that mcalarney dude is incredible. reminds me of gerry mcnamara when he couldn't miss from half court

speaking of, could you really see a guy named mcalarney playing anywhere but notre dame

11/27/2008 12:04:57 AM

and everyone else got worse through defections

11/27/2008 12:09:34 AM

http://notredame.scout.com/a.z?s=109&p=8&c=1&nid=1271727

lol apparently Herb wanted him

[Edited on November 27, 2008 at 12:11 AM. Reason : .]

11/27/2008 12:10:31 AM

UNC will lose at least 2 ACC games

And will make the Final 4 again, before being eliminated.

11/27/2008 12:12:08 AM

by?

11/27/2008 12:13:38 AM

Notre Dame, in a fitting rematch.

11/27/2008 12:15:06 AM

I too agree that UNC will choke in the tourney

11/27/2008 12:16:19 AM

more like louisville, in a fitting rematch.

11/27/2008 12:16:33 AM

These teams are probably going to do well in the tourney

uconn
texas
gonzaga
louisville
usc
asu
lsu


So they are UNC challengers by default


[Edited on November 27, 2008 at 12:28 AM. Reason : .]

11/27/2008 12:25:16 AM

lsu?

11/27/2008 12:40:02 AM

Apparently they have two seniors who are possible NBA material

Marcus Thornton 6-4 198 SG LSU Sr.
Chris Johnson 6-11 205 PF LSU Sr.

11/27/2008 12:41:57 AM

UNC is gonna be tough to beat this year.. too many offensive weapons. Deon Thompson might be one of the most underrated players in the country.

11/27/2008 9:50:26 AM

i figure loo-uh-vul will be right there, and probably ucla again. i haven't seen uconn play a game since last season but everyone says they're good

11/27/2008 10:39:39 AM

unc would absolutely roll ucla right now.

11/27/2008 10:52:49 AM

Which is crazy, as they have 3 1st rounders starting this year. UNC could play an A and B team and both would be in the top 25....

11/27/2008 11:34:57 AM

they'd both be in the top 10.

[Edited on November 27, 2008 at 11:49 AM. Reason : i need to just get over it and enjoy the show, b/c this is going to be a miserable 4 months otherwis]

11/27/2008 11:48:19 AM

^^, ^

They say that every year

11/27/2008 10:49:59 PM

have you watched them play this year?

it's absurd.

11/27/2008 10:59:17 PM

I watched them play some vs shaman-aid and ND. They looked good against ND, and ND looked terrible.

[Edited on November 27, 2008 at 11:10 PM. Reason : oh yeah, and Kenucky, who also lost to like a 1AA team]

11/27/2008 11:09:10 PM

can someone explain to me how the fuck Duke has 17 more national TV games?

11/27/2008 11:14:35 PM

^ sex sells

11/27/2008 11:22:30 PM

^ In my head, that turned into Duke's ugly cheerleaders and a Dukie V dick sucking joke.

11/27/2008 11:26:57 PM

Maryland beatdown #6 Michigan State yesterday evening. They'll face #10 Gonzaga today. Should they win that game then they'll face the winner of Georgetown/Tennessee. It'd be nice if the ACC could win this again. Plus I hope that Gonzaga goes down. Fuck them.

11/28/2008 8:35:51 AM

Fuck you! The zags better win tonight.

11/28/2008 9:22:42 AM

I hate Gonzaga. They play in a shit conference and are able to usually just run right through it. They wouldn't do as well if they were in one of the Big 6 conferences (especially the Big East and ACC). Hell I don't even think they'd do as well in the A-10. I hope Connecticut takes them to the woodshed December 20th.

11/28/2008 10:15:05 AM

well said.

11/28/2008 10:19:14 AM

What's with the hatred?

Few runs a clean program in a small conference that consistently competes at a very high level. Yeah, they run through their conference slate easily, but you can't blame Gonzaga for that.

11/28/2008 10:27:27 AM

My problem with that is they often get seedings that are too high for them simply b/c they are Gonzaga. When an upstart Davidson runs through their conference undefeated and hangs with the big boys in their out-of-conference schedule they don't get nearly the praise and recognition and end up with a 10 seed if they are lucky. Is the West Coast Conference really any better than the Southern Conference, the Mountain West, or the A-10? Now this year Davidson might get a 7 seed if they are lucky.

