Day 4 (Round of 32) NCAA Evening/Night Thread
Michigan vs. Kansas next Friday.
Here's the schedule for tonight:
7:10 PM | (15) Florida Gulf Coast vs (7) San Diego State* | TBS |
7:40 PM | (13) La Salle vs (12) Ole Miss* | tru TV |
8:40 PM | (7) Illinois vs (2) Miami (FL)* | TNT |
9:40 PM | (7) Creighton vs (2) Duke* | TBS |
ENJOY A RELAXING NIGHT OF BASKETBALL!!!
...and hoping I'm wrong.
Do you guys root for the underdog or for Coach Fisher?
March 24th, 2013 at 10:33 PM ^
He's very Denard-like.
FGCU underdog, easily.
As much as I'd like to root for Coach Fisher, I've gotta root for the underdog here.
KU it's going to be. Hoody hoo, that's going to be a tough game. Oh well, all the more to add to an impressive Elite 8/Final 4 run.
I think we're going to need Jordan Morgan to return to form and helping out in this upcoming game, not that I'm not stoked about McGary these past few games and for the future. His experience at the least will be beneficial in this HUGE game. (Here's to Jordan Morgan getting that head right and shedding any ankle issues still lingering.)
Welp, gonna be a tough one Friday. Go Illinois.
Hollins on fire all of a sudden for Gophers. Lead cut in half in four minutes.
they're undersized but man, can they fly. I kind of understand why Miami lost to them earlier this season.
I like the "Round of 32" name a lot better than "Third Round," which just confuses everybody. We should always call it that (and call the previous one the "Round of 64").
I refuse to use First, Second and Third Round...
Opening Round, Round of 64, Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final 4, Championship 2
the "THIRDie-Two Round" (32-round)
and the 64 Reasons (not to work) Round
Absurdly pro-Gator bias in the officiating in Austin. Has been all game.
Wow has Steve Fisher aged. He looks like Orville Redenbacher.
It's been like two decades, so...
March 24th, 2013 at 10:36 PM ^
Yeah, have you looked at yourself in the mirror? I don't think your mirror looks like it did 20 years ago.
March 24th, 2013 at 11:37 PM ^
It seems particularly dramatic in Fisher's case, though. Some of these other guys hardly seem to have changed at all. Coach K has looked about the same forever.
Here come the Gophers? At least they are showing some life.
They just all go to FGCU.
That's all.
A few fun stats in this one:
Florida Gulf Coast sporting a 64.6% effective field goal percentage. San Diego State is sitting at 48.3%. What has made a difference here - the Aztecs have been to the stripe twice as often as the Eagles, and FGCU has a few more turnovers (8, as opposed to 5 for SDSU).
There ae not egregious amounts of rebounding in this game, so there isn't much data, but the Aztecs are leading this battle on offense by a significant margin.
Refs are so inconsistent. They can ruin a good game.
Gophers on a nice run and have the Florida front line in foul trouble, so naturally Tubby takes everyone who can handle the ball or make a post feed out of the game.
Both teams were in the bonus with 11 minutes to go.
Your team is down 10-12 points, and not scoring. Put your best and hottest scorer back in the game! You won't win with him next to you with 4 fouls any more than you won't win with him sitting next to you with 5 fouls.
Unfortunately that makes every coach terrible. Except kind of Amaker actually. He kept that one guy in there in the 1st half when they needed him to keep them humming.
but when your win % is under 5%, it might be time to roll the dice a little.
i picked minny over florida in my bracket..it was a stretch but it seems it was not meant to be.
I just came back from the near future.
"I thought it'd be better to throw away the game by taking out the one guy we needed to continue the comeback rather than have him foul out in a tied game with 45 seconds left." - Tubby in the postgame presser
You're welcome.
Funny: Mr. Yost posts Morning/Early game thread. In said thread, Mr. Yost posts night game schedule for whoever is going to post the Evening/Night game thread to access quickly. Then Mr. Yost posts Evening/night thread.
You set yourself up for success on that one.
Also, I'm just finding a bit of irony, here. If this comes off as dickish, it's because it is, not because I meant for it to be.
I didn't think I'd be posting tonight, but we got 8" of snow and I'm not doing shit.
I thought about editing the old thread when I copied and pasted the schedule, but that was far too much work for something I really didn't care about.
No problem here either. Like I said, no ill will. Morning commute is going to be rough for most of us, tomorrow, I think. Yesterday I was outside playing basketball with no shirt and tomorrow I'll probably be wearing a wool coat.
FGCU is fun to watch in transition.
Wow. What just happened. I turned this off for 10 minutes to get some work done and FGCU is up 20? Crazy turnovers? Bunch of 3s?
today. They're outplaying SDSU. They're getting it done defensively and offensively.
FGCU has so much swag it's unbelievable.
Back in 2009: UF 94 - FGCU 60.
Florida Gulf Coast has revenge on its mind...
Amazing to think that we could potentially face a 15-seed if we beat Kansas.
March 24th, 2013 at 10:12 PM ^
March 24th, 2013 at 10:43 PM ^
thought when they played them. FGCU outplayed both of them badly.