Miss. State came to play.

Great time to have a horrible shooting day, guys. Jesus.

Memphis needs to start playing better, then.

BTW, looks like Georgetown was severely overrated, Mr. Bob Knight. Best team in the Midwest region? Hardly.

Joey's awake, at least.

A early exit to a crappy SEC team would really shut up Calipari and his smug ass

The way they keep changing between games at a whim blows.
This is why espn should be doing the tournament. At least on espn you'd be able to watch a complete game between various channels.

Willie Kemp, ladies and gentlemen. Willie Kemp.

ANDRE ALLEN

Wow, Joey. Pretty emphatic way to take the lead.

Memphis is in their with Georgetown--overrated. They'll get knocked out soon.

Memphis is better than Gtown, they proved it when they killed them in December.

December. Seriously? ROFL

But that doesn't count, because

Wow, lucky for OU Godbold is on fire right now. Godbold may be the worst shooter percentage wise in the history of NCAA. His career field goal percentage is something like .361

Yeah, that's when they scheduled the game. Maybe Memphis should've wedged it into the middle of their conference tournament?

Or maybe they should join a decent conference.

LOL, my apologizes.

Memphis, a team that will not go much farther, is better than Georgetown, who lost today.

Big F'in deal lol!

KU beat Florida in November of last season. Early season wins are nice. But they don't really mean a whole lot.

Why, they're guaranteed a tournament seed and are free to schedule whoever they want in the noncon. Who has been better off since Conference USA broke up: Cincinnati, Louisville, and Marquette who used to dominate the conference and fled to the Big East, or Memphis who stayed?

OH, BUCKETS! I love you so much!

Whatever, we'll have scoreboard this year.

This kid f***ing rules. Giant killer.

His own man

Davidson's Curry has the genes, maturity of a pro

Posted: Friday January 26, 2007 4:14PM; Updated: Friday January 26, 2007 4:52PM

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Stephen Curry didn't draw much interest from big-conference schools, but has found the right fit at Davidson where he averages a team-high 19 ppg.
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</td></tr></tbody></table> When you see Davidson freshman Stephen Curry is averaging 19 points per game, and you hear he is the son of former NBA standout Dell Curry, the assumption is father taught son the ins and outs of how to ball.
But, you know what they say about assumptions ...
This is not to say Dell, and his wife Sonya, are not fully involved in their four children's lives. On the contrary, Davidson coach Bob McKillop says they are as supportive as a family can be. But Dell has a philosophy on just how much he wants to be involved with Stephen's (pronounced STEFF-en) game.
"I want to keep being a dad separate from being a trainer or a coach," said Dell, who played for 16 years in the NBA after a stellar career at Virginia Tech. "I try to teach him that [excelling at basketball] takes work. If a parent has to motivate the child to work, I don't think it will last long. I work with him, but I want to make sure his work ethic is there."
McKillop says Stephen doesn't have the sense of entitlement you might expect from the child of an NBA player who grew up with boatloads of money and access to the best players and arenas in the world.
"Stephen's not out celebrating his success, he's out trying to shore up some of his weaknesses," said McKillop, whose team leads the Southern Conference with an 8-1 record (17-4 overall). "He has a maturity level you don't see in too many freshmen."
That maturity was on display on opening night, when Davidson fell behind by 18 against Eastern Michigan in the second half before rallying for the win.
"Stephen was just awful," McKillop said. "He was turning it over, he was forcing shots. And then in the last 10 minutes, he took over the game. For someone to play as badly as he did for 30 minutes, and then have the capacity to play as well as he did for the last 10 minutes in his first game, that showed me something right there."
Curry followed that up with 32 points and nine rebounds at Michigan, a 78-68 loss, in his second game and suddenly it appeared Davidson had a steal of a recruit -- a guy whose game may be worthy of a bigger league than the Southern Conference.
Virginia Tech was interested in Curry coming out of Charlotte Christian High, but the Hokies had a veteran team coming back and wanted the thin Curry (6-foot-1, 180 pounds) to walk-on for one year and take a redshirt in order to get stronger. Rather than go to his father's alma mater and wait a year, Curry wanted to go where he would get to play right away.
"Virginia Tech was all I knew growing up," Stephen said. "Once I got into the decision-making process, they sort of took a backseat as far as the best situation for me. There was no better situation than Davidson."
Dell said he thought Virginia Tech could have "handled the situation better," but he says Stephen's decision to attend Davidson has worked out very well.
Curry is second in the Southern Conference in scoring, 10th in assists (and first among freshman) at 3.24 a game, third in free-throw percentage (84 percent) and third in steals (2.0). On Tuesday, he scored 19 of his 23 points in the second half as Davidson rallied to win at Georgia Southern.
"I saw him play in high school, and I can't believe the improvement he's made in such a short period," said Appalachian State coach Houston Fancher, whose team beat Davidson recently. "If he gets a little more strength, he's going to be a handful for our league. He is a high-major player."
The Wildcats have a good chance to earn a berth in the NCAA tournament and will enter the upcoming Southern Conference tournament as at least the co-favorites with Appalachian State. Should Davidson emerge from there, Curry will be one Wildcat who will not be intimidated of a first-round opponent from a power conference.
"No matter who you play, you just have to play your game and not get stuck worrying about who you are playing," Curry said. "You just have to have confidence in yourself that you can play with them."
Curry has the confidence, and not because he is going through some NBA workouts or breaking down film for hours with a 16-year NBA veteran.
"[My dad] tells me some things I might need to work on after a game or something like that, but he leaves it to me to work on it myself," Stephen said. "It is up to me to do it."
So far, whatever he's doing is working.
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MACK ATTACK

