2021-22 College Basketball Thread

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Georgia is losing to George Mason by more than 10. Who’s favored?

Georgia was favored by 2.  We suck at basketball.  The Memphis win was an aberration.

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Some highly ranked teams in a little (or a lot of) trouble tonight.  Kansas leads Stephen F Austin by only 4 with about 5 minutes left.  Arkansas is about to lose to Hofstra.  Alabama leads Jacksonville State by only 1 at the half.

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Switching my pick in San Francisco-Arizona State to the Sun Devils.

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Terrific comeback by Auburn, which trailed St. Louis 60-47 with 9 minutes left but won 74-70.

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Yesterday was a VERY good day!

I expected Kentucky to win, but that was just an embarrassing performance by North Carolina.  Based on performances so far, the ACC looks like a 2-bid league (Duke and VT), although I'm sure that will change as the season goes on.

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Switching my pick in San Francisco-Arizona State to the Sun Devils.

A bad decision as it turned out.  USF won 66-65.

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WEEK 6 RESULTS

I won the week at 16-6, a game ahead of Illiniwek.  Seven games were canceled due to COVID.  Full results:

16 GeorgiaModerate
15 Illiniwek
14 Pessimistic Antineutrino
13 NYE
10 JGibson

PA's overall lead shrinks to one game.  Year to date (123 games):

85 Pessimistic Antineutrino   
84 GeorgiaModerate   
80 Illiniwek   
74 NYE   
61 JGibson   
21 Orwell   
10 Utah Neolib   

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Army @ South Carolina 3:00 PM ESPN/SEC+
Drake @ St. Louis 3:00 PM (in Las Vegas)
Louisville @ Kentucky 6:00 PM ESPN
Murray State @ Auburn 6:00 PM SEC
Boston College @ Wake Forest 6:00 PM ACC
Arizona @ Tennessee 7:00 PM ESPN2
Middle Tennessee @ Chattanooga 7:00 PM ESPN+
Brown @ Rhode Island 7:00 PM ESPN+
Boise State @ Washington State 8:00 PM
Clemson @ Virginia 8:00 PMACC
Virginia Tech @ Duke 9:00 PM ESPN2
Illinois @ Missouri 9:00 PM (in St. Louis)

Howard @ Yale 2:00 PM ESPN+
Fresno State @ Weber State 6:00 PM ESPN+
Butler @ St. John's 6:30 PM
Seton Hall @ DePaul 8:30 PM

We're all mostly in agreement this week.

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Louisville-Kentucky is off due to the Cardinals pausing all basketball activities due to COVID cases.  The schools said they will try to reschedule, which would be a good thing.  This is always a fun rivalry game.

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Another pick-em game, Drake-St. Louis, has also been canceled.

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Who chooses the pick-em games?

I do. Do you have a complaint?

Could you please add other games because of the cancellation of many games?

I'll just comment as the scorekeeper that you generally don't want to add late replacements because it doesn't give the players enough time to react to the changes.  NYE usually chooses more than 25 games (the default size) anyway, so there's some room for cancellations.  This week is just unusually light on the schedule, which is typical for the pre-Christmas week.

Feel free to join the game any week.  Just publish your picks in this thread by bolding the winner of each game, or listing your winners.  Picks can be posted or changed up to the start time of a game.

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#10 Alabama lost to Davidson 79-78, an upset but not a terrible loss.

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I bet Oregon State loses to Nicholls State.

That wouldn't have surprised me (Nicholls isn't bad this year) but Oregon State actually won handily, 83-61.

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Two more of tonight's pick'em games have been canceled: Brown-Rhode Island and Boston College-Wake Forest.

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https://twitter.com/MattNorlander/status/1473675928274452480

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Louisville-Kentucky is off due to the Cardinals pausing all basketball activities due to COVID cases.  The schools said they will try to reschedule, which would be a good thing.  This is always a fun rivalry game.

