Some ranked teams didn't dodge the upset

[LoudMouth]

Not ranked but boy is K-State struuugling  They were looking down with D.Wade and now without him...yikes. Hopefully the come back here

[Herman Cain]

I feel like Villanova will be a reverse Villanova this year. Instead of getting in as a 1/2 and losing the opening weekend, they look like the kind of team that will get in as a 7/8/9/10 and shock a 1/2 in the second round. If I were a team like Nevada, I would be deathly afraid of Villanova on the opening weekend.

Sound observation

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Not ranked but boy is K-State struuugling  They were looking down with D.Wade and now without him...yikes. Hopefully the come back here

You weren't kidding, they were down 16 at the first media time out of the second half.

Fortunately, from that point they went on a 24-2 run and look like they are going to close this one out.

[VegasWarrior77]

That doesn't even include Oregons woeful performance against Florida A&M. That conference is embarrassingly bad

Pac-12's struggles could haunt come March
https://www.gamingtoday.com/article/79873-Pac_12_s_struggles_could_haunt_come_March#.XBq1Tgc1dG0.twitter

[Cheeks]

Pac-12's struggles could haunt come March
https://www.gamingtoday.com/article/79873-Pac_12_s_struggles_could_haunt_come_March#.XBq1Tgc1dG0.twitter

They badly need to have the network bought by one of the conglomerates.  It is killing them.  We dropped them recently on Uverse, they need stronger distribution to get noticed.

[MU82]

Loyola, which was only 3 points outside the preseason top 25, finally played well last night and crushed Indiana State.

Even after the win, the Ramblers are 8-6, far more in line with their decades-long performance than last season's wonderful but anomalous story.

The game drew 3100 fans to 4500-seat Gentile Arena. That was during the winter break, but they drew 2800 fans to the game against Ball State before the break. Apparently, last year's run didn't make Chicago catch Rambler Fever.

Loyola has been a less-than-mediocre program for decades, and Moser's record is pretty bad. If he was offered a better job during the offseason, he should have taken it.

It's hard to catch lightning in a bottle more than once.

Having said all that ... damn straight I'd have taken a Final Four run like Loyola had last year!!

[Spaniel with a Short Tail]

Minnesota employing hack-a-Happ to great effect in their win over Bucky. 1-7 on FTs.

[fjm]

On Wisconsin, eh?

[We R Final Four]

Earl Tatum can't be happy.

[VegasWarrior77]

Best comments from Buckyville after tonight's loss to Minny:

Worst half of Badger basketball I can recall since the SMS game in the tournament, 20 years ago.

Yeah- I think we had 12 at HT of that game.

I'm at the game. Why am I still here. My wife says we can go home and watch a Hallmark movie.

We lack a lot of things.

Holy crap. It feels like the Steve Yoder years all over again.

I turned it off.   Recording it.   Will watch the second half if UW pulls a miraculous comeback.   As others have said:  painful to watch.

I can't wait for the annual reports next fall about how excited the staff is for Ford to take a huge step.

Gard's New Year plan. Complain about an away game his boss set up. Lose that game. Come home to play a rival looking like the team hasn't practiced all week.

The next driving layup Davison makes without hitting the deck will be his first .....stay on your feet son !!

Regardless of what happens the rest of this game, 14 points in a half is laughable.  You just never know what the Badgers will do game to game.  How did they even stay close to Western Kentucky?  See a repeat of last season coming... 

Ethan with the coast to coast lay-up after the steal. At the line again w a change to cut it to two.  missed. them. both.

It sounds insane to say, but it's hard to even give Happ the ball right now because they're going to foul him.
Just garbage. Absolute horsecrap play

That is the definition of a bedcrapting.

At this point you have to wonder if this is closer to the real Trice than what we saw in the first 10 games. Goal for the season was always a tournament bid, but suddenly that doesn't look to be a sure thing

I don't ever want to watch Happ shoot free throws again. Brick after brick, painful to watch.

Without better guard play and free throw shooting the NCAA is a pipe dream.

This looks a lot the the Marq. game. High turnovers. Horrendous free throw and 3pt shooting. This team isn't good enough to give games away.

How can Happ still be so lousy at the line after 4.5  seasons?

Watching that basketball beatdown was almost as much fun as watching the Camp Randall beatdown six weeks ago. Golden Gophers own Madison.

Cheesy arena, empty sections of seats in the upper deck, and Davison continues to be a giant douchebag. Enjoy your season.

[Floorslapper]

Earth to TAMU and MU82 - You forgot to add MU getting blown out by St. John's to this list.  Nonetheless, it is nice to have this thread so we can feel better about things when it happens to us.  I know I do!

[tower912]

Earth to TAMU and MU82 - You forgot to add MU getting blown out by St. John's to this list.  Nonetheless, it is nice to have this thread so we can feel better about things when it happens to us.  I know I do!

By game time, I think SJU was the betting favorite.    And conference road losses are part of life in college basketball, as opposed to losing to mid-majors, like, say, UWGB or NJIT.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Earth to TAMU and MU82 - You forgot to add MU getting blown out by St. John's to this list.  Nonetheless, it is nice to have this thread so we can feel better about things when it happens to us.  I know I do!

Well I thought that people finally got it so I stopped updating weeks ago but I guess it only takes one loss to make people forget.

And no, MUs game doesn't belong here,  this was not an upset but a game we were expected to lose. Not by this much but just about every metric favored SJU.

And this thread isn't meant to make us feel better about losing. It is a reminder that teams can play bad one night and play great the next. It was started to counter the narrative of "we played bad against Presbyterian so clearly were going to suck this season"

[MU82]

What TAMU said.

But thanks, Ners, for reminding us how much you've come around to support Wojo!

[VegasWarrior77]

NEW MEXICO 85
Nevada 58
Ouch!

[brewcity77]

New Mexico 85
Nevada 58
Ouch!

That's a bad, bad loss. Pomeroy's site had Nevada as a 17-point favorite. That was UNM's first home win over a top-200 team in 5 tries. The Lobos were 191 in kenpom. That's really bad.

[CountryRoads]

New Mexico 85
Nevada 58
Ouch!

One or two more of those and they can kiss at large chances good bye. Played nobody.

[tower912]

I'm sure that Nevada scoop is saying that UCLA can have Musselman. 

[VegasWarrior77]

Kansas just announced that Udoka Azubuike will have season ending hand surgery.

[tower912]

That really stinks.  I never wish injuries on anyone.

[JakeBarnes]

Coupla bad losses today:

#14 Miss St goes down to a lowly South Carolina team.

#20 Iowa State loses at Baylor.


And in the "upset" from spread:
NC State gave up a 12-0 run to UNC to start rhe game and loses as 1.5 pt fav.

[PGsHeroes32]

A ton of ranked teams lost tonight

not all upsets, but lots of losers

[MU82]

A ton of ranked teams lost tonight

not all upsets, but lots of losers

Let's win our next two and move up big-time in the rankings next Monday.

[JakeBarnes]

Let's win our next two and move up big-time in the rankings next Monday.

This.

One ranked team that didn't lose is Buffalo. Trounced Toledo in what was supposed to be a competitive game.

[KampusFoods]

This.

One ranked team that didn't lose is Buffalo. Trounced Toledo in what was supposed to be a competitive game.

Hoping Buffalo wins out