Wait till they have a down year and their conference is the reason that they don't make the tourney.

You'll be waiting a while on that one. UNLV never had any problems like that either. That's the model Calipari is working from.

lol right...

Time will tell.

Bumping this post later will make it all the sweeter. :D

2:40 left in the first half: Memphis 27, Miss. State 25
1:40 left in the first half: Memphis 31, Miss. State 25
Halftime score: Memphis 36, Miss. State 27

Exxxxxcellent. Exxxxactly according to plan.

(Thank you Derrick, Willie, Joey, Doneal, and Jesus' favorite child, Buckets)

That's the dumbest ****ing thing a person can say about a school's conference affiliation. "Hurf durf, just join the Big Six cartel! It must be easy, since my school was fortunate enough to have been in a conference that developed into one fifty years ago!"

What, you think we turned down the SEC and the Big East? It's not our fault our football program didn't show signs of life until after they'd already picked who they wanted. It's not the players' faults that RC Johnson is a dumb**** of an AD who's more interested in his retirement plans than improving the athletic department.

Our strength of schedule this year is #27. Kansas' strength of schedule? #50. And that's OVERALL, not non-con.

The KU vs UNC game in the Final Four will be the National Title Game anyway.

:D

The thing about SOS is that it is based on opinions. And before the season KU's schedule looked pretty good. I'm not trying to bash Memphis I actually like them because of Calipari. I would love to trade Memphis with Colorado or Texas Tech. But until they join a decent conference there will always be questions.

Strength of schedule is done using a computer as far as I know and has nothing to do with human opinion. I have no beef with Memphis non-conference schedule. It was stacked. But I see what you are saying about KU's schedule. USC, Boston College, etc were all supposed to be better than what they showed.

I don't think booting Colorado or Tech is conceivable because Big 12 is more of a football conference, but booting ISU to the big 10 has been talked about. I would more than welcome memphis.

...

THE RPI IS NOT INFLUENCED BY OPINIONS

And again, you act like all we have to do to keep people from badmouthing a 33-1 team that's #3 in the RPI is stroll up to Mike Tranghese and say, "Okay, we'd like to join the Big East now please."

You think Memphis wouldn't LOVE to suddenly be in the Big XII? Feel free to write your senators and governors in support of such a move.

Questions about what? Memphis was 5 points away from going undefeated this season. Anyone that questions their talent just because of their conference affiliation is a moron.

Strength of schedule isn't based on opinion. It's a pure mathematical formula.

Learn more at Ken Pomeroy.com.

RPI Help
The Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) is the formula used by the NCAA to rate men’s and women’s college basketball teams. The formula is described below.

The RPI is calculated by adding three parts.

Part I (25% of the formula): Team winning percentage. For the 2005 season, the NCAA added a bonus/penalty system, where each home win or road loss get multiplied by 0.6 in the winning percentage calculation. A home loss or road win is multiplied by 1.4. Neutral games count as 1.0. More on the effect of these changes can be found here.

Part II (50%): Average opponents’ winning percentage. To calculate this, you must calculate each opponent’s winning percentage individually and average those figures. This is NOT calculated from the opponents’ combined record. Games involving the team for whom we are calculating the RPI are ignored.

Part III (25%): Average opponents’ opponents’ winning percentage: Basically taking all of the opponents’ Part II values and averaging them.

Only games against other teams playing a mostly D1 schedule count when computing the RPI.

Here’s a simple example of how it’s calculated:

Team A has played two games and beat Team B and Team C.
Team B has a 1-1 record. Team B beat a team with a 2-1 record and lost to 2-0 Team A.
Team C has a 1-2 record. Team C beat a team with a 0-2 record, lost to a team with a 2-0 record, and lost to Team A.

So now let’s see how to compute Team A’s RPI.

At 2-0, their winning pct. is 1.000.

Their average opponents’ winning percentage (OWP):
Team B is 1-0 (1.000) without the loss to Team A. Team C is 1-1 (.500) without the loss to Team A. So the OWP is (1.000 + .500)/2 = .750.

Their average opponents’ opponents’ winning percentage (OOWP):
To do this, we need Team B’s and Team C’s OWP. When removing Team B’s results, Team B’s opponents are 2-0 and 1-0 for an average of 1.000. Team C’s opponents are 0-1, 1-0, and 1-0 for an average of .667. The average of these two numbers is .833.

