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It starts tonight!

I was pretty nervous watching the Duke/FL Gulf Coast game there for a while.
Talk about ragged early season...sheesh. I thought Duke was in real trouble there for a while.
FGC is a good team, but not that good. Duke just never looked comfortable, at least not for any real stretches. Glimpses of it yes, but nothing extended.
 
Indiana fans get their chance to squirm tonight when the top ranked Hoosiers play a (for now) unranked Georgetown team. I know I'll be watching.
 
Georgetown took Indiana into overtime last night but the Hoosiers prevailed. It was a well played game by both teams, particularly in contrast to the down right ugly early season form of most other would be contenders. Georgetown deserves to be ranked.

Butler played well, and North Carolina Played high school level ball in the 11 point Butler win last night. Roy Williams has a big task in front of him with this bunch. They looked awful, even in the context of November play.
 
I'm watching Duke vs Louisville in the finals of the Battle for Atlantis.
Great basketball in this early season tourney, but damn, what a bizarre venue. It looks like they're playing in a small high school gym!

VCU has really impressed me. They played Duke really close and they just about took out Missouri.
This game tonight looks like it has the potential to be a really good one.
 
Indiana looked really stout taking UNC behind the woodshed last night, but, if Duke beats Ohio State tonight, they will have a serious argument for top national ranking. There would be no way to ignore wins over Kentucky, Louisville, and OSU in November.

NC State was supposed to be the hot property in the ACC this year, but, I don't think so. Duke still looks like boss of the beach, with Maryland looking like they could be scary good by next March. If they get good guard play to go with that huge front court, look out.
 
kneeOhFight said:
Indiana looked really stout taking UNC behind the woodshed last night, but, if Duke beats Ohio State tonight, they will have a serious argument for top national ranking. There would be no way to ignore wins over Kentucky, Louisville, and OSU in November.

NC State was supposed to be the hot property in the ACC this year, but, I don't think so. Duke still looks like boss of the beach, with Maryland looking like they could be scary good by next March. If they get good guard play to go with that huge front court, look out.
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Duke has good team for sure. I haven't seen the kind of cohesion that I usually expect from a Coach K team, but they're talented as heck and they're really scrappy.
They're gonna need some better D when the season gets farther along.

I think this OSU game tonight will be very telling.
It's a good season all around so far!
 
Wes_in_VA said:
Duke has good team for sure. I haven't seen the kind of cohesion that I usually expect from a Coach K team, but they're talented as heck and they're really scrappy.
They're gonna need some better D when the season gets farther along.

I think this OSU game tonight will be very telling.
It's a good season all around so far!
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Howzabout your (almost) hometown Hokies? They put a whuppin' on Iowa last night for an early season 6-0 record. The commentator was saying that the Hokies have the best shooting team in the ACC this year as well as the best point guard in the conference (Erick Green). Maybe this'll make up for their dreadful football season.:scratch2:
 
A friend gave us her KU tickets tonight. KU played Oregon State at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. It was a great night, warm weather (for the end of November) and KU won their game.

ROCK CHALK!

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I didn't see the Kansas game last night, but reading about it, it was closer than it needed to be at the end. It seems all of the traditional powers are still in ragged, early season form (Indiana, Ohio State, and Duke excluded). Kentucky looks very much like what they are, a bunch of kids that were recently walking the halls of high schools across America. We never see the best the college game has to offer until early February, and this year perhaps more so than most years.
 
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I just watched Baylor beat Kentucky (both highly touted teams going into the season that have been disappointments) at Rupp Arena. They both looked much improved, particularly Kentucky. They are starting to do the right things, mainly working hard and working together. They worked well to get good shots, they just couldn't get the ball to drop. Let's see what Baylor can do at Notre Dame in a few days.
 
Though I didn't see the game, I read that finnbow's Va. Tech Hokies beat 15th ranked Oklahoma State today, and are now 7-0, their best start in 30 years. It's good to see a resurgence in the quality of play in the ACC (it ought to be called the Big ACC, given how many teams they have poached from the Big East). Maryland is still my sleeper in that conference, though.
 
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Though I didn't see the game, I read that finnbow's Va. Tech Hokies beat 15th ranked Oklahoma State today, and are now 7-0, their best start in 30 years. It's good to see a resurgence in the quality of play in the ACC (it ought to be called the Big ACC, given how many teams they have poached from the Big East). Maryland is still my sleeper in that conference, though.
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The Hokies didn't just beat Oklahoma St., they demolished them, as they did with Iowa a couple of nights ago. Pretty exciting stuff after a lackluster football season. Their point guard is simply terrific.
 
For the first time since John Calipari became their coach, this week Kentucky falls out of the top 25 rankings. They are off to a 4-3 start, and are playing well below their talent level, but, damn. I thought they would land around #20, give or take. They may not be "top ten" material right now, but, I expect they will be there or thereabouts come Feb. 1.
 
Wake up, college hoops fans, this year's thread has tumbleweed blowing around in it.

The top game this weekend looks to me like #13 Illinois at #10 Gonzaga on Saturday night. Their records are identical at 9-0. I'm looking forward to this one.
 
I might have overdone the sarcastic ribbing when his team was dwelling at the bottom of the Big Ten so I guess I have to take it like a man now that the situation is reversed. Truth be told I really prefer it when both teams are cranking, makes for much more interesting viewing.
 
I'm certainly impressed by the Hokies. Not a big VT fan but I liked Seth Greenberg a lot and became a bit of a fan of the hoops team. I thought they'd take a hit when he left but it looks like that's not the case!

My Blue Devils are certainly performing better than the preseason prospects would have suggested. I haven't seen them look like they're firing on all cylinders yet, but as long as they're winning I can be okay with that.
We have Temple tomorrow. They're 6-0 and that always scares me with Duke: they start out like gangbusters and then get knocked off by a sleeper
 
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