whatmaroon
Silver Hoya (over 500 posts)
Posts: 819
|
Post by whatmaroon on Mar 28, 2009 19:47:09 GMT -5
Another money quote ends the article: Apparently nobody bothered to inform him Florida State became a football-playing member of the ACC in 1992 and won or tied for the conference championship the rest of the 1990's. The teams they tied with: Virginia in '94 and Georgia Tech in '98.
|
|
whatmaroon
Silver Hoya (over 500 posts)
Posts: 819
|
Post by whatmaroon on Mar 28, 2009 19:42:24 GMT -5
So like Ive been in a hypothetical coma for the past 4 months. Before I went in we were almost top 5 material, but then seems we just fell apart. What happened please? 1. we got too cocky with our early success and started cruising? 2. we are mentally weak 3. teams figured out how to play against us 4. we didnt execute in the system 5. bad attitude/team chemistry 6. the tough schedule made us tired by mid-season The Incident at Duke destroyed the leadership on the team, the starters no longer wanted to play with each other and the team collapsed . . . The End. So, why'd we give up in the second half of the Pitt game, then? Premonitions of The Incident at Duke? Do our players need their ESP tested?
|
|
whatmaroon
Silver Hoya (over 500 posts)
Posts: 819
|
Post by whatmaroon on Mar 27, 2009 22:48:09 GMT -5
Ok, Elmo, when that guy brings his foot down on top of the other guy's foot, that's not "tripping over your own feet", it's "getting tripped by your own teammate." I've never seen fouls called like this in the last :35 of the Kansas-Michigan State game. With the Jayhawks down 3 and shooting 1-and-1, it's almost like Spartan refs.
|
|
whatmaroon
Silver Hoya (over 500 posts)
Posts: 819
|
Post by whatmaroon on Mar 23, 2009 19:15:40 GMT -5
|
|
whatmaroon
Silver Hoya (over 500 posts)
Posts: 819
|
Post by whatmaroon on Mar 22, 2009 12:40:40 GMT -5
Do we even take Julian if Macklin doesn't transfer? To me, it was essentially a trade. Yeah, I know, we would have had Braswell, but my understanding is he's more of a banger-type, whereas Julian and Macklin both fit into a different type.
We also seem to be forgetting that Macklin wasn't exactly a very good rebounder for the Hoyas. Yes, part of it is style, but he pulled in 10.6% of the defensive rebounds when he was on the court last year. That was 8th on the team, ahead of only Wallace and Austin, and would've been 9th on this year's team, ahead of only Chris, Clark, and Nikita. He was better on the offensive glass, but was not notably good like Roy was.
|
|
whatmaroon
Silver Hoya (over 500 posts)
Posts: 819
|
Post by whatmaroon on Mar 20, 2009 16:50:23 GMT -5
I pegged WVU a couple months ago as "Team Most Likely to Lose by 30 in Elite 8" because they combine a frequently high level of play with the occasional awful shooting game, and they put up too many bricks tonight. Ah, well, at least I had them losing the next round in 1 bracket.
|
|
whatmaroon
Silver Hoya (over 500 posts)
Posts: 819
|
Post by whatmaroon on Mar 19, 2009 23:15:54 GMT -5
Watching the Bruins blow this game, and I gotta say it's nice to see we aren't the only team whose "offense" in the lead in the last 5 minutes consists primarily of trying to run the shot clock with an optional secondary goal of trying to score points.
|
|
whatmaroon
Silver Hoya (over 500 posts)
Posts: 819
|
Post by whatmaroon on Mar 19, 2009 15:51:25 GMT -5
UConn: from up 17-15 to up 63-20. Yeah, it's Chattanooga, but I gotta admit, you don't see 46-5 runs every day.
|
|
whatmaroon
Silver Hoya (over 500 posts)
Posts: 819
|
Post by whatmaroon on Mar 18, 2009 22:09:35 GMT -5
Thanks to Jessie for 3 great years. Too bad the 4th one couldn't have been better. In light of Dan's request, I'm going to go punch my head into a brick wall or something.
|
|
whatmaroon
Silver Hoya (over 500 posts)
Posts: 819
|
Post by whatmaroon on Mar 18, 2009 16:01:51 GMT -5
For the record, UCLA is 18th in the country on both 2's and 3's, and 5th overall in eFG. You may be right, id, that they're streaky from outside, but they've had eFG of 50% or better 14 of the 19 games in '09. That's not quite as good as we were in '07, but it's not that far off. They just don't defend the 2, or especially the 3, nearly as well as they have in the past or you'd expect from a Howland team.
