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NCAA College Hoops '07-'08

In HighDef on ESPN the games are better than being there if you ask me!

Just found this olde but goodie!!!
 

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stubeeef said:
Final Four?
It is all filler and delay for the Championship celebration.
Lets just jump to the conclusion; shall we...

And the winner is.........

Anyway I knew you would have started a thread by now. Looks like fun! Again!:D
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Check back in when March Madness begins, stubeeef. I'll try and do the same. Maybe even last year's winner will return for the fun. Until then. ;)
 
Some good games today, Kentucky and Vandy go into double OT, UConn gave the Hoyas a good game.
 
Wow...Bobby Knight resigns unexpectedly. Wonder if there's something serious going on or if it's just Bobby being Bobby.

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2 big issues from games last night an they both involve the clock and the officials.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=280420046
The score was tied. There was less than one second to play, and Georgetown's Jonathan Wallace was dribbling 70 feet from the basket when he heard the whistle.

He wondered what was up. After all, there's no way a referee would call a foul in that situation, right?
Guess again.
"At first I thought I stepped out of bounds," Wallace said, "because I was trying to make a play with the time running down. But I did kind of [feel a] nudge when I was trying to turn the corner."
"So," Wallace shrugged, "a call's a call."
And he's not about to raise a fuss over it. That "nudge" was a bump from Villanova's Corey Stokes, the 48th foul called in a frustrating, stop-and-start game. Wallace hit both free throws with one-tenth of a second on the clock to give the No. 8 Hoyas a 55-53 victory Monday night, their first home win over the Wildcats in more than a decade.
"Wallace was dribbling, and the ref called a foul," said Stokes, who became the game's fourth player to foul out on the play. "What are you going to do?"
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http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/columns/story?id=3241791
Even C. Vivian Stringer, always the loquacious one, struggled to find the right words.

She also struggled to fight back the tears, as did her Rutgers players.
Losing to Tennessee -- which presumably will be the No. 1 team in the country when Tuesday's ESPN/USA Today poll is released -- on its home floor was one thing. But to lose like this, in the final two-tenths of a second, with the game clock seemingly and inexplicably coming down with an acute case of paralysis?
It was difficult to tell following Monday night's controversial 59-58 loss whether Stringer was more nauseated, more frustrated or just downright brokenhearted.
She had a right to be all three.
"The clock froze," a glassy-eyed Stringer said over and over again. "I'll remember that one."
Indeed, television replays showed the clock appeared to freeze briefly before Rutgers' Kia Vaughn was whistled for fouling Tennessee's Nicky Anosike with 0.2 seconds left in the game. The officials huddled, reviewed the play on the monitor and ruled the foul had occurred before time had expired.
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Indiana Hit with NCAA Violations

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Kelvin Sampson's future at Indiana was in doubt Wednesday following the release of an NCAA report that says he committed five "major" violations.

According to the report released Wednesday, the NCAA listed five major violations against Sampson, saying he gave "false or misleading information" to investigators.

The allegations, stem from a phone-call scandal that occurred while Sampson was still under recruiting restrictions following a similar episode at Oklahoma.

Sampson "failed to deport himself ... with the generally recognized high standard of honesty" and "failed to promote an atmosphere for compliance within the men's basketball program," according to the report.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3243793
 
SEC tournament delayed as Georgia Dome sustains damage

ATLANTA -- A severe storm ripped a hole in the roof and two panels off the side of the Georgia Dome during the Southeastern Conference tournament Friday, delaying Mississippi State's 69-67 overtime win over Alabama for more than an hour.

As Mississippi State led 64-61 with 2:11 left in overtime, a loud blast was heard inside the dome. The girders near the dome's roof began to swing, and a gaping section of the north part of the roof was ripped open, dropping debris that included nuts and bolts.

Both teams were sent to the locker room along with the coaches' wives and children, and stadium officials began to evacuate fans in the upper reaches of the stadium. The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for the Atlanta area at 9:26 p.m. ET after radar indicated a storm capable of producing a tornado located about six miles west of Atlanta.
Tyler Williams, from Knoxville, Tenn., said he was sitting in section 128, six rows behind the home-team bench.

