OT - NCAA Round 1 and NIT Open Thread
Open thread to discuss opening round games in Dayton. North Carolina A&T just narrowly escaped a late game collapse to Liberty.
St. Mary's will be playing Middle Tennessee State in the next game.
Edit: Robert Morris is also up on Kentucky in the second half in the NIT.
what the fuck is tru tv...I don't have it. anyway, will the games be watchable online during the round of 64
All of the games, along with the first four, are available online at cbssports.com. I watched a little of the first game earlier.
unless you live overseas (like I do), in which case you are screwed.
Channel 183 on FIOS in Fairfax, VA.
I only watch it this time of year
I'll edit the thread to capture the NIT as well.
Tru TV is sandwiched between the Game Show Network and the Crime Investigation Channel in my cable package. I can honestly say I didn't know these channels existed.
March 19th, 2013 at 10:17 PM ^
Watching the NIT instead.
True story: Kentucky is AT Robert Morris and is currently down 8 with 12 to go.
March 19th, 2013 at 10:03 PM ^
He's soft. Getting his rest for all of the games on Thurs & Fri.
Back in my day (oh, wait, there were only three channels).
Even if Kentucky escapes, they look awful without Noel. Hell, they looked average with Noel.
BUT THEIR THE DEFENDING CHAMPS! THEY HAVE TO BE IN THE FIELD OF 64
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I'm loving this Robert Morris/Kentucky game. The crowd is so hyped and what a feeling it would be for a small school like that to take out the defending champs on their floor even if it is the NIT.
Tuned in 6 minutes ago and all their talking about is Kentucky,how bout sum love for Bob Morris
Hey NCAA: Dump the First Four.
If I want to go watch two medicore mid majors play, I'll go watch the CIT on whatever public access channel it's aired on at 3am.
Sorry, I don't think a 15-20 team should be allowed into the tournament even if they won their conference tournament. It's rewarding mediocrity, or in Liberty's case, just plain bad.
I don't have a problem with them getting in. But let them play Louisville or Indiana and get beat by 60, just like they did 15-20 years ago.
Yikes, here come the cats. That's gotta be a flagrant II on Robert Morris.
That escalated quickly...
I know better than to tune in, because as soon as I do, Robert Morris is certain to crap the bed.
Ever...good call
It looked to me like he hit the ball first and then destroyed him on the follow-though
March 19th, 2013 at 11:00 PM ^
That's simply out of bounds off the offensive player.
Very aggressive game between St. Mary's and Middle Tennessee already.
Someone got laid out by a pick in the opening possession and another player just got rocked bringing down a rebound.
I like the winner of this game taking Memphis to the wire.
I believe there are round 2 and 3 games happening in Lexington, therefore it was unavailable for NIT
Conflict at Rupp Arena that couldn't be changed because of the quick turnaround. NIT rules are that you go to the other team's arena in that case, which has made for quite the entertaining game here.
Have you guys heard? The low guy wins.
Interesting from Robert Morris here - going to the corner to set up an inbounds play? Hmmmm...
Annexation of Puerto Rico?
nice inbound play
Yeah, I liked it, despite the poor in-bound guarding.
Somebody on that staff did good film work the last couple of days, got some good stuff on how UK defends out of bounds on the baseline.
I was thinking it was either that, or:
They thought Kentucky would simply rely on their athleticism and chase the double screen around, not respecting the athleticism of RM, which appeared to happen.
Or, maybe that was a shooter that they had previously done the same screen out to the corner, causing the chase, but instead turned back and dove down.
So much goes into those OOB plays and they can be defended in so many ways. It's very rare when one works as well as that did (and they needed the poor inbound guarding on top of it). I really would love to get a more in depth explanation as to why/how they knew that play would work.
March 19th, 2013 at 10:13 PM ^
was one of the things they saw on film. That play has no chance if he's correctly positioned; I think they knew he wouldn't be.
got open lay up
"Play-in Round open thread"...... please?
Could be an epic court rush here.
*no jinx knock on wood
NICE!
Screw the SEC!!!
Nice job Robert Morris!!
Also jimmy dykes is such a SEC homer with his crying hold on at the end of the game.
I think he was literally saying "hold on" becuase the students were running into them. You could hear the microphones hitting something and then they didn't say anything for a good chunk of time.