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Double %#!!%*#!%@%$@ BYE
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I want Fisher/Wayns and ONLY Fisher/Wayns on the ball next year. When it matters most, put the ball in his hands ala Foye, but Fisher deserves to start at PGfor the duration of his Nova career.
 
chase in the clutch?? they were down most the 2nd half...

if anything wise fouling out was the game, and that dumb zone russ runs against the best 3 pt shooting team in the nation.
 
you think Jay will bump Scottie off the ball? shoulda just went and stuck with Fisher from the jump
 
That's the thing tho. Jay doesn't like playing Scottie/Fisher together that much due to the defensive liabilities of Scottie having the guard the 2 andFisher not really caring about guarding at all, at least last year. But come next year, Jay will be forced to bump Scottie cause Fisher and Wayns situationwould be very similiar to Nardi/Lowry in which Jay had one or the other ALWAYS on the court cause it doesn't make any sense having both on the bench.

Scottie at the 1, while you have two legit pgs on the bench, just calls for a coaching crisis next year.
 
Originally Posted by DOWNTOWN43

lol at Penn State rushing the court... i don't care about the last time you made the tournament, Illinois is barely ranked in the top 25. possibly the dumbest incident of rushing the court that i have ever seen
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it wasn't that we beat a top 25 team or we helped our tournament case... it was HOW we won the game. We didn't hold a lead in that gameuntil .3 seconds left in the game.
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We were literally clawing andscratching at every turn and finally had a ball bounce around the rim for 2 seconds before going in to win, PLUS the fact that it helps keep our tourney hopesalive. Plus it was the last home game for one of our favorite players ever, Jamelle Cornley.

I'm usually very much against rushing the court unless it's real serious - but i was all for this one tonight, especially being in attendance andknowing how badly the team and the fans wanted this one, and to win it how we did.

Congrats Craftsy.

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thanks man, Talor is that dude in crunch time.

Now we have the "simple" task of playing a road game some 36 hours later for our tournament life. It's only Iowa, but they're a handful intheir building and we're due for a let down. It's all good at this point though, we're still not safely in but as i said before, this season hasbeen better than expected and I'm not about to get greedy now.
 
I swear to God, if Reed Arena doesn't have at least 13,500 people on Saturday for the Mizzou game
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COLLEGE STATION -- Texas A&M students will be admitted free to Saturday's men's basketball game against No. 12-ranked Missouri at Reed Arena. Game time is 1 p.m.

Students who registered and accepted their ticket through the online lottery will be admitted beginning at 11:45 a.m. Students with a valid A&M identification card will be admitted at noon. Once the student allotment of 4,300 seats are filled, additional students will be admitted on a "standing room only" basis.

"Our fans, especially our student body, have helped us develop an outstanding home court advantage and we appreciate the tremendous support they have provided all season," A&M Coach Mark Turgeon said. "Saturday's game against Missouri is our biggest game of the season and we will also honor our seniors, who will be playing their final home game. We need our student body to come out in full force and be as loud as they can to help give us the edge we need."

Tickets for the general public remain on sale and be purchased online at 12thmanfoundation.com or by calling the 12th man Foundation Ticket Office (888-99-AGGIE or 979-845-2311).
 
He'd be a fool not moving Fisher to the 1. All year he has played it the best out of anyone. Those two just need to work on the defense. Because like yousaid, Jay thinks they're too much of a liability.

He'll have a lot to play with.

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I'm hearing Devendorf might not be back next year.
 
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Originally Posted by DOWNTOWN43

lol at Penn State rushing the court... i don't care about the last time you made the tournament, Illinois is barely ranked in the top 25. possibly the dumbest incident of rushing the court that i have ever seen
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it wasn't that we beat a top 25 team or we helped our tournament case... it was HOW we won the game. We didn't hold a lead in that game until .3 seconds left in the game.
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We were literally clawing and scratching at every turn and finally had a ball bounce around the rim for 2 seconds before going in to win, PLUS the fact that it helps keep our tourney hopes alive. Plus it was the last home game for one of our favorite players ever, Jamelle Cornley.

I'm usually very much against rushing the court unless it's real serious - but i was all for this one tonight, especially being in attendance and knowing how badly the team and the fans wanted this one, and to win it how we did.

Congrats Craftsy.

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thanks man, Talor is that dude in crunch time.

Now we have the "simple" task of playing a road game some 36 hours later for our tournament life. It's only Iowa, but they're a handful in their building and we're due for a let down. It's all good at this point though, we're still not safely in but as i said before, this season has been better than expected and I'm not about to get greedy now.




