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November: Other NCAAB Games

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BEFAN said:
Alabama in a 2nd half dog fight with Arkansas St. I think what we are seeing is teams struggling early in the season due to the lack of continuity on rosters.
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That is exactly what it is, but still Bama should not be struggling with that meager cupcake.
 
CCSU97 said:
CCSU beats St. Joes in Philly, 73-67.

Pat Sellers and CCSU have now won 2 straight against A-10 opponents.
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He's a good coach. Shame you all couldn't finish off PC.
HuskyHawk said:
Not tonight. The refs are making bad call after bad call, all in Carolina’s favor. They are living at the line.
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I said what I said, lol, seriously though nice close by KU overall.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Really? At Creighton and Missouri later. Neutral vs Duke and Michigan State. Last year at Illinois and Indiana, and Marquette, Tennessee and Kentucky neutral. They don’t schedule soft.
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When I say big games I'm talking top 10 teams. The only teams that matters that you mentioned is duke, Tennessee and Marquette.
 
Thought Kansas and North Carolina looked awesome tonight. Some serious athletes, high flyers , big shots and awesome dunks by both teams.
 
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ScottCT said:
When I say big games I'm talking top 10 teams. The only teams that matters that you mentioned is duke, Tennessee and Marquette.
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That’s just stupid. Rankings change all year. You schedule way ahead of any of that. Whine about Duke which never plays tough teams on the road.
 
gsmooth said:
That is exactly what it is, but still Bama should not be struggling with that meager cupcake.
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Should they be struggling, no. But Arkansas State is not a cupcake, they're a borderline top 100 team who is the favorite to win the Sun Belt
 
navery12 said:
Should they be struggling, no. But Arkansas State is not a cupcake, they're a borderline top 100 team who is the favorite to win the Sun Belt
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That doesn't mean anything. First of all preseason predictions have some value but largely should be taken with a pound of salt. Secondly when has a Sun Belt team done anything of significance besides James Madison last year and maybe Georgia State when they had Ron Hunter as coach? They are cupcake, especially in comparison to what Alabama has. If they beat Memphis later this season or they produce a stellar W-L record, then I will reconsider that label.

Admittedly, you agreed Alabama shouldn't be struggling with them. What do you think the reaction on the Boneyard would be if UConn struggled at home against Arkansas St? The postgame thread would easily break 15 pages.
 
aceboon said:
The lob off of the backboard in the halfcourt was crazy

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Form those highlights that guy looks like a straight up baller. How the hell did BYU find this guy and recruit him over other schools? Is it because of their deep pocket NIL? I know their NIL is putting them in position to land AJ Dybansta.
 
gsmooth said:
Form those highlights that guy looks like a straight up baller. How the hell did BYU find this guy and recruit him over other schools? Is it because of their deep pocket NIL? I know their NIL is putting them in position to land AJ Dybansta.
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Deep pockets, he is one of the top Euro prospects for his age group. Him and the Lithuanian playing for Illinois didn't come cheap.
 
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gsmooth said:
Form those highlights that guy looks like a straight up baller. How the hell did BYU find this guy and recruit him over other schools? Is it because of their deep pocket NIL? I know their NIL is putting them in position to land AJ Dybansta.
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Yeah he was very well known. He was on Real Madrid's (top Euroleague club) B team and got called up to the A team once or twice. After the Adidas Next Gen tournament in May, which his team won over Nolan Traore's team and he had 26/11/6 in the championship game, he stated he'd go to college and BYU paid up. Rumored NIL of 1.5 million, including like 600k as a buyout to Real Madrid. So personal NIL probably in line with similar top players, but the buyout pushed it into "deep pockets only" range.
 
gsmooth said:
That doesn't mean anything. First of all preseason predictions have some value but largely should be taken with a pound of salt. Secondly when has a Sun Belt team done anything of significance besides James Madison last year and maybe Georgia State when they had Ron Hunter as coach? They are cupcake, especially in comparison to what Alabama has. If they beat Memphis later this season or they produce a stellar W-L record, then I will reconsider that label.

Admittedly, you agreed Alabama shouldn't be struggling with them. What do you think the reaction on the Boneyard would be if UConn struggled at home against Arkansas St? The postgame thread would easily break 15 pages.
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But you're using cupcake in a way that nobody does. Cupcakes are the games that you're expected to win by 40+ and are the bottom ranked teams. They're not the solid mid majors on the schedule. That's the only thing I was calling out, everything else you posted is just nonsense moving the goalposts
 
Buter lost to Austin Peay 66-68 last night which isn't a great look for them. There was a cool highlight from Hansel Enmanuel, whose name a few of you might recognize from his high school highlights. Hansel lost one of his arms in an accident when he was 6 and still made it to the D-1 level. Here's a highlight from him last night:

 
yungdowork said:
Buter lost to Austin Peay 66-68 last night which isn't a great look for them. There was a cool highlight from Hansel Enmanuel, whose name a few of you might recognize from his high school highlights. Hansel lost one of his arms in an accident when he was 6 and still made it to the D-1 level. Here's a highlight from him last night:

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That Hansel is so hot right now.
 
Jahki Howard was one the Auburn players whose fighting caused their flight to turn around. Top tier athlete but I seem to remember we abruptly stopped recruiting him due to behavioral concerns. Another point for Hurley.
 
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his dudeness said:
Jahki Howard was one the Auburn players whose fighting caused their flight to turn around. Top tier athlete but I seem to remember we abruptly stopped recruiting him due to behavioral concerns. Another point for Hurley.
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Yeah I remember Hurley saying one day his horseplay would get out of hand
 
navery12 said:
But you're using cupcake in a way that nobody does. Cupcakes are the games that you're expected to win by 40+ and are the bottom ranked teams. They're not the solid mid majors on the schedule. That's the only thing I was calling out, everything else you posted is just nonsense moving the goalposts
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Stop it, I am not moving any goalposts at all. The +40 points is just a specific criteria you just made up. The term cupcake is a general term that describes teams deemed to be at a higher level scheduling buy in games with against a lower level team with the expectation of it be an easy tune up win. For example, like Alabama being favored by 23.5 points against.....wait for it.... Arkansas St.

Like I stated before, if Arkansas St makes the NCAAT or at least posts a really good record, then I will admit I was wrong to dismiss them and Vegas would have been wrong to dismiss them.

They're not the solid mid majors on the schedule.

The point of my original post was that Alabama, who many predict will be in the Final Four, should not be struggling at home against Arkansas St which you largely agreed with, but instead you chose to nitpick on the use of the term cupcake. Fine, call Arkansas St something else if that will put your mind at ease.
 
Not super impressed so far with Auburn-Houston.
 
AntG168 said:
They both defend at a really high level. Offense looks ugly though
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Yeah obviously we’re spoiled but I don’t see anything happening on offense here but some ISO.
 
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TRest said:
Not super impressed so far with Auburn-Houston.
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Broom looked pretty freaking good against the best defensive front court in the country. 20pts 9rebs and 5blks.
 
AntG168 said:
They both defend at a really high level. Offense looks ugly though
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Yeah...that's the thing, a high level defense tends to make the opponents offense look pretty ugly.

Times that by 2 when you have 2 good defensive teams on the floor.

Seen that play out in UConn games in the past.
 
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