Around the Top 25: Thursday’s Results
Start getting your stories in order, because the first round is officially less than two weeks away.
–UPSET–St. Joseph’s 71, No. 8 Xavier 66. Nothing like storming the floor when your team is far from a shoo-in for The Tournament. Then again, it was the last game ever at Alumni Memorial Field House, so I guess it’s okay. I don’t think this puts St. Joe’s in … actually, hold that thought. I’ll have a bubble post up in a little while. Xavier ruins their chance at getting a 2, I think.
–UPSET–Providence 85, No. 13 Connecticut 76. Head-scratching, but we’ll see how UConn finishes up their season against Cincinnati.
–No. 3 UCLA 77, No. 7 Stanford 67 (OT). Bruins lock up a 1 with this win last night. Stanford had them the whole game, but Darren Collison got an extremely iffy foul call with under three seconds to go. He sunk both freebies and put the game into the extra session. Only the starters scored points for the Bruins (Collison led them all with 24). Lopez twins combined for 32.
–No. 17 Michigan State 59, Illinois 51. You wipe out IU and score more than 100 less than a week ago, but only beat Illinois by eight … alrighty then. If anyone can figure out the Spartans, please let me know.
Notable:
Southern California 93, California 89. Mayo with 22, Gibson and Lewis with 21. The Trojans have the ability to make an Elite 8 run if they play as a team and avoid turnovers.
Oregon 67, Arizona State 61. Oregon starting to make things more complicated than they need to be. C’mon now!
Georgia Tech 80, Clemson 75. Dumb loss for Clemson, who may be relaxing now that they’re probably in, regardless.
Conference tournaments:
- Big South
- No. 2 Winthrop 61, No. 3 High Point 53.
- No. 1 UNC Asheville 75, No. 4 Liberty 57.
- Atlantic Sun
- No. 6 Gardner-Webb 82, No. 3 Stetson 63.
- No. 4 East Tennessee State 81, No. 5 Lipscomb 74.
- Missouri Valley
- No. 8 Indiana State 71 , No. 9 Wichita State 67.
- No. 7 Missouri State 69, No. 10 Evansville 46.
- Northeast
- No. 1 Robert Morris 64, No. 8 Monmouth 50.
- No. 2 Wagner 71, No. 7 Long Island 62.
- No. 3 Sacred Heart 84, No. 6 Central Connecticut State 71.
- No. 4 Mount Saint Mary’s 80, No. 5 Quinnipiac 70.
Friday, March 7th, 2008 @ 9:58 am 
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March 7th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Does Stanford/UCLA mean
1) the Cardinal are as good as advertised, if not better?
2) the Bruins aren’t worth the hype?
or
3) Some combination of both?
March 7th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
I think it’s both. I think UCLA can win the title and it’ll take a crazy scenario for me to not put them at least in my elite 8. I also think that Stanford is capable of winning until the Final Four, but I’m not sure how far they’ll go. They aren’t too terrific on the outside, but on the interior, they’re pretty solid. So if they were to run into someone like Louisville (ha, remember last year?) they might have some serious trouble.
March 7th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
My season is officially over thanks a lot UConn