Tag: 2009-10 college basketball season (Page 15 of 16)

#5 Villanova beats #4 West Virginia

The Wildcats upended the Mountaineers, 82-75, in Morgantown behind 21 points from Scottie Reynolds and 17 points from Corey Fisher.

In Reynolds, Fisher and Reggie Redding, Villanova certainly has the guard play to make a deep run come March, but they lack the size inside to handle the likes of Kansas’s Cole Aldrich or Kentucky’s DeMarcus Cousins. I think ‘Nova will run into trouble in a matchup with Kansas and Kentucky because both teams have good guard play and the requisite size down low.

The Mountaineers look like another Bobby Huggins-coached team. They’re physical and play good defense, but can go through long stretches where they have trouble scoring.

G-Town beats UConn with gritty comeback

Georgetown looked absolutely dreadful in the first half, and trailed by 19 points early in the second, but the Hoyas erased that deficit behind a brilliant 28-point second half by Austin Freeman. (He finished with 33 points, seven boards and three assists.)

The Hoyas got going when they started to push the tempo, effectively beating the Huskies at their own game. UConn had a chance to take the lead, down one, with under a minute to play. But the Hoyas played tough defense, survived a couple of missed shots and eventually forced a turnover. The Huskies still haven’t won away from home.

It looks like it will be another rough-and-tumble year in the Big East.

Controversial finish to Butler/Xavier game [video]

The clock stopped for a split second (as the ball goes into the backcourt), which put Butler’s game-winning bucket into question.

He scored with 1.2 seconds to play and I don’t think the clock stopped for that long. Obviously, it would be better had the clock not stopped, but I think the right team won. However, the Xavier coach has a right to be upset. If Butler had an extra 1.2 seconds to score, shouldn’t Xavier also get the remaining time to try to win the game? And how did the refs determine that only 1.2 seconds went by when the clock was stopped?

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