<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) -- Nevada coach Mark Fox yelled profanities and appeared ready to use force toward a police officer and game officials after the Wolf Pack lost in the Western Athletic Conference tournament, according to a police report released Tuesday. The report from New Mexico State University police details a confrontation inside the Pan American Center after Nevada lost 79-77 to Utah State in the WAC semifinals on Friday night. NMSU officer Quent Pirtle said in the report he was escorting officials Bill Gracey, Winston Stith and Larry Spaulding to their dressing room when he heard Fox using "loud, boisterous and profane language toward the officials." Fox was not arrested and no charges were filed, but WAC Commissioner Karl Benson said the league will investigate. "It was a very emotional ending to the (WAC) semifinal game," Cary Groth, Nevada's director of athletics, said Tuesday. "We were in very confined quarters and in the heat of the moment, coach Fox made inappropriate comments to the game officials when leaving the floor. He knows he shouldn't have made those comments and by doing so violated the WAC's sportsmanship policy." Groth said Fox had apologized to the officials, the conference, his team and the university and both he and the university have cooperated fully with the conference. Groth said the school had instructed Fox not to comment further until after the NCAA tournament. The day after the incident, Fox told the Reno Gazette-Journal that he and Gracey encountered each other after the game. </div> Source
<div class="quote_poster">Schaddy Wrote</div><div class="quote_post"> I can't wait to see what happens when they lose to ODU</div> ODU is in the Midwest and Nevada is in the South... you're predicting an ODU/Nevada finals with ODU bringing home the crown? Bold... real bold...
<div class="quote_poster">Voodoo Child Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">ODU is in the Midwest and Nevada is in the South... you're predicting an ODU/Nevada finals with ODU bringing home the crown? Bold... real bold... </div> It appears that the bracket inside my head does not necessarily agree with the bracket that everyone else uses I meant to say Creighton, obviously.
<div class="quote_poster">Schaddy Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">It appears that the bracket inside my head does not necessarily agree with the bracket that everyone else uses I meant to say Creighton, obviously.</div> I know, I know. I just feel like bustin your balls for some reason... probably passive aggressive frustration left over from that licking Wisky laid on MSU. You really think Creighton overtakes Nevada though? That's one I'm really undecided about at the moment, but whoever I take, I'll be choosing them over Memphis in the second round.
That's actually part of the reason I'm taking Creighton over Nevada LOL - they stand the best chance (IMO) against Memphis in round 2. Remember, Creighton beat Bradley twice this season, so they know how to handle a team that likes to push the tempo (they're the only MVC team to sweep BU). They lost twice to SIU during conference play, but they won the conference tourney on a neutral floor. Add to that the fact that both games earlier in the year were close, good games, and I think Creighton has not only shown the ability to beat teams at their own game, but to adapt. I think that Tolliver is one of the few guys in any bracket that could really take Fazekas off his game - Tolliver is physical and can wear out his man offensively. Creighton likes to get him the ball early in a posession, post up, kick out and run their offense, then post up Tolliver again - I saw them do it effectively against Grant Stout and Randal Falker, but the real test will come against a guy with Fazekas size. The real key for Creighton is Josh Dotzler. Isaac Miles didn't do a bad job running the point in his absence, but the team just looks so much more organized and comfortable with Dotzler on the floor. He really has a rapport with Funk, too. I like Porter and Pierce Hibma, too - those are the type of physical guards who can post up and will force Marcellus Kemp to defend in the paint, where he doesn't seem comfortable. Call it a midwest bias, but I really like the Blue Jays against Nevada, and I think they can also take out Memphis I must say, I was surprised by that MSU/UW game - how is it possible that two teams play down to the wire the first couple games, but then one blows out the other in the 3rd? Believe me, man - I was nervous as hell about that game. Give Tom Izzo 3 cracks at a team and he'll figure out a way to beat 'em almost every time in that last game. Either way - remember when the Flintstones won it all in 2000? Sparty beat Wisconsin four times that season, if I'm not mistaken: once at the Izzone, once in Madison, the Big 10 tourney, and then we met in the Final Four And next year we're just gonna get run out the gym when Summers and Co come to East Lansing
