The BIAH Quotables

This a new feature we are trying out here at BIAH this season. Throughout the week, we are going to post some notable quotes or excerpts that show up in our google reader. Stupid people say stupid things 24 hours a day, and being somehow associated with the college hoops landscape does not preclude that fact. That said, we will not limit our quotables to the simple and idiotic, as the insightful and intelligent will also be highlighted. Feel free to pass along any quotables you stumble across to contactbiah@gmail.com or hit us up on twitter.

No team has been more red-hot over the past week or so than the South Florida Bulls. Dominique Jones and his near-30 ppg have carried the Bulls to four straight conference wins, none bigger than the 72-64 victory over the #8-ranked Georgetown Hoyas.

Head coach Stan Heath has nothing but praise for Jones:

Dominique Jones is just the straw that stirs the drink for our basketball team.

Well that's an interesting way to put it, but he's absolutely right.

Jones was more than fired up after the victory in D.C. in which he scored 22 of his 29 points in the second half:

I've done been everywhere the past two years -- Big East -- they see us lose and they just say all kind of things. I'm not a person of revenge, but it feels good to look in those same people's faces, like, 'Hey, I'm laughing at the end of it.'

Eamonn Brennan has another way of describing Jones:

He sort of plays the way I assumed highly recruited Cincinnati forward Lance Stephenson would play -- physical, face-up, I'm-going-to-the-hole-now-try-to-stop-me sort of stuff. Stephenson has that potential, but Jones is already there.

10,000 people braved the Siberian conditions in the Nation's Capital to see #7 Georgetown defeat #2 Villanova, 103-90. Dana O'Neil was one of those brave people. Here's how she finished off her piece about the game:

The Hoyas slept in a downtown hotel on Friday night to make sure they could get to their game on Saturday, but once the win was in the books, they had to figure out how to get home.

Told some other undergrads walked from campus, Thompson smirked.

"That's a great idea; you guys can walk back with your classmates," he said.

No doubt their feet wouldn't touch the ground. Not after a win like this.

Seton Hall got smacked around by Pittsburgh for 40 minutes. The end result was a 83-58 laugher in Pittsburgh. Allot of things went wrong for the Pirates. But lack of discipline might have been the worst:

-Discipline. Jeremy Hazell responded to coming off the bench by picking up a technical foul as part of a double-technical with Jermaine Dixon, halfway through the first half.

Not to be outdone, Bobby Gonzalez wouldn't let Hazell tie him in technicals accumulated for the season as Gonzo responded with one of his own halfway through the second half.

Herb Pope was fouled and heading to the stripe with the Pirates trailing by 14 when Gonzalez felt it was appropriate to pick up a technical. You read that correctly.

Pope was fouled and getting ready to shoot two free throws when Bobby Gonzalez iced him, picking up a T, sending Ashton Gibbs to the line to shoot a pair of free throws for Pittsburgh. After Gibbs made one-of-two, Pope would get his turn to shoot the original free throws and bricked both. Gonzalez surely knows how to hurt his team at the most inopportune times.

North Carolina is in the middle of a gigantic downward-spiral. The last thing they need to do is let their minds stray elsewhere:

Ight I get the point Maryland fans y'all kno what hotel and room we are staying at

This is a tweet from UNC sophomore Ed Davis, clearly posted-up in a College Park hotel, twelve hours before a do-or-die road game versus the Terps.