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College Basketball ver Do Wedzenia Krzyzewski

The more I think about it, there more I like the backwards grandma shot. If the universe wills it, so be it.



( and of course I mean if the RNG comes up Milhouse)
 
11 ranked teams lost testerday, tying an AP poll record dating back to Jan. 29, 2011, according to ESPN Stats & Information research. Nine of the 11 teams that lost on Saturday were on the road. And two of them faced ranked opponents.

No. 5 Tennessee, No. 9 Arizona (87-68 at Oregon), No. 11 Kansas State (82-68 at No. 17 TCU), No. 14 Iowa State (62-60 at No. 2 Kansas), No. 15 Arkansas (97-84 at Vanderbilt), No. 16 Miami (83-81 at NC State), No. 18 Wisconsin (63-45 at Indiana), No. 19 Providence (73-67 at Creighton), No. 20 Missouri (73-64 at Florida), No. 23 San Diego State (76-67 vs. New Mexico) and No. 24 Duke (72-64 at Clemson) all lost.

Ranked teams continued to fall on Sunday as No. 6 UConn lost for the fourth time in its past five games, dropping an 85-74 result to unranked St. John's. In another Big East matchup, 12th-ranked Xavier beat No. 25 Marquette 80-76.

Those two losses by ranked teams made it 13 for the weekend, which ties the record for most ranked defeats in a weekend. It's the fourth time (1999, 2000, 2011) 13 ranked teams have lost in a single weekend. It's also the second time at least 10 ranked teams have lost to unranked teams in one weekend in the history of the AP poll [TABLE="class: story, border: 0, cellpadding: 0, cellspacing: 0"]
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As a Hoosier fan, Indiana destroying Wisconsin yesterday has to be one of the most baffling wins I’ve witnessed in the past decade or so. Indiana has been free falling since losing two of their starters, including losing by 19 at Penn State a handful of days ago. Couple that with Wisconsin beating Indiana something like 25 out of the last 30 times they’ve played, and winning by 18 was, well, baffling.
 
This weeks 'game of the year' has the (2)Jayhawks travelling to the Little Apple to take on (13)K-State in the Sunflower Showdown. These 2 teams first played in 1907(6th longest)and KU holds a 203-94 all-time record. On ESPN @ 7.
 
UConn women had to postpone a game due to lack of players from injuries.

ASU women had to forfeit two games due to lack of players from injuries.

Northwestern men just postponed their game against Iowa due to injuries and covid.

Interesting how different conferences are handling things.
 
SonofSouthie said:
This weeks 'game of the year' has the (2)Jayhawks travelling to the Little Apple to take on (13)K-State in the Sunflower Showdown. These 2 teams first played in 1907(6th longest)and KU holds a 203-94 all-time record. On ESPN @ 7.
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K-State in OT! = Not surprised; they've got a good team. Already won more games than they did all of last year. And it didn't help that Self outcoached himself. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...ll-self-takes-blame-missed-chances-vs-k-state
 
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Notre Dame announced that head coach Mike Brey plans to step away at the end of this season, ending his 23-year run with the Fighting Irish.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...23-years-as-hc
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Irish fan here. It's definitely time. 23 years as a coach at a major university is an eternity though so credit to him. Heck of a coach overall. 2 consecutive elite 8 appearances. An ACC tournament title. No scandals. Able to get pretty good recruits. Glad he could retire essentially retire and finish the season rather than mid season firing. He's earned at least that much.

Hope they take their time looking for the new coach. Someone relatively young who can get the team fired up and recruit well. Someone with some Freeman-esqe swagger.
 
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Kansas has gotten into a bad habit of falling behind early then having to scramble and all that's done is given them 2 straight L's.
 
SonofSouthie said:
Quiz time: Name the seven Catholic colleges that have won the Division 1 NCAA men’s basketball championship.
(I got 4)
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I knew 3 right off the bat. When looking up the rest 2 of them were like "oh yeah duh" moments. The other 2 I had no clue. One I would just never have guessed winning. The other I never would have guessed was a Catholic school.

A hint for others: Catholic schools won 3 consecutive titles (and it happened to be the 2 I had no clue on).
 
SonofSouthie said:
Quiz time: Name the seven Catholic colleges that have won the Division 1 NCAA men’s basketball championship.
(I got 4)
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That is effing hard. I got 5 but only because my dad was a Catholic sports fan from the 40s.

There are also so many "obvious" but wrong answers a fella could clean up with this as a bar bet.

This is one of the best sports trivia questions I've ever heard. A double black diamond.
 
Proud2baLaker said:
I knew 3 right off the bat. When looking up the rest 2 of them were like "oh yeah duh" moments. The other 2 I had no clue. One I would just never have guessed winning. The other I never would have guessed was a Catholic school.

A hint for others: Catholic schools won 3 consecutive titles (and it happened to be the 2 I had no clue on).
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I'll bet we both have the same school where we had no idea it was Catholic.
 
Yeah, given its generic name I bet 99% of people would never guess it was catholic unless you grew up in the area and are more familiar with it. The other one with a city in it's name has that qualifier that kind of helps give it away that its not public.

I am also assuming we are all talking about the one that took back-to-back titles? (another big hint)


If it wasn't for Notre Dame (Holy Cross Congregation), the Jesuits would seem to be the most dominate sports wise (College of the Holy Cross is, weirdly, Jesuit).
 
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I don't know if this is news outside of IL, but there are some interesting shenanigans going on with Illinois and Iowa...

Apparently the Orange Krush (Illini Student Fan Group) purchased 200 tickets to Saturday's game in Iowa. When the purchase was made, the said that they were "A Boys and Girls Club" (but not THE Boys & Girls Club). The initial purchase was made in November.

Fast forward to this week. Iowa got wind of who the tickets actually belonged to and cancelled the order and refunded the money for the purchase. Iowa claims it was because the purchase was made under "falsified identity" and that is why they cancelled the tickets. They then gave the 200 tickets to the local chapter of the B&G Club in Iowa City. The Krush are stuck with a $6000 bill for the two charter buses they arranged because it was too late to cancel those without penalty. They claim the organization has an annual budget of $18,000 and this is a giant waste of 1/3 of their budget. So they are crying foul and claiming all this was done because Iowa fears them...

The online banter from this has been worth a bucket of popcorn, lol.
 
RaceBoarder said:
I don't know if this is news outside of IL, but there are some interesting shenanigans going on with Illinois and Iowa...

Apparently the Orange Krush (Illini Student Fan Group) purchased 200 tickets to Saturday's game in Iowa. When the purchase was made, the said that they were "A Boys and Girls Club" (but not THE Boys & Girls Club). The initial purchase was made in November.

Fast forward to this week. Iowa got wind of who the tickets actually belonged to and cancelled the order and refunded the money for the purchase. Iowa claims it was because the purchase was made under "falsified identity" and that is why they cancelled the tickets. They then gave the 200 tickets to the local chapter of the B&G Club in Iowa City. The Krush are stuck with a $6000 bill for the two charter buses they arranged because it was too late to cancel those without penalty. They claim the organization has an annual budget of $18,000 and this is a giant waste of 1/3 of their budget. So they are crying foul and claiming all this was done because Iowa fears them...

The online banter from this has been worth a bucket of popcorn, lol.
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I had also heard that the tickets were purchased at a discounted price because of the claim of Boys and Girls Club. That probably increased the friction quite a bit too.
 
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