Saturday Hoops Open Thread
by Peter Bean on Mar 8, 2008 1:31 AM CST
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One weekend left in the regular season, then on to postseason play. Here's your primer for Saturday's televised games.
Top 25 Scoreboard
11:00 AM
(13) Louisville at (10) Georgetown
CBS
| Louisville | Georgetown | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | 24-6 | 24-4 |
| Conference | 14-3 | 14-3 |
| RPI | 11 | 8 |
| KenPom | 7 | 9 |
| Bracket | 3 (Midwest) | 3 (West) |
| Blogs | Card Chronicle | Hoya Prospectus |
1:00 PM
(7) Stanford at USC
CBS
| Stanford | Southern Cal | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | 24-5 | 19-10 |
| Conference | 13-4 | 10-7 |
| RPI | 17 | 39 |
| KenPom | 12 | 25 |
| Bracket | 3 (South) | 7 (Midwest) |
| Blogs | SJ Mercury News | Conquest Chronicles |
3:00 PM
(6) Kansas at Texas A&M
CBS
| Kansas | Texas A&M | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | 27-3 | 22-8 |
| Conference | 12-3 | 8-7 |
| RPI | 9 | 43 |
| KenPom | 1 | 18 |
| Bracket | 2 (South) | 10 (East) |
| Blogs | Rock Chalk Talk | 12th Manchild |
8:00 PM
(1) North Carolina at (3) Duke
ESPN
| North Carolina | Duke | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | 28-2 | 26-3 |
| Conference | 13-2 | 13-2 |
| RPI | 2 | 4 |
| KenPom | 6 | 5 |
| Bracket | 1 (East) | 2 (Midwest) |
| Blogs | Carolina March | Duke Basketball Report |
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Sucking it up and rooting for the aggies
They're dirty players for the most part, they always play their best game of the season against us (in any sport), and they are sexually attracted to sheep. Despite all this, we have to root for them against Kansas, a team that deserves much more respect. Anyhow, best of luck to the Aggies. Hopefully they know that we're only rooting for them because they're not a threat to us in conference standings.
by longhorn00 on Mar 8, 2008 2:00 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
ditto
I think I'm gonna puke but yeah I have to say it,,,,, "go aggies" (sheep f@ckers)...sorry couldnt help myself....
by vivalonghorns on Mar 8, 2008 11:17 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Lets go Aggies!
That's right. I went there.
by goingforthecorner on Mar 8, 2008 2:05 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
#7 Stanford
As long as they beat USC, I would not drop them a single spot if I was one of those voters, given how they were completely robbed of that W over UCLA. In fact, I would raise them before I'd lower them.
by goingforthecorner on Mar 8, 2008 2:07 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Scenario
If K-State, Baylor, A&M, and OU all finish the season with a 9-7 conf. record, who gets the 3rd and 4th seeds to the Big XII tourney?
Is the tie-breaker overall record?
by 54b on Mar 8, 2008 9:40 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
I think its head 2 head then division record
by the1austin on Mar 8, 2008 10:58 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Link to Big 12 Tie-Breaker Rules
Tiebreakers - The first criteria in the breaking of ties in the standings shall be head-to-head competition of tied teams. The following procedure will be used to establish the championship seeds if ties exist. (For tiebreaking procedures teams will be grouped in two divisions based upon established guidelines. Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri and Nebraska are in one division and Baylor, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech are in the other division.)
(a) If two teams are tied and they are from different divisions, the winner of the game between the two tied teams shall be the higher seed.
(b) If two teams are tied and they are from the same division, the team with an advantage in head-to-head competition shall be the higher seed.
(c) If two teams remain tied, there will be a comparison of overall record against division teams only (10 divisional games).
(d) If two teams remain tied, there will be a comparison of record against the highest ranked team(s) (based upon Conference winning percentage) in the division and proceeding through in order of divisional record.
(e) If two teams remain tied, there will be a *comparison of record against the highest ranked team(s) (based upon Conference winning percentage) in the opposite division and proceeding through in order of divisional record.
(f) If two teams remain tied, the higher seed will be chosen by draw.
(g) If three or more teams are tied, ties among divisional opponents will be broken first by using steps (b) through (f) and the head-to-head results will be used to break ties between non-divisional teams. When three or more teams from the same division are tied step (b) will consist of a mini- round robin among the tied teams. At any point during the process of breaking ties among three or more teams that the number of tied teams are reduced to two, head-to-head competition would be used as the primary tie-breaker, followed-by steps (c) through (f).
by the1austin on Mar 8, 2008 11:01 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I remember when we did this with football
In case OU lost to OSU. Boy did that go wrong...
by Horn Brain on Mar 8, 2008 11:49 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Cal leading @ UCLA
by 9 with 15 minutes left.
by the other Andrew on Mar 8, 2008 3:58 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
CAL up two on UCLA
30 secs left in game.
by goingforthecorner on Mar 8, 2008 4:48 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
What happened?
I've been following the UCLA on yahoo boxscore, all of a sudden UCLA gets the ball back and gets the lead.
Another bad call favoring UCLA? Man what a fuckin joke. They could've been 0-2 this week and instead they win both.
by goingforthecorner on Mar 8, 2008 4:57 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Cal inbounds after a Love 3 pointer
Anderson gets hacked, no call and the ball goes out of bounds, ball somehow goes to UCLA... UCLA inbounds and they put up an over the backboard shot that gets nothing but net.
by the other Andrew on Mar 8, 2008 5:00 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
UNBELIEVABLE
Refs gift wrap another UCLA win. Wow.
by Peter Bean on Mar 8, 2008 5:00 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Stanford vs. Cal
Bad calls are going to be made in any sport but not all bad calls are equal. Any call that in and of itself changes the outcome of the game is one that should get extra scrutiny.
Assuming both of these calls were judgments which could go either way depending on the view the officials had at the time, it was right to not make the call against Shipp in the Cal game. By the same token, the foul call against Stanford that was clearly debatable should not have been made because it directly changed the result of the game. When the call is a borderline judgment call, the officials should err on the side of not making the call so that THEY aren't the ones deciding the game.
BTW, the Pac-10 supervisor of officials has felt compelled to respond publicly following both of these games... which doesn't reflect well on the officiating, no matter your perspective on the calls.
by Defender90 on Mar 9, 2008 10:26 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
not only was it a foul, but if it wasnt
seemed like UCLA touched it before going out of bounds.
by the other Andrew on Mar 8, 2008 5:02 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Agree
UCLA touched it last, post-hack. Terrrrrrible.
by Peter Bean on Mar 8, 2008 5:03 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
isn't that an illegal shot?
i thought it was illegal to shoot the ball from behind the backboard. isn't that an "over the backboard" out of bounds call?
by billyzane on Mar 8, 2008 5:04 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Also
Cal had should have gotten about 1.2 or 1.3 seconds left instead of .7. Terrible officiating, what a travesty.
by ACMilan on Mar 8, 2008 5:05 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
The play started with 1.5 seconds left
So you're saying the ball was in the air for a third of a second between Shipp's punch and the ball landing in the crowd.
If you actually think about your assertion, would you agree with it?
by Peter on Mar 9, 2008 9:00 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
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