This thread turned to AIDS. Hard to imagine that with the most infected patient in CP history spitting his fluids all over the place.

10pm start time, tonight. Personally, I love these West Coast start times since I'm a night owl anyway.

..and, we are all assuming, unemployed.

RPI is pretty useless this early in the season.

Could be a functional alcoholic?

Tons of successful people only get 3-5 hours of sleep a night.

And those people die before they turn 60, too.

Well, surprisingly Duke did not move up after their loss this weekend.


AP Top 25
RK TEAM RECORD PTS
1 Michigan State (64) 12-0 1,623
2 Kansas (1) 9-1 1,537
3 Oklahoma 8-0 1,495
4 Maryland 10-1 1,428
5 Virginia 9-1 1,350
6 Xavier 11-0 1,287
7 North Carolina 9-2 1,215
8 Arizona 11-1 1,056
9 Butler 9-1 947
10 Providence 11-1 911
11 Iowa State 9-1 907
12 Kentucky 9-2 856
13 Miami (FL) 9-1 851
14 Purdue 11-1 833
15 Duke 9-2 809
16 Louisville 9-1 652
17 Villanova 8-2 649
18 SMU 9-0 628
19 West Virginia 9-1 470
20 George Washington 10-1 366
21 Texas A&M 9-2 327
22 Cincinnati 10-2 315
23 Baylor 8-2 141
24 Utah 9-2 107
25 South Carolina 10-0 87
Others receiving votes: UCLA 49, Connecticut 46, Oregon 34, Gonzaga 33, Colorado 27, Dayton 17, Pittsburgh 16, Northern Iowa 15, Arkansas-Little Rock 14, Vanderbilt 8, Monmouth 6, Iowa 5, Texas 3, Florida 3, Northwestern 2
Dropped from rankings: UCLA 22, Connecticut 25

USA Today Coaches Poll
RK TEAM RECORD PTS
1 Michigan State (29) 12-0 773
2 Oklahoma (2) 8-0 718
3 Kansas 9-1 716
4 Maryland 10-1 687
5 Virginia 9-1 646
6 Xavier 11-0 603
7 North Carolina 9-2 520
8 Arizona 11-1 517
9 Iowa State 9-1 506
10 Duke 9-2 455
11 Kentucky 9-2 441
12 Butler 9-1 410
13 Purdue 11-1 378
14 Providence 11-1 376
15 Louisville 9-1 371
16 Miami (FL) 9-1 323
17 Villanova 8-2 310
18 West Virginia 9-1 301
19 Texas A&M 9-2 169
20 George Washington 10-1 159
21 Cincinnati 10-2 153
22 Baylor 8-2 122
23 South Carolina 10-0 77
24 Gonzaga 8-3 59
25 Vanderbilt 7-3 45
Others receiving votes: Connecticut 38, Utah 35, Pittsburgh 34, Colorado 31, UCLA 22, Oregon 18, Notre Dame 15, Dayton 10, Arkansas-Little Rock 8, California 8, Texas 5, Northern Iowa 5, Florida 4, Indiana 3, Iowa 2, Monmouth 2

At least the Perry hate is related to game analysis on the floor instead of this tangential bullshit you rehash every few days. I suppose the hope has to be, though, that you'll eventually get banned from the thread again while doing it. It's about that time of year.

It is, but it also reflects we had a much worse non-conference schedule than usual. A few of the opponents they scheduled (including SDSU tonight) were not anywhere near as good as they expected. The strength of the best conference in NCAA basketball again should make up for a lot of that, though.

Something to note about tonight is that despite their underachieving season to this point, SDSU is the best team in the country at defending inside the arc. They have a great defensive front line and have held teams to 35.9% shooting there. If Self demands that the team repeatedly run its usual offense through Perry or any of the other bigs (see Harvard game), it's going to be a long, frustrating night. Creating space for the guards to shoot is going to be necessary to score, so it could be a good game for Greene to get some extended run.

This is true. But you know they schedule those games sometimes years out and, like you said, teams go into the tank when they were a good program at the time of the game agreement.

If you sleep 4 hours a night, instead of 8, you may die at 60 instead of 75, but you've also lived at least a decade "longer" by staying awake more :)

I usually don't sleep 3 - 5 hours a night though, maybe two days a week I will. The rest of the days I sleep about 8-10 hours a day. I just usually sleep in until 11 am.

Yeah. I think Self wasn't liking those incredibly difficult non-cons.