Monday, December 30, 2013

12/30 recap

Tennessee 87, Virginia 52 - lol ACC
NC State 68, UNC Greensboro 64 - road win!
Louisiana Tech 102, Oklahoma 98 (OT) - quality road win!  La Tech could get some mileage out of it.  Looks bad for OU, but there's enough chances in conference play that they can make this go away
Kansas 93, Toledo 83
Ole Miss 79, Western Kentucky 74 - road win!
St Louis 57, Vanderbilt 49 - road win!


WCC play:
St Mary's 88, Pacific 80 - quality road win stops the bleeding
Pepperdine 80, BYU 74 - but this would appears to be critical for BYU.  My God what is happening to this team
Loyola Marymount 65, San Diego 62 - LMU has the shiny record with no heft, remember
Gonzaga 69, San Francisco 41 - yawn
Santa Clara 76, Portland 68


Tuesday preview:
The Big East is underway with 5 conference games.  St John's/Xavier, SHU/Provi, DePaul/G'town, Nova/Butler, Marquette/Creighton.  Marquette in an early must-win situation.  And a chance for Butler to start working their way up the board.

B1G play is also underway.  Indiana at Illinois is where your attention should be.  Unless major upsets happen, you can ignore the other games for now.

American play is also underway.  Louisville, Memphis, and UConn on the road at UCF, USF, and Houston, respectively.  This is the beginning for both - trap road games that can do great harm, but can do some good, because road wins

Relevancy elsewhere, too:  
Kent St at Princeton - sneaky good mid-major game
Duke v. Elon - this is a neutral site game (those clever Dookies)
North Carolina Central at Maryland - I'm putting Maryland on upset watch
George Washington at Kansas St - great litmus test game for GWU

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