I just knew you were somewhere in that madness
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When Taylor got that to fall, I was like "OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THE BOY IS THE GOODS!!!! "

then thinking "Craftsy prolly wet himself" ;lol Good win G

As far as Dorf, it would only make sense that it would be the school removing him because his stock isn't anywhere near going to the L
 
I don't like him, so it'd be just fine with me if he didn't.

the only possible chance of me rooting for dude is if they face UNC, and if they do infact get that match up. They better win or he will remain eternally oneof my most hated players in NCAA history.
 
By Andy Glockner

Whether by e-mail from readers or from radio hosts during interviews, the most popular question this time of year is "What does Team X have to do tomake the NCAAs?" And as nights like Wednesday's definitively prove, the correct answer is "There are too many variables at this point toknow."

How can you judge a specific team's chances when you have no idea how many small-conference upsets will devour at-large bids nor how many teams will makelate-season surges or spit the bit unexpectedly? Especially in a season like this one, where the elite teams are beatable and there is a huge clusterof similar teams around the cutline, a couple of unexpected results can significantly alter the picture.

What we do know after last night:

1) The SEC is now in a heap of bid trouble

Kentucky at Florida was billed in Monday's Bubble Watch as a death match where the loser was in serious danger of missing the NCAAs. Amplify thatmeaning tenfold after both teams fell Wednesday night. Florida's loss at Mississippi State wasn't unexpected; the Bulldogs are a solid club and theGators have now lost six of their last seven SEC road games. Kentucky's home defeat to Georgia, though, was horrendous and very well could condemn theWildcats to the NIT.

If they don't win in Gainesville on Saturday (where Florida is 16-1 this season), the Cats are looking at a fourth-place finish in the SEC East and arestaring at a quarterfinal with LSU (should UK win its first-round game). Even a win there probably wouldn't be enough with an RPI that's now in thehigh 70s after last night's debacle.

That doesn't mean that Florida is home-free at 9-7 in the league should it win on Saturday. The Gators would be facing a quarterfinal game against surgingAuburn or Mississippi State, and a loss there probably would push them out as well. If the Cats win on Saturday, more or less reverse the above scenarios.

This doesn't even address the possibility that Auburn or someone else in the West can do damage to Tennessee and/or South Carolina, too, while not doingquite enough to get in themselves.

Bottom line: Barring an unexpected run in the conference tournament (which isn't impossible, given Georgia's march through last season's event),the SEC could be staring at just three bids.

2) Do you believe in miracles? MWC 4, SEC 3

It wouldn't resonate as much as the United States' Lake Placid shocker, but it's pretty unusual to see a league outside the so-called Big Six getmore bids than one of the major conferences. The last time it happened was 2004, when the Atlantic 10 got four bids and the Big Ten and Pac-10 each got three.It also happened in both 1999 and 2000, when Conference USA (then fairly hefty itself) got four bids and the ACC got three.

After BYU rallied past Wyoming on the road last night, there are three league co-leaders at 11-4. Utah and BYU still look very solid as at-large candidates andNew Mexico is poised to grab at least a share of the title. Note: the only time a Mountain West team won at least a share of the league crown and didn'tmake the NCAAs was in 2001, when Utah, Wyoming and BYU all shared the crown at 10-4, but only the Cougars, the auto-bid winners, went dancing (and drew a12-seed, showing the poor strength of the league that season).

This season, the league is the seventh-rated conference in both RPI and Pomeroy's rankings and has two other teams (UNLV, the tourney host, and San DiegoState) that have both viable at-large profiles and the talent to win the auto bid. It's not at all unthinkable at this point that the MWC could grab fourbids and have more teams in than the SEC.

3) Eight teams? Think Big Ten not ACC

Losses in the last two nights by Virginia Tech, Boston College, Maryland and Miami dampened the once-enticing possibility that the ACC would get eight teamsin. Barring a series of ACC quarterfinal upsets, six may be a more reasonable cutoff point.

The league better position for a monster haul is the Big Ten, where the muddle in the middle got worse in the last two nights with Minnesota's win overWisconsin, Ohio State's squeaker at Iowa and even Northwestern's upset of Purdue. Whether you want to argue the league has depth and competitivebalance or just rampant mediocrity, the right series of results in the next 10 days could see most of the Wisconsin/Penn State/Ohio State/Minnesota/Michigancontingent make it as at-larges.

4) Bubble-$$@ mids are happy today

The offshoot of all this major-conference backsliding is that it creates greater opportunity for quality mid-major leagues to sneak an extra team in.Here's one man's opinion of the teams that now look well-positioned to make the NCAAs should they get to their conference tournament final:

Saint Mary's (WCC): Patty Mills has been cleared to play in the conference tournament, which means the Selection Committee should be ableto evaluate the Gaels for an at-large based largely on their 18-1 record before Mills broke his hand. If he looks decent in a win over (probable opponent)Portland in the WCC semis, the Gaels' chances look good.

