The polls are out, and of course DUKE is #1.

ESPN Poll

Most worthless poll ever.

That said,





Sweet 16 team last year, even better this year!

The turtles are #17! Woo hoo! :rolleyes:

Here's to beating Duke, AGAIN!!

UCLA is above Kansas?? Gimmie a damn break.

UCLA will probably be pretty good this year.

In any event, though not mentioned in this article, GO DUCKS!!!

We should be better this year (God I hope so, anyway). It's time for Malik to take over. Not to mention Bryce, Champ, and Marty.

Yeah, I'm a Duck homer...

Go Cats, Cards, and Aggies!

Pick a team.

Signed,

BigE515

already have...

UK class of '98
UL childhood hometown team (high school was across the street)
A&M class of '04

any questions?

You went to Manual? Cool. Never been inside, but it's got the coolest looking school building around, for sure!

Go Cards! (By the way... Taquan Dean if FINALLY healthy, and no longer has a nagging groin injury. It's said that he can finally dunk, after adding 6-8" on his vertical leap this summer! Holy cow!)

duPont Manual class of '94!

I surely don't, but I know a couple people here will. BTW, what a horrible time to go to A&M. They sucked at everything during those years.

My childhood team:

At least they have that going for them... it seems the Cards are facing a number of key injuries...

NIT games begin tonight with DUKE facing Boston University. Ya gotta love Coach K for allowing the little guys to gain some attention and some bigtime money.

Thursday, November 17th:

VS.


(I've learned my lesson... I will not be talking any trash for this game. )

And we just had another injury.. In the Red & White scrimmage this past weekend, Padgett was injured, yet again. Guy just came back from a foot injury this past week, and now he's got a sprained ligament in his angle. They're now saying he won't be back until first of December.

For cripes sake, I hope they just redshirt him. Wait until he's a little older and stronger, so he can actually be well enough to play a whole season w/o getting hurt!

I didn't realize Duke played Texas this year. That will be a cool game to watch on December 10th.

Yes it will, especially if they maintain their current rankings.

Well seeing as Kansas is mostly freshmen and sophomores this year, it'll take them a bit of the season to gel and kick ass.
They'll come up in the rankings

Hey Doug, how's your team this year? What do you think your chances are for Thursday's game?

Pre-ranked 16th. I haven't read anything about TT yet.

hey Doug, what's up w/ WVU being ranked above the orangemen?

In short, because Hakim Warrick is gone and I think people are figuring what Kevin Pittsnogle accomplished late last year in the conference and NCAA tournies wasn't a fluke. Plus, isn't WVU returning 4 main starters? SU lost almost half its offense with Warrick and Josh Pace graduating, plus 5 extra fouls from an at least halfway serviceable Craig Forth - Watkins is now their only real (big) center.

I just hope Nichols and McCroskey (and maybe Devendorf) can make some perimeter shots so that Gerry doesn't have to do EVERYTHING.

Yeah - what AKatonk said... WVU (Pittsnogle) surprised everybody last year with their performances - especially in the Big East Tourney (cough, cough which they lost to Syracuse) and NCAA Tourney. There is no denying that Pittsnogle, as goofy as he is, is a great Bball player.

As for Syracuse - they lost Warrick, Pace, and Forth. All key players on the team. Edelin is gone too, not that he was a key member of the team last year. This leaves McNamara as the only person (that actually plays. We don't count Matt Gorman) left from the 2003 Championship team.

I'm tense about what might happen to the team this year. McNamara has a lot of weight to carry on his shoulders and through the preseason/season so far he hasn't really impressed me with his stats.

Eric Devendorf is supposed to be really good - he came from Oak Hill Academy (alma matar of Carmello Anthony, Jerry Stackhouse, Ron Mercer, Rod Strickland). J. Wright, Nichols, and McCroskey and Roberts all now have experience under their belt and NEED to step up.

FYI - The 2006-2007 season should be really good for the Orange, as they have some great HS players signed on to attend and some that have signed letters on intent.

Hell, our bball team can't be any worse then our football team!!!