In high school, we had one humongous guy on our team who went on to play offensive lineman for a decent DII school. He was our 'let 'em play' secret weapon. Put him in the game with about 5 minutes left and dare the refs to keep calling the game the same way. If the refs shifted into 'let 'em play,' we put the hulk on the court and watch the opposing center get that deer in the headlights look.
All that to say, 'let 'em play' tends to help the team which prefers to play physical. At least on the high school level, we had coaches smart enough to take advantage of it by putting in the football team.
I'm bored so I'm watching Kansas with the comfortable lead over ETSU. They really need to rename that arena "The Maui Jim Maui Gym." Why hasn't this happened already?
As a reminder, this happens starting today... some pretty good teams in this tourney:
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Worth noting some other good T-giving tournaments.
I think the toughest to pick is the Emerald Coast Classic. The 4 teams playing are FSU (#17 in KenPom) and Tennessee (#18) and then VCU (#32) against Purdue (#10). Good luck picking a winner in that one!
The Battle For Atlantis (featuring a certain bunch of cheating liars) has a very strong field. Look at this and then think about the fact that someone is going to go 0-3 in this tourney (probably Southern Miss) and three teams will go 1-2. Ouch!
-Jason "they call it Feast Week for a reason!" Evans
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LOL at the term Emerald Coast, had to look that one up....I guess they didn't want to have a tournament called the Redneck Riviera Classic, eh?
UAB plays at Rupp Arena tonight. Dare to dream...
That was the winning play, but not the play I remember from that 2004 NCAA Tournament second round game. You can find that UAB crosscourt reverse pass and dunk here.
Wow, tough, tough news for Georgetown. Akinjo and LeBlanc both off the team. That's probably sinking their (otherwise reasonably strong) NCAA chances. No details out there yet as to why.
Allegations of assault for 3 players but not Akinjo
https://sports.yahoo.com/resurgent-g...021348927.html
Akinjo is not implicated in anything -- he expressed a desire to transfer at the end of the semester. Apparently LeBlanc is also interested in transferring, but he was implicated in some incidents that occurred near the Georgetown campus and resulted in restraining orders . Galen Alexander and Myron Gardner were also named -- but are still on the team.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Charles Southern over Missouri tie our SFA game for the biggest upset in the last 15 seasons.