Saturday CBB open thread
Games of note, with team we should root for in bold:
Wisconsin and Indiana are in a tight game midway through the second half.
MSU and OSU play at 4:00. (Root for whichever you dislike less.)
Kansas State plays Kansas at 6:00. After rooting for KSU all year, we now want them to lose to protect our seed.
UNLV vs. New Mexico at 6:00. A UNLV upset would be great.
Syracuse vs. Louisville at 8:30. Very important for Louisvile to win here.
I think three of their four recruits for next year are black, so they'll be evening out that ratio a bit.
Ryan Evans?
Is it ridiculous that they are winning so much with your astute observation of mostly white players? Or is it ridiculous that Bo Ryan supposedly recruits more white than black players?
I can't quite read your mind, but I'm curious to know. Or maybe I'm not.
I still think Michigan gets a 3 seed. Too many top seeds have been losing too, I don't think Wisconsin will be the difference.
We are two points better than Indiana. Therefore we should be a number one seed.
/s
On Bracket Matrix (which I tend to put more stock in than one single bracket), we are still a 3 seed, in fact, ahead of Ohio on the S-curve. We're currently the last 3 seed on Crashing the Dance as well.
Basically, we are rooting hard for Kansas, Louisville, and UNLV today with a Sparty win doing a little more good than an Ohio win. All those things line up and Wisky DOESN'T win the Big 10 tournament and we should be a 3 seed.
Still has us as a 2 seed out West.#1Gonz #3 New Mex #4 Syr....I'd be willing to forego a trip to Auburn Hills to get that bracket.Even a 3 seed out West would ok be with me.I'd be worried about a potential Sweet 16 game vs ND,they play a physical,pound the off. glass style that would bother us and if/when we loss in tourney I'd HATE to lose to those guys
We would still be in Auburn Hills in that scenario. The locations of the first weekend's games have nothing to do with the "regions" they're supposedly in. You can be in the West Region and play in Philadelphia.
for that clarification
Wow. Just noticed something. Liberty who is 15-20 is going to the NCAA Tournament by way of conference tournament title.
Now does that seem wrong to anyone? Hmm? Not just mid majors, but sub-500 ones getting in over power conference teams that could do something in the tournament?
I'm sick of it. Really am. If you're sub 500, you should be ineligible for the NCAA Tournament AND NIT, regardless of what you do in the conference tournaments.
As a Michigan Hockey fan, I disagree
Hockey and basketball are completely different situations.
Basketball has 347 D1 teams. Hockey has 50+.
The gettin rid of conferene tournaments arguments is tired and never going to happen. The schools make money off of them and it keeps fans engaged
The gettin rid of conferene tournaments arguments is tired and never going to happen. The schools make money off of them and it keeps fans engaged
Wow refs during MSU and Ohio game are being their usual horrid self.
Good ole Big Ten refs. Letting Nix just maul a guy going up for a dunk and calling it a clean block. Not sure if refs everywhere are this bad, but I will not miss these guys in the big dance.
And at least Steve Kerr and the rest of the broadcast crew says it is a blatant foul. Unlike someone like Dakich who just troll's on and on about how great of a referring crew it is after every horrible missed call.
No such thing as Big Ten refs
No such thing as Big Ten refs
No such thing as Big Ten refs
No such thing as Big Ten refs
No such thing as Big Ten refs
My apologies for the misnomer. The refs who spend all season reffing the Big Ten games aren't very good and missed a blatant foul on Nix earlier in the game.
Indiana, Zeller, halls, Watford, Ola depot
This is a tough one
NIx bludgeons a guy on a lay up,no foul and then they call a ticky-tack foul on Ravenal on a 3 point attempt EDIT-replay shows Ravenal fouled
Neither Michigan State nor Ohio State are above 30% for a offensive rebounding percentage (29.4% to 25% right now). Michigan State's 8 turnovers make the 56.1% effective FG percentage seem somewhat less impressive as well, even though they are only down by three to a team shooting almost 10% worse.
What would you say is the average or acceptable %?
Go Staee