Big East Tournament Evening Session Open Thread
by Mike Rutherford on Mar 9, 2010 8:41 PM EST
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A little tardy, but all we've missed is Seton Hall attempting to hang 200 on Providence and the Friars responding with technical after technical. It's been awesome.
We'll find out who Louisville's Wednesday night opponent will be in a few short hours.
8:42 - Nothing to do with the game, but I'm a little shocked that Scottie Reynolds didn't take home Big East POY. Making it even more confusing is the fact that Reynolds was the lone unanimous selection to the All-Conference team. Not quite as confusing as John Wall being SEC Player of the Year but not Freshman of the Year, but confusing nonetheless.
Unlike in college football, where performance down the stretch often carries too much weight when it comes to postseason awards, I think college basketball players get far too much credit for what they do in the early part of the season. You can't tell me that if you flip-flopped the first and second half seasons of John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins that Cousins wouldn't have more of a shot at the Wooden Award.
Wes Johnson is a tremendous player, but he hasn't been the same since his injury, and Reynolds has been tremendous over that same span. Both are very deserving, just saying I'm a little surprised.
9:00 - Greg Auman tweet:
Seton Hall, Providence have broken 28-year-old record for total points (187) in regulation Big East tournament game. Still 3:09 left here.
So that's neat.
9:09 - This is decently unreal. Providence has cut it to 104-99 and Seton Hall can't take a dribble or make a pass without giving the ball away. The Pirates led by 29 at one point.
9:20 - Providence comes/is allowed all the way back, but misses a three at the buzzer to fall by three, 109-106 in the highest-scoring Big East Tournament game ever.
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Posted this in the wrong thread a minute ago...
This pitiful Seton Hall-Providence game is two things:
- The best argument yet for leaving the bottom four teams out of the conference tournament; and
- The MST3K of BET games. The commentary is better than the movie.
"They’re going to start celling Keno Davis Keno Avis [because there’s no D]."
"He [Gonzo] ’s the kind of guy who can make coffee nervous…"
"When I watch lacrosse, I can’t tell what is a foul and what is not."
"Well you can’t here, either."
For the 20 of you...
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Big East Tournament off to a competitive start. What is this, the SOCON? (see: http://tournament-blogger.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/20091884/20371671?source=rss_blogs_NCAAB)
I’m a little shocked that Scottie Reynolds didn’t take home Big East POY. Making it even more confusing is the fact that Reynolds was the lone unanimous selection to the All-Conference team.
I thought that confusing too at first, but really it’s not such a stretch. What’s surprising is that Johnson wasn’t a unanimous choice for the first team. Clearly, of those that DID put him on the first team, a majority thought he was the best player.
Now the John Wall thing, yeah, that’s just stupid. How can a freshman be the best player but not the best freshman? But consider the source. The SEC isn’t exactly known for brains. I hear the University of Alabama library had a terrible fire last week. Both books were destroyed, and one of them hadn’t even been colored in yet.
LMAO
Kinda says it all about our refs:
“He put his arm up to signal the foul, but his whistle wasn’t in his mouth.”
That’s our Big East officials for you. This is the league championship, so these are presumed to be the best refs we have, right?
Wow
Not sure how a win can feel any more like a loss than that one does for Seton Hall.
Would love to see Notre Dame pound them and keep that scumbag out of the Dance once again.
Nah had to play in a work golf scramble
Won $20 in balls.
by UL is my hot hot sex on Mar 9, 2010 10:24 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Fouling would have been the wrong thing to do, Gonzo
Make the first, miss the second, tip-in, tie game. Better to let them scramble for a trey.
Nightmare scenarios for our first round opponent...
1) Northern Iowa
2) Texas
3) Gonzaga (don’t see how this is possible but whatever they are on TV now)
4) UNLV (don’t want someone confident)
5) Wake/Clemson (I think these are both similar athletic, streaky teams)
6) Sienna (last year was close enough)
Basically I would rather play New Mexico/either of the non-UK SEC teams/Temple/Baylor/KSU/Texas A&M type teams – all of whom will be better seeds (2-6) than the 8/9s I am looking at.
Is that weird? What is wrong with me?
Mostly agree
I think we’d handle Siena this yr though.
by UL is my hot hot sex on Mar 9, 2010 10:33 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
I don't want Texas, or Wake
Northern Iowa isn’t all that great. Gonzaga would be interesting because they are kinda loopy. I wouldn’t want Temple or Richmond. They play too good of defense, and mostly deliberate offense, and I think they would pick us apart
Northern Iowa could be a bad matchup defensively
Samardo would need to have a big game.
by UL is my hot hot sex on Mar 9, 2010 11:04 PM EST up reply actions
Lance Stephensen
Seems like he’s wasted in Cinci’s offense, so the extent they run one. He’s such an athletic big man. God he would be great at the 4 spot for us.
Also, how weird is it watching non-UL teams. Seems like no one really plays with as much discipline as we do. Guys in this game keep doing stuff that I’m like, okay, that guy is about to get taken out…..but no sub comes. Weird how conditioned we get to a certain style of basketball under Pitino.
Noticed the same thing when watching lots of other games this year.
I find myself being really surprised by how many bad shots most teams take. It does make me think that I’ve grown accustomed to watching a fairly disciplined approach. We may freely take the 3s, but damnit, they better be uncontested 3s.
by cardsinindy2010 on Mar 9, 2010 10:28 PM EST up reply actions
One factor is that L'ville has a deep bench of athletic/decent basketball players
Compared to most teams, we don’t lose much talent/height/skill when we sub out for mistakes.
by UL is my hot hot sex on Mar 9, 2010 11:26 PM EST up reply actions
Who would we rather play?
Rutgers is obviously an inferior team, but I’m worried our guys would take them lightly. Lay an egg against Cincy and it would suck, but lay an egg against Rutgers? Don’t want to think about that one.
gotta say
I don’t really like this reasoning. You’re basically asking whether we want to play a lesser team that we have a better chance of beating or someone who, if they win, won’t make us look so bad. Can’t have it both ways, so why not hope for the win? Too optimistic? I thought you were the true believer.
you're right
but other than last season, i don’t have a whole lot of confidence in this team in the big east tourney. i think we should take care of business tomorrow night, just thinking in worst case scenario terms.
by doctorofdunk on Mar 10, 2010 12:17 AM EST up reply actions
Rutgers is more or less shooting lights out to stay in this game
I’ll take Rutgers over Cinci any day
DocCardsFan
The 'Ville, KY
Today has been a great lesson in gambling
Stay away from betting conference tournaments, especially the 1st round of the Big East. Holding a Seton Hall “-5” ticket would’ve been a brutal experience in the 2nd half of that game.
by UL is my hot hot sex on Mar 9, 2010 11:01 PM EST reply actions
This is hardly news
But McDonough is really damn funny
Can we just go ahead and spot the Bearcats a 5-point halftime lead and skip the first half tomorrow?
by cardsinindy2010 on Mar 9, 2010 11:44 PM EST reply actions
No kidding
Would it be wrong to pull for Cincy by a hair in the 1st Half? Cuz I swear to God I’m gonna hope they beat us by about 5 points in that Half. LOL
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