Comments on: After the Buzzer: UCLA Escapes

By: Patrick Marshall

Patrick Marshall — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:32:16 +0000

I found out that the Texas-Stetson game has been removed from Full Court tonight and replaced with a Women’s game instead. Don’t quite understand that.

By: David

David — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:40:29 +0000

This is the kind of game that will help the UCLA freshmen. Playing a disciplined, well-coached team like Miami in your second game as a college basketball player will help you grow faster.

And UCLA needs that to happen if they want to reach the Final Four once again.

And I agree with Mitch, both teams played well. They are both defensive-oriented teams that don’t win pretty. Each team did what they wanted to do, and UCLA pulled it out.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:42:03 +0000

I saw the UCLA – Miami(OH) game. I don’t think UCLA played badly, Miami is just a solid team. Bramos is a player. As long as he’s playing at the level he played last night, Miami is capable of beating anyone. There were a few shady calls, but all in all, I thought the game was officiated pretty well. The key to the game is that for every big play that Miami made, Collison or Shipp were able to respond. Despite the victory however, UCLA fans may want to temper their expectations about the teams chances of making a fourth Final Four. This team should still win the Pac-10 but not as easily as I thought they would.

By: Upstate Underdog

Upstate Underdog — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:40:28 +0000

Don’t apologize, you’re right, not even RI’ers care about this game, only the PC-URI game.

By: rtmsf

rtmsf — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:31:01 +0000

It wasn’t forgotten. It just wasn’t important. LOL. Sorry, we’re just kidding. Seriously, if Brown pulls the upset, we’ll have something to say about it tomorrow.

By: Upstate Underdog

Upstate Underdog — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:24:56 +0000

how could you forget about tonights Brown-URI game?

By: rtmsf

rtmsf — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:24:23 +0000

@ Mike – we really wish we could have seen those games, but it wouldn’t surprise us in the least if GG was pressuring refs to get certain teams to advance. After all, they’re not above simply fixing the semifinal round regardless of who wins or loses in some of their other tournaments.

@ Tyus – good catch. We meant (and should have said) eastern seaboard. Corrected.

By: tyus

tyus — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:57:06 +0000

Isn’t Ann Arbor in the Eastern Time Zone?
Somehow the bruins survived the airplane food and won there in 2006 and 2008. But they did lose in East Lansing in 2005. Must have had the chicken.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:50:25 +0000

I think someone should be embarassed about refereeing at each of the CvC sites, sans So. Illinois. I watched all of these games and, frankly, 2K Sports might as well go the way of the Gazelle Group and put the big-name teams in the finals regardless. I can’t get over how often hand-checks were called on Miami, Northeastern, etc., while the major programs rarely got called for any contact … Steven Bardo almost lost it last night while doing color for ESPNU. It has been a shame.

By: wildjays

wildjays — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:45:24 +0000

I don’t know, just when I watched the game, the UCLA players looked really tired like they weren’t ready to play 2 nights in a row and probably worked it too hard in the blowout the night before to not leave much in the tank for this game. That is probably a “something learned” thing by the news guys that will be pointed out.

By: David

David — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:44:33 +0000

I knew this would be a close game. Miami did exactly what they wanted to do; make the Bruins feel uncomfortable on offense.

There were some shoddy calls, very homerish, but Miami couldn’t produce enough on the UCLA D to pull out the game.