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The Official March Madness discussion thread

Discussion in 'Other Sports Forum' started by King Felix, Mar 15, 2009.

  1. Boik14

    Boik14 Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    UCLA/VCU is a physical game. Typical Ben Howland team, cant score to save their butts; theyre done next round anyway.

    Gotta love what WKU is doing to the Illini. That was my 5-12 upset. Picked that and the 10-7 upset (Maryland over Cal)....

    Missed Clemson, Butler, and BYU but had all three of those teams out next round anyway...
     
  2. Fin-Omenal

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  3. Brown42000

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    Illinois and Akron are my losses so far. Akron **** the bed once the 2nd half started.
     
  4. Dolphinsfan69

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    I missed on BYU, Clemson, and Illinois. Had all of them out the next round anyways. My upsets tomorrow are Cleveland State over Wake, USC over BC and Utah State over Marquette.
     
  5. Boik14

    Boik14 Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Tomorrow I have:
    Louisville
    Sienna over OSU
    Utah
    Wake
    WVU
    Kansas
    Michigan State
    USC
    Utah State over Marquette
    Missourri
    Syracuse
    Arizona State
    Xavier
    Oklahoma State
    Pitt
    FSU

    Hopefully 16-0 :)
     
  6. Regan21286

    Regan21286 MCAT's, EMT's, AMCAS, ugh

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    That's not exactly true. They're a much better shooting team than previous years when Shipp and Dragovic light it up (2nd in the nation in FG%). They don't score a lot in the paint but Villanova's got an equally small team themselves. Only thing I'd worry about is the home court intangible they'd have.
     
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  7. byroan

    byroan Giggity Staff Member Administrator Luxury Box

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    VCU should have won. You have to do better than 72% from the FT line.
     
  8. Fin-Omenal

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  9. Boik14

    Boik14 Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Maybe I phrased it wrong. Howland's Pitt teams also had inexplicable scoring droughts at key points in the game making games unnecessarily close or leading to unnecessary losses. Last night was a key example. They're also a very good defensive team that struggled to replace Love's rebounding all year. :wink2:
     
  10. Regan21286

    Regan21286 MCAT's, EMT's, AMCAS, ugh

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    No they shouldn't have. UCLA got sloppy and let them back in but for most of the game we were in charge. UCLA's defensive tempo is aimed at wearing you down and FT% is a result of that. Plus 72% from the FT line is about average for college basketball teams. Even the best ones only shoot 75-79%. So that's hardly to blame.

    I don't doubt that since the offense does lean a bit towards transition baskets, slashing, and 3's. The one wild card here is Josh Shipp as well as the bench. It wasn't just Love but also Mbah a Moute. Dragovic is a perimeter guy so rebounds aren't in his favor plus Aboya's a hustler but can't do it all. Still, against a similarly sized Nova team, the minuses are a bit mitigated.
     
  11. Boik14

    Boik14 Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    For those who cant watch right now:

    Cuse rolling over Stephen F Austin 59-39 with 2 mins to go
    Kansas by 5 with about 8 mins to go
    Marquette by 1 over Utah State with 11 mins to go
    Oklahoma state by 4 with 8 mins to go
     
  12. phunwin

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    I LOVE the first 4 days of the tourney. This year, I just left at noon on Thursday and Friday. Hell, I make money hand over fist for my office, they'll deal.

    Good to see Cuse advance, but YUCK. Great for about the first 25 minutes, but they sucked for the last 15. But, a win's a win.
     
  13. phunwin

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    Illinois losing was so predictable that I predicted it in all 3 of my brackets. WKU is a certified giant killer, and Illinois was vulnerable. In a related note, NDSU is giving Kansas all they can handle right now.
     
  14. Dolphinsfan69

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    I now have a mancrush on this big guy from Utah State. He is just so fundamentally sound. Great post moves, good shot, 83% free throw shooter. Utah State took their first lead of the game, and have increased it to 6 with 4:26 left.
     
  15. DonShula84

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    Come on Utah St!!!!!!
     
  16. DonShula84

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    Damn
     
  17. Vengeful Odin

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    Solid opening games again today. Both the Utah St./Marquette and Oklahoma St./Tennessee games came down to the buzzer. I had picked Utah St. and Tenn, so of course the let me down.

    And KU doesn't know how to stop guard penetration, apparently.
     
  18. pennphinfan

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    thanks for sticking up for the bruins Regan. I couldn't find this thread until today (why it's not in the college sports thread confuses me... ah well)

    anyway, yeah one can't really say that UCLA can't make a shot to save their lives, when they're one of the best shooting teams in the nation. MAYBE if you only watched the pac-10 tournament and/or were told about it by the 'analysts' you'd think that the bruins shot 25% from the field the entire season or something, but it is far from that.

