Hoops today vs Stanford in the Hunty

Basketball
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Looks like we are going to hold on.

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They even made them sign a treaty at Versailles.

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It’s actually quite sad that with a 10 point lead, five minutes to go, many of us were still worried.

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Amazing how different the game is when you make 83% of your free throws and out rebound the opposition by 11 as opposed to against CU where you go 2 for 11 and get out rebounded by 18.

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Question:

Is Pelle pronounced like:

Bell
or
Belly
or
Bela
?

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My best way to describe it is right between “Pell-ay” and “Pell-eh”… but it’s true that the “P” often sounds like a “B” in Scandi tongues. BTW it is one of the seemingly endless Nordic derivatives of Peter (think Pete).

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God only knows what Big Rick would’ve called the kid.

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He would have probably called him a smart Norwegian.

Note: Knute Rockne was once called a dumb Swede. His response was the only thing dumber than a dumb Swede was a smart Norwegian. Rockne was Norwegian.

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We went from 112 to 79 in the NET (ie, the rankings that matter) with the win.

Our next few opponents (and net rankings):
Cal (215)
Washington St. (121)
Washington (251) - WOOF!
Colorado (9)
Arizona (31)
Arizona St. (106)

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Looks like all 5 of our losses are to current top 40 teams. Gosh, if we can win the ones we are supposed to, and steal a couple…who knows.

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But before I Get carried away (again), first things first, we haven’t won a conference road game in a longggggg time. the washington swing is as good an opportunity as we will get. We gotta get over the hump there and get it done.

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The results so far show the Utes firmly camped in the middle of the conference.

USC, UCLA, Oregon and CU are the title contenders.

UW, WSU, Cal and OSU are the bottom feeders.

Utah, AZ, ASU, and Stanford are the middle of the pack.

The Utes had the misfortune to play the best 4 teams in the conference in their first 5 games. The schedule will be softer going forward.

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Fixed that for you.

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Would love to see the Utes get a win in Tucson. Only Pac12 team we haven’t beat on the road since joining the league (would like be in an empty arena of course).

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Didn’t help when they moved Colorado from the last week to a few days ago or that the Oregon State game was postponed. But you have to play who they put in front of you.

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Looks like Bobby Hurley is doing a stellar job—I hate that guy more than Sean Miler–& that is low bar.

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Because they are our heated rival?

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He is despicable. He still thinks he’s at Duke where he was used to getting all the calls in his favor.

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Most coaches will attempt to call an official’s attention to what they feel is going on on the court/field when they feel the need to do so. But venting about every single blasted call no matter how obvious it is that it was correct gets rather old.

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… including calls that are in his team’s favor. He is insufferable.

An appropriate “hell” for Hurley:

being forced to spend eternity as a college referee, in games coached only by the historically nastiest college coaches.