jinxypie
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Agreed.
Sucked to watch that game (as a Duke fan)... but still, I'm glad the regular season is over.
Let's bring on the ACC Tourney!
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2010-2011 NCAA Basketball Thread
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Agreed.
Sucked to watch that game (as a Duke fan)... but still, I'm glad the regular season is over.
Let's bring on the ACC Tourney!
Congrats to Indiana St. on winning the MVC conference tourney.
This probably means that Missouri St. will probably have to settle for a disappointing NIT bid this year; I just don't think their overall resume doesn't measure up to the other at-large teams currently in the bubble.
If you meant "bet", then that's a no. I don't really trust myself when in comes to gambling my money, except for the tourney pools.
This probably means that Missouri St. will probably have to settle for a disappointing NIT bid this year; I just don't think their overall resume doesn't measure up to the other at-large teams currently in the bubble.
If you meant "bet", then that's a no. I don't really trust myself when in comes to gambling my money, except for the tourney pools.
It going to be a tough call. There are more teams that can enter into the tournament this year than previous years. I don't see a 20 + team can not make the tournament.
gonzaga made a big impression tonight with the win over st marys.
Props to Butler, Arkansas-Little Rock, and Oakland (Mich.) on their tournament championship wins last night.
I guess it didn't surprise too many people that Butler won - their veteran experience is something that can be used as a major advantage against other teams in the Big Dance.
I guess it didn't surprise too many people that Butler won - their veteran experience is something that can be used as a major advantage against other teams in the Big Dance.
The St. John's-Rutgers contest today was terrific but the officiating at the end of St. John's' 65-63 win over Rutgers in the second round of the Big East tournament was embarrassing and inexcusable, and that's putting it nicely. Jim Burr, Tim Higgins and Earl Walton somehow missed St. John's senior Justin Brownlee travel and then step out of bounds with 1.7 seconds left and therefore committed what Big East commissioner John Marinatto later acknowledged were "two separate officiating errors." The blown non-calls cost Rutgers a chance to tie or win at the buzzer. They should cost Burr, Higgins and Walton future assignments.
maildude
Postal Paranoiac
Damn. Notre Dame is for real. Brey is starting to look like Digger Phelps. Five losses--two to top-20 teams, the others to quality programs. Are they the best team in the Big East, despite rankings? They already beat Pitt at the PEC. If they can thump Louisville, along with Pitt's loss to UConn....if they win the tournament...a number one seed...hmm...
maildude
Postal Paranoiac
Bucks pull it out in OT. UNC survives by the hair of their balls. X is upset.
So Providence decided to fire Keno Davis today and folks immediately started trying to explain why this didn't work. Among the common theories was because the Big East school hired him "with just one year of head coaching experience," which is both wrong and silly. Understand this: Davis didn't fail at Providence because he lacked significant prior experience. He failed at Providence because the school decided to hire the country's hottest young coach in April 2008 with little regard to how he fit with the Friars program. Davis was a bad fit - and I hope Providence realizes that before it lures its next coach. Hire somebody with experience if you want; I'm not saying that's the wrong route. All I'm saying is that projected greatness and fit are way more important than past experience, and you can look elsewhere in the Big East to see it. Pittsburgh hired Jamie Dixon with zero years of head coaching experience while Marquette hired Buzz Williams with one. Things seems to be going well for those two programs, don't they?
Bottom line, what somebody has done at another school is important, sure, but it's not nearly as important as what you think somebody can do at your school going forward.
Bottom line, what somebody has done at another school is important, sure, but it's not nearly as important as what you think somebody can do at your school going forward.
I don't think too many people thought that Wisconsin would lose in a 36-33 battle that would fit their tempo yesterday against Penn State. I guess you gotta give credit to both teams on their defense, but in the end, you just gotta make some big shots when it counts. Shooting 15 of 51 for the game will certainly put you in a tight spot, like it did for the Badgers.
Still, the Spartans should stay on alert for Penn State. Dangerous things happen to opposing teams whenever Talor Battle has the ball.
One question I have here: Who will score more points today: Jimmer Fredette, or the loser of the Michigan St./Penn St. game?
Still, the Spartans should stay on alert for Penn State. Dangerous things happen to opposing teams whenever Talor Battle has the ball.
One question I have here: Who will score more points today: Jimmer Fredette, or the loser of the Michigan St./Penn St. game?
Scarface7
Banned
Amazing comeback by UNC after being down 19 with 10 minutes to go in second half
Congrats to Memphis, Boston U, & Hampton on their automatic berths to the Big Dance.
Josh Pastner's life just got a lot easier thanks to Memphis' championship tourney win. This victory at least gives him some more time to prove to the Memphis fanbase that he is the long-term solution as the head skipper.
Josh Pastner's life just got a lot easier thanks to Memphis' championship tourney win. This victory at least gives him some more time to prove to the Memphis fanbase that he is the long-term solution as the head skipper.
Paul Hewitt was tied to Georgia Tech a little longer than he probably should've been because of a $7 million buyout that the school previously didn't want to pay and Hewitt was never going to walk away from, wisely. But Georgia Tech officials finally secured the funds to move their program in another direction after Hewitt finished with a losing ACC record for the fourth straight season, and the school confirmed his termination early Saturday.
Both sides will be better for it.
Georgia Tech is a good school and Hewitt is a good man, but this relationship needed to end. The two sides had become like a numb married couple that's only together because it's more convenient than separating, and that's not fun for anybody. So good for Georgia Tech, and good for Paul Hewitt. Today was an expensive day for the former and a tough day for the latter, but it's a day both clearly needed to arrive.
Both sides will be better for it.
Georgia Tech is a good school and Hewitt is a good man, but this relationship needed to end. The two sides had become like a numb married couple that's only together because it's more convenient than separating, and that's not fun for anybody. So good for Georgia Tech, and good for Paul Hewitt. Today was an expensive day for the former and a tough day for the latter, but it's a day both clearly needed to arrive.
Congrats to Princeton, Texas-San Antonio, and Akron on their automatic tourney bids.
Great buzzer-beater finish by Princeton's Douglas Davis; looks like Harvard coach Tommy Amaker would have to wait at least another year to recieve his first tourney bid as a head coach.
Great buzzer-beater finish by Princeton's Douglas Davis; looks like Harvard coach Tommy Amaker would have to wait at least another year to recieve his first tourney bid as a head coach.