RE: Upset Saturday?

[John Hall]

Up here in Big-10 country we got the MSU-Syracuse game, which 'Cuse won
96-83. Neither team played all that well, but I would say both have as
much talent as UC. Michigan State doesn't have anyone who can play the
point, though. And it's ironic :-) how much we agonized about not getting
Kelvin Torbert, considering how he's turned out. Syracuse has a bunch of
guys who can make plays, but their effort on defense is spotty. There was
a stretch of five straight plays in the second half where a Syracuse
player totally lost someone on defense and gave up an easy hoop. Any one
of these plays would have had Huggs calling a timeout just to bury the guy
on the deep bench, but Boeheim let it go.

Wonder if we'll get more of these sort of marquee non-conference games
once we're in the Big East? I sure hope so.

					- John in Mn

On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, ALACOMBE wrote:

> Have you been watching the games today?  I am shocked at how bad it
> looks like many of the "top" teams are.  I watched some of the UK/UNC
> game and both teams do not look that good.  They are not deep and they
> are LAZY.  I have not seen a team play what Cats Fans know as defense.
>
> I watched the Xavier/Alabama game and Alabama stinks.  The announcers
> talked about Sato the whole game.  "Their All America" candidate..."
> He is 5 of 14 but he is hot of late.  He can speak six languages, he
> can speak six languages.  Myles is some player...  To be quite frank,
> I do not think that Sato starts on UC, so how is he an All American?
> Maybe he is third team behind UC's best 10 ;-)
>
> The new year is looking good...
>
> Andy
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dave Malaska [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 7:02 PM
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] Upset Saturday?
> >
> >
> > On 1/3/04 3:02 PM, "Dave Malaska" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > Murray State up by 2 over Loserville, uh... Louisville... at the half.
> >
> > Uh, nevermind. UofHell 91, Murray St. 69.