Round of 64 - Day 1 Open Thread
Louisville vs. Minnesota, 12:15 p.m. ET, CBS | Watch Live
LSU vs. Yale, 12:40 p.m., truTV | Watch Live
Auburn vs. New Mexico State, 1:30 p.m., TNT | Watch Live
Florida State vs. Vermont, 2 p.m., TBS | Watch Live
Michigan State vs. Bradley, 2:45 p.m., CBS | Watch Live
Maryland vs. Belmont, 3:10 p.m., truTV | Watch Live
Kansas vs. Northeastern, 4 p.m., TNT | Watch Live
Marquette vs. Murray State, 4:30 p.m., TBS | Watch Live
Nevada vs. Florida, 6:50 p.m., TNT | Watch Live
Kentucky vs. Abilene Christian, 7:10 p.m., CBS | Watch Live
Villanova vs. Saint Mary's, 7:20 p.m., TBS | Watch Live
Gonzaga vs. Fairleigh Dickinson, 7:27 p.m., truTV | Watch Live
Michigan vs. Montana, 9:20 p.m., TNT | Watch Live
Wofford vs. Seton Hall, 9:40 p.m., CBS | Watch Live
Purdue vs. Old Dominion, 9:50 p.m., TBS | Watch Live
Syracuse vs. Baylor, 9:57 p.m., truTV | WatchLive
Henry gonna transfer for sure... Izzo yelling at him like he is not even human...
Bradley putting some game pressure on Sparty now
why would any new age person want to play for that schmuck
Izzo is rattling his team! LOVE IT!
Brad lives!
LMAO Izzo!
Now Bradley on a quick run and Ward getting another foul. C'mon, Bradley.
Izzo loosing his shit.
I can't imagine being a university president and not firing a guy who yells at his own players like that; coaches need to be examples, especially in basketball where your coach is such an integral part of your growth.
There is no way on earth I would ever let my son anywhere near Izzo.
I used to respect him, but he seems to be a tad unhinged now.
Side note after the first half of our game wasn’t it Henry who he flat threw under the bus in the interview ? I think he said something like “ our freshman is just not good enough to play right now “.
He looks like a coke addict out there
I thought it was Loyer and Kithier since they never played again in that one.
Still a dick.
Little Tommy needs to be medicated
Izzo not gonna get an ass-pat from these refs today.
it's been a little tougher for sparty so far w/o the refs in their back pocket.
I'm not even watching the Sparty game, but it does seem like they're not playing with eight players on the court today.
Come on, State. Please find a way to blow this.
Tillman has that all day.
Bradley was the #6 seed in the Missouri Valley Tournament.
Winston just got called for pushing off on a drive.
My God, somebody alert the B1G. There actually ARE refs who know what a foul by him looks like.
There's refs that actually call their bullshit and ignore Izzo's whining, and lo and behold, they're down to a 9-9 team from the Missouri Valley Conference deep into the second half.
Bradley on top in a nail biter.
Meanwhile Maryland starting to get the upper hand over Belmont. 2 good games.
That Tillman powerslam fail just sums up their entire program.
Henry! What a (mis)play!
That kid literally wilted after Izzo almost physically assaulted him.
Great coaching strategy, cotton
Two good games in the second half, and Murray State and Marquette are getting started. That could be a barn-burner.
Damn, thought Bradley was going to pull it off
Bradley needs one more push here. Dodged some bullets but of course Winston is money with that floater.
MSU has a lot of momentum now. Need moar turnovers.
God I hate McQuaid.
Ugh. They’re going to survive.
I think Bradley is about to turn into a pumpkin.
At least we got to see that Middle Tenn St flashback.
It's over.
I was hoping sparty would cement the fact that "one and done" has a different definition in the sparty dictionary then it does for the rest of the college basketball world but they're sneaking away with the win instead. Motherfuckers.
Too bad about Bradley. But Maryland and Belmont are tied with under 4 to go and Ja Morant and Marcus Howard are going off against each other.
Jalen Smith with a MONSTER JAM for Maryland
Morant's actually scuffling a bit here. Marquette was down 20-10 and called a TO and have gone on a 14-5 run.
Morant just drove to the rim and five guys collapsed around him... and somehow he passed to the far corner for a made 3. Very nice.
NM State and Belmont both choked away late-game situations where they had a chance to win. Weird in both situations.
Yeah, what a collapse at the end by Belmont, what a horrid final possession, way to run the clock out on yourself and then turn it over.
The problem with those clock-bleeding possessions is that a good college basketball offense operates by providing multiple options for passing and ballhandling as the offense cycles through its picks and passes. When you hold like that to the end you wind up running one play that has to work or you have no alternative options.
Clock-bleeding stuff is at least logical if you have a lead or are working to get the last shot at the end of a half--removing scoring opportunities for the opponent is good--but when you're behind I think you need to run some offense and accept the possibility that a good offensive look will result in a lead you have to defend for a few seconds.
Exactly, terrible strategy execute terribly to boot.
Last minute I swapped Marquette vs Michigan elite 8 to FSU vs Michigan.
Glad I did that... Marquette might fall.
Damn.
Good job, Bradley. You left it all on the court.
And maybe STAEE has used up their supply of magic fairy dust or dark-side force or whatever saved them in this game, and won't have any left for the rest of the tourney.
"(Ja Morant) has scored or assisted on 30 of his team's 42 points in the first half."
I fell bad for Sparty...apparently they were more tired than anyone else...per Izzo
This Ja Morant kid...he's pretty good.
Morant is the next Westbrook
I haven't seen that much Morant, but I don't think his game is that similar. He isn't nearly as athletic--Westbrook attacking in transition is a truly singular phenomenon--but he's a better distributor and takes smarter shots. When Marquette was keeping in front of him he wasn't scoring much in the first half, but he was racking up the assists.
He has huge usage and is still reasonably efficient. But he's playing with an Ohio Valley-level team, there's a lot of room for him to spread it out when he plays with more talent.
He does need to improve his 3-point shooting, though, only about 33% this year.