2025 NCAA Tourney Thread

[MuggsyB]

Cryer is doing some really dumb things out there. 

[JWags85]

Not sure why you label Ole Miss as the one flagship from Mississippi. MSU is pretty much the same size, same endowment level, same R1 doctoral designation, and are in the same athletic conference.

Mississippi is like Indiana, Alabama, etc with two high-level public flagships.

Literally just went off of the designation in the earlier post.  Not trying to devolve into semantics.

Even under those, falls into that weird fluke like USC and UGA.  6 first round wins in their history. Moribund program until Erick Dampier put them on his back for 2 years.

[MuggsyB]

I'm in complete shock with both of these games.  I thought Auburn and Houston would win easily. 

[PGsHeroes32]

Got some good games today.

I keep thinking Auburn is gonna go on a run but they haven't yet. Might catch up with them

Houston looks like the usual flame out mid round Houston in 1 half.

Still think both favorites figure it out

[MuggsyB]

Wolf is schooling Auburn. 

[MuggsyB]

Got some good games today.

I keep thinking Auburn is gonna go on a run but they haven't yet. Might catch up with them

Houston looks like the usual flame out mid round Houston in 1 half.

Still think both favorites figure it out

Auburn looks ahell shocked to me. 

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

Every time I see Bruce Pearl I think to myself "this guy has a lot of vices"

Funny I think (in my best Bruce pearl voice) 'hey, does this beard make my face look fat?'

[PGsHeroes32]

Auburn looks ahell shocked to me. 

They do.

That Pettiford 3 was huge. Caused the classic Michigan unforced TO

Will find out quickly out of this TO if the Auburn run is coming

[MuggsyB]

They may have awakened.

[MuggsyB]

Big time shots from Pettiford. 

[PGsHeroes32]

Yup. The Auburn run

[Juan Anderson's Mixtape]

18-2 Auburn run in 4:32.  Turned a 9 point deficit into a 7 point lead.  From their largest deficit of the game to their largest lead of the game in the blink of an eye.

Edit: make it 20-2.

[MuggsyB]

Pettiford is a stud. 

[cheebs09]

Pettiford is possessed.

[MuggsyB]

Pettiford is possessed.

They had nothing going and then the young man decided to take over. 

[The Sultan]

So it looks like there will be an SEC team in each Elite 8 game. They could have four teams in the Final Four...or they could have none.

Pretty sure this hasn't happened before. 

[MuggsyB]

So it looks like there will be an SEC team in each Elite 8 game. They could have four teams in the Final Four...or they could have none.

Pretty sure this hasn't happened before. 

Having no teams in the F4 has happened. 

[MuggsyB]

This just got interesting.  Cryer has been an unmitigated disaster for Houston.  1 for 11. 

[MuggsyB]

Huge missed call there by the refs.  Should have been Purdue ball.  Wow. 

[MuggsyB]

Wow, just wow. 

[MuggsyB]

What a oob play. 

[Shaka Shart]

That play was awesome

[Dish]

So many college coaches run vanilla BLOB plays with no creativity to them. That was a masterpiece design by Kelvin Sampson and perfect execution by the Cougars.

[brewcity77]

Thinking this is the best Elite 8 ever.

• 8 of the top-9 in kenpom are alive.
• Alabama (+30.95 AdjEM) would've ranked #1 at kenpom in 3 of the last 5 seasons, this year they are #6.
• Only top-8 team missing is #8 Gonzaga, who was eliminated by Houston.
• The "worst" team left is Texas Tech (+27.79) who would've ranked #2 in 3 of the last 5 seasons.
• Tied 2007 for the lowest combined seed total in the E8.

[Uncle Rico]

Pretty disappointed the NCAA made it clear to the umps not to allow Big Ten teams to win last night so it was only SEC teams left