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Poque posted:I'm loving the teams placed in San Jose. The committee sure had a high opinion of teams in the southwest to place there and then every team in California and Arizona completely poo poo the bed this season. Somehow UC Irvine (13) and Oregon (12) get the only location advantage of the eight teams there. I mean I guess relatively speaking but neither of those schools are especially close to San Jose either (and I don't think UCI really has a lot of fans willing to travel anyway)
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MourningView posted:I mean I guess relatively speaking but neither of those schools are especially close to San Jose either (and I don't think UCI really has a lot of fans willing to travel anyway) Oregon isn't immediately close but California is a natural endpoint for a lot of Oregon grads. It's certainly a better situation for them than Wisconsin. UC Irvine I'll concede. It might not matter as much since it's the Fri/Sun set of games instead of Thu/Sat.
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Declan MacManus posted:also duke is gonna look real ugly against vcu even though they’ll probably win just based on superior talent If VCU doesn't have Marcus Evans back in time for game 1 I don't see them even getting the chance to play Duke.
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I always pick 30-win teams on principle so I have UCI.
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LionYeti posted:How stupid is it to put Purdue into the Elite 8? I did. They have an easy path to it. Or was it Sweet Sixteen? Whatever.
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Honestly anybody could come out from the South Bracket. Tennessee is the only team that I don’t think can “lose to anyone”, but they could easily lose to Purdue or Villanova before the Elite 8. Every other team in that region can definitely lose to anyone. Or beat anyone.  Edit: for example I have Villanova losing to St. Mary’s because that would be like this Villanova team.
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Georgia State's gonna knock off Houston heard it here maybe second
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Can Villanova or Purdue shoot 3s really well? That has been Tennessee's bug a boo this whole season. Defending the perimeter against a good shooting team.
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dirty shrimp money posted:Georgia State's gonna knock off Houston I hope so because ISU is probably not beating Houston. I barely believe they’ll beat OSU, but I’m hoping for revenge for 2013.
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Demon Of The Fall posted:Can Villanova or Purdue shoot 3s really well? That has been Tennessee's bug a boo this whole season. Defending the perimeter against a good shooting team. Yes to both of them, but from what I can tell they’re both streaky, so you never know what you can get. Also worth noting that it’s Villanova and Purdue and they could potentially not even be there by the time the sweet sixteen rolls around.
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FartingBedpost posted:Honestly anybody could come out from the South Bracket. Tennessee is the only team that I don’t think can “lose to anyone”, but they could easily lose to Purdue or Villanova before the Elite 8. Rick Barnes can absolutely lose to anyone. That's been the story of, like, his entire career
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Rick Barnes can absolutely lose to anyone. That's been the story of, like, his entire career Yeah someone brings it up every time Tennessee or Barnes is mentioned.
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I don't watch college basketball but live in Houston. Tell me how to be irate about UH's draw/seeding to talk poo poo to all the ACC transplants here.
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Houston is actually overseeded and no one anywhere considers them a threat. You have set a great challenge for yourself here.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Rick Barnes can absolutely lose to anyone. That's been the story of, like, his entire career Even with a Rick Barnes team, I still think they’re the least up and down of all the teams in the South. I mean, watch them lose first round now that I’ve said that.
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Houston might literally be worse than the 5 and 6 seeds in their own region, which means they will be in the final four.
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FartingBedpost posted:Even with a Rick Barnes team, I still think they’re the least up and down of all the teams in the South. Biggest problem is depth and when another team goes on a run you can see them lose energy. That and not being able to defend the 3 to save their lives. It's amazing that the team is as good as it is considering none of them were top-200 players coming out of HS except Grant and he was barely one.
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Poque posted:Houston might literally be worse than the 5 and 6 seeds in their own region, which means they will be in the final four. How can you tell? They haven’t really played anyone that great from what I can tell, but they only have 3 losses. Looks like they rebound well and that scares me as an ISU fan.
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Tennessee could get bounced before the Sweet 16 or go on a good run. This is why I have them winning the whole freaking thing baby!!
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I hope we make it to the final for obvious reasons but also because Duke will likely be the other side and one of my best friends went to Duke and we've agreed if both teams make the final we'll go to Minneapolis for the game.
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I pick Michigan to go far every year and I'm rarely disappointed. Except when my team plays them.
