Running 2010-11 BKC thread

Looks like Vandy kind of shat that one away.

Patrick made sure nobody missed Dickie V. Singler makes a nice block trailing a breakaway layup, Patrick goes crazy, Lenny Elmore questions whether the ball was in the cyclinder after looking at the replay. To make sure that the only aspect of the play that matters doesn't get compromised by Lenny's pesky observation, Patrick says, "BUT YOU CAN'T QUESTION THE EFFORT!!"

 

Even if it was goaltending, it was GOALTENDING THE RIGHT WAY!!!

And of course all their Eurofairy flopping is just tremendous fundamental basketball!!

 

Admittedly, I'm a UVa fan, so I'm biased. But Patrick was terrible today - borderline unprofessional. He sounded like a proud parent when Duke took the lead. I would rather have had the Mandarin broadcasters.

Elmore, bless his heart, is fine.

 

I'm a big Elmore fan, too. UVa was still up by five or six in the first half of this game when I bailed, so I was lucky to dodge Patrick's trumpets and trombones.

 

After an absolute embarassment at West Virginia and a blown 17-point lead against fellow Big East bottom-feeder South Florida, do we start a pool on when Providence turfs Keno Davis?

 

Good luck winning big there in the Big East without a slush fund larger than that of the RNC . . . but the SF loss was disturbing, if only because the one kind of team Prov always beats are mediocre teams with bad offenses.

 

Keno's probably still employed because Ricky Ledo (best player coming out of RI in many, many years) verballed to PC. But given that Ricky's on his third secondary school and there are some, shall we say, family issues, it seems 50-50 at best Ricky makes it to big-time D1.

 

Nebraska might be competitive in a street fight, but they're not going to win all that many conference games -- with the road virtually a lost cause. And the Okie State midgets will luuuuv the NIT.

 

Pitt opens with 19-0 run at home vs. Syracuse. Orange retaliate with 13-0 run (and FTs at the under 8). Bizarro.

 

So Pitt barely beats Syracuse at home without the Orangemen's best player. Good game I must say.

 

Barely beats Syracuse? They controlled the play for long stretches. Yes, Syracuse came back after the 19-0 start and tied the game in the second half, but it was still predominantly controlled by the Panthers.

 

FWIW, Baylor is a fraud. That's an early NCAA exit waiting to happen.