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Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today.
March 15th, 2015 at 11:37 AM ^
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March 15th, 2015 at 10:49 AM ^
his parents were long-time season ticket holders, and his mom was battling breast cancer. Never seen someone get more hyped than his mom after burke hit that shot. it was pure euphoria.
It's still fun to think about that run and how special that was on so many levels. No matter what happens today, if by some stretch we end up on the fringes of the NIT or simply calling it a season, we do have this and all of its highs and lows. Thanks for sharing this.
I still remember very clearly going from zero to ecstatic the moment Trey's Trey fell in. My wife only remembers it because she was trying to sleep and shouted, "Will you shut the fuck up out there?" (small-ish house, you see)
March 15th, 2015 at 10:16 AM ^
Always remember that shot
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March 15th, 2015 at 11:02 AM ^
Definitely one of the longest in the air. Kansas must have been besides themselves; we never went away and died. So many times during that game a 'normal' team would have folded their tents knowing they simply didn't have the talent to keep up with the Jayhawks but even half dead our guys gave it their all. Amazing game.
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deleted later. His reply is to #17 as is yours. Unfortunately that make it look like he flamed someone else. if they delete a post they should delete all its replies too.
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March 15th, 2015 at 11:20 AM ^
I was in Playa Del Carmen in Mexico. It was not on any of the hotel TVs. Finally found a sports bar with it on with about 5 mins left. Just a few people watching. Everyone else just walking around, oblivious to an American college basketball game.
But when Trey's shot went in, I heard loud shouts from up and down the entire street. Somebody was paying attention.
My seven year-old daughter was watching with me, cheering on Daddy's Wolverines. When we won, I hoisted her on my shoulders and took her for "Elite Eight Ice Cream". She loved it. We had it last year too.
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March 15th, 2015 at 12:48 PM ^
I'm struggling to understand your frustration here. Are you honestly arguing that a team that lost half its games deserves a chance to play for the national championship? I'm about as a big a homer as you can find and I won't go that far.
To be honest, even I'm not sure what I was trying to say andI think I overstated what I was trying to say. No frustration, just musings about our strength of schedule. I definitely do not think we should be in the tourney with our record.
- FBS is only 130ish teams so 68 team tournaments would be insane
- Football is a lot more wearing on players so you need to keep the playoffs shorter
However, I am a really big proponent of giving all your conference champions in football access to a playoff or at least giving the champion with the highest ranking a spot
March 15th, 2015 at 11:20 AM ^
Come on, let's take off our maize-and-blue glasses. We went 16-16, and 8-10 in conference (9-11 including the BTT), have an RPI of 77, and have very few impressive wins. In no way can we stake a claim to be in the tournament.
March 15th, 2015 at 12:12 PM ^
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March 15th, 2015 at 11:19 AM ^
But it's never been about the top 68 teams; it's about some notion of promoting "fairness" for all of the crappy conferences to keep paying into the notion of amateurism. Sure there are non-AQ teams that are incredibly competitive, but for every Gonzaga or Wichita St., there are dozens of teams from the SWAC or Big South that are still part of the NCAA and need to feel their membership means something (and to justify the money they put forth as a member institution), so they get a chance to be sacrificed to Arizona every couple of years.
And to be honest, Michigan would still be a fringe team. Maybe they'd pull and upset here or there, but this team is kind of mediocre. Of course, it's mediocre with unheralded freshmen and numerous injuries, so it's damn impressive they are .500, but I don't have a problem with the system looking at Michigan and passing on them even if it was a "fair" seeding for all teams.
March 15th, 2015 at 11:23 AM ^
it's about some notion of promoting "fairness" for all of the crappy conferences to keep paying into the notion of amateurism.What? It's the small schools that are the biggest proponents of amateurism. They can't afford any more compensation to athletes than they currently offer.
That's my point. You need those teams to keep playing along with the idea that college basketball is still governed by amateurism and not the billions of dollars in advertising and revenue generated by a relatively small percentage of big-time programs. If they actually ranked and seeded teams according to the metrics used by, say, Bracket Matrix, then only a handful of smaller programs would get bids and a not-insignificat number of D1 programs would have virtually no light at the end of the tunnel to sell to recruits.
March 15th, 2015 at 11:08 AM ^
March 15th, 2015 at 11:14 AM ^
8:30 pm tonight on ESPNU and online at WatchESPN. It would be such a bummer for a team that has the potential to get in the field of 16 in the NCAA tournament not get an invite to at least play in the NIT.
March 15th, 2015 at 12:07 PM ^
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March 15th, 2015 at 12:29 PM ^
Sweet sixteen, is that better? I guess it won't be that sweet this year as we won't have a chance to be a part of it.
March 15th, 2015 at 12:34 PM ^
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March 15th, 2015 at 11:19 AM ^
For years this was my favorite week of the year. Starting today, worrying about where Michigan was going to get placed and how hight they'd be seeded. And taking Thursday afternoon and all day Friday off work and holing up in my basement with beer, food and a remote control to watch basketball from tipoff noon Thursday through the last game on Sunday. It was fantastic.
But sometime between 1998 and 2008 I stopped doing that. It just wasnt the same with Michigan not playing. The last few years I brought that tradition back (just as awesome as ever) but this year Thursday at noon will be just another day at work. I'm bummed.
I feel an atheist's kid on Christmas morning. All my buddies are getting presents and I'm not.
March 15th, 2015 at 11:32 AM ^
I originally went with Chanukah (or is it Hanukah?) but figured that the "8 crazy days" covered the presents pretty good. But atheist's kids are totally screwed present-wise.
March 15th, 2015 at 11:59 AM ^
Are there non-religious people who refuse to celebrate Christmas? That hasn't been my observation. Obviously, they wouldn't go to church that day, but I think they pretty much all still give presents.
I think the only people I've met in this country who don't celebrate Christmas at all have been Jewish or very devout Muslims.
March 15th, 2015 at 12:01 PM ^
who don't celebrate Christmas because of the ties to Jesus.
On the flipside, I know plenty of Christians who don't celebrate Christmas because it's not actually the day of this birth and it's origins aren't exactly Bible-based. On another flipside, if possible, I know atheists and agnostics who celebrate Christmas because they look at it as just a gift giving holiday and agree with those who say Christmas' origins are not Bible-based.
March 15th, 2015 at 12:29 PM ^
the concept of gift-giving at Christmas has little or no connection to celebrating the "birth of Jesus". In this country, the concept of Santa Claus doesn't surface until the 19th century, and Santa the gift-giver only dates from around the 1920s. So, yes, Christmas is celebrated by most (Christian raised) non-believers because it is not really deemed religious, but rather an annual celebration of the Winter season--akin to Summer Solstice.
March 15th, 2015 at 12:12 PM ^
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March 15th, 2015 at 12:02 PM ^
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My wife is a Dukie. So I get to watch the Selection show for the drama of whether Duke gets a #1 or #2 seed. After that, I get to sneak off and watch the NIT selection show (which I did not know was even a thing) to see if Michigan even gets in.
Not my proudest moment.
March 15th, 2015 at 11:19 AM ^
March 15th, 2015 at 11:27 AM ^
If Wyoming and Harvard stole NCAA bids, doesn't that push two NCAA-caliber teams down to the NIT level? How does that benefit us?
March 15th, 2015 at 11:38 AM ^
But in Wyoming's case, they were an NIT team but since they beat San Diego St (who was in the tournament regardless) they went to the NCAA tournament, leaving an extra space. It looks like Yale is in the NIT, so that doesn't make sense.