2020-21 College Basketball Discussion and Pick'em Thread

[GeorgiaModerate]

West Virginia has cut a 19-point Texas lead to 4 with 9 minutes left.

[GeorgiaModerate]

West Virginia has cut a 19-point Texas lead to 4 with 9 minutes left.

A great comeback by WV to win by 2, but it was also an epic collapse by Texas; it looked like they forgot how to play basketball.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Stanford & Wazzu heading to a third OT.

[NewYorkExpress]

It's late in the first half,but Arizona leads #17 USC 27-21 in Pasadena.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Stanford & Wazzu heading to a third OT.

Score at end of 2OT: WSU 76, Stanford 76.
Score at end of 3OT: WSU 85, Stanford 76.

Stanford scored zero points in the third OT.  Not sure I've ever seen that before.

[NewYorkExpress]

Great game going in Ames. #9 Oklahoma leads Iowa State 47-46 with about ten minutes to play in the second half.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Michigan over Ohio State today.  Clemson-Pitt was postponed.  Also, the Georgia Southern-Coastal Carolina game from earlier this week was delayed until today.

[YE]

Michigan.

[Orwell]

Michigan gonna win today baby!

[GeorgiaModerate]

Houston is making up for the loss to Wichita State.  They're currently up on Cincinnati (who is admittedly pretty bad this year) 65-29.

[NewYorkExpress]

#3 Michigan and #4 Ohio State going down to the final seconds.

Michigan leads 90-87 with three seconds left.

[Orwell]

Michigan Ohio State was game of the year IMO

[GeorgiaModerate]

WEEK 13 RESULTS

10 of the 37 games were postponed or canceled.  My hot streak continued as I won for the fifth straight week with 22-5, two games ahead of Illiniwek and New York Express.  Full results:

22 GeorgiaModerate
20 Illiniwek, NY Express
16 Donerail, YE
6 Orwell

In the overall race, I'm now up by 12 games with two weeks left.  Year to date (375 games):

252 GeorgiaModerate
240 Donerail
227 NY Express
191 Illiniwek
80 JGibson
61 YE
34 CraneHusband
27 dfw
6 Orwell

[NewYorkExpress]

A couple of notes on this weeks calendar.

The Stanford/USC game tomorrow, is now Oregon/USC. As such, that game is no longer on the schedule.

Houston is no longer playing Wichita State, but will now be playing Western Kentucky. That game will be replaced in the pick'em by the following games:

West Virginia @ Baylor (Thursday, February 25, 5:00 PM)

Iowa @ Michigan (Thursday, February 25, 7:00 PM)

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Stanford @ USC
VMI @ Furman
Syracuse @ Duke
Texas Tech @ Oklahoma State

[YE]

Furman
Duke
Texas Tech

[Donerail]

Week Fourteen

Monday, February 22nd
VMI @ Furman
Syracuse @ Duke
Texas Tech @ Oklahoma State

Tuesday, February 23rd
St. John's @ Villanova
Saint Louis @ VCU
Georgia Tech @ Virginia Tech
West Virginia @ TCU
LSU @ Georgia
Kansas @ Texas

Wednesday, February 24th
Alabama @ Arkansas

Thursday, February 25th
Washington State @ Arizona
USC @ Colorado
Oregon @ Stanford
Boise State @ San Diego State
Santa Clara @ BYU
West Virginia @ Baylor
Iowa @ Michigan
Belmont @ Eastern Kentucky
Oklahoma @ Oklahoma State

Friday, February 26th
Nevada @ Utah State
Bellarmine @ Liberty
Richmond @ Saint Louis
Lipscomb @ North Alabama

Saturday, February 27th
Texas @ Texas Tech
Illinois @ Wisconsin
Creighton @ Xavier
VCU @ Davidson
LSU @ Arkansas
Oklahoma State @ Oklahoma
Florida State @ North Carolina
Belmont @ Morehead State
Louisville @ Duke
Baylor @ Kansas
UCLA @ Colorado

Sunday, February 28th
Dayton @ St. Bonaventure
Iowa @ Ohio State
SMU @ Wichita State

[GeorgiaModerate]

VMI-Furman has been canceled (everyone picked Furman).

[GeorgiaModerate]

Tomorrow:

St. John's @ Villanova
Saint Louis @ VCU    Bones Hyland is out with a foot injury.
Georgia Tech @ Virginia Tech
West Virginia @ TCU
LSU @ Georgia
Kansas @ Texas

[NewYorkExpress]

Picking Michigan and Baylor in Thursday's new games.

[YE]

Villanova
St Louis
Virginia Tech
West Virginia
LSU
Kansas

[GeorgiaModerate]

It's still early, but 2-16 Iowa State has jumped out to a 15-4 lead at Baylor.  If ISU prevails, it would certainly be the biggest upset of the season.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Tough choice, but I'll go with Alabama today.

[YE]

Alabama

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

While I have not enjoyed this season much at all on the heel's of 2019-20's best season in 14 (or maybe even 35) years, really starting to get excited for a few critical knock-out games, starting with Saint Louis last night.

The Mountain West race is absolutely fantastic especially with these unbalanced backloaded schedules. Here's hoping San Diego State can knock Boise State down near the cut line with a sweep on their home court this weekend (right after Boise swept Utah State out on their home court) - once of the great stories of last year is deeply underrated this year!

Meanwhile last year's other great story, Dayton, is really trying to force their way back in and will need to upset the Bonnies in Upstate NY on Sunday to be playing for an At-Large spot in Brooklyn. A gaudy record but no signature win will likely mean the Bonnies are out if they lose it too. Mid-major death match!

The Louisville @ Duke loser on Saturday will also be in a very precarious position with ample but difficult opportunity on the remaining schedule, hoping both continue to drop all games and have no horse in this one! Michigan State is in a similar position to Duke of a couple weeks back, trying to find anyone to will them into the field against an extremely challenging slate - but stroking it well at the right time despite abysmal play all-around! I'll be watching all of their last 5 games.

In the Big East, we will have Villanova and Creighton square off for the second time - if they both win the games they should and there are no more COVID drops, this game should decide the 1-seed - either Creighton on a tie-breaker (16-4 over 12-3) or Villanova wins the conference outright. Zegarowski seems sure to give Villanova too much to handle on his own a la the 2014 edition of the Blue Jays, and just like that team he has such a competent pairing. If Villanova wants a title, better off hoping Xavier takes them down in Cintas first as a last ditch effort for a 5th Big East team in the field.