College basketball 2009-10 running thread No. 1

Did I hurt your feelings that bad? Really? Are you that starved for attention?

Look I didn't mean to pick on you and take your lunch money all those times. Had I known it meant you'd stalk me for the rest of my life I'd have still done it.....

 

#5 Syracuse struggles, but beats Rutgers on the road, 81-65. Senior Andy Rautins had 23 points as the Orange up their record to 16-1.

 

Clemson played them tough last year, but has lost 10 straight to North Carolina. Not to mention the whole 0-for-history in Chapel Hill thing.

 

Final: Ole Miss 80, @ Georgia 76

 

Enough of the fanboy pissing match.

UNI is primed to get picked off at least 3 times before Arch Madness in St. Louis. That Bradley game was their worst game to date, not including the loss to DePaul.

I'm surprised that Wichita is playing well and Missouri State, playing well, shit the bed at Wayne Kreklow U last night.

MVC will get 2 at the most.

Texas had a tough one against Iowa State tonight. ISU ran out of gas and players.

 

And I'll write it again now that I've had some fun slapping the immature child around....

Georgetown has a team full of jack rabbits and talented kids held back by an archaic system created to even the playing field for inferior players. They execute well and play good defense but they've played their best basketball in games they've fallen behind and were just allowed to play.

Traditionally, teams that play that way, particularly teams whose "great defensive stats" are helped by an offense designed to minimize possessions and slow the game to a crawl -- allow teams to hang around and go home early.

That's why between Wisconsin and Georgetown and even Pitt for that matter, there is a total of like 90,000 wins in the past ten years and a combined total of two Final Four appearances between the three of them.

John Thompson has recruited well but until he let's those guys play more than he does, they'll always be the disciplined team who wins a lot of games and goes home earlier than it should from the NCAA Tournament.

And I stand by what I said - if Thompson wants to keep bringing in big-tinme players, he better learn to let them play some.

 

I saw Lance Jeter play at the summer league we have here in Pittsburgh -- I went to about four of those nights (there were three games a night) and it included players from Pitt, Duquesne, Robert Morris (WVU's guys didn't play this summer for some reason) and a number of local Division I guys who play elsewhere, like Jeter. There is no question in my mind that he was the best guard in that league and that includes better than the guys at Pitt.

 

The issue coming out of high school was that he was 6'3 and had played SG/SF his whole career. As a 6'3 strong PG, though, I can see how he could be a very good D-1 player. I played against that Beaver Falls team a couple times in high school and was even matched up with him for part of both games. For being so talented, he was great at letting the game come to him.

 

Zag,

C'mon....Jackrabbits held back by the system?

Wow. In the past three seasons before this one.

Two Big East regular season titles

One Big East tournament title

One Final Four

One Sweet 16

One lottery pick

Two First round picks

A Hoya drafted in the past four drafts

A Big East Player of the year

A Big East freshman of the year

We should all be so held back by the Archaic system

Dude, stop talking out of your ass.

 

Give up man. Save yourself. He's in his own little world, guy.

 

I think that game he played at the Palumbo was one of the greatest games, pro, high school or college, I've ever been at, though neither team seemed to understand how to close it out and win, which is why it went to three overtimes in the first place....

Didn't Jeter originally go to like Cincinnati or Toledo and play football then transfer to Nebraska?

I always thought he was much better in hoops than football but he could have had a decent career.

 

I believe he went to Toledo. I thought he was better in basketball.

And agreed about neither team being able to close it out. Jonathan Baldwin, as a freshman, missed a point blank dunk toward the end of one of the OT's when a layup would have been the much smarter move. Also, there were missed free throws on each side. I think it was Mark Lay who missed a layup with about 10 seconds left in the second OT to send it to another one. However, I've rarely been in an arena that electric.