are they really -11?

11/14/2007 6:48:14 PM

ya is that too high or too low for you? its what i was expecting.

11/14/2007 6:52:45 PM

i would've expected them to be favored more, being preseason #1. i guess 11 points is a lot, though.

[Edited on November 14, 2007 at 7:03 PM. Reason : i also don't gamble, so what do i know]

11/14/2007 7:02:46 PM

davidson should be in the 20s they are a solid team and have a great backcourt. unc is ranked #1 but anybody with money at stake knows that they are not a dominant team.

[Edited on November 14, 2007 at 7:09 PM. Reason : throw quinton thomas in and they are much worse. why not bobby frasor roy?]

11/14/2007 7:07:09 PM

UTEP up 1 over Texas A&M, 8:45 to go (ESPNU)


whats with the shot clock being set to 00 on foul shots?

[Edited on November 14, 2007 at 10:43 PM. Reason : ]

11/14/2007 10:43:27 PM

yay for early morning basketball

Tomorrow morning 9 and 11 am, Puerto Rico Tip-Off
9am: Houston/VCU
~11am (I assume 11:30am really): Marist/Miami
2:30pm - Providence/Temple
~4:30pm - Arkansas/C of C

11/14/2007 11:39:32 PM

well the rankings will settle down in about 2 weeks into shit that people can actually depend on rather than being 25 teams the voters came up with in an arrangement they pulled out of their asses

11/14/2007 11:41:30 PM

Can't wait until tonight! First chance to see how improved UConn really is. I think they can play with Memphis but the experience will certainly favor the Tigers.

There has NEVER been any love between Calhoun and Calipari as each refused to play each other while they were at the two big New England public schools. As far as I can tell they still hate each other so each will have their teams playing with fire and passion.

Expect to see a lot of blocked shots, a lot of fouls and no easy looks from the perimeter...

Should be fun..

Quote :

"Friday Look Ahead: Clash of C's promises to be icy affair Nov. 16, 2007 By Gary Parrish CBSSports.com Senior Writer John Calipari and Jim Calhoun hate each other. They won't acknowledge this, of course. Not publicly, at least. But regardless of how much they smile for the cameras in each other's presence, these two men have a relationship that is among the iciest in the sport, dating back to the days when a 29-year-old Calipari took over at Massachusetts and started explaining to any reporter with a notepad how his Minutemen playing Connecticut was good for New England basketball. That's right, Calipari (from Moon Township, Pa.) spent a good portion of the late 1980s and early 1990s telling Calhoun (from Braintree, Mass.) what was good and bad for New England basketball, and never mind that Calipari had just moved to New England and Calhoun had been there his whole life. Those details didn't matter to the young coach. He was just as brash then as he is today at Memphis, and it all led to Calhoun openly mocking Calipari while nicknaming him "Johnny Clam Chowder." So again, these guys hate each other. To this day, still. Which is why the title game of the 2K Sports College Hoops Classic should be a dandy Friday night when Calipari's Tigers play Calhoun's Huskies at Madison Square Garden. It'll be the first time Calhoun and Calipari have met on the sidelines since the 1989-90 season. And when they shake hands before tip-off and put their arms around each other, just promise me that you won't believe any of it's genuine. Because it's not. Calipari and Calhoun hate each other. And here's the rest of the Friday Look Ahead. Game worth flying to see in person: The matchup of the weekend is Memphis vs. UConn at MSG. Why? On some level, it's because of Derrick Rose and Jeff Adrien, Joey Dorsey and Hasheem Thabeet. But mostly, it's because of the Calipari-Calhoun storyline. They hate each other, remember. How many times do I need to go over this?"

[Edited on November 16, 2007 at 2:57 PM. Reason : x]

11/16/2007 2:46:11 PM

holy shit, gardner webb's coach's wife is hideous.

11/16/2007 7:54:25 PM

could gardener web coach possibly have a worse wife?

after the win over kentucky he will prolly be upgrading.

11/16/2007 7:54:36 PM

tennessee cant even handle prairie view

fucking horrible

11/16/2007 8:19:58 PM

SHOUTOUT VIA DICKIE V

11/16/2007 8:22:32 PM

^ what'd he say? i had it on mute.

11/16/2007 8:27:41 PM

he was talking about duke for a long time and then he started talking about the rest of the acc "...acc will be good certainly with unc, ncstate (who is coming off a big win last night jj hickson had 31 points on 12 for 12 shooting another great freshman stepping up early sidney lowes definately got some great guys around him), then you also have clemson...blah blah about clemson"

something like that

11/16/2007 8:32:41 PM

go uconn, fuck calipari

11/16/2007 9:48:58 PM

meh, i'll take sidney lowe > calipari anyway.

