Maryland was a top program until recently, outside of UConn they would have been the best program in the BE in the last 20 years. The ACC is upgrading w/ SU and UL specifically but it hurts to lose Maryland. this conference will not be tougher necessarily, it will be tougher than recent years but not tougher than the 80s and 90s and when all 8-9 teams were usually tourney worthy or close. The new ACC may end up being like the recent BE w/ a weak bottom half and strong top half. Too many teams.
Don't bother arguing with a brick wall, you're still going to have some exciting basketball, probably not as exciting as the universally acknowledged most exciting college basketball ever of the past Big East, but you're going to have some great basketball. I think it's going to help recruiting to have a basketball only conference. _
who has been better? Maryland is going to be really good again, Turgeon is doing a good job and in their area the produce loads of top talent. The sched isn't going to be tougher b/c there will be more bad teams too and Carolina has always played one of the toughest scheds in the Country. Already they have played the teams ranked 1-3 in the preseason polls and thye play true road games unlike some schools that are afraid and only play them when required for ACC/B10 challenge games.
Leslie McDonal has been cleared to play but hairston still has not. McDonald gives the heels a shooter which could be huge, hopefully Hairston gets reinstated at some point as well.
So frustrating, if this team was decent shooting FTs they'd be undefeated and ranked #1. 3 losses, all on FT shooting. The officiating in the final minutes was horrendous w/ awful call after awful call going UT's way but it's hard to blame officiating when you can't shoot FTs.
SCORES FROM LAST NIGHT: North Carolina ST - 65 UT - 58 North Carolina A&T - 73 E. Kentucky - 84 North Carolina Cen. - 72 Winthorp - 66 W. Carolina - 92 Charlestown So. - 84 UNLV - 81 Radford - 62 Stanford - 53 UConn- 51 W. Kentucky - 68 So. Miss. - 65 St. Louis - 83 Indiana St. - 66 Charleston - 51 Old Dom. - 44 Ohio St. - 76 Delaware - 64 UMass - 83 Ohio U. - 71
Radford, totally outclassed! "How dare they challenge UNLV wiiff' dere primatifff skills!" Sacre' Coeur's going down as well!
After struggling early on we seem to be coming together. Sadly without any marquee wins two point loss to Illinois, losing at Arizona despite playing them extremely tough the blowouts vs Radford, Sacred Heart and UT-Martin won't have much to say about if we deserve an at large bid.
Went to Duke/UCLA at MSG tonight. Jabari Parker is awesome. Kyle Anderson is the slowest player I've ever seen.
Jabari parker is great no doubt about it but the publicity is getting a little insane. On SC all they showed were Parker highlights, they had to show every bucket, you would have though he scored 50 pts when he only had 23. 23 is very good but they are making it out like he is the greatest player to ever play the game.
Let the hype machine begin, he's a great all around player but once ESPN latches on to something they suck the soul out of it. Definitely a top 5 player in the draft if he stays healthy and more likely top 3.
he's probably #1 at this point(unless k cons him into coming back), he's a GREAT player but watching those highlights I thought he was having some historic game. It's comical. I hate what espn has done to sports.
I saw the AZ game and was hoping the Rebs could've held on. I remember it being a clang-fest shooting wise and Arizona crashing the boards down the stretch. Too bad, that would've made up for the dog at home vs Cal-SB. In any event, if nothing else these So. Ute, Rad, SH and UT-Martin games add up to "w's" and what's more, nothing really matters for now. Better they start to jell come time to play the Aztecs and Lobos. Nevada looks down this year (game against New Rochelle's Iona College this Sunday). In short, their big out of conference tilts are behind them, now they just have to make hay in the MWC--keep the faith. ;-)
Hairston is done at UNC officially. maybe he should have taken $100K worth of jewelry or sold his autographs for tens of thousands like others and he'd be eligible?
It's sick... my guess is if Parker had gone to Illinois, BYU or another school not named Duke or Kentucky you would never see the shit show ESPN has turned his coverage into. Good player but he's not Anthony Davis or Derrick Rose. Really, UNR plays Iona this weekend? They are down this year, but the good news is it seems as if Fresno has improved and San Josey isn't as shitty as they were last year. New Mexico has been disapointing and I think the failure of the conference last year despite an unreal RPI will hurt them come selection time. At this time I'm not usre the MWC has 3 worthy teams. This made me laugh because it's true......
Well, that's always true. Nothing to do with Parker, really. A select few schools get more attention. Big difference in coverage between North Carolina and Iowa (for example), or Duke and BYU. It helps that the cream of the crop will almost always go to those few schools. Very rare for a sought after top prospect to go to Creighton or Northern Iowa. Kentucky, Duke, North Carolina, Kansas... are the ones that land them all, typically. Duke/UNC bears some similarities to Yankees/Red Sox. It's not just that they're big rivalries, it's that they're on the East Coast and are consistently at the top. If the same baseball player could play for the Yankees or the Royals, he'll be covered much differently depending on where he plays. If the same basketball player could play for UNC or Nevada, he'll be covered much differently depending on where he plays.
Runnin Rebels up 42-15 at the half over Sacred Heart.... not sure how much playing these guys is going to help us but this is sad.
