billyjack wrote:Five games tonight, all good matchups against tough or pesky teams. This is a dangerous night.
Tuesday December 5th 2017:
#4 Villanova vs #15 Gonzaga, 7pm, at MSG.
Vermont at Marquette, 7pm.
North Dakota at Creighton, 8pm.
Utah at Butler, 9pm.
St John's at Grand Canyon, 11:30pm.
Marquette should be careful and tighten up their defense, because Vermont is a really good team which can shoot from deep.
Villanova can get a huge crowd at MSG and take care of Gonzaga hopefully. This will be a fantastic game. Second straight Big East opponent for the Zags. Test run of a future conference game? Lol.
Creighton should handle North Dakota.
Butler has that great core of Martin, Wideman and Baldwin, so can beat anyone, especially at home. Utah is tough as always.
St John's plays late at Grand Canyon, which is actually in Phoenix. Weird, Cox cable here in Rhode Island has been televising Grand Canyon home games on our local interest station 1004. This is a little creepy, like why would people in RI want to watch this obscure for-profit on-line school out in Arizona play Robert Morris or Norfolk State. The crowd is always pretty raucous and packed to the gills in a shiny new arena, which has a purple that is hypnotic and distracting. Coached by former Suns star Dan Majerle. GCU is 5-1 (lost to the San Diego Toreros by 10) and has only played home games, and 4 of them were in the "Grand Canyon Classic". Tonight is apparently the one-game "Valley of the Sun Shootout". Why does this game worry me? Why was it scheduled? Wait, did you hear that noise? Let's get outta here!
LOL....this GCU game scares the crap out of me.....they are coached by dan majerle.....here's an article about their fan base....pretty impressive....
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/02/grand-c ... an-majerle