11/16/2007 9:55:17 PM

arkansas was insanely overated

[Edited on November 16, 2007 at 10:12 PM. Reason : is the memphis uconn game in hd?]

11/16/2007 9:56:54 PM

CDR is nasty.

11/16/2007 10:53:06 PM

Memphis is a glorified And-1 team... they are good but they'll get beat a bunch of times by an experienced team.

11/16/2007 10:54:41 PM

another defensive rebound given up by Thabeet, I'm gonna lose a ton of respect for nba scouts if this guy goes first round

11/16/2007 10:58:31 PM

this has been a good game, but it really hasn't been a terribly impressive display of basketball.

11/16/2007 10:59:08 PM

early season basketball is never really pretty, but the athleticism on that Memphis team is incredible. come February they will have jelled and look like a team ready to take the title. they were my preseason pick

11/16/2007 11:08:47 PM

1st game of 5 in a row finishing up on ESPN2 now

11/19/2007 4:34:46 PM

heh i just realized the time over there.. a 9:30am game would suck ass

LSU and Oklahoma State now. ESPN2

[Edited on November 19, 2007 at 5:07 PM. Reason : ]

haha bilas pretty critical of the coaches box rule, it is stupid.

[Edited on November 19, 2007 at 5:10 PM. Reason : ]

11/19/2007 5:06:42 PM

It's still a morning game out in Maui, so Bilas and Raftery are sober. Wait until tonight for the thousands of laughs a minute. There is nothing quite like listening to Sean McDonough trying to hold together a broadcast with an obviously piss drunk Raftery and Bilas talking shit about everything from Canada to a ref's haircut...

[Edited on November 19, 2007 at 5:12 PM. Reason : i love the maui invt'l]

11/19/2007 5:12:27 PM

LSU tryin to come back

11/19/2007 6:56:43 PM

The coaches' box rule is different in womens basketball

[Edited on November 19, 2007 at 6:59 PM. Reason : .]

11/19/2007 6:58:33 PM

Should I be pulling for Maryland or no? I really, really hate those guys almost as much as UNC, but I'd like for people to stop this "the ACC is weak this year" crap that we hear every other year just b/c some quality players left.

11/19/2007 7:42:55 PM

lol dickie v

HE KNEW HOW MUCH TIME WAS LEFT ON THE CLOCK AND IS ONLY A FRESHMAN? WHAT A DIAPER DANDY

11/19/2007 7:54:20 PM

i stood 3 seconds of dickie V's voice before vomiting

11/19/2007 7:55:00 PM

UCLA is going to win the NC

11/19/2007 8:16:40 PM

twice I flipped through the UCLA/Md game to look at the score and twice I've seen UCLA posterize Maryland

11/19/2007 8:17:29 PM

wow, this kevin love suckfest is approaching hansbrough proportions

[Edited on November 19, 2007 at 9:08 PM. Reason : dicky v was about to really dog us but the other guy changed the subject]

11/19/2007 8:50:23 PM

lawl, a linebeard.

11/19/2007 8:55:24 PM

switch to the duke game already

11/19/2007 9:11:50 PM

yeah they sound drunk

11/19/2007 10:35:00 PM

it's almost herb time

11/19/2007 10:57:29 PM

i like this whole back to back to back to back to back basketball thing

more often plz?

lol bonus coverage is in HD but since it was on ESPNU nobody else could see it

[Edited on November 19, 2007 at 11:02 PM. Reason : ]

this game is getting interesting.. ESPNU now

[Edited on November 19, 2007 at 11:21 PM. Reason : ]

11/19/2007 10:58:16 PM

hahahaha

[Edited on November 19, 2007 at 11:46 PM. Reason : funny because vitale was lovin ASU earlier i think]

11/19/2007 11:45:50 PM

well mizzou blew the fuck out of that one.

11/19/2007 11:47:17 PM

still have a chance

11/19/2007 11:48:12 PM

they'd have a lot better chance if they didn't let msu run around for 12 seconds.

11/19/2007 11:48:59 PM

damn that almost went in

11/19/2007 11:50:20 PM

holy fuck, asu is getting to' up.

11/19/2007 11:50:21 PM

wouldn't have counted though

11/19/2007 11:50:51 PM

wouldn't have mattered since he didn't get it off in time

11/19/2007 11:51:15 PM

choppin wood, choppin wood..

11/20/2007 12:01:48 AM

herb had powerful thighs

11/20/2007 12:03:49 AM

haha bilas is DRUNK~

lol chopping wood


rofl "slow deterioration of herb sendek"

[Edited on November 20, 2007 at 12:06 AM. Reason : ]

[Edited on November 20, 2007 at 12:08 AM. Reason : woah did we just get refered to just as "state" by anyone at ESPN?]

11/20/2007 12:03:59 AM

haha rick pitino asked out herb's wife for him

11/20/2007 12:07:31 AM