BVP confirmed as the best mustachioed player in CBB
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75 game home win streak. Wow! And most of their conference games have been real close.
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Damn look at Coach Jones going hammer timeā¦
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Temple takes down #1 Houston.
Cougars were 19 point favorites.
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Since Monday. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, and 8 have all lost. Where do we land this week?
I am guessing somewhere between 6 and 8.
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Im thinking 8. Weāll jump Kansas, Gonzaga, and UCLA but probably get jumped by Zona.
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Xavier lost to DePaul. Gotta jump them too. And #7 Texas lost. I think we go to 5 or 6. We were solidly ahead of Arizona last week. Not sure if they get extra bump from beating UCLA.
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I remember listening to this guy when I lived in DC (early aughts), marveling that Gātown was doing a one-man booth for their radio. Do they still do this?
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Had the same thought first time I heard him call a game. No doubt homer of a call. But he was /is still solid.
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That Baylor win is starting to look reeeeaaalll good again.
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Huh. KenPom picked Baylor and VT to win their respective games, Baylor by 2 and VT by 1.
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They had two of their guards out for a bit ā¦ Flagler missed 2 games and Cryer missed 3 games so they had a dip ā¦
They also had to play 3 games in a row against Iowa State (10th), TCU(17th) and K State(16th) and had a 1 point loss and an OT loss ā¦
The Big 12 is absolutely brutal this year. Baylorās final 5 games on their schedule are:
@ #9 KU
@ #5 K State
#10 Texas
@ OSU
#12 Iowa State
Whoever wins that conference this year will have earned it.
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We are in echo chamber time for the rankings. If you werenāt perceived good before the season or in a Power 6 conferenceā¦ itās almost impossible to get back in the rankings.
Titus and Tate yesterday bashed the ratings based on how perceived power in any team loses its muster once conference play started. I commented on this several times before.
Because we have closed markets once conference seasons startā¦ nothing can really be determined after the out of conference part of the year endsā¦ and because most teams are not nearly as good as they are at the end of the yearā¦ it skews the rankings forever.
Perhaps they should just cancel the AP and Coaches Pollsā¦ the folks that vote on it hate itā¦ and we have KenPom, Torvik, EvanMaya, etcā¦ which avoids the recency bias and brand name bias.
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Keep em and make em better. It wouldnāt even be hard
Heard that on Titus and tate. The issue there is embodied by the ACC 20-game schedule. Itās way too many. Have fewer and add more non-con in Jan and Feb
The solutions are easy, the reasons we donāt do them are (cue Titus and tate) āMoney! Duh.ā 
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Yep Haney and I have called for 18 ACC games so many times itās tiring ā¦ would open a whole week during January or Feb. for 2 Non con gamesā¦ when everyone is closer to their peakā¦
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Yep next week is the SEC/Big 12 Challenge. Would love to see the ACC have time available for high level out of conference games this late in the season.
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Of course, itās all moot, because in a few years, weāll just play a 28-game Big Ten / SEC schedule with JMU and Morgan State as our non-con. (I hope Iām kidding).
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I wonder if the Big 10 and SEC have had merger conversationsā¦ Can you imagine? In some ways they need each other to play off Fox and ESPN, but they would become nearly the only game in town.
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