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Gavitt Tipoff Games
Thought I'd start a thread for this as I watch the surprise performance of DePaul over Iowa. 78-53 right now.
If this is the worst team in the Big East, this is going to be a monster conference this year.
Aaaannnnd, DePaul pulls off the win. 93-78.
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11-11-2019 09:34 PM |
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RE: Gavitt Tipoff Games
DePaul has some real honest-to-goodness players this year. I feel like they could have used one more real scorer on the wing, but they're not a bad team.
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RE: Gavitt Tipoff Games
Full Slate (kenpom):
Monday, Nov. 11
DePaul (77) at Iowa (41)
Tuesday, Nov. 12
Minnesota (78) at Butler (27)
Creighton (32) at Michigan (31)
Wednesday, Nov. 13
Purdue (9) at Marquette (15)
Providence (18) at Northwestern (108)
Villanova (7) at Ohio State (12)
Thursday, Nov. 14
Michigan State (1) at Seton Hall (21)
Penn State (44) at Georgetown (63)
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RE: Gavitt Tipoff Games
Way to go, DePaul! They have really turned things around. This isn't your doormat DePaul anymore.
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RE: Gavitt Tipoff Games
I thought the Blue Demons relied a tad too much on Max Strus last year. This year's team might be a bit more balanced and offer a tad more depth. But it's way too early to tell how much better DePaul will be this season compared to last (I hope at least somewhat better).
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RE: Gavitt Tipoff Games
(11-11-2019 11:22 PM)bill dazzle Wrote: I thought the Blue Demons relied a tad too much on Max Strus last year. This year's team might be a bit more balanced and offer a tad more depth. But it's way too early to tell how much better DePaul will be this season compared to last (I hope at least somewhat better).
Relied on him out of necessity. Coleman-Lands was hurt and no charlie moore, romeo weems, darious hall or markese jacobs. those are huge additions.
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RE: Gavitt Tipoff Games
wait what? I was out all night tonight. Wasn't it 53-50 at halftime? If it was 78-53, that would be a 25-3 run to start the 2nd half???
Wow.
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11-12-2019 01:22 AM |
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(11-12-2019 01:22 AM)stever20 Wrote: wait what? I was out all night tonight. Wasn't it 53-50 at halftime? If it was 78-53, that would be a 25-3 run to start the 2nd half???
Wow.
I believe it was something like 53-30 at halftime. You'd be forgiven for just not processing a blowout in favor of the blue demons though - I did the same thing. Got home most of the way through the first half, flipped the game on to check the score, and just went "goddamnit DePaul" when I saw something like 44-21 at the bottom of the screen. Took me a good ten seconds to process that DePaul was the team winning.
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RE: Gavitt Tipoff Games
(11-12-2019 07:32 AM)Bogg Wrote: (11-12-2019 01:22 AM)stever20 Wrote: wait what? I was out all night tonight. Wasn't it 53-50 at halftime? If it was 78-53, that would be a 25-3 run to start the 2nd half???
Wow.
I believe it was something like 53-30 at halftime. You'd be forgiven for just not processing a blowout in favor of the blue demons though - I did the same thing. Got home most of the way through the first half, flipped the game on to check the score, and just went "goddamnit DePaul" when I saw something like 44-21 at the bottom of the screen. Took me a good ten seconds to process that DePaul was the team winning.
DePaul also started the game on a 10-0 run. It was a blowout from start to finish.
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RE: Gavitt Tipoff Games
(11-12-2019 07:32 AM)Bogg Wrote: (11-12-2019 01:22 AM)stever20 Wrote: wait what? I was out all night tonight. Wasn't it 53-50 at halftime? If it was 78-53, that would be a 25-3 run to start the 2nd half???
Wow.
I believe it was something like 53-30 at halftime. You'd be forgiven for just not processing a blowout in favor of the blue demons though - I did the same thing. Got home most of the way through the first half, flipped the game on to check the score, and just went "goddamnit DePaul" when I saw something like 44-21 at the bottom of the screen. Took me a good ten seconds to process that DePaul was the team winning.
I caught it right about the same time. I did a "wait, what?" then just started laughing.
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RE: Gavitt Tipoff Games
(11-11-2019 11:54 PM)scoscox Wrote: (11-11-2019 11:22 PM)bill dazzle Wrote: I thought the Blue Demons relied a tad too much on Max Strus last year. This year's team might be a bit more balanced and offer a tad more depth. But it's way too early to tell how much better DePaul will be this season compared to last (I hope at least somewhat better).
Relied on him out of necessity. Coleman-Lands was hurt and no charlie moore, romeo weems, darious hall or markese jacobs. those are huge additions.
Very good point. Agree.
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RE: Gavitt Tipoff Games
definitely not been a good start for the Big Ten this season....
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(11-12-2019 09:38 AM)stever20 Wrote: definitely not been a good start for the Big Ten this season....
Big picture, and purely for just men's basketball, adding Rutgers and Nebraska - to go along with Penn State and Northwestern - essentially means that the bottom four programs of the B1G are historically very poor.
Since 1980, nearly 40 years, those four programs have a combined 15 NCAA Tournament appearances. If any of the "traditional" top-half teams of the B1G are rebuilding or undergoing a transition, it is very easy for that bottom to expand to include five, maybe even six teams.
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11-12-2019 10:57 AM |
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RE: Gavitt Tipoff Games
The Big Ten strongly needs six of these eight to be Top 25-30-esque every year:
Illinois
Indiana
Maryland
Michigan
Michigan State
Ohio State
Purdue
Wisconsin
The other six simply don't seem to offer (at least as I see it) the fan bases, recruiting draws, histories, ability to compete with the aforementioned eight, etc. to be strong year in and year out. Maybe I'm wrong.
So if only, say, four or five of the B10 "power eight" are "Top 30 good" any given year ... the league has problems.
Of note, Sagarin Ratings has B10 sixth in league rankings. Not good. Of course, take Sagarin with a bit of skepticism as it has Georgetown No. 166 (way too low).
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Ken Pom has the Big Ten 4th right now and closer to #5 SEC than they are #3 ACC.
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RE: Gavitt Tipoff Games
From the parts of the Creighton game I caught, it seemed they were pretty evenly matched with Michigan.
Not Gavitt related, but Xavier trying to pull out the win in OT against Missouri right now. They looked real sloppy in the second half. Rushed their shots and didn't look to kick it out much when nothing was happening in the lane.
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RE: Gavitt Tipoff Games
Boy Nova needs to get it's act together playing big ten teams
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11-14-2019 08:56 AM |
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(11-14-2019 08:56 AM)stever20 Wrote: Boy Nova needs to get it's act together playing big ten teams
Ouch. I did not recall this.
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(11-14-2019 09:06 AM)bill dazzle Wrote: (11-14-2019 08:56 AM)stever20 Wrote: Boy Nova needs to get it's act together playing big ten teams
Ouch. I did not recall this.
yeah it's been bad....
hey, 24 more times, and they'll head to overtime!!!!
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11-14-2019 09:29 AM |
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(11-14-2019 09:29 AM)stever20 Wrote: (11-14-2019 09:06 AM)bill dazzle Wrote: (11-14-2019 08:56 AM)stever20 Wrote: Boy Nova needs to get it's act together playing big ten teams
Ouch. I did not recall this.
yeah it's been bad....
hey, 24 more times, and they'll head to overtime!!!!
What's your take on Georgetown this year, S20?
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