Posts Tagged ‘Upsets’

Upsets Were On Tap Last Night

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

As teams prepare for the upcoming tournaments, coaches are wary of letdowns and performances that don’t measure up to expectations. With that in mind, the following three coaches can’t be too happy with the way their teams performed last night:
Bill Self
Jeff Capel
Billy Gillispie
All three coaches watched as their teams failed to live up to [...]

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Providence Earned Their Court Storming

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Does Pittsburgh get stuck in broken record mode when they receive the number one ranking in the land? For the second time this season, the Panthers were rewarded for their play with the target, which they evidently don’t wear to well because after being voted into the top spot, Pitt lost. Again. [...]

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Wearing Number One Poorly (Wake Forest)

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Wake Forest hadn’t been ranked number one in the country since the 2004 season, and if this is how they treat it, I can see why. Allowing a good-but-not-great/unranked Virginia Tech team to come into your gym and beat you is not what the best team in the land does, and that’s why, barring [...]

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Jim Boeheim Hates Microphones

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

After suffering the humiliation of last second shots and losing to Cleveland State at the Carrier Dome (not to mention having to deal with the crap surrounding Eric Devendorf), Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim was in no mood for faulty audio/visual equipment during his postgame press conference.

And boom goes the microphone.
H/t to NESW Sports.

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Syracuse Hates Buzzer Beaters

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

But we love them. Just ask Cleveland State. Not the Syracuse Orange, however, who probably hate them with an absolute passion right about now. After a furious comeback by the Cuse to tie the game, Cedric Jackson decided he didn’t want to play in an overtime period, so he launched his last-second shot [...]

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College Basketball Upsets are Fun

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Still catching up from all the Thanksgiving fun, so excuse the tardiness of this post. I find college basketball to be much more enjoyable than college football. I understand this is blasphemy to some people, but I do have my reasons: one of them being watching mid-major schools beat up on the big [...]

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