UK has scheduled a game against WKU tonight in Rupp to replace the Louisville game. They originally attempted to get Bellarmine, but a minor revolt by ticket holders, who were not getting refunded, and possibly the four letter scuttled that plan. Still not a rivalry game, but Western beat UL a few days ago, so it's better basketball.

That could be an interesting game.  WKU is decent this year, and Kentucky likely won't get up for them as much as they would for Louisville.  These replacement games can be traps; Alabama scheduled Davidson in a similar situation and ended up losing to them at home.

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A halftime score that looks like a misplaced NFL game: Green Bay 29, Minnesota 28.

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Everybody picked Virginia over Clemson, but the Cavaliers got clobbered at home 67-50. 

And another bad loss for Georgia, sigh (86-84 at home to East Tennessee State).

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Howard-Yale is off, so we have two remaining pick'em games today: Butler-St. John's and Fresno State-Weber State.

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Howard-Yale is off, so we have two remaining pick'em games today: Butler-St. John's and Fresno State-Weber State.

Butler-St. John's is off too.  Hang in there, Fresno and Weber, we're counting on you!

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WEEK 7 RESULTS

In a rather anticlimactic week, 7 of the 16 games were canceled, and we were mostly in agreement on the remaining ones.  NYE and I took the honors at 7-2, while everyone else was 6-3.  This means that I've pulled into a tie for the overall lead with PA.  Year to date (132 games):

91 GeorgiaModerate, Pessimistic Antineutrino
86 Illiniwek   
81 NYE   
67 JGibson   
21 Orwell   
10 Utah Neolib   

Hopefully things will go better next week. 

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Next week's pick'em games Arizona-UCLA and Arizona-USC have been postponed.  Oddly enough, this is not because of problems with Arizona; both the Bruins and Trojans are on COVID pause.

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Houston has lost its top two players, Marcus Sasser and Tramon Mark, for the season due to injuries.  With Memphis having problems of its own, the AAC race now looks wide open.

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There are some really interesting games this week.

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Duke @ Clemson 2:00 PM ACC 
DePaul @ Butler 5:00 PM
Florida @ Ole Miss 5:00 PM SEC
LSU @ Auburn 7:00 PM ESPNU
Seton Hall @ Providence 7:00 PM
Wichita State @ East Carolina 7:00 ESPN+
Virginia Tech @ North Carolina 7:00 PM ESPN2  I might change my mind on this one.
Marquette @ St. John's 8:00 PM
Wake Forest @ Louisville 8:00 PM ACC
Tennessee @ Alabama 9:00 PM ESPN2  And this one.
Arkansas @ Mississippi State 9:00 SEC
NC State @ Miami(FL) 9:00 PM ESPNU
Washington @ Washington State 11:00 PM ESPNU

Thursday, December 30, 2021

Michigan @ UCF 7:00 PM ESPN2
Dayton @ Rhode Island 7:00 PM
Arizona @ UCLA 9:00 PM ESPN2

Friday, December 31, 2021

James Madison @ Towson 2:00 PM

Saturday, January 1, 2022

West Virginia @ Texas 12:00 PM ESPNU
Memphis @ Wichita State 12:00 PM
Creighton @ Marquette 12:00 PM
Baylor @ Iowa State 2:00 PM ESPNU
Villanova @ Seton Hall 2:00 PM
Providence @ DePaul 2:00 PM   This one too.
Butler @ UConn 4:00 PM
Oklahoma State @ Texas Tech 4:00 PM Big Twelve/ESPN+
San Francisco @ St. Mary's 8:00 PM
BYU @ Portland 10:00 PM

Sunday, January 2, 2022

St. Bonaventure @ Dayton 12:00 PM
Michigan State @ Northwestern 2:00 PM   
Arizona @ USC 5:00 PM

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Wednesday's pick'em game Virginia Tech-North Carolina is off due to COVID issues in the Hokies program.