Below is a rundown of what should be an exciting night of hoops!
NEWS AND NOTES
CLICK HERE for the most recent HOOPS HD REPORT PODCAST, where we look back at a busy week in college basketball, run through the ten major conferences, and examine the genius of David Griggs’s most recent bracket projections
-For Chad Sherwood’s UTR Game of the Day between Marshall and Chattanooga, which is a big one – CLICK HERE
HIGHLIGHTED GAMES
-NEW HAMPSHIRE AT AMERICAN. THE TEAM OF THE PEOPLE!!! Your team!! EVERYONE’S TEAM!! UNH is back in action tonight as they try to pick up their third road win and improve to 6-3 on the year. #GoDancingOrDie
-HOUSTON AT ARKANSAS. Both teams come into this game at 6-1, but we really don’t know if either of them are any good yet. Both teams are going through a rebuilding phase that seems to be going well, but chances are neither are quite at the end of it just yet.
-PURDUE VS ARIZONA STATE (Jimmy V Classic). Purdue comes into this game having looked good, but who’s profile is still missing a lot of pieces (as are most teams at this stage). Picking up this win away from home against a somewhat formidible 5-3 Arizona State team should help. To date their best win is against Auburn.
-EAST CAROLINA AT VIRGINIA. East Carolina comes into this game at a very quiet 7-2. Chances are they are way overmatched, but if ECU were to pull this off, they’d go from a very quiet 7-2 to a very noisy 8-2 and suddenly be a national story.
-CHARLOTTE AT WAKE FOREST. Both teams have very respectable 6-2 records and although I’m not ready to declare them tournament caliber teams just yet, they are both off to a good start and tonight should be a fun in-state match-up.
-VILLANOVA VS LA SALLE (Big Five). Villanova has been blowing through the Big Five so far. La Salle appears to be much improved this year at 4-2. That being said, Nova will likely continue to blow through the Big Five, and La Salle will still be much improved this year, but will be 4-3.
-OLD DOMINION AT RHODE ISLAND. After two straight losses, Rhody desperately needs to rebound, pick up a win, and get their season turned back around. Tonight is no gimme game. Old Dominion has just two losses on the year, and one of those was in overtime against Louisville. In fact, if they can pick up this road win you have to start looking at the case Old Dominion is making for themselves.
-SAINT BONAVENTURE AT HOFSTRA. Both teams have a lot of work to do in order to continue building their resumes, but a win for Saint Bona gets them to 6-2 with their first true road win of the season against a Hofstra team that’s typically very tough to beat at home.
-CALIFORNIA VS PRINCETON (Pearl Harbor Classic). Cal is 6-1, but they’ve pretty much just won home buy games. This event is a chance for them to add some meat to their profile by picking up a few notable wins away from home. I still think Princeton is capable of being dangerous, but they certainly haven’t always shown it this season.
-FRESNO STATE AT MARQUETTE. Both teams have work to do, but both have potential. Fresno State comes in at 5-2 and is looking for their third true road win of the season, and this would certainly be a quality road win to pick up, which is important because the rest of the Mountain West is somewhat lacking in the quality department right now.
-FLORIDA VS DUKE (Jimmy V Classic). This is a great match-up between a Florida team that’s really looking for a defining quality win, and a Duke team by all accounts is a protected seed caliber team.
-TEXAS AT MICHIGAN. Both of these these teams have demonstrated potential, but both also have a lot of work to do. Now, both teams have a lot of time and opportunities to get that work done, so the loser of this game is far from buried, but the winner of this game will have a nice head start on getting all that work done.
-FORT WAYNE AT NOTRE DAME. Fort Wayne already has one signature win this season. If they take down the Irish at Notre Dame, then you have to start thinking of them as an NCAA Tournament caliber team and the type of team that can get an at-large bid if they fail to win their conference tournament.
-HAWAI’I VS SETON HALL (Pearl Harbor Classic). Seton Hall is off to a fair start, but they still have a lot of work to do and they need to pick up at least one win out in Hawai’i.
BUY GAMES
-Youngstown State @ Michigan State
-Florida Atlantic @ Ohio State
-Central Connecticut @ Rutgers
-Southern Mississippi @ Florida State
-South Carolina State @ Miami FL
-Saint Joseph’s Indiana (nondiv1) @ Dayton
-Brown @ Providence
-IUPUI @ Illinois
-NJIT @ Minnesota
-UMKC @ Kansas
-Prairie View A&M @ Kansas State
-Saint Louis @ Wichita State – (perhaps not technically a buy game, but it practically is)
-Arkansas Fort Smith (nondiv1) @ Colorado State
-UC Irvine @ Arizona
-San Francisco State (nondiv1) @ San Francisco
News, Notes, and Highlighted Games for Tuesday, Dec 6th
Below is a rundown of what should be an exciting night of hoops!
