OT: NCAA Tournament Round of 32 Day 2 Open Thread

Submitted by OccaM on

So Izzo n co are giving UVA all they can handle right now. Come on UVA get your shit together! 

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CR7

March 22nd, 2015 at 2:13 PM ^

Somebody answer this for; why has getting to the rim NOT been the offense for UVA? They've gotten a layup or a foul every time.

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CR7

March 22nd, 2015 at 2:22 PM ^

That's all I could think of but it doesn't take much to say 'hey guys, they're in foul trouble and you can get to the basket whenever you want. So do that'. I mean, FFS, Brogdon had Nairn on him and Anderson had Forbes on him. Why are you NOT taking advantage of that?

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victors2000

March 22nd, 2015 at 4:58 PM ^

This isn't one of his better teams and they got it done. Sparty played a great game, Virginia was never comfortable playing, and State kept them at distance the whole game. Say what you want about the refs but there were plenty of calls against the Spartans; 19 to 18 actually.

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CoachBP6

March 22nd, 2015 at 2:13 PM ^

Get ready for Michigan state in the final four and everyone talking izzo up like he's some kind of god. How did they get such an easy fucking draw? Un-ucking-believable

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Victor B

March 22nd, 2015 at 9:21 PM ^

Hollis can't influence State's seeding. He is not in the room when they discuss MSU and as a matter of fact it might be the whole conference. Last year Msu got screwed on their seeding getting a 4 seed in the what many experts thought was by far the toughest region. In 09 they had to beat the overall 1 and 2 in the regionals. This year they were under seeded and had to play the ACC reg season champs in Charlotte.

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umumum

March 22nd, 2015 at 2:21 PM ^

MSU was under-seeded and got the purported No. 1 two-seed in the second round.  That doesn't make it an easy draw.  Virginia shooting like crap might be fortuitous.  As whiney as Izzo can be, there are times he deserves some of the credit he gets.  At the beginning of the year, many on this Board were certain the Spartans wouldn't even make the tourney.

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Pinky

March 22nd, 2015 at 2:34 PM ^

Please.  Their first two opponents both had major injuries, the one-seed is a perennial tourney choker, and now all that stands between them and a Final Four is a 10-loss Oklahoma and the winner of NC State-Louisville.  It's hilarious and it happens every year.  

Michigan's draw as a 4-seed in 2013 was far more difficult.

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OccaM

March 22nd, 2015 at 2:19 PM ^

Well now we know why they're changing the shotclock to 30 seconds... Teams like Virginia make college basketball embarrassing to watch. 

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ghost

March 22nd, 2015 at 2:21 PM ^

Whoever wins this region will get hammered by Duke/Gonzaga/Utah.  Committee did a really awful job with this region.  Its a complete joke.

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Big Blaze

March 22nd, 2015 at 2:22 PM ^

Maybe you guys are too young, but I have sparty in the final four. They just don't go down in March, I don't know what it is.

Can't wait for Trice and Dawson to graduate.

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nickexperience

March 23rd, 2015 at 2:10 PM ^

According to ESPN, Izzo is in a three-way tie for most NCAA tournament victories as a lower seed. Izzo, Rollie Massimino, and Lute Olsen all have 11.

In 18 trips to the tournament, he's lost to a lower seed 5 times out of 38 opportunities for an 87% win percentage. The most recent of which ended up winning the championship. 

His average seed in the tournament is 5. The historical win percentage for that seed is 52.6%. At an overall winning percentage in the tournament of 73.3%, I'd say he's exceeding his seed expectation rather handily.

Hate him all you want, but trying to impune his tournament track record is a fool's errand.

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aanii

March 23rd, 2015 at 8:04 PM ^

Uhm, i'm not sure where you get your statistical information, but that could not be farther from the truth.  of all coaches with his length of tenure Izzo has the top PASE (performance against seed expectation) in all of CBB.  IIRC, Brad Stevens' percentage was slightly better, but only after 4 or 5 years.  Izzo is above K, Roy, Self, etc.  He's taken two 5 seeds to the final four for god's sake.  

It's also worth noting that Beilein is right up there with him, just with a smaller sample.  But they are both among the top ten tourney coaches in basketball.  Just because you don't like them doesn't mean you need to make shit up.  

 

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freejs

March 22nd, 2015 at 3:16 PM ^

Sparty is about to go from being underrated to being overrated. 

That was a good matchup for them. 

They have some pieces and Izzo has done a great job building guys into their roles, but they're still not that talented a team. 

After getting over my total depression that UVA just did that horseshit, I started to get a sneaking suspicion that they may be about to regress to their mean. 

They hit a lot of big shots, UVA missed almost all their big shots, and they always welcome a pitched battle. 

Don't sleep on the opposition they face next. 

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