Other Basketball: Weekend 4 and Week 5

Tip of the cap to the Hawkeyes, they gave the Cousins a run for their money last night but it just wasnt enough.

Good news for the Hokies though with BYU taking down San Diego State. As long as the Hokies win today, there has been enough churn to put the Hokies back in the rankings.

#9 Creighton, #14 Texas Tech, #18 San Diego State, #20 Ohio State, and #24 Clemson all took losses this week so far. Four of the five losses were to unranked opponents.

Saturday slate includes:

GAME OF THE WEEK #3 Iowa at #1 Gonzaga Noon on CBS. 6th ranked team to lose but neither will drop far for the loss.

#23 Louisville at #12 Wisconsin Noon on ESPN2. This game will have a 7th ranked team lose.

You hate to see #22 UNCheat win on a drug filled week, but seeing Kentucky drop to 1-5 is too priceless. 2pm on CBS

UCLA at #20 Ohio State should be a good battle between two 5-1 teams. For the Hokies, either team winning likely puts them above the Hokies. 4:15PM on CBS

Sunday
#9 Creighton at 3-0 UConn should be a big good battle Noon on FS1

#13 Illinois at #19 Rutgers (still wrapping my head around a ranked Rutgers team) 1PM ESPN2

6-1 Oklahoma State at #11 Texas, hate to cheer for the Longhorns but OSU is on the verge of being ranked and Texas wouldnt fall far enough with a loss, so for the Hokies, down Cowboys 2PM on Longhorn Network.

This is also a good chance to see arguably college basketball's best player, freshman phenom Cade Cunningham. He is averaging 18 points, 6 reb, 4 ast, 1 steal, 1 block, hits the 3 at a 42% clip and shoots better then 80% from the line.

Monday
ZERO Best game is 4-5 Morehead State at Clemson at Noon on ACCN

Hokies play Longwood at 8PM on ACCN

Tuesday
For those that want to catch the Wahoos they play William & Mary at 2PM on ACCN. Pretty different team this season so might be worth watching.

1-6 Fairleigh Dickinson at 1-6 Fairfield 3PM ESPN3 We shall see who Fairs better in this one

7-1 Abilene Christian at 6-0 Arkansas 5PM SECN

3-0 UT-Martin at 4-0 Ole Miss 5PM SECN+

#14 Texas Tech at 4-1 Oklahoma 7PM ESPN2

5-2 Bradley at #16 Missouri 7PM SECN

ACC Battle #23 Louisville at 5-1 Pitt 7PM ACCNx

5-2 Purdue at #3 Iowa 9PM BTN

#8 WVU at #5 Kansas 9PM ESPN2 in most years with Allen Fieldhouse I would not give the Cousins a chance but this should be a really great game.

7-1 St Mary's at #18 San Diego State 9PM CBSSN- Two very different styles of basketball so should be interesting to see which team dictates.

Wednesday

7-0 Xavier at #9 Creighton 3PM Internet Feed Ugly Big East battle, should be fun to watch

UCLA at Oregon 3PM ESPN2 Battle of two 5-1 Teams

#19 Rutgers at #20 Ohio State 430PM BTN

Friday

In a normal year I would be against Christmas basketball but this year its even more so, Big Ten should be ashamed of themselves.

#12 Wisconsin at #4 Michigan State 12:30PM BTN
#3 Iowa at 6-1 Minnesota 8PM BTN

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