Saturday Hoops Open Thread

by Peter Bean on Mar 8, 2008 1:31 AM CST in Texas Longhorns Basketball

One weekend left in the regular season, then on to postseason play. Here's your primer for Saturday's televised games.

Top 25 Scoreboard

11:00 AM
(13) Louisville at (10) Georgetown
CBS

	Louisville	Georgetown
Overall	24-6	24-4
Conference	14-3	14-3
RPI	11	8
KenPom	7	9
Bracket	3 (Midwest)	3 (West)
Blogs	Card Chronicle	Hoya Prospectus

1:00 PM
(7) Stanford at USC
CBS

	Stanford	Southern Cal
Overall	24-5	19-10
Conference	13-4	10-7
RPI	17	39
KenPom	12	25
Bracket	3 (South)	7 (Midwest)
Blogs	SJ Mercury News	Conquest Chronicles

3:00 PM
(6) Kansas at Texas A&M
CBS

	Kansas	Texas A&M
Overall	27-3	22-8
Conference	12-3	8-7
RPI	9	43
KenPom	1	18
Bracket	2 (South)	10 (East)
Blogs	Rock Chalk Talk	12th Manchild

8:00 PM
(1) North Carolina at (3) Duke
ESPN

	North Carolina	Duke
Overall	28-2	26-3
Conference	13-2	13-2
RPI	2	4
KenPom	6	5
Bracket	1 (East)	2 (Midwest)
Blogs	Carolina March	Duke Basketball Report

--PB--

0 recs | 23 comments

Comments

Sucking it up and rooting for the aggies

They're dirty players for the most part, they always play their best game of the season against us (in any sport), and they are sexually attracted to sheep. Despite all this, we have to root for them against Kansas, a team that deserves much more respect. Anyhow, best of luck to the Aggies. Hopefully they know that we're only rooting for them because they're not a threat to us in conference standings.

longhorn00 - March 8, 2008 reply

ditto

I think I'm gonna puke but yeah I have to say it,,,,, "go aggies" (sheep f@ckers)...sorry couldnt help myself....

vivalonghorns - March 8, 2008 reply

Lets go Aggies!

That's right. I went there.

goingforthecorner - March 8, 2008 reply

#7 Stanford

As long as they beat USC, I would not drop them a single spot if I was one of those voters, given how they were completely robbed of that W over UCLA. In fact, I would raise them before I'd lower them.

goingforthecorner - March 8, 2008 reply

Scenario

If K-State, Baylor, A&M, and OU all finish the season with a 9-7 conf. record, who gets the 3rd and 4th seeds to the Big XII tourney?

Is the tie-breaker overall record?

54b - March 8, 2008 reply

I think its head 2 head then division record

the1austin - March 8, 2008 reply

Link to Big 12 Tie-Breaker Rules

Big 12

Tiebreakers - The first criteria in the breaking of ties in the standings shall be head-to-head competition of tied teams. The following procedure will be used to establish the championship seeds if ties exist. (For tiebreaking procedures teams will be grouped in two divisions based upon established guidelines. Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri and Nebraska are in one division and Baylor, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech are in the other division.)
(a) If two teams are tied and they are from different divisions, the winner of the game between the two tied teams shall be the higher seed.
(b) If two teams are tied and they are from the same division, the team with an advantage in head-to-head competition shall be the higher seed.
(c) If two teams remain tied, there will be a comparison of overall record against division teams only (10 divisional games).
(d) If two teams remain tied, there will be a comparison of record against the highest ranked team(s) (based upon Conference winning percentage) in the division and proceeding through in order of divisional record.
(e) If two teams remain tied, there will be a *comparison of record against the highest ranked team(s) (based upon Conference winning percentage) in the opposite division and proceeding through in order of divisional record.
(f) If two teams remain tied, the higher seed will be chosen by draw.
(g) If three or more teams are tied, ties among divisional opponents will be broken first by using steps (b) through (f) and the head-to-head results will be used to break ties between non-divisional teams. When three or more teams from the same division are tied step (b) will consist of a mini- round robin among the tied teams. At any point during the process of breaking ties among three or more teams that the number of tied teams are reduced to two, head-to-head competition would be used as the primary tie-breaker, followed-by steps (c) through (f).

the1austin - March 8, 2008 reply

I remember when we did this with football

In case OU lost to OSU. Boy did that go wrong...

Horn Brain - March 8, 2008 reply

Cal leading @ UCLA

by 9 with 15 minutes left.

the other Andrew - March 8, 2008 reply

CAL up two on UCLA

30 secs left in game.

goingforthecorner - March 8, 2008 reply

ucla just got another home call

the other Andrew - March 8, 2008 reply

What happened?

I've been following the UCLA on yahoo boxscore, all of a sudden UCLA gets the ball back and gets the lead.

Another bad call favoring UCLA? Man what a fuckin joke. They could've been 0-2 this week and instead they win both.

goingforthecorner - March 8, 2008 reply

Cal inbounds after a Love 3 pointer

Anderson gets hacked, no call and the ball goes out of bounds, ball somehow goes to UCLA... UCLA inbounds and they put up an over the backboard shot that gets nothing but net.

the other Andrew - March 8, 2008 reply

pac10 refs suck

titans10 - March 8, 2008 reply

UNBELIEVABLE

Refs gift wrap another UCLA win. Wow.

Peter Bean - March 8, 2008 reply

Stanford vs. Cal

Bad calls are going to be made in any sport but not all bad calls are equal. Any call that in and of itself changes the outcome of the game is one that should get extra scrutiny.

Assuming both of these calls were judgments which could go either way depending on the view the officials had at the time, it was right to not make the call against Shipp in the Cal game. By the same token, the foul call against Stanford that was clearly debatable should not have been made because it directly changed the result of the game. When the call is a borderline judgment call, the officials should err on the side of not making the call so that THEY aren't the ones deciding the game.

BTW, the Pac-10 supervisor of officials has felt compelled to respond publicly following both of these games... which doesn't reflect well on the officiating, no matter your perspective on the calls.

Defender90 - March 9, 2008 reply