College basketball thread...

Will the Cougs hang onto their top 25 ranking?

 

Oh yeah. I'd be surprised if they fall an further than a notch or two, since USC is a strong win and a single-digit loss to the No. 4 (and climbing) team is respectable. They could fall to the 20s just because Saint Mary's beat Gonzaga, Notre Dame beat Marquette (a win worth less every week) and Pitt beat WVU. But USC is a better win than any of those three.

 

Good point. If they were going to fall it would have been last week when they lost at home to Cal.

 

Not that many of the voters take RPI into account, but Cal is a team with a record that looks crummy but because of who it's played could be just one of the 25, 30 best teams in the country. Maybe I'm huffing paint, I don't know. But if Cal gets a few more good Pac-10 wins and beat the teams they should beat, they could land a 7-seed. With DeVan Hardin and Ryan Anderson they've got one of the more talented post games, and that's a pair of guys I wouldn't want to see in the tournament.

 

Losing to Notre Dame makes my inner child sad.

 

Well, if MU's coach could recruit and/or develop any legit post players; and get his players to stop hacking 25 feet from the rim; and get them to play smarter on offense for 40 minutes your inner child would be smiling right now.

That team, today anyway, has the look of another one and done in the NCAAs.

 

That I'll take at this point.
Why they can't get big people is the great mystery of the TC era.

 

Fun to note that during the Crean Era, the best "big man" was a 6'10" 3-point shooter.

 

Steve NOOOOOOOOvaaaaaakkkk!
Beat the damned Irish one year, too.

 

Nope. Best big man was a center, Robert Jackson, on the FF team with Wade.

But he was a local boy who transferred back home from SEC country. He came in ready-made. As good as Wade was that season, MU doesn't make the FF without Jackson.

 

Two of those pricks I like. I don't know much about Brady. I will always be indebted to Tim Floyd when he was at Iowa State. He beat Kansas for the final Big 8 conference tourney title. I was running down the hallway at my dorm celebrating. I didn't want Kansas to end the Big 8 winning the last game ever.

 

Oh right, from Mississippi State. I never thought of him as a Marquette guy since he just spent the one season there. He did a number on Chuck Hayes in the Elite Eight.