Week 4 games (Dec. 14-20)

[Plebe]

All times are Eastern time zone.
My subjective picks for games of the week are in bold.
Rankings listed are per the latest BY25 poll.



Sun., Dec. 20

Miami at #3 NC State (12p, ACCNX)
Delaware at George Washington (12p, ESPN+)
Virginia at Virginia Tech (12p, ACCN). Postponed.
Florida Gulf Coast at Florida International (12p, live stream)
UNC Greensboro at Tennessee (12p, SECN+). Newly added to schedule, as of 12/19.
Wake Forest at North Carolina (1p, ACCNX)
Southern Illinois at Missouri (1:30p, SECN+)

#7 Arizona at Utah (2p, P12N)
#20 Syracuse at Boston College (2p, ACCN)
Purdue at Penn State (2p, BTN)
SMU at Temple (2p, ESPN+)
Elon at North Carolina A&T (2p, live stream)
Ohio at West Virginia (2p, ESPN+). Postponed.
Pittsburgh at Florida State (2p, ACCNX)

Rice at #10 Texas A&M (3p, SECN+)
Northern Illinois at Michigan State (3p, BTN+)
Belmont at Auburn (3p, SECN+)
South Dakota at Oklahoma (3p, Fox Sports Oklahoma)
LSU vs. Loyola Marymount (3p, FloHoops). At Las Vegas.
Notre Dame at Clemson (3p, ACCNX)

Central Arkansas at #14 Mississippi State (4p, SECN)
Nebraska at #15 Indiana (4p, BTN)
Arizona State at Colorado (4p, P12N)
Eastern Michigan vs. #25 Gonzaga (5:30p, FloHoops) At Las Vegas.
Pacific vs. UNLV (6:30p, FloHoops). At Las Vegas.
Sacred Heart at Rutgers (8p, BTN+)



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Games already played:

Mon, Dec. 14

Tarleton at Florida (1p, SECN+). Tarleton just moved up from D2 and plays in the WAC.
#13 Maryland at Rutgers (2p, BTN+)
North Carolina at Miami (2p, ACCN)
Utah at Colorado (2p, P12N)

Louisiana (Lafayette) at LSU (6p, SECN)
Nebraska at Creighton [6p, NET (Nebraska public TV)]
North Carolina A&T at UNC Greensboro (6p, ESPN+). Does @triaddukefan root for his Aggies or his Spartans in this one?
Texas Tech at #8 Baylor (7p, ESPNU)

UMKC at Kansas State (7:30p, ESPN+)
#21 Missouri State at Missouri (8p, SECN+). Rescheduled from Sunday.
Minnesota at #18 Northwestern (9p, BTN)

Tues., Dec. 15

Miami (OH) at Central Michigan (2p, ESPN3)
Sam Houston State at #10 Texas A&M (3p, SECN+)
Utah Valley at BYU (5p, BYUtv)
Tulane at UCF (6p, ESPN+)
#4 UConn at Seton Hall (6:30p, SNY/FoxSports)
Drake at #17 South Dakota State (6:30p, ESPN+)
Iowa State at Northern Iowa (7:30p, ESPN+)
Oklahoma State at Oklahoma (8p, Fox Sports Oklahoma)
#1 Stanford at Pacific (9p, ESPN2). With a win here, Tara becomes all-time coaching wins leader.

Wed., Dec. 16

Xavier at Valparaiso (2p, ESPN+)
Villanova at Providence (2p, BEDN/FloHoops)
Southern at #8 Baylor (3p)
#9 Kentucky at DePaul (3p, live stream)
Louisiana at Rice (3p, CUSATV)
#24 South Florida at Memphis (3p, ESPN+)
St. John’s at Marquette (3p, ESPN+)
East Carolina at SMU (4p, ESPN+)

Liberty at High Point (6p, ESPN+)
Stephen F. Austin at Auburn (7p, SECN+)
Cincinnati at Houston (8p, ESPN+)
North Dakota at North Dakota State (8p, ESPN3). This is a @triaddukefan flagship-land grant rivalry game.
New Orleans at Missouri (8p, SECN+)

Thu., Dec. 17

South Dakota at Bradley (2p, ESPN3)
VCU at Vanderbilt (3p, SECN+)
Tennessee at #15 Indiana (4p, BTN+)
Virginia Tech at Notre Dame (6p, ACCN)
Creighton at #4 UConn (6:30p, SNY/FoxSports)

Wake Forest at #3 NC State (7p, ACCNX)
Temple at #5 South Carolina (7p, SECN)
#18 Northwestern at Purdue (7p, BTN)
North Florida at Auburn (7p, SECN+)
Florida State at Clemson (7p, ACCNX)
Miami at Georgia Tech (7p, ACCNX)
Troy at Middle Tennessee (7:30p, live stream)
#19 Syracuse at North Carolina (8p, ACCN)

