All-purpose college basketball thread

It was 41-29 at the half. Bama cut it to 43-41 with 17 minutes left, but State killed 'em the rest of the game.

Kinda sad seeing Ole Miss and Miss. State celebrating sharing the West title with 8-8 records.

Yeah! We won half our games!!!

 

I dunno. Greenberg went 8-8 with basically this same team two years ago before going through all the turmoil last year. VT was too inconsistent for him to be coach of the year. The coach of the year doesn't lose that game on his home floor with a conference title at stake.

 

Perhaps its because as the SEC West's 5th seed, Bama gets Kentucky in the first round.

 

After watching a replay, it looked like Hamilton didn't have control of the ball until he hit the floor for the last time. Also might have been tripped.
Big win for Clemson, but the Hokies missed a major opportunity today.
Tigers still need a win (or two) in the ACC Tourney to go dancin'.

 

Good to see Coach K handling this with class. From Pat Forde's column ...

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=2787890&sportCat=ncb

"The game was over before that," he said. "I mean the outcome of the game, let's put it that way. That's unfortunate, too, that those people were in the game in that play. Maybe this wouldn't have happened."

So there. Hansbrough had it coming for playing mop-up minutes in a double-digit win.

For the record, Krzyzewski later said, "We should have probably both had our walk-ons in."

Also for the record, Krzyzewski was calling timeout with 50 seconds left and his team down by 13. So he clearly didn't think it was walk-on time at that point.

 

Jesus, that's awful.
It's also to be expected.

 

Seriously, as cowardly as Henderson's act appeared, and as phony as Coach Kredit Kard came across in his post game comments, I think Billy Packer wins the award for biggest fucking tool in this situation. It's absolutely embarrassing to hear him blather on about how Henderson was just trying to block Hansborough's shot.

http://deadspin.com/sports/college-basketball/billy-packer-information-dissemination-specialist-241495.php

 

Sorry, folks. I did not think it was an intenional shot. Henderson flailed wildly as the ball was being knocked out of Hansbrough's hands from behind by whoever No. 51 is.
Had the ball not been knocked loose, Henderson's "swing" would have swatted the ball, not Hansbrough's nose.

 

I don't think there was an intent to injure in the foul.

By the way, Roy Williams said after the game that Hansbrough's nose wasn't broken. Turns out he does have a small nondisplaced fracture and will play with a protective mask.