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Is anyone relevant going to be in the College Slam Dunk Contest? I got an e-mail advertising tickets and they're surprisingly affordable but if it's just a bunch of weenies I'm not interested.
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https://twitter.com/GoodmanHoops/status/1107704583495864320?s=19 Having to actually play him every year would really take the shine off the joy of seeing ISU fans lose their minds. This seems kind of absurd on the surface but his grandpa coached there and Nebraska has been throwing a ton of money at the basketball program to try to get it going. They also have lax enough academics that he could get away with loading up on nothing but transfers instead of actually recruiting, which was his preference at ISU and something he couldn't get away with at a job like UCLA MourningView fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Mar 18, 2019 |
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Bird in a Blender posted:How can you tell? They haven’t really played anyone that great from what I can tell, but they only have 3 losses. Looks like they rebound well and that scares me as an ISU fan. Really just kenpom heh. but yeah, ISU is unbalanced between their offensive and defensive rankings and that could be problematic against a team like Houston. I don't know why I put so much trust into a system like kenpom when it ALWAYS overrates Purdue
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IcePhoenix posted:Is anyone relevant going to be in the College Slam Dunk Contest? I don't think they've announced all the participants yet. It's been better than the NBA dunk contest fairly regularly in the past though.
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MourningView posted:https://twitter.com/GoodmanHoops/status/1107704583495864320?s=19 Thanks. I hate it. This just seems so bizarre to me because all I hear about is he wants to stay in the NBA, hates recruiting, and I think would hate to rebuild a program again. Except this time he’s rebuilding a program with no basketball history at all. Well, hope he succeeds I guess.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Houston is actually overseeded and no one anywhere considers them a threat. You have set a great challenge for yourself here. So lock for Final 4?
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Final 4?! Sounds like a National Champion to me.
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N: Buzz almost definitely going to Texas A&M once we lose, as apparently he's decided not to meet with our AD after the season to hear his 'stay at VT' pitch. V: gently caress, we very well could be almost completely devoid of talent next year and better make a great hire if we want to try to build on our success. Initial names I've heard include Cronin, Oats, Hoiberg, though Twitter seems to think Hoiberg to Nebraska, so who knows. Here's hoping we at least make the sweet 16 this year...
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MourningView posted:I don't think they've announced all the participants yet. It's been better than the NBA dunk contest fairly regularly in the past though. Hmm, I guess I'll try to see if some friends want to go check it out then
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Houston - + really gets in guys faces on defense + rebounds well + isn't streaky in shooting + two good senior guards - bigs always in foul trouble - "big" means 6'7 - has the yips at the free throw line late in games - Jim Valvano, Patrick Ewing, and Jordan Poole - seriously, hasn't won a truly high profile game since 1968 dirty shrimp money fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Mar 18, 2019 |
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too many fans on twitter are too convinced that unlv is gonna make a good hire that i'm now doubting it heavily
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Lessail posted:too many fans on twitter are too convinced that unlv is gonna make a good hire that i'm now doubting it heavily New UNLV coach: Garvin Benzies
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FartingBedpost posted:New UNLV coach: Garvin Benzies it's more like i should be reading up on who is coaching the high school teams currently
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untzthatshit posted:If VCU doesn't have Marcus Evans back in time for game 1 I don't see them even getting the chance to play Duke. he’s supposed to be back for the tourney so i’m not stressed
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Nur_Neerg posted:N: Buzz almost definitely going to Texas A&M once we lose, as apparently he's decided not to meet with our AD after the season to hear his 'stay at VT' pitch. I mean this sounds like B-S if only because wouldn’t you want some leverage to get a better offer out of Texas A&M?
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Is there a group for goon brackets on ESPN?
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Bird in a Blender posted:Thanks. I hate it. From a Lincoln Journal Star columnist this afternoon: https://journalstar.com/sports/husk...65e0b1f726.html quote:The Hoiberg-to-Nebraska possibility has been tossed around often. When it comes to the former Iowa State head coach, folks inevitably wonder about his relationship to college recruiting, and the comments he made a couple seasons ago. So that seems like a moot point. I'm totally on board with this hire, if it happens.
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Real Name Grover posted:From a Lincoln Journal Star columnist this afternoon: https://journalstar.com/sports/husk...65e0b1f726.html Yea I think he’s heavily hinted at that he hates dealing with AAU coaches and all the poo poo that goes with it. Might be another reason he likes transfers so much. Not sure how that changes when he goes back to Nebraska though.
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