MBB: Duke v Virginia Tech (Fri, 12/6, 7:00 pm, ACCN) Pre-Game and In-Game Thread

[Skydog]

... I like having metrics like KenPom but this early in the season I don’t find them to be all that useful. They are still heavily affected by preseason rankings.
...

But Kenpom isn't wrong to weigh preseason rankings heavily early in the season. One of the more amazing factoids in college bball is that preseason AP rankings predict NCAA tourney outcomes better than end of season AP rankings. Fans (like all humans) are very susceptible to recency bias and usually place too much weight on recent game outcomes.* The better computer rankings know better.

* “You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.”
― Lou Holtz

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[TheOldBattleship]

Stanley is starting! Awesome to see. Interesting to see White and Hurt both.

[AtlBluRew]

How does one find the YouTube livestream?

[follyblue]

Have we had a single interior pass?

[scottdude8]

Someone worked on his shot during the offseason. Way to go JG!

[BigZ]

Goldwire looks like he has turned the corner, unfortunately AOC hasn't.

[weezie]

Gah can't get into chat

[MarkD83]

I have not been able to watch the game but am following the boxscore. This seems really strange...

4 total fouls with 5 min left in the half and

the official under 8 time out has not been called.

Are the refs letting them play or is this that clean a game?

[scottdude8]

Fighting back from early adversity on the road. Even against an undermanned, undersized team this is encouraging... @Va Tech has been one of those cursed games lately. Time to push through to the lead now.

[Billy Dat]

I can't believe how soft these rims are...I haven't seen anything like it. It works both ways I guess. Good answer from the early deficit but we are in a big time fight.

[ratamero]

These ACCN ads sure are something, huh.

(btw Cameron Lazies crowd, if you're reading this: please make a twitter account for the podcast. I need to be able to talk about the cat toy ads.)

[Dr. Rosenrosen]

I have not been able to watch the game but am following the boxscore. This seems really strange...

4 total fouls with 5 min left in the half and

the official under 8 time out has not been called.

Are the refs letting them play or is this that clean a game?

Clean game. Lots of outside shooting. And we’re not playing tough D on their drives to the basket.

[SavDukeGrad]

Why did Landers Nolley redshirt last year? Was he injured?

[Devilwin]

Got to stop them from scoring so easily from in the paint.

[jimsumner]

Why did Landers Nolley redshirt last year? Was he injured?

Academics

[BigZ]

Why is Vernon missing so many minutes?

[ratamero]

Alex cannot buy a bucket, it's incredible.

[scottdude8]

Why is Vernon missing so many minutes?

Because Va Tech is so small. It’s almost like what we had to do against the early season tune ups.

[SavDukeGrad]

Playing Jack White at the 5!