Official 2013-2014 College Basketball Thread

it's like back in early 2009-10, Carolina was top 5. teams that beat them could say they beat a top 5 team, Carolina didn't even make the tourney.

or last year when UK started out #3 and didn't make the tourney.

 

Coming from you, this is one of the most ironic things I've ever heard on this board. You are the most condescending poster on the entire board and you put down EVERYONE who disagrees with you down with personal insults. Which is ok--just don't whine like alittle school girl when you get the same treatment. It doesn't make me feel better to point out your duplicity, but it does make me chuckle.

You need a dictionary. I played intramurral flag football, softball, basketball and a few others. WITHIN the school INTRA, as it were. No jerseys, no school sponsorship, nothing. Sign up at Archbold Gym and you're in.

Club sports is not Division 1 or 2 or 3 or even 4--but it's a real part of collegiate athletics and we didn't play WITHIN the school--we played OTHER universities and colleges. With real jerseys with real school colors provided by the university with real access to training facilities--pretty cool really. Hell, club sports has become so big some schools actively recruit for it. So yeah, I never picked up Joe Morris's towel. The trainers picked up both of ours.

Sorry you didn't get a chance to do that at UNC. You would have loved it too.

Love to continue this folly, I've got dinner to make tonite.

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well yes, if the team beat them when UNC was top 5. I would also discount games in the first couple of weeks before the rankings settle. Early on, a lot of it is based on preseason rankings, which don't count for anything.

But if you win in December or January over a top 5 team? That's a good win, even if the top 5 team then collapses and winds up in the NIT.

It's the only way to look at it.

It's like when in the NFL Team A beats divisional opponent Team B twice in a season. Team B finishes 7-9 and thus they don't count as wins against teams with a winning record according to your logic, even though part of the reason they went 7-9 was Team A!

 

They don't require reading at Syracuse? I don't put down others, I put down their arguments but not them. Every thread you are in you bash other posters and pump yourself up b/c you have self esteem issues.

club sports are not real sports, stop it. did SU actively recruit? no so stop trying to make yourself look like you were an athlete at SU. I just asked a real SU athlete(recent grad in big time sport about club sports)- he laughed as we all laugh at you.

 

a good team isn't going 7-9 but I understand your point.

 

Yes, I'm just saying that people say <Team that went 14-2> got lucky and had a weak schedule because their opponents were a combined 6 games under .500 or something. Take away the relevant games and all of a sudden their opponents were a combined 6 games over .500.

 

I couldn't imagine if Thomas played at any school other than Duke or maybe UCLA, they'd forfiet, lose scholarships, postseason ban all that good stuff.

 

I feel almost exactly the same way. Since 2003 it has been gravy. I grew up in Syracuse and have bleeding orange since I was 7 when my dad took me to watch a practice at Manley. He pulled in a favor from an Army reserve buddy to get us in. 2003 made all those years in between worth it. I bought 10 copies of the SI issue and framed them for all my SU fan friends.

 

GTFO of here, you personally insult everyone because you can't handle reasonable discourse. You have self esteem issues because you can't handle intellectual discussions. You are literally the worst poster on the board in that respect and all you do us whine if you get called on it.

So you went to Harvard? Good for you. Wait, you didn't go to Harvard? Yet you mocked Syracuse not being Harvard?

Where exactly did you go? Since you were personally insulting my alma mater. Come on Junc, where'd you go? Not your pathetic protectionism of a school you have no connection to, where'd you go to college. Guys like you remind me of Notre Dame fans, no connection but GO Irish!!

You weren't even an athlete enough to even sniff a jock of a club sport athlete. Being on a "joke" club team gave me access to travel, playing hockey against other university club teams and access to all SU Division 1 facilities and a whole bunch of football and basketball players. After football was over, 4-5 of them played on the hockey team. Bill Hurley, our QB was one of my defensemen, he was a good dude. Did you compete in any intercollegiate sports? Club or otherwise? Yeah didn't think so, and no you don't know any big time SU sports athletes.

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1987 was so depressing it took me a while to get over it.

2003 made it all good for all time. No longer obsessed because I got my championship. My school, my alma mater, I had some lasting involvement in it. Same as if I had grown up there, kind of like the local team.

It's all good now.

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I'm loving this Wichita team. Well balanced. Snare the basketball and they are always getting good looks.

 

coming from the little man that curses out anyone that doesn't agree w/ him I find that hilarious. All you do is bash other posters that disagree w/ you, I bash their weak arguments. sometimes it gets out of hand like when sad little men feel the need to attack but most of the time it's all about the arguments.

I didn't insult your school, I simply stated a fact. You act like SU is Ivy league.

I don't need to talk about what I did, I'm not a sad, little(and I'm not talking about your height), pathetic man that needs to pump myself up to make others look worse.

That's awesome you played intramural hockey w/ some football player no one ever heard of. I won't discuss what I did in college but I have been playing basketball w/ pros for years, heck I've even played somewhat regularly w/ former SU players(one of which is the one that laughed at your club sport athlete claim).

For all the bragging you do it sounds like you have a nice life but for some reason you are really angry, I feel for you. Life is too short to go through it angry and sad.

you had no involvement in it other than going to the school.

 

My senior year we got the poor walk on at the end of the bench for Georgetown to shake his head at us as we constantly called out his name. Does that count as involvement for the basketball team?

Bad loss for SJU. For the Big East to be more major than mid major, almost need St. John's and/or Georgetown to become a legit national team. G'Town I think will rebound but this has been the best chance for the Johnnies in awhile.

 

I was a senior in high school in 87, I was on the hill at the time of the loss. It was nuts, mayhem is a good word for it. I still cannot say "Keith Smart" without getting a bad taste in my mouth.

2003 changed everything, I am still a huge fan but I am so much more relaxed about it. It has allowed me to enjoy watching it now.

 

They beat a good Carolina team in the Regional Final. the thing I always remember about that game was there were 4-5 seconds after the shot and SU allowed the clock to go down to 1-2. They had time to make a play and appeared to give up after the Smart shot. Am I remembering that wrong?

 

I remember that, I think I was in shock with them.

 

Junc can be a condescending, arrogant punk for sure, but there's nothing wrong with a guy being a die-hard fan of a college he didn't go to. Obviously it's a little different if you are an alum, but coming down on others who are just fans is silly. You are the one being condescending in this instance...

oh- and no one gives a shit about club sports. That's something you can brag with your drinking buddies about, but outside of that it's pretty pathetic to even bring up.

 

Yeah, you've missed the narrative going back 15 pages so unless you're up on it, you really don't understand where the condescension started.

And nobody's bragging about club sports, I was told I wasn't good enough to pick up an SU players towel in the lockerroom, was just pointing out that my towel and SU football and basketball players towels were picked up by somebody else since we often worked out together and had full access to the facilities, and some of them played on my club team. I'm clearly not good enough to be an NCAA football of basketball player, but I don't need some dick to tell me that I'm not good enough to pick up their towels.

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For years every time I saw that shot it felt like a stab to the gut--and it's been shown forever.

But once we got our Championship in 2003, seeing that Smart shot has no effect on me. Although that was one of my favorite teams--Seikaly, Sherman Douglas, Derrick Coleman as a freshman, Stevie Thompson. Man that was a fun year.

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