    What I don't like about recent ucla games is that the refs we pull never just let the teams play. (no i'm not saying that they're being unfair either way, last night was a pretty equally called game.. except for some of those 'fouls' on maynor.. but I'm not gonna gripe about a win) anyway, it seems like the gameplay stopped every 30 seconds, regardless of who was getting the foul called, while in the other games yesterday the refs were letting teams play. it just makes for such a better game to watch when someone isn't constantly on the line.

    now granted, ucla plays aggressive defense, so there will be more blocking fouls and such, thats completely understandable. but these ticky tack calls in transition are just dumb.

    and as for VCU "should have beat" us.. thats not really true at all. If anything, American "should have beaten American", as they lead for so long and just played stupid towards the end. Had maynor made that shot on the last play then, yes, they should have won, because then they'd have scored more points. but they didn't.

    unfortunately, I don't see us matching up well against Nova, and will most likely lose in the next round. However, as we saw yesterday, Nova is by no means unstoppable, so hopefully we'll get a good game out of it.

    /end rant
     
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  19. Brown42000

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    And they still managed to lose the game. Ugh. Utah State and Tennessee are my two losses so far today, not a good start.
     
  20. King Felix

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    go sienna, dayton, and portland state! those are my upsets
     
  21. Regan21286

    Regan21286 MCAT's, EMT's, AMCAS, ugh

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    No prob. I'm used to being on an island when defending the Dolphins among people I associate with so it's a change of pace I guess. But it's good to have backup though especially when people keep counting us out. :up:

    I'm not as miffed about fouls since with all refs, it's bound to happen.

    Villanova wore down a lesser conference team in American that was very prone to fatigue considering the talent level of the players and history. The one weakness in UCLA is against size, one area where I wished 5 star prospect C Morgan could be in better physical shape to help us in (he's looked good on both ends with some nice moves in the post in limited minutes). Villanova doesn't have size so it's mano-a-mano between guards, which comes right up Collison, Holiday, and Malcolm Lee's alley.
     
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  22. phunwin

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    Got to love CBS. ETSU is within 3 of Pitt with 8 to go, and I'm getting the Cornell/Missouri game, where Mizzou is up 12 with 7 to go. Apparently our geographic proximity to Ithaca, NY is significantly more reason to watch than the potential history of a 16 beating a 1 for the first time ever.
     
  23. Vengeful Odin

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    Not to rub it in, but this PITT / E. Tennessee St. game is pretty incredible. I can't believe that E. Tennessee is still in this game.
     
  24. phunwin

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    Thanks. It's like they're trying to blackmail me into buying DirecTV's March Madness package.
     
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  25. Vengeful Odin

    Vengeful Odin Norse Mod

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    Dont' feel bad ... this one is over. The end score will make it look lopsided, but it came down to the last 2 minutes of the game.
     
  26. byroan

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    Doesn't really matter. They won't win against Nova.
     
  27. byroan

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    Watch the game for free!

    http://mmod.ncaa.com/

    Quality has been great. A slight delay between the game and a scoreboard on another site though.
     
  28. King Felix

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    so far im perfect today as long as dayton holds on
     
  29. DonShula84

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    WVU hurts, I had them winning a couple. :pity:
     
  30. byroan

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    I have Dayton in my CBS bracket. I'm doing horrible in the Yahoo one.
     
  31. PSG

    PSG Clear Eyes. Full Hearts.

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    If Utah St. would've pulled that off today, I'd be running the table in the first round.
     
  32. Regan21286

    Regan21286 MCAT's, EMT's, AMCAS, ugh

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    That's what people said about them against VCU. Bring it on.
     
  33. Dolphinsfan69

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    Thank you! People complaining about not getting certain games... they give them all to you for free online.

    Let's go Cleveland State. I picked you so I need you to pull this one off. Came out hot and been playing even with Wake after the initial 9-0 burst to start the game. Can't let up! Wake is too talented.
     
  34. Boik14

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    Come on Wake! I picked you so I need you.

    PS: Wake players, there's a cool $5 spot in it for each of you if I win the pool. On campus, that buys 1-2 meals or a 12 pack of Natty Ice.
     
  35. DonShula84

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    Wake Forest is putting a very large nail into my brackets coffin. This was ranked #1 at one point this season...?
     
  36. pennphinfan

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    oof. i had WVU and Wake to the elite 8 in my midwest bracket.
    <~~~~~~ OWNED.
     
  37. DonShula84

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    Same. :pity:
     
  38. Boik14

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    I had Wake in my elite 8. Epic Fail.
     
  39. Brown42000

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    Same here. :pity:
     
  40. BuckeyeKing

    BuckeyeKing Wolves DYNASTY!!!!

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    I had Wake winning it all well I'm done peace out.
     

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