2010 CBI Thread

[SuperHornet]

I'm not sure how many teams here are FCS, but one definitely WAS until abandoning football recently. I don't like the way the bracket is organized because they don't follow the normal convention of placing the home team on the bottom when there are no assigned seeds. Anyways, the first round and quarterfinals will be at home sites. I think the semis and the championship best-of-three series will be co-located somewhere, but they could be at home sites as well.

Indiana State @ StL (Hosting Quarters)
WI-GB @ Akron (Winner to play @ StL)

VCU @ GW (Hosting Quarters)
Coll of Charleston @ EKU (Winner to play @ GW)

Boston U @ Oregon State (Hosting Quarters)
Colorado State @ Morehead State (Winner to play @ OSU)

IUPUI @ Hofstra (Hosting Quarters)
Duquesne @ Princeton (Winner to play @ Hofstra)

SuperHornet's First Round Guesses:

Akron @ StL
EKU @ GW
CSU @ OSU
Princeton @ Hofstra

[dbackjon]

Indiana State @ StL (Hosting Quarters)
WI-GB @ Akron (Winner to play @ StL)

VCU @ GW (Hosting Quarters)
Coll of Charleston @ EKU (Winner to play @ GW)

Boston U @ Oregon State (Hosting Quarters)
Colorado State @ Morehead State (Winner to play @ OSU)

IUPUI @ Hofstra (Hosting Quarters)
Duquesne @ Princeton (Winner to play @ Hofstra)

FCS bolded

[GeauxLions94]

Oregon State vs. GW in the final

Oregon State to repeat

[clenz]

Indiana State @ StL (Hosting Quarters)
WI-GB @ Akron (Winner to play @ StL)

VCU @ GW (Hosting Quarters)
Coll of Charleston @ EKU (Winner to play @ GW)

Boston U @ Oregon State (Hosting Quarters)
Colorado State @ Morehead State (Winner to play @ OSU)

IUPUI @ Hofstra (Hosting Quarters)
Duquesne @ Princeton (Winner to play @ Hofstra)

FCS bolded

You forgot Hof.....oh wait....

[dbackjon]

Tuesday's Results:

VCU 79, GWU 73
St. Louis 63, Indiana State 54

[dbackjon]

Wednesday's Games:

Duquesne @ Princeton
Green Bay @ Akron
Charleston @ Eastern Kentucky
IUPUI @ Hofstra
Colorado State @ Morehead State
Boston U @ Oregon State

[SuperHornet]

Tonight's CBI results:

WI-GB 70, Akron 67.

Coll. of Charleston 82, EKU 79.

Boston U 96, Oregon State 78.

Morehead State 74, Colorado State 60.

IUPUI 74, Hofstra 60.

Princeton 65, Duquesne 51.

I blew EVERYTHING in the CBI except for StL yesterday and Princeton today. That's in contrast to my having almost everything right in the CIT. Wow.

Quarterfinal matchups for 22 MAR:

WI-GB (22-12) @ StL (21-11)

Coll of Charleston (22-11) @ VA Commonwealth (23-9)

Morehead State (24-10) @ Boston U (20-15)

Princeton (21-8) @ IUPUI (25-10)

Interesting sidenote in the two "upsets": if the CBI website is correct, OSU was in this tournament with a losing record. Could have been a simple transposition. But if that's the case, outside of an auto-bid, what the cr@p are they doing in a post-season tournament? CSU and Duquesne finish at .500, also making one wonder why they got a berth. Of course, I heard rumors that the CBI was having problems getting schools to sign up. Maybe that had something to do with it.

[dbackjon]

Oregon State is the defending champion. The tournament is set up that the defending champ gets a bid, no matter the record.

[SuperHornet]

Oregon State is the defending champion. The tournament is set up that the defending champ gets a bid, no matter the record.

Ah. Not sure if that rule is warranted, but if that's the way it goes, so be it.

[dbackjon]

CBI Semifinals:

VCU-BU 79-66 VCU 3:59 left
Princeton vs St. Louis after

[EPJr]

VCU 88, Boston U. 75 Final

Boston U.
Name FG 3Pt FT PF Pts
John Holland 7-16 1-4 1-1 3 16
Tyler Morris 4-12 3-5 5-6 1 16
Jake O'Brien 8-15 2-6 2-2 3 20
Jeff Pelage 2-5 0-0 0-2 1 4
Michael Schulze 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0
Valdas Sirutis 0-2 0-1 2-2 5 2
Carlos Strong 5-8 1-3 3-4 3 14
Brendan Sullivan 1-2 1-1 0-0 2 3

Totals 27-60 8-20 13-18 18 75
Percentages: .450 .400 .722

VCU
Name FG 3Pt FT PF Pts
Bradford Burgess 6-12 3-7 5-5 2 20
Troy Daniels 2-4 2-4 0-0 0 6
Issiah Grayson 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0
T.J. Gwynn 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 0
Ed Nixon 4-8 2-3 0-0 2 10
Kirill Pishchalnikov 0-0 0-0 1-2 1 1
Joey Rodriguez 8-15 3-8 0-0 2 19
Brandon Rozzell 2-8 1-7 0-1 1 5
Larry Sanders 6-9 0-0 6-10 3 18
Jamie Skeen 4-7 0-2 0-0 0 8
Darius Theus 0-1 0-0 1-2 2 1

Totals 32-66 11-31 13-20 14 88

[SuperHornet]

CBI Semifinals:

VCU-BU 79-66 VCU 3:59 left
Princeton vs St. Louis after

They kitty-cornered the bracket for the semis. Did NOT expect that.

[EPJr]

VCU in CBI Championship!
Its the St Louis Billikins
3/29 @VCU
3/31 @STL
4/2 @STL (If Necessary)

http://www.billikens.com/

[EPJr]

[SuperHornet]

VCU 68, StL 56.

VCU up 1-0 in the best-of-three series.

Game 2 set for Wed @ StL.

[EPJr]

VCU 68, StL 56.
VCU up 1-0 in the best-of-three series.
Game 2 set for Wed @ StL.

Video: CBI Finals, Game 1

Great showing from Sanders and Joey. Joey's oop to Rozzell was #8 on ESPN's Sports Centers Top 10 Plays last night.
http://www.vcuramnation.com/2010/03/vid ... ls-game-1/

[SuperHornet]

Does anyone like this championship series concept? For me, it only works when the games are at home sites, as in the case of the CBI.

In general, I like it. Not likely to work for conference tournaments because of the time crunch. But for the other post-season tournaments, it's a nice thing.

[EPJr]

Brandon Rozzell scored a game high 27 points for the Rams in a 71-65 victory over St. Louis for the 2010 CBI Championship.

The Rams, who struggled in regular season road games, were forced to win one of two in St. Louis to lock up the crown after defeating the Billikens in the first of a best of three series this Monday in Richmond.


http://www.vcuramnation.com/2010/03/roz ... -st-louis/

[EPJr]

2010 College Basketball Invitational
2010 CBI Championship Game 2 Recap - VCU @ Saint Louis
Now available at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR2oqjTDW4A
or at
http://www.caasports.com/