Offical NCAA Tournament thread

[MuggsyB]

I used to not stand them until my Daughter Graduated from there. Do not hold it against me.

No worries!!

[MarquetteMike1977]

Rutgers first tourney win since 1983.

[JWags85]

Iffy travel call, but Brownell choosing to play it out there was moronic.  Rutgers was still in the bonus. Extend the game. At very best, once you corral a rebound on a miss they would have 5 seconds to try to turn it up floor and score. Just brain dead.

[MuggsyB]

I'm impressed with Winthrop. Nova will have to earn this one.

[MuggsyB]

Iffy travel call, but Brownell choosing to play it out there was moronic.  Rutgers was still in the bonus. Extend the game. At very best, once you corral a rebound on a miss they would have 5 seconds to try to turn it up floor and score. Just brain dead.

Totally agree.  Why would you risk them scoring with under 10 secs left to make it a two possession game?

[forgetful]

I'm impressed with Winthrop. Nova will have to earn this one.

Winthrop is focusing on just staying in front of their man and allowing sickouts. Nova shooting lots of 3's and have missed a number of wide open ones.

Nova has a fight on their hands.

[MU82]

JRE needs to operate inside. He is nifty in there, a good passer, good at drawing fouls.

Every time he takes a 3, he does Winthrop a favor.

[MuggsyB]

Good win for Nova.  They stopped settling for threes and pounded the ball inside in the 2nd half.  It's never bad when you have 6 turns, only 2 live ball.

[MU82]

Good win for Nova.  They stopped settling for threes and pounded the ball inside in the 2nd half.  It's never bad when you have 6 turns, onlt 2 live ball.

Yep. One second after the bracket was announced, a zillion talking heads screamed, "Winthrop will beat Villanova!" As if there couldn't even be debate about the subject.

Glad Nova won, played decently all night and very well down the stretch.

[MarquetteMike1977]

Yep. One second after the bracket was announced, a zillion talking heads screamed, "Winthrop will beat Villanova!" As if there couldn't even be debate about the subject.

Glad Nova won, played decently all night and very well down the stretch.

Happy For The Big East Villanova Won!

[MuggsyB]

Congrats to Huggy on his 900th win.

[GooooMarquette]

Dear Coach Izzo,

Next season, please do something to get the ball out of the hands of all your bad players so good players like Joey can do all the shooting.

That might sound selfish, but Joey is really only thinking of all the other good players like him.

Love,
Mommy and Daddy Hauser

So you were accidentally copied on the email too, huh?

[Billy Hoyle]

Oral Roberts like 47 years between wins

ORU 47 years, Oregon State 38, Drake 50, Rutgers 30+, North Texas never. What a great day!

[Lennys Tap]

Two biggest upsets? ORU and NTSU. Both head coaches were assistants to Bryce Drew at Baylor. People assume he cheats because he wins at a non blue blood. Maybe he's just that good at coaching basketball.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Two biggest upsets? ORU and NTSU. Both head coaches were assistants to Bryce Drew at Baylor. People assume he cheats because he wins at a non blue blood. Maybe he's just that good at coaching basketball.

Maybe, but its not just fans who say that about Drew. His peers say that as well.

[MuggsyB]

Hoyas look overmatched early.

[MU82]

Colorado's getting the same wide-open 3s that Cain, Elliott, Garcia and Carton were. They're hitting all theirs, we hit none of ours.

Colorado also is better at many other aspects of basketball than this season's Marquette team was ... so there's that!

[MuggsyB]

Wow.  Gtown getting smoked.  Colorado 11-16 from distance.  But these are wide open threes.  Gtown can't guard 5 out.

[Mr. Nielsen]

11 made three's by Colorado. Tough to overcome.

[MuggsyB]

Colorado's getting the same wide-open 3s that Cain, Elliott, Garcia and Carton were. They're hitting all theirs, we hit none of ours.

Colorado also is better at many other aspects of basketball than this season's Marquette team was ... so there's that!

Colorado can play 5 out AND look really good defensively.  They have owned the defensive glass.  Gtown looks completely lost on both ends of the floor.

[MUeng]

11 made three's by Colorado. Tough to overcome.

two different teams playing in this one. Not competitive.

[NickelDimer]

This is not the same Georgetown team that won the BET. They don't look nearly as hungry

[MU82]

Georgetown is just not very good, and we all knew that. A hot month against mostly meh competition didn't suddenly make Patrick Ewing a great coach or his players world-beaters.

This was the easiest 12/5 game to pick. I didn't hesitate for one second in writing down Colorado. At least the other three made me think for a minute (and I'm 1-1 so far, obviously didn't think Tennessee would get smoked).

[forgetful]

Two biggest upsets? ORU and NTSU. Both head coaches were assistants to Bryce Drew at Baylor. People assume he cheats because he wins at a non blue blood. Maybe he's just that good at coaching basketball.

People say he cheats, because it is well known that he cheats. But that just gets players through the door. Getting them to win, also requires that he is good at coaching basketball.

One doesn't preclude the other.

[MuggsyB]

Georgetown is just not very good, and we all knew that. A hot month against mostly meh competition didn't suddenly make Patrick Ewing a great coach or his players world-beaters.

This was the easiest 12/5 game to pick. I didn't hesitate for one second in writing down Colorado. At least the other three made me think for a minute (and I'm 1-1 so far, obviously didn't think Tennessee would get smoked).

I actually changed my pick to Colorado after your advice.  Ty.