Wednesday’s Den: Mid-week musings………

— UNLV 89, Northern Arizona 77
Lumberjacks led by 12 late in the first half.
Rebels outscored NAU 46-30 in second half.
UNLV were +8 in turnovers, scored 1.29 points/possession.

— South Dakota State 68, Kansas State 66
K-State was up 7 with 10:50 left in the game.
6-9 frosh Davis Kern scored 25 points, had 8 rebounds.
Excellent non-conference win for the Summit League.

— San Diego State 102, Cal State-Fullerton 78
Aztecs were 28-34 on foul line, scored 1.28 ppp.
San Diego State led 54-43 at halftime.
Latrell Davis scored 25 points for the Aztecs.

— Duquesne 78, Fort Wayne 71
Fort Wayne led by 6 with 11:29 left in the game.
Dukes shot 61.5% inside arc, Mastodons shot 31.4%.

— Boston College 76, Wagner 50
Luke Murray (Bill Murray’s son) wins his debut as BC’s coach.
Eagles started 4 seniors, only played 7 guys (8th guy played 7:00)

— Ohio U 28, Akron 20
Akron led 17-14 early in 4th quarter.
Bobcats had TD plays of 60-91 yards in the last 9:12 of the game.
Ohio U improves to 7-2; Zips fall to 1-8.

— Buffalo 34, Miami OH 31 OT
Buffalo QB Wright threw for 358 yards, two TD’s.
Miami led 31-16 with 10:00 left in the game.
Miami scored a TD on blocked punt.

— Famous birthdays, November 4th:
Ralph Macchio, 65
Eric Karros, 59
Carlos Baerga, 58
Matthew McConaughey, 57

Dez Bryant, 38
Jared Verse, 26
Tyrese Maxey, 26
Jalen Wilson, 26

— Seattle Mariners hired Jason Kanzler as their new manager; he was previously the director of player development for the Cubs. The 36-year old Kanzler has never managed at any level.

Seattle lost Game 7 of the ALCS in 2025, then went 76-86 this past year, so a change was made.

— In the NHL, Montreal was beating Winnipeg 4-0 with 3:00 left in the game; Jets scored four goals in a 2:08 span, then scored in OT to win 5-4, one of the best comebacks in NHL history.

— Top 4 teams in the hypothetical college football playoff bracket:

1) Miami
2) Georgia
3) Utah
4) Indiana

— Monday night in Norman, East Texas State posted a huge upset, winning 68-64 at Oklahoma; last three years, East Texas went 15-45 in the Southland Conference- this is their fifth year as a Division I team.

— Florida State fired football coach Mike Norvell; he gets $46M to go away. Former Seminole QB Rick Stockstill is the interim coach; he was pretty good when he coached Middle Tennessee.

— UCLA’s fontball team is 8-0 for the first time since 2005.

— Monday night, MAC/Sun Belt teams had a basketball challenge; MAC teams went 8-4 SU/9-3 ATS in those games, which were all in Sun Belt gyms.

— In the NFL, Gardner Minshew will start at QB for Arizona this week; Joe Fagnano will get his first NFL start, for Baltimore. 

Author: Armadillo Sports

I've been involved in sports my whole life, now just write about them. I like to travel, mostly to Las Vegas- they have gambling there.

Leave a Reply