The Top News this week was the horrendous performance of Jutdog's teams, who managed to lose 12 of 18 games, earning a mere 6 points. While the Babbleball Archivist is still reviewing last year's performance by Musashisan to verify that Jutdog has set a record, for now we are reporting that it was the worst one week performance ever in history. The result was Jut plummeting from a solid 5th place at the beginning of the week to 9th place by the close of Sunday, just 22 points ahead of a resurgent Some Guy In Illinois, who went 12-7 for 20 points, including a big win over #2 Syracuse.
Phunmunki Tops All
The other surprise this week was a 30 point performance by the typically invisible Phunmunki, who went 14-4, led by a Villanova win over Jut's West Virginia, and a surprise Niagara Purple Eagles upset over Siena (Boaris). Phun's phantastic week moved her from 9th place to 8th place.
Rounding out the bottom 6, NotaTurtle went 11-8 for 19 points, falling from 6th to 7th, and The CEO hit 22 off a fine 12-6 week to move from 8th place to 6th place. Babblemur put up an unusually strong performance, going 15-4 and taking 27 points to pull into 5th place.
Akaoni Back on Track
Akaoni stretched his lead out nine more points this week, hitting 29 points off 13 wins. The 2nd through 4th positions flipped and flopped all week, with Jaybird ending up on top by Sunday off 25 points from 15 wins. Gunz finished 2 points behind him off 20 points from 10 wins, and Boaris ended 2 points behind Gunz off 21 points from 13 wins. All three remain poised to move on Akaoni at the first sign of weakness.
Standings after Week 14
- 1. Akaoni - 287 (155-51)
- 2. Jaybird - 249 (148-58)
- 2. Gunz - 247 (145-62)
- 4. Boaris - 245 (155-51)
- 5. Babblemur - 222 (144-60)
- 6. The CEO - 216 (140-65)
- 7. NotaTurtle - 215 (125-77)
- 8. Phunmunki - 214 (131-71)
- 9. Jutdog - 211 (136-62)
- 10. Some Guy in Illinois - 189 (135-73)
29 comments:
UCONN needs to figure out that they can be really good. Or maybe Calhoun is that important. Nova is going down!
I watch this game without knowing records or rankings, and I'm convinced that UCONN is the better team. They better pull it out and get into the tournament.
The ever elusive perfect conf record has now dissapeared for the CEO with Morgan St, losing at home...Murray St is I believe the only one still in the running to bring these rarest of points home...
-The CEO
Northern Iowa 7 ft center Egelseeder arrested and charged with driving under the influence on Sunday, suspended by university for next 3 games, he was their second leading scorer and a key to their 3rd ranked defense, could hurt in the matchup with Old Dominion, as well as add pressure that an at large bid won't neccessarily be there if they go on a losing streak now, nice choice buddy....
-The CEO
Woah not so fast!
Kansas is 11-0 in the Big 12
and
Butler is 16-0 in the Horizon
Plus Murray St as you mentioned. Could be 3 teams getting the bonus points!
The race is on for this week:
NotaTurtle +5
Babblemur +3
Boaris +3
Akaoni +1
Jutdog +1
Tuesday has some games too close to call. I'd love to see Miss St upset Kentucky tonight.
Big game tonight is how will Northern Iowa play without Egelseeder, and will the No good boys from Illinois capitalize on that opportunity.
All eyes are on Saturday though as the Big 10 title will be determined in the Michigan St vs Ohio St game, not just a 5 pt op for Michigan St, but the op to lock in the big bonus pts the CEO needs
And of course Sunday, the bro's Mitchell face off with bubble feeders Cincy and Marquette, someones bubble will burst
-The CEO
Va Tech Bitches!
and on a more important note, go Ron!
Let's take a little more in-depth look at this record setting notion:
Ron completed an entire year scoring a total of.... negative 2 points. Therefore, Jut's 6 points is equal to endless numbers of Ron's first season. No matter what ever happens in the future of babblemurball, no one will ever do as poorly as ron - even musasahisan
Unfortunately, that's an apples and oranges comparison Jut and you know it. Now, I'm not saying you suck as much as Ron did the first season or as much as Musashisan consistently did (we'd have to run your record and match ups using previous scoring paradigms to figure that out), but there’s no denying that you stank up the joint last week.
My teams were massacured last week - it was as if they all collaborated and decided they didn't even want to try - West Virigia dropping a 6 pt lead with 6 seconds to go???
