About DePaul, the announcers mentioned that Villanova had beaten them by like 26 and 38 in the 2 regular season matchups, so the fact that last night's game was close was shocking. But what wasn't surprising is that DePaul had multiple opportunities to win the game at the end and I don't think they ever got clean looks, they turned the ball over on their final possession which allowed Villanova to run the clock out. I give DePaul credit for coming to New York and playing hard unlike Georgetown! What's funny about Georgetown is Cooley seemed to have a big smile on his face as his team was getting embarrassed for most of the game, he must have been relieved that the season was going to be over at about 9 eastern and he could be put out of his misery!!

Even with the injuries to Kansas, you'd expect a blue-blood like that to be competitive regardless of who is out! They also got blown out at Houston in the regular season finale. Didn't Kansas start the year as the overwhelming favorite to win the National Championship? They shouldn't be this bad even Dickinson out. 

moneybox wrote:

Thank God this season is over! 1-14 in the final 15 games. We need to be looking for a new coach--injuries alone can't explain this disgraceful finish!

CC should get another year, but finishing 1-14 with 3 losses to La Salle is just inexcusable!! We didn't expect GW to win the A10 but they shouldn't have been this bad with Bishop, Max and Buchanan playing on the team

It seems as if ALL of Tony Bennett's teams (even his elite teams) have been offensively challenged, when you combine that with them having a hard time winning at Virginia Tech in recent years, you get a horrific 34 point loss. Virginia scored 49 points in a win over the weekend. 

About dmvpiranha's list of teams with acting losing streaks, Missouri hosts #5 Tennessee tonight at 7 on the SEC Network. I'm interested to see what the atmosphere/effort is like for a BCS team that has lost 12 straight games, especially playing a Final Four caliber team like Tennessee. 

Georgetown is in an interesting situation when they host St.John's tomorrow night on FS1 because St. John's coach Rick Pitino basically threw all of his players under the bus (saying things like they weren't athletic, they don't play hard, they don't play smart, etc., he even called some of them out by name) after they lost at home to Seton Hall on Sunday. Playing Georgetown would normally be a GET RIGHT game for a team, but I'm curious to see how St.John's plays after Pitino put all of the blame on his players.

ABC7 in D.C. did a feature on GW, they interviewed Caputo, Darren Buchanan and Garrett Johnson. You can catch the replay in about 11 minutes (6:50pm eastern) on News Channel 8, If I find a link of it I'll post it here. 

Kwame Evans Jr. (Oregon) is playing right now against UCLA on CBS. The announcers mentioned that Oregon has been playing without their 2 best post players, that is probably what has allowed Kwame to get a lot of minutes. It will be interesting to see what happens with his minutes when Oregon gets their big guys back. 

It's definitely a great sign that the A10 is beating all these BCS teams early in the season, we haven't seen this in a while or maybe we have and I've forgotten!! Santos played very well for Dayton, I didn't think he was on the team last year so I just typed his name in search box and Pittsburgh came up, I'll assume he transferred in from Pittsburgh!! LSU has a very good post player named Baker who is taller and a lot more skilled than Dean, I think Dean will have a hard time getting playing time as long as Baker is healthy.

Vermont vs. St. Louis          noon  ESPN
St.John's vs. Dayton           2pm  ESPN2 - if Dayton wins, they'll likely face #6 Houston in the Championship Game
Auburn vs. St.Bonaventure  7pm  ESPN2

Maryland vs.#21 Villanova   8pm   FS1 - for those of you who may enjoy seeing Maryland take it on the chin(lol), you should watch this one!

I didn't see that Georgetown lost until the day after, I would have mentioned on here if I was aware they were in a close game against a cupcake!! I bought into the Ed Cooley hype and assumed he would magically turn things around instantly, so I wasn't going to really mention Georgetown until they played a quality opponent. But it appears as if the same Patrick Ewing-esque problems (losing to/struggling against bad teams, having an unheralded player look like a superstar against them, boneheaded plays at the end of close games!) may remain with Georgetown at least for this season. Georgetown plays Rutgers tomorrow (11/15), I'll post about the time and TV schedule tomorrow.

Georgetown isn't the only local team struggling, Maryland lost to UAB after Davidson beat them!! It's worse for Maryland because they came into the season with high expectations and were not supposed to lose to the likes of Davidson and UAB to start the year. 

These are some great comments from all of you about Bobby Knight. What I found most interesting about him was the extreme swings in his mood/behavior. I heard John Feinstein (who wrote 'A Season on the Brink' about Knight's 1985-1986 Indiana team) mention that Knight didn't speak to him for about 8 years, Feinstein then runs into him at a holiday tournament that the University of Maryland was participating in around 1995, and Knight was very nice to him and congratulated him on his newborn son. Feinstein also said Knight did not talk to Coach K for 9 years after Duke beat Indiana in the 1992 Final 4. Coach K called Knight to induct him into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001 and he agreed to do it. I've heard that Knight was very complimentary of Coach K (he even wore a Duke jersey or Coach K shirt at the 1986 Final 4 to celebrate Coach K making his first Final 4) up until he lost to him in 1992, which is an indication of the inherit contradiction that was posted in GW0509's link. 

gwstudent2024 wrote:

UMass football is a punching bag and they don't even have a conference now. It would be a bloodbath if they joined any semi-respectable conference

I had zero knowledge or insight on UMass football until it was brought up here. I just looked it up and saw they are indeed one of 4 FBS independent schools and are terrible as you pointed out. I always thought UMass played in a lower-tier football conference, similar to Georgetown football. UMass is 1-5 and lost 52-28 at home to Arkansas State in their last game, Arkansas State's freshman QB passed for a school-record 6 touchdown in the loss! I guess it would be more beneficial for UMass to join the AAC and have all of their embarrassing losses televised on one of the big networks (ESPN, Fox, CBS or whoever has the AAC television contract) instead of what they have now!!

Down below is the Quashie Family Dental-DC Raiders (Darren Buchanan) full game. DC Raiders lost by 31, but it looked like Buchanan played a lot of minutes since they only had 7 players even if he didn't contribute much offensively which GW0509 points out. I believe Buchanan is #23 in the dark jersey.