clarkwgriswold

I'd like to see traditionally good mid-majors on the schedule- Creighton, Butler, Wichita State and the like. Throw in some traditional area powers like a UC, Dayton or Xavier. You can get some of the bigger schools out of early season tournaments.

Check out John Feinstein's CBS Minute on the plight of the mid-majors. Pretty succinct and insightful. http://www1.play.it/audio/cbs-sports-minute/5-21-jim-rome-cbs-sports-minute-on-jr-smith/

Gotta love a forum where KD's auditioning for the OSU job while others suggest he should be fired. Unbelievable. The amusing thing is that both of those positions are wildly wrong. KD's going nowhere until he retires from Ohio Polytechnic.

Any idea on the TV coverage?

The release of the leaked bracket makes the committee even less credible.

dirtyoltroll- would you prefer a Stan Heath or a Dan Hispsher? That would be the result of your position. Time to move on.

As for KD, that was not a greatly coached game, but let's get some perspective. We have the good fortune of being able to keep him because of an unfortunate ghost in his past. As a result, we've been able to retain a top notch coach over the long term, something schools other than places like Duke and North Carolina are unable to do. The alternative for a mid-major is try to hire the strong up and comer and if he's good you lose him in two years to a bigger program. Thanks, but no thanks, I don't want to be that Portage County school or that place in Athens where uncertainty comes every two or three years or I end up with Kelvin Sampson's phone boy. I'll take 20 wins every damn year, stability and consistency.

Do you think that maybe, just maybe, we could run a decent inbounds play from under our basket? I'm so sick of seeing 4 guys not move and a high toss to our big guy out by the wing. We lost one of those tonight in the clutch because Buffalo knew we run it 99.8 % of the time and jumped it. Nice job by the Buffalo coaching staff tonight. Not such a great job by us in making adjustments. Buffalo certainly looked like the more athletic squad.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudddddddddddddgggge. Can we please just just once get our a$$e$ on someone when the ball goes up. I realize that without Pat we're undersized, but damn, we could box out. Oh, and I hate that I was right on Kwan. Here we come NIT. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudddddddddddddgggge.

Kwan needs to show up tonight focused on defense and boards, and not force shots. We need his length and defense, not his long range shooting in this one.

Lillard is a real player. I saw him play at Cleveland Central Catholic. Late in the state championship game last year he threw down a huge dunk but was called for a technical for hanging on the rim, which ended up in a tie which they lost in OT.

Whew!!!

Let's hope that subjectivity does not include notoriety from a team being on Sportscenter because of the antics of their bench.

I get that Monmouth had some nice wins. I won't include ND or Georgetown in that description. My gut feeling is that the MAAC was just not a very good league this year and we took it to their league champ, the same team that beat Monmouth in their league championship. As such , the Zips belong in any at large discussion as much as Monmouth. If they lose this week, I don't think the Zips will get an at large bid, but they deserve to be in the discussion as much as Monmouth.

I love all-whatever teams with no regard to positions.

Well, I guess Senderoff gets to start his recruit calling marathon early this year! The extra time will also give Jimmy Hall time to work on his nuclear physics degree, Monmouth deserves a spot in the tournament (THE NIT!). If that team didn't have the creative group of 6th grade level geniuses at the end of their bench, you'd have never heard of them this season. Their league championship game against Iona had about 7 people in the stands.

Here's hoping that every Monday game is a triple overtime physically and mentally taxing marathon!

I feel sorry for Pat. This season showed so much promise for him, but he just never got on track with the injuries. I'm not on the inside to know, but the kid has always seemed to play hard and without that kind of inside info I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and not resort to conjecture.

Aaaaaaah, that makes sense. Thanks.

The classless tool was one of the guys celebrating when Big Dog got hurt in the first game. I get the rivalry. I don't get acting like a damn thug fool.

I think if I was a MAC decisionmaker, I'd move the Thursday games around to have Akron and Kent playing the evening games to boost attendance.

Exactly. Played similarly, but not everything went in for Kent and they didn't get every bounce and loose ball. This just in- Jimmy Hall's a punk. Glad he was able to help contribute to the Zips win with the stupid technical.

That's the same author that Frenchy was complaining about characterizing the Zips effort at Miami when the guy never left Akron to actually attend the game.

Could someone please find out what Reggie McAdams has been eating for the last week and make sure he maintains a steady diet of it.

I wonder if they can stop dribble penetration.