NCAA Basketball 2011-12 Catch-All

Whoa! UNLV upsets #1UNC in Las Vegas, although technically on a neutral floor.

New #1 come Monday.

And down goes #1... unfortunately, that means Kentucky will move into the top spot this week.

Way to set the bar for the worst 1st half in history. 14-14 to Harvard? Really?

Ole Miss beat Miami the other night. Hey -- after closing out the 2011 football season the way we did, I'll take anything I can get.

hoosierjoe wrote:

And down goes #1... unfortunately, that means Kentucky will move into the top spot this week.

You shut your mouth.

This probably puts even more pressure on the upcoming UK-UNC game, if that is possible.

Is that where he landed? I always liked him when he was with Utah. Is he still a heart attack waiting to happen, or has he slimmed down some?

Minarchist wrote:

Is that where he landed? I always liked him when he was with Utah. Is he still a heart attack waiting to happen, or has he slimmed down some?

Still a big guy. St. Louis is not an easy city slim down in.

SLU has been a tough program to build. When they left C-USA they landed in the Atlantic-10. Traveling so far for road games has hurt recruiting and the fan base and made the job harder than Majeras anticipated. There were folks calling for his job last season. I'm glad they had some patience.

Tell you what, the St. Louis U Bilikens are the real deal. They have pounded Washington and Villanova, and are now up 18 on Oklahoma with 8 minutes to go. They just play really tough defense and move the ball around well.

In his 5th year, Rick Majerus seems to have finally built a darn good team.

Love this Big 10-ACC Challenge stuff. Wish the other top 6 conferences would do the same. I guess there's a Big East-SEC something-or-other, but it's only 4 or maybe 8 teams? Slowly expanding, but too slowly.

Way too boring all the Nov games with power teams against mid-majors. I enjoy seeing the big guys go at each other. Hell #2 and #4 are playing right now.

The Big Ten won the challenge 8-4. That's three years in a row after not winning once in the first decade of the challenge. The Gophers won despite missing their two best player (one of them, the best one, for the year) and the Badgers lost. I'm pretty happy about that.

Yeah maybe the ACC is adding those Big East schools for basketball more than football.

I just realized that Nebraska got beat by Wake Forest, the team that probably would have sat out the challenge had Nebraska not joined the Big Ten.

if you are a fan of the Big 10 conference, I would just work at forgetting that Nebraska plays basketball. It's what the Big 12 always did.

Oregon's basketball team is trying to out-ugly the football team, apparently. Yikes.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eugenecascadescoast/5300902104/in/photostream/

Yeah they wanted to be distinctive, like Boise St and the blue turf.

gizmo wrote:

if you are a fan of the Big 10 conference, I would just work at forgetting that Nebraska plays basketball. It's what the Big 12 always did.

Sadly, the Ags lost a heartbreaking game to Nebraska last year, a game I was counting as a win. We still made the tourney, but it was a bad sign.

Saw that court the other day. It looks even worse from a court-level camera. It took me a while to realize there wasn't something wrong with my tv.

gizmo wrote:

if you are a fan of the Big 10 conference, I would just work at forgetting that Nebraska plays basketball. It's what the Big 12 always did.

We're already used to ignoring Iowa.

Woo. Louisville-Vandy tonight!

As some of you that follow NFL threads might know, my in-laws are Titans fans that live in Nashville... and also big Vandy fans. Been talking smack with them all week. My Cards better bring it tonight or it's going to be rough visiting for Christmas.

Whew! Overtime, but victorious!

Now THAT'S what I'm TALKIN' 'BOUT!!!

Wow, what a game. Is it March yet?

And the Big East wins the challenge, with 3 games to spare.

Go Hoosiers.

Go Sycamores.

Kansas knocks down #2 Ohio State 78-67 in a damn good game. The Buckeyes played without Jared Sallinger. Tyshawn Taylor and Thomas Robinson tried to make up for it by turning the ball over 12 times between them.

KU led the entire way, but never by more than 12. Every time it looked they would go on a run, OSU came back, drawing to within 3 once, and 4 and 5 several times. both teams seemed capable of making big plays when they needed it.

That was a hell of a non-conference schedule, facing Kentucky, Duke and OSU. They were 1-2, but looked good in every game.

Not bad for a rebuilding year.

Madness in Cincinnati today. Bench clearing brawl between Xavier-Cincy and the refs ended the game with 9 seconds still on the clock.

Louisville rolled over Farleigh-Dicksinson. Seriously, what the hell are we doing playing teams like that?

Indiana leads #1 Kentucky at the half.

Well, they had that coming. Can't expect to go into halftime every single game trailing and still manage to pull out wins. Sucks to lose it on a buzzer-beater to IU, though. Notably, by the exact same score as the UK-UNC game last week.

Three teams no UK fan ever wants to lose to: Louisville, IU, UNC.

Hopefully Calipari can use it to wake the kids up a bit. Frankly, though, I'm shocked they made it mostly through that non-con schedule with only one 1-point loss in hostile territory. Only one test left, vs. Louisville at Rupp on my birthday (New Year's Eve). Don't make my 30th a bad one, UK!

Didn't even realize it, but I guess I should be thanking Jayhawkers Jayhawks. Louisville probably move up to #2 in the polls. Although we have no business being there.

With our current injuries we might be the 10-15th best team in the country. If we get Buckles and Blackshear back yeah definitely top 5 material. Oh well. This is why polls don't really mean that much and definitely don't tell the whole story. Just because we haven't lost we keep moving up. But we haven't beat anyone except Vandy and Butler. Well and Long Beach St, who did beat Pitt. Although they lost to UNC and Kansas. Helluva schedule for them though, gotta respect that. They might run the Big West after all this pre-season warm up, with Xavier coming up too.

As an IU alum, and lifelong fan... Can't say I've ever felt like that before. That was better than Hastons 3 to beat then #1 Michigan State and better than upsetting Duke in the Sweet 16 in 01. IU basketball is back!!!

...and beating Calapari is just too sweet. HOO HOO HOO HOO-SIERS!

hoosierjoe wrote:

As an IU alum, and lifelong fan... Can't say I've ever felt like that before. That was better than Hastons 3 to beat then #1 Michigan State and better than upsetting Duke in the Sweet 16 in 01. IU basketball is back!!!

...and beating Calapari is just too sweet. HOO HOO HOO HOO-SIERS!

Yeah, it was a great win for the Hoosiers and the program Crean is rebuilding. I wonder if IU is going to crack the top 25 this week?

Stele wrote:

Didn't even realize it, but I guess I should be thanking Jayhawkers Jayhawks. Louisville probably move up to #2 in the polls. Although we have no business being there.

Well never mind. Apparently Ohio St and UK don't drop for losing. Syracuse, OSU, UK, UL the top 4 in both polls.

IU entered at 18th and 20th. It's nice to get some recognition, but I find the polls useless until conference play starts. Sorry, I find it hard to be impressed by 8-1 teams who have beaten up on San Diego Tech State School for the Blind and Costal Carolina. And yes, IU is just as guilty of this as anyone.