2010-11 NCAA College Basketball

[AntAltMike]

Big East RPIs

Ten Big East teams have RPI Index scores of 40 or better, and Marquette is at 62. Should the NCAA let them send ten teams to the Big Dance? Or eleven, if Marquette beats one more higher ranked team?

And winless (0-9 Depaul), with its 239 RPI, is trailing 13th ranked Louisville by just 2 points with under three minutes left.

 

[Mike0616]

Ten Big East teams have RPI Index scores of 40 or better, and Marquette is at 62. Should the NCAA let them send ten teams to the Big Dance? Or eleven, if Marquette beats one more higher ranked team?

It is looking like there will be at least 9 teams in the tourney from the BE, while 11 is indeed possible. With the remaining schedule that Marquette has left, their only chance at this point to beat another rated team will be when they play UConn & G'town. If they can beat either of those teams and win most of their others, I would think they would be a lock for the tourney.

And winless (0-9 Depaul), with its 239 RPI, is trailing 13th ranked Louisville by just 2 points with under three minutes left.

Watched that game and you have to realize that UL was playing without its best players available for the game. UL has had 12 (IIRC) of their players out due to injuries this season and am hoping that they will all be back (except the few that are out for the season) in time for the tourney. Also, Depaul was hitting 3 pointers like they were standing over the basket, dropping them in the cylinder, which I gather was rather unique for them this season (they are in a rebuilding phase as of late, in a couple of years, they will be back, I feel sure.)

 

[Mike0616]

1:00 PM St John's-UCLA, CBS

I'm curious why this game is at 1:00 ET/10am PT??

Its a conspiracy between CBS and St John's to fix the game. StJ's wanted a very early game so that they could play UCLA while the team was still asleep.

OK OK OK, so maybe it is because CBS wanted a game to put into that slot and doesn't do an ESPN on the games, that is schedule them so close together that you never see the start of any game other than the first one of the day.

 

[SandraC]

Watchable games tonight:

7:00 PM Pittsburgh-West Virgning, ESPN
9:00 PM Missouri-Kansas, ESPN

Enjoy!


Sandra

 

[SandraC]

Watchable games tonight:

7:00 PM Indiana-Purdue, ESPN
7:00 PM Xavier-Georgia, ESPN U
9:00 PM Tennessee-Kentucky, ESPN
10:30 PM Utah-San Diego State, The Mountain

Enjoy!


Sandra

 

[SandraC]

Watchable games tonight:

7:00 PM Louisville -Notre Dame, ESPN U
7:00 PM Georgetown-Syracuse, ESPN
8:00 PM Villanova-Rutgers, Sportsnet New York, MASN, ESPN Full Court
8:30 PM Wisconsin-Iowa, Big Ten Network
9:00 PM Texas A&M-Colorado, ESPN U
9:00 PM Texas-Oklahoma, ESPN 2
9:00 PM North Carolina-Duke, ESPN, Fox Sports Florida
10:00 PM BYU-Air Force, The Mountain

Enjoy!


Sandra

 

[SabresRule]

The Big East is an absolute minefield!!

Except for Depaul.

 

[SandraC]

Rough night for me. Syracuse's ascent has apparently been greatly exaggerated...Georgetown pulled away at the Dome. I thought this might have been a special Orange team, but too often they look very ordinary.

Then later Utah State could not throw the ball into the ocean at Idaho...22 of 65 from two, 5 of 28 from three, and 7 of 13 from the stripe. Incredible...this Aggies are one of the best shooting teams in the country, but not last night.


Sandra

 

[SandraC]

Watchable games tonight:

7:00 PM Connecticut-St John's, ESPN
9:00 PM Alabama-Vanderbilt, ESPN 2
9:00 PM Illinois-Minnesota, ESPN

ESPNjoy!


Sandra

 

[cosmo_kramer]

Looks like wall-to-wall hoops for March Madness, especially those first two days:

The NCAA tournament's new TV deal will allow for more staggered starts of games, so all of those buzzer-beaters aren't happening at the same time.

The contract signed in April with CBS and Turner Sports meant all games would be televised live nationally for the first time. Because Turner's three cable channels don't have the same commitments to the nightly news and other regular programming as CBS, the tournament games will be more spread out, starting this season.

That includes prime-time games on TBS, TNT and truTV during the first Sunday of the tournament, the networks announced Thursday.

Last season, when only CBS broadcast games, the first three contests on the opening Thursday afternoon started within 10 minutes of each other. Even for fans who had access to all of the games through the free stream on the Internet or by buying the TV package, that often meant multiple matchups going down to the wire at the same time.

"That wasn't good enough," Turner Sports senior vice president Christina Miller said. "What was going to be good enough was if we stagger it and let people catch each game or at least capture the big moments at the end of everything."

Now those games will start at least 30 minutes apart.

NCAA tournament changing schedule to air more games in full - ESPN

 

[salsadancer7]

Rough night for me. Syracuse's ascent has apparently been greatly exaggerated...Georgetown pulled away at the Dome. I thought this might have been a special Orange team, but too often they look very ordinary.

Sandra

I am going to chalk it up to how crazy good the Big East is and not to how not good Syracuse was. As all the know the Big East know, they always beat the crap out of each other every year....ESPECIALLY in the BE tourney.

 

[SandraC]

I am going to chalk it up to how crazy good the Big East is and not to how not good Syracuse was. As all the know the Big East know, they always beat the crap out of each other every year....ESPECIALLY in the BE tourney.

That's why just like you can't get too low after a loss, you also can't get too high after a win and make any announcement about a team going anywhere.


Sandra

 

[SandraC]

Watchable games this weekend:

Saturday
12:00 PM Syracuse-Louisville, ESPN
1:00 PM Kentucky-Vanderbilt, CBS
1:00 PM Maryland-Boston College, ESPN Full Court
1:00 PM North Carolina-Clemson, ESPN Full Court
2:00 PM Ohio State-Wisconsin, ESPN
4:00 PM Baylor-Texas, ESPN
4:00 PM Iowa State-Kansas, Altitude, YES, ESPN Full Court
6:00 PM Tennessee-Florida, ESPN
6:00 PM Utah-BYU, The Mountain
8:00 PM San Diego State-UNLV, CBS College Sports
9:00 PM Pittsburgh-Villanova, ESPN

Sunday
12:00 PM St John's-Cincinnati, Fox Sports Ohio, MSG, ESPN Full Court
1:00 PM Purdue-Illinois, CBS
1:00 PM Marquette-Georgetown, ESPN
2:00 PM Xavier-Duquesne, Fox Sports Ohio
6:45 PM Duke-Miami Florida, Fox Sports Net
7:00 PM Providence-Connecticut, Sportsnet New York, MASN, ESPN Full Court

Enjoy!


Sandra

 

[Ramy]

That game for KY is always a tough one because of their court. The benches are on the ends of the court.

 

[HD MM]

when was the last time a college team went the entire regular season undefeated? (knock on wood?)

 

[hancox]

St Joe's , I think. First loss in the A10 tourney.

 

[salsadancer7]

St Joe's , I think. First loss in the A10 tourney.

I think that team's guards were Jameer Nelson and Delonte West....if memory serves me right.

 

[salsadancer7]

The reffing in the 'Cuse-Louisville game hss been horrible....and that's with Louisville getting less calls on them.

 

[Mike0616]

The reffing in the 'Cuse-Louisville game hss been horrible....and that's with Louisville getting less calls on them.

Watched the game and thought it was one of the more fairly officiated games I had seen in a while. Personal bias, perhaps?

 

[Ramy]

Ugh!! Kentucky with yet another road loss. They can't win anything away from home.