Saturday, December 12, 2015

12/11 recap

Almost no one played last night.  Literally not a single score that I would normally type up here occurred last night.

Cupcake winners:  Pitt, Valparaiso (on the road! at a terrible team, but still on the road), North Dakota St (on the road, too).

By the way, Valpo is 7-2 overall, and 4-2 on the road.  The committee looks favorably upon playing all those roadies, and winning them.  Losing at Ball St is forgivable when  you beat Oregon St and Rhode Island on the road too.   The bad news is they might be out of quality win chances because the Horizon is a tire fire.

Friday, December 11, 2015

12/10 recap

We've hit the finals lull.

Signature win of the day:
@Iowa St 83, Iowa 82 - okay so it's not exactly signature, but it beats the alternative

Catastrophic loss of the day:
Southern 68, @Wyoming 58

Cupcake winners:  SDSU, Seton Hall

Thursday, December 10, 2015

12/9 recap

Signature win of the day:
Dayton 72, @Vanderbilt 67 - on the road at the presumptive SEC #2 is a good scalp

Catastrophic loss of the day:
Milwaukee 68, @Wisconsin 67

Notables:
@Arizona 85, Fresno St 72
Valparaiso 69, @Indiana St 63 - these road games are land mines for the prospective mid-major
@BYU 80, Utah St 68
@Wichita St 56, UNLV 50
@Pepperdine 77, Long Beach St 75

Cupcake winners:  Michigan St, Kansas, Kentucky, Purdue, Providence, Temple (on the road at Penn), Indiana, Kansas St, Creighton, Missouri, Illinois (just over Yale), Davidson, Boise St, Colorado St, Cal

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

12/8 recap

Signature win of the day:
South Dakota St 84, @Minnesota 70

Nearly catastrophic loss of the day:
@Gonzaga 61, Montana 58

Notables:
Maryland 76, UConn 66 - reasonably solid neutral-site win
Virginia 70, West Virginia 54 - ditto
@Miami 66, Florida 55
@SMU 82, Michigan 58 - SMU will be helping the AAC, at least.  What is wrong with Michigan?
Northern Iowa 73, @George Mason 65
@George Washington 76, Penn St 66
@Arkansas 89, Evansville 76
@Washington 92, TCU 67

Cupcake winners:  Xavier, Baylor, Rhode Island, St Joseph's, Georgia, Syracuse, Texas-Arlington, Texas, Ohio St, Marquette, Stephen F Austin, Tulsa, Notre Dame

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

12/7 recap

Signature win of the day:
Oklahoma 78, Villanova 55 - a neutral site win over a probable Big East champ?  Okay then

Cupcake winners:  Iowa St, Purdue, Butler, Oregon, Iowa, Georgetown, USC, San Diego St

Monday, December 7, 2015

12/6 recap

Signature wins of the day:
@Baylor 69, Vanderbilt 67 - not likely to overly impact either team
@Florida St 76, VCU 71 - rebound for FSU and a pretty big blow to VCU

Catastrophic losses of the day:
Colorado 88, @Colorado St 77 - not seeing the strength in the MWC this year, so these drops of home games are pretty costly
San Diego 53, San Diego St 48 - and this is why the MWC is down

Notables:
@North Carolina 98, Davidson 65
UMass-Lowell 68, @Boston College 66 - oy
@Clemson 66, Wofford 51
@Southern Miss 74, North Dakota St 62 - ew
@UCLA 83, Long Beach St 76

Cupcake winners:  Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, St Mary's, Washington

Sunday, December 6, 2015

12/5 recap

Signature wins:
Arizona 68, @Gonzaga 63 - obvious
@Georgetown 79, Syracuse 72 - a signature win for a team desperately needing one
Arizona St 67, @Texas A&M 54 - is ASU not as awful as we think?  A&M will qualify as a quality win this year
Providence 74, @Rhode Island 72 - quality road win

Catastrophic losses:
South Dakota 85, @Minnesota 81 (2OT)
Missouri St 64, @Oklahoma St 63
Oral Roberts 70, @Tulsa 68 - the double whammy of a bad home loss and watching your signature wins fritter away to nothing.  sigh
@Richmond 82, Northern Iowa 67

Notables:
@Virginia 67, William & Mary 52
@Purdue 70, New Mexico 58
@Xavier 95, Western Kentucky 64
Seton Hall 84, @Rutgers 55 - Rutgers:  not good
@Wisconsin 76, Temple 60 - not a trivial result
@Dayton 86, North Florida 71
@Loyola(Chi) 68, Creighton 65
California 78, @Wyoming 72 (OT) - hey, road wins are road wins
@BYU 73, Weber St 68
Ole Miss 74, UMass 64
@Long Beach St 67, New Mexico St 53
Evansville 85, @Murray St 81 (OT)
Texas-Arlington 76, @UTEP 62 - UTA has an at-large resume, folks

Cupcake winners:  Michigan St, Kansas, Duke, West Virginia, Miami, SMU, Louisville, North Carolina St, Butler, Utah, Michigan, Marquette, Iowa, Illinois, South Carolina, Oregon St, Ohio St, Stephen F Austin, Memphis, Indiana, Boise St