Who's the best player in the State of Iowa...
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For what it's worth, I'll take Monte over either of them to build a team. I would have to go with Georges, but Uthoff isn't far behind. I get the ripping on the guy, but he's had a heck of a season so far. I think it would Georges hands down if we had a deeper bench and Niang could have fresher legs more often.
Lets's all pretend that Mr. "On pace for 60" finished with 32, and missed the open game winning shot.
Wait, no need to pretend. That is exactly what happened.
Yoda drops mic, exits left.
Rewatch the game. Prom switched Thomas to Uthoff for a few minutes to give him a different look and the best basketball player in the world totally disappeared. When Jok started heating up Thomas was moved over to Jok and Georges once again was on God's gift to basketball. He managed an earth shattering two points and even pretty much stopped shooting. "Go to" players don't curl up in the corner in the fetal position when their team needs them.
Uthoff is very good player but he isn't better than Niang.
On pace for?
I remember this one time Georges had like 4 points in the first minute. On pace for 160?
Recheck your F4 listings. You can say long ago, but not never. Just like Iowas was long ago.
Was Hoiberg 4-4 in the tournament or 8-4? If Nebraska finally won an NCAA game but it was a PIG then they got bounced would you consider that winning an NCAA game? Is a 10 seed having to play a 7 seed in their first game equivalent to an 11 seed getting to play an 11 seed? No, that's an easier first game than a real NCAA team's first game, the real NCAA game is the 6 seed the PIG winner plays next because they're only a fricking 11 seed.
We know the NCAA official line. But the only people who think losing the PIG means the same as playing in the real first round of the big dance are fans who lose the PIG.
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For whatever reason the NCAA did it for, they decided to expand the tournament to 68 teams. They have clearly stated that those first 4 games are NCAA games. They count toward the teams NCAA tournament record, and count toward NCAA tournament stats. It really doesn't matter what you or I think of those games, this is clearly a NCAA tournament game.
If you don't have a seed, you ain't in the tourney. They expanded it to 68 teams so 8 teams can play to get in for the 4 spots. HFCS said it correctly, the only people who consider the PIG as "making the tournament" are teams that lost in the PIG
Well you're clearly more objective on all this than the NCAA, so I guess there's that.
Who was the last player to put up 32 in Hilton, not know how to inbound a ball and blow a 20 pt lead that resulted in a loss?
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Does the scoring have to be in just one half of a loss? Not sure it's ever happened.
Ejim scored 48 in a win but it was in both halves. I really don't know who has scored more than 32 since, could be some opponent who went off from 3 or could be nobody.
I'm objective enough to note that an 11 seed doesn't get a significantly easier true NCAA game than a 10 seed.
It still doesn't really make sense with how they seed it. They should have just kept it at 64, I think we can both agree with that
I'd prefer 64. Since it was 68 at the time it means my team got in and can now make it three in a row this year. But I'd be happy if it went back to 64.
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