XAVIER GOES DOWN!!
March 18th, 2018 at 11:08 PM ^
WTF was that last play? LMAO!!! This tourney ROCKS!!!
March 18th, 2018 at 11:20 PM ^
It's like the Red Sea has parted for us. Now we just have to hit a few more shots...
Oh...by the way....aside from Poole's dramatics the best thing about this weekend was MSU going down at home against a team that had to play its way into the tournament. Soft...soft...soft. First MTSU last year now this. Life is indeed good.
was 2016. Last year Kansas blew them out by 20 in the 2nd round.
I feels like it was only yesterday. I bet it’s been a tough week.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:23 PM ^
Best opening weekend ever.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:08 PM ^
Not over yet.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:10 PM ^
Crazy year. Let’s make it our year.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:09 PM ^
Are you from the future?
March 18th, 2018 at 11:09 PM ^
is the stream that far behind?
March 18th, 2018 at 11:10 PM ^
Its over...
March 18th, 2018 at 11:13 PM ^
is the most fun first weekend of NCAA Tourney basketball in Michigan history. Unreal!
Now time to take advantage of the bracket and play like we were at the end of the season and in the BTT.
We have a helluva team and a terrific coach. Let's go kick some ass at the Sweet Sixteen!
GO BLUE!!!
March 18th, 2018 at 11:14 PM ^
I haven’t had much fun watching Michigan. But the chaos around us is damn fun!
March 18th, 2018 at 11:11 PM ^
and our path just got a little clearer
Maybe, always more worried about Zags
March 18th, 2018 at 11:11 PM ^
MOAR MAYHEM!
March 18th, 2018 at 11:11 PM ^
The Seminoles took a scalp!!!
(I'll leave now...)
March 18th, 2018 at 11:24 PM ^
Even better, Beilein has a man-bun scalp in his carry on.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:11 PM ^
Blueitt....blew it?
March 18th, 2018 at 11:11 PM ^
airballing the three will haunt that guy's dreams for a long time.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:12 PM ^
Wow.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:16 PM ^
Not everyone is cut like that.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:11 PM ^
Is this real life?!?!
March 18th, 2018 at 11:15 PM ^
Or is it just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Mama, just killed a manbun
Put a three against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it to LA
Mama, Go Blue!
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on, cuz film study really matters
Well done!
March 18th, 2018 at 11:11 PM ^
Great coach, but he screwed that game up badly. Stayed in a 1-3-1 zone that FSU started shredding. And then never got Blueitt a shot down the stretch
March 18th, 2018 at 11:16 PM ^
Agreed. Not sure what happened, if he over thought some things or was just discombobulated without McCarra out there but he did his team no favors.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:20 PM ^
also needed a timout earlier during FSU's run, His team looked frazzled on offense in addition to the zone issue you mentioned.
Very "Izzo-like". Perhaps they can discuss strategies together this week with all their free time.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:12 PM ^
So we're defacto #1 in the West, no?
March 18th, 2018 at 11:29 PM ^
And hoping to be . . . wait for it . . . the Champions of the West.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:12 PM ^
Michigan the best team left on the left.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:12 PM ^
Michigan is now the highest remaining seed on their SIDE of the bracket.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:15 PM ^
7 Texas A/M
9 FSU or 4 Gonzaga
then 5 Kentucky/9 Kansas St/ 11 Loyola/ 7 Nevada
unreal that Arizona, Virginia, UNC, Xavier, Cincinnati didn't even make sweet 16. And of course MSU on the other side of the bracket
March 18th, 2018 at 11:15 PM ^
7 Texas A/M
9 FSU or 4 Gonzaga
then 5 Kentucky/9 Kansas St/ 11 Loyola/ 7 Nevada
unreal that Arizona, Virginia, UNC, Xavier, Cincinnati didn't even make sweet 16. And of course MSU on the other side of the bracket
March 18th, 2018 at 11:12 PM ^
Left in our region now. Wear maize!
March 18th, 2018 at 11:12 PM ^
BEAT THE AGGIES
March 18th, 2018 at 11:12 PM ^
Down goes Xavier! Down goes Xavier!
March 18th, 2018 at 11:12 PM ^
Again, how important is it to survive and advance, ugly, lucky, or whatever.
This is hands down the craziest tournament I can recall.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:25 PM ^
And Michigan used up its share of "ugly, lucky and whatever" this weekend.
Next week, how about we try to play like we did in the BTT and "thrive and advance". Just a thought!
Go Blue!
March 18th, 2018 at 11:12 PM ^
Every game will be a tremendous challenge for us, but we just might be favored in every single game that we play until the championship! Hopefully getting two competitive tournament games under our belt will allow us to get some renewed confidence and return to B1G tournament form. If we play like that, we will be playing on a Monday night in April against a juggernaut like Villanova, Kansas, or Duke.
This tournament has been simply incredible! I want to hear Matt Shepard say: ‘ Jordan Poole wears a crown on a Monday night in Dallas!’
March 18th, 2018 at 11:14 PM ^
For all that bitching we did about our seeding . . . we are now the top seed in our region.
That's one way to do it.
We're the defacto 1 seed of the West.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:14 PM ^
Other than not getting Detroit...we had the hardest path to the Sweet Sixteen possible but the (relatively) easiest path from there to the Final Four.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:17 PM ^
And I thought most people took the easier road as an acceptable trade for losing Detroit. And boy did that wind up to be the right trade-off.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:22 PM ^
We got lucky to avoid the play in 11 team in round 2!
All kidding aside, we would now likely have to face Duke, then Kansas, then Villanova on that side.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:21 PM ^
Texas A&M scares me a little bit. But I'd rather be playing them next than Duke.
And if we get by them, nobody really scares me until the National Championship game.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:18 PM ^
Yeah, it was probably more of a Detroit/MSU thing.
Neither of which matter now.
I pointed out to a Sparty friend or 2 that A) it can't feel good to get the nod to play in Detroit and then lose, essentially in front of a home crowd and B) at least they can spend the next few weeks rooting against us.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:13 PM ^
Wow, an upset that i actually predicted in my bracket. That's a first this year.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:13 PM ^
I heard we are the top seed left in our region. Can someone please confirm? /s