After the Buzzer: Memphis Rose in Bloom
Posted by rtmsf on November 6th, 2007Welcome to After the Buzzer. We’re sorta envisioning this to be a one-stop recap of notable information from each night’s games. Think Daily Dime meets Doug Gottlieb (w/o the credit card fraud conviction). Or something like that. Now, we’re not promising we can do this every single night of the season – a weekly Friday’s Ivies would put everyone to sleep, including especially us. But we’ll do our best to get you some college hoops insights for your morning bourbon coffee. Except for this morning, because it’s already the afternoon. Details, details. If there’s anything you guys want to see as a regular feature, hit us up at rushthecourt@yahoo.com and we’ll unabashedly claim the idea as our own think about adding it.
11.05.07
The 07-08 season got underway at the Memphis Regional last night for the CvC first round games.
· Richmond 44, Maine 42. Remember when the Richmond Spiders were good with Dick Tarrant on the sidelines beating the likes of Syracuse and Indiana? No longer. 100 Memphins (?) showed up early to watch a high school game break out.
· Memphis 102, UT-Martin 71. The nightcap that nobody outside of the Pyramid saw (thanks ESPNU) showed just how explosive the #1 blogpoll Tigers can be. Joey Dorsey didn’t play, but no matter. Chris Douglas-Roberts led the way with 28/8, but reviews were sparkling for the debut of superfrosh Derrick Rose (17/6/5), fueling message board chatter about the number of trip-dubs Rose will have this year. Possible Memphis concerns – 1) they let UTM’s Lester Hudson drop 35 on them (do they play D?); and, 2) 58.6% from the line (17-29).
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On Tap Tonight. The Memphis Regional continues and the Lexington Regional of the CvC gets started.
- #1 Memphis (-29) v. Richmond (ESPNU) – maybe the Fedex will open up the concessions?
- # 15 Kentucky (-27.5) v. Central Arkansas (ESPNU) – Gillispie’s debut at Rupp
- Gardner-Webb (-3.5) v. Alabama A&M – keep an eye on A&M’s Mickell Gladness
Rose was absolutely dynamite last night. He made that team go the entire time he was in the game. I knew he was good from paying attention to him while Illinois was recruiting him, but I didn’t know he was THAT good. Of course it will be interesting to see what he does against Memphis’ tough non-con schedule, but he is definitely a plus already as a frosh.
Well, Memphis did a pretty poor job in covering the spread lol. They did well to step up the D in the second half, Richmond collapsed in their trap, but otherwise there would have been trouble. Leading Richmond by 1 at the half and by only 3 with under 8 to go before they busted out a big run can’t be a good sign for Memphis, though I have to believe they’ll learn from it