Week 17 Other Games

[temery]

Nm

 

[BugsyCT]

Nova & Xavier going down to the wire.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Kunkel choked and traveled, and then Villanova travels on the other end, there is no call, and they hit a 3. HUGE no call by the refs.

Oof. The refs make a blatant make-up travel call on the next Villanova possession.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Xavier should foul down 1 with 40 seconds left.

 

[BugsyCT]

Nova with their style is very capable of beating anyone at MSG and winning the BE Tourney.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Nova with their style is very capable of beating anyone at MSG and winning the BE Tourney.

Or Xavier is a very beatable team without Freemantle.

 

[msgordon]

Nova has been getting big respect in Vegas with Moore back. Lines that imply they would be favored/pickem against Providence and X on a neutral floor. Last game of the year will be very tough

 

[SoFla Steve]

Nova holds on to win at Xavier 64-63 !!

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Miller and Boum both just choked with that last possession. Miller really lost control of this game. This loss is devastating. It probably cost Xavier 1 or 2 seeds, which makes a deep March run much harder.

 

[BugsyCT]

Or Xavier is a very beatable team without Freemantle.

Or both.

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

wow, Boum drove and just threw up a prayer.

 

[KingAG]

This helps us. Win out this week and we’re back on the 4 line

 

[BugsyCT]

Big one up next - Marquette at Creighton

 

[storrsroars]

Looks like Moore is all the way back.

 

[CTBasketball]

Xavier looked so disrupted without Freemantle.

 

[KingAG]

Who are we rooting for? Creighton or Marquette? Which team losing helps us most in moving up a line

 

[BFieldHusky]

Miller and Boum both just choked with that last possession. Miller really lost control of this game. This loss is devastating. It probably cost Xavier 1 or 2 seeds, which makes a deep March run much harder.

Turned it on late. Why were Miller and Neptune fighting?

 

[wheelerdog]

Who are we rooting for? Creighton or Marquette? Which team losing helps us most in moving up a line

At this point 3rd is not happening. Just keep winning to avoid 6th

 

[nelsonmuntz]

This helps us. Win out this week and we’re back on the 4 line

What are you talking about? Xavier has a shot of dropping out of the Top 30, which would turn the home loss to Xavier into a Quad 2 loss.

Villanova is basically a useless team to UConn, so we never want them to beat one of our quality wins or losses.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Turned it on late. Why were Miller and Neptune fighting?

No idea.

 

[KingAG]

What are you talking about? Xavier has a shot of dropping out of the Top 30, which would turn the home loss to Xavier into a Quad 2 loss.

Villanova is basically a useless team to UConn, so we never want them to beat one of our quality wins or losses.

Xavier is on the 4 line ahead of us. There loss drops them down which opens up the spot for us to jump in. Pretty simple.

 

[KingAG]

At this point 3rd is not happening. Just keep winning to avoid 6th

Speaking on NCAA tournament seeding

 

[navery12]

Who are we rooting for? Creighton or Marquette? Which team losing helps us most in moving up a line

Marquette losing probably helps more, I think we're marginally ahead of Creighton currently. Though I suppose they could move ahead with a win over Creighton

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Xavier is on the 4 line ahead of us. There loss drops them down which opens up the spot for us to jump in. Pretty simple.

You know what is simple? The fact that there are only 3 other Top 30 NET teams in the Big East. The last thing UConn wants is one of those teams to drop out of the Top 30, since UConn has a reasonably high probability of playing one or more of those teams in MSG in two weeks.

 

[CTBasketball]

If we can lock up the 5 seed, I’d love another crack at a 4 seeded Xavier in NYC.

 

[storrsroars]

What are you talking about? Xavier has a shot of dropping out of the Top 30, which would turn the home loss to Xavier into a Quad 2 loss.

Villanova is basically a useless team to UConn, so we never want them to beat one of our quality wins or losses.

It'll be close. I think this loss is no more than a 3 spot drop, moving them to 28. The concern is also how UK and Miami are playing - both are hot and can enter top 30 after this weekend. Assuming X beats Hall and Butler and loses to Providence, they might still squeeze in right at 30. Rutgers playing like crap recently could help them.

 

[KingAG]

You know what is simple? The fact that there are only 3 other Top 30 NET teams in the Big East. The last thing UConn wants is one of those teams to drop out of the Top 30, since UConn has a reasonably high probability of playing one or more of those teams in MSG in two weeks.

You’re over thinking it. If seeding was based off of metrics they would have never been ahead of us to begin with. Them losing helps us a lot more than it hurts us

 

[gtcam]

Xavier should foul down 1 with 40 seconds left.

I normally think Miller would have done so but he got caught up in that moment with Neptune and just spaced out
Boy that hits close to home..........................................

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

Turned it on late. Why were Miller and Neptune fighting?

Thought they said Neptune was walking over that line on the court coaches cant go past.

 

[gtcam]

Xavier is on the 4 line ahead of us. There loss drops them down which opens up the spot for us to jump in. Pretty simple.

or Creighton if they beat Marquette