***Official 2024 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Thread***
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Hey peeps, Best of luck inyour game tomorrow! I hope you wil root fo rus tonight against VCU - our team is shaping up to be a mild Cinderella.. bounced from our own tournament early, and only like 5th or 6th place in conference. We win (at home) tonight, and it is off to NIT Final Four in Indy!
Go... errmm.. blow away (lame, but not sure what else to say referencing a cyclone... LOL) those orange Illini!
Go... errmm.. blow away (lame, but not sure what else to say referencing a cyclone... LOL) those orange Illini!
It makes sense that teams good in both are likely to make deeper runs. But I'm curious, from anyone who knows more in-depth, is it unusual that ALL Sweet 16 participants are in the upper-right quad?
Bilas ranking of remaining 16 teams:
1. UConn
2. Purdue
3. Houston
4. Arizona
5. North Carolina
6. Illinois - no one is playing better offense right now.
7. Tennessee
8. Duke
9. Iowa State - Got a good draw to Sweet 16.
10. Marquette
11. Gonzaga
12. Creighton
13. Alabama - Great offense, bad defense.
14. Clemson
15. NC State
16. SDSU
Illinois played two dog **** teams to get to Sweet 16 and he's bagging on ISU. Then he dings Alabama for D, while forgetting Illinois is the same team. I hope TJ and company are reading the clippings prior to this game. If so, I think it's going to get Big12 vs. KSU, Baylor, Houston ugly.
1. UConn
2. Purdue
3. Houston
4. Arizona
5. North Carolina
6. Illinois - no one is playing better offense right now.
7. Tennessee
8. Duke
9. Iowa State - Got a good draw to Sweet 16.
10. Marquette
11. Gonzaga
12. Creighton
13. Alabama - Great offense, bad defense.
14. Clemson
15. NC State
16. SDSU
Illinois played two dog **** teams to get to Sweet 16 and he's bagging on ISU. Then he dings Alabama for D, while forgetting Illinois is the same team. I hope TJ and company are reading the clippings prior to this game. If so, I think it's going to get Big12 vs. KSU, Baylor, Houston ugly.
There's probably 60+ teams in that quad, due to the nature of having 350 DI teams. I would argue that it's hard to make the tournament without being in that quadrant. What's weird is that I believe 12 of the top 13 teams made the sweet 16, 2 were in the top 25-30 and the only real outlier was NC State.
I saw an article that this year is the 2nd “chalkiest” year of the last 20. All the 1 and 2 still in. Only one 11 as Cinderella
Not sure on what planet we had an unusually good (i.e. easy?) draw. SDSU was a typical 15 seed with a coach who knew our system well. WSU was a good team, bad matchup for us.
Who is a #2 seed expected to play in the first two rounds?
Is Morehead State and Duquense not a good draw? Vermont and James Madison?
Who is a #2 seed expected to play in the first two rounds?
Is Morehead State and Duquense not a good draw? Vermont and James Madison?
Another national "expert" who can barely analyze past the name on the jersey. Color me shocked.
Was reading this espn article and I’m now struggling to keep Dan Hurley’s bull **** straight. Is the committee completely against them and making it as hard as possible like he said a few days ago? Or do they have it easier because they are “bulletproof” and earned de facto home court for the second weekend? God lord I’d love the opportunity to shut that pompous a-hole up.
www.espn.com
Hurley: UConn 'manifested' path via 'Storrs North'
UConn coach Dan Hurley said Wednesday that the Huskies have "manifested" what has amounted to home-court advantage in the NCAA tournament since April, when they won the national championship.
www.espn.com
Sounds correct, from what I gather (other sources and "memory.")
My main curiosity is how common the adj O/D has been among Sweet 16 teams in recent years (since that analytic has been tracked). Seems like there would be a couple of outliers. But maybe that's "what it takes" to advance, in general.
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UNLV's Cinderella run through the NIT ends with a 23 point loss to Seton Hall. UNLVRebelGrl hardest hit.
Agreed 100%. We are just the team to do it.Was reading this espn article and I’m now struggling to keep Dan Hurley’s bull **** straight. Is the committee completely against them and making it as hard as possible like he said a few days ago? Or do they have it easier because they are “bulletproof” and earned de facto home court for the second weekend? God lord I’d love the opportunity to shut that pompous a-hole up.
Hurley: UConn 'manifested' path via 'Storrs North'
UConn coach Dan Hurley said Wednesday that the Huskies have "manifested" what has amounted to home-court advantage in the NCAA tournament since April, when they won the national championship.
Yeah, I’ve tired of him quickly…Was reading this espn article and I’m now struggling to keep Dan Hurley’s bull **** straight. Is the committee completely against them and making it as hard as possible like he said a few days ago? Or do they have it easier because they are “bulletproof” and earned de facto home court for the second weekend? God lord I’d love the opportunity to shut that pompous a-hole up.
Hurley: UConn 'manifested' path via 'Storrs North'
UConn coach Dan Hurley said Wednesday that the Huskies have "manifested" what has amounted to home-court advantage in the NCAA tournament since April, when they won the national championship.
I guess the silver lining to having him talk so much, is he provides a lot of quotes that will look great on our locker room walls.
But look at how well off they are since TJ's last season (20-21) that was the same year that Duke didn't even make the tourney?
Not really on topic, but watching the replay of the Big 12 championship game and an odd stat that I tend to notice: the game winning basket over Houston came at the 14:31 mark of the second half on a basket by Hason Ward (which was an and one).
As a fellow stats nerd, I noticed KU-Gonzaga didn't have an under 4 media timeout until 1 second left in the first half.
Seems wild that there'd be 4+ minutes of no fouls/no coach timeouts/no turnover where the ball went out/no jump ball.
Houston scored more in the first half Sunday (43) than the entire Big 12 Title game (41).
Granted I think Sampson stopped scheming with about 10 minutes left to get out with no further injuries and knew it wasn't their night, but it's not like they didn't have really good players still trying to get baskets.
I don’t gamble but I’ve listened to enough people talk about lines. When everyone’s going one way, you go the other. Casinos don’t get built on losing money.
ISU wins by 15 if we shoot well. Win by 5 if the refs are Houston aTm type.
ISU wins by 15 if we shoot well. Win by 5 if the refs are Houston aTm type.
