NCAA Basketball 2008-2009 Season

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Mason wins once again 61-53 over ODU and remained undefeated in CAA Play along at home. 12-3 Baby!! !

Mason is on a roll with a five win streak with down the W&M Tribe in a close game, 61-57! Mason remains undefeated in CAA Play!! !

Mason easily conquers Madison 71-57!! ! 14-3 and 7-0 in CAA Play. Mason is now number one in the CAA upon Hofstra beating Northeastern yesterday.

Rankings from ESPN

AP Top 25
1. Wake Forest (68) 16-0 1,793
2. Duke (4) 16-1 1,721
3. Connecticut 16-1 1,590
4. Pittsburgh 16-1 1,569
5. North Carolina 16-2 1,510
6. Oklahoma 17-1 1,498
7. Michigan State 15-2 1,394
8. Syracuse 17-2 1,146
9. Louisville 13-3 1,090
10. Clemson 16-1 1,043
11. Marquette 16-2 1,003
12. Georgetown 12-4 979
13. UCLA 14-3 897
14. Texas 13-4 858
15. Xavier 15-2 848
16. Butler 16-1 726
17. Arizona State 15-3 671
18. Purdue 14-4 553
19. Notre Dame 12-5 469
20. Villanova 14-3 353
21. Minnesota 16-2 298
22. Memphis 14-3 208
23. Gonzaga 12-4 201
24. Florida 16-2 175
25. Illinois 15-3 159
Others Receiving Votes
Baylor 148, Saint Mary's 137, Kentucky 105, California 82, Florida State 34, Kansas 23, Ohio State 20, Missouri 14, Davidson 14, Tennessee 14, Utah State 12, Washington 12, West Virginia 8, Miami (FL) 8, Arkansas 6, Michigan 5, Dayton 4, George Mason 1, LSU 1.
Dropped From Rankings
Baylor 21, California 22, Tennessee 24, Michigan 25.

ESPN/USA Today Poll
1. Wake Forest (25) 16-0 769
2. Duke (6) 16-1 747
3. Connecticut 16-1 688
4. Pittsburgh 16-1 679
5. Oklahoma 17-1 649
6. North Carolina 16-2 643
7. Michigan State 15-2 566
8. Syracuse 17-2 520
9. Clemson 16-1 472
10. Marquette 16-2 469
11. UCLA 14-3 443
12. Louisville 13-3 377
13. Xavier 15-2 360
14. Georgetown 12-4 349
15. Texas 13-4 344
16. Arizona State 15-3 337
17. Butler 16-1 332
18. Purdue 14-4 193
19. Notre Dame 12-5 180
20. Minnesota 16-2 154
21. Villanova 14-3 152
22. Saint Mary's 17-1 134
23. Baylor 14-3 82
24. Illinois 15-3 72
25. Memphis 14-3 72
Others Receiving Votes
California 65, Florida 52, Gonzaga 35, Utah State 31, Ohio State 22, Brigham Young 22, Dayton 16, Missouri 13, Kentucky 12, Davidson 9, Kansas 3, West Virginia 3, Washington 2, Miami (FL) 2, Florida State 2, Arkansas 2, Michigan 1.
Dropped From Rankings
California 23, Michigan 24.

2009 NCAA Basketball Tournament Brackets [based off current records]

My picks for the Final Four for each bracket as follows
MIDWEST: #12Illinois State
WEST: #10Washington
SOUTH: #9Florida or #3Clemson (Florida)
EAST: #13George Mason (UCONN and UNC in the same region)

I'm guessing with the past two tournament

EAST vs. WEST
SOUTH vs. MIDWEST

Mason over Washington

Illinois State over Florida (Very Similar)

Mason over Illinois State (Mason is the national champ)

Well Mason lost by one to Northeastern but worse is JV (John Vaughan) was injured with 2:12 to play in the second half. He was hit in the face by an elbow then a foot. After the first free throw due to Vaughan fouling the guy that hit him, he was disoriented and fall to his knees and ground. It took 20 minutes for him to taken off the floor via a stretcher and an ambulance. Have a speedy recovery, JV!! We need you to beat VCU!! !

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3850749

JV is alright! He gave Mason Fans quite a scare there.

Vaughan suffered a concussion basically and was release from the hospital. He just going to be check by Mason's training staff. I hoping he'll play against VCU on Saturday.

Northeastern is not a major basketball power, it isn't even very good. No team who loses to Northeastern can be considered a national powerhouse.

Actually that is not true because both Mason and Northeastern are the top two defensive in the CAA. Also if you were not aware, Northeastern was ranked second at the preseason with Mason ranked fourth. Mason is still a powerhouse team based on their stats as a mid-major team (CAA is a mid-major conference)


Mason's Stats

Northeastern's Stats

On the other note

Mason allows 59.4 Points while Northeastern allows 60.2

Mason has lose four game with a total of 14 points (HAMP, LIB, DAY, and NU)

Northeastern 87 points (MICH, BU, USF, URI, MEM, and HOF)

If George Mason had lost to Boston College by one I would have been impressed

VCU got the better of Mason today (I was there). 76-71. It was still a great game because both Mason and VCU fans agree about it. Well not the very mean fans but fans who respect their opponents and shake hands with their opponent's fans. The CAA is heating up now. This year's championships should be interesting.

Mason drilled Delware 78-55! Start off rough for Mason but began the comeback within the first half and ending the half 37-35 in Mason's hands. The second half in Mason's control with 12-2 run start and evenutally leading to 41-20 in the second half. Northeastern at the moment leads VCU 34-27! If VCU loses then Mason and VCU are tied for second with Northeastern on top. However since Northeastern comes to Mason on Feb. 14th, Mason beats them then a three way tie for first will occur once more.

Last edited by JerryHatake on 27 Jan 2009, 11:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Northeastern beats VCU 68-63!! Now Mason will return the favor by kicking those Huskies good on Feb 14th.

ODU won over Mason at ODU 73-71. Still a very close game for both teams. At least JV is back and our next three games could be easy. Hofstra @ GMU then GMU @ JMU and DEL.

I just check and Mason is in third instead of tide for third with Drexel because we beat Drexel when the first CAA games happened back in 2008.