Bobo, some Valley notes, and lots more including more proof it's the Islamic guys doing the terrorist stuff, not vacationing Americans!

Nice article on Bobo Drummond...
he is fun to watch..
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=200832#post200832


UNI's Jordan Eglseder was waived by one NBDL team and picked up by the Maine Red Claws..
http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/celtics/post/_/id/4678361/injury-bug-biting-maine-too

He played last night and logged 15 minutes, 4 points, 2 rebounds.
Teammate Chamberlain Oguchi (ISU) had 13 pts, 3 reb, 5 TO.
Also on the same team is Jamar Smith...he had 5 points, but look where the NBDL says he went to college!!
They say he played for Indiana -- what an insult!!
http://www.nba.com/dleague/playerfile/tmp_jamar_smith/


In other NBDL action -- ex-UIC Othyus Jeffers had 32 points to help Iowa over Tulsa 123-111. He's averaging 21 ppg. Teammate Shy Ely (Evansville) had 15 pts, 5 reb.
Kansas' Cole Aldrich has been demoted and had 8 pts for Tulsa.
Booker Woodfox had 19 points and teammate Justin Dentmon 12 to lead their Texas Legends to a 108-100 win over Idaho.


Some of the college basketball results last night were surprising...

First, in SIU's 19 point loss to Purdue..
I guess I am stumped how SIU's post players did so poorly...
none of their interior players had more than a couple rebounds...
Gene Teague only had one rebound to go with 4 points and 7 turnovers!
He is as big as just about anyone Purdue has there...
and Fay & Drinkard combined for just 5 more rebounds..
SIU ended the game with 25 turnovers, and the two teams combined for 57 FT's...must have been an ugly game!
Chris Lowery's comment about all the travelling calls and turnovers for his team...
"Some of our guys played like they had roller skates on, and we can't have 25 turnovers."

Drake lost another remarkably lopsided game, 82-39 to St. John's...
Drake is now 2-2 and their two losses were by 43 and 48 points!!
Last night they seemed unable to shoot or rebound, with Rayvonte Rice just 3-12, and their bench contributing nothing!

Creighton beat Kennesaw State - who have lost 5 in a row to the likes of Northern Arizona & Alabama State. Even all the Bluejay walk-ons got some time in this one. Is there something up with Kenny Lawson??
He didn't play a lot and had just 7 pts and 1 rebound against a vastly outmanned opponent.
Ethan Wragge did play - coming back from injury. He was 0-3 from 3-pt and 1-6 overall.

Illinois State beat South Dakota - a D-II transitional team, who are still winless against D-I...81-63..in a game that was surprisingly close all the way into the 2nd half (halftime score 41-34).
Jackie Carmichael had his way with 9-10, 22 pts, 5 reb.
ISU was only 3-14 from 3-pt, and Zeke Upshaw - who ISU fans have described as a "nightmare matchup" - was 0-1 in his 3 minutes.
Their attendance of 4344 was for the doubleheader that included Jacksonville State's 57-50 loss to ULM.
And what's with Kenyon Smith -- billed as the starting "pure" point guard for ISU -- who isn't even getting off the bench until the final minute of 20 point blowouts?

In a couple other games...
Arizona State barely edged Weber State 59-58, but neither Corey Hawkins nor Brandon Dunson got into the game.
Sadly, I feel both will come to regret going to Arizona State.

UAB upset Arkansas, and a couple familiar names rode the pines...
Beas Hamga never got off the bench for UAB, and ex-BU recruit Marvell Waithe, who was highly pursued and who had awesome juco stats, logged less than a minute of playing time and was scoreless.
Waithe definitely has talent -- but they are seemingly only going to play in blowouts, so it's sad they keep aiming so high.

Likewise for ex-BU recruit Ricardo Johnson, who appeared for only 4 minutes, even tho his team's game was a 58 point blowout! (loss to Kansas 98-41)
you gotta wonder why the Ohio coach played his starters as much as 35 minutes in a game that was a laffer well before halftime!

Detroit, picked by many to be at the top of their conference (Horizon League), needed double overtime to beat 1-5 Albany and avoided going 0-4 against D-I opponents.
Detroit's 5-Star Ray McCallum played 48 minutes and went 2-7, 9 pts.
Detroit's Chase Simon (a Central Michigan transfer) shot the ball 26 times!
You gotta wonder about the sanity of that since he's already had an 0-10 game this year and is currently shooting only 13% from 3-pt even though 12 of his jacks were from beyond the arc, as have 30 of his attempts so far this season!

DePaul's loss to Cal State-Northridge is embarrassing...

Anyone recall 5-Star Fab Melo -- subject of a huge recruiting battle last year?
He was one of those 7-foot foreign players that were rated 5-Star and said to ben instant impact players who'd be gone to the NBA in a year?
Fab has played 5 games thus far for Syracuse, he has scored a total of 8 points, and grabbed 9 rebounds (1.6 ppg, 1.8 rpg)...and clearly is a long term project -- similar to Beas Hamga..

Indiana took a fairly close game and blew it open with 62 points in the 2nd half against Northwestern (Louisiana) State, Matt Roth got 4 minutes despite this game being a blowout, and missed his only shot - a 3-pointer.
Matt didn't even enter the game until well into the 2nd half when the Hoosier lead was alerady almost 20, then he came back in to play some garbage time in the final few seconds when the lead was 100-64, finishing the game with Matt and four walk-ons on the court at the same time (Howard, Wayer, Moore, Barnett) - with some of the walk-ons logging more playing time than Matt.
Matt's career averages fall to 6 ppg, and 33% 3-pt shooting. He'd be averaging 30 minutes and 18 ppg at a midmajor.
This was only a 1-point game just a little before halftime, but IU blew it out to a 19 point lead in the first 5 minutes of the 2nd half.
IU is a very soft 6-0 having played 6 home games against the bottom dwellers of six different mid- and low- major conferences.
Their Strength of Schedule overall to this point is 320 according to Pomeroy.


A couple junior college notes...
Lincoln's Kiel Turpin was 0-8 Thursday and scoreless as Lincoln lost to Lake Land. Lake Land's Moussa Gueye - another overhyped big man did not play.
Highland CC falls to 6-2 with a loss to Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College.
Michael Ochereobia isn't getting a lot of playing time because of all the solid sophomore big men that Highland has.


I enjoyed the football game last night between Boise State and Nevada....thought it was going to go on 'til morning!! How come they never installed tie-breaker rules until the game of college football had spent 100 years ending in boring ties??


Lastly -- the non-sports section...
Can you believe this??

Al Gore lied...!! Now he is ADMITTING
that he disingenuously supported corn-based ethanol as an environmental ploy to gain favor with farmers, win votes, and help him to the presidency in 2000!!

What??? He lied and made up stuff about the environment -- just for political gain (and likely financial gain as well)!!!
I think this is even more evidence that he is a dishonest phony who will say or do anything to get rich or get elected....so why do people still believe him and cite him as an authority?
He needs to give back his Heisman Trophy -- er... I mean Nobel Prize!!!
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/11/23/al-gore-mea-culpa-support-for-corn-based-ethanol-was-a-mistake/


And yet another stupidly failed terror-BOMB plot -- and guess what??
It isn't some little old granny or a right winger as the feds would want you to think is why they have to do groin pats on grannies...
It is a SOMALI Muslim!! Duhhh.....isn't that surprising!!
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/11/27/oregon.bomb.plot/?hpt=T1