockawayHoya on Jan 13, 2007 18:01:20 GMT -5
VT staves off an embarassing collapse, upsetting UNC 94-88. Obviously UNC didn't play their best, but what a blueprint in terms of how to extend a game in a late game situation to try to come back. To get just a shot away from tying is pretty damn good considering they were down 23 with 10 minutes to go.
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Post by vcjack on Jan 13, 2007 18:01:57 GMT -5
Its official, Cinci is truly auwful, good lord when you can't even score 40 points against Depaul there is something very very wrong
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Post by hoyainspirit on Jan 13, 2007 18:16:08 GMT -5
VT staves off an embarassing collapse, upsetting UNC 94-88. Obviously UNC didn't play their best, but what a blueprint in terms of how to extend a game in a late game situation to try to come back. To get just a shot away from tying is pretty damn good considering they were down 23 with 10 minutes to go. Va Tech helped UNC tremendously with unbelievably stupid play over the final 5 minutes or so. They truly tried to give it away. Great win for that program, though. |
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Post by Big Dog on Jan 13, 2007 18:19:37 GMT -5
Its official, Cinci is truly auwful, good lord when you can't even score 40 points against Depaul there is something very very wrong and we get to play them twice!! |
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Post by vcjack on Jan 13, 2007 18:58:14 GMT -5
Its official, Cinci is truly auwful, good lord when you can't even score 40 points against Depaul there is something very very wrong My bad, I meant Rutgers, but I don't doubt that Cinci is bad either |
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Post by MCIGuy on Jan 13, 2007 19:46:28 GMT -5
Amen to that. 'Cuse wins 75-64. All I have to say is... SEE! This is why there was some understandable venting after our loss to "Nova (not saying all of the venting was reasonable). They just aren't a very good team and, much like with Duke, we squandered an opportunity against a mediocre opponent. ! The Hoyas SHOULD have won that Nova game. That's without question. The Hoyas, IMO, should have beaten all the teams it lost to including the game at Duke and the game against Oregon. Gtoown led al those games well into the second half only to squander the lead (and game) away thanks to passive and timid play and an inability to finish off opponents when they are on the ropes. despite the flaws this a potentially great team but as of now its playing up to about 60% to 70% of its capabilities. Now with all that out the way let me say this about Nova. The Wildcats had a lot of pressue on them to not go 0 and 3 on the road and fall to 0-4 in Big East play. Yes, I'm sure they would have rather gone 2 for 2 in terms of wins, but once the game with the Hoyas became a victory, the pressure was off them and they knew that even if they fell to Syracuse they had a stretch of home games to help themselves catch up in the conference standings. This is not to make any excuses for why the Hoyas lost, but it shows you how desperate teams do step up when their seasons are on the line. |
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Post by Filo on Jan 13, 2007 20:30:56 GMT -5
Good points, MCI. I had been thinking about that while I was watching the game (that this was just a bad time to be playing 'Nova).
Hopefully, this will be a bad time for Pitt to be playing the Hoyas!
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Post by RockawayHoya on Jan 13, 2007 23:29:41 GMT -5
Well, our season is on the line now. We better play with a sense of desperation ourselves and put together an extended winning streak in conference play before the difficult stretch of games start, or we will be in some serious trouble this year.
BTW, Michigan loses at Purdue, Towson loses at VCU, and Oral Roberts beats UMKC on the road. Uconn about to wrap a win up against SJU too.
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