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@wissox SEC fans literally care more about the conference than their own team. I can attest to that. I lived in Knoxville from 2000-2010. My wife and I have been spending new year’s eve with three of our Tennessee friends (two women who hate football and a guy who loves football) every year since 2009 (rent a cabin for three nights in the Smokies or on the Plateau). Anyway, guy friend is huge Vol/SEC fan. I love the guy, but he’s hopeless. We start the weekend with a pool picking all the football bowl games. In 13 years, Mr. SEC has NEVER won the pool because he picks all the SEC teams to win. Every damn year. His wife won picking games alphabetically one year. My wife won picking teams by the color red one year. I won at least three years picking against every SEC team except the obvious ones.
This year, he doesn’t pick Tennessee because, I don’t know, he couldn’t handle the emotional trauma of a double loss or something, and that blew his picks this year. SMDH. Warped perspective of that conference.
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I’ll add, that before that OSU guy muffed the winning kick on new years eve against Georgia this year, he was almost in tears thinking there wouldn’t be an SEC team in the championship game.
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@DanR sounds like a lovely evening!
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@DanR what does he think about the big 12 teams coming?
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@DanR When I lived in Baton Rouge the fans were always SEC this and that. I would ask them how is the SEC doing in wrestling this year? Soccer? Lacrosse? Hockey? Crickets!
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I met Donny Boyce tonight. I was at a game in Hammond, IN and he was coaching Proviso East at Hammond Central which has a very good team. I was wearing my KU gear and my friend and KU roommate had met him a few weeks ago and Donny was so nice and gushed about playing at Allen Field House. For those not remembering he played at Colorado in the mid '90s and went onto the NBA for a while. He told me AFH was his favorite place to play but he also never won there, the only gym in the league he didn’t win at if I understood him correctly. 2 of his Proviso East teammates from when he played there went to the NBA also, one you’ve heard of Michael Finley. The 3 amigos as they were called won 3 straight state titles and had a state record win streak.
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Saw Houston pull off a win in the last four minutes against the Shockers last night. The Roundhouse wasn’t full (kinda disappointing), but it was certainly rocking! The Haystacks weren’t too shabby, either, leading nearly the entire game, largely due to occasional moments of excellence on D, by my lights. But hell, it was hard for me to tell what was going on without Fran explaining it to me.
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Fran is like a rectal fistula.
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Fran is doing ISU game.
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@Jayblaze I was pulling for WSU. I like IB. The fans, of course, hate him. They’d love to have the player beater, greaser gregggg back.
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@Crimsonorblue22 said in Other games:
Fran is doing ISU game.
Well crap – and he will suck up to ISU too I’ll just turn the volume down and listen to home broadcast
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Does this sound right today: TCU at OSU with OSU favored by 4 and TX at KState and TX favored by 1.5? I would have handicapped both games just the opposite.
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@stoptheflop Well, at least with regard to the first one, TCU is still without Miles, and although Lampkin played against WVU, it was only for 8 minutes. And, OSU is a solid team and has just one conference loss at home.
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I find it interesting that college game day is at Duke North Carolina despite both teams being unranked. I wonder when the last time those teams played when bothe weren’t ranked and I wonder the last time game day went to a location for a game between unranked teams. Both have to be pretty rare. Feel like the cyclones could have had one today but basically every game in the big 12 could have a good case for hosting game day this year.
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Game day at unranked Duke is such bullshit
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@Crimsonorblue22 said in Other games:
@DanR what does he think about the big 12 teams coming?
I don’t know, but he’ll probably count their past national championships as additional proof of SEC superiority
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It could be going better, but at Ames is always a tough game.
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@KirkIsMyHinrich said in Other games:
It could be going better, but at Ames is always a tough game.
Texas & K/State lost here also
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Yeah. But ISU lost to Mizzou and Texas Tech. So there’s that.
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It’s actually crazy how much of a defensive juggernaut they claim ISU is when TT hangs 80 on them
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Tenn, Auburn game is rough to watch. Think we found 2 offenses that were actually worse than ours today. Crazy. They have more rebounds than points. And I’m NOT kidding
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@cragarhawk said in Other games:
It’s actually crazy how much of a defensive juggernaut they claim ISU is when TT hangs 80 on them
ISU might not quite be a defensive juggernaut, but they are a really damn good defense. The Tech game was only the second time they’ve given up 70+ in regulation and 3rd time total this season.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Other games:
it’s something a QB can play through
Jack Youngblood found Mahomes’ toughness a bit more exceptional than you did…pretty much unique in Jack’s eyes.