Ah, so what you're saying is your teams are playing like Cincinatti, yes, I know how that feels......
Also, barring a run of remaining schedule, Charlotte punched their ticket for the NIT tonight, where it would only be fitting that they get matched with and bounced by Arkansas
-The CEO
Dammit CEO - I guess I should have picked up Arkansas
Or St Louis, another big win tonight, I'm thinking I should have kept Arkansas and punted Oklahoma....
-The CEO
Well, on a bright note, I do appreciate Utah State's 11 game winning streak. They might just end up paying off in the long run.
And it has moved me back into a solid 8th place
Whew, that Cuse-G-Town game looked like it was going to be a blowout but it turned into a nailbiter. Thankfully 'Cuse held on.
Texas on the other hand looks like a mess. The loss of their guard Varez Ward in the preseason is looking more and more devistating.
Some interesting NCAA impact games this weekend:
Old Dominion / Northern Iowa could help the winner make a case for an at large if something were to happen in conf tourney, but have the opposite impact on the loser
Pacific needs to win, they're falling apart on me
Gotta love the Siena / Butler matchup, although I think Butler walks away in this one
Huge conference games this weekend too, should shake things up, and continue to provide clarity
Anyone up to a little final 4 predictions challenge?
-The CEO
Final Four:
Butler, Vanderbilt, Richmond, Maryland.
Maybe Kentucky instead of Richmond.
Gonzaga's loss last night makes it doable for St. Mary's or Portland to grab a share of those 6 points...
POINT OF ORDER:
The rules state:
- If two teams tie for conference regular season champs, both teams are awarded full points
So if two teams are both 12-4 (or whatever), we don't go to some "tie-breaker" to see who beat who during the season, right? They both get the points?
That's the way I read it. What did we do last year?
Here's a link to a "run down" last year approaching end of season. I don't think we did "tie breakers":
http://babblemur.blogspot.com/2009/03/conference-showdowns.html
Yes, last year we decided both teams got full points.
You idiots and your ridiculous attempts to cheat and snag points. It is the actual winners. If two teams are 12-4, but team A beat team B both times, then team B won the conference, by every standard except the baseless one you are suggesting. If Zaga and St Marys are both 15-2, but Zaga beat St Marys in the head to head challenge, then sorry pigs, but Zaga takes it.
Commission and cheat stopper,
Jut
But Jut you benefited last year from the way points were distributed last year, correct? As did eventual winner Jaybird (who only beat me by 1 point in the end) - should we go back and revisit the way the WRITTEN RULE was applied last year?
Maybe with all my free time I'll review the comments from last year where I am sure the question was discussed and determined.
-Babs
Nope, I'm wrong, Jut is right.
From March 4, 2009:
"If Pitt beats UCONN and Louisville falls to West Virginia, we have a three way tie, and all three (HippieD, Jaybird, & Boaris) will get 7 points each. Pitt will have beaten Louisville twice, but Louisville beat UCONN in their only matchup, and UCONN beat Pitt in their only match up."
-Babs
AARGH!
Vandy came so close to taking down Kentucky!
Well at least Maryland pulled off the last second win over G-Tech.
-babs
my squad pulled through nicely today. just 10 more of those without anyone else scoring point and i'll be right back in this shit
j
Fading, fading, fading, last Sat is but a memory, as is the CEO in the top 5, wow, what a horrible week, only Northern Iowa and Clemson had respectable weeks, and are now my two highest scoring teams, really needing Cincy to hold on and beat Marquette today to salvage some pride if even that is possible.....
Big Ten analysis: Michigan St & Wisconsin fading, Purdue/Ohio State peaking at the right time
ACC analysis: Duke and Virginia Tech, how about that, they play tonight, rest of the teams fading at best, Clemson streaking back up, but let's be honest, outside of those top two teams, this conf is pretty bad
Big East: Pitt surging, Syracause staying consistent, and Nova possibly fading with a couple of close losses this week
SEC: Outside of Kentucky, I'm not real impressed with this conf, although Vanderbilt played them tough yesterday, let's be honest, Cincy beat Vandy, enough said
Pac 10: Cal and Arizona St are okay, but still a pretty bad conf
CEO's Final Four: Syracuse, Purdue, Kansas, and either (Kansas State, Duke, or a Long Shot), sorry Jaybird, Kentucky's freshman will lose compsure in a tight competitive game and end up losing
-The CEO
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