GW Hoops / Other Games Thread

**Posted by The Dude** **Online!** 1/21/2024 1:42 am

Huge upsets, 6-11 West Virginia beats Kansas 91-85, Pittsburgh, 1-5 in the ACC wins at Duke!

South Carolina won big at Arkansas, South Carolina is 15-3

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**Posted by The Dude** **Online!** 1/23/2024 9:01 pm

South Carolina blows out Kentucky!!

Michigan lost by 32, Juwan Howard's team is 7-12

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**Posted by The Dude** **Online!** 1/24/2024 11:33 pm

Another big Quad 1 road win for Maryland, beating Iowa. Previously went on the road and beat #10 Illinois

**Posted by dmvpiranha** 1/26/2024 10:32 am

Oregon State upset #9 Arizona on a buzzer beating three by Jordan Pope.

Detroit Mercy moved to 0-21 on the year with a 16 point loss to Milwaukee. Mississippi Valley State (shock, surprise!) is the only other team that's winless this season.

Denver beat South Dakota 111-110 in double overtime. Outside of our triple overtime game against Fordham, this may have been one of the best games of the year. Denver has the nation's leading scorer Tommy Bruner who had 49 but the Coyotes nearly matched that with Kaleb Stewart who had 44 of his own.

Finally, St. Mary's destroyed Pacific 76-28. Thankfully, the Tigers scored just enough to keep the GW-SLU record intact.

**Posted by jf** 1/26/2024 12:53 pm

We may be already on the phone to Detroit Mercy and Pacific for next year's schedule.

**Posted by Long Suffering Fan** 1/26/2024 1:30 pm

jf wrote:
We may be already on the phone to Detroit Mercy and Pacific for next year's schedule.

I was thinking the same thing. You beat me to the smart ass comment.

**Posted by The Dude** **Online!** 1/27/2024 3:41 pm

Wow huge upset by Oregon St

South Carolina won again, they are 17-3. They've continued to steam roll through the SEC

30 points 4 steals and the game winner for Jameer Nelson Jr as TCU beats #15 Baylor on the road, a massive Quad 1 win for TCU as Jameer's team solidify their tourney resume

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**Posted by The Dude** **Online!** 1/28/2024 2:21 pm

The number one team in the nation and defending national champion UConn Huskies beat number 35 Xavier by 44 points

Danny Hurley's squad started the game with a 38 to 9 lead

**Posted by The Dude** **Online!** 1/29/2024 11:37 pm

Houston beats Texas on the road

Lunardi has Texas in his last 4 in. Incredible what a gap there is between Texas and Houston

As for Kelvin Sampson at Houston, what a job he's done there. A Final Four, an Elite 8 and at least the Sweet 16 every year dating back to 2019

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**Posted by The Dude** **Online!** 1/30/2024 11:05 pm

two enormous upsets tonight:

South Carolina went into #5 Tennessee, and on the road won again! South Carolina who we beat last year is 18-3.

9-11 (2-8 in the ACC) Georgia Tech beat #3 North Carolina!

**Posted by The Dude** **Online!** 1/31/2024 10:16 pm

Incredible upset tonight! one of the biggest of the year

#237 Rice goes on the road and beats Memphis, a brutal Quad 4 loss for a now bubble Memphis squad

Speaking of great players turned Head Coaches, Juwan Howard's Michigan team is 7-14.

**Posted by GW0509** 2/02/2024 8:24 pm

Dayton is currently shooting 2-13 from 3.

**Posted by dmvpiranha** 2/02/2024 11:52 pm

Siena lost to a 7 win Rider team by 41. 18 FGs made, 21 turnovers. Sean Durugordon (who I think we recruited a bit when he transferred sometime back) had half of their 50 points. Imagine what things would have looked like had the NCAA not allowed him to play since he's transferred multiple times already. Siena may not have money for the buyout but Carm has been a disaster there this year. Virtually no D1 talent on that team.

