Comments on: Five underappreciated college hoops rivalries http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/07/with-syracuse-georgeown-ending-five-underappreciated-rivalries-to-watch/ College basketball news, features, opinion and everything else. Thu, 23 May 2013 13:59:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: lundy337 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/07/with-syracuse-georgeown-ending-five-underappreciated-rivalries-to-watch/#comment-8944 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:34:12 +0000 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=299835#comment-8944 The dook – unc-CHeat rivalry is overrated by ESPN. Dook was the bridesmaid on Tobacco Rd for decades. They finally stepped up to the plate with an NCAA in 91 and caught up to the lowly Wolfpack in 92. It wasn’t until 01 that they stepped out of the tie with State.
The rivaly has only existed in its current status since Coach K (aka ratface) has risen to prominence and ESPN homers promoted the short lived rivalry as sacred and everlasting. It took an ex NC State player and coach named Bubas to even make them relevant when State and u*nc had the old Southern and ACC wrapped up.

If it wasn’t for all that CHeating going on over at u*nc then the dook-CHeat rivalry wouldn’t exist. Same as if the Valvano fiasco hadn’t of happend it would likely be State-dook. Now that u*nc-CHeat has finally been exposed, I expect dook to steamroll the CHeaters for years and that important rivalry will fade as the dookies leave those CHeaters behind. Don’t believe me? Google unc scandal, see how many hits you get that aren’t being covered on ESPN.

Just because ESPN promotes it like crazy doesn’t mean it’s the end-all-be-all. Their collective memory only began in 79. Before that they don’t think anything happened…

UK and UCLA will always be the gold labels of College Basketball NOT u*nc, and I’m pretty sure they didn’t have fake classes to win their championships. If you don’t believe that then you’re wrong and I hate you….

]]> By: stlouis1baseball http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/07/with-syracuse-georgeown-ending-five-underappreciated-rivalries-to-watch/#comment-8901 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:24:47 +0000 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=299835#comment-8901 Well stated Critter.
I will add the 1990 High School State Championship Game (featuring Damon Bailey’s Bedford North Lawrence Team) had over 49,000 people in attendence. To this day…that is a record. Don’t know how it will ever be surpassed. In addition, 8 of the 10 largest High School Gyms IN THE WORLD are located throughout the state of Indiana. The other two are in Dallas.

]]> By: N.A.O. http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/07/with-syracuse-georgeown-ending-five-underappreciated-rivalries-to-watch/#comment-8739 Sat, 09 Mar 2013 22:57:25 +0000 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=299835#comment-8739 *even though they’re no longer in-conference

]]> By: N.A.O. http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/07/with-syracuse-georgeown-ending-five-underappreciated-rivalries-to-watch/#comment-8738 Sat, 09 Mar 2013 22:56:39 +0000 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=299835#comment-8738 Army and Navy do play in the same conference, silly. They’re in the Patriot League, and are both independent in football (until Navy joins the New Big East) but play for the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy with Air Force, which acts as a pseudo-conference title for the service academies.

Also, we need no explanation that Indiana is to high school basketball as Texas is to high school football. Doesn’t change the fact that 16,000 fans for an NAIA game is massive. The best part about the Belmont-Lipscomb rivalry is that even though they’re in-conference, the schools are still committed to playing twice a year.

]]> By: critter69 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/07/with-syracuse-georgeown-ending-five-underappreciated-rivalries-to-watch/#comment-8725 Sat, 09 Mar 2013 05:11:21 +0000 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=299835#comment-8725 Are you forgetting the IPFW campus in Fort Wayne, which has been in existence for several decades now (the combined campus since 1964, formed from previously established institutions)? The proper name of the school is Indiana University – Purdue University at Fort Wayne.

And the IU/PU rivalry is still going full bore. In football, there is the battle for the Old Oaken Bucket, which has been fought over since 1925 (although the two universities have been playing an annualfootball game since 1920, and they first met on the football field in 1891; in basketball, it is not unusual for Indiana and Purdue to play a second game in the season, outside the Big Ten schedule, each year if they are not scheduled to meet twice in the Big Ten season; and in all other sports, the two universities know who they are playing, and the absolute hatred each has of each other.

BTW – in the Bay Area of California, does anyone confuse Stanford for Cal? In the LA area, does anyone confuse UCLA for USC? Same with UW/WSU? UO/OSU? Arizona/ASU? UNC/NCSU? UM/MSU? Do people get confused by the University of Wisconsin and any other UW campus? Etc.?

