College Basketball 23-24

[Natsinpwc]

Season starts tonight. 

VT is rated #8 in the preseason women’s poll. 

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Radford @ UNC tonight.

[Natsinpwc]

Radford @ UNC tonight.

Good effort. Only lost by 16.

UMBC down to the wire at Louisville.  Louisville wins by 1.

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JMU knocks off #4 Michigan Stste. What a year for dukes sports!

[Natsinpwc]

JMU knocks off #4 Michigan Stste. What a year for dukes sports!

Good show. Izzy must have blown a gasket. 

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Yale is at Gonzaga this Friday. The college, not the local high school. Sunday at Loyola Marymount. West coast, not east coast. Won their warm up game against Vassar. Men, not women.

[Natsinpwc]

Yale is at Gonzaga this Friday. The college, not the local high school. Sunday at Loyola Marymount. West coast, not east coast. Won their warm up game against Vassar. Men, not women.

I believe your guys are heavy favorites this season?

Penn beat up on John Jay.  The college.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

I believe your guys are heavy favorites this season?

Penn beat up on John Jay.  The college.

4 starters back, and they are decent - Knowling, Mbeng, Mahoney, and Poulakidis. Maybe a little too small unless guys like Wolf and Malloy step up. Wolf I think is the one to watch. 7'1" with an outside shot and some beef on D.

[Natsinpwc]

4 starters back, and they are decent - Knowling, Mbeng, Mahoney, and Poulakidis. Maybe a little too small unless guys like Wolf and Malloy step up. Wolf I think is the one to watch. 7'1" with an outside shot and some beef on D.

Penn lost Dingle but also Martz who would have been their best player after Dingle.

They have one freshman who will start. Perkins who is from Lorton VA. Guard who looks very good.  Assume it will be a major scramble for the last two playoff sports after Yale and Princeton.

[Natsinpwc]

Penn knocks off #21 Villanova at the Palestra.  76-72. They actually had a 10 point lead with two minutes left but three straight turnovers and missed free throws almost cost them.  If Jordan Dingle wanted to beat top 20 programs he should have stayed at Penn. 

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JMU is top 25 right now. That won’t last.

[Natsinpwc]

JMU is top 25 right now. That won’t last.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Penn knocks off #21 Villanova at the Palestra.  76-72. They actually had a 10 point lead with two minutes left but three straight turnovers and missed free throws almost cost them.  If Jordan Dingle wanted to beat top 20 programs he should have stayed at Penn. 

Yale went 1-1 against the WCC, losing at Gonzaga and beating Loyola Marymount U of LA. LMU has a decent program, so that's a good win.

[Natsinpwc]

Yale went 1-1 against the WCC, losing at Gonzaga and beating Loyola Marymount U of LA. LMU has a decent program, so that's a good win.

They and Princeton are still the favorites but Penn can give them a run. Penn has Auburn, Houston and Kentucky coming up over the next month or so. Would be nice if they could keep those games close.

Also the Big Fuve has a new format. No round Robin among all the teams.  They added Drexel and created two groups of three. You play the other two teams in your group and then they sees everyone off a triple header in early December.   Unfortunately it’s at the Wells Fargo Center and not the Palestra.

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#24 JMU (still feels odd to type that) defeats Radford by 3 in Harrisonburg. Radford went cold in the last couple of minutes after leading most of the 2nd half.