What to watch: 2/16/09
by Mike Rutherford on Feb 16, 2009 6:00 PM EST
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Pittsburgh at Connecticut (7 p.m./ESPN)
Should be a nice little finesse game between two decent teams.
North Carolina A&T at Delaware State (7 p.m./ESPNU)
Pitt/UConn, Schmitt/Schmooconn.
Charleston at Appalachian State (7:30 p.m./CSS)
Bobby Cremins' club has been up-and-down in the SoCon, but they are the only team in the conference to taste victory against Davidson in two seasons.
Marist at St. Peter's (8 p.m./MSG/FCS Atlantic)
It's starting to look like Siena and then everybody else in the MAAC.
Texas at Texas A&M (9 p.m./ESPN)
All of the sudden the Longhorns could really use this one.
Texas Southern at Grambling (9 p.m./ESPNU)
Will not be watching.
Louisiana Tech at New Mexico State (9 p.m./MASN)
In case you were wondering, yes, both these teams are in the WAC.
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Well this was just a flub in timing.
Who’s going to watch the Pitt/UConn game at 7 with the Charleston/Appalaichan State game at 7:30? What, am I just supposed to watch 30 minutes of it?
It seems like ESPN and CBS need to get together and organize these things a little better.
Im interested to see
how Conn does against good competition without Dyson..
by twistedwedge on Feb 16, 2009 7:01 PM EST up reply actions
A 1st?
Is it just me or was that the first Ed Hightower call of a Big East game? And he wasn’t half bad for this one.
Grog
"There is no OFF position to the genius switch" - D. Letterman
oops..forgot I found it
it was the Pitt game
by twistedwedge on Feb 17, 2009 9:07 PM EST up reply actions
pitt looks good early
they have all the pieces to make a run, so i’ll once again overrate them going into the tourney and they will fuck my bracket up.
UConn not getting fouls called....
…on that sequence when the Pitt guy missed a couple close in shots and then Blair hit the layup, those UConn guys were ALL OVER that guy. No idea how at least 1 foul doesn’t get called there.
Also, I love Blair’s defense on Thabeet – just stand straight up like you have 4 fouls and make Thabeet shoot little hook shots, which he apparently sucks at. I don’t know why UConn hasn’t gone to Thabeet every time down the court.
Retro unis?
On ITV there are a couple threads, apparently Pitino just said on the radio show we’ll be wearing retro unis in the Marquette game.
I replied in one of those threads: Earl is going to look hilarious in the really tiny shorts.
if they have the dunking cardinal on them
i might just lose it
i’ve always thought that once we move to the downtown arena, we should have 1 or 2 “retro” games (with the floor painted with the white paint in the half circle at the top of the key and the dunking cardinal replacing the midcourt bird and retro unis) in freedom hall per season.
could you imagine
DC coming off the bench behind SS…scary
by twistedwedge on Feb 16, 2009 7:47 PM EST up reply actions
Other way around....
….SS would come in for DC.
And yes, I have thought about it and shed a tear.
Could you imagine how sick our 4-5 players would be with (a hard working and non-bad-teammate) DC in the mix?
yeah i got it backwards..
DC would def get the start
by twistedwedge on Feb 16, 2009 8:15 PM EST up reply actions
I would've liked to have seen Holloway
At 7’1" with a bit of aggressiveness, he would have been able to take it to Thabeet and beat him at his own game.
I know..the man sure would have been welcome
and I think he would have been good. Bulky 7’1 players dont grace the Cards roster too often
by twistedwedge on Feb 16, 2009 10:12 PM EST up reply actions
thats how you have to play a shot blocker
you go right at his chest, remove the space, then make your move.
by Ben Go CARDS on Feb 16, 2009 7:50 PM EST up reply actions
blair is a bad, bad man
he is taking their big men anywhere he wants. aj price is carrying uconn. that was a good half of basketball
if blair played for the cards...
i think he might be the most beloved player of the pitino era. he just isn’t scared of anything. if we can develop samuels to play like that over the summer it’d be huge for the team next year.
of course
if sam sam wanted to do it in the next 4 or 5 weeks, that’d be okay too. blair=DC’s talent+padgett’s heart.
by doctorofdunk on Feb 16, 2009 7:57 PM EST up reply actions
UConn only down 3....
…doesn’t it feel like they should be down about 12-15? I guess Blair keeps scoring but that is it.
Also UConn keeps hitting tough jumpers.
agreed
young started off hot but kinda tailed off there at the end. i still think pitt finds a way to win this game. does a uconn basically lock up a 1 seed with a win? seems like they might.
by doctorofdunk on Feb 16, 2009 8:01 PM EST up reply actions
Huge call...
….can’t believe they called a foul there.