Fri., Dec. 18

Hampton at Rutgers (1p, BTN+)
Northwestern State at #8 Baylor (3p, ESPN+)
Central Michigan at Michigan State (5p, BTN+)
Arizona State at Utah (5p, P12N)

#7 Arizona at Colorado (7p, P12N)
Kansas State at Iowa State (7p, ESPN+)
West Virginia at Oklahoma State (7p, ESPN+)
Southern at #14 Mississippi State (8p, ESPN+)
Drake at #23 Texas (8p, LHN)


Sat., Dec. 18

#20 Michigan at Illinois (12p, BTN+). Postponed.
Creighton at Villanova (12p, BDN/FloSports)
Xavier at #4 UConn (1p, SNY/FoxSports)
Wofford at #9 Kentucky (1p, SECN+)
Marquette at Seton Hall (1p, BEDN/FloSports)
St. John's at Providence (1p, BEDN/FloSports)

South Dakota State at #24 Missouri State (2p, ESPN3)
UCF at Tulsa (2p, ESPN+)
McNeese at #8 Baylor (3p, ESPN+)
Cal at #11 UCLA (3p, P12N)
#12 Arkansas at Little Rock (3p, ESPN+)
#16 Oregon State at Washington State (3p, P12N)
Georgetown at DePaul (3p, BEDN/FloHoops)
Alabama at Memphis (3p, ESPN+)
TCU at Texas Tech (3p, ESPN+)

LSU vs. Pacific (4p, FloHoops) (at Las Vegas)
#6 Oregon at Washington (5p, P12N)
Houston at #22 South Florida (7p, ESPN+). Postponed.
#1 Stanford at USC (9p, P12N)

 

[DaBball]

I think ESPN featured that game because Tara will break the record.

 

[azfan]

Another game of interest is 4 - 1 Grand Canyon Antelopes versus the winless Eastern Washington Screaming Eagles. Game is at 1:00 p.m.MST and appears to be a live stream from the Eastern Washington site.

Watch Big Sky - Big Sky Conference

bigskyconf.com

 

[LETTERL]

UNC plays at Miami today at 2 pm on ACCN.

 

[azfan]

Another game of interest is 4 - 1 Grand Canyon Antelopes versus the winless Eastern Washington Screaming Eagles. Game is at 1:00 p.m.MST and appears to be a live stream from the Eastern Washington site.

Watch Big Sky - Big Sky Conference

bigskyconf.com

Game is actually on Pluto TV. Lopes race to a 23-15 lead. center Katie Scott for the Lopes is perfect from the field with seven points and ends the quarter with an amazing Stephanie Dolson assist from the high post. Eagles score all their points in the quarter off threes.

 

[azfan]

Lopes end the first half 47-37. Lopes with 10 steals and Eagles turnovers total 18. Eagles hang in this game by hitting 7 of 17 threes

Lopes center Katie Scott impressive with 11 points on 5 of 6 shooting and she dropped 2 sweet dimes.

 

[azfan]

61-54 at the end of 3. Eagles have hit 10 threes to stay within striking distance. Grand Canyon center Katie Scott leads all scorers to with 17.

 

[triaddukefan]

A few throw out the record books games early this week. Got a cross town rivalry game ..... a Land Grant vs Flagship... and the under the radar Baptist vs Methodist battle.

The Battle of the Boro starts soon.This is NCA&T's first game of the season. I'm sure they will be rusty, but they should beat the brakes offa My Spartans. Sadly UNCG is turrible this season... turrible.

 

[azfan]

Lopes win 84 - 78. Freshman center Katie Scott leads all scorers with 20 (her 4th 20 point game this year) as Grand Canyon gets 13 steals and turns Eastern Washington over 26 times. The Screaming Eagles hit 14 threes to hang around.

First year Lopes coach Molly Miller posted an astounding 180-17 record over the past six years at her alma mater, Drury, in Springfield, Missouri. The .914 winning percentage tops any active Division I, II or III men’s or women’s basketball head coach with at least five years of experience and includes a stunning 67-1 mark over the past two seasons.

Molly Miller - Women's Basketball Coach - Grand Canyon University Athletics

Miller's marks SEASON SCHOOL RECORD 2014-15 Drury 26-4 2015-16 Drury 26-5 2016-17 Drury 30-4 2017-18 Drury 31-3...

gculopes.com

 

[triaddukefan]

A&T was on the verge of running UNCG out of their own building.... 34-18..... now its 38-35 Aggies. Throw out the record books when the Aggies and Spartans meet up.

 

[triaddukefan]

43-42 Spartans

 

[Plebe]

43-42 Spartans

With which team do your loyalties lie?

