NCAA Tournament

[brewcity77]

Funny you never really posted anything until they lost in the elite 8 with their best player playing at much less than 100%. If you were so confident, I should've hurt much more from you this season...

I'd have much more respect for you if you had some conviction throughout instead of just acting like a smug pretty boy when it's most convenient for you to be right.

Yeah, good thing MU82 didn't say anything about Houston possibly losing early.

I'm not gonna get snarky with you, just gonna implore you to look around at what's happening in the Big East and all of college hoops.

Even the top programs are losing to theoretically lesser teams or squeaking out close wins. I mean, if Houston has an early exit, the sign was there in their home loss to Temple

[panda]

Yeah, good thing MU82 didn't say anything about Houston possibly losing early.

Fair enough - I do my best to quickly scroll past all of his posts so I probably missed this one.

[Uncle Rico]

Fair enough - I do my best to quickly scroll past all of his posts so I probably missed this one.

Houston was clearly one of the best teams in the nation this year but weren't 2012 Kentucky or even 2018 Villanova. 

They played one of their worst games last night.  Miami did a heckuva job on the glass, particularly limiting Houston to only 9 offensive boards.  That's what impressed me most about Miami last night. 

The good news for Houston is, the move to the Big XII will probably hurt their overall record moving forward but should test them more before the dance

[panda]

Houston was clearly one of the best teams in the nation this year but weren't 2012 Kentucky or even 2018 Villanova. 

They played one of their worst games last night.  Miami did a heckuva job on the glass, particularly limiting Houston to only 9 offensive boards.  That's what impressed me most about Miami last night. 

The good news for Houston is, the move to the Big XII will probably hurt their overall record moving forward but should test them more before the dance

To that point, there wasn't a dominate team this year so I truly believed that a team with their guard play, athleticism, rebounding strengths and coaching could've taken that leap. They just never got the offense humming like I thought it could and the sasser injury down the stretch didn't help.

As for Miami, I can't believe the impact Omier had this year. Didn't miss a beat transferring and turned Miami into the team it is today.

[Uncle Rico]

To that point, there wasn't a dominate team this year so I truly believed that a team with their guard play, athleticism, rebounding strengths and coaching could've taken that leap. They just never got the offense humming like I thought it could and the sasser injury down the stretch didn't help.

As for Miami, I can't believe the impact Omier had this year. Didn't miss a beat transferring and turned Miami into the team it is today.

Yeah, I get the concept behind good guard play and they had it for sure.  The offense was always a concern to me, even with the guard play.  That's why I was surprised it was the defense that ended up letting them down.  Single-elimination tourneys are cruel

[panda]

Yeah, I get the concept behind good guard play and they had it for sure.  The offense was always a concern to me, even with the guard play.  That's why I was surprised it was the defense that ended up letting them down.  Single-elimination tourneys are cruel

Agreed

[Judge Smails]

4.6 is the average seed of the 8 teams remaining. We were so caught up in getting that 2 seed, yet all the #1s are gone and 3 of the 4 #2s are gone. Goes to show that seed doesn't really matter (at least this year). Just get to the tourney and then play well 

[mugrad_89]

Really looking forward to the UConn/Gonzaga game today.  The Timme/Sanogo matchup is gonna be fascinating to watch.

[Jockey]

Really looking forward to the UConn/Gonzaga game today.  The Timme/Sanogo matchup is gonna be fascinating to watch.

Neither will be able to stop the other.

[MUfan12]

Neither will be able to stop the other.

Gonzaga didn't shoot it great from three Thursday and UConn did. If both find the mean I think Gonzaga gets them.

[MU82]

Why does one have to put more weight on the other?  It was a great season and appreciate Marquette providing us extra games to watch in the tournament.  Much better than a short season with early exits in the tournaments.

Totally fair. There had been some what/if discussions, so that's where this came from, but you're exactly right.

[Jockey]

Gonzaga didn't shoot it great from three Thursday and UConn did. If both find the mean I think Gonzaga gets them.

Sorry. I was referring to the Timme / Sanogo matchup when I said neither could stop the other.

[MU82]

To that point, there wasn't a dominate team this year so I truly believed that a team with their guard play, athleticism, rebounding strengths and coaching could've taken that leap. They just never got the offense humming like I thought it could and the sasser injury down the stretch didn't help.

Except you said, repeatedly, that Houston was THE dominant team. Not even just the best, but the best by far! And when you got some pushback, especially on the "by far" part -- and not just from me -- you doubled and tripled down.

Look, you had a hot take that proved to be a not very good one. It happens to pretty much everyone here. If you own it -- instead of making excuses about it and/or fibbing about what others said at the time -- others will stop bringing it up.

[panda]

Except you said, repeatedly, that Houston was THE dominant team. Not even just the best, but the best by far! And when you got some pushback, especially on the "by far" part -- and not just from me -- you doubled and tripled down.

Look, you had a hot take that proved to be a not very good one. It happens to pretty much everyone here. If you own it -- instead of making excuses about it and/or fibbing about what others said at the time -- others will stop bringing it up.

I thought they could and they didn't. Go back to the hauser thread.

[MU82]

I thought they could and they didn't. Go back to the hauser thread.

Attaboy.

[panda]

Attaboy.

Looking forward to your next interesting post. I'll check back in a few years.

[MU82]

Looking forward to your next interesting post. I'll check back in a few years.

Attaboy.

[MuggsyB]

I know a lot of you are gonna be surprised, because I obviously love Nowell l. but the Owls are going to win this game and go to the F4.   It's a win/win either way but I prefer not to trifle with the mighty 🦉 species. 

[MuggsyB]

Wow.....big-time throw down there. 

[MU82]

Jerome Tang was an assistant to Scott Drew at Baylor for 2 decades before getting his first college head-coaching job at K-State. Did no P6 program show interest in him in all that time, or was it Roy-like and Izzo-like patience on Tang's part?

[MuggsyB]

Jerome Tang was an assistant to Scott Drew at Baylor for 2 decades before getting his first college head-coaching job at K-State. Did no P6 program show interest in him in all that time, or was it Roy-like and Izzo-like patience on Tang's part?

Good question.  Racism?

[mugrad_89]

Good grief - K-State has a 25 year old on their team as well.  This is beyond ridiculous.

[MuggsyB]

FAU is a really fun team to watch.  4 smalls.  Parr of the reason I think they have a great chance today is they have great team quickness and K.State cannot just isolate Nowell. 

[MuggsyB]

Nowell is a special player.  I don't think he can make the NBA but he's a heck of a ball player. 

[4everwarriors]

I'm not sure MU could have beaten either of these teams, hey?