So Team A’s RPI is 1/4 X (1) + 1/2 X (.75) + 1/4 X (.833) = .8333

Here’s how other columns in the RPI grid are computed…

SOS (Strength of Schedule): This is the last two components of the RPI formula:
(2/3) X Opponents Winning Pct. + (1/3) X Opponents Opponents Winning Pct.

Or we could add Memphis and someone like TCU or Colorado State to become the Big 14. Arkansas would be ideal but I doubt they would leave the SEC.

Ummmm, I think UNC might just be a little better than Arkansas.

I actually think the big 10 would be the perfect place for memphis. Then they could have a championship game in football.

Outside of the Pac-10, that is the absolute least ideal fit for Memphis in terms of BCS conferences.

If thats the definition of Moron than count me as a moron. If Memphis was in the big 12 they would not have gone undefeated.

After Pickens buys Self for OSU, KU will be forced to steal Calipari. It's called getting Tbooned.

UNC might be just a little bit better than everybody.

Why?

That is the cheapest shit to ever shit.

You were watching the UCLA game last night, right?

WHAT IS THAT?!!!!!!!!!

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE ****ING KIDDING ME

Vanardo is KevinLove-esque in his ability to "block shots" and be immune from fouling.

I wonder how much money was transferred at the half to a few individuals wearing stripes, because JESUS CHRIST this is ludicrous.

Joey gets called for the tickiest of ticky-tacks on the jumper, and then pegged on the Vernado special the next time down. Vernado and Rhodes, meanwhile, slapped the shit out of Dozier with no whistle.

So going undefeated is the only way to earn your basketball respect? If that's incorrect, I'm not sure how your response is supposed to detract from my original comment.

Memphis is an elite basketball team and program, with or without a power conference. That is the point, and again, if you or anyone disagrees, I have serious questions about your basketball knowledge.

The Big 12 is sure showing well as Louisville is frankly ass raping Oklahoma.

:clap:

Are you still mad about thursday. KState is a better team than Oklahoma.

I guess you didn't see Texas A&M get screwed over by the officials last night? Nobody who follows Big 12 basketball thinks Oklahoma is any good. They've overachieved all year, and credit their coach Jeff Capel. He's done a great job. I think it's safe to say regardless of what happens from here on out in the tournament the Big 12 has represented itself as well as any conference thus far.

Memphis is getting hosed all these foul calls.

Dozier, you clumsy doofus.

Five fouls called on our three bigs in the first five minutes. 3-3-4. Ugh.

JOEY! Vernado's third!

Miss state finally got one...shocking.

Four on Dozier. Unbelievable.

I want Pierre time, at least for a few minutes. Send him right at Varnado and see if something explodes.

Memphis is going to have no big men here in a few minutes.

The Big 12 whooped USC up and down the court the other night.

Vanardo sits, time for another scoring burst

QUIT FOULING!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's nice it's not like I thought USC was winning anything in basketball.

So its ok to suck, if you expect it?

At the beginning of the year 'dem so cal folks were basically referring to OJ GAYO as "JESUS CHRIST".

It didn't work out as well as they anticipated. Better luck next year..oh wait nevermind

Where is the ****ING FOUL? It's okay to slap people if they have the ball now?

Only if you're fUCLA.

Joey getting FT's doesn't really help.

I agree with Memphis not going 33-1 if they were in the Big 12. The thing about being in a halfway decent conference is the rivalries that develop, and those teams having a talent pool large enough to compete with you. I'm not in any way saying that Memphis isn't talented, but there's a reason that teams like UNC, KU, Duke, etc., even when they're the best talent-wise in the nation, don't go undefeated. Playing at OSU, even ISU back in the day, is hard, even for a team like KU. OSU isn't the best team in the world, but they're certainly not the worst.

I don't have any qualms with the program or team. They just play in a shitty conference.

These refs have got to be joking. Un-****ing-believable.

This is ****ing criminal.

Check out this shitty setup for the regional final in Detroit.

http://images.google.com/url?q=http:...LahVL1lj_4-svw
Talk about a lot of nose bleeds.

I guess they're going to foul out our team. That'll teach us to try to win and not be from a BCS conference.

WHERE ARE THE FOULS ON THIS END

JESUS

Taggart is getting sexed up every time he touches the ball, and the refs don't bat an eye.

WTF, you might as well have a wheelbarrow full of epileptic monkeys blowing the whistle in this game. It'd make as much sense.

Of course, but RPI takes all this into effect. If Memphis was in a better conference they could afford to lose more games and still end up as a #1 seed. Also, they could have toned down their non-con in preparation for a tougher conference slate.

We need to toss Pierre out there. Surely he can go for two or three minutes.

DOZIER!

Best post of this thread by far. ROFL

WILLIE

Wow I actually get to finish watching this game. I thought for sure they were going to switch me back to that Sooner/Louisville crap.

CDR needs to step up and take this fugger over.

BUCKETS