Anyone want to talk college b-ball? I love the sport. I became inundated with it when I moved to the midwest here in the Cincinnati area, where people are just nuts about it and I caught the fever.
Anyway, I’m a big fan of the Kentucky Wildcats, as ah, uneven as they’ve been lately, but they just beat WVU last night to take the Las Vegas Invitational, so that mitigates their early, embarrassing loss to VMI…a little.
Anyway, share your favorite team, thoughts, whatever…but keep your Christian Laettner pot shots to yourself!
Pac ten fan here. Arizona State has looked decent in their first few games except for the dumb loss against Baylor. I haven’t seen UA yet this year, but they’re playing an easy game this afternoon against NAU. I’m just glad the whole coaching debacle at UA is over with the on again off again Lute show. The Pac 10 should be fairly wide open this year with ASU a slight favorite. I’d say 4 or 5 teams will make it to the tournament.
Arizona is a traditional powerhouse that recruits well. In spite of a bad game, I expect them in the Big Dance.
Kinda similar to my UK Wildcats right now. Forrest Gumping around, not knowing what you’re going to get. But too much talent to be denied later in the year.
The Orange are looking real good… wins over Florida Kansas and Virginia within the week… Jonny Flynn, Paul Harris, Kristof Ongenaet, Arinze Onuaku and Eric Devendorf are providing a solid starting five and Rick Jackson, Kris Joseph and Andy Rautins off the bench giving the Orange a solid 8 man rotation…
Beat Kansas without the 2-3 zone… Jimmy Boeheim seems to be getting smarter… No NIT for the Orange this year… The 'Cuse is in the House
Too early. Every years the pros rate the top 25 and we watch them fall one after another. ESPN isn’t any better than other experts. I have to wait until the league schedules start .
I live in Big 10 country and they have been a disappointment lately. They have some pretty good teams that fail in big games.
Looks like Coach K is refocused after having put the distraction of coaching the national team behind him. I expect my Blue Devils to do some damage this year.
I’m a huge Mizzou fan, but they haven’t given us anything to cheer about in awhile. Hopefully Mike Anderson’s version of “forty-minutes of Hell” can produce some conference wins.
Next to the Tigers I’ve always enjoyed watching Duke (Sorry FoieGrasIsEvil), and Im happy to see a deeper sqaud this time around. I will usually watch anything game from the Big XII, ACC, or Big East.
Son of a bitch. I was going to start this thread about two weeks ago, then completely forgot. Oh well, it’s here, so let’s do this.
HAIL TO PITT! My alma mater hasn’t really had a true test this year, except maybe then-undefeated Texas Tech, but I have high hopes with future first-rounder Sam Young and true sophomore sensation Dejuan Blair.
I’m also a UK Wildcat fan. Being Australian it’s hard to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of this year’s edition as I don’t get to watch the games. If we can get past Miami (Fla) later this week, it will give us some time to consolidate before we meet Louisville in the last OOC encounter. With the SEC reputedly being down this season, we probably will have a reasonable conference record and can look forward to March (and hopefully April).
This is certainly interesting. Freshman PG DeAndre Liggins refused to re-enter the game against K-State, so Gillispie plays him again the following night against WVU as his “punishment”.
Back in the day this most certainly would have merited a suspension, at least, if not kicking him off the team outright.
Coach Gillispie is a bit of a conundrum to me. He generally acts all hard-nosed then refers to the ‘love apparent within this team’ and says the Liggins incident will be handled internally without recourse to suspension or public punishment. Maybe he is just a big softy? Still, I expect some desertions at the end of the current semester. Many of the highly recruited youngsters have been wined and dined in the recruiting process and just can’t comprehend or adjust to the harsh realities of the day-to-day grind.
Yeah, Arizona came back to dominate in the second half. ASU won big over UTEP so both Arizona schools seem to be able to handle non-conference play fairly well this year.
UA had a brutal non-conference schedule last year which helped them squeak into the tournament. ASU was the best team left out last year.
ASU will be the most interesting team to watch in the Pac 10. James Harden and Jeff Pendergraph are extremely talented.
