OPEN THREAD - Second Round Friday Afternon Session
Here we go! Second day of the most wonderful time of the year!
::clutches wrist:: Thank you
Looking at my bracket now only makes me mad. Not because I'm doing that badly, but because OSU literally has a cakewalk to the Final Four.
Bummer about Wisconsin, how am I going get our baby to fall asleep now? Watching the first half at lunch turned into a 30 minute nap with newborn.
I absolutely refuse to watch Cincinnati play. Seeing them in those uniformz both enrages me and makes me feel embarrassed for the players. Embarrassed because (a) they allegedly like the jerseys, and (b) they look stupid on national TV.
I can't blame you for that, it's too true (Do the players have any say in this because, yea, me thinks they can't much like these abominations). But I will say Creighton is a good team to watch; good sound, fundamental ball and of course the POY candidate McDermott factor.
I am rooting for Creighton so the pants get kicked out of the tournament
Who else watching the Creighton-Cincy game?! This one should be a good one I think. I'm taking the MVC > Big East again. Go Jays!
K-State down by 11 in what is essentially a home game. Its still very early though . . .
A10 is looking good so far with saint Louis Vcu butler temple (I think) and la salle doing well.
NC State is trying to mount a comeback.
So far NC State is the only team I will miss on in every one of my brackets. I'm hoping they can pull this out.
K.State looks terrible right now. As someone said earlier, Michigan's non-conference schedule is not faring very well in the tournament so far. Good thing all that matters now is Michigan winning.
There is almost always one pair of lower seeded teams that win. Didn't happen yesterday. Looks like Lasalle may give us a 12-13 game on Sunday.
My question is, while we all. love it (as long as our team isn't one of the upset teams) on Thursday/Friday, do you like watching those games on Saturday/Sunday, or do you look for a different game?
It's next weekend when one advances and thy play a big boy it sucks.
WTF are you doing Leslie...
No one does it but I'm begining to think it's a good idea.Temple up 6 with :24 seconds left and they fouled NC St (not deliberately) , Clark Kellog berated Temple for it but even if NC St makes both it's still a 2 possession game.NC St. best chance to win was hitting a three and making it a 1 possession game.If you have a good shooting FT team and a lead,why not eliminate any chance your opponent will get any late 3's? Marquette overcame a 7 point deficit in last 1:30 by hitting three 3's.If Davidson fouls those threes don't happen and even if Marquette makes all 6 FTs they lose by 2.
Whoa, with Lasalle up big on K State, the Atlantic 10 conference is looking pretty good, will probably go 4-1 in the opening round with some very good performances.
if you count LaSalle's play-in win over Boise....St.Louis,Butler,VCU and Temple are all 1-0
Charles Barkley, singlehandedly re-pronouncing the English language one word at a time.
Illinois vs Colorado and Minn vs UCLA should both be good games later in the day.
Minny vs UCLA should be a great game. I hope Minny can pull out a W.
Minn should have a great chance to win if they come out focused - so many times this year they have come out flat and played far below their potential
Indiana is looking damn good right now.
Your avavtar kind of looks like Kovacs. Is that him?
Yes, it is him in the midst of the maize rage at the OSU highliter game.
As badly as the non-Big Ten officiating hurt Wisc it certainly helps with the styles that Mich and IU play.
I have Colorado over Illinois but I did pick Minnesota over UCLA
Oh hi Kansas state, nice of you to join the tournament.
got em in the FF...they need to complete this comeback
You have K-State in the Final Four? You do realize that they no longer affect Michigan's RPI at this point, right? So you don't need to root for them to win. Just kidding but K-State in the FF is kind of crazy.
Did you look at the region they are in? Gonzaga, Ohio state and New Mexico. Who do you think it should be? All of them are pretty unproven and I hate osu so who else? Wisconsin? Oh wait.
I have OSU (which makes me feel dirty) but I would have pick Gonzaga over them... I also would have picked New Mexico over them (so feel free to ignore anything I have to say).
KSU is loving that home court advantage, and so is my bracket.
K State is roaring back
Reggie and Len getting into an argument there.
They should just fight in between games and get it over with.
I considered a Kansas State upset, but I decided they were worthy. Dammit.
Horrible shot by the KSU player.
See ya later Kansas state, thanks for stopping by
one Final four team down
What a shit-poor posession from K-State
So apparently the best shot you can get in the last 9 seconds is from behind the backboard? At least when Trey goes hero ball the shot seems like it actually has a chance, that was such a shit poor possession.
All I have to say is screw my West bracket. I have Wichita State and Gonzaga and that's it. I had Wisconsin in th Elite 8. Ohio is going to cruise to the Final Four.
I have Gonzaga, Ohio, and Notre Dame. Unfortunately, two of those teams haven't even played yet!! F--k you, NCAA Tournament.
I have Ohio in my Final Four so I guess I would be ok with them cruising. I have ISU over ND tonight. So hopefully there's one more upset left in this bracket.
I had Kansas State losing to Wisconsin, guess that's not happening.
Our non-conference schedule looks pretty bad/ weak right now - thankfully, we are done with rankings and seedings and it all comes down to the play on the court.
Ya but the B1G is looking fantastic. Maybe we didn't "fall-off" in the second half. We just started with an easier schdule and ended with a harder one than we realized
I don't really get why a few teams not showing up for one game negates the rest of the season they played? Kansas St did pretty well in the Big 12 and Pitt had a solid year as well.