Games of Interest - December 28

[BeKnighted]

Starting to get back into the swing of things

Big Ten

#1 Connecticut 83 #6 Maryland 73 - 4 point game at the half
George Washington 70 Illinois 57 - 14 and 10 for Washington to lead the Colonials
Indiana 76 Yale 60 - Gassion had 19 for the Hoosiers
Minnesota 83 NJIT 50 - if ESPN has score right, was 79-29 after 3rd quarter


Other RU Opponents

#15 Florida State 77 Jacksonville 60 -
St. Joseph's 104 Maryland Baltimore County 45 - biggest margin for the Hawks in a while
Virginia 75 Coppin State 40 - Moses led Cavs with 17 points
Arkansas 86 Mississippi Valley State 46 - Razorbacks 4-8 with 1 game to go in OOC
Samford 47 LSU 44 - a bad loss


Other Ranked Teams

#3 Notre Dame 62 #10 Oregon State 61 - Allen hit 2 free throws with 6 seconds left to seal it for the Irish
#7 Kentucky 81 Tennessee State 39 - no contest
#8 Mississippi State 81 Southeastern Louisiana 41 - ditto
#11 Stanford 40 Chattanooga 18 H - Lady Mocs playing a pretty tough OOC
#17 Arizona State 69 California State Northridge 46 - tied after 1st, but Sun Devils pulled away in 2nd
California Riverside 28 #21 UCLA 27 H - would be a pretty big upset


Also

Oregon 82 Seattle 62 - Ducks 11-0
West Virginia 67 Elon 57 - 'Eers now 11-2
Florida Gulf Coast 71 Quinnipiac 70 OT - Eagles gave up 14-point 1st quarter lead, but pulled it out

Today:

Big Ten 2-2
Other RU opponents 4-1

Year to date:

Big Ten 112-39
Other RU opponents 77-41

There have been no palindromic scores in 41 games completed so far today. That makes 14 palindromic scores in 1,840 games so far this year. It's been 8 days since the last palindromic score, although 3 of those days had no games.

 

[ecojew]

Maryland was actually leading that game in the 3rd quarter but I guess just couldn't hang on. Still, they may have exposed a few chinks in UConn's armor, so to speak. Would have been a nice win for the B1G.

I thought the ND - Oregon State game ended on a foul as the OSU player was starting to shoot a 3 (ND had a 3-point lead) and the refs called it a non-shooting foul, so the player could only shoot (and made) 2 shots, making the result a 1-point ND win. Too bad, if in fact that was really a bad call by the refs.

 

[BeKnighted]

I thought the ND - Oregon State game ended on a foul as the OSU player was starting to shoot a 3 (ND had a 3-point lead) and the refs called it a non-shooting foul, so the player could only shoot (and made) 2 shots, making the result a 1-point ND win. Too bad, if in fact that was really a bad call by the refs.

Interesting - the game story had nothing about that at all.