After last night, Marquette is 2-8 in their last 10 November road games against high-major opponents. The 2023-24 (Illinois) and 2024-25 (Maryland) wins were the first such wins in November since a non-con win over St. John's to open the 2003-04 season when we were still in Conference USA.

Quote from: rocky_warrior on <strong>Today</strong> at 09:02:34 AMI was really hoping that after last night folks would stop using the MSU exhibition as some sort of valid data point.  Leave it to you to keep clinging on!

Guessing you didn't read Pomeroy's article last week, but he noted that exhibition results that don't count match week one results that do count almost identically when mapped against metric expectations (error margin difference 9.32 vs expected for exhibitions, 9.24 for week one official games).

So while it won't be on the team sheet in March, the data validity of the MSU result which featured starters playing into the final minute of the game and MSU fouling at the end to try to get back in the game is just as likely to tell you something about this team as last night's result did.

Figured we'd have a post about Microsoft Outlook being down by now...

Quote from: TallTitan34 on <strong>Today</strong> at 10:12:15 AMNot only are they sometimes like that, they are often like that.

First Road Game:
2025 at Wisconsin: L 76-96
2021 at Wisconsin: L 76-89
2020 at UCLA: L 60-69
2019 at Wisconsin: L 61-77
2018 at Indiana: L 73-96
2014 at Ohio State: L 63-74
2012 at Florida: L 49-82
2009 at Wisconsin: L 63-72
2005 at Nebraska: L 74-84

Not first road game, but I'd add Dayton 2025, Wisconsin 2024 and maybe Mississippi State 2023 to the list.

There's always road clunkers. The bounce back is what matters. Sunday should tell us a lot. Can they can compete, and if they compete can they close? If we do both of those Sunday this will be forgotten quickly.

Kamario Taylor is returning to Mississippi State next season on a deal that could reach upwards of $9 million, making him college football's highest-paid QB. The sophomore star led the Bulldogs to a 4-0 record before getting injured, and they're 0-5 without him.

(From Yahoo Sports)

Quote from: tower912 on <strong>Today</strong> at 08:39:30 AMOr Huangs need to be cut off.   BTW, he resigned.   

Of interest to me is whether there is verifiable proof that the administration knew about it, took him on a trip anyway, and accepted a bribe from him knowing about his indiscretions with a spy.

Why is your second paragraph interesting? There won't be any accountability

One person was killed and four wounded in a shooting on Thursday in a busy neighborhood of Washington, D.C., the police said.

The violence, which began before 8 a.m., took place at a gym in the Logan Circle section, but also at a construction site across the street and in the lobby of a nearby building, officials said, and it prompted a widespread response by law enforcement officers.

The police officers who first answered the call found a man dead inside the VIDA gym, said Jeff Carroll, the city's acting police chief.

One of the wounded victims was in critical condition; the others suffered non-life-threatening injuries, the police said. The suspect, who barricaded himself in the building, was found with a fatal self-inflicted gunshot wound, the police said. They did not give his identity.

Authorities said that the shooting appeared to have stemmed from a conflict between the gunman and the homeowners association of the apartment building in which he lived and where he was found barricaded on the seventh floor. Officials did not provide more details.

The Logan Circle area where the shooting occurred is a primarily residential neighborhood less than a mile from the White House and home to coffee shops and other businesses.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/12/us/shooting-washington-dc.html?

Quote from: The Sultan on <strong>Today</strong> at 12:37:38 PMYou see no reason to believe they can't be an Elite 8 team??? Are you kidding???

The '08 team was full of experienced juniors and seniors who played in the S16 just the year prior. This team has shown NO evidence that they can play at that level. Getting to the tournament and winning A GAME would vastly exceed my expectations at this point in time.

Im bias but the eye test to me says this team has no business missing the NCAAs this year. we have seen them have great individual performances. They are more than capable. Good size and athleticism out there. Even barely making it in would be this team underperforming significantly. I get they haven't proved anything but this should be a top 35 team at worst imo. You could tell after indiana last year how limited that team was. Im not seeing that ultra limited team this year.

After last night's game we only dropped from 27 to 32 in Pomeroy's rankings.

Michigan is at 25 and Missouri at 22, FWIW.

Quote from: The Sultan on <strong>Today</strong> at 12:37:38 PMYou see no reason to believe they can't be an Elite 8 team??? Are you kidding???

The '08 team was full of experienced juniors and seniors who played in the S16 just the year prior. This team has shown NO evidence that they can play at that level. Getting to the tournament and winning A GAME would vastly exceed my expectations at this point in time.

Not quite what he said, but he really could have worded it better. I read it that he hoped we would be somewhere in between E8 and "those awful data points". .