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Crazy Wednesday Night in College Basketball

Posted by Trips Right on February 4th, 2010 under Basketball

Let’s start in the Big 12 where Kansas needed overtime to dispose of an upstart Colorado bunch.

Buff fans will lament the foul call with 36 seconds to play that sent Sherron Collins to the line to tie or take the lead. The call, quite frankly, was an amazingly bad bail out that had been a no call for the whole game. Well, if you were Colorado anyway. But get this, on their home floor, CU shot 17 foul shots to Kansas’ 38. Shocking huh? I get that the Buffaloes don’t have a back to the basket game, but they do drive the basketball and their student body comprises all manner of tireless conservationists.

Give them a break.

Plus the KU guards shot 15 foul shots by themselves, and Brady Morningstar and Tyrell Reed aren’t usually confused with slashing, get to the basket players. Anyway, Collins hits one out of two and KU gets the game into overtime where they’re able to just blast a worn down CU club. Upset averted. Or as our friends at Oread Kings put it, “Nothing is fucked.”

Some interesting things about the game:

1) Alec Burks, CU’s star freshman and best player was held out for health reasons. CU could have used his offensive punch last night.

2) Kansas hit a Texas-like 18 of 38 from the foul line which helped keep CU in the game.

3) CU runs a 5 out Princeton style attack and runs 20-30 seconds off of every shot clock, which meant Cole Aldrich had to play defense and run around the perimeter for most of the game. He was absolutely gassed in the last five minutes as was most of the KU frontcourt. Considering the overtime this a development to keep your eye on if you’re a Texas fan. Remember, KU has another game at Nebraska on Saturday, and then they turn around and play in Austin two days later. It’ll be interesting to see if the Hawks have tired legs come Monday. Root for overtime this Saturday.

In the other semi-important Big 12 tilt, the Aggies went into Columbia and knocked off a pretty good Mizzou team for the first time in 30 years. Forwards David Loubeau and Kris Middleton had coming out parties of sorts for the Ags going a combined 11-21 for 33 points and taking advantage of a pretty small Mizzou frontcourt.

The Aggies also were able to overcome a sloppy 20 turnover performance by crushing the Tigers on the glass and shooting 6-10 from deep. Bryan Davis hair clubbed for men-ed his way to 11 boards and dominated the glass. The game could have been a blowout win for A&M but they struggled on the line going 19-36. What the hell is going on with the foul line in college this year?

Another game I perused…West Virginia continued to expose the fraud that is Pitt by handing them their 4th loss in 5 games. Don’t expect to see the Panthers in the top 25 for the rest of the year barring the return of Charles Smith and Jerome Lane.

Meanwhile, West Virginia continues to kill people from behind the arc with their 4 headed monster of Smith, Bryant, Butler, and Jones. Who’s their 5th man? None other than talented glass eater Devin Eubanks. Watch for the ‘Neers to make some noise down the stretch and position themselves to garner a two seed and an outside shot at a 1.

Don’t miss their epic battle at home vs. Villanova next Monday. I’m guessing they’ll make everyone a believer.

In the last game I bounced around on, Georgetown was unable to validate it’s win over Duke blowing a 9 point halftime lead against South Florida and one man wrecking crew Dominique Jones. If you haven’t seen Jones play, you need to. If the kid played at a powerhouse school he’d be a household name because he has game for days. Jones is a chiseled 6-4 guard that is a candidate to mess around and get a triple double on any given night. Just explosive. Yes, he’s that good and he vanquished the Hoyas almost single handedly last night. Check out his stats.

As for tonight, I’m cooking 36 hour marinated Omaha Steak ribeyes and drinking Aberlour scotch, with one eye on Duke and Georgia Tech at 6. If I’m not passed out at 8, I may watch UNC vs. Va. Tech or Maryland vs. Florida State. Or maybe reruns of Magnum P.I.

Depends.

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  1. jc25 said:

    February 4th, 2010 at 8:37 am

    There was good basketball on last night? I couldn’t watch TV the day after the epic-ness that was LOST. Well, damn.

    The Nova-WVU / UT-KU Big Monday tilt is going to be epic. I need to figure out how I can leave work and get home before 6. And convince the girlfriend that watching 4 1/2 consecutive hours of basketball on a Monday night is good for our relationship.

  2. Speed Kills said:

    February 4th, 2010 at 8:42 am

    UT women over OU, big. Suck it Sherri Coale.

  3. Hiphopotamus said:

    February 4th, 2010 at 8:45 am

    I was going to comment, but all I could remember was “36 hour marinated Omaha Steak ribeyes and drinking Aberlour scotch…”

  4. Triston27 said:

    February 4th, 2010 at 8:55 am

    CU didn’t do a whole lot of driving last night so they didn’t have a lot of free throws. After the first 5 minutes they realized that if they got within 10 feet of the basket, Aldrich was gonna swat their shit back out every time. Saturday’s game is in Lawrence so I don’t expect OT.

  5. Trips Right said:

    February 4th, 2010 at 9:06 am

    Triston, what did you think about that call Collins got at the end?

