2017 ncaa

It was a thoroughly entertaining game that I would've absolutely loved if I didn't have a rooting interest. Still, I'm glad Michigan prevailed and if we shoot like that, we'll be hard to beat.

overcame being outrebounded more than 2-1 by amazing 3 shooting, props

groans in the office when that last-second OK state three supposedly covered the spread

there was also a ~5 yr old behind me @ this game who recited the "mama told me not to sell work/17.5 same color tshirt" song, unprompted

you in indy?

omg seton hall guy trying to dunk just got crushingly rejected

yea indy

nice

morelike SMhU

uk just had a lineup w fox and mulder in

go norse btw

fyi you'd better go to the slippery noodle iirc

adebayo on uk looks soo much like a mini dwight howard

COME ON WISCONSIN

nice

4 straight sweet 16s are impressive

Would love to see them lose to Duke again.

Brutal no-call plus T in the Zags game.

northwestern is almost making it intersting

papists win: gonzaga, xavier
papists lose: notre dame, villanova, st. mary's

not actually papists, i guess: butler

Purdue: 27 assists on 31 buckets in the win over ISU. Pretty amazing.

Would love to see them lose to Duke again.

BITE ME

this is karma for giving Bucky the 8 seed, btw

Man, Michigan has a team of destiny feel surrounding them. Haven't been this happy from sports in a long long time.

Only made one bet in vegas. Halftime over on msu/miami at 57.5. Go boilermakers!

Watching the ND loss at 915am with a terrible hangover might have been the saddest moment of my life

Wisconsin/nova ending was messy and disappointing

beilein super soak those hoes

"duane notice" is an outstanding name

frank martin is probably insane but is also a very good coach

watched the last quarter and 80% of the possessions were fouls lol that madness

the end was totally unwatchable it's true

refs were not afraid of the big moment

lol

v mad rhode island is not in sweet 16

pro-duke twitter is so funny

south carolina played way over their heads but that's still an insanely bad loss for duke

eh, it's not as bad as the lehigh etc. losses of years past. duke was wildly inconsistent all year -- they lost to nc state at home ffs -- and were missing a point guard

will say that frank martin had south carolina better prepared tho

there was a beautiful moment when the game was clearly over but the tv guys were pretending it wasnt and one of them was all dukes got to maintain its composure have nerves of steel like their coach [cut to coach k who is literally crying]

eh, it's not as bad as the lehigh etc. losses of years past. duke was wildly inconsistent all year -- they lost to nc state at home ffs -- and were missing a point guard

will say that frank martin had south carolina better prepared tho

― mookieproof, Monday, March 20, 2017 11:56 AM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark

idk the duke team that lost to lehigh wasn't that great. austin rivers, seth curry and two plumlees. cj mccollum put up 30 points in that game for lehigh. losing to mercer with jabari parker and rodney hood was prob worse.

this team has a top 5 pick, another lottery pick, maybe two or three more first rounders, four of the top 16 recruits... south carolina had 1 really good player but yuck

this is anecdotal but it does seem like going the all superstar freshman route is pretty boom or bust

ultimately i don't see top coaches turning down guys as talented as tatum or giles even if they're only going to stay for one year, but if roy williams goes to a second straight final four w/ a team that probably has no NBA players outside of maybe justin jackson it will be interesting to contrast that with coach k's newfound calipari approach to recruiting (of course if one year you get okafor, winslow & tyus jones...)

i can accept the argument that a team with that much future nba talent should have been better overall, but it never really came together with any consistency, perhaps because the freshmen got late starts due to injuries, perhaps because k's short-bench instincts never let giles or bolden emerge. wonder if bolden will transfer.

(i also think that playing four games in four days the previous weekend wasn't helpful, but hey, michigan managed okay.)

having an experienced team is an asset, but i don't think roy goes recruiting with the idea that he wants someone good, but not so good he'll leave after only a year or two. no one turns down talent, even if it results in the relatively crappy defense duke has played lately

fsu had 2 likely 1st rounders & lots of other talent and got washed by xavier

leonard hamilton is a bad coach

my bracket was particularly ruined this year by my proximity to acc basketball

yeah, it has served me so well recently. but not this year.

xxp absolutely true

I need to memorialize this for posterity (it is also really difficult to search online for), so bc the ncaa is too cheap or just doesn't want to deal w arranging halftime shows at these games, this year they did a shooting competition where I think a non athlete student from or somehow related to each school had 60-seconds to get as many pts as possible - scoring was 1 pt for layups (but you couldn't take them consecutively), 3 for free throws, 5 for 3 pts and 10 for halfcourt makes; it was run at all sights and you were competing against all other participants, top scorer for each round 1 and round 2 got $500 and a chance to be entered to win a trip to the final 4 (or something like that)

the Wichita contestant confidently ran right to a corner three pt shot and started hoisting, airballed AT LEAST ten in a row, but stubbornly would not move off that shot and ended w/ 6 points

the UK contestant confidently went to the top of the key 3 pt shot and started hoisting -- he made 16 3s in 60 seconds!! 80 points, it was impressive as hell; nb the previous highest point total we saw was 39 pts from the sacramento site

john thompson iii out at georgetown

mich/ducks is hype