We're clear of holiday tournament crap!
@Virginia 49, Wisconsin 37 - I think we accidentally created a time rift by putting these two teams together, and actually played this game in the year 1957 before traveling back to present day
@Syracuse 72, Maryland 70 - my rule of thumb in these games is that home wins are nice, but don't move the needle greatly, while road wins are golden. Road losses aren't too damaging as long as you don't stack up a bunch on top of each other. So, this is business as usual for both
South Carolina 78, @FIU 61 - road wins are never trivial
Not a lot of other notable results....Marquette over EIU in a near-disaster in OT....Oakland wins a roadie at Oral Bob. Belmont loses at home to Lipscomb, so they may be merely of ordinary strength this year.
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
11/26 recap
non-tourney crap:
Texas A&M 75, @USC 59 - and there's a signature road win, and even another disaster for the Pac-12
Nike money grab - Motion bracket
Duke 87, Florida 84
Gonzaga 76, Texas 71 (OT) - more important for Gonzaga than you think
Portland St 87, Stanford 78 - uh oh
Butler 67, Ohio St 66 (OT) - we'll need to see the bubble in February to know how important this one is. In fact, I think we can apply this statement to all the Nike money grab games. The values of these wins will change, so don't get caught up in definitive analysis of these results yet
Nike money grab - Victory bracket
Michigan St 63, North Carolina 45
Arkansas 102, UConn 67
Oklahoma 90, Oregon 80
DePaul 82, Portland 69
Wooden Legacy:
Washington St 93, San Diego St 86 - WSU is good! Who knew! Good Lord, the Pac-12 is going to be a giant mess this year
Georgia 83, St Mary's 81 (OT) - 2 losses at the Wooden for St Mary's, and legit bubble trouble
St Joseph's 74, Sacramento St 69
CS Fullerton 70, Harvard 61
Advocare:
West Virginia 83, Missouri 79
St John's 46, UCF 43
Nebraska 85, Long Beach St 80
Oregon St 65, Marist 46
Texas A&M 75, @USC 59 - and there's a signature road win, and even another disaster for the Pac-12
Nike money grab - Motion bracket
Duke 87, Florida 84
Gonzaga 76, Texas 71 (OT) - more important for Gonzaga than you think
Portland St 87, Stanford 78 - uh oh
Butler 67, Ohio St 66 (OT) - we'll need to see the bubble in February to know how important this one is. In fact, I think we can apply this statement to all the Nike money grab games. The values of these wins will change, so don't get caught up in definitive analysis of these results yet
Nike money grab - Victory bracket
Michigan St 63, North Carolina 45
Arkansas 102, UConn 67
Oklahoma 90, Oregon 80
DePaul 82, Portland 69
Wooden Legacy:
Washington St 93, San Diego St 86 - WSU is good! Who knew! Good Lord, the Pac-12 is going to be a giant mess this year
Georgia 83, St Mary's 81 (OT) - 2 losses at the Wooden for St Mary's, and legit bubble trouble
St Joseph's 74, Sacramento St 69
CS Fullerton 70, Harvard 61
Advocare:
West Virginia 83, Missouri 79
St John's 46, UCF 43
Nebraska 85, Long Beach St 80
Oregon St 65, Marist 46
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
11/25 recap
Another boring Saturday. These programs need to just stop ignoring one day of the week, screw college football.
