Comments on: ATB: Is it Dominique or Dominant Jones?

By: rtmsf

rtmsf — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:42:08 +0000

In reply to Ben (Dear Old UVa). I keep waiting on the Hoos to falter, but they haven't yet. Love what Tony Bennett has brought to that program.

By: rtmsf

rtmsf — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:38:25 +0000

In reply to Tony. Brian & Tony - Tony is correct. It refers to the placement of games so that teams play e/o home and away within a very small window of time. I want to say that I recall Marquette and Villanova playing twice within a week earlier this year as well. I'm sure there are many others.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:37:49 +0000

If that’s the case then yes I agree it’s crazy. The dates of the repeat games all across the league seem strange this year.

Villanova played Marquette twice on back to back Saturdays.
As mentioned above, WVU plays Pitt twice in a 9 day span. Pitt also plays Seton Hall twice in 2 weeks.
Marquette just played DePaul twice in 2 weeks.
Seton Hall will play Rutgers twice in 9 days and that series doesn’t start until Feb. 23. Rutgers also plays DePaul twice in 11 days.

By contrast you have teams like ND and UConn who played on Jan. 2 and don’t play again until Mar. 3. Similar situation with Seton Hall and West Virginia. They played on Dec. 26 and don’t play again until Feb. 20.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:22:12 +0000

Brian –

I can’t speak for rtmsf, but I’m pretty sure the line about crazy unbalanced schedules refers to the fact that Pitt and WVU have their two meetings within a span of 9 days. It has nothing to do with the differences in the strength of conference schedule that result from an unbalanced schedule.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:29:26 +0000

By the way, I know the Big East schedules are unbalanced to begin with because it’s not like the Pac 10 where everyone plays everyone twice, home and road. I just don’t see what this line in the recap was about: ” The Panthers get Seton Hall at home prior to hosting WVU again next week — these unbalanced schedules are crazy, eh?”

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:27:44 +0000

What’s unbalanced about Pitt’s schedule? Seton Hall and West Virginia are two of Pitt’s repeat opponents (St. John’s being the other). Pitt was projected 9th in the preseason Big East coaches poll. They play WVU (projected 2nd), Seton Hall (projected 10th), and St. John’s (projected 11th) two times. I think that’s pretty fair. They play one team projected at the top of the league and two others who were projected to finish right around them.

By: Ben (Dear Old UVa)

Ben (Dear Old UVa) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:04:34 +0000

I know it wasn’t a marquee match up, but….This slam from Mustapha Farrakhan was sick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKfg9cBdChg