Armadillo Sports
Friday’s 6-pack
Top six teams in country in eFG%
.625— Arizona
.605— Utah State
.602— Indiana
.598— Baylor
.589— Gonzaga
.586— Colgate
eFG% is same as FG%, except a made 3-pointer counts as 1.5 made baskets.
Quote of the Day
“I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn.”
Michael Jordan
Friday’s quiz
In the movie Last Vegas, Morgan Freeman’s character wins $87,000 playing blackjack at which Las Vegas casino?
Thursday’s quiz
Mike Davis replaced Bob Knight as basketball coach at Indiana; he is currently the coach at Detroit Mercy.
Wednesday’s quiz
Kelsey Grammer played Frasier Crane on Cheers and also Frasier; Frasier took place in Seattle.
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Friday’s Den: Random stuff with the weekend here…….
Bills 24, Patriots 10
— Bills’ first three drives: 32 plays, 175 yards, 17 points.
— Buffalo converted 9-15 on third down, Patriots 3-12.
— Bills outgained New England 355-242.
— 10 of 12 Buffalo games stayed under the total.
— Buffalo has now won five of last six games.vs New England.
— Patriots ran ball 14 times for only 60 yards.
— Last three games, Patriots converted 10-37 third down plays.
— Patriots’ last 5 games: 5 TD’s, 18 FGA’s, 20 3/outs on 55 drives.
— New England is 6-0 giving up 17 or less points, 0-6 giving up 20+.
— Buffalo had a 7-yard advantage in field position.
— Over the last three years, 19,217 college football players entered the transfer portal; of those players, 7,695 (40%) found their way to a different school.
— Kansas State-TCU play in the Big X title game Saturday at noon here in the east, but 11am in Texas, where the game is being played. Why play a game at 11am? Because TV wants them too; would make more sense for the ACC game to be on at noon, but the powers-that-be must think they’ll get better TV ratings with Clemson-North Carolina in primetime.
Can’t be much fun for the K-State/TCU kids to have their pregame meal at 7am, then play four hours later.
Remember, if you don’t know the reason for something, the reason is usually money.
— Lot of money in college football and in 2024, that $$$ will get bigger; the college playoff will expand from four teams to 12, which will make for fewer useless bowl games and more fun for fans/bettors/players. Maybe less fun for coaches, whose jobs will be scrutinized more now when they miss that expanded playoff.
— By the way, the guy West Virginia just hired as its new athletic director will be making $1.1M a year. Athletic directors are mostly big-time fund raisers, cowering to the big-$$$ boosters.
— In his career, LSU football coach Brian Kelly is 35-17-2 ATS as an underdog.
— Sunday afternoon, Kentucky-Michigan are playing a basketball game in London.
— Buffalo Bills put LB Von Miller on the IL; he is out for at least the next four games.
— Seattle 9, Los Angeles 8 OT— 12 Kings recorded a point, seven of them 2+ points. It was the 12th NHL game in the last 35 years with 17+ goals. It was the first 9-8 game in the NHL since Winnipeg beat the Flyers back in 2011.
— Random trivia: Sidney Crosby holds the all-time record with 14 goals scored in the first minute of a game. Mark Messier had 13.
— Former Dodgers/Marlins manager Don Mattingly surfaced as the new bench coach for the Toronto Blue Jays.
— Tampa Bay Rays gave P Zach Eflin a 3-year, $40M deal. Eflin was 3-5, 4.04 in 20 games (13 starts) for the Phillies LY- they used him as a reliever in the playoffs.
— Texas 72, Creighton 67— Bluejays were 4-27 on arc, still lost by only five. High-level game.
— Northern Kentucky 77, Youngstown State 73, 2OT
Visiting Penguins led by 5 with 1:15 left.
Youngstown was minus-10 in turnovers (24-14).
— Robert Morris 80, Wright State 59
RMC was a 12-point underdog; they made 9-17 on the arc.
Robert Morris was also +10 on boards.
— Oregon State 66, Washington 65— Beavers scored layup/FT with 0:08 left to win its Pac-12 opener. Oregon State led 27-9 early, but had to outscore Washington 5-1 over last 0:41 to pull the game out.
— Utah 81, Arizona 66— Upset out west; Arizona was 4-28 on arc. Carlson made 5-9 on arc, scored 22 points for 6-2 Utah.
— Arizona State 60, Colorado 59
Buffs led 38-23 at half, 56-44 with 6:07 left in game.
Colorado was 9-17 on the foul line.