Big games tonight/tomorrow

[JaminShock]

Since we have a couple nights off, why not cheer for some of our non-conf opponents? Lots of big games tonight and tomorrow:

Wednesday games:

UAB (5-9) vs. Marshall (11-4)
Tulsa (7-9) vs. UTEP (8-8)
Temple (10-4) vs. St. Louis (13-3)
Alabama (12-3) vs. LSU (11-4)

Thursday games:

Charleston Southern (10-7) vs Presbyterian (8-8)
Utah St. (9-7) vs New Mexico (11-5)
Colorado (11-4) vs California (13-4)

That's 7 quality games- if our opponents can go 4-3, it would be great. Let me know if I missed one.

[_kai_]

Temple vs SLU, Bama vs LSU, and Colorado vs Cal will be 3 really fun games to catch.

[1972Shocker]

Illinois State beat Rutgers on a neutral court 76-70 just before Thanksgiving.

Rutgers beeat Pitt 62-39 at Pitt tonight. Pitt at 0-4 in the Big East has really tumbled. This coming off of Rutgers 67-60 home win over UConn.

Too bad Rutgers played three 300+ RPI opponents and three 250+ RPI opponents in their non-conference schedule.

[1972Shocker]

UAB loses at home to Marshall 59-61

Tulsa wins at home over UTEP 59-48

Alabama wins at home against LSU 69-63

Temple hangs on for a nice road win over a solid St. Louis team 72-67

Pretty good night for Shocker opponents. Too bad UAB could not pull out a win at home.

[Ta Town Shocker]

39 points at home, that is embarrassing!!! That's 5 straight losses and their next three games coming up are against ranked opponents. Sad thing is that they still have a better shot at getting an at large bid than most Valley teams just because of the conference they play in.

[JaminShock]

Night ends well- Temple gets a nice road win at St. Louis, 72-67, and Alabama whips LSU 69-53.

[JaminShock]

With the wins, Temple's RPI goes to 19, Alabama's to 17, and ours to 30.

[shox1989]

With the wins, Temple's RPI goes to 19, Alabama's to 17, and ours to 30.

In another interesting rpi move, UNI is now ahead of Creighton. Creighton drops to #22, UNI is at #21.

And WSU has now moved up to 29, MoST to 54 and Temple to #16 in the Warren Nolan RPI.

[ShockTalk]

39 points at home, that is embarrassing!!! That's 5 straight losses and their next three games coming up are against ranked opponents. Sad thing is that they still have a better shot at getting an at large bid than most Valley teams just because of the conference they play in.

Not sure how you really meant this, but they have a better chance than most Big East teams as well. As it sits right now, I'd say the Valley has a better shot at getting a 3rd team in than Pitt has of getting in.

[Capitol Shock II]

Sweeet. We are actually getting some help from other teams for a change! I think CU and WSU both get at large even if neither win the conference tournament.

[im4wsu]

I think CU and WSU both get at large even if neither win the conference tournament.

Let's NOT find out.

[JaminShock]

Round 2 tonight- very interested in the Utah St. and Colorado games- both are on the road and underdogs, Utah St. at +4.5 and Colorado at +12, which seems high. New Mexico St. has an RPI of 78, Cal's is 38.

[shockerofandover0943]

Charleston Southern wins 65-58 to start off the night on a good note.

Utah St is currently up 21-19 at NMSU

[shockerofandover0943]

I saw this on the Utah State site. NMSU made it up for the students pre-game. While some of ideas/things to do on there seem kind of lame, it still seems like a very good idea. I wonder if we couldn't get something similar to this for our students. We are constantly complaining about our crowd being loud, but the student section being unorganized and kind of weak. This is something that could be done to help unite them with cheers, chants, and things to do during various situations of the game.

[shockerofandover0943]

USU is going to lose. Go Colorado.