Barclays Center Classic:
Minnesota 89, Alabama 84
BYU 68, UMass 66
Great Alaska:
Sam Houston St 73, Santa Clara 59
Charleston 55, Alaska Anchorage 46
Central Michigan 75, CS Bakersfield 72
Savannah Inv'l:
Loyola(Chi) 75, Kent St 60
Valparaiso 79, UNC Wilmington 70
Emerald Coast Classic:
Maryland 80, New Mexico 65
TCU 89, St Bonaventure 79 - TCU gets the 2 neutral site wins here. Not terrible
Assorted scores:
UT-Arlington 95, @Niagara 90 - road wins are never trivial
@Providence 86, Boston College 66
Penn 101, @Monmouth 96 (4OT)
@Dayton 73, Akron 60
@Appalachian St 78, Davidson 62 - oof
Georgetown 82, @Richmond 76
Vermont 79, @Yale 73 - road wins are never trivial
Barclays Center Classic:
Minnesota 89, Alabama 84
BYU 68, UMass 66
Great Alaska:
Sam Houston St 73, Santa Clara 59
Charleston 55, Alaska Anchorage 46
Central Michigan 75, CS Bakersfield 72
Savannah Inv'l:
Loyola(Chi) 75, Kent St 60
Valparaiso 79, UNC Wilmington 70
Emerald Coast Classic:
Maryland 80, New Mexico 65
TCU 89, St Bonaventure 79 - TCU gets the 2 neutral site wins here. Not terrible
Assorted scores:
UT-Arlington 95, @Niagara 90 - road wins are never trivial
@Providence 86, Boston College 66
Penn 101, @Monmouth 96 (4OT)
@Dayton 73, Akron 60
@Appalachian St 78, Davidson 62 - oof
Georgetown 82, @Richmond 76
Vermont 79, @Yale 73 - road wins are never trivial
Sunday, November 26, 2017
11/24 recap
Battle 4 Atlantis:
Purdue 89, Arizona 64 - your last place game in Atlantis! Purdue salvages something, but maybe not if this is the Arizona we get this year. This could actually be big trouble for a conference already light on impact teams
Western Kentucky 63, SMU 61 - yikes for SMU; losses to WKU and UNI, but who the hell knows how their win over Zona will translate in March
Tennessee 67, NC State 58 - Tennessee picks up a decent win to go along with their signature win (Purdue)
Villanova 64, Northern Iowa 50
Contrived Nike tournament #1:
Florida 111, Gonzaga 105 (2OT) - consensus seems to be both teams are probably pretty good, and this won't make or break either resume
Duke 85, Texas 78 (OT) - Duke/Fla coming up
Butler 71, Portland St 69
Ohio St 79, Stanford 71
Contrived Nike tournament #2:
Michigan St 77, UConn 57
North Carolina 87, Arkansas 68 - UNC/MSU do their jobs wading their way to the finals
Oklahoma 93, Portland 71
Oregon 89, DePaul 79 (OT)
Barclays Center Classic:
Minnesota 69, UMass 51
Alabama 71, BYU 59
Las Vegas Inv'l:
Arizona St 102, Xavier 86 - okay, ASU: officially not bad!
Kansas St 67, George Washington 59
NIT:
Seton Hall 72, Vanderbilt 59
Virginia 70, Rhode Island 55 - UVa gets the 2 neutral site wins here
Wooden Legacy:
Washington St 84, St Mary's 79 - is WSU secretly not bad as well? I'm confused, I thought the middle of the Pac-12 was awful. Anyways, not the greatest look in the world for St Mary's given the WCC isn't a powerhouse filled with quality win chances to rebound with
Harvard 77, St Joseph's 71
San Diego St 75, Georgia 68 - every win matters for MWC teams
CS-Fullerton 68, Sacramento St 63
Advocare Inv'l:
West Virginia 83, UCF 45
Missouri 90, St John's 82 - so are we going to go full Ewing Theory on this Missou team? UM/WVU in the finals here, hmm
Long Beach St 74, Oregon St 69 - well at least we know OSU is still awful for the Pac-12
Nebraska 84, Marist 59
Savannah Inv'l:
Loyola(Chi) 102, UNC-Wilmington 78 - not the greatest look for the Colonial
Valparaiso 77, Kent St 67
Emerald Coast Classic:
TCU 69, New Mexico 68
St Bonaventure 63, Maryland 61 - swing game, A-10 finally gets one of them in their ledger. Actually both games here felt like swing games, so no disaster for UNM/Maryland...yet
Alaska:
Central Michigan 56, Cal Poly 53
CS-Bakersfield 64, Idaho 62
one non-tourney game worth mentioning:
Nevada 67, @Hawaii 54 - if you haven't noticed, that's 3 true road wins, plus home wins over Idaho (Big Sky fav) and URI and Davidson. No single result is tremendous but the sum of the parts is really starting to look good
