SEC men's bb and other games of note weekend of 2/15-2/16

[Jordan91]

16 hours ago, bierce said:

Yeah, that could be it for Moser at OU.  Losing at home to LSU will drop it to the bottom of the 11 seeds, and it has 5 straight games against ranked teams coming up.  If OU doesn't turn it around in a hurry, it will miss the tournament for the 4th time in 4 Porter Moser years. 

Cam Carter with 7 points on two possessions in the final 20 seconds to win that for LSU. 

I actually liked that hire at the time. 

[Jordan91]

1 hour ago, bierce said:

Someone needs to explain to me how Kansas is still NET 14 after it lost to Utah last night.  Kansas did have a very nice November in beating Duke and Michigan State on neutral floors, and it recently evened the score against ISU, but it is 10-8 over its last 18 games, lost a home game to DeVries-less WVU, and is 1-6 against Pomeroy top 50 since November. 

Spent a lot in NIL too. 

[qaertyisthatdude]

Apparently OU also doesn’t allocate enough funding to NIL to be a competitive basketball program.  So it doesn’t matter if Coach K came outta retirement to coach them.  The buy in from the University is not there.

[Jordan91]

5 minutes ago, qaertyisthatdude said:

Apparently OU also doesn’t allocate enough funding to NIL to be a competitive basketball program.  So it doesn’t matter if Coach K came outta retirement to coach them.  The buy in from the University is not there.

Nobody will take the call unless they are serious about basketball. 

[bierce]

One uncalled hip-check by Michigan followed by an airball by Thornton result in 86-83 victory for Michigan over tOSU, easily the best 11 loss team in the country. 

 

[bierce]

Northwestern was up 50-32 at one point then spent the rest of the game trying to jam the ball inside and taking ugly off-balance shots in the paint.  It made about two of them, and Nebraska came back to take a three point lead in the final minute.  NW scored with 32 seconds left and let Nebraska dribble up calmly and burn half the clock before noticing the coach wanted them to foul.  So they fouled the best ft shooter in the conference, who made both.  NW went down and scored inside without even trying to get a shot at a three, and it fouled again with 9.2.  NU made two again.  Then a turnover and a breakaway. 

Great comeback by Nebraska, but unbelievable stubbornness from NW to keep doing what wasn't working for the last 12 minutes of the game.  NW wound up with 18 more offensive rebounds and 27 more fg attempts.  And lost.

[bierce]

New Mexico rallied in the second half and hung on to win 82-79.  I wonder if Richard Pitino will now finally start getting some mention in coaching searches.