Time confirmed for 2140 EDT. Network not yet confirmed, although cbs is showing its usual primetime schedule, so it won't be them.
9:40 tip, per Stewart Mandel on twitter. Geez that's late
Time confirmed for 2140 EDT. Network not yet confirmed, although cbs is showing its usual primetime schedule, so it won't be them.
TBS.
30 minutes after the conclusion of the other Philadelphia game on TBS at approximately 9:40pm Eastern is confirmed:
http://news.turner.com/article_displ...rticle_id=6351
All other tips are listed for the weekend too.
What a crappy start time.
Just be you. You is enough. - K, 4/5/10, 0:13.8 to play, 60-59 Duke.
You're all jealous hypocrites. - Titus on Laettner
You see those guys? Animals. They're animals. - SIU Coach Chris Lowery, on Duke
A 10:00 tip on a Sunday night in Philadelphia? Way to be, NCAA.
A movie is not about what it's about; it's about how it's about it.
---Roger Ebert
Some questions cannot be answered
Who’s gonna bury who
We need a love like Johnny, Johnny and June
---Over the Rhine
Between the start time and a Len Elmore included announcing crew, I'm thinking somebody at CBS doesn't like us, or is Sean McManus exhibiting his inner Jay Bilas?
A really bizarre time for our game with a schoolday following. San Diego State is playing on Sunday - why in the world would they not schedule that game for the late slot? Makes absolutely no sense, and many in the east and even central time zones will not stay up to see the end. The only thing worse would be to add Mike Patrick to the already dismal announcing team.
McDermott grew up rooting for Duke, and during recruiting Duke focused all its attention on Harrison Barnes instead.
" It could be remembered as the most futile recruiting expedition in Duke history. The Blue Devils lost Harrison Barnes, the country's No. 1 player, to rival Carolina. But they also completely overlooked another future All-American, Creighton's Doug McDermott.
"Based on what we know now we would have loved to have him," said Wojciechowski, who sat courtside and scouted McDermott on Friday afternoon. "Watching him in high school, you always felt like he'd be a really good college player."
No one knew that McDermott would evolve into one of the elite players in college basketball, the type who can take a program on his shoulders and carry them deep in the NCAA Tournament. Even his own father didn't recruit him to Iowa State.
On Sunday, when No. 7 Creighton plays No. 2 Duke, McDermott will get a chance to beat the team he grew up rooting for.
"I remember I was star-stuck when I saw Coach K come to my high school," said McDermott. "There were no hard feelings," he added. "I felt like my game fit the mid-major scene a little better. I dreamed of playing at a school like that, but at the same time they had to go their separate ways and I'm happy where I'm at."
Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/-co...#ixzz2OMnbEY9T
Ryan matches up best on McDermott, but it is unlikely that he can guard him for more than 25 minutes. Physical conditioning and foul issues might preclude that. Since McDermott is a fairly strong player, we might want to use Josh to spell Ryan on defense. The question then would be who subs in for Mason? Alex's defense is not his strong suit and Amile might still not have the physical presence needed. I think we need Rasheed to guard on the perimeter. It will be interesting to see.
Hopefully, Ryan will find his outside shot for this game. He really has not been shooting the three well since the Miami game.
As far as our fouling, it is time for Tyler to stop the silly fouling. We don't want to put ourselves into the penalty wiith these guys. Actually, we had silly reaction fouls from Quinn, Josh and Ryan as well. Our guys have to remember how this game could be won or lost on the foul line.
I dunno squat about Creighton. 1st time I'd seen them play was against Cincy yesterday.
While Cincy couldn't throw the ball in the ocean from the end of a pier - I liked a potential match-up with Creighton.
Why?
They were slower looking that Cincy. We have had issues stopping the guy from turning the corner and penetrating the lane. Cincy looked better equipped to DO just that. If we have a choice between playing a team that runs a system or a collection of guys play 1:1 as a group. I'll take the system guys. We do fairly good against those. Its dudes going all Bootsy on us I worry about.
Going into the round of 32, Duke has a 9-1 record vs teams still in the tournament, and is 8-0 vs those teams with Ryan Kelly in our lineup.
I remember when the Sunday round of 32 games would end at around 7
No doubt the 9:40 start on a Sunday night is a pain for Duke fans not on the West Coast but someone has to play the non-CBS games on Sunday
Assuming the Philadelphia pod was scheduled for Sunday evening games at the start of the tournament, once Georgetown lost I assume it made sense from the NCAA's perspective for Duke to play the second Sunday night game in order to avoid the TV visual of having Florida Gulf Coast-San Diego State played before 5000 or so fans in a pretty much empty arena. TV ratings drive the process but the NCAA presumably has some interest in avoiding many fans leaving the premises in Philadelphia after Duke plays.
Next time someone claims the NCAA always gives Duke the breaks on scheduling and seeding we can cite the 2013 tournament in rebuttal.
More rest for Ryan and Seth.