Other Games: Archive #1

[gonzagafan62]

Hard to root for Phil Knight University even if it helps our RPI

Good thing RPI doesn’t exist anymore then (tongue in cheek) Go NET Rankings!

[gonzagafan62]

St Johns wins, defeats Arizona.

[gonzagafan62]

Oregon looks like it will survive

[bartruff1]

I don't think Nico will be a lottery pick....at least based on his last two games...

[Kemo 1966]

Winners in bold

WCC

Stanford @ USD . Noon PAC12
NAU @ PEP . 1:00pm . WCCN
UC Davis @ USF . 2:00pm . WCCN
Weber State @ BYU . 6:00pm . byuTV
Idaho State @ UOP . 7:00pm . WCCN
Nevada @ SMC . 9:00pm . ESPNU

Top 25 / OOC Opponents

#1 Kansas @ #18 Villanova 9:00am FOX
Presbyterian @ #14 Michigan . 9:00am BTN
#19 Florida St vs. So. Flo 9:00am FS2
Indiana vs. Notre Dame 9:00am ESPN
VCU @ Wichita State . 9:00am ESPN2

Jackson St. @ #11 Memphis 10:00am
Jacksonville St @ #21 Tenn . 10:00am SECN
#25 West VA @ Youngstown St . 10:00am
UTA @ Georgia Southern 10:00am

UT-RGV @ #24 Texas Tech . 11:00am
Purdue vs. #17 Butler 11:30am BTN
Utah St. vs. Florida . 11:30am . FS1

SIU Eville@ Detroit Mercy . Noon
UCLA vs North Carolina Noon . CBS
Akron ( 9 - 2) vs. Liberty (13 - 0 ) . 12:30pm
UAB vs. Alabama State 2:00pm
#5 Ohio State vs. #6 Kentucky . 2:15pm . CBS

Lehigh @ #12 Auburn . 3:00pm . SECN
North Dakota @ Nebraska . 3:00pm
ARk PB @ North Texas 3:00pm
#13 Dayton vs. Colorado . 3:30pm . CBSSN
#20 San Diego State vs. Utah . 3:30pm PAC12
Eastern Mich @ #15 Mich St. 4:00pm . BTN

Oregon State @ Texas A&M . 5:30pm . SECN
St. John's vs.#16 Arizona . 7:00pm . ESPN2
Cal State Bake @ Cal Poly . 7:00pm
Texas Southern @ #8 Oregon 7:30pm . PAC12



Have a satisfying Saturday.

University of the Pacific 77 Idaho State 66.............

[RenoZag]

Thanks for the correction, Kemo, Been a long day

[Kemo 1966]

I enjoy reading this 'post' of the games... thanks for your tireless efforts. Have a Merry Christmas.

P.s Question: Has the Men's and Women's Zag teams ever swept the conference games in the same year?

The Women probably will sweep this year, and most everyone here, feels the Men might (maybe one down night?) .......??????

[LTownZag]

I enjoy reading this 'post' of the games... thanks for your tireless efforts. Have a Merry Christmas.

P.s Question: Has the Men's and Women's Zag teams ever swept the conference games in the same year?

The Women probably will sweep this year, and most everyone here, feels the Men might (maybe one down night?) .......??????

Men did it in 05-06, 08-09, and 12-13.

Women didn't any of those years, not sure if they ever have.

[GonzagasaurusFlex]

St Johns beats AZ....ouch

[FloridaZagFan]

So now you continue to rag about our gym as if SMC has the bucks but just doesn't want to spend the money. Absolutely not true. Rag on something that we might have the power to remedy.

As the TV commercial asks, "what's in your wallet?"

I hate the fact that we have a solid wall on one end of our court. 98% of us do. It's embarrassing. But we don't need you to keep throwing it in our face as if "it's news" or that we can realistically do something about it.

St. Mary's has a beautiful campus and a super location tucked away aginst a hillside in Moraga.
I can only imagine that change is coming soon! Great coach, like Few has had numerous offers over the years to go to bigger programs. They obviously have something going there in the east bay with the basketball product they put out year after year.
USF just got 15mil from the Sobrato family to upgrade their gym, and he's a SC alum! There is definitely money out there it just has to be a priority for the Gaels (Christian brothers).
St Mary's program is too good for it not to happen soon!

[jazzdelmar]

St Johns beats AZ....ouch

If criminality couldn’t sink The Chipmunk, maybe plain old losing will.

[RenoZag]

St. John's also beat 10 - 1 West Virginia; the Red Storm are going to be competitive in the BE this year so I wouldn't call it a bad loss for the Wildcats

For reference: this morning's KenPom rates the three squads above:

SJU - 84
WVU - 23
AZ - 16

[Goshzagit]

St Johns beats AZ....ouch

Arizona looked listless vs SJU, they played better in 2nd half, but still not very good. Yes, they miss shots, yet if they would have played with 1/10th of the effort they showed vs us, they could have beaten St John's. They were down double digits most of 1st half. Besides their freshman big, they looked out of it. Very much post finals rusty type play.

Oddly they took a full 7 day break after our game, and they are now on a 13 day break for Holidays. That's 1 game in 20 days.

Not the best method for a young team in search of shooting confidence before Pac 12 play.

I didnt even recognize that Arizona team until about mid way through the 2and half, when they woke up a bit as a team, well mostly just Nanji and Mannion, but still...

For the life of me, cant figure out why Jeter has never really developed since, maybe, high school?

Zags victories seem to have this effect on good teams from time to time, to go in slumps after hard fought games.

