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Merry Hoops-mas, mofos.  It starts today!!   

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The Josh Speidel story is pretty damn cool.  https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/sports/college/vermont/2020/03/01/uvms-josh-speidel-and-his-remarkable-journey-set-emotional-stage-seni

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Agree with Jay Bilas in that there’s no “great team” right now in college basketball.  We might see a mid-major (or 2) in the FF. 

 

I’ve watch a bit of basketball this year (not as much because I’ve been reffing my own games) but one team that made me go “oh damn” was Dayton tonight in Maui.  Duke and MSU aren’t too impressive as of today, but unfortunately God’s Gift might be the best of the blue blood programs this year. 

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3 hours ago, spystud13 said:

Looks like Duke closed around -27.5. 

Yessir. 

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The Blue Devils were favored by 27.5 points at the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook, surpassing Gardner-Webb's 26-point upset win over Kentucky in 2007 as the largest upset in a Division I men's basketball game in the past 15 seasons, since ESPN began tracking point-spread gambling data.

 

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Duke ain’t getting the calls now. 

Amazing, SFA was 11/17 from the line and Duke was 24/40.

They called 11 more fouls on SFA and SFA shot five fewer 3s than did Duke so they had to make nine more shots from the floor.

Anyone hear from Dukie V to see if he is okay after this disaster?

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Nice little $44K bump. 

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The biggest winner in the aftermath of Stephen F. Austin’s shocking upset of No. 1 Duke might be the fundraising effort for the family of the player who hit the game-winning layup.

A two-month old GoFundMe page set up to help guard Nathan Bain’s family rebuild from Hurricane Dorian damage had raised $46,186 , and counting, at 11:50 a.m. EST Wednesday — a massive spike from the roughly $2,000 it had raised before Tuesday night’s game that became the talk of college basketball.

Bain’s family in Freeport, Bahamas lost “nearly everything of value” and the church run by his father, a minister, sustained “extreme damage” in the Category 5 storm that hammered the islands, according to the website set up by the school two weeks after the storm. The initial goal was to raise $25,000.

“My family lost a whole lot this year, and I’m just playing this game for them,” Bain said in a television interview following the game. “Just playing for my SFA family, my family back home in the Bahamas. I just want to make my country proud and my whole team is behind me. … When everything happened earlier in the year, they had my back, and I just wanted to return the favor.”

Bain scored on a breakaway layup just before the overtime buzzer to give the Nacogdoches, Texas-based school an 85-83 victory that sent shock waves through the sport, ending the Blue Devils’ 150-game winning streak at Cameron Indoor Stadium against nonconference opponents — a run that extended nearly 20 years.

The upset that put the spotlight on the post-Dorian relief efforts came the night before the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament was to tip off in Paradise Island, Bahamas. Participants in the eight-team tournament — which includes No. 6 North Carolina and No. 13 Seton Hall — are assisting recovery efforts, with UNC senior Brandon Robinson leading a donation drive and Seton Hall raising money for hurricane relief.

Dorian hammered the northern Abaco and Grand Bahama islands before giving a glancing blow to the southeastern United States. There were 67 confirmed deaths and 282 people still missing as of late October along with $3.4 billion in losses for the Bahamas, according to a recent report.

 

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Ask a Dukie what the "F" in Steven F. Austin stands for. 

Freddie and Fitzsimmons had a great radio interview with Kyle Keller shortly after the game last night. The dude is so fucking real. Said it was his sister that came down and was hugging on him with tears streaming down her face. They lost their mom this summer and it was a big emotional deal for the family getting that win. Not sure where to find it but it's about 5 minutes of pure gold if it's out there.

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