Is the tournament rigged in Dukes favor?
- Thread starter Scoe
- Start date
intlzncster
i fart in your general direction
- Joined
- Aug 24, 2011
- Messages
- 28,910
- Reaction Score
- 60,188
Leaving jokes aside, do you really have to ask this?
Purple Stein
I like to sim things.
- Joined
- Jul 9, 2017
- Messages
- 2,585
- Reaction Score
- 12,555
- Joined
- Aug 26, 2011
- Messages
- 2,136
- Reaction Score
- 7,162
.-.
- Joined
- Aug 13, 2013
- Messages
- 9,079
- Reaction Score
- 8,792
The NCAA ain't been doing their job then....Duke has been to the Final Four twice in 14 seasons.
Duke has its weakness...they don't perimeter shoot well...teams will pack in close and make them hit from the perimeter.
And Zion will try to draw fouls taking it in...
Duke has its weakness...they don't perimeter shoot well...teams will pack in close and make them hit from the perimeter.
And Zion will try to draw fouls taking it in...
- Joined
- Dec 6, 2016
- Messages
- 4,627
- Reaction Score
- 12,141
No one else has a 7"6 center. As much as I hate to say it, Duke got by UCF, survived the scare and are likely to win it all. Ugh.
- Joined
- Feb 27, 2019
- Messages
- 176
- Reaction Score
- 928
K gets way too much credit . . . guy is a great recruiter and gets his guys to play hard, but he is in competition with Self and Boeheim for doing the least with the most talent.
It would useful for somebody to pull the AAs to Title ratio for K, Self, Boeheim, and JC.
It's like the Patriots - what they have done is not appreciated by most - figure out the average draft position of the starting 22 for all the Patriots teams over the last 18 years and you'd likely find that they're in the bottom 1/3 or 1/4 of the NFL. Persistent excellence without having the best resources year in and year out.
JC/Bellichek - true greatness.
It would useful for somebody to pull the AAs to Title ratio for K, Self, Boeheim, and JC.
It's like the Patriots - what they have done is not appreciated by most - figure out the average draft position of the starting 22 for all the Patriots teams over the last 18 years and you'd likely find that they're in the bottom 1/3 or 1/4 of the NFL. Persistent excellence without having the best resources year in and year out.
JC/Bellichek - true greatness.
HuskyHawk
The triumphant return of the Blues Brothers.
- Joined
- Sep 12, 2011
- Messages
- 35,512
- Reaction Score
- 94,573
I don't think Michigan State being in their bracket is remotely in their favor. Nor is a unique and difficult team like UCF being their second game. Also, didn't VT beat them once already?
.-.
- Joined
- Aug 13, 2013
- Messages
- 9,079
- Reaction Score
- 8,792
Cuse and Gonzaga did early...
with no Zion on the court
- Joined
- Feb 27, 2019
- Messages
- 176
- Reaction Score
- 928
She must ________ _________ really, really well.
- Joined
- Jan 20, 2016
- Messages
- 486
- Reaction Score
- 1,777
Zags beat duke with Zion putting up 22 and 10, back in november
Looking at those clips now whats funny is Duke flops at the end as soon as Langdon lost the ball he does a belly flop and he looks around expecting to get a call. Near the end of the 04 game when Reddick got stripped he falls the same way Langdon did and K demands a foul like Duke is owed a call like they should have some preferential treatment.
P Diddy as well that would make it 6 lol.
.-.
- Joined
- Nov 20, 2011
- Messages
- 280
- Reaction Score
- 353
Zion played the entire game when Syracuse beat them at Cameron in January.
- Joined
- Aug 27, 2011
- Messages
- 18,686
- Reaction Score
- 33,548
Forget the brackets, that’s the little picture. I think getting 3 top 10 players year in and year out skews things in their favor pretty strongly. Their players and team get saturation coverage on tv. All legal I know but you don’t have to set up brackets funny for them. This is freaking preordained every year. This thing is fixed for about 4 teams from second one. To start saying now that Duke is getting a break at this point makes me laugh. Do zillionaire’s kids get a break by just being born into their family?
- Joined
- Aug 26, 2011
- Messages
- 2,136
- Reaction Score
- 7,162
But Barrett didnt
- Joined
- Aug 13, 2013
- Messages
- 9,079
- Reaction Score
- 8,792
Yeah...and if you live in the south...it is Alabama football or Clemson....for months at a time...
The top dogs get publicity...
- Joined
- Aug 26, 2011
- Messages
- 37,291
- Reaction Score
- 39,512
Ha! Refs never make calls against duke.
intlzncster
i fart in your general direction
- Joined
- Aug 24, 2011
- Messages
- 28,910
- Reaction Score
- 60,188
It's been done on here before with K, JC, Roy, and Cal i think. Can't remember when.
JC looks really good in this comp.
.-.
- Joined
- Aug 26, 2011
- Messages
- 2,474
- Reaction Score
- 4,689
The beauty of the Big Dance is it doesn't matter how some might try to rig it, it only matters how you do for 40 minutes at a time. So many underdogs have done it over the years. UCF came within inches of the ball rolling to the left instead of the right in proving that once again.
Sure JC is better than K. But he doesn't do the least with the most talent not even close, he can't win it all every year.
Last edited:
- Joined
- Aug 26, 2011
- Messages
- 13,475
- Reaction Score
- 36,038
I remember a Trajan Langdon travel and a Rashad Anderson strip that could have gone either way in the moment. Though in each case the ref got it right.
- Joined
- Feb 27, 2019
- Messages
- 176
- Reaction Score
- 928
When you perennially get the best players in the country, making the final 16 is not evidence of excellent coaching.
The guy has 3 of the top 10 NBA draft pics, and 2 of the top 3, and he got lucky to beat UCF, and UCF didn't have a great game - if they had, they would have won by 10.
He's a great recruiter and he gets his kids to work hard. I will never confuse him with a great tactician or in-game coach. He's choked and lost too many games he should have won, including several very early NCAA exits against patsies.
.-.