Posts Tagged ‘upset’

Coming down to the wire in Nashville, as Morehead State has battled back from several deficits all game to tie Austin Peay at 55 with about a buck and a half left to play. In rugged and cerebral sophomore forward Kenneth Faried, Donnie Tyndall has a superstar in the making. How the fuck [...]

Every now and then during the college hoops season there will be a score that crawls across across the bottom of the telly and grabs your attention the way a preggers MIA rocking Paper Planes in your work cube would. Ever since MAC squads started playing intra-division matches, the only reason MAC scores have [...]

The Big Picture: A hot-shooting Rodney Pierce —28 points on 10-of-19 shooting — and a determined and dogged effort by the undersized Buffalo frontline was almost enough to propel the Bulls past the 2nd-ranked Connecticut Huskies and notch the biggest upset victory in Bulls history. Instead, with a chance to tie the game [...]

Coach Gregg Nibert’s Blue Hose are 35-point underdogs, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t bet on them since Houston was favored by 7.5 and ended up losing to Georgia Southern 65-63 in what can be considered the first upset of the 2008-09 college basketball season.

Even if you don’t want to risk some scratch on the Blue Hose, there’s no reason not to cheer for them tonight. Just think of how apoplectic Brand Krzyzewski will be should Presbyterian give his pampered and benighted side a real run tonight?

People may scoff at the Toreros’ chances of winning a game in the NCAA Tourney but they do so at their own peril. San Diego may have a handful of bad losses — an 80-72 loss at the JC to a terrible Cal-State Bakersfield being chief among them — but that’s to be expected with a young team and a new coach. Their uneven start behind them, the Toreros have won 13 of their last 15, the two losses being to Gonzaga and St. Mary’s and avenged in the WCC tourney and will roll into the Big Dance with a heap of confidence.

Should the Toreros draw a BCS side that has trouble defending deep into the shot clock and can be pushed around on the boards then Brandon Johnson & Co. have a better than average shot at the upset.

Because it’s a Mid-Eastern Conference game, last night’s shocking 68-62 victory by Maryland-Eastern Shore over Hampton didn’t get quite the amount of attention an upset of that magnitude deserves. Hell, even I was messing around on my Mac waiting for the USD-USF and St. Mary’s-Santa Clara games from the West Coast Conference instead of [...]

Robert Morris Celebrates Good Times
And I’m not just talking about the Robert Morris Colonials, who played road warrior tonight, going into Chestnut Hill and beating Boston College 57-51 but while we’re on the topic, let’s stick with Robert Morris and their mammoth win tonight, by far the best non-league dubbya for the Northeast Conference.
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Kent State’s got a chance to bag the biggest non-league scalp in college hoops tonight, as they’re squaring off with top-ranked North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Right now, things ain’t going the Golden Flashes way, as they’re trailing 26-13 with 9 minutes left to play in the first half. Like any team [...]