Some info on BU's future opponents, and other odd and interesting news from college basketball --- and a new dinosaur discovery!

A couple stories from around the Valley..

Texas A&M KINGSVILLE --
Here's a story on the Texas A&M-Kingsville Javelinas -- BU's early season opponent --NEXT FRIDAY --
...they are getting ready to take on the BIG BOYS..
http://boxscorenews.com/javelinas-basketball-takes-on-big-boys-p7342-68.htm

Unfortunately -- UTEP "blasted" the Javelinas...75-48..
The game wasn't even close..with UTEP running off a 21-0 stretch early in the 1st half to blow out to a 32-11 lead...and UTEP lead 40-20 at half.
The Javelinas entire front court combined for just 2 pts/4 rebs, and their entire bench (6 players) was 5-20 and just 14 pts.
http://utepathletics.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/recaps/110610aaa.html
http://utepathletics.cstv.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/utep/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/BoxTAMUKPDF


MARCELLUS SOMMERVILLE --
Cellus' Paris-Levallois team played a rare Friday night game last night, and won 74-68 to go
Cellus started and played a good all-around game...
9 pts, 6 rebs, 3 steals....and some good defense as his team goes to 4-1 and takes over sole possession of 1st place in the Top Pro League in France.


Even when Roger Powell doesn't dunk, he still makes the headline --
"Roger Powell Doesnt Dunk, But ..."
http://www.eurobasket.com/Germany/basketball.asp?NewsID=207785


Here's a piece on Drake's Ben Simons..
http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2010/11/05/ben-simons-enjoys-hunting-and-tigers-but-not-hunting-tigers/


Here's a player at Nevada who loses one entire season of eligibility per NCAA ruling because of play on a team with professionals...
Gotta wonder if he'd have gotten the same penalty had he been at Kentucky --
http://www.nevadawolfpack.com//ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=10000&ATCLID=205025615


Is University of Texas grovelling for fans???
Texas institutes a bizarre new seating plan...
It's designed to fill unoccupied seats in the lower bowl that beling to apathetic season ticket holders that don't show up at some games!

They know all those empty seats look terrible on TV so their plan is to allow people to filter down from up in the upper bowl and grab those open seats...
believe it or not!!

It's kind of funny -actually - and here's the official wording...

"At the first break in the game, an announcement will be made for those participating in the program to come down from the mezzanine to “warm” any open seats in the arena. Later, if the ticket holder comes to the seat and says, “Thanks for keeping it warm!”, the Benchwarmer will know their work is done, and can return to the original seat in the mezzanine."

..LOL !!!!
http://www.texassports.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/110110aab.html


Tennessee fans are cold!!
After the official announcement that ex-SIU Saluki,
Josh Bone's fractured wrist is gonna keep him out at Tennessee for up to 6 weeks...
one post on their message board says this...

"That sucks.....not a key player though"

Whoa -- harsh!


Some college exhibition basketball scores..

Future BU opponent Utah beat Adams State College of Mining 84-74,
..Utah junior Will Clyburn had an awesome game 28 pts, 11 rebs.
7-3 center David Foster did not play -- tendinitis in knees.

Future BU opponent Loyola Marymount plays toninght against D-III Chapman.

Dana Altman gets going with an 80-53 win over Northwest Christian. Creighton reject Tyrone Nared grabbed 7 rebs

Georgia Tech has another close exhibition...barely beating Clark-Atlanta in OT 71-68

Iowa State cruises past Dubuque 100-50, supersenior Jake Anderson 17 pts/10 rebs -- these guys showed that they can score -- (but BU beat 'em anyway..;)

Kentucky clobbered Dillard 122-54 - with all the UK starters playing plenty more than needed and more than any of the Dillard players. Can you say "running up the score??"

North Carolina wins over Barton 108-67 frosh sensation Harrison Barnes just 2-9 and 0-4 from 3pt, 7 pts.

Ole Miss over Delta State 86-52
Wake over Guilford 84-44
Pepperdine wins 79-59 over La Verne
UAB over West Alabama 81-64
Oklahoma State 102-38 over Campebellsville
Missouri 114-60 over Harris-Stowe
Utah St. 76-48 over Grand Canyon
Michigan over Saginaw Valley 68-59 - Zach Novak 2-7, 5 pts
Clemson 96-57 over Belmont Abbey
Gonzaga over Southern Oregon 90-58
Seton Hall over William Patterson 97-55
IUPUI 76-45 over Marian



Now we veer off topic...but this topic is still pretty interesting..

Of course we all know from the science we have been taught, that when we dig up fossils of dinosaurs, we are finding creatures that lived, then died, then were somehow preserved at least 40, 50, 60, or even 100 MILLION years ago, right??
Hey -- don't believe me, just check about any one of gazillions of books on dinosaurs or fossils...
All of those fossils are guaranteed to be at least 40-50 million years old!

OK - then how do you explain this.......?
They claim this fossil is a sea creature similar to land diniosaurs, and it died over 85 million years ago...
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0011998
http://www.icr.org/article/a-80-million-year-old-mosasaur-fossil/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100810101732.htm

What makes this fossil intiguing is that soft tissue was found intact inside this fossil...
there were remnants of melanocytes in the eyeballs, remnants of iron containing hemoglobin in the heart, and skin cells that still had soft-tissue structure definable.

And there are other dinosaur discoveries with similar soft tissue findings that call the extreme age estimates into severe doubt.
In fact, even the top "old age" scientists admit that ..
"it appears that a vast ages interpretation of this and similar fossils is in error"...and that some of these specimens may be more in the "thousands of years" age range rather than the "millions of years"!
http://www.evidencepress.com/dinosaur.htm

"so you have to sort of rewrite the book as far as fossilization goes” to solve this puzzle.....a lot of our science doesn't allow for this.
..is this an example of the media and evolutionary bias that prevents the public from seeing fundamental problems with dates in the millions and billions of years? Suppose that these dinosaurs were not 65-70 million years old but were really 4-6 thousand years old. What would be the evolutionary implications of such a fact?"



Yet another question about why BU's on-campus arena wasn't built bigger...
This has been answered many times -- but just for documentaion sake -- here it is again...
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=196140#post196140



BTW --
Don't forget to change your clocks Saturday night!