100% agree. The Nova comeback has me believing but I need to see how they play @ tough ACC venues. I think Zona is the strongest team though.
No doubt about it, the better team won this weekend. I find my self despising carrots, pumpkins, and traffic cones right now, thought.
Not surprised 'Nova lost. It'st just more disappointing after having such a large lead. You knew the 3's weren't going to keep falling, but the inability to get in the middle of that zone killed them down the stretch. Not the time for Hilliard & JVP to no-show.
Looks like Louisville just lost two players for the season http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas...le-cardinals-redshirt-chane-behanan-dismissed Louisville has dismissed Chane Behanan for violating university policy, and Kevin Ware may redshirt after injuring his leg, Cardinals coach Rick Pitino announced Monday.
This just in: The Southern University Jaguars just eaked out a win over the Champion Baptist College Tigers 116-12. That is not a typo. 116 - 12 Zack Hendricks led the way for the Tigers with 4 points : ) Champion Baptist shot 3-44 (6.8%) from the field; foul shots were 5-17 (29.4%). Southern (4-9) shot 59.4% from the field yet only 54.5% from the free throw line. Who the hell scheduled this game?
They just reported on that game at halftime of the bowl game on ESPN They're suggesting Lou Holtz should've played for Southern. I saw your post first but I read it as 116-112, my eyes couldn't accept the score. I thought you were just posting because it was very high scoring.
SDSU demolished St Katherine by about 80 last week, apparently from some friends who live in SD St Katherine has about 100 students and is located in an office park. I kid you not, they have a 35 year old guy who plays for them. Earlier in the year Utah Valley State beat up on Haskell Indian Nations College who had such great players like Canku One Star, TsaLiDi Sequyah, and Keenan World Turner....they are coached by Chad Kills Crow.... should be noted that Haskell shares the town with a cretain Big 12 team that was once coached by Phog Allen.
yeah I heard about this one. Some books offered betting lines, so I was looking up information. St. Katherine (20) San Diego St. 135½ -110 -65½ -110 http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/dec/27/sdsu-basketball-st-katherine-college/ Scott Mitchell was feeding a parking meter in Hillcrest last summer when he saw San Diego State coach Steve Fisher and his staff walking out of a restaurant. “I approach everybody,” Mitchell says. “That’s just the way I am.” Mitchell explained that he was a college basketball coach, too, or would be in the fall when St. Katherine College – a fledgling NAIA school with 102 students that leases class space in an Encinitas office park – launched its inaugural season. They had no gym, no history, no pedigree. The coaches were still working for free. Their roster consisted of a couple guys who showed up for open tryouts, plus a 34-year-old forward from Trinidad they found at a 24 Hour Fitness. Mitchell swallowed and asked Fisher if they’d like to play. “I introduced myself, and he didn’t look at me like I was about to assault him,” Mitchell says. “He stuck out his hand and said, ‘I’ll see what I can do, Coach.’ I gave him my card.” A few weeks later, a member of his Fisher’s staff called. They’d play. The game is Friday night at Viejas Arena, and there might not be a bigger mismatch in college basketball this season, or any season. SDSU (9-1) is ranked No. 20 in both major polls and just held a pair of Division I opponents under 40 points. St. Katherine is 2-11 and has faced two lower-level Division I opponents – a 52-point loss to Utah Valley and a 71-point loss to Weber State. Fisher knows the score might not be pretty Friday night. He also knows what it means to schools in terms of exposure and credibility, and he has long had a policy of giving all the local four-year college programs, big or small, a shot at playing the Aztecs at Viejas Arena. “Even though they’re new,” Fisher said, “this will be something they look forward to.” “The biggest game on our schedule,” Mitchell calls it, “not because they’re Top 25 but because they’re an icon in the community. It’s a tremendous opportunity to introduce ourselves to San Diego.” So, who are these guys? St. Katherine was established in 2010 with an affiliation to Orthodox Christianity and an affinity to building enrollment through intercollegiate sports. It currently fields a half-dozen teams, meaning the majority of its 102 students play something. Mitchell, who played collegiately at South Dakota and professionally overseas, met the St. Katherine president at a high school football game last year and together began to dream aloud. Mitchell agreed to work without pay until the fall semester began and tuition dollars began rolling in. Then came the hard part: finding players. Mitchell quickly landed two who played Div. III ball but wanted to come home: Travis Mitchell, his son, from DePauw University in Indiana, and La Jolla Country Day alum Alex Perez from Lesley University in the Boston area. “I just wanted to take a risk,” says Perez, whose younger brother, Ben, is a senior guard at San Marcos High. “I knew Coach Scott from AAU ball. He called me one day and told me he was starting a new program, and he had a scholarship for me.”
Fisher has always been really good about promoting the other schools in SD and helping them with games, I think last year they played San Diego Christian and I know they've played some of the other schools in the area
Villanova's win at Butler on New Years Eve was absolutley huge. IMHO, this game was even more important than the game at Syracuse.
Well, it's official. Lavin is an awful, awful coach. The only different between these teams and under Norm Roberts is that now they have talent but still get smacked. Lavin decided to start a walk-on today against G-town. They're also down 33-10. The team looks awful, I'm actually in shock right now. So much for them making the Tourney this season, they'll be lucky if they finish in the top 7 in the BE.
Ugh, and G-town's nothing to write home about this year. MParty, is it time to start thinking about raiding Jasperville for Steve Masiello? Looks to be more in the Manhattan-to-St. John's mold of a Fran Fraschilla than Brian Mahoney <--- ouch.
People on the SJU boards are talking about him or Hurley. Although, there is NO chance they fire Lavin. But it looks like he wants out.