Purdue 89, Arizona 64 - your last place game in Atlantis! Purdue salvages something, but maybe not if this is the Arizona we get this year. This could actually be big trouble for a conference already light on impact teams
Western Kentucky 63, SMU 61 - yikes for SMU; losses to WKU and UNI, but who the hell knows how their win over Zona will translate in March
Tennessee 67, NC State 58 - Tennessee picks up a decent win to go along with their signature win (Purdue)
Villanova 64, Northern Iowa 50
Contrived Nike tournament #1:
Florida 111, Gonzaga 105 (2OT) - consensus seems to be both teams are probably pretty good, and this won't make or break either resume
Duke 85, Texas 78 (OT) - Duke/Fla coming up
Butler 71, Portland St 69
Ohio St 79, Stanford 71
Contrived Nike tournament #2:
Michigan St 77, UConn 57
North Carolina 87, Arkansas 68 - UNC/MSU do their jobs wading their way to the finals
Oklahoma 93, Portland 71
Oregon 89, DePaul 79 (OT)
Barclays Center Classic:
Minnesota 69, UMass 51
Alabama 71, BYU 59
Las Vegas Inv'l:
Arizona St 102, Xavier 86 - okay, ASU: officially not bad!
Kansas St 67, George Washington 59
NIT:
Seton Hall 72, Vanderbilt 59
Virginia 70, Rhode Island 55 - UVa gets the 2 neutral site wins here
Wooden Legacy:
Washington St 84, St Mary's 79 - is WSU secretly not bad as well? I'm confused, I thought the middle of the Pac-12 was awful. Anyways, not the greatest look in the world for St Mary's given the WCC isn't a powerhouse filled with quality win chances to rebound with
Harvard 77, St Joseph's 71
San Diego St 75, Georgia 68 - every win matters for MWC teams
CS-Fullerton 68, Sacramento St 63
Advocare Inv'l:
West Virginia 83, UCF 45
Missouri 90, St John's 82 - so are we going to go full Ewing Theory on this Missou team? UM/WVU in the finals here, hmm
Long Beach St 74, Oregon St 69 - well at least we know OSU is still awful for the Pac-12
Nebraska 84, Marist 59
Savannah Inv'l:
Loyola(Chi) 102, UNC-Wilmington 78 - not the greatest look for the Colonial
Valparaiso 77, Kent St 67
Emerald Coast Classic:
TCU 69, New Mexico 68
St Bonaventure 63, Maryland 61 - swing game, A-10 finally gets one of them in their ledger. Actually both games here felt like swing games, so no disaster for UNM/Maryland...yet
Alaska:
Central Michigan 56, Cal Poly 53
CS-Bakersfield 64, Idaho 62
one non-tourney game worth mentioning:
Nevada 67, @Hawaii 54 - if you haven't noticed, that's 3 true road wins, plus home wins over Idaho (Big Sky fav) and URI and Davidson. No single result is tremendous but the sum of the parts is really starting to look good
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
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
Saturday, November 25, 2017
11/22 recap
Non-tourneys:
@Providence 66, Belmont 65 - life is tough for Belmont. This is a campus game for the 2K Classic, Belmont couldn't even get into the main draw of a tourney. Then lose by a point to a legit tourney team, losing whatever small chance they had at bubble relevancy. Such is life
Tourneys everywhere:
Battle 4 Atlantis:
NC State 90, Arizona 84 - well there's one upset
Tennessee 78, Purdue 75 (OT) - and there's another
Northern Iowa 61, SMU 58 - no worries for SMU, they get their quality win chance against Zona anyways. UNI kind of gets snookered here, any chance at a legitimate at-large profile now all of a sudden requires a tourney win
Villanova 66, Western Kentucky 58 - a disaster for Nova. The other 2 best teams lose, and are on the opposite side of the bracket. Tennessee, UNI, and NC State are decent, but Nova loses all access to signature win chances. Meanwhile Arizona and Purdue are still on a collision course and both have a chance to salvage a quality win out of this trip. Life ain't fair
Maui:
Notre Dame 67, Wichita St 66 - UND walks away with the signature win here, Wichita will need to find a signature win elsewhere to use to get a top-2 seed
Marquette 94, LSU 84 - not an awful tourney for Marquette either, they grab 2 decent wins out of it
Michigan 68, VCU 60 - not great for a VCU team that's looking at no help in A-10 conference play
Chaminade 96, California 72 - wait, what? WHAT?!?!?!
