And down goes UNC...
First - U of T
Second - Houston
Third - A&M
Go Blue!
Seems like it, lets just hope A&M doesnt play as well against us . Go Blue !
After watching the Aggies dismantle the Tar Heels, I'm not so sure I'm happy about the upset...
UNC can't shoot. Plus their defense is poor. This won't be a cakewalk.
They can't shoot and their defense is poor, yet they were somehow a 2 seed. Something isn't adding up.
Tom Izzo's formula, apparently.
I thought Izzo’s formula was roofies and Zima
Kenpom #7 or #29. I’m goin with 29 so I’m very happy about this upset.
Yeah I think the worse team had a better day today. Hopefully they cool off before they face Michigan - it's a bit scary to face a hot, hot team.
And that’s what A&M is thinking about us
Hot in the coldest way possible. We aren’t playing well, shots aren’t falling (except that one!), just getting by if you ask me.
yea, if you listen to the broadcasters on the final play, their tone of voice implied that they had ZERO confidence in UM hitting that shot, with how poor our shooting was all game.
you can feel it, the energy is palpable, when a possible comeback/walkoff play is in the air, and to be honest, prior to the inbounds it felt like there was zero chance--the team was too cold/not really that pumped--for that shot to go in.
and i'm a hardcore "we're gonna come back, just wait for it" for all UM FB and BB, probably because when I was a kid the first season I watched was 1997 FB (i cut out all the sunday paper photos and recaps and everything).
hopefully the numbers pay off and there's a statistical correction (like that houston player's season 67% FT shooting regressed towards the mean and his missed those last two free throws, priorly shooting 9/9, 100% before then), and Michigan returns to form after such a slow/bad shooting start.
for Texas A&M.
But they somehow manhandled us and is ranked #9 by KenPom after the loss today while TAMU is only #24.
I think we'll matchup vs TAMU much better than UNC did.
And that worked out well for them in their two meetings with us. Transitive property is officially worthless in college basketball
Their guards aren’t great and they shot really well tonight, they’ll regress against us
It's hard not to shoot well when you are just laying the ball in the hoop from 6 inches away.
I like our chances v aTm better than vs chapel Hill, but the Aggies look legit too
I'd rather Michigan play A&M than UNC also. Hopefully I don't rue my words, but A&M doesn't appear to have a lot of offensive firepower based on season stats. Michigan will have to shoot a LOT better than they did in the first round, but if they can manage to get hot it could be a comfortable win. UNC was a scary good offensive team that went ice cold today. A&M is no slouch team though, and their defense is legit, so I wouldn't underestimate them.
I think TAMU is a better matchup for us.
We'll never know the answer one way or the other, so it's just time to
Good. Fuck North Carolina.
They have some bad losses and great wins. Their front line is tall and tall and athletic. DRob MSU have his hands full.
They don’t really shoot much from three but clean the boards and scrap.
were draining threes all day long today.
in both 3-pointers per game and 3-point percentage. Seems like they had a paticularly hot game because they clearly weren't draining them like this all season.
They are hard to figure out. This team seems dangerous.
We need Beilein to work some wizardry and Mo needs to get hot.
Texas A&M has a player named DJ Hogg, that is all
How did Arkansas blow that recruitment? I mean, come on...
I'll see myself out.
Wow, could this weekend be any better?
Michigan wins at the buzzer.
UNC loses, which improves UM's chances of getting to the Final Four.
MSU and OSU lose.
Hockey gets a 2 seed in a decent matchup.
House money at this point. What a weekend!
Tigers beat the yanks in Spring Training. Oh.....wait, sorry BB.
Well...that was yesterday. And the Yanks had a grand total of two starters in the lineup.
Nah, let the Bombers lose a couple of games. They'll survive.
beat baylor!!
Beat me to it.
Ask again after the women's BB team beats Baylor.
A&M hasn’t had many games with their full set of players available, which is why I think they ended up underseeded.
Teams with 12 losses aren’t under seeded.
Maybe wrong word choice there. Appropriately seeded based on their resume, but moreso meant that were they to have there full complement of players all year, they likely wouldn’t have lost that many and would have been seeded higher. Essentially, don’t feel their current seed is reflective of their present talent level. I think they were a top 10 team earlier this year.
So they are kind of peaking at the right time. Kinda sounds familiar.
But they also lost one of their starters to a season ending injury and booted a rotation player off the team. Injuries and suspensions hurt them, but they aren't really closer to full strength now than they were most of the season.
Couldn't have asked for anything better.
For me, there is my fantasy weekend with about twenty Victoria's Secret models. Yeah, but this was pretty good for a sports weekend.
Sounds fun for about 30 seconds.
March 18th, 2018 at 10:05 PM ^
What, exactly, are you planning on doing for those other 25 seconds?
A&M has some size out there and a legit defense. Will probably end up being another slog. Would love to see the outside shooting finally get hot.
of the performances in this tournament are baffling. I am wondering if Virginia and NC are getting a close look in the FBI probe. Both of those teams looked distracted to the point of disinterest. On the hand, MSU looked interested, they just suck.
It's funny. UNC clearly cheated in the classroom, but as far as the one-year rentals of one-and-dones are concerned, they don't seem to be at the level of Duke, Kansas, and Kentucky. (Oh, and Sparty.) I'd guess that they're cheating _less_ than those schools.
I've never had the sense that UVa is cheating.
Could be a good match-up for us. UNC was like 5-30 from three and TAMU shot something like 10-23. That's the difference in the game right there. We guard well against the three and typically shot well from three.
...But Brian said UNC was going to be there no matter what
/s