College Hoops Saturday: Your Commentary
November 21st, 2009
by Raphielle Johnson
John Wall - Kentucky
This is the time of year when college basketball takes a step back in terms of nationally televised games in favor of college football, but there are some intriguing games on the schedule. Kentucky, who's been lights out offensively but hasn't defended at the level that John Calipari desires, hosts a dangerous Rider team licking its wounds following a 79-46 beating at the hands of Virginia. Duke hosts the defending Big South champions in Radford and big men Artsiom Parakhouski and Joey Lynch-Flohr will look to hang with the deep Blue Devil frontcourt.
Five other ranked teams play on Saturday, including #10 Butler (at Evansville) and #17 Oklahoma (at VCU, where Jeff Capel used to coach). The game of the day: that may be Utah State's visit to Northeastern at noon. Both teams (and their leagues) could use a solid resume-building result at this point in the season.
TV GAMES
Rider @ #5 Kentucky - 1PM - ESPN360
East Tennessee State @ #22 Louisville - 4PM - ESPN360
Presbyterian @ #25 Illinois - 8PM - BTN
Georgia @ UAB - 8PM - CSS
OTHER GAMES
Utah State @ Northeastern - Noon
#20 Georgetown @ Savannah State - 1PM
Radford @ #8 Duke - 3PM
Oral Roberts @ Virginia - 2PM
UCF vs. Niagara - 4PM (in Daytona Beach)
Siena @ Temple - 7PM
Marshall @ Old Dominion - 7PM
Oregon @ Portland - 10PM
ONE PREDICTION
Northeastern over Utah State: I really think this could be the game of the day, with the Huskies winning a close one at home. Manny Adako and Nkem Ojougboh can hold their own inside while perimeter players Matt Janning and Chase Allen are two very dangerous players. Stew Morrill's Aggies usually do a good job in regards to their offensive efficiency, something that usually bodes well in road games. Jared Quayle vs. Janning is one of the better individual matchups as well but look for the Huskies to win by three.
Predictions? Feel free to post them below.
Comments
51-26 at the half
Submitted by Raphielle Johnson on Sat, 2009-11-21 14:08.
Orton and Patterson are taking full advantage of the edge in size, and John Wall has done whatever he wants so far. Also impressed with Eric Bledsoe right now. Rider is 0-9 from three and outside of Novar Gadson they haven't played well at all.
Northeastern beat Utah State
Submitted by Raphielle Johnson on Sat, 2009-11-21 14:10.
By three. Wish there was TV for this one.
nother spanking for rider.
Submitted by Shawn Siegel on Sat, 2009-11-21 15:59.
nother spanking for rider. Wall looked like he had himself a game, 21 points, 11 assists, 6 boards, a couple steals, a couple blocks, not bad.
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College sports has always been a source of excitement for Raphielle Johnson, be it through watching, writing, or taking a shot in the dark and walking onto a college football team just to live the life (Arizona Football, 2001). Raphielle is the assistant editor, providing his own work in addition to helping out with the site operations. When not writing for CHN, you can usually find him in front of a television set watching one of many pay-per-view sports packages that he owns. He can be followed at twitter.com/raphiellej.
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after knocking off Mississippi St but getting crushed by Virginia, its hard to know what to epxect out of Rider. My guess is they keep this one much closer then the UVA game but fall late. 18 point spread seems a bit much