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Got it, I think I have Bill Littlefield's NPR review copy.

This was my first SU game on my new HDTV - glad it will get better. Also: seeing Food Lion and Hardee's commercials is ridiculous. The BE was no-win but I still kind of hate this ACC thing.

I was wondering where they all came from - Charlotte too I suppose. 5 hours from DC?

Big East-esque without all the grabbing. I mean from an ugliness standpoint. Like grinding out a win at the RAC or something. But since I finally got a big screen HDTV to watch stuff on it was tolerable.

My list is mediocre but I have a country (boldfaced) I haven't seen yet so I'm posting. United States (45 states, all except AK HI ND SD MT) Canada Mexico Great Britain (England and Scotland) Italy Vatican City San Marino (drove from Tuscany->Florence->Bologna->Adriatic coast (Rimini)->Tuscany...

It didn't help John Wallace to stay. He did get to experience 1996 of course, but lost out from a draft perspective.

The Boston Globe has Nassib as #2 QB behind Geno, but doesn't project a first round (yet). It does predict that Nassib will go late 1 early 2. So MCW wins. In this spiny anteater - boron atom comparison. Remember when hoops had like 7 rounds and 16 teams. Yikes.

Thanks for posting. I didn't know this story. Of course I remember us going up 38-0 against Tom Brady (at the time -who?) in the "Big House".

Michigan. Florida is so versatile. And in case we win I also have to somehow root for Puke over L'ville. Do not want Cardinals. Don't even know if I can watch that game because I know I'll root for Louisville.

And Purdue sucks.

They also showed him on the big screen earlier; he was at the game with Troy Brown.

Bobcats is kind of a cool name. It's Toronto that needs a name change. They were named after a 6 month dinosaur fad that just happened to be popular when they were begat. How about Charlotte Eels? (lotte being French for eel if I remember my HS French correctly)

UK doesn't bother me at all, and they aren't "taking advantage" of anything. I'm not even convinced UK is cheating; not sure guys at the level UK recruits at even need to be concerned with extra benefits since they are a year away from the NBA. And players at UK, as a previous poster said, do...

Not even sure why a guy guaranteed to go top 2 in the draft would even be interested in taking money from a college program. He can buy insurance to protect against injury.

I thought so too but no one on the telecast said a word. Wasn't it at least worth a replay?

Speaking of CJ, have I missed something along the way? Is he sick or hurt?

Exactly. Not sure how the announcers missed it after three replays.

Is it possible for a ref to whistle a makeup call in less than a second?

It was meaningless and it's out of the way. Weird - I've missed watching two games all year - Notre Dame and this one.

Well, there are no undefeated teams so everyone is beatable.

Every D1 team does play, except the Ivies. Conference tournaments for many conferences are the first rounds. 128 would be awful. Who could possibly keep track of it for one thing? UConn and Pitt would be in if there were 128 teams.

Kentucky has more one-and-dones because they recruit better players. If we could get those guys we would, and they'd leave.

My house also. Of course I don't have tickets but I'll manage.

No, not who would win. Please study and learn it if you are guilty of making this error, especially in a headline :) UK - Kentucky KU - Kansas

Georgetown. They attacked the zone with intelligence; their passing offense is well-suited for patience and getting good shots.

Agreed. If the inbounder is just chucking it rather than passing to someone does it matter if someone is in his face or not? And by not guarding the pass he's chucking it to 5 of us and 4 of them. With 1.7 seconds left I like it. More than 3 seconds I'd guard the pass.

Before the loss they were at 45 in Sagarin. They've been beating OVC teams by < 10 pts whereas Kentucky, us, tOSU and others would be winning by 20+. They just kept moving up in the polls because voters can't see the big picture and just keep moving teams up when other teams lose, as if Baylor...

Correct.

It was a great line in the context of the rivalry. However I was actually at the game seeing Louie's shot fall short and it sucked hard. (Was the second loss GW in the pre-season NIT?)

Honestly I hate moving to the goddamn ACC, I really do. I would like to freeze time to when we had 14 teams and 2 of them were really good at football or at least had the potential to be. I understand why it is happening but I hate it and am starting to hate football by association.

I think it is unfair for UConn to be banned when the rule was added after some of the statistics that define the criteria were already in the books.

DeCourcy makes some excellent points. I am comforted that Sagarin has us #1 by a pretty big margin, but...

I remember their first season in the ACC they only made seats available to season ticket holders, etc. Not so much anymore. I suspect they could probably sell out for us even with just their fans though, as they do for Dook and UNC. Something tells me I'll end up paying $100 on Stubhub or...

Honestly having the National Anthem before every sports match is a pretty dumb tradition. And is it ever presented these days without some military or paramilitary presence. Should those of us not in the armed forces get our own flag? SU fans did create a bit more ruckus than the "O" during...

The Providence fans seem pretty resigned to their fate. Any number of attempts were made to energize them (players exorting from the scoreboard, coach waving his arms, lots of "NOISE" scoreboard messages, efforts from dance team, etc) and they pretty much just sat there like toads. Oh, and...

I see Wisconsin is ranked #326 in "Luck", which I guess implies they have lost close games without winning any (ie, are probably better than their record indicates).

Some additional data from Sagarin re: Wisconsin. Sagarin has two rankings, ELO CHESS (only considers wins/losses) and PREDICTOR (only considers scoring margins), and both contribute to the overall ranking. There is a HUGE spread in Wisconsin's rankings in these two areas - ELO CHESS is 34...

At least we are now #1 in Sagarin, which has been a rarity when we are #1 in the polls.

I'm going. About an hour's drive and the late start is awesome.

Bitching about whether or not we are #1 and deserve to be or not should be left to wannabe big-time programs that have never been there before. Do fans at KU, UK, UNC or Duke get this bent out of shape over perceived slights or how someone voted? If so then by all means let us proceed. If not...

According to nbadraft.net, all 4 of these are 1st rounders and Rak is 2013 lottery pick. FWIW.

Sagarin ratings (which have a mathematical basis as opposed to the made up formulas of the RPI), has the BE as #3. No doubt because it has Marquette (1), SU (3) and Louisville (5) in the top 5. Estimate 6 NCAA bids based on these rankings, adding Pitt, UConn and Seton Hall. Sagarin has the...

The awesomest part of all of this is that BC's Sagarin rating was 300 (before their win over Stony Brook). If they continue at that pace they'll be the lowest ranked BCS conference team I can think of, ever. They are playing 9 guys who have never played college hoops before; how does a major...

Every student at Harvard gets the aid they need, so I'm not sure how athletes would be an exception.

That crappy TA&M team was in the Sagarin top 10 all year. Not that crappy at all.

I'm fine with OSU as #3 - they lost to a crappy team; Alabama lost to LSU by a FG.

Too early to tell. Long-term progression never happens in a purely linear fashion.

I think there is an inverse correlation between FT shooting ability and athleticism that explains a lot of our rankings.

The worst thing about NFL football is that it now requires FIVE guys in suits to analyze the game for an hour before it starts.

It's really stupid to add a rule now and time it in such a way that teams are affected without having any opportunity to make changes. The NCAA sucks 1 trillion times more than UConn ever did.