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Our players need HUGE support from the fans for the final 3 games and the Valley Tourney---
they are down, knowing they didn't play as well as they know they can, and the bus trip back from Terre Haute was really a downer...
Oddly nobody seems to play well in Terre Haute and it's just hard to win there - with only UNI doing so this year.
But our guys can pull it together....and I am rooting for them...
we have the talent, let's just get it done...
In one MVC game last night, surprisingly Wichita needed overtime to escape an upset loss at home to Evansville, 76-70.
For Evansville Colt Ryan had 17 pts, but as usual needed a whole bunch of shots to get those 17, taking 15 shots, making only 5 and only 2-9 3-pointers.
He also had zero rebounds, one assist, and virtually nothing else...one dimensional and even shallow in that one dimension.
And what has happened to Toure Murry? Only 1-4 and 5 pts.
Note this, Wichita State is solidly in 2nd place, yet their fans were booing their team last night!! Can you imagine???
http://www.shockernet.net/sn/viewtopic.php?t=16311
ISU beat MSU - Weems & Leonard each had a good game (19 pts, 20 pts) but nobody else did. Eldridge continues his slump going just 1-5 from 3-pt., only 2 rebs and 4 TO. But Dinma picked him up getting 30 pts.
Eldridge's 3-pt shooting since their game with Bradley is just 5-27.
Osiris still leads all Valley players in scoring when all games (including those really softie ones in the pre-conference season) are included.
His overall scoring average is 15.6 ppg, but in conference games where the opponents are essentially the same...Osiris is averaging only 13.7 ppg, barely ahead of Taylor Brown for 6th place in the Valley.
Here are a couple other stats that Eldridge is among the leaders in the Valley in...
He's #1 in shots attempted per game, and among the top 3 in 3-pointers attempted per game, 3 pointers missed per game, and 4th in turnovers per game but is TOPS in turnovers among non-point guards...who obviously handle the ball more.
SIU fans are dissing on their team and saying their team has quit...
http://www.salukitalk.net/st/viewtopic.php?t=31874
In even more evidence of how classless fans can be...Creighton fans are really dumping on Dana Altman??
http://creighton.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=2688&tid=131586839&mid=131586839&sid=1209&style=2
Rumor - P'Allen Stinnett to UNLV - Lon Kruger has a pretty good history of courting dicgruntled transfers and Stinnett is originally from UNLV.
Alonzo Edwards, who BU was once recruiting, and who was a high school teammate at Houston Klein Forest of Anthony Thompson, went initially to Nebraska, then Lon Morris juco, has now verballed to North Texas.
One name to remember - Jovan Daniels....
note the connection and read between the lines...
http://www.appeal-democrat.com/sports/daniels-91906-made-lake.html
http://www.appeal-democrat.com/sports/cornelius-91871-yuba-game.html
Here's a laffer...it's the updated NIT-ology site...trying to predict who is gonna be in the NIT...
They name Wichita State under the presumption that UNI is gonna be the MVC's NCAA representative.
But then they also list Missouri State as in, but list Indiana State, Creighton, and Illinois State as outside, bubble teams.
http://www.nitology.com/
Northwestern loses to Penn State and their NCAA chances slip further away...
Northwestern is now 6-8 in the Big Ten, but Penn State had lost 12 games in a row...then go into Evanston and beat Northwestern on thsie home court - not good for the Wilscats' at-large resume!! Northwestern has 4 more Big Ten games, three are on the road (one at Wisconsin), so I cannot believe they will end up better than 9-9 but more likely 8-10 in league play.
That pretty much locks Northwestern in at 7th place in the Big Ten and RPI will be around 80 with SOS of 80.
So, when was the last time a team with RPI over 70 got an at large bid, especially one that's 7th in their own league?
The highest RPI's to get at-large bids over the past four years are:
62, 61, 67, and 58.
Don't look now, but here's an embarrassment to the Big Ten....and to both Iowa and Indiana....who could have had this guy...
But Steve Alford has New Mexico at 312 ranked, and continues to win...gaining his 300th D-I win (SWMS, Iowa, New Mexico) last night to go to 24-3!!
He also has 78 wins at D-III Manchester, so he's almost half way to his old mentor's career wins total!
He's making them forget Ritchie McKay fast!!
Mississippi State fans take over the lead as world's worst fans....(taking the lead from you-know-who)...
not only did fans inundate Kentucky's DeMarcus Cousins' phone with foul texts and voice messages (he reneged a verbal to UAB and went to UK), but they behaved terribly at the game throwing things at the Kentucky players and coaches.
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100217/SPORTS03/2170420/Kentucky+basketball+faced+one+ugly+crowd+at+the+%E2%80%98The+Hump++in+Starkville
A little info on some recruiting here -- from stories on the recruiting sites.
But our staff has been out viewing and visiting prospects almost daily...
more soon....
http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=455&f=3560
More followup on Hersey Hawkins' son Corey who just broke the all time state of Arizona scoring record, and who is headed to Arizona State.
http://www.azcentral.com/sports/preps/articles/2010/02/11/20100211corey-hawkins-arizona-scoring-record-CR.html
The drive to get DePaul to hire Billy Gillispie is steamrolling....lots of fan and local press support growing!
Chicago Bulls Trade John Salmons:
http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nba/news/story?id=4922618
TMac Trade:
Houston's Tracy McGrady traded to Sacramento...but rumors swirl that his destination might be the New York Knicks after yet another proposed trade.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6872624.html
Kobe Injury:
Kobe Bryant has an ankle injury that could possibly keep him out a few weeks to assure he would be well for the playoffs.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-lakers-celtics18-2010feb18,0,4453057.story
Dwyane Wade Injury:
Dwyane Wade strained a muscle in his left calf and could be out a couple games.
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/35453183/ns/sports-player_news/
VOTE again for the Bradley guys...
-pick Deon and Will...but be sure not to give any votes to the bad guys.
http://www.archmadness20.com/moments.asp?SPSID=25965&SPID=1498&DB_OEM_ID=3400
-pick all the BU guys (7 of them) then vote!
http://www.archmadness20.com/team.asp
Now to the non-basketball section of Bravesblogger....some people's favorite section....')
--Now the TOP world reknowned climate scientist resigns in disgrace admitting his research and publications and virtually all of his opinions on global warming are scandalously faked, erroneous, and fraudulent...
Oddly, there are still people sticking up for the guy and backing his admittedly phony and fraudulent global warming claims..
it's almost as funny as having to deal with people who continue to argue that the world is flat even if the evidence shows otherwise....as some continue to argue the same old haggard lines that man has caused global warming and point to Hurricane Katrina and the Haiti earthquake as if that's gonna be convincing.
But I think the whole idea of global warming and man-made climate change is already down for the 10-count and floating belly-up.
there just isn't a single notable expert left in the world, not even Al gore, whose data and proofs have yet to be disproven and refuted as fraudulent, non-existent, or biased.
http://www.examiner.com/x-37620-Conservative-Examiner~y2010m2d18-UN-climate-chief-resigns-amid-Climategate-scandal
--has the famous Harry Potter author, JK Rowling made millions off stolen and plagarized themes and plots...?
that's what the estate of author Adrian Jacobs says...
His books on Willy the Wizard were in the possession of Rowlings' publisher years before she wrote her Potter stories, and the estate says she stole their ideas...
http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2010/0218/J.K.-Rowling-faces-another-plagiarism-suit
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/rowling-seeks-to-dismiss-plagiarism-case_1132643
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