Games of interest - February 19

[BeKnighted]

Coming to you from chilly Minneapolis in the heart of Big Ten territory

Big Ten

#5 Maryland 81 Wisconsin 70 - looks to me like this clinched regular season B1G title for Terps


Other RU opponents

#2 South Carolina 73 Arkansas 56 - Razorbacks hung in there in the 1st half
#6 Tennessee 77 Alabama 56 - Lady Vols play South Carolina next for SEC lead
#17 North Carolina 83 Wake Forest 45 - yawn
LSU 64 Georgia 52 - don't know if the Lady Tigers can make the NCAAs, but they're ahead of Kentucky in SEC
Elon 74 Northeastern 73 - close all the way


Other ranked teams

#4 Notre Dame 71 Georgia Tech 61 - Yellow Jackets led by 1 at the half
#8 Louisville 69 Virginia Tech 49 - Cardinals had 22 assists on 27 baskets
#9 Florida State 81 Clemson 38 - 32-16 at the half
#15 Texas A&M 81 #11 Kentucky 69 - not really a huge upset, but Wildcats now have 7 losses
#22 Florida Gulf Coast 71 Kennesaw State 60 - win clinches A-Sun regular season championship
#23 James Madison 85 North Carolina Wilmington 49 - Hall had 25 for the Dukes
#25 Syracuse 73 Boston College 51 - Orange shot 34.8% from the line, but it didn't matter


Also

Troy State 99 Georgia Southern 93 OT - teams took a combined 179 shots, but only 31 free throws


Today:

Other RU opponents 3-2

Year to date:

Big Ten 115-40
Other RU opponents 120-134


There have been no palindromic scores in 56 games completed so far today. That makes 33 palindromic scores in 4,506 games this year. It's been four days since the last palindromic score.

 

[ecojew]

Kentucky seems to be way overrated. 7 losses and #10. They should drop a lot after losing at home.

I looked at the box score for the Syracuse game and saw that it was played at the Carrier Dome before a rousing crowd of 700. Do the SU women play all of their home games there? It must cost a fortune to open that place, turn on all the lights, and heat it (especially up there where this cold spell we're having would just be winter as usual). Why not play under the Manley Dome (if that's still there) or Archbold Gym? I can't imagine that playing in an empty Carrier Dome provides much of a home court advantage.

 

[Knight Time Fan]

Originally posted by ecojew:
Kentucky seems to be way overrated. 7 losses and #10. They should drop a lot after losing at home.

I looked at the box score for the Syracuse game and saw that it was played at the Carrier Dome before a rousing crowd of 700. Do the SU women play all of their home games there? It must cost a fortune to open that place, turn on all the lights, and heat it (especially up there where this cold spell we're having would just be winter as usual). Why not play under the Manley Dome (if that's still there) or Archbold Gym? I can't imagine that playing in an empty Carrier Dome provides much of a home court advantage.

They have played there for years. We actually attended one of the Rutgers games there some years ago - amazingly empty. IIRC, it was sold as an equality thing, plus they converted Manley into something else full time, I forget what - track and field? maybe.

I'm not a big fan of separate but equal facilities for men and women - because the facilities are so rarely equal. I understand when the men's team plays in a pro arena where you pay rent or whatever, but when it is your home on-campus arena, I'm not a fan. Alabama and Temple are 2 of the few that come immediately to mind where I think the women's facility is substandard, period (Temple splits between the 2 facilities). And while I liked going there, Manley Field House "was" substandard. While North Carolina, NC State and Kentucky all play in their own women's facilities, I'd need to actually see them to decide they are sub-par. They all have decent capacity.

 

[BeKnighted]

If you're talking about substandard facilities, you can't forget Georgetown.

 

[ecojew]

UNC's women are playing in the old arena that preceded the Dean Dome (Carmichael?). It really is quite old, seats perhaps 9000, and can in no way be confused with the Dean Dome. But it might provide a great home court advantage for the women than playing at the bigger arena would, so it's possible the women actually prefer playing there. Similarly, the UK men used to play their home games in the on-campus arena, which seats around 11,500 (or did when Adolph the Baron was still there). I saw two UK games there decades ago but again, it must pale in comparison to Rupp Arena, which I've never seen other than on TV. But the campus arena could be a better home court advantage if the UK women draw crowds of 3-7000 for most of their games.

Georgetown I can't speak much about, never having been to either place, but I do recall McDonough Gym (Hall?) as one of the old-style high schoolish college gyms much like the College Avenue Barn, Rose Hill gym at Fordham, Walsh Gym (SHU). RU used to play Georgetown there back in the 60s and 70s, prior to the series being canceled due to bad blood between the two teams.

 

[BeKnighted]

McDonough is, in fact, where the women play, pull out bleachers and all. The men play at the Verizon Center.

 

[TheRedFlash]

McDonough is a sardine can. Manley is an aged dump. Have been to both multiple times.