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But what about when your neighbor's weeds spread to your lawn? Except that you already have weeds in your own yard to worry about, which is pretty clearly spelled out. But I think you illustrated the point nicely.

things in our conference have a way of sorting themselves out. our non conf rpi will probably get stronger as the season goes by because some of those teams are rated too low right now. What we need, though, is an upset like we had last year with Valpo. That could still be FGCU over time, but barring that, stealing one from CU or Cincy would position us extremely well for a run at the postseason. I think we can find 7 wins in the B1G this year if the stars line up.

After all this time, I admit I still don't get this. Probably because I tend to worry about the weeds in my own yard more than the weeds in my neighbors' yards.

gee, which CU shows up? which NU shows up? which officiating crew shows up! aaaarrrrggghhhhh! I summon thee, Prognosti-Dart . CU-75 NU-62

gotta have some whiskey with that nyquil. Hey, y'all hey, bud, how are you? not the same without you in the game threads. tonight's throwback ball night. Busy. We open the restaurant Friday. Excited and nervous.... I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for you guys! knock 'em dead. Metaphorically, of course, otherwise that would be bad...

gotta have some whiskey with that nyquil. Hey, y'all hey, bud, how are you? not the same without you in the game threads. tonight's throwback ball night.

thanks for the updates, guys.

are we attacking with our guards at all? I'm listening to radio, which might as well be relying on carrier pigeons to give me a good picture of the game.

thanks. you're a good egg... i'll just hang out with matt and kent and some nyquil.

you obviously have a computer. Im a good guy so I will inbox my login for watch espn so you can watch it. thanks, but that's okay. just gets frustrating. I'm getting too old to keep up with all the fragmenting of sports broadcasting. just being a whiny dinosaur.

yay! yet another game I can't watch! yay! gets worse every season.

NU-72 Canes-61

Only question for us is the guards. Otherwise it's pretty standard Pitch, Shavon, Petteway (he's going to still get the most minutes, so get used to it). The other two, probably Gallegos and Tai. Biggs wouldn't leave us with a real point, otherwise he'd be fine. This game is of vital importance for us to win, so I'm sure whatever lineup works best is going to be the one that gets the most minutes barring foul trouble.

it's weird how quickly the team that came out for the opener disappeared. I miss that team. these guys are probably going to be all over the map for awhile.

they survived. that's good enough for this one.

NU-75 NIU-60

I don't think anyone has nor will disagree with you here. well, that's no fun. if you can't construct strawmen, what's to become of the straw market?

cbs rpi brutalizing us this morning at #159. For lulz, UMass is #1. So hey, we took a number one team down to the wire! And promptly dropped like 50 spots for the effort. I love early rpi's.

big win. going home winless would have sucked huge wang.

really good write up. nice and sober, a far (and welcome) cry from the lunatic hysteria of the last few days.

For the sake of this board, this stupid tournament can't end fast enough for me.

Don't be surprised if it doesn't happen more this season. Don't be surprised by anything this season. I knew there was trouble after the first slate of games gave us a 97 foul game, a 91 foul game and one game where *both* teams were one foul out away from being under 5 men on the court (the refs prolly swallowed whistles at that point).

What the hell. Let's see where the dart lands. Georgia-85 NU-78

That's not they way it ever worked when I coached. Just like the same good shot in the first 4 minutes becomes a bad shot in a close game in the last 4 minutes - officials' calls also do change to fit the time & situation. You coach your players to expect that.I've held off on commenting on the new foul rules but at this point I'n fed up. I've talked to both a college & high school coach yesterday and they had the same take on it I do. They are just bad for the game and encourage and reward bad play. The college coach said they have been forced to stop teaching taking a charge all together because no matter what a college ref said they have been told to call the block 98% of the time. He says it pains them but they now tell their players to just try to block shots. "I never thought I'd be teaching bad defense." And offensively the new rules encourage and reward out of control players . And that positive stimulus to bad behavior just encourages more bad behavior in the way of selfish play. Even when whistles aren't stopping play this rewarded one on five behavior kills the flow of offense. It all just turns to create bad basketball on both ends of the floor. I don't care how many points are scored it all leads to aestheticly unpleasing basketball. this ties in to the griping about petteway. we're seeing a ton of comments about "selfishness" and forgeting that the calling emphasis is forcing teams into telling their slashers and drivers to do that at every opportunity in order to get to the line for freebies. With all the -and ones, would you tell your team to pass the ball just to prove you can or would you tell them to just get it to the guy(s) that can drive and draw fouls. It's Iverson ball at its purest. And it's the officiating driving it. Edit: let me put this another way. It's almost as if you don't want open shots, because the risk of missing is higher than the risk of getting into a crowd and drawing a foul. I get that stopping the hand mugging was necessary--basketball had become too physical--but there surely had to be a better solution than this.

I don't even remotely get the Petteway venom. The guy's been hands down the best player for us in the tourney, and it hasn't been especially close. And we're upset by that? I'm confused.