Games of Interest--2/2 & 2/3

[TBird41]

2/2
Fairfield @ Canisus (Fairfield wins 67-63)
Bucknell @ Navy (Bucknell wins 73-68)

Light load tonight, but lots of games tomorrow (Sat.)

2/3
Big East
Rutgers @ UConn (UConn wins in OT, 61-50)
#21 Notre Dame @ South Florida (USF wins 69-63)
L'Ville @ Nova (Nova wins 57-53)
Providence @ Marquette (MU wins 69-62)
WVU @ SHU (WVU wins 81-70)
Depaul @ 'Cuse (Cuse wins 75-69)

RPI Games
Hartford @ BU (BU wins 59-51)
Oregon @ USC (USC wins 71-68)
JMU @ Delaware (JMU wins 69-64)
Towson @ Drexel (Drexel wins 66-56)
ODU @ George Mason (ODU wins in OT 66-56)
Georgia @ #24 Vandy (Vandy wins 66-61)
Balls (tate) @ Akron (Akron wins 70-52)
ORU @ Western Illinois (ORU win 67-60)

AP Ranking Games
South Carolina @ #19 Alabama (Bama wins 64-61)
Washington @ #20 Arizona (Zona wins 84-54)
#23 Stanford @ Cal (Stanford wins 90-71
#25 Clemson @ Georgia Tech (GT wins 80-62)
#26 Indiana @ Iowa (Iowa wins 81-75)
#27 Kentucky @ Arkansas (Kentucky wins 82-74)
#29 Southern Illinois @ Wichita St. (SIU wins 54-46)
Georgia St. @ #30 VCU (VCU wins 100-74)

[RockawayHoya]

Despite how poorly they've been playing as of late, how bad do you think Cuse wants to get revenge on Depaul for what happened late last year? I just can't see how SUcks loses that game.

If Providence can steal a win at Marquette, that would be really impressive. They've definitely exceeded expectations so far this year, and I've been impressed the few times I've seen them.

[TrueHoyaBlue]

Nice road win for Fairfield, making it six wins in a row in the mighty MAAC (although they now play four of their final six games against MAAC leading Loyola-MD and Marist).

Navy is also out to a nice 13-8 lead against Bucknell, but the Mids recent trends don't point to this lead holding up long.

[TBird41]

You were right THB: Navy dropped the game 73-68 to Bucknell

[GIGAFAN99]

Flipping around here and can't help but notice that UConn looks more like Rutgers than they'd like to think.

[mit0313]

gigafan99 said:

Flipping around here and can't help but notice that UConn looks more like Rutgers than they'd like to think.

I am thinking the same thing...

[vcjack]

Perhaps the shot clock is not working over at Villanova because with only 2:00 to go in the 1st, the score is 18 TO 15!!

[GIGAFAN99]

As an aside, what is Memphis doing on my television? That this team is ranked so high is just crazy. Who cares what they do versus a lower-tier C-USA team? It would be one thing if they were undefeated or something but they're just another OK team in a bad conference who is keeping its pre-season ranking by not losing.

This UConn-Rutgers game is awful.

[TBird41]

Nova pulls out an ugly threefest (you would have hated this game Giga) by four. JMU gets the win over Delaware (Egerson is DEFINATELY gonna be the star there). WVU is up 11 with 30 seconds to go on SHU and UConn looks like they're gonna BARELY pull out the win against Rutgers.

[GIGAFAN99]

Or not! Go Knights!

[TBird41]

tbird41 said:

Nova pulls out an ugly threefest (you would have hated this game Giga) by four. JMU gets the win over Delaware (Egerson is DEFINATELY gonna be the star there). WVU is up 11 with 30 seconds to go on SHU and UConn looks like they're gonna BARELY pull out the win against Rutgers.

Whoops! Looks like I jinxed UConn! ;D

Rutgers just hit a ridiculous three to send it to overtime after UConn missed 3 of 4 free throws, including TWO that would have won the game.

[FLHoya]

I know you all were thinking--gosh, this has been such a great UConn-Rutgers game--why does it have to end???

[vcjack]

I don' know what is uglier today, the fact that UConn and Rutgers are in OT tied AT 47!!!! Or the fact that Louisville shot under 30% for most of their game, and still only lost by 4

[williambraskyiii]

if we dont finish Top 3 in the conference this year, i will throw up on myself.

[vcjack]

flhoya said:

I know you all were thinking--gosh, this has been such a great UConn-Rutgers game--why does it have to end???

I hope neither school gets a single top 100 recruit after this game, kids would be better off staying in high school

[FLHoya]

Mental note for the future--Ollie Bailey isn't a fan of student sections doing the LEFT! RIGHT! thing when he fouls out.

[LizziebethHoya]

Nice choke job by Rutgers at the end of that ugly game

[LizziebethHoya]

For games of interest regarding rankings:

It looks like BC is going to pull a big win over #18 Virginia Tech, meaning that Tech would have dropped 2 games this week, and will most likely drop out of the polls

[TBird41]

nyhoya08 said:

Nice choke job by Rutgers at the end of that ugly game

Be nice to Rutgers--they were using their versions of Saed, Spann and Izzo at the end of that game b/c everyone else had fouled out.

[vcjack]

Moving on to the REAL BE, Providence/Marquette is looking like a solid game