NEWS AND NOTES
CLICK HERE for the most recent HOOPS HD REPORT PODCAST, where we look back at a busy week in college basketball, run through the ten major conferences, and examine the genius of David Griggs’s most recent bracket projections
-For Chad Sherwood’s UTR Game of the Day between Marshall and Chattanooga, which is a big one – CLICK HERE
HIGHLIGHTED GAMES
-NEW HAMPSHIRE AT AMERICAN. THE TEAM OF THE PEOPLE!!! Your team!! EVERYONE’S TEAM!! UNH is back in action tonight as they try to pick up their third road win and improve to 6-3 on the year. #GoDancingOrDie
-HOUSTON AT ARKANSAS. Both teams come into this game at 6-1, but we really don’t know if either of them are any good yet. Both teams are going through a rebuilding phase that seems to be going well, but chances are neither are quite at the end of it just yet.
-PURDUE VS ARIZONA STATE (Jimmy V Classic). Purdue comes into this game having looked good, but who’s profile is still missing a lot of pieces (as are most teams at this stage). Picking up this win away from home against a somewhat formidible 5-3 Arizona State team should help. To date their best win is against Auburn.
-EAST CAROLINA AT VIRGINIA. East Carolina comes into this game at a very quiet 7-2. Chances are they are way overmatched, but if ECU were to pull this off, they’d go from a very quiet 7-2 to a very noisy 8-2 and suddenly be a national story.
-CHARLOTTE AT WAKE FOREST. Both teams have very respectable 6-2 records and although I’m not ready to declare them tournament caliber teams just yet, they are both off to a good start and tonight should be a fun in-state match-up.
-VILLANOVA VS LA SALLE (Big Five). Villanova has been blowing through the Big Five so far. La Salle appears to be much improved this year at 4-2. That being said, Nova will likely continue to blow through the Big Five, and La Salle will still be much improved this year, but will be 4-3.
-OLD DOMINION AT RHODE ISLAND. After two straight losses, Rhody desperately needs to rebound, pick up a win, and get their season turned back around. Tonight is no gimme game. Old Dominion has just two losses on the year, and one of those was in overtime against Louisville. In fact, if they can pick up this road win you have to start looking at the case Old Dominion is making for themselves.
-SAINT BONAVENTURE AT HOFSTRA. Both teams have a lot of work to do in order to continue building their resumes, but a win for Saint Bona gets them to 6-2 with their first true road win of the season against a Hofstra team that’s typically very tough to beat at home.
-CALIFORNIA VS PRINCETON (Pearl Harbor Classic). Cal is 6-1, but they’ve pretty much just won home buy games. This event is a chance for them to add some meat to their profile by picking up a few notable wins away from home. I still think Princeton is capable of being dangerous, but they certainly haven’t always shown it this season.
-FRESNO STATE AT MARQUETTE. Both teams have work to do, but both have potential. Fresno State comes in at 5-2 and is looking for their third true road win of the season, and this would certainly be a quality road win to pick up, which is important because the rest of the Mountain West is somewhat lacking in the quality department right now.
-FLORIDA VS DUKE (Jimmy V Classic). This is a great match-up between a Florida team that’s really looking for a defining quality win, and a Duke team by all accounts is a protected seed caliber team.
-TEXAS AT MICHIGAN. Both of these these teams have demonstrated potential, but both also have a lot of work to do. Now, both teams have a lot of time and opportunities to get that work done, so the loser of this game is far from buried, but the winner of this game will have a nice head start on getting all that work done.
-FORT WAYNE AT NOTRE DAME. Fort Wayne already has one signature win this season. If they take down the Irish at Notre Dame, then you have to start thinking of them as an NCAA Tournament caliber team and the type of team that can get an at-large bid if they fail to win their conference tournament.
-HAWAI’I VS SETON HALL (Pearl Harbor Classic). Seton Hall is off to a fair start, but they still have a lot of work to do and they need to pick up at least one win out in Hawai’i.
BUY GAMES
-Youngstown State @ Michigan State
-Florida Atlantic @ Ohio State
-Central Connecticut @ Rutgers
-Southern Mississippi @ Florida State
-South Carolina State @ Miami FL
-Saint Joseph’s Indiana (nondiv1) @ Dayton
-Brown @ Providence
-IUPUI @ Illinois
-NJIT @ Minnesota
-UMKC @ Kansas
-Prairie View A&M @ Kansas State
-Saint Louis @ Wichita State – (perhaps not technically a buy game, but it practically is)
-Arkansas Fort Smith (nondiv1) @ Colorado State
-UC Irvine @ Arizona
-San Francisco State (nondiv1) @ San Francisco