Creighton 11/14

[HawkBall23]

The world is on Creighton and the over, apparently. Line is up to -12 and O/U is at 162 on my site.

If the Hawks are making some shots, this game could easily resemble an NBA game, score-wise. IE, 95+ for each team.

 

[markfromj]

Is this game 9 pm because of TV or some game before it?

 

[Tylerl_28]

Is this game 9 pm because of TV or some game before it?

yes and yes

 

[HawkBall23]

Is this game 9 pm because of TV or some game before it?

The people who made the schedule for the Gavitt Games, in their infinite wisdom, crammed 3 games into the same night on the same channel.

5p - WIS@PROV
7p - MARQ@ILL
9p - Iowa@CU

And, of course, Iowa (& us) gets the shaft by being slotted in to the last tip time of the night.

 

[hawkirugged17]

Yes and no.

Yes, its scheduled to start at 9p CDT. But no, in that the tip will likely be pushed back to at least 9:10/:15 to allow for 'run over' of the 2nd game (MARQ @ ILL).

Why they felt the need to force 3 games in one night on one channel, when there are zero GG games scheduled for Thursday night, and only 1 both Wed. & Friday, is just dumb.

3 words for no GG games on Thursday ... N F L.

Agreed that the games could have been spread out to Wed and Fri.

 

[tWarnerHawk]

You just know Marq v Ill will have 19 reviews in the last 2 minutes, each team will use all their time outs, and the game prolly goes to overtime.

 

[General Tso]

I'll be the idiot and ask - how the **** does a school Creighton get to have a top 10 basketball team?

 

[littlez]

I'll be the idiot and ask - how the **** does a school Creighton get to have a top 10 basketball team?

No football team, fun style of play, great support and a solid coach.

 

[RicoSuave102954]

No football team, fun style of play, great support and a solid coach.

Historically they have recruited players with iffy character.

 

[Fan In Black]

can someone smarter than me explain Patrick's rebounding numbers? It's frustrating to have a front court player with these rebound numbers.

Is it the scheme or is he just a poor rebounder?

 

[RocknRollface]

can someone smarter than me explain Patrick's rebounding numbers? It's frustrating to have a front court player with these rebound numbers.

Is it the scheme or is he just a poor rebounder?

He has the mentality of a guard and takes off running instead of going for rebounds.

I will say he's looking better in quite a few areas than he used to. The way he finished last night through contact multiple times was great to see.

 

[littlez]

Historically they have recruited players with iffy character.

More so than anyone else?

 

[Andrew Houk]

can someone smarter than me explain Patrick's rebounding numbers? It's frustrating to have a front court player with these rebound numbers.

Is it the scheme or is he just a poor rebounder?

In the past, I'd say it was largely him being a poor rebounder. One contributing factor is that he is often defending on the perimeter, so he ends up out of the play - although in past seasons, he would stand and watch or leak out in transition, rather than rebound/defend, which drove me crazy. I think he's been more active this season but it was tough last night because the guys he was defending were such good three point shooters that he had to stay near them on the perimeter.

I'm not going to freak out over his defensive rebounding #s unless we, as a team, have a problem with defensive rebounding. Creighton only rebounded 29% of their misses, which is solid. What I want to see from Pat are deflections. Last night he had two steals and two blocked shots, so I was encouraged in that regard.