2017-18 Games of Interest

[Play Angry]

FSU still up on #5 Florida, 63-51 w/6 minutes left. More upward mobility on the horizon if we take care of business.

[Steeleshocker]

FSU still up on #5 Florida, 63-51 w/6 minutes left. More upward mobility on the horizon if we take care of business.

The downside is that Florida will be quite motivated to beat Cinci.

[Cdizzle]

The downside is that Florida will be quite motivated to beat Cinci.

Don't care. They just got trucked at home. We win, we move up.

[Shaqness]

Ball State 34-29 rightbefore haltime at ND. We are cursed.

[Aargh]

Ball State 34-29 rightbefore haltime at ND. We are cursed.

This one doesn't worry me for one itty-bitty, teeny-tiny fraction of the most brief possible moment. We were up on ND by 16 at one point. ND knows how to come back from a deficit. Probably took BS a little lightly coming out. That will be corrected.

Edit: It took ND exactly 2 minutes and 47 seconds to move to a 3-point lead, which they extended to 44-40 at the 16 minute mark.

[Shaqness]

I'm not sure you should be giving predictions. ;) Truce?

[Aargh]

After ND opened up a can of whoop-ass on BS to open the second half, they've stalled. Now BS is up 62-57 with 7:47 left in the game.

Rutgers is ginving Michigan St a bit of a run MS is up 47-43 with 5 to go.

[Aargh]

ND made a 5-0 run to cut the BS lead to 1 with about a minute left. Exchanged some baskets until BS hit a 3 with 2 seconds left in the game to go ahead 80-77, and that's how the game ended It was a home game for ND.

[Shaqness]

Is this your way of eating crow?

[Aargh]

Now that I can breathe again...

SMU - 44
@ #20 TCU - 45

16:46 left.

[Play Angry]

Smoo not gonna get it done tonight. At least Memphis avoided what would have been a terrible loss by the skin of their teeth.

[Play Angry]

Arizona does us a solid and removes Texas A&M from our tailpipe in the polls, beating the #7 Aggies 67-64.

[shoxlax]

College basketball scores make less sense than ever at this point in the season. Houston who has looked less than impressive absolutely blows out an Arkansas team that may be a single digit seed. Ball State, who got plastered by OU, goes on the road and beats Notre Dame. Indiana State crushes Indiana on the road and have looked bad ever since. Missouri State beats the South Dakota State team that looked like the 85' Celtics for much of tonight by 20 in South Dakota.

Sheer lunacy.

More reliance on the long ball with completely polar opposite mixed results and more zone defenses again with polar opposite mixed results.

[SHOCKvalue]

Solid work tonight SMU.

Not really.

[WuShock Reaper]

Non-Conference
Arkansas State (2-6, Kenpom #252) lost to Tenn-Martin (2-7, Kenpom #259) by a score of 78-92.
Florida Gulf Coast (6-4, Kenpom #121) lost to Florida Atlantic (5-3, Kenpom #244) by a score of 88-92.
Marquette (6-3, Kenpom #63) defeated Vermont (6-3, Kenpom #72) by a score of 91-81.
Notre Dame (7-2, Kenpom #21) lost to Ball State (5-4, Kenpom #116) by a score of 77-80.

Conference
Memphis (5-2, Kenpom #163) defeated Samford (2-7, Kenpom #228) by a score of 65-64.
Connecticut (6-3, Kenpom #88) lost to Syracuse (7-1, Kenpom #57) by a score of 63-72.
SMU (7-3, Kenpom #23) lost to TCU (9-0, Kenpom #20) by a score of 83-94.
Wichita State (7-1, Kenpom #6) defeated South Dakota State (7-4, Kenpom #111) by a score of 95-85.

Commentary
Not a very good night overall for both our Non-Conference and Conference Strenth-Of-Schedules (SOS).

[WuDrWu]

College basketball scores make less sense than ever at this point in the season. Houston who has looked less than impressive absolutely blows out an Arkansas team that may be a single digit seed. Ball State, who got plastered by OU, goes on the road and beats Notre Dame. Indiana State crushes Indiana on the road and have looked bad ever since. Missouri State beats the South Dakota State team that looked like the 85' Celtics for much of tonight by 20 in South Dakota.

And lost to North Dakota State at home. 3-5 NDSU.