  6. J Rog said:

    February 4th, 2010 at 9:26 am

    Terrible call. And CU had the play well defensed. That call decided the game. That being said, CU probably shouldn’t take 3 pointers from the 2nd row of the bleachers like they did in the previous possession.

  7. SkyMonkeyHorn said:

    February 4th, 2010 at 9:32 am

    jc25, After lunch tell them in power that you have a fever and chills may be the flu.
    Go to the mall or Wal-mart get a gift certificate and some good bud, fill your tank.

    Go home light up and show her your keys and the certificate that has to be used tonight.
    If you have any karma left you may get lucky and not have to convince her about any relationship issues. Tell her you are just going to watch TV. If she want you to go with her use the fever and chills ,plus light up again.

    “drinking Aberlour scotch” good stuff . Collins call should
    never should have been called, was not called all game long and then at home with the clock running out. Refs hired by KU, any large bet made in Vagas on KU.

  8. Triston27 said:

    February 4th, 2010 at 9:43 am

    Trips, that was a bad call. No doubt about that. I wasn’t overly impressed with the officiating last night. Seemed like there would be bad calls against KU and then, to make up for it, the refs would call an equally, if not worse call against CU.

    But when it was all done, KU only had 6 less fouls called against them. That’s not a huge difference considering we play an inside game and drive the ball while CU seems content to shoot from beyond the arc. 42% of their shots were from 3 so it’s no wonder they didn’t get any foul shots.

  9. Trips Right said:

    February 4th, 2010 at 9:45 am

    Edited for our PETA sponsors.

  10. Ag_in_TX said:

    February 4th, 2010 at 9:47 am

    Very happy A&M went into a good team’s house and took one. Just the kind of game the freshmen who are filling in for Derrick Roland needed to have. We’ll need to have a similar effort against Baylor Saturday.

  11. burnt orange outrage said:

    February 4th, 2010 at 9:56 am

    Trips, hope you will at least show the same courtesy the dog did and not puke all over your significant other’s back in mid-coitus.

  12. ransomstoddard said:

    February 4th, 2010 at 10:01 am

    Sherri Coale has a mouth like a sailor on shore leave. She lit in to her team during a timeout as Texas was kicking her ass and used every word George Carlin ever referred to. It was classic.

  13. Bob in Houston said:

    February 4th, 2010 at 10:31 am

    It seemed pretty clear that CU was mentally unprepared to beat No. 1. “Choked” is too strong a word, IMO, because they’ve never been in that position. But, with several chances to make a winning basket in the last minute, they just had no idea how to do it.

    Burks, I imagine, would have helped a bunch in that situation.

    I couldn’t watch the Ags because it was raining at my house and the ESPNU feed was destroyed. But you can’t go 10 minutes without a hoop in big boy basketball and expect to win.

  14. magnusbleuveigner said:

    February 4th, 2010 at 11:16 am

    “I’m cooking 36 hour marinated Omaha Steak ribeyes…”

    Too vague. Are you boiling, or microwaving those steaks?

    I like how the dog immediately starts lapping his own vomit. This looks like a run of the mill trip to the N.O.

    UT/KU can’t get here fast enough if for no other reason than it makes me look forward to a Monday.

  15. Eddie Suttons liver said:

    February 4th, 2010 at 11:56 am

    “Aberlour scotch,”

    Whats wrong with Kentucky Deluxe? It works for me. Maybe a nice glass of sweet, sweet J&B?

  16. huge said:

    February 4th, 2010 at 12:06 pm

    Where are all the steak snobs? Supposably Omaha steaks are for poor people and bugeaters.

  17. texasengr said:

    February 4th, 2010 at 12:42 pm

    “Bryan Davis hair clubbed for men-ed his way to 11 boards and dominated the glass.”

    I LOL’ed.

    Nice to see that Mizzou can lose in Columbia. I’d pretty much filed that one away in the loss column.

  18. The General said:

    February 4th, 2010 at 9:29 pm

    What kind of steak do you need to marinate for 36 hours? Horse?

  19. Specialized said:

    February 4th, 2010 at 10:03 pm

    “In the other semi-important Big 12 tilt, the Aggies went into Columbia and knocked off a pretty good Mizzou team for the first time in 30 years.”

    ???

    A&M hasn’t lost to Missouri since the 0-16 year in ‘04. I think that includes three or four strait wins in Columbia.

    Interestingly, Melvin Watkins hasn’t won a game in which he and Texas A&M have both been involved in his last 25 tries (includes his last two seasons at A&M and since then as a Missou assistant).

  20. Roach said:

    February 4th, 2010 at 10:57 pm

    Texans marinating steak from fucking Omaha? I suppose you eat it well done too. What the hell has this world come to.

  21. Trips Right said:

    February 5th, 2010 at 8:59 am

    I put A-1 on it too.

  22. The General said:

    February 6th, 2010 at 10:57 am

    You can the the pederast out of El Paso, but not the El Paso out of the pederast.

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