Week of 11/25 Games & News Thread

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Chillinini
UConn should not even breathe a word about a 3-peat.
Defense is not even close to last years team.
 
#279      
Fighter of the Nightman
GoDucks349 said:
Ducks seem to be playing pretty good D in November, that's nice to see. Usually they start getting nasty on D in late January. Question is the offensive side, not that impressive at this point. I'll be interested in seeing how Dana manages this team.
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Big Ten is a brutal but fun grind. Happy for yall you get to be a part of it!!
 
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PleaseMakeABowlGame
why is notre dame in the players era? they're horrible. free win for these teams. the fact that it was even close is an embarrasment. A tie game for them is a 15 point game basically.
 
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EyeoftheIllini
PleaseMakeABowlGame said:
That's one cupcake win, one ordinary win, one ranked loss. Yes, historically speaking, usually a team that has that kind of a week drops.

It's okay if they don't drop, but not go up 10 spots.

Sorry, not trying to just blabber on it, just saying...I've never really seen that before from the AP.
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It’s just the volatility of early season polls. Teams lose and voters look for teams to move up and new teams to vote for first time. While the Illini loss was to a ranked team, it was not really close (despite getting within 8) and giving up 100 looks bad. Pittsburgh loss looked much better. And the LSU win was their second over a P4 team, Illinois has none (until we beat Ark today). Illinois might have the better long-term prospects for the season than Pittsburgh, but right now Pitt deserve to be ranked higher.
 
#287      
OrangeBlue98
I didn’t stay up to watch the Maui booby prize game. Refs must have been atrocious to let Dayton win by almost 20.

Apparently the Second Coming of John Wooden couldn’t get his team up for the game.
 
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EyeoftheIllini
OrangeBlue98 said:
I didn’t stay up to watch the Maui booby prize game. Refs must have been atrocious to let Dayton win by almost 20.

Apparently the Second Coming of John Wooden couldn’t get his team up for the game.
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To be fair though, while he is a putz it is the media who anoints labels like “second coming of John Wooden.” Though I’m sure he wouldn’t have wasted much energy arguing about it.
 
#291      
NarrowJ
UConn with the 3peat!!!!

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Wait that's not what that means...
 
#294      
Vinegarben
Top teams go down- SCUMBAG UConn 0-3, North Carolina 1-2, Houston 2-1, Duke 0-1, Iowa State-1-1 but they will all remain ranked in top 10. If any of you watched the games Jay Bilas was commenting on. He went on and on that the refs should just let then play on, Hell they aren't bleeding! but when it comes to Duke if the opposing player looks at Duke cross eyed it should be a flagrant 2.
 
#295      
PleaseMakeABowlGame
i don't care/know about "deserve to be ranked higher." I'm not even referring to illinois. I'm just saying...how did that happen. because looking at it historically, it makes no sense since it never happens.

seriously, find me another instance where in the CBB AP poll, a team goes up 10 spots from week A to week B when they have no ranked wins and a loss. (?!?)
 
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the juiceman cometh
PleaseMakeABowlGame said:
That's one cupcake win, one ordinary win, one ranked loss. Yes, historically speaking, usually a team that has that kind of a week drops.

It's okay if they don't drop, but not go up 10 spots.

Sorry, not trying to just blabber on it, just saying...I've never really seen that before from the AP.
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Your original post said they had only lost in between polls. That was incorrect as they had won 2 whole games in between polls.
 
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PleaseMakeABowlGame
EyeoftheIllini said:
It’s just the volatility of early season polls. Teams lose and voters look for teams to move up and new teams to vote for first time. While the Illini loss was to a ranked team, it was not really close (despite getting within 8) and giving up 100 looks bad. Pittsburgh loss looked much better. And the LSU win was their second over a P4 team, Illinois has none (until we beat Ark today). Illinois might have the better long-term prospects for the season than Pittsburgh, but right now Pitt deserve to be ranked higher.
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and unrealistic hopes and expectations with this.
 
#299      
BashCtIllini
I wouldn't feel too bad for Hurley quite yet. They weren't a great team 2 years ago and then ran through the tournament. They were a great team last year and blew everyone out throughout the tournament. I'd imagine before March rolls around, this will be a very strong team.

I think this also shows how dominant Clingan was. I think Purdue will also have more challenges this year without Edey. So far they've got 1 big win where they shot crazy from 3, and then got beat pretty easily by Marquette. It's hard to replace some guys.
 
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BashCtIllini said:
I wouldn't feel too bad for Hurley quite yet. They weren't a great team 2 years ago and then ran through the tournament. They were a great team last year and blew everyone out throughout the tournament. I'd imagine before March rolls around, this will be a very strong team.

I think this also shows how dominant Clingan was. I think Purdue will also have more challenges this year without Edey. So far they've got 1 big win where they shot crazy from 3, and then got beat pretty easily by Marquette. It's hard to replace some guys.
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They lost way too much to be anywhere near as good as the last two years. They have no where near the talent of teams like Duke, Bama, Kansas, etc.

It was way more than Clingan. They were very talented at every position plus they played extremely well together.

They'll be better by the March, probably top 20-25 but no where near last year's team.
 
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