NCAA Afternoon Open Thread

Submitted by samdrussBLUE on
Don't know why this isn't created yet.

+1 for the "is that a deal breaker?" Commercial. It's funny

LordGrantham

March 20th, 2014 at 12:36 PM ^

I have Dayton in the Sweet 16.  I really need them to win considering my house in on the line this year.

Tuebor

March 20th, 2014 at 2:30 PM ^

Simple.

 

In 1999 and 2002 Cincy was a C-USA team.  In 2004 and 2006 Mark Dantonio was the head coach at Cincy and Tress wanted to help his former DC out by allowing him to lose a game in the shoe.  In 2007 Brian Kelly took over at Cincy and built them into a scary opponent.  The reason OSU doens't play Cincy is the same reason PSU doesn't play Pitt, their fan base would go bucknuts if they lost.

ak47

March 20th, 2014 at 12:39 PM ^

Not going to lie, this game is mostly just making me depressed about Michigans defense.  But hey its still fun to watch osu struggle.

los barcos

March 20th, 2014 at 12:46 PM ^

gotten more mileage out of a 12 point game than della valla did after nebraska?  the way every announcer has talked about him since that game you would think hes destined for the an NBA lottery pick at the end of the year....

2Blue4You

March 20th, 2014 at 12:49 PM ^

Not sure if this was discussed at all over the weekend, but what is with the "Spartans Magic" shirts? Shouldn't it be "Spartan's Magic" or "Spartans' Magic" because it is possessive? I know we caught flack for the WE ON shirts but it was an acronym and clearly way beyond any Spartan logic just like Mike Hart's "little brother" anology that got turned into us calling them Little Brother for eternity.  

Not a huge fan of Adidas' canned sayings on shirts. Just not "The Wolverine Way" in my humble e-pinion.  

pinkfloyd2000

March 20th, 2014 at 12:54 PM ^

Interesting...Dayton is hanging very tough...for now, anyway.

I do expect OSU to win comfortably when all is said and done, but hey -- I recall saying that the last time they played Penn State, too. So who knows.

UMxWolverines

March 20th, 2014 at 12:54 PM ^

I have a feeling I'm really going to regret picking Wisconsin. I picked Ole Miss against them last year and I figured ''There's no way they can get upset again right?''

B-Nut-GoBlue

March 20th, 2014 at 12:55 PM ^

Good fun by Dayton here.  Big bucket by Ohio to stop the 9-3 run.

This game seems a toss up at this point.  Going to be an interesting 2nd half.  The longer Dayton stays ahead or even within a couple points I'm wondering if Ohio will start tightening up.

LSAClassOf2000

March 20th, 2014 at 1:01 PM ^

The one thing you can get so far from the Dayton / Ohio State game is that nobody apparently thinks that second chance shots will be all that necessary for this particular matchup. Combined, the Flyers and the Buckeyes have all of two offensive rebounds to 26 total rebounds. If Dayton can continue with a 3% or so edge in effective FG percentage, that could end up being the difference if other things don't suddenly come to life for Ohio State. Of course, there are 20 minutes left to play yet.