Rutgers’ inexperience cost them last night against the #1 Tar Heels. “North Carolina finished with 14 steals and Rutgers committed 20 turnovers, which the Tar Heels converted into 30 points.” The young guards made bad passes and the overall sloppy play (caused by the strong defense of UNC) made the ending of this game obvious late in the first half. There’s no way you’re going to be able to win a game when give up that many points on steals and turnovers.
Highlights for the Scarlet Knights included Freshman guard Corey Chandler scoring 23 points and adding a career-high eight rebounds, Junior guard Anthony Farmer scoring 17 points, tying his career-high, and Junior forward JR Inman adding 10.
Full story and stats can be read here and here.
UNC improved its record to 9-0 while the Scarlet Knights are now 7-4.
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Redskins 22, Giants 10
The Giants didn’t do too well either, losing to Washington 22-10 and Jeremy Shockey for the season with a broken leg.
“Manning had a horrible night, completing 18 of 52 for 184 yards in a game in which his receivers dropped at least eight passes.” Eli hasn’t got the sure-handed receivers his brother does and it was painful to watch him hit guys on the hands and in the chest only to see them drop the damn ball.
On a positive side, Brandon Jacobs did run for 130 yards on 25 carries.
The Giants can still clinch a playoff berth by beating Buffalo next week. Hopefully they’ll get it done then because the final game of the season is at home against the New England Patriots who will probably be looking to finish an undefeated season.
Full story and stats here.
2 comments:
I watched part of that game..looked to me like Eli was playing apretty good game but he just doesn't have the supporting cast he needs..I had the Eagles picked for the upset..they usually play the Cowboys tough and I figure they are a better team than what the record shows..just as I figure that the Bucs are a mediocre at best team and if they were in any other devision they would be lucky to get a wild card shot..
I'm kind of ticked at Baltimore, though. How the heck did they ever sink so low as to allow the Dolphins to win--in over time no less--and after the Ravens QB got sacked to make their potentially winning field goal 9-10 yards longer than it should have been--and therefore a miss.
Guess it was the Dolphins week to get lucky.
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