Cayman Islands:
Cincinatti 78, Wyoming 53 - again, what a useless tourney for Cincy
Iowa 95, UAB 85
South Dakota St 95, Buffalo 80
Louisiana 82, Richmond 86 - not sure what to make of this tourney overall. Lot of results that don't really help any resumes enough. Iowa punted 2 games to mid-majors. Louisiana finishes 3rd but Richmond is not very good and Iowa was their other win. Ouches all around except Wyoming, I guess
Gulf Coast:
Northern Illinois 70, Manhattan 68
Missouri St 71, Florida Atlantic 60
Penn 68, UMKC 65
Towson 70, Georgia Southern 67 - Towson wins, a nice boon to the Colonial. 3 neutral site wins are always a net positive for a mid-major
Great Alaska Shootout:
Cal Poly 73, Charleston 68 - man, this tourney fell by the wayside. Anyways, a catastrophic loss for Charleston, now on the wrong side of an already weak tourney. Big blow to the CAA
Central Michigan 71, Sam Houston St 60
Idaho 69, Santa Clara 59
CS-Bakersfield 59, Alaska-Anchorage 39 - an eclectic group of mid-majors here. Got a WAC favorite, MAC favorite, Southland favorite, and CAA favorite, and Big Sky favorite....not bad. For now, a big strike to the CAA, a minor boon to the MAC and Big Sky
Cancun:
Fresno St 79, George Mason 73
Louisiana Tech 63, Evansville 61 - LaTech gets the 2 wins here
MGM Resorts:
Ole Miss 79, Rice 62
UNLV 85, Utah 58 - UNLV enters as favorites and gets the 2 wins here
@Providence 66, Belmont 65 - life is tough for Belmont. This is a campus game for the 2K Classic, Belmont couldn't even get into the main draw of a tourney. Then lose by a point to a legit tourney team, losing whatever small chance they had at bubble relevancy. Such is life
Tourneys everywhere:
Battle 4 Atlantis:
NC State 90, Arizona 84 - well there's one upset
Tennessee 78, Purdue 75 (OT) - and there's another
Northern Iowa 61, SMU 58 - no worries for SMU, they get their quality win chance against Zona anyways. UNI kind of gets snookered here, any chance at a legitimate at-large profile now all of a sudden requires a tourney win
Villanova 66, Western Kentucky 58 - a disaster for Nova. The other 2 best teams lose, and are on the opposite side of the bracket. Tennessee, UNI, and NC State are decent, but Nova loses all access to signature win chances. Meanwhile Arizona and Purdue are still on a collision course and both have a chance to salvage a quality win out of this trip. Life ain't fair
Maui:
Notre Dame 67, Wichita St 66 - UND walks away with the signature win here, Wichita will need to find a signature win elsewhere to use to get a top-2 seed
Marquette 94, LSU 84 - not an awful tourney for Marquette either, they grab 2 decent wins out of it
Michigan 68, VCU 60 - not great for a VCU team that's looking at no help in A-10 conference play
Chaminade 96, California 72 - wait, what? WHAT?!?!?!
