College Basketball 2017-18

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MONDAY'S GAMES TO WATCH: Notre Dame at Duke, Northwestern at Michigan, Kansas at Kansas State, Nebraska at Wisconsin.

 

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Full AP Top 25 1. Villanova 2. Virginia 3. Purdue 4. Duke 5. Michigan State 6-25: (link: http://on.ncaa.com/2BCTRAv) on.ncaa.com/2BCTRAv

 

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Vermont's Anthony Lamb (foot) will again see a doctor in mid-February, per John Becker. Has missed eight games. Leading scorer (16.8) and rebounder (6.0).

 

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TUESDAY'S GAMES TO WATCH: North Carolina at Clemson, Florida at Georgia, Auburn at Ole Miss, Baylor at Oklahoma, Vanderbilt at Kentucky.

 

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TUESDAY'S UNDER-THE-RADAR GAMES: Rhode Island at UMass, Indiana at Ohio State, TCU at Oklahoma State, Xavier at St. John's, Arkansas at Texas A&M.

 

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Miami's Bruce Brown will undergo surgery on his left foot and will miss approximately six weeks, per release. Huge ACC news.

 

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North Carolina freshman Jalek Felton has been suspended from the university, per release. No timetable for length of suspension.

 

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Syracuse freshman Howard Washington will not play on Wednesday night at Georgia Tech due to a leg injury, per release.

 

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UConn's Terry Larrier (sinus) will play tonight against UCF "barring any complications this morning", per a school spokesman.

 

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Miami freshman Chris Lykes will start tonight against Pitt in place of the injured Bruce Brown, per Jim Larranaga.

 

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WEDNESDAY'S GAMES TO WATCH: Penn State at Michigan State, Louisville at Virginia, Houston at Cincinnati, Maryland at Purdue, Texas at Texas Tech.

 

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WEDNESDAY'S UNDER-THE-RADAR GAMES: LSU at Tennessee, West Virginia at Iowa State, Providence at Seton Hall, Virginia Tech at BC, Missouri at Alabama.

 

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La Salle's Pookie Powell (hamstring) will be a game-time decision for tonight's game against Davidson, per John Giannini.

 

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Virginia's Deandre Hunter (ankle) will be a game-time decision for tonight's game against Louisville, per Tony Bennett.

 

[Russ Smith]

No matter who wins the end of regulation of the Texas and Texas Tech game was unreal. First they fouled out Matt Coleman when the screener pushed him into the dribbler, the ref called the foul on Coleman. Then a TT player drove in, jumped sideways into Bamba, 4th foul on Bamba. Then a legit call a kid got upfaked on a 3 and TT hit all 3 FT's. Then a guy drives and again jumps sideways into Bamba, foul #5. He missed the 2nd FT so they're going to OT.

Texas "blew" a 5 point lead in large part because the refs just kept calling fouls. TT shot 33 FTs in regulation

 

[Russ Smith]

Seriously the officiating crew in the TT and Texas game should never work a college game again. In the OT Osetowski drove in, clearly walked no call, then he went up, was tied up so he came back down without releasing the ball, no held ball called, no foul called, no walk called, they let them play on. Osetowski was so stunned he missed the shot but it went out of bounds. TT players were dumbfounded.

TT is going to win in OT

 

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Seriously the officiating crew in the TT and Texas game should never work a college game again. In the OT Osetowski drove in, clearly walked no call, then he went up, was tied up so he came back down without releasing the ball, no held ball called, no foul called, no walk called, they let them play on. Osetowski was so stunned he missed the shot but it went out of bounds. TT players were dumbfounded.

TT is going to win in OT

"We'll take those refs"

-P12 fans

 

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THURSDAY'S GAMES TO WATCH: Creighton at Villanova, Wichita State at Temple, SMU at Tulsa, San Francisco at Saint Mary's, Arizona State at Washington.

 

[Russ Smith]

"We'll take those refs"

-P12 fans

I only saw highlights of the UA and Utah game so I saw the bad offensive foul call on Trier and then the no call on Akot bumping the kid under the basket. From what I understand that was a terribly officiated game too.

This one last night was unreal, Texas had a 5 point lead, they didn't help themselves they missed a front end of a 1 and 1 and some others. But this one kid from TT shot 20 FT's and at least half of them were drive in, find a Texas player and jump sideways into him go shoot FT's, lather, rinse repeat.

Just ruined the game for me.

 

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Interesting decision today in recruiting PG Tyger Campbell. Down to DePaul, UCLA, Purdue and maryland. Originally verballed to DePaul then decommitted. Was considered a strong Purdue lean, something happened.

It's allegedly between DePaul and UCLA now and the last 10 picks or so on Crystal Ball are for DePaul but everyone insists they have no idea which way he's going.

DePaul has his former HS coach(hired a week before Tyger's original verbal) and 5 former HS teammates and 2 former AAU teammates on their current roster. They also lead for a former teammate in the current class.

Talk about all in half their team will be former teammates if they get him.

UCLA offered late their selling point is UCLA, location, and Under Armour.

 

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Yale's Makai Mason (foot) will not play in this weekend's games against Princeton and Penn, per James Jones.

 

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FRIDAY'S GAMES TO WATCH: Rhode Island at VCU, Harvard at Columbia, Utah at Colorado, UIC at Oakland

 

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Wichita State is still the only top-25 team without an RPI Group 1 win.

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff Writer

 

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Ok. I officially HATE Lavar Ball now.

Big Baller Brand has contacted Kansas Signee Quentin Grimes about joining their new basketball league, the JBA. Grimes told me he is not considering the offer. pic.twitter.com/i4xgQPWlZD

— TIPTON EDITS (@TiptonEdits) February 2, 2018

Big Baller Brand has contacted Kansas Signee Devon Dotson about joining their new basketball league, the JBA. Dotson has told me he will not consider the offer. pic.twitter.com/ipX0za1XWQ

— TIPTON EDITS (@TiptonEdits) February 2, 2018

 

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Ok. I officially HATE Lavar Ball now.

Big Baller Brand has contacted Kansas Signee Quentin Grimes about joining their new basketball league, the JBA. Grimes told me he is not considering the offer. pic.twitter.com/i4xgQPWlZD

— TIPTON EDITS (@TiptonEdits) February 2, 2018

Big Baller Brand has contacted Kansas Signee Devon Dotson about joining their new basketball league, the JBA. Dotson has told me he will not consider the offer. pic.twitter.com/ipX0za1XWQ

— TIPTON EDITS (@TiptonEdits) February 2, 2018

They are apparently contacting all sorts of recruits. I read elsewhere some programs are proactively contacting the NCAA to make sure it's clear BBB is contacting the kid not the other way around so it doesn't present any issues.

Very bad IMO, if you want to create a new league, more power to you, but make that public and let the kids CHOOSE to participate, don't go contacting them and put them in a position where you could in theory get them in trouble with the NCAA.