Oakland vs. Tenn

[LakeJack]

Oakland up by 3 with 3:05 to play.

[LakeJack]

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2:18 to play and the #7 Vols are down 5

[LakeJack]

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OU 85 UT 79 with :36 over on ESPNU

[LakeJack]

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Oakland wins 89-82. Vols were the last unbeaten team in the SEC, big win for the Summit League

[JackJD]

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Great job, OU!

[RabbitObsessed]

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If we don't get our **** together they are going to tear us up.

[bub94]

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Very nice win for Oakland.

[SUPERBUNNY]

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Wow! I missed that. I'm assuming this is the men?

[propar80]

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Wow! I missed that. I'm assuming this is the men?

Yep...and they got be by 1...yes 1 point just the other night by then #7 Michigan State.

Not looking good for the rest of the Summit this year I'm afraid.

Go Jacks!!

[BTownJack]

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Just this week Tennessee climbed to #1 in RPI after their win over #3 West Virginia. That is good for the Summit League

Oakland has Michigan and Ohio State (#2 in nation) up as their next two games.

I already had the Thursday, Jan. 20th home game against Oakland circled on my calendar...now I just circled it a couple of more times, this time with a Sharpie!

[filbert]

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I agree, this is All Good.

I think SDSU's women the past couple of years have raised the bar for women's basketball throughout the league, and the rest of the league has responded, and that's good. Oakland is leading the way in men's basketball, but the entire league (with notable exceptions who are departing anyway) are improving in that sport, too.

The Summit is now, I think officially an Up And Coming Conference To Watch the next few years . . .

[RowdyRabbit]

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Fantastic to see Oakland win.

ESPN highlights and interview with Kampe here:

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?catego...792&id=5920820

[SoDakJack]

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I agree, this is All Good.

I think SDSU's women the past couple of years have raised the bar for women's basketball throughout the league, and the rest of the league has responded, and that's good. Oakland is leading the way in men's basketball, but the entire league (with notable exceptions who are departing anyway) are improving in that sport, too.

The Summit is now, I think officially an Up And Coming Conference To Watch the next few years . . .

I agree. The problem is keeping the upward swing going. Will the ORU women's program be able to continue their improvement to give the league two viable teams (assuming that the women are just having a bump in the road this season) that can make some noise against the bigger schools?

On the men's side of things, the Summit had some great press with the early success of the NDSU men's program and then having Oakland scare, and then beat, top ten teams. Who will step up next year when the Oakland team loses the best talent to come out of the league since SDSU and NDSU joined?

It was a great game to watch and it got me excited to think that sometime in the future that COULD BE the Jacks.

Great win for the conference. Too bad they couldn't make FTs. They would have beaten a top ten team in consecutive nights.

[Jacks-02]

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I agree. The problem is keeping the upward swing going. Will the ORU women's program be able to continue their improvement to give the league two viable teams (assuming that the women are just having a bump in the road this season) that can make some noise against the bigger schools?

On the men's side of things, the Summit had some great press with the early success of the NDSU men's program and then having Oakland scare, and then beat, top ten teams. Who will step up next year when the Oakland team loses the best talent to come out of the league since SDSU and NDSU joined?

It was a great game to watch and it got me excited to think that sometime in the future that COULD BE the Jacks.

Great win for the conference. Too bad they couldn't make FTs. They would have beaten a top ten team in consecutive nights.

IUPUI also gave Ohio State all they could handle this past weekend. Led by 9 with a few minutes left in the game IIRC.

[filbert]

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I agree. The problem is keeping the upward swing going. Will the ORU women's program be able to continue their improvement to give the league two viable teams (assuming that the women are just having a bump in the road this season) that can make some noise against the bigger schools?

On the men's side of things, the Summit had some great press with the early success of the NDSU men's program and then having Oakland scare, and then beat, top ten teams. Who will step up next year when the Oakland team loses the best talent to come out of the league since SDSU and NDSU joined?

It was a great game to watch and it got me excited to think that sometime in the future that COULD BE the Jacks.

Great win for the conference. Too bad they couldn't make FTs. They would have beaten a top ten team in consecutive nights.

I think SDSU has a chance to be that team next year. Our great young talent will have a year's experience in the college game, and with luck we'll have another good recruiting class to back them up, and to compensate for the loss of this year's seniors. With really good luck, we'll get a good juco power forward/center type to take some of the load, too.

What I want for Christmas is some good ol' farm boy 6'8-6'11" beast of a high school player who's completely under the radar come from nowhere into the yellow and blue and turn the Summit League on it's ear . . . I mean another one besides Dykstra and Heemstra . . . I'm talking an Incredible Hulk kind of guy . . .