Basketball

Gonzaga - Northern Colorado

The first game of new backup guard Stephen Gray.  Apparently Josh Heytveldt will be back from the foot injury in the next week to 10 days.  For Northern Colorado (aka the "other" UNC) Jabril Banks may be the player of the year in the Big Sky Conference this year.

Marquette - Sacramento St

Yuck.  This game is gonna suck.  I like the Warriors and this looks like a prime opportunity to mark Sacramento State off the master list.  At the first tv timeout, its 14-0.  Sacramento St should not be a D1 team.  Really the only thing they have going to for them is that top prospects arent jonesing to play for the Montanas and directional schools that they compete against in the Big Sky.  Dont get me wrong, I like the Big Sky, I think it should be Montana, Montana St, Idaho, Idaho St, Utah (maybe just Weber St), Utah St, Denver, Colorado St, South Dakota St and North Dakota St or something similar to that.  I dont like this game and I dont like that Crean has scheduled it.  Why?  Because Marquette is so much better than this team that they have an early 25 point and now no intensity.  They are running away with a victory, but they are playing sloppy. They face better competition every day in practice.

Ohio St - Presbyterian

I think they are called the Pale Hose.  I know they shouldnt be playing D1 basketball.  They were a fine D2 program and still should be a D2 program fighting to win games and even tournaments that they are capable of.  It's silly that Ohio St is able to play this "write the check" blowout when fans and players would rather they match up against Xavier or Dayton.  This game was a joke.  No one on Presbyterian College has the talent level to be a meaningful walk on in the Big Eleven.  PC took an early lead 14-11 before the Fucknuts went on a 16 point run.  Not even remoting resemblinga basketball game in the second half the final is 79-40.

Northern Arizona - Cal Poly

Zach Filzen scored 20 of his game-high 25 points in the first half and Kyle Landry had 16 points on 6-of-10 shooting to lead Northern Arizona to a 85-51 win over Cal Poly on Sunday. NAU led by only five late in the first half before NAU outscored the Mustangs 21-3 in the final 8:01 and took a 48-25 halftime lead. The official attendance was listed as 903.  I say no way it was that high.  Final 85-51.

Denver - Northern Colorado

A chance to see the progress that Joe Scott has made at Denver.  And compare them against Northern Colorado who I just was saw play a Mountain West team in Colorado St.