New NCAA rules on exhibition games

yoda said:

Ooops….
After getting convincingly beaten by Lithuania’s “B” team, now there’s a report that Arizona’s head coach does not want to play their Senior National Team this Saturday and instead wants to substitute the “B” team
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Just like trying to schedule a bigger team here in the country. They wont play a team that they think might beat them.

yoda said:

Ooops….
After getting convincingly beaten by Lithuania’s “B” team, now there’s a report that Arizona’s head coach does not want to play their Senior National Team this Saturday and instead wants to substitute the “B” team
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if you read some of the Arizona media reports, they are pretty shocked and bummed that they got so easily manhanled by a bunch of no-names from theLithuanian taxi squad, when they all thought this first game against the "B" team was going to be an easy warmup for the two bigger games to follow. I read a few fan comments- and as expected it's all about how our guys were playing injured and the refs weren't fair,,,LOL.
(hint, the actual number of fouls was exactly the same on both teams and FT attempts were close to equal, while Arizona played their starters mid-season minutes - 133 min total, while Lithuania spread the playing time out and subs played almost half the game)

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If they do, that just sets the tone of this team and coaching staff IMO. Quit or look for easy way out when the going gets tough. What a joke.

Arizona played a much weaker opponent today, the Ukrainian National Team, who have never really been highly competetive
internationally like the Lithuanians always are. Ukraine's only familiar player is Maxim Klitschko, (he is the son of an international boxing legend) who plays for East Carolina University.
Arizona beat the Ukrainian team 107-85,
But check the stats- Arizona played their key players 30-34 minutes or so, while Ukraine played their starters 14-20 min and liberally played a bunch of subs as many minutes as the starters played like you'f do in a friendly exhibition....and yet this was still just a 12 point game in the 4th quarter.
So, I didn't watch but I get the feeling the Arizona coaching staff was going for the statement in this game and did not play it like an
exhibition ---- more like a post-season tournament game.

On paper, Arizona is still scheduled to meet the Senior National Team of Lithuania Saturday, but there's a
strong suspicion that it instead will be the B Team again like the Arizona coach suggested.
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Thursday evening game-- Oregon State wins 104-70 vs Univ of Victoria
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Remaining exhibition games, just 9 left- DI teams are 69-5
8/21 Oakland at Windsor Univ Noon Central LINK, CMU at Ontario Tech Univ. 1pm Central
8/22 Arizona in Lithuania vs Lithuania Senior National Team 10:30am Central - STREAMING, Oregon State vs Victoria 3pm Central, Oakland at Toronto Metropolitan U 5pm Central
8/23 Michigan in Lithuania & Croatia vs Lithuania National Team- LINK, Oakland vs Laurentian U 11:10pm Central LINK
8/24 Michigan in Lithuania & Croatia vs Lithuania B Team -LINK
8/27 Michigan in Lithuania & Croatia vs Serbia Mega Superbet

Foreign exhibition games today...
Central Michigan loses again- 61-57 in overtime to Ontario Tech University
CMU appears to be gonna have offensive struggles. They managed just 18 1st half points and shot just 27% overall & had 22 TO.
They lost their last game to Toronto Metro Univ 92-71 so they go just 1-2 on their exhibition tour to Canada.

Oakland beat Windsor Univ today in Canada - 85-72, so DI's are now 70-6.
Tomorrow- Saturday- and beyond...
8/22 Arizona in Lithuania vs Lithuania Senior National Team 10:30am Central - STREAMING, Oregon State vs Victoria 3pm Central, Oakland at Toronto Metropolitan U 5pm Central
8/23 Michigan in Lithuania & Croatia vs Lithuania National Team- LINK, Oakland vs Laurentian U 11:10pm Central LINK
8/24 Michigan in Lithuania & Croatia vs Lithuania B Team -LINK
8/27 Michigan in Lithuania & Croatia vs Serbia Mega Superbet