Louisville with an all-time Choke Job at WVU, Lose And MU Cannot Get The Bye

[Tugg Speedman]

Allowed WVU to score 5 points in the last ten seconds of the game to win by 2.

Preston Knowles bond-head play on par with Buycks at Louisville.

The Lord Giveth and the Lord Taketh Away.

[marquette09]

Figures

[TJ]

What a finish.

First ESPN switches off the game with WVU down 3 and a minute to play because they had to make sure we saw tip-off for ND-UConn.

I got to my computer to see a 3 pointer by WVU to cut the score to 69-67.  Lou gets fouled and goes 1-2 from the line.  WVU hits an off-balance 3 to tie it at 70 with 8 seconds left.  Lou rushes a crappy 3 up there and misses, rebound to WVU & a blocking foul is called against Lou 75 feet away from the basket with 0.6 seconds to play.  WVU hist 2 free throws to win it 72-70.  The foul was a good call - it sucks to end a game on that, but Lou prevented WVU from advancing the basketball and made too much contact.  Great finish.

I don't know if that result helps us or hurts us (probably hurts us), but it was a great finish and I always like seeing Lou lose and I especially liked seeing Lou lose a close game that they should have won on the road.

[StillWarriors]

How did it happen?

[TallTitan34]

Makes it impossible for us to get the 8 seed and first round bye.

[romey]

WV hits a long three with under 10 seconds left to tie it, UL inbounds goes the length of the court, misses a three, rebound comes down to the left side of the lane - WV player goes after it (going away from the basket) and Knowles apparently going after the ball perhaps thinking he can corral it and get off a desperation shot, fouls the WV player 80 feet from his own basket with .6 seconds left and he hits both FT's to win.

[willie warrior]

Preston Knowles, who killed us, committed a stupid foul 80 feet from the basket with .6 left and a tie game.

[marquette99]

Wow, well let's settle in for a 1st round game in beast.  Very risky.  As jay bilas points out, every at-large and bubble team ends the season with a loss, just hate that we need to make sure ours isn't against depaul, usf or providence.

[TJ]

Makes it impossible for us to get the 8 seed and first round bye.

Yeah, I figured it would hurt us.  Oh well, still great to see Louisville lose whenever possible.  And to see them lose in the last 20 seconds makes it even better.

I might not make any friends with this statement, but I didn't really think we had a shot at winning the BET anyway, so playing on day 1 isn't that big a deal.  We can beat DePaul or USF in NY.

[PGsHeroes32]

As long as we get the 9 seed and a date with DePaul im fine.

Its an extra win.


No way we lose that one.

[brewcity77]

Good, I wanted DePaul and the 9 seed anyway. Decent chance if we take care of business.

[TallTitan34]

I don't think it was about winning the BET.  It was more about putting ourselves ahead of other Big East teams.  A team who gets a bye in the BET is a lock for the NCAA's

[marquette09]

As long as we get the 9 seed and a date with DePaul im fine.

Its an extra win.


No way we lose that one.

That's what I thought last year

[Windyplayer]

How did it happen?

Wouldn't know since ESPN switched to the UCONN-ND game with under 2 minutes left after I watched the entire game. Totally unacceptable.

[romey]

Wouldn't know since ESPN switched to the UCONN-ND game with under 2 minutes left after I watched the entire game. Totally unacceptable.

really?  they didn't switch over here in ATL - good thing because i may have broken something. 

[copious1218]

Wouldn't know since ESPN switched to the UCONN-ND game with under 2 minutes left after I watched the entire game. Totally unacceptable.

Where do you live?  Milwaukee kept it on the Lou/WV game.

[TJ]

I don't think it was about winning the BET.  It was more about putting ourselves ahead of other Big East teams.  A team who gets a bye in the BET is a lock for the NCAA's

fair enough.  I just meant that having to play an extra game against DPU or USF probably isn't going to hurt us that badly in the long run.  I see where you were coming from though.  I think our resume will be good enough if we continue to prevent the bad loss, so win today and the first round of the BET and we'll be fine.

[JamilJaeJamailJrJuan]

That's what I thought last year

Meh. I think Melvin is hurt anyway.

[TJ]

Wouldn't know since ESPN switched to the UCONN-ND game with under 2 minutes left after I watched the entire game. Totally unacceptable.

Chicago switched and it SUCKED.  They could have waited and missed less than 4 minutes of the ND-UConn game.

[Mr. Nielsen]

Wouldn't know since ESPN switched to the UCONN-ND game with under 2 minutes left after I watched the entire game. Totally unacceptable.

That's on on SD, HD stayed with UL-WVU.

[NickelDimer]

What does MU need to get the 9 spot?  And do we know what time that game would tip off Tues?

[Windyplayer]

really?  they didn't switch over here in ATL - good thing because i may have broken something. 

Chicago. I was cursing the Connecticut bias by ESPN, but apparently it was unwarranted.

[rocky_warrior]

You guys all need to start using ESPN3 - they don't switch anything   Got the quad split screen going now so I can watch ND/Uconn, Gtown/Cincy, and MU women against Pitt in the BET.

If you have access to ESPN3, and hanvn't used it you should give it a whirl.  4 games at once is the best.

(but it also helps if you have a computer hooked up to your TV)

[muguru]

What does MU need to get the 9 spot?  And do we know what time that game would tip off Tues?

Unfortunately it's the 11:00 am tip on Tuesday. Not sure what has to happen for them to get the 9. I think just losses by UCONN and Nova, and of course an MU win. At this point though, I'd rather they get the 10 and play ta night on Tuesday.

[avid1010]

You guys all need to start using ESPN3 - they don't switch anything   Got the quad split screen going now so I can watch ND/Uconn, Gtown/Cincy, and MU women against Pitt in the BET.

If you have access to ESPN3, and hanvn't used it you should give it a whirl.  4 games at once is the best.

(but it also helps if you have a computer hooked up to your TV)

+1...the changes they've made in the last year or so are impressive.  Four games at once, a really functional picture-in-picture, etc.  I used to get around the blackouts with hotspot shield, but it no longer works for me.  Not going to be able to get the MU game today...