Week 8 AP Top 25
Monday, December 31st, 2007- North Carolina 13-0 (45)
- Memphis 11-0 (26)
- Kansas 13-0 (1)
- Washington State 12-0
- UCLA 12-1
- Michigan State 12-1 (↑2)
- Georgetown 9-1 (↑1)
- Tennessee 12-1 (↑3)
- Duke 10-1 (↑1)
- Marquette 10-1 (↑2) (more…)
I ate some Au Bon Pain (or aw-bone-pohn) tonight for the first. Bangin’. Now let’s review some games.
–No. 3 Memphis 104, Austin Peay 82. Six Tigers scored in double figures. Let’s move on.
–No. 7 Duke 82, No. 20 Wisconsin 58. Yikes. Gotta admit that I thought Wisconsin could keep it too close for comfort for the Blue Devils in this spot. Yeah, not so much. Duke is getting quite dangerous and it appears that anyone who thought that Coach K might be losing his fastball, well, that was just a pipedream.
–No. 11 Tennessee 93, North Carolina A&T 59. No troubles for the Volunteers here, and it could’ve been much worse for A&T—the Vols shot just 43 percent from the field and 58 percent from the line.
–No. 14 Pittsburgh 80, Boston University 53. That is likely to be your America East representative in the 2008 NCAA Tournament, just so you know.
–No. 15 Indiana 83, Georgia Tech 79. Georgia Tech hung around for awhile (and contained Eric Gordon), but Indiana is clearly the better team.
–No. 18 Clemson 61, Purdue 58. Didn’t catch any of this game, but I think this about played out like it should have. Purdue has a pretty decent squad this year that could get better each month, but Clemson has the horses to outplay them at this point in the season.
Notable:
West Virginia 110, Maryland-Eastern Shore 44. I will not lie to you: I’ve never even heard of Maryland-Eastern Shore until about 17 seconds ago. But I do know that’s a sexy little double-up by the Mountaineers.