St John's decent this year, yet Zona had no business losing that game, esp with a full week prep, and another 2 wks off afterward

[RenoZag]

WCC

Houston Vs. Portland Noon . ESPNU . (Honolulu)
CS Fullerton @ LMU . 1:00pm . WCCN

Top 25 /OOC Opponents / Others

Duquesne ( 10 - 0 ) vs. UAB 11:30am
So. Carolina @ #9 Virginia . Noon . ABC .
Xavier @ TCU . 2:00pm . ESPN2
Georgia Tech vs. Boise St . 2:00pm . ESPNU
Ball State vs. #22 Washington . 6:30pm . ESPN2

Complete Div I slate: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...91222/group/50

Have a holly jolly. . .

[Goshzagit]

SDSU now 12-0 after blowing out Utah by 30. Utes were coming off a win vs Kentucky, & BYU in OT.

Aztecs Rank #20. Far too low.

What gives ya think?

They now have wins, and mostly blowout, dbl digit wins over:

@BYU
Creighton
Iowa
Utah
@Colorado St
@USD

Still undefeated with a few quality wins, should be near Top 10 with that resume imho

Watch out for them come March, might have to go through them in the West

[Bogozags]

DePaul wraps up its OOC schedule at 12 - 1, with this evening's 83 - 78 win vs. Northwestern. The Blue Demons went 3 - 0 vs. the Big Ten in their OOC schedule

Ray Meyer turned back over and we can now see the smile on his face

[RenoZag]

Gosh: SDSU's poll rankings are a joke. They're #2 in the NET, undefeated, and as you point out, they've beaten some quality teams. I think they're Top 10 good now. . .it may take a few polls them to leapfrog the competition.

[DZ]

I don't think it's hostility Jazz but if you do, I apologize. Too many excellent people here to get riled but it does happen.

I know that I am personally tired of hearing the "high school" gym comment.

The problems are known, your campus is such that it makes growth extremely difficult, it can be hard to move a lot of traffic in and out of Moraga in the best of times, and you have a small alumni community compared to Cal and Stanford - plus lots of competing events.

Just keep reinvesting in what you have, expand it, modernize, all that. I think we should be above the whole "high school gym" thing. BYU with it's massive place hasn't overrun the conference.

[RenoZag]

Blazers dump the Dukes, 77 - 68
Gamecocks down the Cavaliers, 70 - 59

The 3-7 Radford Highlanders upset the 9 - 1 Richmond Spiders, 73 - 58.

LMU leads CS Fullerton 40 - 37, with three minutes to play in the game

Portland founders versus Houston, 81 - 56.

[gonzagafan62]

LMAU wins 53-46

[RenoZag]

If the NBA isn't your cup of tea, there are Diamond Head Classic games available:

Portland vs. Ball State . 10:30am . ESPNU
Boise State vs. UTEP . 12:30pm . ESPNU
Georgia Tech vs. Hawai'i 3:30pm ESPN2
Houston vs. #21 Washington . 5:30pm . ESPN2

No games on the 24th or 26th; Only two games on the 27th: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...91227/group/50

I'm with Coaches Fraschilla and Martelli. There ought to be NO games from the 24th - 31st. Let the players and coaches be with family. And the NCAA should give the players some sort of stipend to help the travel budget.

That being said, there will be a great slate of games this coming weekend. Lots of Top 25 teams in action. Will post those "Other Game" threads Friday. In the meantime,

Best Wishes to the GUB for a safe, drama-free holiday.

[WenatcheeZag]

Thanks Reno, I appreciate you doing this each day. It’s my go to thread to determine my CBB watch schedule.

Merry Christmas.

[Bogozags]

If the NBA isn't your cup of tea, there are Diamond Head Classic games available:

Portland vs. Ball State . 10:30am . ESPNU
Boise State vs. UTEP . 12:30pm . ESPNU
Georgia Tech vs. Hawai'i 3:30pm ESPN2
Houston vs. #21 Washington . 5:30pm . ESPN2

No games on the 24th or 26th; Only two games on the 27th: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...91227/group/50

I'm with Coaches Fraschilla and Martelli. There ought to be NO games from the 24th - 31st. Let the players and coaches be with family. And the NCAA should give the players some sort of stipend to help the travel budget.

That being said, there will be a great slate of games this coming weekend. Lots of Top 25 teams in action. Will post those "Other Game" threads Friday. In the meantime,

Best Wishes to the GUB for a safe, drama-free holiday.

Reno,

As always your efforts are greatly appreciated!!! I am glad you're retired so that you can spend all this time pushing updates regarding the Zags and other basketball information...

I'm with you regarding games...none from even 23 December through 3 January...and the NCAA should allow schools to pay for Coach fares home for the Christmas/New Year's Holidays...

BTW in the "olden days" the Rainbow Classic was a premier tournament, which I saw many times while stationed at Camp Smith...in fact the NCAA use to allow a local military team to participate...think the last time was 1975, when SUBPAC (a Navy team composed of ex-colligate basketball players) beat Tennessee...

[DZ]

Merry Christmas, Reno.

Agree on shutting it down from the 23rd to 31st. Give the kids a week, and bc they could be anywhere in the nation on the 23rd, arrange flights for kids home and back to school. With CBS billions coming in and coaches making high six figures into the high sevens, a $1000 for a flight to get a kid home is nothing. Make it a national thing.

It would result in better basketball, too, on both ends.

[RenoZag]

Bogo: I'm glad I'm retired too.

Thank you for the kind remarks. I enjoy doing it.