11/23 recap

PK 80 Motion, or as I like to call it, "Nike starts their own holiday tournament, with blackjack and hookers", version 1:
Duke 99, Portland St 81
Florida 108, Stanford 87
Gonzaga 86, Ohio St 59
Texas 61, Butler 48 - classic swing game.  Texas gets access to quality win chances, Butler is buried on the wrong side of the bracket

PK 80 Victory, , or as I like to call it, "Nike starts their own holiday tournament, with blackjack and hookers", version 2:
Michigan St 73, DePaul 51
North Carolina 102, Portland 78
Arkansas 92, Oklahoma 83 - classic swing game.  Arky gets access to quality win chances, Oklahoma is buried on the wrong side of the bracket
UConn 71, Oregon 63 - ok, the Pac-12 should maybe start worrying about things

Battle 4 Atlantis
SMU 66, Arizona 60 - ok, now it's time to worry about Arizona.  One flameout is fine, two is bad.  Remember the Pac-12 is down, and Arizona is bleeding away quality win chances
Western Kentucky 77, Purdue 73 - and what is Purdue doing losing this game?  This tourney is now a disaster for them too, although PU has access to resume building chances in conference play.  Arizona/Purdue is a dumb 7th place game and someone's getting their resume destroyed and someone's gonna salvage theirs
Northern Iowa 64, NC State 60 - all of a sudden it's two quality wins for UNI and access to Villanova and a signature win.  This is one weird tournament
Villanova 85, Tennessee 76 - Nova's gotta be wondering what value they're getting out of this tournament.  And it's Atlantis!

Las Vegas Inv'l:
Xavier 83, George Washington 64 - sadly, a win with no nutritional value
Arizona St 92, Kansas St 90 - is ASU secretly not bad?

NIT Tip-Off:
Rhode Island 75, Seton Hall 74 - might be the signature win of the day.  Given how down the A-10 is, URI desperately needs a quality win of any kind on the ledger
Virginia 68, Vanderbilt 42 - bad, bad start to the year for Vandy, they're well off the bubble pace

Wooden Legacy:
St Mary's 89, Harvard 71
Washington St 75, St Joseph's 71
Georgia 64, CS-Fullerton 57
San Diego St 89, Sacramento St 52 - the favorites all hold here

Advocare Inv'l:
West Virginia 84, Marist 78
Missouri 95, Long Beach St 58
St John's 82, Oregon St 77
UCF 68, Nebraska 59 - quirky tournament with a few haves and a few have nots.  All the favorites avoided disaster, though

Great Alaska Shootout:
Charleston 59, Sam Houston St 49
Alaska-Anchorage 78, Santa Clara 73 (OT) - oof