Final Four: Kentucky/Wisconsin [open thread] + Saturday Night Drinking Thread
Think the uncalled flagrant helped them at 56-60.
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Should be a tremendous offensive showcase. I know Duke crushed them earlier but I think the Badgers take it.
Think it's amusing that the two best college games of the last three years (this and the M/Louisville title game) both had absolutely atrocious officiating.
This Kentucky team would've had a couple losses had they played in any other league.
In miracles, but a heck of a win by wiscy
EDIT: oops, triple post. internet barely functioning in the hinterlands....
Some wonderful Kentucky schadenfruede.
Props to Wisconsin! Great season. Duke by 5 on Monday. 8 vs 5.
- Towns
- Lyles
- Booker
- Have to think the Harrison Twins finally go - their stock won't go higher. The older they get the less "upside". I dont see them improving their stock by staying. But they are sort of like GR3 - 2nd rounders most likely.
I think those 5 for sure - WCS is an enigma. Hard to read him. He *should go* but apparently really enjoys college.
the same thing.
Thank You.
This is not a Bo Ryan team sucking the life out of basketball and winning games 49-42. They deserve to be here.
1) Tragedy at the Trohl Center, over and over
2) Death to Backboards
3) Their style of defense (the Wisconsin chest) is super obnoxious
4) Before the last two years, they were a CHORE to watch. This is a much, much prettier flavor of Wisconsin basketball.
I went out to see some friends at Wisco a couple times while an undergrad, and it was always a great time. Their students were all very welcoming and made damn sure Madison was an epic, wild-ass time for people visiting.
So that makes it a lot easier to not hate Wisconsin sports.
But they're a fun team to watch now. It doesn't feel painful now that we don't have to watch them drain the clock and win games 45-42.
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Where's Ashley Judd now?
Getting botox
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Fab 5 live on!
Fab 5 live on!
But that was a delight to watch.
Hate to root for Duke, but this Wiscy team is an aberration from their usual mugging style of play. It will be back from the Wisconsinners.
Eh, I think it'd be pretty cool for our conference to win a national title, especially when it's not MSU or OSU.
Opening with send-up on NCAA tournament.
Have a great rest of the weekend.
And the fact that a slew of NBA guys just making their pit stop at UK lost to a bunch of homegrown Wisconsin kids makes it THAT much better.
Kentucky is designed that way is the difference. I don't blame Kentucky so much as the NBA for instituting the age limit and forcing kids who should not be in college (like Towns in particular) to hang around for a year.
Come on. MIchigan has never had a one-and-done under Beilein while Kentucky has had, what, 10 under Calipari?
The Michigan players you mentioned came to Ann Arbor, put in the effort, and developed from unheralded recruits (sans McGary) into top NBA prospects. With hard work and good coaching at the college level, they were able to put themselves in a position to pursue their NBA dreams.
Calipari's success relies on assembling elite talent far, far more than it does on player development and top-notch coaching.
A string of horrible calls that ended up playing into Wisconsin's favor.
Probably one of the most pathetic calls I have ever seen on the missed shot clock violation. It was clear as day.
They said no foul on the floor and reviewed it. Still said no call. What else can you do. The refs looked at it and saw the ball tip off the guys hand then smack the guy.
There was another call where the ball hit off Wisconsin and went out of bounds and they retained possession.
The flagrant was a judgment call. The shotclock violation was a textbook call.
Get the bad calls called on them earlier ended up working to their favor.
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I will admit I wanted to see Kentucky-Duke.
I thought the missed shot clock violation changed the game quite a bit.
They said no foul on the floor and reviewed it. Still said no call. What else can you doWatch it from the correct angle? The only explanation I can come up with is that they didn't. Let's not forget the ridiculous blocking foul on Kaminsky with 50 seconds left that allowed UK to cut the deficit to one point. Lots of iffy calls tonight.
One of the first angles they showed, to me it looked like the Kentucky guys' fingertips hit the ball in a weird way and then he followed through with his hand and hit the Wisconsin guy in the face.
Other angles it looked like he smacked him right in the face.
I didn't think there was any intent (pretty stupid overall to do something like that).
I could have seen a flagrant 1 called, but I also can see why the did a play on.
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