NCAA BB Tourney, Saturday 3/18 Round of 32 Games Thread
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Knowing a little of your coaching involvement with HS & college basketball,
This NCAA season must be a basketball high for you?
Enjoy…
Knowing a little of your coaching involvement with HS & college basketball,
This NCAA season must be a basketball high for you?
Enjoy…
Step....Coaches are never happy! I was happy for about 20 minutes after the A@M game...then started thinking about Texas. We win tonite, I will be happy till tomorrow. But yes, Shrew has done a great job, already thinking about next years team. Still pissed that he called TO at the end of the Purdue game when Funk already had the ball in his hand. We win that game and we are a 4 seed at worst. But, it is what it is...don't know what to expect tonite, other than I know we will play really hard, have only seen Texas play last weekend when they destroyed Kansas, they are FF good.
Kar and I don’t watch the games for fear we’ll throw a jinx into the mix.
Daughter in Alabama wanted to know why we weren’t watching. I was hoping we got the Birmingham, AL location….
daughter lives about two hrs away.
Duke Tennessee just tipped. I was at Tennessee when Dale Ellis was NPOY, good gracious me Dale Ellis could play some damn fine basketball. Coach was Don DeVoe.
For reasons I’ve never explored, as they are irrelevant, I tend to not root for either Maryland or Tennessee. Today promises two exceptions.
For reasons I’ve never explored, as they are irrelevant, I tend to not root for either Maryland or Tennessee. Today promises two exceptions.
While Maryland’s in the discussion: Bias was better than Ellis. Bias and Kenny Durrett, the two greatest college players I’ve seen.
Wow! Nerds leading Missouri at the half 33-26.
Maybe, just maybe you don't have to be a BB stud to win this tournament.
Maybe, just maybe you don't have to be a BB stud to win this tournament.
Day 3 musings:
--It's uncanny that 85% of the NCAA Tournament games that I've been to have been decided by 10+ points. Today's was my first that I've attended since 2010 and unless my team makes it, which likely will be never, I might go back to sitting it out. Only reason I went today was because they were the standalone early games. Had they been night games, I'd have skipped them.
--Defense travels. It was men amongst boys out there in both of my games. I picked SD State to the Elite 8 because they pride themselves on their defense and if they ever get things cranking on the offensive end, they become a wagon. Tennessee turned it into a physical game and Duke wasn't equipped for it. Roach getting his 4th foul so early forced Scheyer to go zone and Tennessee ate that alive. I give Barnes **** for coming up small often but he had them ready for that zone and they carved it up.
--Fundamentals. I harp on them all the time. Make your layups and free throws. Check your defender on the boards. Make the easy pass. Limit your turnovers. Kansas missed a pair of front ends of 1 and 1's up by 4 with about 4 mins left and I was like, 'uh oh, they're in trouble'. Then on the biggest play of the game, they can't get a boxout on a free throw and Arkansas goes back to the line for the points needed to play the end game correctly.
--If a NJ school gets a 15 seed next year, I'm just gonna go ahead and advance them to the Sweet 16. One of the things I loved as a player was that moment when you broke another team's spirit. It didn't happen for me too many times. But Princeton just destroyed Missouri's spirit and then stomped on it with those 3's every time Missouri got it to within 7 or 8. Gotta think Princeton would rather see Creighton in the next round rather than the bullying that Baylor might give them.
--The selection committee avoided having the entire city of Houston send them bags of dogshit for putting a 9 seed mere miles from their home. When Houston is all in like they were in the 2nd half, they can't be beat.
--Penn State's lack of size finally caught up to them. If Rodney Terry doesn't get the Texas job permanently, then they truly have idiots in that athletic department. He came up with the perfect setup on offense and Disu executed over and over again. Gotta hand it to the Lions though because a smallish offense like theirs that relies so much on the 3 is going to flameout spectacularly more often than not. Texas knew to keep Funk under wraps the most and it led to him having a pretty quiet game.
--It's difficult to win games when you only have 2 players on offense. But damn, Audige and Boo Buie almost carried NW over the hill. UCLA just had too many clutch playmakers in the big spots. Just hope that Singleton's injury is just a roll because him being out on top of Jaylen Clark's injury will really hurt UCLA against TCU/Gonzaga.