Creighton: If 10 straight wins becomes 12 and the Bluejays make the MVC final, they should be well-positioned for a bid. They'd have 27wins and a share of the league crown in a top-10 conference.

Rhode Island: The Rams could end up with a share of the A-10 crown should they handle UMass at home; at worst, they'll finish second. Ifthey then win two games in the A-10 tourney (including a possible win over Dayton in the semifinal), they should like their chances.

Three other mids, Utah State, Siena and Davidson, are in tougher spots. Both the Aggies and the Wildcats missed numerous chances to impress down the stretchand now could be forced to play a stroing league foe (Nevada and Chattanooga, respectively) on the foe's home court in the conference tournament. Siena hasbeen more impressive lately, but a loss in the MAAC tournament would come on its home court. It may not be fair, but all three of these teams, more likely thannot, need to win automatic bids.
 
Tmay, do you think the students are going to pack Reed? I usually get tickets from my dad's friend for the games so I don't have a sports pass, but weforgot to get his tickets this time. I'm considering buying some tickets off aggieathletics or maybe scalping some.. what do you think?
 
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Five-star forward Roscoe Smith has had two strong games in front of college coaches this week to lead his Baltimore Walbrook team into tonight's final eight game of the state tournament.

According to Smith's father Brian Thompson, Wake Forest was scheduled to watch Smith's game on Monday, but it was postponed due to bad weather. When the game was played on Tuesday night, Smith tallied a triple-double of 35 points, 15 rebounds and 10 blocks.

Then on Wednesday he went for 24 points, 14 rebounds and six blocks with Georgetown in the crowd.

UConn checked him out at practice Thursday, and North Carolina has been on the phone with him this week.

Smith, 6-foot-8, 180-pounds, is the No. 11 ranked prospect in the class of 2010.
Thought you had a Rivals account?
 
eh, who's it was..their subscription ran out and wasn't worth when rivals 75% of the time is just bs.
This doesn't look like the same Tennessee team I saw earlier this year got pounded in Lawrence to Kansas or the one who lost twice to Gonzaga.

Vols coach Bruce Pearl has made major changes since SEC play began - and it's paid off.

No longer is Pearl pressing and extending defensively - as has become his staple over his college career.

``We have to use our length and size," Pearl said. ``Our team is so different. We have relied on the three-ball, pressed and used our quickness to turn people over, but we can't do that with this team."

Tennessee just wrapped up a stretch in which the Vols have won the SEC East in three of the past four years. Each of the past four years Tennessee has finished ahead of Kentucky.

The Vols have won three straight games overall - including two consecutive on the road against Florida and South Carolina - which were a combined 33-1 at home this season.

Pearl said his players have responded after a loss at Kentucky in which his team had just four assists the entire game.

``I blasted them," Pearl admitted. ``It was a complete embarrassment and I called my team and myself out. We didn't play with passion and purpose and were selfish."

In the last three games, the Vols have averaged nearly 18 assists per game.

Pearl said he knew the SEC East would be tough to figure out going into the season, but he figured it would be so close that one player would wind up making the difference.

Pearl said that his guy, Tyler Smith, was the difference. Smith averaged 20.5 points, 6.5 rebounds and 5 assists in the two road wins against Florida and South Carolina.

``He may not win Player of the Year," Pearl said. "But in crunch-time, he was the player who put us over the top."
I think they'd give a 1 seed all they could handle if they're an 8/9.
 
I think they'd give a 1 seed all they could handle if they're an 8/9.
Those always end up being hard games for me to pick... those 8/9 teams generally are underachievers, teams with loads of potential if they put ittogether at the right time.
 
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Tmay, do you think the students are going to pack Reed? I usually get tickets from my dad's friend for the games so I don't have a sports pass, but we forgot to get his tickets this time. I'm considering buying some tickets off aggieathletics or maybe scalping some.. what do you think?
I hope we do. That place needs to be really, really packed. I wouldn't buy any off AggieAthletics.com...there's a $10 service charge perorder
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If it's either AggieAthletics or scalping, I'd probably just suck up the $10 service charge and be guaranteed a ticket though. Try craigslist too. Iusually bought extra football tickets off of there, so I'm sure there are probably some basketball tickets on there as well.
 
i don't know if this goes in here, but i was just watching the end of the MD-Wake game in the women's ACC tournament, and #5 on Maryland's womensteam is mad cute
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Originally Posted by DOWNTOWN43

i don't know if this goes in here, but i was just watching the end of the MD-Wake game in the women's ACC tournament, and #5 on Maryland's womens team is mad cute
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Originally Posted by DOWNTOWN43

i don't know if this goes in here, but i was just watching the end of the MD-Wake game in the women's ACC tournament, and #5 on Maryland's womens team is mad cute
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I'll see yours and raise you:
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