2010/2011 College Basketball

[gunnar hendershow]

I am surprised at the amount of people who were riding ODU this tournament. I had a guy in a group have them in the Final Four before changing it to Elite 8. Butler's run last year almost had me putting them in the Final Four, but I couldn't bring myself to believe an 8-12 matchup in the Sweet 16 and an 8-10 in the Regional Final was plausible.

Really hoping for the Belmont upset here.

Jimmer's heating up, no way I see the Wofford game staying as close.

[phatman]

Just you watch, Wofford is gonna come out of halftime on fire

Nah but in all seriousness, I just want to see BYU fail miserably after they kicked Brandon Davies to the curb for having premarital sex... It is ridiculous in this day and age that, that could be a reason to dismiss someone... Maybe it's just me but the BYU Honor Code has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of for a college to institute to its students...

[Meacon Keaton]

Yeah, but in their defense, he knew about the Code before enrolling there. Rules is rules.

[phatman]

Yeah I get that rules are rules and he knew and he really only has himself to blame for it...

I just don't like it

[sahyder1]

Heck, if anything I applaud BYU for enforcing it in this situation and possibly giving up a deep run in the tournament. Nice to see a school not have a double standard with its policies.

Edited March 18, 2011 by sahyder1

[phatman]

Wofford are an annoyingly bad shooting team, I'd hate to be the coach of them... Uconn got a very good win over Bucknell, Walker once again did his thing and nearly picked up a triple double...

[sahyder1]

Great finish to the Michigan State game. Really wanted to see them finish off the comeback. Absolutely love Izzo. Great coach.

[gunnar hendershow]

I think we got all the tournament's buzzer beaters out of the way by dinner time today.

[naiwf]

St. John's really shouldn't have done Rutgers dirty. One of their top players got hurt in the next game and they never won again. Back to obscurity they go without their seniors.

Edited March 18, 2011 by naiwf

[sahyder1]

Villanova and George Mason are headed to a great finish on TNT and fittingly Gus Johnson is on the call.

[naiwf]

Gus Johnson should call all of the games. HA HA!

EDIT: Who's the most overrated coach in the nation? -> Jay Wright, Jamie Dixon or Rick Pitino?

Edited March 18, 2011 by naiwf

[sahyder1]

Arizona/Memphis tied at 65. Jim Burr is working the game as one of the officials. Hopefully no one steps out of bounds.

[Trey]

Gus Johnson should call all of the games. HA HA!

EDIT: Who's the most overrated coach in the nation? -> Jay Wright, Jamie Dixon or Rick Pitino?

Rick Barnes?

I don't know as I don't watch, but he seems to catch a lot of crap.

[GoGo Yubari]

Not exactly the best win for UW but a win nonetheless. Hopefully we've gotten the nerves out of the way with that awful stretch in the first half, luckily Georgia completely and totally failed to take advantage of it.

[livid]

Gus Johnson should call all of the games. HA HA!

EDIT: Who's the most overrated coach in the nation? -> Jay Wright, Jamie Dixon or Rick Pitino?

Despite my distaste for him at the moment (had Louisville going to the title game), Rick Pitino is far from overrated. Once you've taken three different schools to the Final Four, you've earned enough cache to have disappointing showings and still be considered one of the best coaches in the country.

[naiwf]

The Big Least is now guaranteed to have 7 teams out by the end of play tomorrow. Two teams are through no matter what because of the two Big East on Big East matchups, and Pitt and Notre Dame could go either way. Even if they both win, getting 4 Sweet Sixteen teams out of 11 somehow seems pretty weak. I don't know what's worse, the laughably bad rep Big East football has or the amount of failures Big East teams have once they stop playing the Big East schedule.

[naiwf]

Temple's play in the 2nd OT tonight should be studied for decades to come as the definition of what NOT to do when your season is on the line in the NCAA tourney. They slowed the pace to a crawl and didn't pick it up even when they were down two possessions. They missed layups. They missed free throws. Then to top it all off when they were only down 3 with time to get the ball back, they fouled and made it a 5 point game with about 30 seconds left. They need to burn that tape.

EDIT: lol, Pitt. Committing a foul about 85 feet from the hoop to lose the game after you had a chance to win it from the free throw line could only happen to these losers.

Edited March 20, 2011 by naiwf

[sahyder1]

That Pitt/Butler finish was one of the most insane things I have ever watched in sports. Hats off to the officials for calling it though.

[Meacon Keaton]

Pitt chokes at basketball much like they do at football. And to think I originally had them in the Final Four.

[naiwf]

If the Rutgers/St. John's guys had been working that game, Butler still would have won by 1. . . . but they simply wouldn't have called either foul and would have already been on the way to the strip club by the time this one actually finished

Charles Barkley and the Big East haters must be loving these first few days of the tourney. The Colonial is doing about as well as the alleged best conference in America.