Thanksgiving week men's basketball games

[bierce]

Purdue 71-61, thanks to owning the paint and shutting down HH in the second half.  

Arky down 49-34 at the half. 

[bierce]

So much for NC State's ability to stem opponent's 3 point shooting.  BYU is torching the Wolfpack 52-32 and the nets 9/15 bta with 14:56 left.  Awful week for our non-conference SOS with UConn getting swept in Maui and looking like NC State will be swept in San Diego. 

[bierce]

More bad strategy shown in the Purdue-Mississippi game.  Purdue was up 2 and took possession with 45 seconds to go.  Even if it ran the shot clock all the way down, Mississippi would get a chance with 15 seconds or more.

So Purdue ran the clock down without even trying to run a play until the shot clock was down to five seconds.  One pass to a guy who was stripped, Mississippi went down and tied it on a break.

Purdue might still win here because it grabbed an offensive rebound of a terrible shot, and is up a basket with .6 seconds left, but

I will never understand why coaches don't try to run their full offense in the closing seconds.  I see so many empty possessions in those situations that I have to think teams are not doing themselves any favors by killing as much clock as they can instead of really trying to score.

 

[bierce]

LSU down 26-25 at the half to future Texas patsy opponent Northwestern State.  Don't get too excited.  Northwestern State had an 8 point lead in the second half against OU and lost by 20 or so. 

[NoDakHornsFan]

@CJ Vogel and other degenerates, any idea what channel USC vs New Mexico will be on?

[bierce]

6 minutes ago, NoDakHornsFan said:

@CJ Vogel and other degenerates, any idea what channel USC vs New Mexico will be on?

None of the above, as far as I know. 

[bierce]

Northwestern State lost by 24. 

2 minutes ago, bierce said:

None of the above, as far as I know. 

Correction.  It's on Tru

[bierce]

Northwestern State lost by 24. 

[bierce]

San Diego State beat Houston today in OT 73-70.   Tough weekend for the Coogs.