Honestly, we have no hope if we play Louisville. It's not because of basketball skill, but because Pitino owns the referees. After they called the play below a foul, I realized that Louisville would never lose a meaningful game unless they played Duke.
March 21st, 2014 at 11:15 AM ^
Manhattan followed not long thereafter.
Today's buzzkill brought to you by Gustavo Fring.
Textbook perfect block. I still get mildly upset by this.
One sweet 16 team out, and another one pending if SDSU blows it.
THERE'S STILL A GAME GOING! GO AGGIES...AHHHHH
(I don't love March Madness or anything)
Only if St Joe and NC State could have held on their late game lead, I would have been 15 out 16 today. So close...
...15/16. Fucking Dayton killed my billion dollar bracket.
March 21st, 2014 at 12:13 PM ^
Today makes me appreciate last year's run even more. All the effort, all the passion, all the highs and lows and buzzer beaters and OT's by 68 teams to get a shot at the title . . . and only two of the 68 will make it.
We were one of those two.
I despise N.C. State. One of the biggest choke jobs I've ever seen.
March 21st, 2014 at 10:11 AM ^
As long as you don't lose Sweet 16 teams the first round is mostly irrelevant. I always do poorly in the first round and usually nail the Elite 8 and forward which puts me at the top of my pool.
Missed on St. Joe's and NC State. Doing okay so far. No billion for me though.
March 21st, 2014 at 10:27 AM ^
NC State missed on NC State. That and a ton of free throws.
12-4 on the day. Lost a Sweet 16 team in Oklahoma. Good day of basketball. Would have liked to seen NC St. and Cincinnati advance but I'll surivive...but probably won't be making much dough this year (though it's obviously too early to tell).
By contrast, Sparty scored 36 more points than us, but gave up 38 more.
After watching Louisville barely survive and literally claw their way back to win in the final 3 minutes, I'll take a pedestrian performance in which we won by 17. We were never outplayed. Many winning teams can't say that for good stretches of their games today, most notably, Louisville and San Diego State. Florida also struggled quite a bit until the later part of their game.
I certainly feel more confident about the rest of the tournament than any Louisville fan, which puts a smile on my face. Our shooting can't be that cold, though, and we can't let the pace get slowed down that much, if we want to get any further. Luckily, I don't think any of our next opponents would slow the pace at all (especially if we make it to the Elite 8 and meet up with WSU). Once the pace is ramped up, hopefully our shooting will ramp up with it.
Also, on a complete side note... it took me a solid two minutes to see the pirate in your avatar.
Michigan played good defense today. That's the silver lining.
15/16 on the day, which... I have no idea how that happened but whatever. The only one I missed on? Had Manhatten over Louisville. At least the close game validated my reasoning for picking Manhatten (except not really since I only picked them because screw the basketball god of Kentucky).
Regardless, I am entirely excited that the NDSU/SDSU from completely different states matchup held true. Thank you overtime.
OOOMMMMMGGGG stop posting your guys bracket results. No one gives a damn. All I hear tonight is randon people trying to tell me what their bracket is looking like. And considering the fact that the first round games mean so little for points whether you were 15/16 or 9/16 theres almost no difference.
OOOMMMMMGGGG stop posting your guys bracket results. No one gives a damn. All I hear tonight is randon people trying to tell me what their bracket is looking like. And considering the fact that the first round games mean so little for points whether you were 15/16 or 9/16 theres almost no difference.
Edit: You guys caused me my first double post !
How's your bracket looking???
Since you asked, I'll reiterate, 12-4, one Sweet 16 team gone, in Oklahoma. Overall I think I'm sitting okay. We'll see how it goes!!!!!
Or, since no one in India gives a crap about American college basketball (or basketball in general... or American sports not named tennis), I have no pool. I just thought I would inform you of how well my bracket that means nothing to me is doing.
You three can suck my unshaved balls.
You dont want people ranting about brackets and we dont want your shitty opinions.. Its a wash
March 21st, 2014 at 10:10 AM ^
I'm pretty sure "complaining/whining about people talking about brackets during March Madness" would be a 1 seed.
For those wondering, no, complaining about people talking about their fantasy football teams didn't make the 1 line. Dropped all the way to a 3. Tough matchup though.
"Complaining about people telling me to suck their unshaved balls" would be a tough out as a 13 seed.
March 21st, 2014 at 10:12 AM ^
Listening to people talk about their brackets at the bar during a game is high on my annoying list. People talking about their brackets in a thread... about the NCAA tournament... on a sports blog? Less annoying.
I can't disagree with this myself. However, I have no one here to talk brackets with even if I wanted to. This is the best I can do at the moment.
42nd in Draftstreet thing, too bad it resets.
I'll do us all a favor and leave my manifesto unpublished.
You're welcome.
". . . In fact, many games outside of the Illinois title game have shown us to be a poor defensive team that lives and dies by the 3 ball."
Every game we play shows us to be a poor defensive team that lives and dies by the 3 ball.
March 21st, 2014 at 10:24 AM ^
that caused Isaiah Cousins to foul Taylor Braun on the perimeter with Oklahoma up four and 32 seconds left in regulation.
Haha!
March 21st, 2014 at 10:02 AM ^
...at stake so a lot of people care this year.