Ostensibly Hoops

[hedge]

From a yahoo sports article:

"With highly-ranked freshmen such as Anthony Davis, Michael Gilchrist and Marquis Teague joining the program – not to mention the return of starters Doron Lamb and Darius Miller – Jones is quickly realizing he’ll be one of many scoring options for Kentucky.

The Wildcats didn’t have that kind of depth last season, when they advanced to the Final Four with only six players averaging double-digit minutes."

Why does he think any more than 6 guys will average double digits in minutes this year? Cal will run 8 or 9 early on and then get his six guys that lets run the show and sit everyone else...

[Jungle Rat]

And so it begins. Like Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving the first shot has been fired.

[hedge]

So in this month's Tar Heel Monthly magazine, they ran a story about some staff members working out with the team during the spring conditioning practices. They stole Stu's idea!!!

[Dave23]

We were just worried because he could have put it in drive at any time and maybe ran somebody over, or while our arms were in the car, just kept going and we could have been drug or something. I'm the type of guy that, I want to make sure everybody else is [all right]. I saw it, I moved out of the way, I'm fine. My truck got hit, that's replaceable. I was just thankful nobody got hurt and the kids [discovered sitting in the man's backseat] were fine.

Yeah, they coulda got drug or something...and LMAO at the kids in the backseat while daddeh's getting sloshed...bet the windows were rolled up, too...

[hedge]

You can dress em up, but you can't teke em out....

"The Georgetown basketball team played an exhibition this morning in Beijing against Bayi Rockets, one that ended in a brawl and the Hoyas being taken off the court. "

http://www.sportsgrid.com/ncaa-basketba ... -in-china/

[hedge]

Damn, the chinermen seemed to be the aggessors...

[TheBigMook]

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[DooKSucks]

Some of the lights went out for twenty minutes during the 2008 UConn game. While the lights were being fixed, they played music on the PA system, and when Kung Fu Fighting came on, every one of the 60,000 drunks was dancing. Sadly, this is the only video (and it's of the marching band):

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[T Dot O Dot]

You can dress em up, but you can't teke em out....

"The Georgetown basketball team played an exhibition this morning in Beijing against Bayi Rockets, one that ended in a brawl and the Hoyas being taken off the court. "

http://www.sportsgrid.com/ncaa-basketba ... -in-china/

wow, they swarmed on a dude who was thrown to the ground and started throwing chairsat guys who werent even in it

I gotta say, if it was the other way around this would be making headline news

[T Dot O Dot]

from a GT alumnus

http://deadsp.in/qQy8bJ

Then things got really lopsided on the officiating front in the second quarter. They were in the bonus (five fouls) in the first two minutes of the quarter. The fouls continued- I think we had about 12-14 in the second quarter alone, if I had to guess without seeing a stat sheet (which I doubt will be published). On a couple of plays there was a bit of shoving under the basket, but it calmed down fairly quickly, JT3 clearly called the team over and probably said something along the lines that the officiating was ridiculous, but it didn't matter and everyone needed to stay cool. Then JT3 became more active in pushing the refs for some calls on our end (we were getting mauled, and the PLA team was getting a call basically every time down the court). Despite all of this, we finished the half up 4 or 5- we were shooting really well.

The whole thing came undone in the third. About two minutes in, the ridiculously lopsided foul calls continued (we were in the bonus again 2 1/2 minutes in) and the first real shoving match kicked off over a loose ball. The players on the court separated each other pretty quickly, but then the craziest thing I've ever seen happened- one of the Bayi big men got in JT3's face and almost took a swing. He was so shocked he didn't know what to do. So that upped the ante a bit.

Then the foul calls truly took on a comical dimension. We supposedly fouled them every time down the court, despite some really good defense on some possessions. There were four or five intentional fouls called, giving them four shots each time down the court. JT3 was called for a technical for stepping over the line onto the court. I counted Bayi scoring two field goals in the entire third quarter. I don't know what the count was, but I would not be surprised if they shot 45-50 FTs through three quarters, and we shot 6-10. I honestly think the foul count was likely in the range of 30 or 35 to 5-7. A few exchanges got testy and at one point players had to restrain themselves again. I started joking with some Chinese people in the crowd, who to their credit similarly thought it was a bit ridiculous but were mainly upset that the game had no flow. At the end of the third, despite all of this, we were tied or up two points or so.

Two minutes into the fourth, they were pressing full court, trapped one of our guards (I forget who it was), and then must have pushed or punched him on the ground after he made the outlet pass, because then there was a shoving match and then a bit of a fight, and then the whole thing set off. He tried to get away as quickly as possible as the Chinese players sort of converged on him, and then benches cleared, and then people on the Chinese bench started picking up chairs. Everyone on the other side of the court started fighting as well. Brawl spread all over the court, and then off the court. After it kicked off it immediately became possible for the crowd to get involved, and then they did. As we tried to get the team off the court, bottles (plastic ones, thankfully) came out of the crowd at the team and everyone left. Security was there (sort of), but it was more equivalent to mall cop-quality security rather than actual security. The Georgetown staff wanted the security to get on the floor, but honestly these guys didn't have a clue what to do. They escorted the whole alumni contingent out fairly quickly after that. Game over, 64-64 (following another intentional foul).

[T Dot O Dot]

[TheBigMook]

They probably caught them taking a lollypop.

[Fifer]

Too bad old Cletus is no longer around to give us his sad ass excuse why his beloved Hoyas didn't represent the US very well in China. Guess he needs to jump on a new bandwagon after his Miami Hurricanes had their assholes expanded by Notre Dame
( who he hates with every fiber of his being) Now Miami's sorry asses may be facing the NCAA death penelty. I can see why he has taken a walk.

[TheBigMook]

If you mean the Hoyas didn't rep the US of A well because they didn't whoop ass better, then I agree.

[The Anti k*]

Georgetown needed Allen Iverson to show 'em what to do with those chairs! {47 second mark of video}

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[sardis]

customs made them leave their guns at home...

[eCat]

A couple of UK players played on a team called Sports Reach and they played those Chinese guys earlier.

They wanted to fight them to. For whatever reason, they weren't going to be satisfied until they bench clearing brawl with a U.S. team.

Georgetown was even told these guys were wanting a fight and had to suck it up but I don't blame the G'town players. I do agree they should have kicked ass though.

[TheBigMook]

Penis envy.

[Bklyn]

Yeah, this wasn't on the Hoyas, at all. By a long shot it was bad form by the Chinese. The Deadspin article alluded to it, but the official foul shot count at stoppage was China 57, G'town 14.

It was a joke and as soon as a Hoya would've stomped out a Bayi player, it would've perpetuated a stereotype Chinese have about Black players as it is.

Funny enough, a fight did break out amongst Bayi (and fighting in Chinese soccer happens quite often, fwiw) and I think it was an American university team...or maybe club team...and a Bayi player ended up in a neckbrace.

[Bklyn]

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