Posts under ‘(Almost) Daily Fix’

Somehow, someway, for reasons that completely escape me, Cornell got nary a 1st place vote in the latest Mid-Major Top 25 poll. Obviously, the Mid-Major Top 25 has just about zero relevance and gets as much attention on the national scene as does an NJIT scrimmage, but still… If the Big Red can’t get [...]

Western Carolina moves to 10-1 on the season with emphatic 91-83 win over Louisville at Freedom Hall. Larry Hunter’s side looks to be the best in the Southern Conference this season. They should make a leap in the Mid-Major Top 25 this week.
With they way they defend and the way Jake Robinson strokes [...]

Toledo has to be the worst team in the MAC. They are getting thrashed by a very average Valpo squad today, trailing 79-48 with about 2:36 left to play. The Rockets went 7-25 (5-11) last season. I don’t see how there’s anyway they can win that many games this season. Even [...]

Matt Painter’s emptying the bench with more than four minutes left to play. Guess he doesn’t think the Bulls are capable of coming back from a 93-54 deficit at this point.
Neither do I.

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Bulls have come completely undone against Boilermakers, trailing 86-45 with about 7:55 to play. That second half spurt never came.
Actually it did, but it was Purdue that went on the run.
Uggghhhh….

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I fucking hate Purdue’s Chris Kramer. The Big Ten network announcers are pimping him for defensive POY. I think he’s a better candidate for the All-Prick team.

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Bulls trailing 45-26 at the half. Need to get the Purdue lead down to 12 or so by the first TV timeout or this one is a wrap

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Sean Smiley or Zach Filzen really need to make a few threes each today if the Bulls are going to keep this close and either throw a real scare into Purdue or come away with the check and the dubbya.
Unfortunately, they’ve each thrown up bricks on their first attempts from behind the arc.

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UB’s trailing 36-20 with 6:00 left to play in first half. Buffalo really needs to close the half with a spurt.

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Two consecutive moving screens called against UB. Can’t remember the last time I saw that happen. 10 minutes in and I don’t think Purdue’s been whistled for a single foul.

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Despite five turnovers, Bulls are only trailing 14-11. Rodney Pierce has two triples, neither of which have even so much as grazed the rim, and Calvin Betts has another.
Get the turnover bug under control and UB can make a game of this.

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Bulls trail Purdue 6-0 and already have four turnovers. It could get ugly early if this is how Buffalo continues to play.
Uggghhhhh…

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The Christmas decorations and holiday lights on Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park indicate otherwise, but the intense battle between Virginia Commonwealth and William and Mary in the Colonial Athletic Association opener for both teams definitely has a March feel to it. The Tribe rallied from 16 down to beat the Rams, 75-74 in a game [...]

Akron (4-3) took a break from their usual OOC slate of teams that are in the bottom 5% of D1 or aren’t even in D1 at all, to travel to College Station to take on 19th-ranked Texas A&M-CS. Predictably, the Zips lost a game they weren’t expected to win, coming undone in the second [...]

Dereck Whittenburg sacked
I have to admit that I’m pretty surprised that Dereck Whittenburg wasn’t able to right the sinking ship that is the Fordham basketball program. Given his playing pedigree and the respectable job he did at Wagner on Staten Island — by no means even one of the Northeast Conference’s glamor programs — [...]

Beating a Virginia Military Institute (3-3) team that has beaten only one D1 team so far this season and lost 103-59 to Richmond isn’t on it’s face, all that an impressive a win. However, when you come into that game, played at VMI’s gym, with an offense that plays at a pace that can [...]

It got a little dicey towards the end, but the Portland Pilots moved to 5-0 on the season, hanging on to upset the 16th-ranked Minnesota Golden Gophers 61-56 and earn a date with West Virginia in the finals of the 76 “Classic” this Sunday.
Tonight’s win should also earn them a spot in the Top 25 [...]

Call it Black Friday for the BCS leagues, as the Mid-Major college hoops revolt of 2009-10 remains in effect.
The East Tennessee State Buccaneers of the Atlantic Sun Conference — 23rd best in the nation per Ken Pomeroy — rolled into Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville, Arkansas tonight and punished the Razorbacks of the mighty [...]

The Big Picture: 73-71 loss at Alumni to Canisius in the Main Street Derby is by no way, shape, or form the type of defeat that Buffalo should take anything positive from. The Bulls fell to 2-2 on the season thanks to get an early start to Thanksgiving and the holiday season by [...]

Wofford’s not going to get it down tonight. The Illini went on a game-finishing 24-14 tear to beatback those pesky Terriers, 78-64 at Illinois’ Alumni Hall.

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Junior guard Roderick Pearson and the Golden Eagles handed Stanford its second loss of the season to a team from the Mid-Major ranks
May not keep the doctor away, but it might very well be the biggest reason why I watch college hoops.
For the second time this season, Stanford has been beaten by a team hailing [...]

Score one for the good guys!
I’ve managed to catch some sort of nutty bacterial infection that has inflated my schnozz to Jimmy Durante-like proportions that is contagious on the very same day that ESPN’s 24 hour college hoops marathon tipped off. My doctor said I needed to stay home for a couple days so [...]

Kentucky’s frosh guard John Wall, a certain one-and-doner, hits a game-winning jumper with about a second left to allow Kentucky to escape Miami’s upset bid, 72-70.
Like usual, the bad guys beat the good guys tonight. Like usual, the Mid-major in the battle is left with nothing but a large cash to check [...]

But barely.
It’s 50-48 Redhawks with 9:32 left to play.

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A halftime lead so slender that it should be starring in The Hills. Thanks to Nick Winbush’s lights out 6-of-6 shooting from triple-land, the Redhawks are leading 39-36.
However, Kentucky closed the half on a 18-3 run so it looks like John Wall and Co. are about to take control of this game

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