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Oh, yeah, the top thrill score of the day is 84 Colorado State vs. 61 Mississippi 3pm cst Game is being played in a suburb of Memphis, about 55 miles from Oxford, 74 if you drive it because there is a lake in the way. Google searching oxford southaven ms distance reveals a map showing a 4317 mile flight from the UK. I guess the thrill score includes the risk of Randi Trew showing up. Mississippi barely beat Grambling and struggled to put away South Alabama. It seems to have fixed last year's rebounding problem by adding Dia, but shooting has been poor.

11/16 Five games today, or should I say two games and three entirely one-sided exhibitions. 364 MVSU @ 27 Texas 4pm cst You don't often see Pomeroy go out on a limb and give a team a 100% probability of winning a game. Texas had a 99.2% probability of winning at tip-off against Chicago State. Today, the probability is 99.95%, rounded up on the conference page to 100%. Pomeroy's media "Thrill Score" for today's games is 28.6. Our game is at 6.1. I've said enough elsewhere about our poor scheduling, so I will only say I hope we see Vinson and Pryor play a lot today. 332 Stetson @ 45 OU 1 pm cst Thrill score 8.6 on this one, the second least thrilling match-up in the country today. Three years without an NCAA tournament appearance in Norman has Porter Moser sweating the season. Falling behind Northwestern State by 8 early in the second half probably should not instill much confidence, even if Sooners closed strong and won by 16. 328 Jackson State @ 85 Vandy 2 pm cst Vandy has 9 players averaging 15 minutes or more and no one averaging 25 or more. The rotation may start to compress a little now that Hoggard can start playing full-time. Vandy beat a decent Cal team by 16 in its last outing. Jackson State lost to a bubble team by 37, to Houston by 57, and to High Point by 9, but High Point isn't terrible. Vandy isn't a bubble team just yet, and it has been very poor at shooting from the arc, but Jackson State is terrible at defending any part of the court. 60 South Car @ 39 Indiana 2pm cst Ooh. Thrill score 55.3 here. South Carolina has the sort of schedule I envision Texas having. A couple of patsies, a couple of 200-250 teams, 4 games against 100-150 teams, 2 games against top 50 teams, and a neutral site tournament with 4 P5 teams, the worst being 107 Va Tech. And there are two true road games in there. Not a crushing schedule by any means, but a very good one. Maybe a more marquee opponent than Clemson as your biggest non-conference game would improve things, but I still think USCe's AD and Lamont Paris have scheduled very well. Yes, the Gamecocks lost to UNF, but they have plenty of opportunities to make that up with this game, games against Xavier aand Michigan (if they advance to meet each other in Fort Myers), the home game against Clemson, and a road game at Boston College. USCe lost three starters but still has a lot of returning players from last year's 6 seed team, and it added Nick Pringle from Alabama. If Jamarii Thomas can get his turnovers under control, this might be a pretty good team, but he's a small pg just promoted from Norfolk State. If Cam Scott thought he was a one and done, his first three games might have corrected his vision. He's shooting 4/19 on the season and played just 11 minutes in the last game. Indiana added Ballo, Myles Rice, and Kanaan Carlyle through the portal. This is its first game against anybody worth mentioning.

To recap the conference yesterday: Purdue beat Alabama 87-78, using a 13-0 run over two minutes to erase a 6 point lead Bama had with about 10 minutes left in the game. Bama owned the boards in the first half, but Purdue took them over the last 10 minutes of the game. A&M beat tOSU handily. Game was never in doubt in the second half. A&M hit threes on its first two possessions of the second half and followed that with 4 free throws to run out to a 17 point lead. tOSU never got closer than 13 after that. Florida beat FSU by shooting lights out early, scoring on 10 of 13 possessions in a first half stretch, and closing with a 10-1 run after FSU had climbed to within 4. FSU made it a game by forcing Florida to commit 19 turnovers, but the Seminoles don't shoot well, didn't defend the paint well, and Florida could either score or get the offensive rebound and try again most of the game. Georgia won 77-69 despite shooting just .167 from 3. A game of runs in the second half. GT went on a 13-2 run to take a brief lead, but Georgia answered with a 14-0 run.

Gard took over Wisky from ryan in 2015-16. His teams have hit the century mark twice since then. It is 99-86 Wisky with almost 3 minutes to go.

56 fouls called and 78 ft shot in the UA-Wisky game with 5 minutes to go. I'm glad I don't have Peacock and can't watch that mess.

Since FSU is likely to lose everyone, its fans are trying to ease their pain by hoping other schools will also lose recruits.

Georgia will win, but White will undoubtedly tell his guys how stupid they were to foul a driving GT player while up 9 with 11 seconds to go while grabbing the rim to make for a basket interference if the layup didn't go in. 77-69 final. A&M up 12 with 13:30 left.

Arizona on a 20-6 run to cut Wisky lead to 4 early in the second half.

Maryland missed both. Marquette ran clock and shooting ft with 6.6 seconds left. made both. Georgia up 10 with 1:37 left. GT put on a run early in the second half to take a 1 point lead, but Georgia has stormed back and has it under control.

Marquette got another gift when a clean(ish) steal whistled for a foul. Maryland hit consecutive 3s but still trailing by 4 with 42 seconds left, but forced a 5 second violation and converted. One possession game with 35 seconds. Maryland steal, drive the lane, blocked.. 76-74 Marquette shooting ft. Missed the first. A&M scored first 6 in second half to go up 15 against tOSU. Marquette missed both. Maryland now shooting ft to try to tie. Missed first.

Let's make this thread about everything in CBB. Big 12 is having a hell of a night. WVU was obliterated by Pitt. TCU lost by double digits @ Michigan. Arizona is down 11 @ Wisky at the half. Marquette just got a big gift @ Maryland. Golden Eagle driving had ball slapped off his leg out of bounds, but outside of final 2 minutes, so not reviewed. Marquette given ball and converted. Now up 8 after it got the offensive non-rebound from an airball and converted.

A&M defense has been smothering this game. 9-3 Agroids with 13:00 to go. tOSU shooting 1/11. Make it 12-3.

Georgia up 27-19 at the half. Payne just got away with a blatant goaltending. tOSU up 3-0 after 3 minutes.

Florida won 87-74. FSU is not that good this year, but the Florida offense is a pretty thing to watch. Bama going down hard. Tide was up 2 with 9 minutes to go but have been outscored 23-13 since and trail by 8 with 25 seconds left.

Sorry I missed the first set. That must have been fun to watch.

Auburn's problem? A male coach with a head of hair.

And Devin ends it with a kill. 25-11, 25-21, 25-15. A mashing.

Another Texas point yielding more praise for the Auburn players. This is ridiculous. Auburn is the best volleyball team in the world despite losing 8 straight matches while being outscored 73-46 so far tonight.

SEC announcers have sucked up to Auburn all match. On that last error, the color announcer praised the Auburn player for throwing the ball to an open spot, ignoring the fact she was called not for a net violation but for an egregious carry. She had her hand under the ball near her shoulder that was away from the net.

Kahahawai kill, followed by Auburn hitting error. 19-12. Time to put this match away.

No violation. That was the first challenge in the match. Halter ace gives her 7 points on her serve in this set.

Halter serving again with Ames/Skinner/Kahahwai on the front line. Two points, but Auburn challenging, claiming a net fault.

REALLLLLY long rally ended with a Wenaas dink blocked into the net. 9-5

Akana just started up the stairs to chase down a dig. Didn't get there. Skinner through a blocker from the back row. 8-5 Texas.

Halter gets 4 points on her serve with Skinner/Ames/Kahahawai on the front line. Timeout Auburn.