Yesterday was ESPN's 24 hr college tip off marathon, one of my favorite days of the year, Since CMU played at 4am est against Hawaii, I actually went to bed early and didn't see the first game, Memphis beating da U in a good game, but I saw at least a part of each game after that. Here is a quick recap.
2am game- St John's and first year coach Steve Lavin went on the road and lost to St Mary's. St Mary's is a very good team, and will actually be a real threat to the Zags this year in the WCC.
4am game- CMU lost to Hawaii by 3 in a very good game. Hawaii has 10 new players and a new coach, but they played hard, and it was a very physical game. Hawaii's zone gave CMU trouble, as they shot just 6-25 from 3. Way too much standing in the zone offense was CMU.
6am game-Stony Brook had a nice road win over Monmouth. It was also a 3 point game, as the start of the marathon all featured games decided by less then 5 points
8am game-Kent State had a great comeback against Robert Morris to get a big home win for them. Kent has been a 20+ win team for awhile now in the MAC and they always seem to have JU CO transfers and other guys that no one else can get in to school go there and do well... can you tell I don't like Kent State?
10am game- SIU lost a heart breaker in OT to Northeastern by one when SIU rebounded a miss with 4 seconds to go and called a time out when they didn't have one. It was a very good game before that, but tough tough way to lose a game
noon game- Tulsa played very well against ORU and pulled away late. Tulsa may be a nice team this year in conf usa
2pm game-Baylor had some trouble with Lasalle but was able to win by ten. Baylor has some long athletic big man, and freshmen stud Perry Jones III is one of them for sure
4pm- Va Tech did a nice job playing with Kansas State for awhile, and it was a very close game, for about 30 minutes, but the last ten belonged to the deeper team, and that was K-State, and they ended up winning 73-57
6pm game-OSU and FL was a very close game at halftime, and actually FL was up by 3, but the second half was all OSU, as they rolled the Gators on the road 93-75 for the best win so far in college basketball. OSU is going to be very good later on this year, and they already are pretty sweet.
8pm game- Butler feel well behind on the road at Louisville and they did cut the lead a little, but never could get all the way back as they ended up loosing 88-73 in a tough game for them
10pm game- The last game of the day on ESPN saw MSU beat South Car 82-73. I am sure Coach Izzo will not be too happy though as his team lost 48-40 in the second half, after playing good in the first half and being up 42-25. 48 points is way too much in a half to score on MSU and that will be talked about I promise you. South Car did play hard and showed they could be a good team in the SEC.
SDSU also got a nice win over Gonzaga on the road in a big win for Coach Fisher and his team. SDSU got off to a early lead, and held on late to win 79-76
Cuse won the other way around, having a bad first half and seeing UofD come in to the dome and be up 3 at halftime. The second half was better for the Cuse and they won 66-55
It was a great day of college basketball and I wish we could have more days like this, but I understand why we can't it takes a lot for coaches and players to get ready to play at strange times. College basketball is here, and I could not be happier. There isn't too many good games today, or really none, but tomorrow we start getting in to the early season tournaments, so I am looking forward to that. I'm right, you're wrong.
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