Some Valley results, and more -- including bad science revisited..

Drake beat Boise State 72-69 and Boise was only 2-21 from 3-pt -- so how did they stay this close to Drake when Drake shot 53.1% from the floor!
Indiana State clobbers a D-II opponent.


Illinois struggled a bit against Northern Colorado, but won 86-76.
Bill Cole had 12, and Joe Bertrand got a whopping one minute.
Head and Griffey also only got a few minutes, and are looking more like possibilities to give up a ride if Max Bielfeldt keeps putting up 35 & 15.


Wake Forest fans and Dino Gaudio must be chuckling -- but for different reasons.
The Wake fans are chuckling because their team is so bad, and the Dino fans are chuckling because Wake was never this bad until they ran Dino off...he averaged 20+ wins per year in his three years there and mad the NCAA the last two.
Yesterday -- Wake lost 81-69 to UNC-Wilmington! UNC-W was 3-4 - losing even to NC A&T before romping over Wake!
UNCW's Ahmad Grant -- from Richwoods - had 11 pts, 5 rebs.


Speaking of maybe giving up a scholarship -- Indiana is still vigorously going after even more players in the next couple recruiting classes, and offering more scholarships even though they're already "oversigned" or "overcommitted"...
so just who might give up a scholarship??
Here are the THREE current scholarship players who don't get used very much..

-Bobby Capobianco, a sophomore who averages 9 minutes per game and 2 ppg. but he's a big body and IU is very short on that now.

-Will Sheehey, a freshman who is averaging 9 min. per game but scoring 4 ppg and shooting 63% from the floor.

-Matt Roth - now in his 3rd year and recruited to IU by Crean's predecessor. Matt has only played 24 minutes total this year, and has made only one basket, shooting 16% from both the floor and from 3-pt range. He's also played only a total of 35 minutes over the past TWO years and scored just 9 points in that span.
He is billed as a 3-pt expert, and his career 3-pt shooting pct. is 33% -- under the NCAA D-I average of all players.
Matt could be a real factor if he got to play more and shoot more..and would be a star at most schools -- but his spot is in jeopardy at IU.

Sadly - even if Roth stays at IU his time there will forever be known as the worse stretch of seasons in Indiana's history. They are still bad -- can't beat anyone above the bad-mid-major level, can't stay within 20 points on the road..and have only one good player coming in next year. Their really good recruiting classes are in 2012 & 2013, so even the IU fans are predicting it'll be at least 2012 or even 2013 before they can compete at the Big Ten level -- and that's just "compete" not necessarily excel...
That means Crean's 5th or 6th year before he's expected to win anything!
http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=170&f=2353&t=6874422



Here's a great article...it's about the game between Crete-Monee & Rich South -- each team having a kid who's going to DePaul next year.
Crete-Monee was ahead by 4 points with 0.4 seconds left, but somehow found a way to LOSE this game!
They fouled a guy (Macari Brooks) shooting the 3-pointer, he made the shot and the FT, then Rich South won in overtime, and Macari Brooks then drained another 3-pointer at the buzzer of OT to win the game.
Makes you wonder why they were even guarding a guy beyond the stripe with a 4 point lead that late??
http://depaul.scout.com/2/1030171.html



What passes as science is changing. Throughout most all of scientific history, if someone thought they had a new discovery or finding, they reported it to peers and other scientists by publication or by standing up in front of an assembly, as Einstein often did, and presenting your findings, then letting those who want, examine your research and debunk it if they were able.

This is how we avoided having phony science creep into the textbooks. But those days are gone. Now if someone thinks they have something new, or even if they know what they have is kinda shaky -- they go straight to the press via a news conference. This way they get their 15 minutes of fame right off the bat. Then they hire agents, appear on Leno, do a book tour, and make their millions before the vast majority of the public even knows that their research was shoddy, and their findings were false.

We saw this in the 1990's with claims of "desktop fusion" that would solve the world's energy needs.

But more recently, we've seen it several times...

--the just released and hyped "discovery" of the "arsenic-eating" microbe is example #1. Of course the press ate it up and ran with it, even though multiple researchers and experts are already debunking this "claim" and showing it to be what it will ultimately be -- bad science.
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=203153

--then just this weekend I saw a discussion about how the sea levels were rising -- caused by global warming -- rising by as much as 14 inches and more, and destroying real estate...
Then the very "author" or self-proclaimed "expert" who said this garbage, literally had to retract the claims when others rightfully pointed out the huge gaps in logic, truth, and science, the work contained. Yet -- this is the stuff others then cite as proof of the rising sea levels!
Read these two posts in sequence...

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=204218

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=204222

--then I am sure you recall the major announcement of the "Goldilocks Planet"...the supposedly-recently-discovered planet that one scientist proclaimed..
that the chance of life on this planet is 100%
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130215192
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/30/100-percent-chance-for-life-on-newly-found-planet/?iref=obnetwork

Considering life has not been found on the moon, Mars, nor other nearby planets, this is a pretty bold statement about a supposed planet 20 light years away.

BUT NOW -- after the hype has died down, and Leno's joke writers have moved on to new topics..
Now we have solid research that might just debunk this one as well!
A Swiss group attempted to find the planet with their data..and it appears that the planet just may not even exist at all!!

bet you didn't hear that report, and there wasn't a new conference and press release.
This was well-done science, which needs no phony hype.
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/10/recently-discovered-habitable-world.html?ref=hp

So if an equally good (if not more reputable) team of scientists cannot even find the evidence for such a planet, then I am guessing the chance of life there just dropped below the 100% range!!

Anyone with even an elementary background or interest in science can see through this new ploy of going straight to the tabloid press with supposed NEW scientific discoveries and research. It's an effort to cash in before someone disses on your discovery and proves you wrong. It's greedy, selfish, glory-seeking, and bad science.
But it's what passes for science nowadays -- and all too often, gullible people who seem to learn everything they know by reading the paper or watching the news on TV -- buy into this garbage and think they now know something new. Unfortunately, based on jerks like Al Greene in South Carolina and Scott Lee Cohen in Illinois actually getting elected by the populace, then I'd say an ignorant populace who gets their info this way can truly be dangerous.
I guess it's just more proof we are becoming a dumbed-down society -- ready to buy into just about anything that sounds good..like a bunch of robotically programmed zombies.
Now -- enter the anti-christ -- he's gonna have his job all set up for himself!