***Official 2026 NCAA Tournament Thread***
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Houston is like any team that is not playing well, they look like crap. It's not like Illinois is lighting it up, but Houston cannot make a shot. Now Illinois is going to start running clock and shortening the game.
Iowa pulled one major upset, credit to them. They then got to play a conference opponent they’d already beaten. Meh. Michigan State hasn’t played anyone better than Iowa State has and could lose tomorrow. UCLA barely beat the dregs of the Big 12. Michigan either gets a 6 seed or Iowa State without its All American to go to the Final Four. Illinois has been darn impressive, and two of the Final Four would be as well. But these things are hard to say definitively
Arizona really is on a different level than rest of field. That Big 12 semifinal with us and them may as well have been for the natty when we were at full strength.
Well, we can agree on this; Iowa needs to play in low scoring affairs, but to me that’s generally the definition of a rock fight
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Amen. Records are sometimes fool's gold. It comes down to matchups and officiating.
I didn't watch a lot of Tennessee this season so idk, but if they have a propensity to turn the ball over and the refs swallow their whistles when ISU pressures/traps... the Cyclones should have a good game.
To me the best conference is the one that has the most teams advancing the farthest.
For example, if UConn or St John’s win the title, it doesn’t mean the Big East is the best. The rest of their teams have been trash all year.
Every time they switch to Peja, he looks exactly the same. Never cheering. never talking. Just sitting.
Just cruising in that Arkansas game is pretty impressive.
Oh no, the dreaded pathetic fan base comment. What are there like three Iowa fans in here. One of them… Me, spent way more time watching Women’s Basketball this year than I did men’s. And of the teams, I watched Iowa State was the most.
They’ve never run too much offensively. Shead was a terrific playmaker. Even then Sampson would say offense begins when someone puts the ball on the rim. Uzan and Flemings are plenty as two good combo guards. Sampson has never been a good half court offense guy. Then their bigs don’t provide enough offensively.
Had the Jefferson injury not happened, Arizona and Iowa State making runs would’ve been the easiest bet ever. Everyone watched it with their own eyes in Kansas City, and that includes neutrals
