Hoop Night: 12/12/2007

Now this is more like it! Apparently not everyone has to study all week.


Don't Miss

Cincinnati at #17 Xavier - 7pm, ESPN2
If you have to go anywhere in the Cincinnati area tonight, may I suggest you reschedule? Crosstown traffic will be a bear (mixed with a cat) tonight, as the slumping Cincy team buses themselves over into Musketeer territory. This is one of those intense rivalry games that makes college basketball so great - seriously, don't miss it.


Watch if you'd really like to Check Out the Vanderbilt Commodores

#21 Vanderbilt at DePaul - 8pm, ESPN Classic
I wrote about Vandy yesterday, and got beat to it by ESPN.com again (they have a slight edge in resources), but this team deserves the hype. Look for some sweet inside/outside game from Andrew Ogilvy and Shan Foster for the Commodores, and some outside/outside action from DePaul - they're hitting 40% from behind the arc. Blue Demon center Mac Koshwal was just 2 of 7 inside vs. Kansas last weekend, so this will be another stiff test.


Tivo it and Watch Good Will Hunting

UMass at Boston College - 9pm, ESPNU
Another Beantown Brawl to delight the senses. ESPN's Joe Lunardi puts the Minutemen in the at-large conversation after their win at Syracuse, as they have helped raise the overall level of play in the Atlantic 10 this season. BC also has some good early-season wins: vs. Rhode Island at home, and at Michigan and Maryland. The Eagles lean heavily on playmaking guard Tyrese Rice (20.9ppg and 6.3apg), but UMass has a nice all-around threat in 6'7" Gary Forbes.


Also On:

Princeton at Penn State - 7pm, ESPNU


We were patient through the first couple of days of finals week, and we have been rewarded. Do like I do - write your final papers with one eye on the TV screen. "Bartleby the Scrivener represents an enduring archetype in American literature: the slow-footed center with soft hands and a suspect jumpshot". Damn, here comes another C-minus.