Posted on November 26, 2018

Weekly Updates – Week of November 26, 2018

Basketball – College: Gonzaga moves to #1. 4 ranked match ups this week.

Basketball – NBA: Willie Naulls dies at 84.

Football – College: 6 losses in the Top 25 and it was crazy!

Football – NFL: Chargers QB sets completions record.

Golf: Phil Mickelson beats Tiger Woods for $9MM.

Olympic Sports: Lecompte skips out. Lara Gut gets married. Shiffrin wins 3rd straight world cup slalom race.

Basketball – College:

Vanderbilt point guard Garland out indefinitely with meniscus injury.
Gonzaga moves to #1 after beating Duke.
James Wiseman, #1 recruit, signed with Memphis over Florida St, Kansas, Kentucky and Vanderbilt.

Willie Naulls died at 84 from a respiratory failure. He played in the NBA from 1956-66 for the Celtics and Knicks.
Bucks guard, Jodie Meeks, served 19 of his 25 game suspensions for failing a NBA/NBPA anti-drug program.

6 teams went down in the Top 25.
- #4 Michigan got slaughtered by #10 Ohio St. Harbaugh has yet to beat Ohio St even when they are ranked above them. Michigan was supposed to have the #1 defense in the country, but Ohio St managed to still score 62 points on them. Ohio St will go to the Big 10 Championship game
- #7 LSU lost to #22 Texas A&M in 7 OTs. Yes you read that correctly, 7. It tied the most in NCAA history and was the highest scoring game of all time. Click here for the highlights, because believe me, they’re epic.
- #8 Washington St got beat by their in-state rival #16 Washington. Washington will go to the Pac 12 Championship game.
- #13 West Virginia went down to #6 Oklahoma after a crazy shoot out in Morgantown. Oklahoma will go to the Big 12 Championship game
- #21 Utah St lost to #23 Boise St in a close one on late night. Although most people missed it due to the LSU/ Texas A&M game that lasted 5 hours.
GameDay will be live from Atlanta for SEC Championship game #1 Alabama vs #4 Georgia.
- For the full list of Championship games, see below.
ACC suspended 7 players from UNC/NC St game after a brawl broke out after the game. NC St won in OT 34-28.
Some coaching changes have been made since for some teams season is over
- Kliff Kingsbury got fired from Texas Tech after their loss to Baylor. Texas Tech went 35 -40 under Kingsbury over the last 6 yrs.
- Mack Brown is currently in the running for the UNC head coaching job. More details to follow.

Other losses in the top 25:

Jaguars benched QB Blake Bortles for Cody Kessler.
Philip Rivers, QB of LA Chargers, tied the record of 25 consecutive completed passes against the Cardinals.
Michigan LB Rashan Gary will forgo his senior season and enter the draft.
Division Leaders:
- - AFC
    - East – Patriots (8-3)
    - North – Steelers (7-3)
    - South – Texans (7-3)
    - West – Chiefs (9-2)
  - NFC
    - East – Redskins (6-5)
    - North –Bears (8-3)
    - South – Saints (10-1)
    - West – Rams (10-1)

Phil Mickelson won the $9MM PPV match play against Tiger Woods on Friday in 22 holes. He did lose $200k on the first hole after betting Woods that he would birdie it. Mickelson did win $600k of side bets as well. All of the side bet money will go to charity.
- Turner refunded people’s $20 after the streaming went down.
Belgium wins the World Cup of Golf with golfers Thomas Pieters and Thomas Detry.

Long distance swimmer, Ben Lecompte, gave up his attempt to swim the Pacific Ocean after a storm broke his support boat mainsail. He completed 1,500 of the 5k journey.
Swiss skier, Lara Gut changed her name to Gut-Behrami after her recent wedding.
Latvian long jumper Ineta Radevica failed an Olympic doping test. She won silver in Worlds in 2011 and 4th at 2012 games.
Mikaela Shiffrin won a 3rd straight World Cup slalom race.

Mon 11/26
- ND St at 3. Gonzaga @ 8pm
Tues 11/27
- 6. Nevada vs Loyola-Chicago @ 7pm on ESPNNEWS
- Indiana at 3. Duke @8:30pm on ESPN
Wed 11/28
- E. Kentucky at 6. Tennessee @ 5:30pm on SEC
- St. Peter’s at 9. Auburn @7pm on SEC
- Monmouth at 10. Kentucky @ 7:30pm on SEC
- 23. Purdue vs 4. Florida St @8:15pm on ESPN2
- 7. UNC at 8. Michigan @ 8:30pm on ESPN
Fri 11/30
- 9. Michigan St at Rutgers @ 5pm on BTN
- 22. Wisconsin at 14. Iowa @ 7pm on BTN
Sat 12/1
- UNC Greensboro at 10. Kentucky @ 12pm on ESPN2
- 19. Purdue vs 7. Michigan @ 2:30pm on ESPN
- 5. Nevada at USC @ 3:30pm on FOX
- Stanford at 2. Kansas @ 4:30pm on ESPN
- Stetson at 3. Duke @ 6pm on ESPN2
Sun 12/2
- Texas A&M CC at 6. Tennessee @ 11am on SEC
Mon 12/3
- 14. Iowa at 9. Michigan St @ 5:30pm on FS1
- Morgan St at 4. UVA @ 6pm on ACC

Thurs 11/29
- Warriors at Raptors @ 7pm on TNT
- Clippers at Kings @ 9:30pm on TNT
Fri 11/30
- Rockets at Spurs @ 7pm on ESPN
- Nuggets at Trail Blazers @ 9:30pm on ESPN

Football – College:

Top 25
Championship Week
Championships
Championship	Visitor	Home	Where	Day	Time (CT)	TV
MAC Championship	N. Illinois	Buffalo	Ford Field (MI)	Fri 11/30	6:00 PM	ESPN2
Pac 12 Championship	17. Utah	10. Washington	Levi’s Stadium (CA)	Fri 11/30	7:00 PM	FOX
Big 12 Championship	9. Texas	5. Oklahoma	AT&T Stadium (TX)	Sat 12/1	11:00 AM	ABC
Sun Belt Championship	Louisiana	Appalachian St	Kidd Brewer Field (NC)	Sat 12/1	11:00 AM	ESPN
Conference USA Championship	UAB	Middle Tennessee	Floyd Stadium (TN)	Sat 12/1	12:30 PM	CBSSN
American Athletic Championship	Memphis	7. UCF	Spectrum Stadium (FL)	Sat 12/1	2:30 PM	ABC
SEC Championship	1. Alabama	4. Georgia	Mercedes-Benz Stadium (GA)	Sat 12/1	3:00 PM	CBS
Mountain West Championship	25. Fresno St	19. Boise St	Albertson’s Stadium (ID)	Sat 12/1	6:45 PM	ESPN
ACC Championship	2. Clemson	Pitt	BoA Stadium (NC)	Sat 12/1	7:00 PM	ABC
Big 10 Championship	21. Northwestern	6. Ohio St	Lucas Oil Stadium (IN)	Sat 12/1	7:00 PM	FOX

If you are looking at this on Monday when it was originally posted, these are according to AP poll. CFP puts their rankings out on Tuesday, after which I will always update my posts.