<div class="quote_poster">Schaddy Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">That's actually part of the reason I'm taking Creighton over Nevada LOL - they stand the best chance (IMO) against Memphis in round 2. Remember, Creighton beat Bradley twice this season, so they know how to handle a team that likes to push the tempo (they're the only MVC team to sweep BU). They lost twice to SIU during conference play, but they won the conference tourney on a neutral floor. Add to that the fact that both games earlier in the year were close, good games, and I think Creighton has not only shown the ability to beat teams at their own game, but to adapt. I think that Tolliver is one of the few guys in any bracket that could really take Fazekas off his game - Tolliver is physical and can wear out his man offensively. Creighton likes to get him the ball early in a posession, post up, kick out and run their offense, then post up Tolliver again - I saw them do it effectively against Grant Stout and Randal Falker, but the real test will come against a guy with Fazekas size. The real key for Creighton is Josh Dotzler. Isaac Miles didn't do a bad job running the point in his absence, but the team just looks so much more organized and comfortable with Dotzler on the floor. He really has a rapport with Funk, too. I like Porter and Pierce Hibma, too - those are the type of physical guards who can post up and will force Marcellus Kemp to defend in the paint, where he doesn't seem comfortable. Call it a midwest bias, but I really like the Blue Jays against Nevada, and I think they can also take out Memphis </div> Memphis doens't need a decent opponent to beat them, they'll be themselves. Really, it's as easy as that. Set them loose, let them run their moronic pro-style offense, and they'll lose against any random YMCA opponent. That's what I hate about the media. They love that isolation-based spread offense that the Tigers run and give it a lot of favoritism. I heard Skip Bayless on 1st and 10 today talking about how the Big Ten sucks and it's hard to watch them play so slowly, but that's smart, effective basketball. It may not be pretty, but it wins ball games. When was the last time Memphis, or any coach Cal team for that matter, has won a title? It's never happened. As for Creighton/Nevada, I'm favoring Nevada at the moment for the exact opposite reason you're favoring Creighton, I really like Fazekas in the matchup against Tolliver. I admittedly didn't watch many Creighton games this season after they got off to that rough start, but I caught the big rivalry game, Creighton/Nebraska, and Aleks Maric dominated him in the post. He wasn't able to handle his size and length, and when you take Fazekas, a player who not only has that type of size but the skill to go along with it, I think the scale is tipped in Nevada's favor. I know Fazekas used to be a real European-style finesse big man, but he's been a lot more physical this season, especially on the boards. <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">I must say, I was surprised by that MSU/UW game - how is it possible that two teams play down to the wire the first couple games, but then one blows out the other in the 3rd? Believe me, man - I was nervous as hell about that game. Give Tom Izzo 3 cracks at a team and he'll figure out a way to beat 'em almost every time in that last game. Either way - remember when the Flintstones won it all in 2000? Sparty beat Wisconsin four times that season, if I'm not mistaken: once at the Izzone, once in Madison, the Big 10 tourney, and then we met in the Final Four And next year we're just gonna get run out the gym when Summers and Co come to East Lansing </div> It's all good. Every time I get down on the Spartans though, I just watch this video - Invalid Video Link (You've got to admit, the )
I'm still kinda bewildered with the fact that Michigan State and Indiana rushed the floor after beating Wisconsin. The newness of being an elite team hasn't really wore off yet LOL. I definitely see why they did it, but you know what I mean? It's like, we're Wisconsin, whoop-de-do, since when does beating Bucky register on a seismograph? And MSU fans, for all that I dislike them overall, do make some good signs from time to time That is an interesting point you make about Tolliver against bigger guys. I didn't see that game with him and Maric, but it makes sense. I mean, how often in the MVC does Tolliver go up against a guy bigger than him? Should be a matchup to keep an eye on.
<div class="quote_poster">Schaddy Wrote</div><div class="quote_post"> I'm still kinda bewildered with the fact that Michigan State and Indiana rushed the floor after beating Wisconsin. The newness of being an elite team hasn't really wore off yet LOL. I definitely see why they did it, but you know what I mean? It's like, we're Wisconsin, whoop-de-do, since when does beating Bucky register on a seismograph? And MSU fans, for all that I dislike them overall, do make some good signs from time to time </div> Well, Wisconsin, UCLA, or Duke, you were the #1 team in the nation, and that was the first time Michigan State had ever beaten the #1 team in the nation at home. In all our history, with guys like Magic Johnson, Scott Skiles, Respert/Snow, Steve Smith, Kevin Willis, Cleaves/Peterson, Bell/JRich, and Randolph/Taylor, they never accomplished that, and the fact that they've never been able to do it but this team was just made it really an amazing feat. So I think it was really justified. Now, Indiana,...
