Games of interest - February 7

[BeKnighted]

6 OT games today

Big Ten

#17 Michigan State 74 Iowa 69 - Powers had 25 and 2 big FTs at the end
Michigan 96 Illinois 83 - 36 for Flaherty to lead the Wolverines; would have been the performance of the day, but . . .
Indiana 59 Nebraska 47 - 26 TOs for Cornhuskers
Minnesota 112 Northwestern 106 2OT - game of the day, not even considering Banham's 60 (19-32, 8-15 3 pt, 14-16 ft)


Other RU Opponents

#10 Florida State 75 Clemson 56 - 9 in a row for Seminoles
#18 Kentucky 70 LSU 58 - not as close as it looks
George Mason 55 St. Joseph's 41 - pretty ugly loss
St. John's 72 Seton Hall 64 - Red Storm sneak ahead of Pirates in BEast
Virginia Tech 66 Virginia 46 - 2-point game at the half
Iona 67 Rider 48 - Gaels tied for 1st in MAAC


Other Ranked Teams

#3 Notre Dame 66 #13 Louisville 61 - Irish trailed most of the way
#8 Arizona State 69 Southern California 68 - Brunner 3-point play with 1.9 seconds left won it for the Sun Devils
#9 Oregon State 54 Washington State 45 - Beavers trailed by 6 after 3rd
#11 Mississippi State 52 #21 Missouri 42 - not exactly a barnburner
#12 Texas A&M 76 #23 Tennessee 71 OT - Lady Vols blew 13-point lead
#14 UCLA Arizona 39 - kind of over after the 16-2 1st quarter
#16 Miami (Florida) Duke 53 - pretty ugly game from what I saw
Oregon 75 #24 Washington 63 - pretty big upset
#25 Oklahoma State 70 Texas Tech 57 - 32 and 15 for Martin to lead the Cowgirls



Also

Princeton 92 Harvard 83 OT - 3 in a row for Tigers
Virginia Commonwealth 84 La Salle 76 OT - Explorers are 0-10 in A-10
Elon 66 Delaware 64 2OT - Blue Hens 11-11; EDD days long gone
Oral Roberts 59 Denver 56 OT - just here for completeness sake


Today

RU Opponents 3-1


Year to Date

Big Ten 112-39
Other RU opponents 152-89


There was one palindromic score in 49 games today. That makes a total of 24 palindromic scores in 3,496 games so far this season.

 

[Knight Time Fan]

Bek - Just an FYI that I have just over 4000 games so far this season?? I'm not real super careful, but I count the number of games listed on ESPN scoreboard most days. I know WBB State lists the number of games each day, but I can't find that information "belatedly" and I am often - especially with our unexpected family issues - upwards of a week behind in tracking the PAC refs. I just caught up today.

 

[BeKnighted]

I don't get every game in the palindromic score count because it's based on the games that have been completed by the time I do the report. As a result, the count omits a ton of West Coast games. (East Coast bias strikes again!) If I were trying to do something serious with it, I'd go back and bring them in the next day, but since it's just for fun I don't bother.

 

[Knight Time Fan]

Ditto in that I'm not very serious about it, I know at times in prior years my counts have included cancelled games, etc. My 1st spreadsheet in the workbook is number of games each day, then each ref has a spreadsheet (days of week across, weeks down) where I type the name of the school where they ref'd in the box, and use a background color for conference.

I think this is the last year I will be tracking, Amy really wanted to get familiar with who the PAC ref's are. Of course, with no Pac-12 network and Arizona being so awful, we see relatively few of them as we don't attend even half the games.