Other Saturday NCAA Games Thread
Baylor losing early will certainly help those of us who thought Kentucky will make a run. Imagine most brackets will have lost at least one of their final four teams if this happens
UNC looking really good, my bracket not so much.
vlady, i have no idea what you're talking about. my brackets look great. ship shape, hardly a blemish. really. just look:
My elite 8 is still alive and I have North Carolina winning! I also have Michigan winning so…..
Not a UNC fan, but Baylor is easy to hate.
Go Heeeeeels!!!
Yeah, I don't want Baylor to have nice things at all, so go Tarheels.
I find myself wanting Hubert Davis to succeed. I was a huge Dean Smith fan but came to dislike Coach Roy intensely. Never disliked UNC, however, with anything like the passion that I bring to my hatred of Coach K and Duke.
Having said that, I will look forward to seeing Duke defenestrate MSU tomorrow. Coach K can lose one later in the tourney.
Baylor's about this close to being done. The 2nd FF team about to go bye-bye for me.
I picked UNC over Baylor so I'm feeling better about Iowa/Kentucky in the FF now
very impressive game by UNC...up by 25 points on the #1 team in the region.
Down 25 with 10 to go. Goodnight, Baylor.
They mentioned Baylor not having their leading scorer for the first two games, but I still had them in the S16. UCLA winning today would me out of last place!
UNC doing that thing where they just shoot out of their minds and Baylor has no answer. Not a total shocker (I thought Baylor was the weakest 1 seed) but UNC is surprising me and could absolutely be a FF team.
BYU women up 1 on Nova at the half in Crisler. We should play the winner, barring complete collapse.
Sochan has been given leeway to be excessively physical (remember him just straight up two hand shoving a UNC defender on a rebound with no call) and UNC giving away fouls in frustration about it now, including a flagrant 2 to remove their best shooter on the day. Game is definitely not over yet.
Wow, Carolina both collapsing and getting absolutely jobbed by refs. Gigantic lead disappearing fast.
Wow refs trying to steal this game from unc
This is getting ridiculous.
Refs are absolutely handing this game to Baylor. I can't believe what I'm watching
ohhhh... this is getting interesting. Baylor only down by 11 and 2 UNC starters out of the game
This is one of the most egregious display of refs in a game I’ve ever seen. This is insane
I've watched a million basketball games. This is the most one-sided officiating I've ever seen. It's stunning.
Its definitely been one sided, but I am curious what calls were particularly bad?
Cause everything I've seen called hasn't been obviously bad calls...now whether or not UNC should have gotten a few more calls is another thing
Ejecting Manek was a joke.
seriously?
He swung his elbow back high and hit the guy in the face...totally unnecessary when you are up by 25
So it's fine if the game is closer? Regardless, that would be a flagrant 1 at most in the B10.
Wow, I guess we're watching a different game then.
- The second flagrant was absolutely ridiculous. The Baylor guy was the aggressor.
- Baylor has been pressing and reaching non-stop, yet EVERY call has been against Carolina
- Any time a Carolina guy so much as breathes on Baylor, they're calling a foul
- There's something wrong when something like 10 foul calls in a row are called against the same team, especially the team that's ahead (and less likely to pressure
the one where the UNC guy tripped the Baylor guy when we was getting up and trying to get into the play? Where a double foul was called until they looked at the replay?
As stated in my post, it has been one sided, UNC probably should have gotten some calls - but it's not like these were phantom calls on UNC
There was also the over-and-back when the Baylor player pushed the UNC player over halfcourt. Not only should that not have been a violation on UNC, I think at that point they were already in the bonus (or double bonus). And the out-of-bounds call when the Baylor player was on the line and touched the ball.
But I think the thing that stood out to me was the super intense full-court pressure from Baylor, and I don't think they called a foul on any one of them. Now, obviously we can't see all of those plays up close, but from watching basketball for years I haven't ever really seen that.
This would be a worse collapse than Michigan vs. IU!!
Turned the channel to Wrestling and missed all the physical violence in the bball game
How many calls in a row have been for Baylor/against NC?
Since when does the team protecting a lead commit all the fouls? It's just absurd.
Honestly, I don't favor either team here - no horse in this race.
If NC loses this game, it's a fucking travesty.
It's been pretty ridiculous. Remind me of us against Indiana. Yes, we shit the bed but also the game becomes officiated completely different, favoring the team down big.
Carolina was up by something like 27 at one point I think - way bigger collapse here.
Wow.
Holy shit! UNC can score! 5 on 4...but still!
UNC v Baylor like an NFL playoff game this past season.
Is it just me, or are the refs ignoring one foul after another on NC by Baylor players?
100% correct. Until they were just forced to call one on this And-1 and it seemingly backfired as they finally whistled as Backot was making that layup through all that contact.
This is what I've been seeing too. Baylor has been reaching and grabbing - literally almost intentionally fouling, and no calls.
This is wild.
Love the crowd energy pos & neg coming thru the flat screen!
Man these refs have been letting Baylor mugg NC the last 15 mins...not a fan of NC, but prior to his ankle injury, Mayer should have fouled out at least 3 times alone....garbage refs.
A fucking bank? Are you kidding me?
That guy has committed at least 30 fouls in this game, and then makes the miracle bank shot. Deal with the devil.
Nova women up 3 after 3. I think we should kill either team inside.
Down 22 with 12 min left. Now tied. Unreal.
Edit: Actually down 25 with 10 to go. Epic collapse and ref job.
These refs make me hate this sport...if NC loses I hope their coach goes nuclear in the post game presser.
Did anyone who’s been watching the whole 2nd half see the play which resulted in Manek getting thrown out? I didn’t see that.
A box out on a Dreb...his elbow came up high and hit Sochan pretty good.
Unintentional but they still called a flagrant-2. Not sure how. That officially started this comeback and officiating.
Was boxing out the freshman who fouls every two seconds. Inadvertent (in my opinion) elbow to that guy's face. Was an F1 that they called an F2 and tossed him.