--Say what you want about Brandon Miller's situation around the on-campus shooting (and if you read the article in the Tuscaloosa Patch that just dropped this weekend, you may get a new opinion about the whole thing), but he is the #1 pick in the draft in June. That play where he had the block and then the 3 on the next sequence was very eye-catching. Bama is as good as they come when they hit on all cylinders like they have many times in this last month of the season. That game against San Diego State next week is going to be war.
--It's uncanny that 85% of the NCAA Tournament games that I've been to have been decided by 10+ points. Today's was my first that I've attended since 2010 and unless my team makes it, which likely will be never, I might go back to sitting it out. Only reason I went today was because they were the standalone early games. Had they been night games, I'd have skipped them.
--Defense travels. It was men amongst boys out there in both of my games. I picked SD State to the Elite 8 because they pride themselves on their defense and if they ever get things cranking on the offensive end, they become a wagon. Tennessee turned it into a physical game and Duke wasn't equipped for it. Roach getting his 4th foul so early forced Scheyer to go zone and Tennessee ate that alive. I give Barnes **** for coming up small often but he had them ready for that zone and they carved it up.
--Fundamentals. I harp on them all the time. Make your layups and free throws. Check your defender on the boards. Make the easy pass. Limit your turnovers. Kansas missed a pair of front ends of 1 and 1's up by 4 with about 4 mins left and I was like, 'uh oh, they're in trouble'. Then on the biggest play of the game, they can't get a boxout on a free throw and Arkansas goes back to the line for the points needed to play the end game correctly.
--If a NJ school gets a 15 seed next year, I'm just gonna go ahead and advance them to the Sweet 16. One of the things I loved as a player was that moment when you broke another team's spirit. It didn't happen for me too many times. But Princeton just destroyed Missouri's spirit and then stomped on it with those 3's every time Missouri got it to within 7 or 8. Gotta think Princeton would rather see Creighton in the next round rather than the bullying that Baylor might give them.
--The selection committee avoided having the entire city of Houston send them bags of dogshit for putting a 9 seed mere miles from their home. When Houston is all in like they were in the 2nd half, they can't be beat.
--Penn State's lack of size finally caught up to them. If Rodney Terry doesn't get the Texas job permanently, then they truly have idiots in that athletic department. He came up with the perfect setup on offense and Disu executed over and over again. Gotta hand it to the Lions though because a smallish offense like theirs that relies so much on the 3 is going to flameout spectacularly more often than not. Texas knew to keep Funk under wraps the most and it led to him having a pretty quiet game.
--It's difficult to win games when you only have 2 players on offense. But damn, Audige and Boo Buie almost carried NW over the hill. UCLA just had too many clutch playmakers in the big spots. Just hope that Singleton's injury is just a roll because him being out on top of Jaylen Clark's injury will really hurt UCLA against TCU/Gonzaga.
--Say what you want about Brandon Miller's situation around the on-campus shooting (and if you read the article in the Tuscaloosa Patch that just dropped this weekend, you may get a new opinion about the whole thing), but he is the #1 pick in the draft in June. That play where he had the block and then the 3 on the next sequence was very eye-catching. Bama is as good as they come when they hit on all cylinders like they have many times in this last month of the season. That game against San Diego State next week is going to be war.
Having attended the Kansas / Arkansas game, I have to say that Kansas fans are among the most knowledgeable I've ever met.
Unfortunately they are also the whiniest.
Arkansas had three guys foul out and two with 4 fouls. Kansas had one guy foul out and two with 4 fouls. And they did nothing but ***** about the officiating the entire second half.
Unfortunately they are also the whiniest.
Arkansas had three guys foul out and two with 4 fouls. Kansas had one guy foul out and two with 4 fouls. And they did nothing but ***** about the officiating the entire second half.
That’s Carolina fans for me. Not necessarily a duke fan but if you ask any of the Carolina fans that I know if Duke is breathed on they call a foul on North Carolina and you have to basically assault Carolina player to get a foul call.
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