NCAA Basketball 19-20 Catch-All

Up 10 at half with only 2 points from Jordan Nwora. Holy crap. FINISH!

Stele wrote:

Up 10 at half with only 2 points from Jordan Nwora. Holy crap. FINISH!

Well, Duke crawled back in it... But there's a ton of time left.

Tyrian wrote:
Stele wrote:

Up 10 at half with only 2 points from Jordan Nwora. Holy crap. FINISH!

Well, Duke crawled back in it... But there's a ton of time left.

What a close out performance by Louisville. Nwora has a seriously subpar game, and they still pull off the win.

Whew! Huge win.

But if David Johnson reinjured his shoulder we're f*cked long term. He's the reason we're top 5 vs top 25

Stele wrote:

Whew! Huge win.

But if David Johnson reinjured his shoulder we're f*cked long term. He's the reason we're top 5 vs top 25

Yeah, I seriously hope he's not sidelined for any extended period. Hate to see talented kids injure/reinjure themselves during games! He's definitely on the short list of reasons why Louisville won today.

I believe
I believe that we will win!

And the streak continues to 19-0.

WizKid wrote:

I believe
I believe that we will win!

And the streak continues to 19-0.

It was close early, but SDSU figured things out in the 2nd half.

Tyrian wrote:
WizKid wrote:

I believe
I believe that we will win!

And the streak continues to 19-0.

It was close early, but SDSU figured things out in the 2nd half.

A bit.

Only three teams had made a three in every game they'd played in the 34 years since the inception of the 3 point line in college basketball. Princeton, UNLV, and Vanderbilt.

And after 1,080 games, Vandy broke their streak in their game with UT, going 0-25 for threes. Near the end of the game, they did hit one, only to have it erased because it didn't beat the shot clock.

UT's basketball twitter person won the night with a post game celebratory dig on the Commodores:

https://twitter.com/Vol_Hoops/status...

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Man, college basketball is not as fun this year as last year. Lots of chaos which is fun, but basketball is just bad for some reason.

Crazy long streak.

Kentucky had a similar one broken 2 years ago. 1040-something games, even though their streak started later, like 88. I guess they played a lot more postseason games than Vandy over 30 years.

Baylor jumps Gonzaga for #1. Rutgers ranked for the first time since 1979, before I was born.

Cards up to 6 after a great week.

Lets see if SDSU can withstand the curse of the Top 5. Fingers crossed.

Has jayhawker even been in this thread this season?

Some kids are definitely getting suspended a few games.

Right before I assumed Kansas was going to beat my struggling this year Vols this weekend. Might be an easier game than expected.

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A work of art.

Lots of articles about it today. I happened to see the event on replay... wow. I agree with Vitale and Greenberg on repercussions. Players need to be suspended, potentially for the rest of the season. I wouldn't be surprised at them forfeiting all remaining eligibility.

I assume anyone that left the bench is automatically suspended at least one game. They might stagger half and half for the next couple.

One article this morning said only the 5 players on the court were brought our of the locker room to shoot FTs with 0.1 on the clock. So everyone on the bench was definitely ejected from last night.

Only four players suspended:

Kansas:
De Sousa 12 games
McCormack 2 games

KSU:
Love 8
Gordon 3

The benches that cleared basically got no punishment. You know, that whole Big 12 vs SEC thing is coming this weekend

Huh, so UNC is down yet another player for tonight's game against V Tech, senior guard Brandon Robinson? Can they just take the L now and save the team a trip to Blacksburg?

WTF

In most situations getting ejected makes you sit out for at least half of the next game.

Stele wrote:

WTF

In most situations getting ejected makes you sit out for at least half of the next game.

I think that's conference by conference for things like this. It's not like football targeting when there's an NCAA defined punishment.

I honestly don't know the right answer for those lessor actors in this type of situation. One one hand, some of them look like they're going in to protect their own guys or maybe try to pull them out and de-escalate, but how do you know they're not wading in to start slinging punches of their own? It's really lucky somebody in the crowd wasn't seriously hurt.

MannishBoy wrote:
Stele wrote:

WTF

In most situations getting ejected makes you sit out for at least half of the next game.

I think that's conference by conference for things like this. It's not like football targeting when there's an NCAA defined punishment.

I honestly don't know the right answer for those lessor actors in this type of situation. One one hand, some of them look like they're going in to protect their own guys or maybe try to pull them out and de-escalate, but how do you know they're not wading in to start slinging punches of their own? It's really lucky somebody in the crowd wasn't seriously hurt.

Yeah, that was press and wheelchair viewing area, wasn't it? I mean, the melee alone could have caused injury to the bystanders and media. Bad look all around, frankly. I don't think the punishments are sufficient aside from Sousa's.

Leaving the bench was enough to get them automatically tossed from that game. But with less than a second left, that's not really a punishment. Seems like the whole bench for both teams should miss at least one full game. Can't have a precedent for leaving the bench and no punishment.

NBA got tough after Brawl in Detroit, and made sure nobody leaves the bench anymore.

Stele wrote:

Leaving the bench was enough to get them automatically tossed from that game. But with less than a second left, that's not really a punishment. Seems like the whole bench for both teams should miss at least one full game. Can't have a precedent for leaving the bench and no punishment.

It's not even just that it was a second left, it's that by the score, the game was already done so those free throws were pretty much live practice shots

Damn. Louisville down 11 to 8-10 Georgia Tech in the 2nd half but then goes up 11... Then up 1 with 90 sec left... Then wins by 4.

Needs more David Johnson. He keeps coming off the bench and we make runs every time. But we give up runs to start the game and 2nd half and dig a hole. Just start the freshman already.

I should never have watched! It's even worse to lose in double OT on a last second drive to the basket because you thought they'd call a time out. GAH.

Damn man I saw UNC up 9 after our game, thought they had one

Stele wrote:

Damn man I saw UNC up 9 after our game, thought they had one

I think so did everyone. Just a combination of shots falling, not falling, and hesitancy to be "the guy". Confidence is still a major problem... that, and a primary ball handler. We've started 4 or 5 guys at point this season, and rhythm is an issue.

Ah well. At least they were fighting for it in this one.

Hey UNC going to win a game? Up 17 on Miami with 3 min