Saturday NCAA Tourney Open Thread

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March 17th, 2012 at 3:08 PM
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Saturday NCAA Tourney Open Thread

Well, I know the NCAA Tournament has lost a bit of its luster now that our beloved Wolverines are no longer in the running, but there are still games to be played and brackets to be (further) ruined.

Today's slate:

1 SYR 75 - 9 KSU 59
2 OSU vs 7 Gonzaga - Just started
3 Marq vs 6 Murray St - 5:15pm
4 Wisc vs 5 Vandy - 6:10pm
4 Ind vs 12 VCU - 7:10pm
1 UK vs 8 ISU - 7:45pm
3 Baylor vs 8 Colorado - 8:40pm
4 Louisville vs 5 New Mex - 9:40pm

Anyone see any potential upsets today?  I think the best shot at an upset would be New Mexico over Louisville.  Plus, if you agree with the analysts, Wisconsin winning would be an "upset".  Baylor could potentially lay an egg today too - they didn't look all that great on Thursday.  I was really hoping KSU would give Syracuse more of a fight.

GO BLUE

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March 17th, 2012 at 3:15 PM | Who cares (Score:-1 Trolling)
March 17th, 2012 at 3:21 PM | Yet you cared enough to click (Score:5 Normal)
mgokev
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Yet you cared enough to click on the obviously titled thread AND comment?

GO BLUE

March 17th, 2012 at 3:57 PM | "woe is me, Michigan lost a (Score:4 Normal)
orobs
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"woe is me, Michigan lost a basketball game.  Life just isn't worth living anymore"

March 17th, 2012 at 3:18 PM | Ohio vs Zaga... Both teams (Score:4 Normal)
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Ohio vs Zaga... Both teams shooting really well. Aaron Craft is of course getting away with murder as per usual.

March 17th, 2012 at 3:22 PM | Yeah, I have been surprised (Score:2)
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Yeah, I have been surprised at Gonzaga's apparent ability.  This is the first of them I have seen all season and they smoked WVU...

GO BLUE

March 17th, 2012 at 3:23 PM | Sullinger with 2 fouls in the (Score:1)
M Fanfare
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Sullinger with 2 fouls in the 1st half? What sorcery is this???

Hail to the college whose colors we wear,

Hurrah for the Yellow and Blue!

March 17th, 2012 at 3:26 PM | I was thinking about this (Score:2)
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I was thinking about this during our game yesterday - do you think there is an adjustment that teams from the B1G have to make when playing in the tourney with regard to physicality of play?  It's pretty well known that the B1G is a physical and "rough" conference, so with teams/players in that mentality would there be a higher propensity for what we would all consider "ticky tack" fouls that would otherwise be allowed in conference play? And do players have to scale back the contact to match the consistency of refs from other leagues?

That was a long winded run on but hopefully you see what I'm getting at

GO BLUE

March 17th, 2012 at 4:27 PM | There are no league specific (Score:1)
aiglick
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There are no league specific refs. They all officiate in many different leagues. May be true that refs call Big Ten games differently than other league games.

Here's hoping for a bright future. This team does try hard and I will continue to support them.

March 17th, 2012 at 3:45 PM | OMG (Score:1)
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How many times am I going to find myself rooting for the Buckeyes?? I should see a psychologist...

You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four. ~Dan Birdwell

March 17th, 2012 at 3:23 PM | Go Zags! (Score:1)
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Go Zags!

Former Buckeye Antonio Pittman on being a poster child for compliance: "This osu tattoo stuff is silly. Cats been getting hookups on tatts since back in '01."

March 17th, 2012 at 3:28 PM | Buckeyes losing would brutalize my bracket (Score:2)
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But it'd be some damn funny Ohio karma.

Not sure 4-5's are really upsets, though technically.... Kenpom loves Wisconsin though....not underdogs there at least.

Murray State not a 3 though...6 I think.

"I love him, he's a great coach, he's a great mentor, he's a great friend. He's every single thing you want a college coach to be, and he does it flawlessly." -David Molk

March 17th, 2012 at 3:31 PM | Gah, typo.  Thanks for the (Score:3 Normal)
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Gah, typo.  Thanks for the catch.  I think Murray State is the toughest team to figure out.  Solid record, lowly competition, are they actually good? I guess we'll find out

GO BLUE

March 17th, 2012 at 6:03 PM | Random. (Score:1)
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In the tournament it's hard to know how good a team is even after they've won or lost.

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March 17th, 2012 at 3:29 PM | Watch out for Iowa State (Score:1)
NateVolk
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Watch out for Iowa State tonight. They have good size, good athletes and know what they are doing as far as sharing the ball.  They slapped an admittedly shakey UCONN team around on Thursday.  

Keep Kentucky on upset watch.

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March 17th, 2012 at 3:37 PM | Craft & the Rubik's Cube (Score:1)
San Diego Mick
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Yeah, so I'm thinking ohio provides a class in Rubik's Cubeness, maybe Urban can post that on a wall

March 17th, 2012 at 3:41 PM | Last night sucked, (Score:-1 Trolling)
March 17th, 2012 at 3:51 PM | Motta at halftime interview responding to how the team (Score:1)
victors2000
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responded being behind so much in the first half,

"We had to lose our minds a few times"

What does that mean precisely Thad?

You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four. ~Dan Birdwell

March 17th, 2012 at 5:08 PM | I don't know how many times I (Score:1)
tistonion wings
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I don't know how many times I have to be tortured this weekend, Gonzaga is missing too many opportunities to beat osu

Go Blue

March 17th, 2012 at 6:04 PM | Happy actually (Score:1)
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Ohio St won today because I have them going down to FSU next round. As for Wisconsin and Indiana I need Wisc to lose and Indiana to win.

We hate Michigan State. We don't like Penn State too. We don't care for Minnesota, Wisconsin or Notre Dame but we all hate O-S-U.

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March 17th, 2012 at 6:14 PM | Aaron Craft's Major is Exploration (Score:1)
Nacho Mama
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Seriously, exploration.  Ridiculous.  Wonder if his minor is Rubik's Cube Solving?

March 17th, 2012 at 9:52 PM | With wins today by OSU, Wisky (Score:1)
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With wins today by OSU, Wisky and Indy the Big Ten is 8-1

March 17th, 2012 at 11:44 PM | Ouch (Score:1)
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Our conference is as good as advertised. Except for us.

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March 17th, 2012 at 10:20 PM | Let's go Lobos. I'd love to (Score:2)
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Let's go Lobos. I'd love to see Pitino go home tonight!

 

 

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