The refs have totally controlled the 2nd half, they are going to foul out all the good players. Boring.
Agreed.
If I were a fan of either team I would be freaking out, but this is fun to watch from afar.
i agree with the two of you. this has been a great game with the big players stepping up
especially blair. 24-22? against uconn? unreal
I'd really really love to hear an ACC fan
honestly try to explain how they’re better after watching this game
It would be kind of like
a UK fan explaining how they can be competitive in this league…comical
by twistedwedge on Feb 16, 2009 8:53 PM EST up reply actions
early onions!
i love raftery. i think we all knew those 3’s were going down, especially the second one
oh yeah. it's going to be a tough choice between him and thebeet and gody and young and mcneal
he is at the top i think. on my list, it’s blair, thebeet, mcneal, gody and then young and the rest
Huge win...
…wow. Can’t believe we beat those guys.
So now if we win out (not likely) and Pitt wins out (verrrry possible) we win the Big East regular season.
Pitt plays UConn again...
….so if Pitt wins out, that means UConn doesn’t.
You are correct though, if UConn wins out we can’t win big east.
tell me what you guys think of this
first off, on the game: agree with everyone, a great game to watch from afar. if i were a committee member, i’d come away from this one feeling like i just saw two top seeds go to war. it’s the first clear example of how much uconn misses dyson, who i believe is as valuable to uconn as a player like wayne ellington is to unc, and it also makes the big east marathon a lot more interesting.
with the assumption that uconn and pitt are no. 1s (who michigan st and memphis cannot and should not pass on the top line) with unc and oklahoma, and the assumption that we get our bearings and get back on track, we’re looking a coin flip. as a 2 seed with two 1s somewhere in the tournament, we’d either get the sooners or the heels. in case your memory needs refreshing, that’s the team we beat by 100 pts in the tourney last year, and the team who eliminated us down in charlotte in the elite eight. i certainly know who i’d rather see in my region. and while i know i’m assuming a lot of things with this analysis, i can’t help think that this is what it’s gonna come down to for us as far as the luck of the draw goes: a coin flip.
agree? disagree? think i’m getting way ahead of myself with another month to selection sunday? would love to hear the thoughts of the cc regulars.
sorry if that's unclear
what i meant to say is, with uconn and pitt as 1 seeds, we couldn’t be in either region, thus i think we’d get either oklahoma or carolina as top dog in our bracket.
by doctorofdunk on Feb 16, 2009 9:13 PM EST up reply actions
I think we can be in the same region as UConn and Pitt.
You can’t meet a team from your conference before the Final 8, but you can meet there (and if the conference has 8 teams in, you have to meet by regional finals).
true but
as a 2 i seriously doubt they’d put us with a 1 from the same conference. however, based on brackets i’ve seen, it’d be very possible as a 3 seed.
by doctorofdunk on Feb 16, 2009 9:19 PM EST up reply actions
youre correct with the coin flip
As I posted in another area-one “expert” has us as a 2 in the south with OK, the other has us Midwest with UNC. I would much rather play OK.
by twistedwedge on Feb 16, 2009 9:13 PM EST up reply actions
forgot to mention
You know its going to be awfully tempting for the committee to have the potential UNC UL rematch….
by twistedwedge on Feb 16, 2009 9:14 PM EST up reply actions
yeah
here’s hoping they resist that temptation. of course we still have a lot of work to do to stay on the 2 line….
by doctorofdunk on Feb 16, 2009 9:15 PM EST up reply actions
Sam and Twisted One/End of Significantly Important Streak
…and we had gone a record fourteen straight days without a “Derrick Caracter” reference….and the whole streak came crashing down like a house of you know what, just because of you guys.
Are you happy?
Nice win for Pitt tonight, hey guys? So now the powers that be will have to reevaluate the unbeatable.
That would be rerereevaluate.
OK
OK, I’m happy for ya. Hope that other thing works out, with the tickets, and your girlfriend, and your sister, and Frisco.
Didn’t Pitino have to go out recruiting on his honeymoon? Tell you’re girlfriend about that….maybe that’s not such a good idea.
Things are gonna go your way.
Just
that this is so important to you, not that the West Coast swing isn’t, but this is a once in a lifetime chance, and that you could still go to California in the spring, and that your girl would love Manhattan, and that you’re gonna get tickets to "Spamalot" for the Wednesday matinee (cause with our "bye" you won’t be working on Wednesday), and that there are great twenty-two dollar sandwiches at the Carnegie Deli, and if none of this works tell her that the only way SHE can make it up to YOU, is if you can have DC as best man at your wedding.
Sam, Am I getting through now??!
I understand Roz, but one must follow
many tunnels and mazes of multi-generational musings
until the bright light shines
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