"It sounded like a freight train," Williams said. "The rafters were swaying, and the roof of the dome was starting to ripple.

"It was a little frightening to say the least."

The game between Kentucky and Georgia that was to follow was postponed. There was no indication when it would be played.

On the exterior of the north side of the dome, panels littered the parking lot and lawns. Full-grown trees lay uprooted, and large, 30-foot traffic signs directing patrons where to park sat turned over.

Eddie Smith, a bus driver who was shuttling media members from the dome to a downtown hotel, said the bus parked in front of him in a Georgia Dome parking lot began rocking back and forth and nearly tipped over during the storm.

"It blew up the hatches on top of the bus," he said. "I thought it was going to tip over."

With crews on hand to fix downed power poles across the street, security personnel began to usher people back inside around 10:20 p.m. as another storm approached, while the game resumed after a 63-minute delay.

Next door, at the Georgia World Congress Center, where an ROTC ball hosting 11 high schools was underway before the storm hit, windows were blown out throughout the area and several girls walked without shoes, their feet bleeding.

At the adjoining Philips Arena, the Atlanta Hawks were able to finish their 7:30 p.m. NBA game against the Los Angeles Clippers, a 117-93 win for Atlanta.

The NCAA released a statement late Friday.

"We are in touch with the SEC offices," the statement said. "The first business at hand is the safety of everyone in Atlanta. Our colleagues with the SEC and our friends at the Georgia Dome are tending to the safety of the student-athletes, fans and everyone else inside the venue."
 
Anyone watch the game last night? KU 75-68 :p

Watched it from KU Stadium in Lawrence! Crazy!
 

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Indeed it was crazy. Fantastic game - a shot for the ages to send it to OT. I always feel for the guys who "blew" it by missing free throws, but it's always more than that when a team blows a 9 point lead in 2 minutes.

Two great teams, one great game, although both teams looked very tight at times.
 
I'm going to drop this bit of news here since it is relevant.
Billy Packer's streak of Final Fours is over after 34 years.

Packer, a color commentator, will be replaced in CBS' coverage by analyst Clark Kellogg.
"With his unquestioned popularity and performance over the years, Clark Kellogg earned all rights to this top spot," Sean McManus, president of CBS News and Sports, said in a statement Monday. "Like Billy Packer, Al McGuire or any of the most highly regarded broadcasters, Clark is an original voice with his own style and perspective."
Packer, 68, will leave CBS after 27 years to pursue "other projects in basketball," according to The Miami Herald.

Jim Nantz will continue in his Final Four play-by-play role.

Kellogg, who has done game and studio analysis for CBS for 16 years, said he was "excited, humbled and quite pleased" at the opportunity.

"I appreciate the confidence Sean has expressed in affording me this new role," Kellogg said in a statement.

Speculation of Packer's exit was fueled amid widespread criticism during this year's tournament.

Early in the semifinal between Kansas and North Carolina, with the Jayhawks up 38-12, Packer declared, "The game is over."

North Carolina cut the lead to 54-50 with 11 minutes left before Kansas pulled away, winning 84-66.

The Jayhawks beat Memphis 75-68 to claim the national title.

Packer, who began his Final Four run at NBC, later defended the comment to USA Today.

"My job is to say what I see, not have some kind of subconscious feelings about offending anybody. … It probably annoyed some people, but I don't concern myself with having some agenda that's contrary to what I'm seeing," he said.

In 2006, he criticized the selection of four Missouri Valley Conference teams, before Bradley and Wichita State reached the round of 16. In 2004, Packer took umbrage at Saint Joseph's getting the No. 1 seed.

In 2000, Packer bristled when asked to identify himself by two female students checking credentials before a game at Duke. One of the students, Jen Feinberg, quoted Packer as saying: "You need to get a life. Since when do we let women control who gets into a men's basketball game? Why don't you go find a women's game to let people into?"

Packer later e-mailed an apology to the women.

Four years earlier, he apologized on the air after he was criticized for referring to then-Georgetown guard Allen Iverson as a "tough little monkey."
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3485871
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