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Stinnett Named MVC Newcomer Of The Week...Again

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Max Univers
on January 7, 2008 3:28 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Over half of the times the MVC Newcomer of the Week award has been handed out this season, its gone to a Bluejay. This week, P'Allen Stinnett wins it for the second time. From the official press release:

    Creighton freshman P'Allen Stinnett has been named the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Newcomer of the Week. This marks the fifth time in nine weeks this year that a Bluejay newcomer has been recognized, and it is Stinnett's second accolade (also Nov. 12, 2007).

Before the season, there was excited talk about how P'Allen would be a special player...eventually. He showed flashes of it over the non-conference slate, with a bushel of highlight dunks and a couple of big-time performances in key games. But to win the award after a week in which his coach publicly called him out and threatened to bench him, a week in which a local radio host openly speculated whether he was on his way out and might transfer, and a week in which he fouled out in just 15 minutes...

Well, he just might be something special already. But don't take my word for it. LetsGoBears.com, a fan site of Missouri State, had this to say upon their first experience of P'Allen in person:


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Stinnett P'wns Other MVC Newcomers

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Max Univers
on November 13, 2007 5:37 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
As I predicted, not everyone agrees with me about P'Allen Stinnett's P'henomenal P'erformance on P'hriday, er, Friday.

From Sunday's Omaha World-Herald:


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Suddenly, This Vegas Tourney Isn't All That And A Bag of Chips

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Max Univers
on November 13, 2007 5:35 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
UPDATE: Apparently there are two tournaments at the Orleans Hotel in Vegas. One is over Thanksgiving, and is called the "Las Vegas Invitational", which is the tournament that Creighton was to have played in this year. The field this year includes North Carolina and Louisville. Next years' slate includes West Virginia, Iowa, Kentucky and K-State.

However, and this is where the confusion comes in, there is another tournament over Christmas called the "Las Vegas Classic", and this is the tourney where Creighton will be playing next year. I guess when they mutually decided to bump their appearance back a year, this is the tourney they were scheduled into. The field this year is clearly a notch below the "Invitational" field: Alabama, Iowa State, Missouri State, and Purdue. And next year, its Creighton, Fresno State, DePaul and St. Louis.

Hmm, you learn something new every day!

Back in May, Creighton pulled out of the 2008 Las Vegas Invitational. The tournament would have given them two home games against random sub-150 RPI teams, but provided they could beat those patsies, it also would have given them a Las Vegas matchup against North Carolina. Yes, THAT North Carolina.

Citing their lack of experience and a desire to play in the tournament with a stronger squad, the Jays pulled out. Here was AD Bruce Rasmussen's statement at the time:



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Basketball Times: Jays are Seventh Best in Nation

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Max Univers
on October 25, 2007 8:14 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Basketball Times Magazine runs a special report every five years that they call The Best Of The Best. Top Gun references aside, the report ranks only those programs who have won two-thirds of their games over the previous ten years. Duke came out on top in both the 1997 and 2002 rankings, and is once again top dog in the 2007 rankings.

What's more interesting is that our own Creighton Bluejays are ranked #7 in the 2007 list. Here's the top ten, which is a virtual who's-who of college basketball.

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