|
|
whatmaroon
Silver Hoya (over 500 posts)
Posts: 819
|
Post by whatmaroon on Mar 18, 2009 15:27:45 GMT -5
All that school didn't accomplish much, maroon. To start with, property tax is local, not state. Yeah, the Georgetown they pay property taxes to is Georgetown, TX. Thus,"state where whatmaroon's parents send property tax checks to Georgetown" = Texas, so "school in state where whatmaroon's parents send property tax checks to Georgetown" = "school in Texas." Perhaps unnecessarily convoluted and rather unwitty for a prediction thread, but accurate.
|
|
whatmaroon
Silver Hoya (over 500 posts)
Posts: 819
|
Post by whatmaroon on Mar 18, 2009 14:46:34 GMT -5
School where whatmaroon's parents sent tuition checks to Georgetown: 67 School in state where whatmaroon's parents send property tax checks to Georgetown: 66
|
|
whatmaroon
Silver Hoya (over 500 posts)
Posts: 819
|
Post by whatmaroon on Mar 17, 2009 17:05:15 GMT -5
|
|
whatmaroon
Silver Hoya (over 500 posts)
Posts: 819
|
Post by whatmaroon on Mar 17, 2009 15:07:00 GMT -5
The one nice aspect of the play-in game is it's treated the same, financially, as winning a first round game. These are conferences that hardly ever, if ever, have a team that win a game, and thus represents a nice revenue boost for the conference and team. The non-power conference teams get screwed enough, and need the money more than the 6th best team in the Pac-10 or 8th best team in the Big Ten. I suspect part of that is why the Selection Committee also normally likes to match up mid-majors against mid-majors and BCS teams v BCS teams in games where they have a choice (5-12, 6-11, 7-10), though they've mostly forgone that this year.
|
|
whatmaroon
Silver Hoya (over 500 posts)
Posts: 819
|
Post by whatmaroon on Mar 17, 2009 14:06:40 GMT -5
After looking over Setonhall's record I checked up on another NIT team that was bugging me. #2 seed ND RPI: 77 SOS: 43 2-12 against top 50 RPI 4-13 against top 100 RPI 1 loss agaisnt 100+ RPI I don't see how that's a 2 seed and we're a 6 seed. only difference between our season basically they didn't lose st. john's a second time and beat seton hall. either they need to be lower( more likely) or we need to be higher. This one's easy to explain. It's called being the primary tenant in your home arena plus many devoted fans instead of the tertiary or quaternary tenant with a more apathetic fanbase.
|
|
whatmaroon
Silver Hoya (over 500 posts)
Posts: 819
|
Post by whatmaroon on Mar 16, 2009 22:44:22 GMT -5
|
|
whatmaroon
Silver Hoya (over 500 posts)
Posts: 819
|
Post by whatmaroon on Mar 16, 2009 17:04:25 GMT -5
Here's word on the broadcast crew and a on-line viewing option for Wednesday's game: 9 p.m. NIT First Round: Georgetown vs. Baylor ESPN2 / ESPN360.com Brad Nessler, Jimmy Dykes JS Thanks for the info. At least it's not Dykes and an SEC team. I don't think I've ever muted a game for a team I'm a fan of faster than the Bama game in the BE-SEC Challenge, and I still can't listen to him.
|
|
whatmaroon
Silver Hoya (over 500 posts)
Posts: 819
|
Post by whatmaroon on Mar 16, 2009 8:46:19 GMT -5
Key question - does espn2 commit to broadcast complete games or are we at risk of getting switched half way through? If anyone know how to find this out (calling espn or the nit) - please do. If it is a risk, does anyone know the games that are at the same time? NIT coverage is not like NCAA coverage-ESPN broadcasts selected games to the entire country. Our coverage risk is the Miami-Providence game on before us does something like go to 6 OT.
|
|
whatmaroon
Silver Hoya (over 500 posts)
Posts: 819
|
Post by whatmaroon on Mar 15, 2009 23:12:07 GMT -5
We got smacked around during the Pitt game, and seemed to give up after Dajuan stopped keeping us in the game. That was before Duke. If you have a copy of the Memphis game, pull it out and count how many times Chris passed the ball to Jessie, or vice versa. Heck, count the number of times they looked at each other in the half-court set. With the advantage of hindsight, the problems are pretty obvious.
|
|
whatmaroon
Silver Hoya (over 500 posts)
Posts: 819
|
Post by whatmaroon on Mar 15, 2009 21:04:13 GMT -5
First ever matchup between the two schools. Hoya games v. teams currently a member of the B12, per the history website: Kansas (1), Missouri (1), Texas (1), Texas Tech (2).
If this were a weekend game, say, Saturday, I'd go if I could find a reasonable fare. Wednesday, alas...
Log5 odds ignoring home advantage give the Hoyas about a 62% chance of winning. I'll have to find the home court adjustment and apply that, then I'll have full log5 odds up at Hoya Prospectus.
|
|