[Edited on November 28, 2008 at 10:40 AM. Reason : ]

11/28/2008 10:40:04 AM

i just hate midmajors.

11/28/2008 10:48:37 AM

Quote :

"When an upstart Davidson runs through their conference undefeated and hangs with the big boys in their out-of-conference schedule they don't get nearly the praise and recognition and end up with a 10 seed if they are lucky."

People have been sucking Davidson's dick pretty well last year and this year. And Gonzaga might be slightly overrated, but they've done a decent job of taking care of business the past few years when they go up against the big boys (although they do choke it up in the tournament quite often).

11/28/2008 10:49:18 AM

The majority of the Davidson dick sucking didn't start until after they went on their run in the tournament. They were a 10 seed last year.

Yeah Gonzaga chokes it up pretty well. I still remember them being a #2 seed and losing to Nevada in the second round.

[Edited on November 28, 2008 at 11:20 AM. Reason : ]

11/28/2008 11:18:19 AM

I also hate Gonzaga and cannot figure out why everyone loves them.

They had their great run in what 2002 and haven't gone far since with supposedly better teams.

11/28/2008 11:35:20 AM

good game going on over on ESPNU

Wichita State down 2, 3:00 to go

[Edited on November 28, 2008 at 12:11 PM. Reason : ]

11/28/2008 12:11:10 PM

they need to make me in charge of ncaa refs.

i'd make college basketball so much better.

11/28/2008 12:21:50 PM

if i hear cameron indoor field house one more time i may never watch espn again. where do they get these goon announcers?

11/28/2008 3:20:07 PM

^^ will you finally allow refs to call traveling on hansblo?

11/28/2008 3:40:40 PM

^^ yeah, where the fuck did that come from???

11/28/2008 3:41:29 PM

^^ not only that, but i'll allow players to breath on eachother in the paint or run through a pick w/o a defensive foul being called.

11/28/2008 3:47:31 PM

it's the sheer volume of unc bandwagon fans that bring the money.

11/28/2008 5:17:09 PM

Quote :

"When an upstart Davidson runs through their conference undefeated and hangs with the big boys in their out-of-conference schedule they don't get nearly the praise and recognition and end up with a 10 seed if they are lucky. Is the West Coast Conference really any better than the Southern Conference, the Mountain West, or the A-10?"

The difference is OOC scheduling and wins.

Yeah, Davidson "hangs with" bigger teams, but until the tourney last year they didn't actually win any of those games. Gonzaga schedules a tough OOC slate and wins a good percentage of them. The weak conference schedule actually ends up hurting them, since they get softened up by March.

Gonzaga generally earns every bit of praise they get in Nov/Dec.

11/28/2008 9:15:34 PM

Notre Dame's Luke Harangody is out indefinitely with pneumonia.

11/29/2008 5:24:48 PM

Tennessee vs. Gonzaga tomorrow at 7:50... whats the lowdown on Gonzaga? Havent seen them play much this year

11/30/2008 12:10:22 AM

i know they spanked maryland.

11/30/2008 12:11:29 AM

All I know is they got that Heytvelt dude who got busted for shrooms last year, that really skinny Daye dude who wears the t shirt, and Janero Pargo's little brother

11/30/2008 12:12:22 AM

Heytvelt reminds me of Becka Winnegar

11/30/2008 12:13:22 AM

Maryland has a terrible inside game after losing Gist and Osby. The Maryland fans even admitted as much on their board. The one thing they have going for them is that they have one of the best backcourts in the ACC this year with Hayes and Vasquez.

11/30/2008 9:44:24 AM

I just think Gonzaga is too much of a veteran team for a really young Tennessee team to beat this early... I like Gonzaga big

11/30/2008 2:52:59 PM

Looks like UConn and Pitt are going to be the class of the Big East YET AGAIN... Louisville losing at home to WKU? What the fuck... they don't even have Courtney Lee anymore...

11/30/2008 4:58:23 PM

Quote :

"Louisville losing at home to WKU?"

man i hadn't seen that, what the fuck?

11/30/2008 5:15:34 PM

just looked at the final and they beat louisville by 14. craziness.

11/30/2008 5:18:21 PM