I am trying to remember another time a QB excelled on a high ankle sprain, but maybe you have seen it more than I have.
https://www.si.com/nfl/2023/02/03/hall-of-famer-on-what-it-means-to-play-injured-in-the-nfl
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Watching this Purdue-Indiana game, Purdue’s defense sucks. I don’t think we are going to see a much better defense the rest of the season than Iowa St’s.
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@mayjay said in Other games:
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Other games:
it’s something a QB can play through
Jack Youngblood found Mahomes’ toughness a bit more exceptional than you did…pretty much unique in Jack’s eyes.
I am trying to remember another time a QB excelled on a high ankle sprain, but maybe you have seen it more than I have.
https://www.si.com/nfl/2023/02/03/hall-of-famer-on-what-it-means-to-play-injured-in-the-nfl
I didn’t say Mahomes isn’t tough, just that it’s easier for a QB to play with a high ankle sprain than a basketball player or other positions in football because of how that particular injury impacts player performance. Mahomes isn’t reliant on his running ability to be a great QB, so that made it easier for him to deal with, manage, and play with that injury than it would’ve been for someone like Jalen Hurts who is dependent on his running ability to excel as a QB.
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No way Oklahoma is toast. - -Wee not the only one playin bad ball. - -Oklahoma will NOT make any NCAA tourney–write it down - -they are toast - -down 28 to Wv not even half time. -Stevenson with 21 points in the half
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UNC is in serious trouble of missing the tourney. Absolute must win for them Tuesday at Wake
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Even though Dook is poor this year, I still like it when they lose…
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Duke getting spanked like a red headed step child lol
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@Jethro what do you mean by poor?
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Because this is a Calipari squandering of talent… not exactly “poor.”
Put Lively on like any other team in America and they are top 25. Dude is blocking 5+ shots per 40.
They are letting Filipowski shoot four 3s per game at a .289 clip.
I legitimately can’t figure out what they are doing. All of the pieces are there.
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Watching Duke get drilled is cathartic
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Duke has 2 legit footers, and Ryan Young is still getting 20mpg
Blake’s has to be one of the least efficient players in America, getting 17 mpg lmao.
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The perils of a nepotism hire.
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Like imagine if we had Filipowski. Duke’s roster is fine.
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@BShark said in Other games:
Like imagine if we had Filipowski. Duke’s roster is fine.
Or UConn’s or UNC’s
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@KirkIsMyHinrich cathartic for sure
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UNC actually for real seriously on bubble watch
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Like good god imagine if Bacot left.
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Queston - -What does Duke & N Carolina both have in common ? - - -They both getting or got spanked - N Carolina down 22 points to WF at the half
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Nice to see Marquette getting wasted by UConn.
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How UNC is still on the 9 line coming into tonight is baffling. They are 44th in the Net Rankings with 1-7 record vs quad 1 teams. It would be crazy for a team that returned everyone from the NC game to miss it but they don’t have the resume. I think Dook and UK get in at this point.
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@Jethro there was a time when everyone thought Smart was better than Self
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N Carolina only Quad 1 win is against Ohio State - - which has a losing record. - -Hmmmm wonder if Juan might be able to get a few minutes as their pg - -probably not with him being a D-2 player
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I had a hunch prior to the season that UNC wouldn’t be very good. The jury is still out on Hubert, and they’re not particularly talented. Manek got white hot toward the end of last season and covered up a lot of deficiencies. They’re still playing two bigs almost all the time and Nance is charmin soft (I don’t think he’s much better than Clemence tbh). Caleb Love is infuriatingly inconsistent, Leaky can’t shoot, and the bench is pretty meh.
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Ohhhh North Carolinaaaaaa
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So at this point who is in worse shape - - - DUKE - - or N Carolina ?
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@jayballer67 Dook has a better record both over all and in conference. Is 29th in the Net and has 3 Quad 1 wins with 3-7 record in those games. Plus they just beat UNC.
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@kjayhawks said in Other games:
@jayballer67 Dook has a better record both over all and in conference. Is 29th in the Net and has 3 Quad 1 wins with 3-7 record in those games. Plus they just beat UNC.
Right buddy I was thinking the same thing. - - Duke has been fighting injurie all season with one’s like Lively & Whitehead - -big losses through the year. - -Having said that though still think overall they have under preformed
