College Basketball

Alas, the second best time of the year is upon us. The NCAA Men's basketball season is about to get fully underway. As usual, I will be supporting the ACC title defending Maryland Terrapins.

Here are the polls...I feel the Coaches Poll is usually more "accurate"

Coaches Poll:

1 Kansas
2 Wake Forest
3 North Carolina
4 Georgia Tech
5 Illinois
6 Syracuse
7 Connecticut
8 Oklahoma State
9 Kentucky
10 Michigan State
11 Arizona
12 Duke
13 Louisville
14 Mississippi State
15 Texas
16 Maryland
17 Pittsburgh
18 Alabama
19 North Carolina State
20 Wisconsin
21 Notre Dame
22 Florida
23 Memphis
24 Washington
25 Stanford

The AP Poll:

1 Kansas
2 Wake Forest
3 Georgia Tech
4 North Carolina
5 Syracuse
6 Illinois
7 Oklahoma State
8 Connecticut
9 Kentucky
10 Arizona
11 Duke
12 Mississippi State
13 Michigan State
14 Louisville
15 Maryland
16 Texas
17 Pittsburgh
18 Alabama
19 North Carolina State
20 Notre Dame
21 Wisconsin
22 Washington
23 Florida
24 Memphis
25 Gonzaga

I'm not a big fan of college basketball as I don't really watch any games until March Madness or if Dick Vitale is calling a game. I mostly root for the local teams Cal and Stanford.

Originally posted by Shaolin Monk
Alas, the second best time of the year is upon us. The NCAA Men's basketball season is about to get fully underway. As usual, I will be supporting the ACC title defending Maryland Terrapins.

we will be rivals all season then.. go Blue Devils

Originally posted by forumcrew
we will be rivals all season then.. go Blue Devils

lol yep, I remember a thread we both commented in...about how I live in cali, but all my favorite teams are outside of california...and you were saying how you hate the terrapins and you live in maryland, and like duke

this will be a lot of fun 🙂

Originally posted by Dr. Strangelove
I'm not a big fan of college basketball as I don't really watch any games until March Madness or if Dick Vitale is calling a game. I mostly root for the local teams Cal and Stanford.

Dick Vitale is awesome...if anyone else acted like him, it would be annoying...but he always makes me laugh

im a big time duke fan and i like dickie v but he is so biased when it comes to duke....i'm a duke fan and it even bothers me....i've heard some maryland fans call him dukie v

Originally posted by wuTa
im a big time duke fan and i like dickie v but he is so biased when it comes to duke....i'm a duke fan and it even bothers me....i've heard some maryland fans call him dukie v

i agree 100% i like him calling duke games but he is way to biased for them.. buts ok cause they rock

the acc is gonna be insane this year

Originally posted by forumcrew
the acc is gonna be insane this year

As usual...got 6 teams in the top 20 and were voted the "toughest" conference for the 5th straight year.

Did anyone watch the Tar Heels play like crap against Santa Clara? Everything was falling for Santa Clara and the Tar Heels never responded

Originally posted by Dr. Strangelove
I'm not a big fan of college basketball as I don't really watch any games until March Madness or if Dick Vitale is calling a game. I mostly root for the local teams Cal and Stanford.

me too... I root for St. Joes and the other local teams.. but i never know when they are pleying or if there on TV... i like Duke too... i don't no why.. i just do... but i barely watch it until March Madness

I'll only watch when my Lobos are playing. Even though they've really sucked the last five years or so.

anyone see Duke vs Davidson...Duke couldnt put Davidson away and they kept coming back...but Duke eventually pulled it out...they also had sweet new uniforms...dark blue with black on the side

Did anyone watch the Tar Heels play like crap against Santa Clara? Everything was falling for Santa Clara and the Tar Heels never responded [/B]

I am a huge Duke fan, but I dunno how they are going to do this year. I hope they get at least into final four... *crosses fingers* This is definately going to be an interesting season....

Originally posted by vagaryatwill
Carolina was also playing without it's starting point guard, who had been suspended for game because he played in some unauthorized summer league. Felton played against BYU, though, and did well. Tar Heels play Tennessee tonight. Should be a good game. I love that 3 out of the top 4 teams in the preseason poll were from the ACC.

Felton wouldn't have made Santa Clara's shots stop missing though

Glad they beat Tennesse tonight

Glad Maryland beat Mercer

Glad Texas lost

Maryland VS. Memphis tonight

got me a lil nervous, I haven't been able to see much of the Terrapins yet, and I watched Memphis play last week...should be a great game

marquette has a good team this year....i wouldnt be surprised if that made it into the final four...deiner is among the best point guards in the league and they also have novak....he's 6;10 and can shoot from anyone ...his game is alot like dirk norowtzki

Originally posted by wuTa
marquette has a good team this year....i wouldnt be surprised if that made it into the final four...deiner is among the best point guards in the league and they also have novak....he's 6;10 and can shoot from anyone ...his game is alot like dirk norowtzki

I definitely agree that they are a good team, but I dont think they will make it to the Final Four. Travis Diener is a badass, but I don't think he's at the level Dwayne Wade was last year for Marquette, when Wade led them to the Final Four.

I do think they have a great chance of winning Conference USA. I really think Louisville is overrated.

Did anyone watch my Terps beat the sh!t outta 24/25th ranked Memphis?

that was two years wade led them to the final four......deiner was a big part of there success in that run... deiner and wade were just awesome i had them in the final four that year on my brackett 😄...i think he is at that level i'm just not sure if marquette has enough help around him...i think they do though...i miss the terps game but im not surpised...gary williams always has his teams prepared

Originally posted by wuTa
that was two years wade led them to the final four......deiner was a big part of there success in that run... deiner and wade were just awesome i had them in the final four that year on my brackett 😄...i think he is at that level i'm just not sure if marquette has enough help around him...i think they do though...i miss the terps game but im not surpised...gary williams always has his teams prepared

very true about Diener getting help

terps played well + memphis playing like sh!t = blowout

tuesday terps play 17th ranked Wisconsin 😱

for the first time (at least that i've seen), both Wisconsin and Arizona were ranked 17th over the weekend, and there was no number 18...anyone ever seen that??? I haven't...and I thought it was quite stupid...Arizona mighta dropped to 18th or farther down since losing to Wake...I thought it was odd that two teams were ranked the same

I don't like Illinois...specially not as the number 1

Maryland has lost twice! Jerks

Anyone watch Syracuse and Oklahoma State last night?? holy crap, Syracuse couldn't shoot from the free throw line for sh!t. Oklahoma State didn't impress me one bit

goin to the maryland game this sunday although there playin a no body