The 2019 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament (aka March Madness) Thread

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pretty rad that the first two picks in the nba have cool hoop names

rj barrett is more of a baseball name

Def. cam reddish is a cool hoop name too

i have seen a lot of bad basketball today

if your yardstick is NBA play, of course a bunch of college kids who've already been picked over by the NBA and most of the best talent drafted, won't look very good by comparison. compare them to state champion high school teams and they look pretty good. the cool thing about the NCAA tournament is not the level of play, but the level of effort.

pales beside your level of effort to endlessly state the obvious

well, just calling it "bad" basketball is pretty content-free. by your lights I guess 99.9% of all the basketball games played around the world are "bad" basketball. which would make your statement, if anything, more obvious than mine. it's "bad" basketball all the way down.

P boring opening day not much madness

fletcher magee would be dece in the nba right?

ja went off tho, maybe dont rank a team w a guy who cld be getting nba minutes rn 12 idk

xp dude i don't need you to explain college basketball to me. you are not quite as tiresome as reggie miller but it's close, and he doesn't make baseless assumptions about my 'yardstick' or 'lights'

the bad things were missed dunks and absurd shot selection and out-of-control driving and failure to block out and fouls 40 feet from the basket and tom izzo being psychotic. ja was good, though. and tbh i saw some pretty solid defense

college hoops is always going to be significantly inferior as long as the 3 point line is shorter and the lane narrower than the NBA. the pace-and-space era of the NBA is only making this discrepancy more glaring. half-court offense in college is so clogged and frustrating to watch most of the time.

We all miss rick

also college players just arent as good at basketball

but they are better at running a full court press for an entire game.

and you can still google "(coach's name) dui" during time outs and genuinely be surprised.

i love college basketball and always will, but yeah, by rule the players will be less good because they're all super young and there are so damn many of them.

i am glad that we all agree that tom izzo is lower than a piece of trash.

lol xp

UVA deja vu?

haha was just gonna say. way too early to bring too much attention to it but they def started with the yips.

Anteaters first ever NCAA Tourney win!

what a moment for ned raggett!

virginia played duke twice and ran through the whole acc schedule but faced their largest deficit of the season against gardner-webb

this thread is off-limits, plz, to people who are going to watch all of these games, teams and players through the lens of comparing them to them to the NBA.

rude

tournament committee are such drama queens, matching up minn/louisville, buffalo/arizona state, things of that nature

liberty is a terrible institution, but they did bring us the thickest player in the tourney

A god amongst us pic.twitter.com/ot9SZhiRHq

— Kris Abeln (@kabeln) March 23, 2019

buffalo looked good, apart from the turnovers

Walking on the beach this morning, doing a little thinking when I saw footprints in the sand. Reminded me of the poem Footprints in the Sand

— John Calipari (@UKCoachCalipari) August 14, 2014

ja morant--still good

fsu in the 1st half looked amazing tho

they're just way too huge for murray. 10 deep with guys who are twice as athletic as the best non-ja murray state guy

the hfd bar i was at had 82 yr old gene keady in attendance.. hes looking good

lil shoutout to this dope play by my squad

ISAIAH LIVERS WITH AUTHORITY! 😤#MarchMadness | @umichbball pic.twitter.com/sv3c5bOCsI

— NCAA March Madness (@marchmadness) March 23, 2019

xp good to hear gene is doing well. the world's most obvious toupee

i love leonard hamilton

lil shoutout to my squad for holding the NCAA's all-time leading three-point shooter to 0-12 from three

also Gonzaga with Tillie is the best team in the country

how is leonard hamilton 70

He has big Bunny Colvin energy

fire bill self

Otm

LSU vs Maryland was a great game the rest were not very close

Tacko is so tall at least that's my take on him

Tune in now everyone

fucking a this game

the way that tip hovered on the rim

Sad way to lose

Not the biggest basketball fan (knoe very little about the game so it's hard to appreciate) but the end of a close important game of basketball is one of the most compelling things in sports

Kenny Wooten AGAIN! Ducks up 9!#MarchMadness pic.twitter.com/1tfdN8UXy1

— NCAA March Madness (@marchmadness) March 25, 2019

reminder that tacko fall starred in one of the greatest vines ever pic.twitter.com/25x5Bu3w58

— Jordan Heck (@JordanHeckFF) March 24, 2019

lmfbo

kenpom's top 14 teams are all in the sweet 16

the other two are lsu (he has them 18th) and oregon (29th)

U of Oregon has been on a red-hot streak for the past 9 games, after a very mediocre injury-plagued start. They are better than their W/L record suggests. They might squeak into the Elite Eight.

too bad they dont have Bol Bol playing

bol bol bol

i guess all the matchups are tough at this point, but oregon getting virginia next is particularly so

did u guys see tacko shoot free throws because wau

soooo bad

i was shooting free throws for the first time in 20 years on saturday, and i only played a little bit of basketball back then, and i was pretty much as good as tacko fall

hope everyone's watching the best game of the tourney

not sure how these teams are making so many 3s and missing so many FTs

Purdue kid was awesome bombing the threes

Texas Tech v Michigan has featured the worst shooting I've ever seen from 2 and 3 seeds.

Lol 24-16 at half ooooof

michigan didn't make a single jumpshot all half. not exaggerating. they were 7-12 at the rim, and 0-12 on all other shots, including 0-9 from three.

Ha 12 minutes left and still haven’t made a shot outside of the paint.....

definitely the saddest performance by a team i've had an active rooting interest in since the last time i watched a jets game start to finish

prediction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80eG40_eK7A

Madness is good

hey they made a jumpshot

Rough stuff sorry voodoo

I thought the Ducks stood a chance of squeaking past Virginia. I was right. They had a chance and came pretty close. Well done, Ducks.

Carsen Edwards, my god. Purdue keeps playing the tourney’s best games

Purdue and Virginia end of regulation was some wild shit xp

this must be the madness of which they speak

not the way the game deserved to end, but i guess purdue's luck had to run out sometime.

brutal loss

that whole final play of regulation was crazy

Got to say, you have had some real nice games this weekend. Quite a few players just playing out of their minds.

Jared Harper for Auburn
Carsen Edwards for Purdue
Mamadi Diakite for Virginia <This guy is a ballhawk on the boards, impressed by his play all tourney.

Carsen Edwards was amazing and I am so mad the terrible uva slow ball made the final four.