***Official 2025 NCAA Tournament Thread***

[CychiatricWard]

I would assume Illinois fans bought these months ago as we do in Des Moines and they lucked into a basic home game.

It’s also a lot closer from Champaign than it is for the Ames/Des Moines people. Iowa state contingency will be loud though

 

[cayin]

bama got away with a travel there.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

Woof St Mary’s can’t buy a basket. Bama should honestly be up 15-20 right now.

 

[cyclones500]

I kinda don't like that we've had zero seed-upsets so far today. Law of averages paranoia.

 

[Erik4Cy]

St. Mary's really cannot hit the broad side of a barn.

 

[madguy30]

I'd be ok with doing away with halftime player interviews.

 

[cyatheart]

With all this MSU hype right now, it would be absolutely amazing for New Mexico to stick it to them

They might, lobos def underseeded

 

[dahliaclone]

They might, lobos def underseeded

How are they underseeded? NET is 42 and KenPom is 41. That’s exactly a 10 seed. Actually an 11.

 

[AlaCyclone]

I'd be ok with doing away with halftime player interviews.

Coaches too. They are always stupid inane questions, and coaches hate answering them.

 

[Kinch]

Big 10 might lose two games at the same time

 

[Cupped]

Pope brought 2 BYU players to Kentucky most will remember; Aly Khalifa and Jaxson Robinson, both not playing because of injuries. Robinson was averaging 13 pts before injuring a wrist late season. He was the BYU guy who stole the Big 12 6th man award from CuJo last year. Khalifa was the "Egyptian Magician" rumored to have basically got $600K to rehab a surgery this year.

 

[madguy30]

Illinois with a late push to 8 points.

 

[CloniesForLife]

Sucks that there are not too many games going on during the day and now we have 3 games overlapping

 

[Erik4Cy]

UK doing a terrible job of closing out Illinois. Missed 11 of last 12 shots.

 

[AlaCyclone]

So, once again, we do not need a rules analyst to discuss whether the damn ball went off the Illini player's foot or not. So annoying.

 

[heitclone]

This game was going nice and smooth and now we've had 10 minutes or replay.

 

[Cupped]

I'd love to see a rule where losing coaches are required to ref a subsequent game in the tournament!

 

[cayin]

we do they keep fouling, it's out of reach.

 

[Cyclones8824]

Pope brought 2 BYU players to Kentucky most will remember; Aly Khalifa and Jaxson Robinson, both not playing because of injuries. Robinson was averaging 13 pts before injuring a wrist late season. He was the BYU guy who stole the Big 12 6th man award from CuJo last year. Khalifa was the "Egyptian Magician" rumored to have basically got $600K to rehab a surgery this year.

Khalifa was that fat **** who traveled every time he had the ball

 

[Cupped]

Muslim who had to fast in March during the Tournament. Yes, that's the one. Can't really imagine him on a Kentucky team!?