Cayman Islands:
Cincinatti 78, Wyoming 53 - again, what a useless tourney for Cincy
Iowa 95, UAB 85
South Dakota St 95, Buffalo 80
Louisiana 82, Richmond 86 - not sure what to make of this tourney overall. Lot of results that don't really help any resumes enough. Iowa punted 2 games to mid-majors. Louisiana finishes 3rd but Richmond is not very good and Iowa was their other win. Ouches all around except Wyoming, I guess
Gulf Coast:
Northern Illinois 70, Manhattan 68
Missouri St 71, Florida Atlantic 60
Penn 68, UMKC 65
Towson 70, Georgia Southern 67 - Towson wins, a nice boon to the Colonial. 3 neutral site wins are always a net positive for a mid-major
Great Alaska Shootout:
Cal Poly 73, Charleston 68 - man, this tourney fell by the wayside. Anyways, a catastrophic loss for Charleston, now on the wrong side of an already weak tourney. Big blow to the CAA
Central Michigan 71, Sam Houston St 60
Idaho 69, Santa Clara 59
CS-Bakersfield 59, Alaska-Anchorage 39 - an eclectic group of mid-majors here. Got a WAC favorite, MAC favorite, Southland favorite, and CAA favorite, and Big Sky favorite....not bad. For now, a big strike to the CAA, a minor boon to the MAC and Big Sky
Cancun:
Fresno St 79, George Mason 73
Louisiana Tech 63, Evansville 61 - LaTech gets the 2 wins here
MGM Resorts:
Ole Miss 79, Rice 62
UNLV 85, Utah 58 - UNLV enters as favorites and gets the 2 wins here
Friday, November 24, 2017
11/21 recap
Signature wins:
@Alabama 77, UT Arlington 76 - yeah, I think this counts as one
@Middle Tennessee 85, FGCU 72 - okay, maybe we're stretching the definition here, but go ahead and find another non-tourney game to highlight today
@Nevada 81, Davidson 68 - meh
Tournaments:
Maui:
Wichita St 80, Marquette 66
Notre Dame 92, LSU 53 - this tournament went to script and WSU/UND is our inevitable endgame
VCU 83, Cal 69
Michigan 102, Chaminade 64
Cayman Islands:
Cincinnati 75, Richmond 48 - this tourney has turned into a waste of Cincy's time
South Dakota St 80, Iowa 72
Wyoming 70, Louisiana 61
Buffalo 96, UAB 91 (OT)
Progressive Legends Classic:
Texas A&M 98, Penn St 87 - two wins according to script for the favorite A&M here
Oklahoma St 73, Pittsburgh 67
HoF Classic:
UCLA 72, Wisconsin 70 - Wisky takes a pretty harmful 0-2 out of this. You don't want to be the one leaving 0-2 in this kind of tourney setup
Baylor 65, Creighton 59
Gulf Coast Showcase:
Missouri St 69, Manhattan 65
Florida Atlantic 77, Northern Illinois 67
Georgia Southern 78, UMKC 75
Towson 79, Penn 71
Cancun Challenge:
Louisiana Tech 77, George Mason 64
Evansville 59, Fresno St 57
@Alabama 77, UT Arlington 76 - yeah, I think this counts as one
@Middle Tennessee 85, FGCU 72 - okay, maybe we're stretching the definition here, but go ahead and find another non-tourney game to highlight today
@Nevada 81, Davidson 68 - meh
Tournaments:
Maui:
Wichita St 80, Marquette 66
Notre Dame 92, LSU 53 - this tournament went to script and WSU/UND is our inevitable endgame
VCU 83, Cal 69
Michigan 102, Chaminade 64
Cayman Islands:
Cincinnati 75, Richmond 48 - this tourney has turned into a waste of Cincy's time
South Dakota St 80, Iowa 72
Wyoming 70, Louisiana 61
Buffalo 96, UAB 91 (OT)
Progressive Legends Classic:
Texas A&M 98, Penn St 87 - two wins according to script for the favorite A&M here
Oklahoma St 73, Pittsburgh 67
HoF Classic:
UCLA 72, Wisconsin 70 - Wisky takes a pretty harmful 0-2 out of this. You don't want to be the one leaving 0-2 in this kind of tourney setup
Baylor 65, Creighton 59
Gulf Coast Showcase:
Missouri St 69, Manhattan 65
Florida Atlantic 77, Northern Illinois 67
Georgia Southern 78, UMKC 75
Towson 79, Penn 71
Cancun Challenge:
Louisiana Tech 77, George Mason 64
Evansville 59, Fresno St 57
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