NCAA Tournament Day 3 Afternoon Open Thread
The elimination / annihilation of VCU means that the last remaining #5 seed is out of the Tournanment.
As for the MSU / Memphis game, Michigan State actually has 8 turnovers to Memphis' 3, but no real advantage numerically otherwise for either team, despite a strange ability MSU displayed to turn one Memphis possession into something that seemed to last minutes at one point. I think half of the Spartans' turnovers in the first half were in that sequence.
Some want MSU/B1G win, but for me, I would love to see both MSU and OSU lose. And in support of a MSU loss, I give you this.
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"CHECK THE FLOORBOARDS!"
It's much easier to look at the BIG picture after a win - I guess a Sparty win wouldn't be all that bad.
Bad call
Memphis is beyond sloppy.
What are Memphis and MSU playing? Because it doesn't look like basketball. All I see is an ugly game of keep away.
Lots of bodies flying around, and the ball is everywhere but in the hoop.
MSU players going at it during a timeout.
Michigan State fans are crying bloody murder about the reffing.
It's 8 fouls a piece and MSU has shot more than double the free throws.
What the heck is going on between sparty players?
if they win, it will be 'they have a lot of passion, and that just happens'
if they lose, it will be 'lack of unity'
Just checked RCMB, sparty fans are happy because "it shows some emotion"
The rattlesnakes are turning ob each other.
My bad
that is normal at MSU...fight each other
Nix freaking out on Payne
Spartys swinging at each other on the bench. nice.
Appling and Nix going at it LMAO
someone photoshops in the obligatory lightsabers?
The thing that shocks me the most is that nobody seems THAT surprised about this. It's more of a reaction of, "seriously? again?"
Izzo goes right back to diagramming the play.
Okay, anyway . . ."
What are the odds all the remaining B1G make the sweet sixteen?
Announcers pulling for Memphis really hard. Calling for goaltending on Payne right there.
Well this one is over. B1G B1G B1G
Any State fans complaining about the refs are insane. Sparty is getting away with murder out there.
The light really turned on for him in early Jan. For 2.5 seasons he was really lost out there. Now I think he is Sparty's best player.
(but that last block was a total foul :)
you got to wonder if that has anything to do with his relationship with Lacey (which you have to admit is really a touching story)
Kinda unrelated, but a Michigan fan made a post wishing MSU good luck on the RCMB and got blasted with insults. I don't want MSU to win any more games now.
Many of their fans suck, but not all. i try not to let the idiots change my opinion of who I want to win (and as an FYI, I'm all in for the B1G to do well in the tourney)
The RCMB is chock full of racist mouth breathing morons.
Appling is out with a sprained shoulder.
That's too bad for MSU. He hasn't been playing too well lately though.
flagrant 1 when you miss the ball by more than a foot
If that's not a flagrant on Nix then idk. What's his total up to now?
Wow. That call is pretty surprising. I just thought it was a hard foul, but i guess if you get a hit that high up on a guy...
And how is that any worse than what Dawson did to Stauskas?
I didnt think it was either but these refs call everything close a flagrant. An offensive player from Pittsburgh got called for a flagrant while driving to the basket against Wichita St. Anything accidental is a flagrant which kind of bugs me
Seen about a half dozen in tourney,still think we should have gotten one called against IU
After reading the rule I think we got screwed. It blatantly says a push to prevent a breakaway and before gr111 got hacked on the shoulder he was clearly shoved on a breakaway. Oh well shit happens.
Good hard working teams but couldn't rebound or score in set offense vs B1G teams today
but Memphis won't take it. First half was entertaining. This half has just been bad on both sides.
I have to agree with this flagrant 1 thing being garbage. If you need to watch the play in slow motion to determine if it's flagrant, it's not.
MSU can't be happy with this performance. Assuming they close this out, they can't afford to play like this against Duke or possibly even Creighton.
but they will beat Duke
they can still take comfort in that a bad game is leading to an easy win
But they won by 22. Guessing it wasn't that sloppy.
The temperature in my apartment just dropped twenty degrees. I look I the stands behind Izzo and who else but Dantonio is staring directly through me.