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4 games tonight:

North Dakota State at Xavier, 6:30pm.
Delaware State at St John's, 6:30pm.
Villanova at Penn, 7pm. <--- at Palestra? If so, that's cool.
Buffalo at Creighton, 6:30pm.

KenPom:
#341 Delaware State 81 @ #99 St. John's 61 (97.0%)
#5 Villanova 75 @ #184 Penn 60 (92.0%)
#122 Buffalo 71 @ #22 Creighton 86 (92.0%)
#103 North Dakota State 60 @ #13 Xavier 75 (90.0%)

Big East should be snackin' on some cupcakes tonight.

North Dakota State @ 7 Xavier, FS1 - Steve Physioc, Dickey Simpkins

Delaware State @ St. John's, FS2 - Tom Ackerman, Ron Thompson

2 Villanova @ Penn, Comcast Net. PHI - Brian Seltzer, Vince Curran

Buffalo @ 10 Creighton, FS1- Kevin Kulger, Nic Bahe

yeah this week outside the ACC/Big Ten challenge is pretty ugly...

52 games tonight.
10 vs non d1 teams
12 games where favorite is over a 90% favorite
4 more where favorite is over a 80% favorite
so that's like half the games tonight being total dogs.

billyjack wrote:Villanova at Penn, 7pm. <--- at Palestra? If so, that's cool.

Definitely at the Palestra. Great place to watch a game, bench seats notwithstanding. Villanova going for a perfect 16-0 record vs. Big 5 for this senior class, never been done before.

I'll watch some of the SJU game, I'm not to excited about Delaware St.
I really don't care about winning by 25-30pnts.

Until our big men stop being soft, we'll continue to lose.
If they can't score then fine, but atleast REBOUND THE F'ING BALL. Ponds is 6'1 and had 10boards??? and out bigs can't do jack s*.
Freaking makes me sick. Hopefully they men up soon .

REDMEN1415 wrote:I'll watch some of the SJU game, I'm not to excited about Delaware St.
I really don't care about winning by 25-30pnts.

Until our big men stop being soft, we'll continue to lose.
If they can't score then fine, but atleast REBOUND THE F'ING BALL. Ponds is 6'1 and had 10boards??? and out bigs can't do jack s*.
Freaking makes me sick. Hopefully they men up soon .

Yeah, after six games Shamorie Ponds, our 6'1 165 pound freshman guard, is leading the team in rebounds. He also has the teams highest FG percentage (46%), which isn't saying much, since this team couldn't hit water if they fell out of a boat. What a disapponting start. Time for Mullin to start coaching and stop allowing this wild, undisciplined, selfish basketball. I think I'll drop dead if I see anyone even think about making an extra pass. I'm sick of seeing guys get a rebound, dribble through a double team, and launching a three without even looking to pass. (Hello Malik Ellison) I put this on Mullin. Time to stop being their buddy and be a coach, and sit their ass down if they won't play the right way. As bad as they were last year, at least they played as a team. or at least tried to. This year has been nothing but playground ball at it's worst.

hoops22 wrote:

REDMEN1415 wrote:I'll watch some of the SJU game, I'm not to excited about Delaware St.
I really don't care about winning by 25-30pnts.

Until our big men stop being soft, we'll continue to lose.
If they can't score then fine, but atleast REBOUND THE F'ING BALL. Ponds is 6'1 and had 10boards??? and out bigs can't do jack s*.
Freaking makes me sick. Hopefully they men up soon .

Yeah, after six games Shamorie Ponds, our 6'1 165 pound freshman guard, is leading the team in rebounds. He also has the teams highest FG percentage (46%), which isn't saying much, since this team couldn't hit water if they fell out of a boat. What a disapponting start. Time for Mullin to start coaching and stop allowing this wild, undisciplined, selfish basketball. I think I'll drop dead if I see anyone even think about making an extra pass. I'm sick of seeing guys get a rebound, dribble through a double team, and launching a three without even looking to pass. (Hello Malik Ellison) I put this on Mullin. Time to stop being their buddy and be a coach, and sit their ass down if they won't play the right way. As bad as they were last year, at least they played as a team. or at least tried to. This year has been nothing but playground ball at it's worst.

I liked that last year he had them consistently playing hard at all times, even if they had no clue what they were doing they were making mistakes going 100%. Now that he has established that culture of playing hard no matter what and has had an entire season plus an offseason to put in his offensive and defensive systems I am hoping that he holds them accountable for that as well. Making mistakes while playing hard doesn't mean a guy shouldn't play, but while Mullin is developing his roster and playing styles guys should be benched after a mistake and coached up on what they did wrong so they learn before sending them back out. Just having talent and playing hard is not going to be enough to win in this league.

SJU losing to 1-5 Delaware State at the half?

Jet915 wrote:SJU losing to 1-5 Delaware State at the half?

I could be wrong, but that 1 appears to be a D2 school.