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Super Bowl Sunday always throws a kink into the intramural basketball season, and 2010 is no exception. No games after 5 PM on Sunday due to kickoff means that a handful of White and Co-rec teams are on a bye, and the entire Purple league is taking the week off. That said, there’s still plenty to talk about, and plenty of rankings to re-evaluate. We’ve added last week’s scores into the rankings, so that all your info is now in one place. Of course, if you’re fiendin’ for more, head over to the NUIM site to find the mathematical power rankings.
Purple League
Dropped out: North Pole (1-1, Last week: Loss vs. Pike Garnet, 57-30)
On the Bubble: Old Balls (1-1, Last week: Bye)
Stock Up: Pike Garnet
Pike looked terrible in a Week 1 loss to ZBT, but has since added some firepower, and blew the doors off North Pole last Sunday, leaping them into the Top 3 this week. In their drubbing of North Pole, Pike went without leading scorer and point man Pat Garvin for the first half, and still built a double-digit lead before the break. A lot of that may have to do with the addition of Terrance Brown, a lanky grad student rumored to have played varsity ball at Vanderbilt before coming to NU to continue his studies and prey on unsuspecting frat boys with his smooth outside stroke. Brown, a hot commodity in IMs because of the limits on club players, had been moonlighting for the White League’s Dazzling Rainbows for the first few weeks, but made the jump to Purple last week before rosters were frozen. He gives Pike another ball handler to help Garvin, something they’ve been in desperate need of for two years.
Stock Down: Lodge
In what was without question the best game of the intramural season to this point, Lodge lost by 2 points in overtime to ZBT. The Lodge-Delt combo team saw a potential W go by the wayside when PG Tyler McGuire was called for a reach-in foul 30 feet from the basket as time ticked under 20 seconds in overtime, sending ZBT’s Nathan Enfield to the charity stripe for the free throws that sealed the game. Lodge is clearly athletic, talented, and intimidating, but also rarely organized and easily distracted, whether by the officiating or their opponents. Thanks to Super Bowl Sunday and a forfeit win in week one, Lodge will end up playing just two regular season games before the postseason, so a Valentine’s Day showdown with Pike looms large.
White League
Dropped out: JKFLB (2-1, Last week: Win vs. Maybe She Likes It, 49-43), Sigma Chi (2-0, Last week: Bye)
On the Bubble: Dynamic Mechanisms (2-0, Last week: Bye), DU me in the asquatch 1 (Last week: Win vs. Pike Pledges, 36-18)
Not as Bad as their Record: Maybe She Likes It (0-2), EQ Ballers (1-2)
You gotta feel for Maybe She Likes It. That, or you better beware, because this team is the definition of a sleeper. Currently, they sit below brutally bad teams like ZBT3, SAE Eta, and AEPi Challah Farmers in the NUIM power rankings. But MSLI’s two losses have come at the hands of Top 15 teams (Jersey Shore Blowouts, JKFLB) by a combined 8 points. Swingman William Perge can stroke the three and finish on the break, and if captain Paul Drake gets hot from three-point land, look out. EQ Ballers have had a similarly rough road to this point, losing to Beta A and Sigma Chi by a combined 11 points. In both losses, the Ballers led for at least 10 minutes, but sometimes struggle to find scoring beyond senior sharpshooter John Moore.
Not as Good as their Record: E3 (3-0), Pike All-Stars (2-0)
E3 is the beneficiary of a soft schedule. When the best opponent you face in the regular season is Twine Flu (presented by Golden Olympic), you’ll have a hard time impressing, and E3, ranked 13th in the NUIM rankings, has the worst official’s rating of the Top 16 teams that have played at least two games. Pike All-Stars barely squeaked out a 27-25 win over AEPi Tip-Offs in week two. That’s hard to do (like, it’s pretty difficult to only win by 2 against an AEPi team). Don’t fret if you end up opposite one of these teams come playoff time.
Week 3 Games to Watch:
#1 The Family Institute vs. #5 Evans Scholars, Sunday @ 2PM
#10 Footprints in the Jungle vs. The Fighting Chabraja’s, Monday @ 8PM
#4 Beta A vs. Sigma Chi, Thursday @ 6PM
Re: “When the best opponent you face in the regular season is Twine Flu (presented by Golden Olympic), you’ll have a hard time impressing”
Damn Abe, I didn’t know it was like that! My only wish is that the IM Gods put Twine Flu close to the Deep Friars in the bracket… Guess you missed our 51 point win this week. There’s a reason DU asquatch 2/3/4 and Sigma Nu are at the bottom of the rankings — We put ‘em there.
Abe, are you still upset about that time you went to the Ford Theater?
This article is a joke.
Another plus-28 victory for Twine Flu. Still gonna sleep on us Abe? With a loss factored in, we have the same point-diff as Deep Friars. Sure our sched hasn’t been the toughest, but we’ve gotten the job done. And that ugly E3 game that you did the scoreboard for – if we’d won by just 1 point, we’d be a top-5 team in the standings right now. Think on that!
“There’s a reason DU asquatch 2/3/4 and Sigma Nu are at the bottom of the rankings — We put ‘em there.”
DU 2/3/4 and Sigma Nu just played a game that ended with less than 20 points scored from the teams COMBINED. They just suck.
Nick is right – Twine Flu is not a team to be overlooked. In their wins they are a combined 159-37, that is pretty impressive. However, DU asquatch 2/3/4 and Sigma Nu are horrible teams.
I don’t care about this twine flu team, i’m scared of having to play minority report in the playoffs. were they missing a bunch of playersduring their first loss?? Also I think Dazzling rainbows are overrated.
along with minority report, i think sae, beta, and evans scholars are the other teams to beat