We’re about a week into the season for college hoops, we’ve already had a dramatic last-second win and, after last night, a scare for the consensus No. 1 team. Memphis took No. 1 Kansas the distance last night, just coming up short in a dramatic 57-55 loss. I mean, I guess it was dramatic. For November, anyway.
Memphis (1-1) closed within three on Doneal Mack’s 3-pointer with a minute left, then cut the lead to 56-55 on Elliot Williams’ long 3 with 17 seconds left. Sherron Collins hit 1 of 2 free throws at the other end to give Memphis a final chance, but Williams’ contested 3-pointer clanged off the back iron.
Williams thought the shot was in. The Jayhawks held their breath until it caromed away. –Y! Sports.
Kansas’ 21 turnovers kept Memphis in the game, and the close game keeps a left-for-dead team abandoned by John Calipari for Kentucky. First-year Memphis coach Josh Pastner can hope to see his team in the Top 25 next week. And then maybe eat a nice breakfast. Because that’s important. More NCAA Scores.
We’re terribly late to this, but we had to share former Southern Cal basketball coach Tim Floyd breaking up a fight at what’s being called a Southern California “casino.” Really? That looks more like the food court at the Mall of America, especially with all those fatties running around. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing but love for the HOLY CRAP COACH LOOK OUT FOR THAT CHAIR! –Herm’s Perm, via SB Nation.
You probably already saw this on Hot Clicks earlier today; it’s Pepperdine’s Keion Bell dunking over five of his teammates in one of those midnight madness practices, even though it doesn’t have Michael J. Fox or that chubby kid from Animal House in it. But watch what he does afterward. It’s ME ME ME. He doesn’t celebrate with any of his teammates (save for a shoulder bump), and they don’t expect anything from him, either. And then he hugs the mascot, Willy the Wave, which doesn’t make any damn sense at all. He’s not even a real wave, Keion. Who has a body of water for a mascot, anyway? No, the Lakers don’t count. There are no lakes in LA. Just piles and piles of coke. They hand that stuff out with your phones books and voter registration card.
Even as the newly-anointed basketball coach for Florida International, Isiah Thomas is still running the same playbook as before; he wants to pull his team out of the “Coaches vs. Cancer” tournament. That tournament has him slated to play against defending national champion North Carolina, and not Ohio State as Thomas and FIU expected:
“We knew nothing about this until the press release from North Carolina today,” [FIU athletic director Pete] Garcia said. “We told them last week we would not change the game and had never agreed to this.”
The group running the tournament respectfully disagrees.
Gazelle Group president Rick Giles said that he has a contract, signed by Garcia, which stipulates that FIU would play either Ohio State or North Carolina, leaving the choice at the discretion of the Gazelle Group. He said that is the way his company has written contracts for 15 years and fully expects the school to honor its agreement. via.
I’m inclined to agree with the group that didn’t hire the same guy that maligned the Toronto Raptors, the Indiana Pacers, the New York Knicks and murdered the Continental Basketball Association while it slept all alone in the pale moonlight. It’s like my dad always said: “Fool me four times, shame on you. Fool me five times, I’m a dumbass.” That explains why he only went to jail four times. You’ve gotta wake up pretty early in the afternoon to fool that guy. first seen.
Denis Clemente of Kansas State can’t wait for basketball season to start, so he’s been working on his trick shots. And honestly, Denis should quit life after making that shot, because nothing in his life will ever compare to the YouTube magic he made here. I’m exaggerating, of course. Somewhat. via.
So that woman that tried to blackmail Rick Pitino last month? Yeah, turned out that Louisville’s head men’s basketball coach kinda boned her back in 2003. Pitino copped to having sex with Karen Cunagin Sypher [Carin'? Come again? Insider?] in a Louisville restaurant, where he was allegedly under the influence of alcohol and watching too many pornos where people have sex in restaurants.
He also told police that he later gave Sypher $3,000 to have an abortion, according to Louisville Metro Police reports The Courier-Journal obtained under the Kentucky Open Records Act. via.
Pitino is claiming that he acquired the aforementioned stinky on his hangdown consentually. When Pitino charged Cypher with extortion in July, she made the claim of being sexually assaulted multiple times by Pitino, but her varying accounts of what happened have damaged her credibility. Meanwhile, the aborted fetus is being recruited by Kentucky, Cincinnati, and West Virginia, but the fetus has mentioned privately that he’d like to play close to home.
