Quote from: MU82 on Today at 10:49:18 AMExciting upset victory for Oklahoma over South Carolina last night.

Nobody will deny that Dawn Stalely is one of the great coaches in the sport, but S.C. failed to get off a shot at the end of regulation despite having plenty of time to do so.

Remember that the next time it happens to your favorite women's, men's, NBA or WNBA team and you want to scream about how bad your coach is. Sometimes, even on great teams coached by one of the greats, good players fail to execute. Also, the opponent has good players and a good coach, too.

There were some good games last night.  I switched over to this one after finishing up the Maryland-Iowa game viewing.  I was rooting for Oklahoma coach Jenny Baranczyk (Lillis) who used to be an assistant coach at Marquette (think she overlapped with Consuegra on the MU staff for a bit and think they shared at least one season playing together at Iowa - Consuegra is older).  I enjoyed watching this game - Oklahoma looked like they'd blown this one in regulation but got it to OT and took care of business then.  Wow are there a lot of good teams in the SEC.  But it may not really matter though as I don't think anyone can come close to competing with UCONN this season.

There's a good SEC game coming up on Sunday - Vanderbilt at South Carolina at 2P central on ESPN.  Vanderbilt and UCONN are the only two undefeated women's basketball teams right now.  Former UCONN standout Shea Ralph is the Vanderbilt coach.

MU hoops... admittedly dim!

Quote from: tower912 on Today at 03:38:32 PMOnly one injury.  The one he sustained in Labor day-ish 2024.  Then the injured toe in the third week of October 24.  He played through both in 24-25, had surgery to repair the abdominal/groin injury (never officially announced where/what) in April 2025. 

Then recovery.  Late start for summer conditioning and drills.

And I only know this through paying attention to information MU has released and what Shaka has said.

I love the group of DO, James, Stevens and Parham. Phillips too. I'm calling a win tnite. This group has looked good of late. Maybe gaining confidence...which is often half the battle.

Quote from: jesmu84 on Today at 04:20:01 PMThe biggest issues I see are the severe short and long term damage done by elimination of funding, infrastructure and institutions around science and research.

It will take decades, if ever, to get back to where we were as a country just a couple years ago.

Let alone the damage down to public trust in science

Yeah. Right. You think science is real? Give us back polio so we can suffer like we are supposed to.

Quote from: DFW HOYA on January 22, 2026, 08:40:20 PMI am a Georgetown alumnus, but grew up and live in Dallas-Ft. Worth. I attend a couple of  football and basketball games a year. If you think basketball games are frustrating, try FCS football.

The structural issues are varied but revolve around three orbits:

Organizational
1. Men's basketball does not report through the Georgetown athletic department and thus is not directly managed by the athletic director. The head coach gets a lot of leverage to do what he wants before there is pushback.

Financial
1. Georgetown's $17 million men's basketball budget is overweight. Georgetown's new president may have other ideas about this in 2026-27.
2. There are no significant ties to the private sector in Washington in the way of corporate promotions and sponsorships and they simply don't support the team as is the case at other schools.
3. Donor giving is way down, and the response was to institute surge pricing. A midcourt seat costs $67 to see DePaul next week,  and as much as $262 for Villanova. Alumni see prices like this and walk away.

Experiential
1. The University does not promote basketball as a priority among its alumni, students, or the local area. Its official social media and web site give it no attention, and away games are not marketed to out of town alumni. How many Georgetown fans do you see gathering at Fiserv every year?

2. The fan experience is as poor as any in the Big East, including Wintrust. Its relationship with Capital One Arena is a challenging one. Georgetown gets no revenue back from parking, from concessions, or suites--it is simply a six-figure rental for four hours, nothing more. Some games have drawn less than 2,000 actual people in the building, but the rent is fixed either way.  However, there are no other facilities in Washington (outside of playing at other schools' arenas such as George Mason or the Univ. of Maryland) which could reasonably host Big East games, short of moving back on campus to a 2,000 seat gym built in 1951, essentially forfeiting revenue for better attended games. Georgetown is 10th of 11 in the Big East in attendance and would be 11th of 11th playing at home, given that the Georgetown campus has fewer than 40 surface parking spaces and relies on two underground garages of roughly 400 cars each. Think of it this way: the Al McGuire Center is roughly twice as large.

3. Georgetown increasingly attracts what I call an "angular" student, as opposed to being "well rounded". They are high-income, high SAT students (1480 to 1580) who are there primarily for internships and well paid job opportunities, and less about community and lifetime memories. If basketball is not a part of their college experience in 2026, they won't suddenly get interested in it at age 30 or 40, they're gone.

Basketball was a big part of my college experience as the sports editor of the campus newspaper and it's a priority all these years today. The fact is that Georgetown has lost probably 15-20 years of graduating classes who have no positive experience, either on their own or through the University itself. That manifests itself in fewer gifts to the University, fewer attendees at reunions, and far fewer people who are worried about a 15 point loss at Villanova. Many students, I would suspect, have no idea what Georgetown's record is this year, and fewer young alumni.

None of these problems are specific to Ed Cooley, and no one hates him. (This seems to be a Providence thing.) If Georgetown brings in another coach but does not address these problems, nothing changes and high level recruits do not want to come to places where nothing changes. That's Temple University football, playing every season before tens of thousands of empty seats at Lincoln Financial Field. Right now, that is where Georgetown University is.

https://brobible.com/sports/article/temple-football-lincoln-financial-field-crowd-fans/

really nice summary, thx for posting. I lived in DC (Silver Spring, MD) as a kid. Gtown wasn't a national power then...it was all Lefty Driesell and MD. But, John Thompson got it rollin' w/ Patrick Ewing (imagine if Ewing came to Marquette? I heard Majerus was close to getting him...how things might have been different), and I never thought I'd see that program (Gtown) stumble as it has over the past 6, 7 seasons. Praying MU isn't on that train. Assuming you are also an alum of Marquette or have connections to MU?

The argument can be made, "if someone comes in to look at cars in an -11 degree wind chill, he must be at least somewhat serious."

We have a gentleman here on his third test drive testing that theory.

Quote from: MU82 on Today at 01:08:19 AMUgh

Get it right.  #ugh

Quote from: wadesworld on Today at 04:49:31 PMWho prefers an electric stove over a gas stove?

Me.

I had a ticket to tonight's game.  There has been so much snow in the last week around here that highway speeds are all down around 40.  That would have made it 3.5 hours to the Indiana border, 6 hours overall.  So, no.

Quote from: wadesworld on Today at 04:49:31 PMWho prefers an electric stove over a gas stove?

Tower, but he has his reasons, and I will not argue the point with him. Other than Tower? No one. I hate them!

Who prefers an electric stove over a gas stove?