Big 12 is the big conference.
LOL
and there goes the perfect bracket
I meant to say best conference.
Seems my fail is as bad as the Big 12's.
I picked them to win it all. Stupid.
but we both knew the first weekend would be the best, them being short handed and all...
yuck.
jdon
Graduated.
As a UD student this was HUGE. If we make the Elite 8, this campus will burn down. Anyone see what happened last night? Go Blue. Go Flyers.
Congrats, UD student. Should you desire a lesson on the destruction of furniture by burning, our "friends" in East Lansing have written a few books on the subject.
you give MSU too much credit. Writing a book ? Even reading a book is a bit much for them.
Not surprised at all. I just thought New Mexico would be the team to do it.
Ditto, and such a shame for my bracket.
9 teams in the S16 so far: 3 B1G, 2 AAC, 1 MWC, 1 A10, 1 Pac-12, 1 SEC.
Beautiful. My bracket could be better but at least I got the Dayton Stanford matchup in the sweet sixteen right.
You serious? Bold picks, wow. Impressive.
and I don't think it was particularly large leap of faith
For Dayton, they came in going 10-2 in their last 12. OSU and Syracuse were both awful on offense and bad to finish the year. Looked winnable for a hot Dayton team
For Stanford, New Mexico always seems flakey. And I thought I heard Stanford had two big men and with Embiid being out for KU that sounded like one Stanford could win.
Bill Self apparently has never seen a zone before.
Missing Embiid in the middle really hurt them. But they still had plenty of opportunities to seize the game late. But gotta hit your open shots.
The less good teams the better. Go double-digit seeded teams!
but in one-and-done a lot of stuff can happen. What would happen if Dayton played Syracuse 10 times? Cuse might win 7 or 8 or maybe Cuse just sucks that much right now
Some of the assholes on the RCMB never cease to amaze me. Every team Michigan has to play next, those morons on that god forsaken forum convince themselves that they will pound Michigan. It's also funny seeing comments like, "Now they have another easy road to the final four."
Last time I checked, we had one of the toughest roads to the title game last year.
RCMB is good for a laugh at their unbelievable stupidity, and that's about it.
Most of them would have offed themselves if Michigan had won it all last year. I read every round how Michigan wouldn't be able to handle the next team. It was hilarious. BUT the same thing could probably be said about comments how MSU will fall back to earth after winning the B1G in 2010 on here.
and we don't talk about them ad nauseum?
jdon
His comment was on the irrationailty, not the frequency.
of any of the top contenders to the FF, IF,if, if it is Virginia and Iowa State. Louisville- Witchita State and MSU-Virginia could be the best matches in Sweet 16. This has been a great tournament so far!
As someone who has Florida winning it all, this just made their road easier.
In 11 years Self and Kansas have had 2 inexcusable losses, lost to a Cinderalla once, lost to final four participants twice, lost to national title runner ups 3 times, been national title runner up once, and national champs once. We have to wait and see what happens with Stanford, but I definitely wouldn't say Kansas is usually a paper tiger.
Over the last thirty years (ever since Larry Brown, one of the true masters of self-promotion, was coaching there) very few schools have received love (from the press, etc.) out of proportion to their accomplishments more than Kansas.
In many years they beat up on an inferior conference, got a #1 seed, then played at least a few of their games in Kansas City during the tourney.
It's not that they didn't accomplish anything; rather, from all the good press you'd assume that they had multiple national championships. Not really.
they've won 2 NC's, been NC runner up 3 times, 8 total final fours and 12 total elite 8's. There's not many schools that can compare with that.
The 3 guys who could potentially go 1,2,3 in the draft are not making it to the Sweet Sixteen. It is always interesting to see that in this age of the one and done, very little beats experience and good coaching.