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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3307583, member: 289"] PART TWO Greg in Baldwinsville asked about our NCAA chances. Will the ACC get 6 teams? Greg felt that the ‘experts’ were under-rating the competitiveness of the ACC. JB: “The NET metric allows you to get credit for beating up on bad teams. In 2017 we won two road games and beat three Top 10 teams in the Dome. They told us that we had to win road games to get in. this year we’ve won 5 road games. There should never be a year when the ACC doesn’t get 6 teams. Notre Dame is 17-10 and I heard an announcer saying that they can’t get in. This will be the most difficult year for the committee in deciding who gets in.” (That’s pretty much what they do. I thought that the committee ignores conferences beyond the champions and looks at every team as an “at large” team.) Greg was upset that the Big Ten might get 10 teams, (at last they are the “Big Ten”!) JB: “Wisconsin and Michigan have bene really good and really bad. Rutgers hasn’t lost at home but has one win on the road in the conference.” Matt suggested that the RAC is a tough place to play. JB: “It’s small and noisy. When the team plays well, the fans get into it.” Matt Park went over the records of the Big Ten’s six Top 25 teams. Maryland is 5-5 on the road. Penn State is 5-4, as is Michigan State. Iowa is 4-6, Ohio State 3-6 and Rutgers 1-8. JB: “Those teams, (meaning Rutgers), have never gotten in the tournament in the past. Win by a lot (20 is the limit per Matt Park), and you move up. We moved from 67 to 59.” (Per this, we didn’t move at all: [URL="https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-men/d1/ncaa-mens-basketball-net-rankings"]DI Men's Basketball Rankings - NCAA Men's Basketball NET Rankings | NCAA.com[/URL] “It doesn’t matter who you beat. Last year NC State had a 35 NET ranking but didn’t get in due to a weak non-conference schedule. A lot of teams look pretty good. Providence is 4-3 in Quad 1 road games, (Matt said that we are 0-3). But they have two Quad 4 losses and Two Quad 3 losses. We don’t have any.” They went around the conference. Florida State beat Louisville 82-67 in a game where Malik Williams got injured. JB: “Florida State was our best chance for a good win.” Wake Forest beating Duke 112-101 in two overtimes, “was a crazy game. Duke had control with an 8-9 point lead. Carey fouled out and Wake got a couple steals and a three. They don’t usually blow games. Wake has beaten both Duke and UNC for the first time in many years. They and UNC are a lot better than their record. NC State is the most confusing team. We probably would have beaten them with Elijah. They beat Duke but lost twice to UNC and beat us, then lost to Boston College. Virginia Tech lost by 30 the first time they played Virginia and scored 11 points in the first half in the second game. Then they got 42 points in the second half. They can shoot but Virginia doesn’t give you good looks from outside. Notre Dame beat BC when T. J. Gibbs made a last second shot. “BC should have fouled them but didn’t. Gibbs man left him to go after Hubbs. Note Dame has had some crazy games this year.” It’s a ‘crazy’ conference. The Orangewomen lost at Notre Dame. “They had a tough non-conference schedule. It was too hard early in the year. They beat Florida State but lost to Oregon and Louisville. Notre Dame was down this year. NC State is good. They need wins.” The women were down 26-36 at the half. They later pulled to within 2 but lost 60-69. Tiana Mangakahia “is a tough girl. She underwent here treatments and still came in every day to shoot. She has lots of support her family came here. People tend to admire going through that. The girls have played tough but have a bright football. They have a really good class coming in and good players coming back. They should be in the Top 10. ” On John Wallace, whose jersey will be revealed at the top of the Dome on Saturday: “He was a player who came into the program when we needed help. He was dominant big guy his last two years. He expected to win each game. He made a play you can’t make with the pass against Georgia and then made the winning shot. He dominated Kansas’ big front line and then dominated Mississippi State. We couldn’t quite get Kentucky with their 8-9 NBA players. John tried to win at everything, including ping pong.” Matt summarized his pro career, where he played for a number of teams but never got past being a part-time starter. (He said it was for the Knicks but he must have meant Toronto: [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wallace_(basketball)#Stats"]John Wallace (basketball) - Wikipedia[/URL] ) JB: “He was a tremendous offensive player. He never developed his defensive side. He did play good defense here and we played Man for man sometimes.” Matt said he’d like to ask Roy Williams what happened in that Kansas game in 1996 but “he doesn’t seem to be in a good mood”. Villanova honored Kyle Lowry in the same way when they beat St. John’s. JB: “He was a tough, hard-nosed point guard. We had him on the Olympic team.” Gomez said that Jay Wright had told Lowry “These kids listen to me better than you did.” JB: “Kyle was not a good listener. Kids will have issues. They aren’t all the same. They won’t do everything by the numbers. You have to figure out how to manage them.” This recalls John Wooden’s famous statement to his players” Don’t expect me to treat all of you the same way. That’s the most unfair thing I could do. You aren’t all the same.” Gomez was back from Charlotte on vacation. It was about the same temperature there that it was here, (last week). He went to Davidson college and wandered into the bookstore and “everything had Step Curry’s picture on it”. Jim comment on the big money contract Steph got from Under Armour. “The snow has seemed to miss us this year. It’s mostly in the north country.” Gomez said that he could see it from where he lived in Cicero. He lauded the Timberview Restaurant in Turin: [URL="https://timberview.com/post.php?pid=4"]Timberview Resort NY ...Restaurant & Bar[/URL] and the great snowmobiling that can be done around there. Jim said that “You will never see me on a snowmobile – too many accidents”. Besides, it was invented after he was born. (Actually, it wasn’t: [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowmobile#Early_history"]Snowmobile - Wikipedia[/URL] ) They talked about Steph Curry. JB: “He made 50% of his half court shots one year. Klay Thompson is a better spot up shooter but Steph can make them from another area code. He’ll come back and play to get some rust off. Then they will get Klay back. They still have Draymond Green and they will go out and get a big-time player for next year.” Jerami Grant had a big game off the bench for Oklahoma City (29 points in 29 minutes against Detroit). “He will be a free agent and get a big contract from somebody.” Gomez mentioned a player at the NFL combine who was a 230 pound tight end trying to gain 70 pounds so he can play tackle in the NFL: [URL="https://fanbuzz.com/nfl/ben-bartch-nfl/"]NFL Hopeful Gained 70 Pounds With Very Disgusting Shake[/URL] JB said that he’s seen football players do that but it doesn’t work with basketball players “because of all the running.” They talked about the Zamboni driver who played goalie in an NHL game and, after giving up two goals, stopped 8 shots in a row to win 4-3. Jim found that ‘odd’ and predicted the rule would be changed next year. But for now, “it’s part of the wonder of sports.” Jim at first said that there will be no senior day for us this year but then remembered that there are some managers and a walk-on (Shaun Belbey) who are seniors. (Actually Shaun is a grad student.) On the Dome renovations: Jim said “the inside will look pretty similar except for the new scoreboard and better lighting. The new roof will be safer. There will be no danger of collapse and guys won’t have to shovel snow off of it.” Gomez asked Jim about the switch from Manley Field House to the Dome. “I liked the smaller venue but the fans in the Dome have been great. We got 15,000 that first year and I saw right away that it was going to work. We needed to move the court closer to where the fans were and we did. When Pearl came it went up to 24,000 right away. “ This was the penultimate, (I love that word) show of the season. next Thursday it will be the “Jim Boeheim Show before Miami” and that’s it until the Dino Babers Show starts up next September. [/QUOTE]

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