Posted by jstevrtc on November 2nd, 2010
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The NCAA ruled on Monday that
there would be no penalty forthcoming as a result of
Kutchergate at the
University of Iowa. We use that portmanteau in jest, of course, since there was never really any chance of the NCAA seeing anything sinister about what they agreed was an “unintentional and incidental” encounter. Still, we think that if Iowa’s going to have celebrities from their state visible at Hawkeye athletic events, they might want to take steps to keep it on the level of, say, Tom Arnold, or even Cloris Leachman. That way, there’s less chance that visiting high schoolers will end up talking about it in the papers or show up in a tweeted photo.
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Tom Izzo has suspended Korie Lucious for
Michigan State’s exhibition against
Saginaw Valley State tonight and the November 12 season-opener versus
Eastern Michigan as a disciplinary action for Lucious’ DUI arrest back in August. Lucious eventually pleaded guilty in September to misdemeanor reckless driving. It’s obvious that he’d rather be playing, but at least he’ll have that much longer to rest that surgically repaired left knee.
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We were at Rupp Arena last night for
Kentucky’s exhibition game against in-state NAIA opponent
Pikeville College, and even though it was an exhibition it still got our juices flowing to commense our travels this season.
Less excited about the whole affair was UK head coach
John Calipari, who, despite a 97-66 victory and a 22-point performance from new floor general
Brandon Knight, lamented his team’s lack of toughness and energy, noting in the post-game presser that right now his players “don’t get it yet; we need to get more physical…the guys are going to have to accept it.” While praising Pikeville’s effort and confirming that the NAIA squad “outworked” his team, Calipari (who coached this one sans necktie, oddly)
drove home his frustration with his players seeming lack of interest by adding, “this isn’t about cool, this isn’t about style points,” and insinuated that Tuesday’s practice might divide the men from the boys.
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As of yesterday, a pair of schools “
be gettin’ over in the Big Sky Coun-try…” OK, if you can’t tell by the lyric, the Big Sky Conference just got bigger. It announced yesterday that
it will add Southern Utah and North Dakota to its roster starting with the 2012-13 season. While the decision was motivated largely by something called “football,” it shouldn’t be ignored that the revenue sharing bonus nets each athletic team at the schools an extra $135,000. And you thought conference realignment was all through.
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Is it possible that
West Virginia’s Kevin Jones rebounded 12% of all shots missed by the Mountaineers last season? And that WVU rebounded 41.8% of their misses as a team?!? Both of those are staggering figures, and just part of the reason you should check out
this article from SI.com’s Luke Winn as he crystal balls the Big East. Six days until the first games, people…
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