NCAA Hoops 2018-2019

Loyola is an 8 seed. Oregon State is a 12 seed which was picked to finish dead last in the PAC-12 this year, but instead is in the Sweet Sixteen. Why do I have no doubt that CBS will play up Loyola as the lovable underdog?

Congratulations, Beavers! Go, Ducks!

what are the stereotypes surrounding oregon vs. oregon state?

in the broadest terms U of Oregon is Niketown, with Phil Knight as Sugar Daddy bankrolling the program's high ambitions, while Oregon State has to recruit into podunk Corvallis and find overachievers and overlooked talent in order to compete.

Local gocery outlet onve had surplus ou and osu ice cream. Playing both sides.

xp ty

is eugene actually flashier than corvallis, or is it just nike money?

feel like a big beavers problem is that they're third on the list of OSUs behind ohio state and ok state, but maybe that's just eastern bias

lol at gamecocks fans expecting USC to stand for them before the trojans tho

eugene is no los angeles or san francisco , but there's no question that it is flashier than corvallis

do a lot of portlanders casually cheer on both teams?

as rivalries go, it's a friendly one

I'd pick Jalen Suggs over Cade.

Skill levels are comparable, but Suggs wins out because of his motor.

Cade is just (seemingly) passive enough to make me worry that he won't have the impact he *should* have.

Florida State shat the bed.

if by shat the bed you mean got out-executed by a much better team, then sure

I was thinking more along the lines of at least half a dozen unforced turnovers, silly fouls, and missing a ton of wide open threes. But, taking all those into consideration, it is more than fair to say Michigan out-executed them.

do a lot of portlanders casually cheer on both teams?

― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym)

i'd echo aimless in that UofO/OSU is rarely a bitter thing, but statewide there's a pretty pronounced urban/rural divide (UofO being a classic lib arts campus while OSU is historically more of an agricultural school, tho it's transitioned to a lot of biotech etc type in-demand sciences in recent decades)

xp seems like they played a team that didn’t make those mistakes and also assisted on 19 of 29 field goals

happy trails to ol' roy

I'm kinda surprised and pleased that UCLA beat Michigan. Gonzaga is definitely looking like the top dog this year. Baylor is intermittently fantastic, but uneven. Houston and UCLA would have to play over their heads to beat either 1 seed.

Flashback: Duke upsets UNLV in 1991 Final Four

i was there

also yikes am i old

crazy women's games, Aari McDonald rules

well this is a beatdown

this game has almost been too good to mention but @ 1 pt second half raftery said “sucks that D” regarding zags offensive movement/passing

lol

ok that was pretty good

gonna see that shot replayed a million times

incred ending

wild

i watched exactly 7 minutes of final four mens this year and it was those last 7 minutes.

suggs is going #2 now huh

the suggs play i liked even better was the block at the rim and bounce pass in transition a bit earlier. really high-level stuff.

there’s basically no way suggs isn’t a multiple time all star

god imagine getting a top2 pick in this draft, fuck

I would still take Mobley number one but there’s food for thought here

how is it not cade, srs question, i dont watch college hoops

most people seem to think its cade but theres a lot of guys this year the orders prob gonna come down to whos picking

JALEN SUGGS! THE BLOCK! THE PASS!

Special. #MarchMadness pic.twitter.com/wgkwwY9HxV

— Complex Sports (@ComplexSports) April 4, 2021

there’s basically no way suggs isn’t a multiple time all star

people said the same about christian laettner

amazing sequence in crunch tiiime xp

i fucking hate that timme guy and his moustache celebration tho its gross

lol he would be like a top-5 prospect in 1994

was that the one who looked like a grad student

xp

people said the same about christian laettner

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, April 3, 2021 10:23 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

christian laettner and jalen suggs are not similar players!

he is the one who dunks on the play in that video above xp

that celebration is legit obscene

suggs doesn’t quite have the athleticism of drose or westbrook, but he’s not far off, and his jumper is wayyyy ahead of either of theirs

that's gotta be one of the greatest basketball games ever

_there’s basically no way suggs isn’t a multiple time all star_

people said the same about christian laettner

th they were both good in college tho, think about it

tbf christain latner made one allstar game which is only one short of multiple

there’s been 3 amazing final four games that have ended in long distance buzzer beaters in the last 5 years (villanova-UNC, duke-butler) which can only happen in college bcuz you can’t advance the ball lol

suggs looks like a combo of devin booker and klay thompson to me