**Posted by The Dude** **Online!** 2/03/2024 3:38 pm

The #1 team in the nation, UConn picked up their 8th Quad 1 win today

Danny Hurley's defending National Champs are 20-2 and looking like the #1 overall seed for the Tourney

**Posted by Alum '04** 2/04/2024 11:10 am

The Dude wrote:
The #1 team in the nation, UConn picked up their 8th Quad 1 win today

Danny Hurley's defending National Champs are 20-2 and looking like the #1 overall seed for the Tourney

It was nice seeing GW beat him a few times while he was in the A-10. Was always a great experience to see him stomp around on the visiting sidelines, glaring at the officials. He has never changed.

**Posted by dmvpiranha** 2/04/2024 4:41 pm

Mason lost to UMass yesterday because Hall lost track of the score in the final seconds of the game. That's the kind of moment that causes coaches to run like lunatics up and down the sidelines yelling "don't foul!" when the score is tied, their team is up 4, or when they no longer have fouls to give. Still, Hall has to have more awareness in that situation.

Lincoln Ball had 15(!) rebounds in American's overtime win against Bucknell. Good to see him play a big role at another school.

Gonzaga fell to St Mary's at home. Looks like Few and co. will need to win the conference tournament to make the dance this year.

Loyola beat Davidson by 13 today. Des Watson showed up against his former team - 18 points, 5 rebounds, and 6 assists - to go with 5 made threes.

**Posted by Gwmayhem** 2/05/2024 10:16 am

Saw that GM-Umass ending. Have to feel for Hall. No game should ever be won or lost in this manner.

Two other games worth discussing. One goes back to last Wednesday when Purdue held a 46-8 advantage in free throw attempts against Northwestern. The kicker though was when NW executed a perfect trap, down 3 in overtime with seconds left, only to be called for a phantom foul. It cost NW any chance at winning, and Chris Collins knew this, so he strolled out onto the court to let the ref have it. He was ejected (2 techs). Just a blatant example of a ref calling what he was expecting to see rather than what actually happened. This happens way too frequently in college basketball.

On Saturday night, Baylor held a comfortable second half lead over Iowa State when the refs unbelievably tossed Scott Drew for having his body breaking the plane of the coach's box, for the second time. We've seen coaches walk onto the floor, practically interrupt the action, with no such calls. Scott Drew has coached over 700 college games and it was the first time he had ever been ejected. On the next possession, the Baylor bench was called for another technical for likely voicing their displeasure with how Drew was treated. From there, Baylor could not do a single thing right for several minutes and ISU went from 11-14 down to up 5. Baylor did come storming back and took a 2 point lead with 1.7 seconds left. ISU had to go the length of the floor and had no timeouts left. They missed a 3/4 court heave but wait...there's more. It was ruled that the clock had not started properly. Rather than a do-over, they took .5 seconds off the clock and ISU got to inbound from just beyond half-court. 1.2 left. They passed to a guy at the top of the key who flipped the ball behind him to another player who banked home a three point shot. ISU wins...or did they? After review, it was ruled that he did not get the shot off in time (correct call) and Baylor ends up winning. Perhaps the wildest game of the season.

**Posted by GW0509** 2/05/2024 10:16 pm

Miami only managed to score 38 points against the ‘Hoos tonight down in Charlottesville.

The Canes struggled from 3, going 2-20.

**Posted by The Dude** **Online!** 2/05/2024 11:38 pm

Kansas St beats Kansas!

Court storming!

Wow 38 points? GW I take it still holds the record by holding Saint Louis to 20?

I believe they had 7 at the half!

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**Posted by The Dude** **Online!** 2/06/2024 10:33 pm

Quad 1 road win for Rutgers at Maryland! Long way back to the bubble, just their 2nd Quad 1 win, did just win on the road at Michigan.

South Carolina wins again, what a year for a team we beat a year ago, they are 20-3 ranked #15 and climbing fast

Huge upset as Clemson takes down North Carolina on the road.

Dayton with a blowout road win vs The Bonnies, they roll on and are a NCAA Tourney Lock

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