nova or depaul who do we want

[HoyaSinceBirth]

a nice long painful game that breaks out into a fight with all ten starters getting ejected and suspended for the next game.

[Boz]

hoyasincebirth said:

a nice long painful game that breaks out into a fight with all ten starters getting ejected and suspended for the next game.

Unfortunately, neither Jerry Wainwright nor Jay Wright are part of the Coach K coaching tree, so I expect a clean game.

Wainwright's head may very possibly explode though, so we have that to look forward to.

[FOTP]

Unlike Coach K I don't condone sending my team in for cheap shots at the end.

I'll just take a nice hard fought game with no suspensions.

[RusskyHoya]

fotp said:

Unlike Coach K I don't condone sending my team in for cheap shots at the end.

I'll just take a nice hard fought game with no suspensions.

Meh, I rather doubt Coach K ordered that hit. Say what you will about West Point guys like him and Bobby Knight, as a rule they don't do things that'd be considered "dishonorable." Grabbing kids and throwing things is one thing, although K doesn't seem to do much of that either, but cheap shots are more the MO of John "I'll Kill You" Cheney.

[FOTP]

Another interesting angle to all of this is the Henderson issue. Hear me out...

He's best friends from AAU ball etc. with Wayne Ellington on NC. They had an ESPN piece on how friendly they are (talk a whole bunch on the phone etc.).

Maybe to some degree his team (could be players/assistant coaches/Coach K) give him a pretty hard time about his friendship with the enemy. Maybe a "hit" wasn't ordered specifically, but he could have felt and internal need to show he was a "Duke guy".

I just think the situation was more complex than people think. I was just checking the Wilbon chat and he thinks it was intentional and that Coach K's excuse was pretty lame.

[The Stig]

Back on topic, my first instinct is to want to play DePaul. After all, conventional wisdom here seems to say that rematches favor our opponents (it's easier to deal with the Princeton offense the second time you've seen it).

However, looking back on this season that doesn't seem to be true. All of our losses came in our first mettings with opponents. Of course, it follows that we've won every rematch we've played this season. So playing a team we've played before (Nova) may favor us more than playing a team we haven't seen (DePaul).

That said, the only team in the tournament that I really want to play is Syracuse. And by play, I mean crush.

EDIT: Okay, we did play DePaul earlier this year, I just completely forgot about the game!

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thestig said:

So playing a team we've played before (Nova) may favor us more than playing a team we haven't seen (DePaul).

Wednesday, Jan. 24.

[CTHoya08]

Um , we played and beat DePaul 66-52 on 24 January.

EDIT: Cam is faster than me.

[jghoya01]

We've seen DePaul before and we beat them handily.

[ExcitableBoy]

I want to play the following teams:

Quarterfinal: Villanova
Semi-final: Syracuse
Finals: Pitt

Thus avenging all conference losses.

[HoyaSinceBirth]

well we already avenged the nova and pitt loses i'd rather not see them. I would like to see syracuse though.

[The Stig]

*Digs a hole and hides in shame*

I completely forgot about the DePaul game. It sort of blended into that streak of games where teams shot the lights out against us in the first half before we shut them down in the second half.

So completely disregard my analysis (not a bad idea anyways)!

[Fan Of The Game]

They're both screwed.

[lichoya68]

ok lichoyas decided with all this discussion im rooting for depaul all the way till us so inconsitant and nova would be a war and take it outa us for friday sooooooooooo go blue deamons pleasee trap the wildcats in QUADRUPLE OVERTIME PLEASE TIRE THEM OUT go hoyas beat whoever whenever..