***Official 2025 NCAA Tournament Thread***

[interrobang]

Should also note 3 of the 4 B12 turncoats in the tournament (Miz, OU, TX) have already been bounced

What about Nebraska?

 

[Cyched]

What about Nebraska?

Busy hanging their Big Ten Tournament First Four Out banner

 

[AlaCyclone]

SEC with 14 teams in where over rated, not the at top but the depth of the conference, while the B10 might have been underrated at the top more. Not sure the B10 has a team that is good enough to win the title, but they do have a lot of very good, not great teams. The real depth of a conference is how many teams you get into the round of 16, if the B12 can get half the teams we have left, that is pretty good.

The irony is that if the SEC only had 8 teams in the Tournament and were (8-0) instead of 14 that are (8-6), everybody would be talking about how GREAT they performed in the First Round (like the B1G this year). Point is - that more is not always better. I have always had a preference for limiting the eligible at-large teams to those that are at least .500 in their conference - with the exception of Iowa State (when needed) - of course!

 

[Kinch]

No. 1 seeds have to play four of the most successful coaches in college basketball. How many no. 1 will go down this weekend. I say 2.

 

[jcf817]

If I want to win my pool, I need things to go chalk today and tomorrow (St. Mary's is the exception....why did I do that?). I got 6 wrong in the first round and have 13 of my sweet 16 left.

 

[Die4Cy]

If I want to win my pool, I need things to go chalk today and tomorrow (St. Mary's is the exception....why did I do that?). I got 6 wrong in the first round and have 13 of my sweet 16 left.

I had a poor first round, but always take a flyer on the underdog in a couple first round games where I don't think either team is going to be a strong contender to win their next game, so it limits the damage. NCState wrecked my bracket last year, this one is setting up OK unless we start to see some major upsets. I do have Purdue losing today, because I've watched them in the tournament for years.

 

[Bestaluckcy]

March Madness record by conference​

Multi-bid conferences​

Conference	Record	Teams still alive
SEC	8-6	8
Big 12	6-1	6
Big Ten	8-0	8
Big East	4-2	3
WCC	2-0	2
Mountain West	2-2	2
ACC	2-3	1

Something looks wrong with the ACC. Did they only have 4 teams in? If so probably are 1 and 3

 

[fcclone]

Something looks wrong with the ACC. Did they only have 4 teams in?

Yep. Louisville, UNC, and Clemson out. Just Duke left.

UNC won the first round game.

 

[jcf817]

I had a poor first round, but always take a flyer on the underdog in a couple first round games where I don't think either team is going to be a strong contender to win their next game, so it limits the damage. NCState wrecked my bracket last year, this one is setting up OK unless we start to see some major upsets. I do have Purdue losing today, because I've watched them in the tournament for years.

I had High Point beating Purdue and McNeese to get to the Sweet 16. I always try for some upsets. I did pretty well this year but whiffed on this one.

 

[jcf817]

Something looks wrong with the ACC. Did they only have 4 teams in? If so probably are 1 and 3

UNC won a game, then lost. That accounts for the two wins. ACC was 1-3 in the round of 64.

 

[Bestaluckcy]

Yep. Louisville, UNC, and Clemson out. Just Duke left.

UNC won the first round game.

My bad. Thanks.

 

[Die4Cy]

I had High Point beating Purdue and McNeese to get to the Sweet 16. I always try for some upsets. I did pretty well this year but whiffed on this one.

I think that's going to be a great game today.

 

[ISUTex]

Talk about a hype downgrade for the women’s tournament this year. It really was ALL Caitlin Clark driving that. Now that she’s gone no one cares again (except Iowa fans).

Iowa fans went all in on WBB. They need to honor that and stay there. They shouldn't care about MBB.

 

[danvillecyclone]

Apparently the Let’s talk about Ole Miss thread got moved.

Just as I was trying to post:

I guess I missed the Lipscomb/Nashville/Tennessee/Christian cave thread.

 

[Kinch]

Something looks wrong with the ACC. Did they only have 4 teams in? If so probably are 1 and 3

Playin game

 

[Kinch]

Iowa fans went all in on WBB. They need to honor that and stay there. They shouldn't care about MBB.

Trouble with Iowa is they didn’t go all in on wbb when they should have. Instead they went all in on Cade.

 

[jdoggivjc]

Texas Tech: A minorrrrrrr?
Drake: nah...

 

[dahliaclone]

8 big ten teams still in. How many make sweet sixteen.

 

[JEFF420]

More like McJeese you are getting your ass beat state

 

[HoopsTournament]

Hey hey hey where’s Iowa State and Lipscomb

In the Afternoon Tidbits

Round of 64 Tidbits - Friday Afternoon

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