Running 2011-12 College Basketball thread

Ticks me off that Bucknell lost to Lehigh tonight. Bucknell was clearly the team with a better chance of pulling off an upset, clearly the best team in the Patriot.

 

Ah, but on the other hand, one of the Quad-Cities better basketball players, Rock Island's Chasson Randle, is absolutely lighting up Arizona St. at the moment. Stanford leads 50-30 at halftime and Randle already has a career-high 27 points.

He's had a great season, especially for a true freshman.

 

And they beat them in Bethlehem, although just once.

They were a very solid small major with a lot of complementary pieces. I hope they'll get to show it in one of the JV tournaments.

 

Anyone who saw the USF-Villanova game tonight will likely sell their ticket for USF-ND tomorrow night.

My God was that awful to watch and tomorrow when you have one team playing football and another playing the "burn" offense, it could cause Dr. James Naismith to have a heart attack even though he's been dead for years.......

 

Five minutes left in the Colorado-Utah game and neither team has hit the 40 point mark.

39-35 Buffs.

 

It still feels surreal to me that the Colorado-Utah game is in the Pac-12 tournament.

 

Looks like it would be a good night to reupholster the seats at the Staples Center too.

 

Bucknell, as the regular season PL champion, has an automatic bid to the NIT. It probably won't be a great seed, 7th or 8th in one of the regions, but they'll be in.

 

It will not surprise me a bit if they win one, maybe two games.

 

Does the second place team in each league get an automatic bid to the CB4 or RIF tournaments?