]]> By: nyheels29 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/07/with-syracuse-georgeown-ending-five-underappreciated-rivalries-to-watch/#comment-8713 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:19:44 +0000 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=299835#comment-8713 Not only did I read the title, but the actual article too! Which happened to include this line:

“Duke and North Carolina play on Saturday as well, and I’m not sure that rivalry can compare with the bitterness that exists between Kentucky and Louisville.”

]]> By: Eric Angevine http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/07/with-syracuse-georgeown-ending-five-underappreciated-rivalries-to-watch/#comment-8706 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:46:29 +0000 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=299835#comment-8706 I think the IU/PU rivalry was thrown for a loop by the formation of IUPUI. Nobody knows what’s going on there.

]]> By: mcgillert http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/07/with-syracuse-georgeown-ending-five-underappreciated-rivalries-to-watch/#comment-8688 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:56:10 +0000 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=299835#comment-8688 The Pacific Catholic Classic?

]]> By: ixepex http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/07/with-syracuse-georgeown-ending-five-underappreciated-rivalries-to-watch/#comment-8678 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 03:30:04 +0000 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=299835#comment-8678 Xavier v. Dayton is pretty damn good.

]]> By: kordof http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/07/with-syracuse-georgeown-ending-five-underappreciated-rivalries-to-watch/#comment-8675 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 01:59:39 +0000 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=299835#comment-8675 Just in case you couldn’t read the title it said UNDERappreciated as in nobody knows about them

]]> By: critter69 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/07/with-syracuse-georgeown-ending-five-underappreciated-rivalries-to-watch/#comment-8674 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 01:25:13 +0000 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=299835#comment-8674 The IU/PU rivalry has been going on for more than a century now in ALL sports (including mens and womens sports) the two universities compete in (which is all sports except soccer and possibly ice hockey). So it’s not just a basketball or football or wrestling or baseball or swimming and diving rivalry, etc., but for ALL sports (and academics and every other aspect of the two universities). The only rivalries I think might compare would be NCU/Duke, Army/Navy and UCLA/USC. And all of those rivalries are enhanced by mutual conference membership (except Army/Navy, which is enhanced by tradition).

As to the 16,000 who attended one Lipscomb/Belmont tournament game? I went to a high school that had about 800 students, but regular season home games were almost always sold out, even though the home games were played in a gymnasium that seated more than 4,200. When I was a sophomore, we played a regular season game with a rival high school in a larger arena before more than 6,800 fans. And the Indiana state high school championship game (now games) is regularly played before 18,000 or more fans year in and year out, even though it can be seen on free, over the air, TV throughout the entirety of the state.

]]> By: Eric Angevine http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/07/with-syracuse-georgeown-ending-five-underappreciated-rivalries-to-watch/#comment-8668 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:12:44 +0000 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=299835#comment-8668 ODU/VCU was a great one while it lasted.

]]> By: Eric Angevine http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/07/with-syracuse-georgeown-ending-five-underappreciated-rivalries-to-watch/#comment-8667 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:11:33 +0000 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=299835#comment-8667 Gonzaga vs. St. Mary’s? Given the number of Canadians on one end and Australians on the other end, it should be the British Commonwealth Cup.

]]> By: beardown2489 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/07/with-syracuse-georgeown-ending-five-underappreciated-rivalries-to-watch/#comment-8658 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 19:05:15 +0000 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=299835#comment-8658 I think Mizzou has a two great ones. Obviously one with KU, but the one people don’t talk about is with Illinois. Those two schools hate each other. It was a shame they stopped playing the football games but the basketball matchup is intense every year. As an Illini fan, in gettin sick of losing to them.

]]> By: scoregasmic http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/07/with-syracuse-georgeown-ending-five-underappreciated-rivalries-to-watch/#comment-8654 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:59:29 +0000 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=299835#comment-8654 I would say UofM msu is an under appreciated rivalry, it does get mentioned on espn but I am a firm believer that it is better and bigger than UofM vs OSU. All the UofM fans I know get a lot more upset/happy when they lose/beat msu than they do in regards to OSU

]]> By: gerryb323 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/07/with-syracuse-georgeown-ending-five-underappreciated-rivalries-to-watch/#comment-8652 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:38:11 +0000 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=299835#comment-8652 KU and K-State are only “tied” in EMAW country…losing both head-to-head matchups kinda breaks that tie.

]]> By: nyheels29 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/07/with-syracuse-georgeown-ending-five-underappreciated-rivalries-to-watch/#comment-8650 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:17:39 +0000 http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=299835#comment-8650 If you don’t recognize that Duke-UNC is the best and most important rivalry in college basketball, that’s fine but you’re wrong and I hate you.

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