USFBulls12 Posted February 20 Group: Member Topic Count: 62 Content Count: 3,698 Reputation: 930 Days Won: 7 Joined: 03/17/2012 Share Posted February 20 (edited) Monday February 19th - 1 Game Receiving Votes Virginia (103 AP votes - #26, 59 Coaches votes - #27) vs VA Tech - Virginia losing big, 36-16 at half time. No Top 25 matchups today that directly impact our standing. Edited February 20 by USFBulls12 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USFBulls12 Posted February 20 Group: Member Topic Count: 62 Content Count: 3,698 Reputation: 930 Days Won: 7 Joined: 03/17/2012 Author Share Posted February 20 Virginia lost to VA Tech 75-41. They should receive far fewer votes next Monday. This is good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Loblaw Posted February 20 Group: Member Topic Count: 7 Content Count: 308 Reputation: 190 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/17/2023 Share Posted February 20 Frankly, UVa shouldn’t get any votes. They just got throttled by a very pedestrian Tech squad. UVa is my second school and love them, but they have been downright painful to watch this season. Crazy to believe I prefer to watch my Bulls over the Cavs in basketball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USFBulls12 Posted February 20 Group: Member Topic Count: 62 Content Count: 3,698 Reputation: 930 Days Won: 7 Joined: 03/17/2012 Author Share Posted February 20 2 hours ago, Bob Loblaw said: Frankly, UVa shouldn’t get any votes. They just got throttled by a very pedestrian Tech squad. UVa is my second school and love them, but they have been downright painful to watch this season. Crazy to believe I prefer to watch my Bulls over the Cavs in basketball. Stan Heath's 2011-2012 team reminded me of a Virginia kind of team from seasons I've seen in the past when they've been in the tournament. Very good defense, won't score a whole bunch of points every game and keeps the games at their pace - slow. Games in the 50-60 points range can occur quite often. Just low scoring overall. However, if a team can score on them, VA has big trouble keeping up because of their style of play. Can be tough to watch but if done well, a team can be quite successful with that style of play. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USFBulls12 Posted February 20 Group: Member Topic Count: 62 Content Count: 3,698 Reputation: 930 Days Won: 7 Joined: 03/17/2012 Author Share Posted February 20 (edited) Tuesday February 20th - 4 Games of Importance for USF's Top 25 Ranking Ranked 20-25 *TCU (#30, #25) vs. Texas Tech (#23/ #23) BYU (#25, #21) vs. #11 Baylor Receiving Votes Wisconsin (#28, #33) vs. Maryland Michigan State (#29, #32) vs. Iowa *TCU (#30, #25) vs. Texas Tech (#23/ #23) * #23 Texas Tech is playing #30/25 TCU - who is receiving votes in the AP and is #25 in the Coaches Poll, so this game appears twice -- both for the Top 25 matchup and the Receiving Votes matchup sections. Edited February 20 by USFBulls12 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Loblaw Posted February 20 Group: Member Topic Count: 7 Content Count: 308 Reputation: 190 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/17/2023 Share Posted February 20 7 hours ago, USFBulls12 said: Stan Heath's 2011-2012 team reminded me of a Virginia kind of team from seasons I've seen in the past when they've been in the tournament. Very good defense, won't score a whole bunch of points every game and keeps the games at their pace - slow. Games in the 50-60 points range can occur quite often. Just low scoring overall. However, if a team can score on them, VA has big trouble keeping up because of their style of play. Can be tough to watch but if done well, a team can be quite successful with that style of play. 100%. The pack line defense is great strategy to slow the game down and control it to your liking, but you’re right, without just enough offense, it’s a gamble. Tony Bennett has not had enough consistent shooters since the 2019 natty run. It’s been up and down. Very much the opposite from USF this year. We have at least 5 guys who shoot from deep and the defense is stingy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Style Posted February 20 Group: Member Topic Count: 109 Content Count: 21,119 Reputation: 4,625 Days Won: 39 Joined: 09/14/2007 Share Posted February 20 The Hoos are down. Hoos down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullyPulpit Posted February 20 Group: Member Topic Count: 365 Content Count: 6,466 Reputation: 1,893 Days Won: 35 Joined: 02/02/2005 Share Posted February 20 (edited) 14 minutes ago, Bob Loblaw said: 100%. The pack line defense is great strategy to slow the game down and control it to your liking, but you’re right, without just enough offense, it’s a gamble. Tony Bennett has not had enough consistent shooters since the 2019 natty run. It’s been up and down. Very much the opposite from USF this year. We have at least 5 guys who shoot from deep and the defense is stingy The margin of error with this strategy is razor thin. One year you can lose to a #16 seed and the next year win it all with essentially the same team. The year they won it all, they won by 4 points in the Sweet 16, went to overtime in the Elite 8, won by 1 point in the Final Four, and won in overtime in the Final. Edited February 20 by BullyPulpit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Style Posted February 20 Group: Member Topic Count: 109 Content Count: 21,119 Reputation: 4,625 Days Won: 39 Joined: 09/14/2007 Share Posted February 20 11 hours ago, Bob Loblaw said: UVa is my second school and love them I have quite a few people close to me that went there. It's a cool place. It would be fun to be in the ACC and travel to these places. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky the Bull Posted February 21 Group: Member Topic Count: 1,036 Content Count: 7,522 Reputation: 1,130 Days Won: 10 Joined: 12/25/2001 Share Posted February 21 Iowa beats Michigan State 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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