 

[triaddukefan]

With which team do your loyalties lie?

Well my mother and sister are UNCG grads.... Father is a A&T alum....... so.... its pretty much split. I just root for a good game.

 

[triaddukefan]

UNCG pulls out a shocker... 49-46 This game went nothing like I expected it to....... but anything can happen in a cross town rivalry game.

They are fuming on the Aggie Message board..... and understandably so.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I officially give up predicting anything. Colorado beat Utah 80-50. Colorado recently lost to Denver, who then got crushed by Colorado St. Utah beat Oregon St., then had their hands full w/ Montana St. I officially don't know anything about any team at this point.

 

[LoTrader]

I officially give up predicting anything. Colorado beat Utah 80-50. Colorado recently lost to Denver, who then got crushed by Colorado St. Utah beat Oregon St., then had their hands full w/ Montana St. I officially don't know anything about any team at this point.

@nwhoopfan, this is why I don't put too much concern on any win/loss record in the PAC-12 at this point in time. By the time PAC-12 Teams start the 2nd half of the season we'll be able to "predict" with more confidence which PAC-12 team is likely to win in a given game.

 

[Figurehead]

@nwhoopfan, this is why I don't put too much concern on any win/loss record in the PAC-12 at this point in time. By the time PAC-12 Teams start the 2nd half of the season we'll be able to "predict" with more confidence which PAC-12 team is likely to win in a given game.

It is almost eerie on the accuracy of the realtime rpi probability at this point in the season

 

[DefenseBB]

Well, I would say the bottom 2 teams have shown themselves-Cal and UW. I would say throw a blanket over WSU, Col and Utah for 8-10 and throw another grouping of USC, OSU, ASU are 5/6/7. 1st is Stanford, 2nd is 3rd should be UCLA but they lost to AZ so that's your top 4.

Problem solved...

 

[LoTrader]

Well, I would say the bottom 2 teams have shown themselves-Cal and UW. I would say throw a blanket over WSU, Col and Utah for 8-10 and throw another grouping of USC, OSU, ASU are 5/6/7. 1st is Stanford, 2nd is 3rd should be UCLA but they lost to AZ so that's your top 4.

Problem solved...

Not so fast @DefenseBB ! Oregon & Stanford will be 1 and/or 2. That is all that is certain in the PAC-12, with the exception that Cal is likely to be 12.

 

[DefenseBB]

Not so fast @DefenseBB ! Oregon & Stanford will be 1 and/or 2. That is all that is certain in the PAC-12, with the exception that Cal is likely to be 12.

So who will be 3/4 if not Arizona and UCLA? 5-7 is definitely among OSU, ASU, USC. Go to Vegas and bet on it. I will only take a 5% commission.

 

[Lorcan]

So who will be 3/4 if not Arizona and UCLA? 5-7 is definitely among OSU, ASU, USC. Go to Vegas and bet on it. I will only take a 5% commission.

My only quibble is that I'm not yet convinced that Oregon State and USC will finish high enough for this. With the injury to Pili, USC is significantly weaker than last year.

I'd say, 1/2 Stanford/Oregon, 3. Arizona 4. UCLA 5. ASU are pretty good bets. Then beyond that it's.....a mess.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Well, I would say the bottom 2 teams have shown themselves-Cal and UW. I would say throw a blanket over WSU, Col and Utah for 8-10 and throw another grouping of USC, OSU, ASU are 5/6/7. 1st is Stanford, 2nd is 3rd should be UCLA but they lost to AZ so that's your top 4.

Problem solved...

I don't think it's conclusive yet that UW will finish as low as 11th. Go ahead and pencil in Cal for 12. The only suspense is if they will go 0-22 or manage to win a game or 2.

 

[Lorcan]

I don't think it's conclusive yet that UW will finish as low as 11th. Go ahead and pencil in Cal for 12. The only suspense is if they will go 0-22 or manage to win a game or 2.

It'd be quite the story if Cal somehow beat Oregon, helping their rival win the title on a buzzer beater from half court. Hope springs eternal. I'm expecting Stanford to drop a surprise somewhere along the way. Probably to Cal, just because I've tempted the woofing gods already.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Cal Baptist is off to a 7-0 start. Haven't really played anybody of note, but they are cleaning house against Big West and WCC teams from California.

 

[Plebe]

Nothing about today's lineup jumps off the page for me, but it'll be interesting to see what transpires when Tennessee visits Indiana.

Although Kentucky is grossly overrated, I still think they're better than Tennessee, and so barring another self-immolation like the one the Hoosiers displayed in Lexington, this one *should* go for the home team. But you never know. Indiana seems to have depth issues, with only 7 players getting significant minutes in the Kentucky game.

I'm also curious to see what happens when South Dakota visits Bradley, a Missouri Valley program that had a breakout season last year.