March Madness (Other Games Thread)

[tykurez]

Pitt is a garbage 10 seed but they are lucky Wisconsin is garbage as well

 

[4UConn]

I 've had a lot of different negative reactions to fans of our former Big East rivals, but Pitt fans hold a special place for me for being arrogant without portfolio..

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Pitt player driving to the basket looking with a chance to hit the winning basket, and then someone must have reminded him it was March.

 

[Arizona Husky]

Pitt v Wisc was one poor display of basketball.

 

[storrsroars]

lol, Robinson goes for the lead with a couple secs left and gets fouled BY HIS OWN GUY

 

[tzznandrew]

Stephen F. Austin isn't a 14 seed. Good job committee, screwing over both West Virginia and potentially, SFA

 

[MattMang23]

Pitt with their usual March performance.

 

[Arizona Husky]

Stephen F. Austin isn't a 14 seed. Good job committee, screwing over both West Virginia and potentially, SFA

You are exactly right on both accounts.

 

[Peacefrog]

"Good evening, front desk. How may I help you?"

"Oh, so you'll be checking out early again Mr Dixon?"

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Stephen F. Austin isn't a 14 seed. Good job committee, screwing over both West Virginia and potentially, SFA

SFA deserved better than a 14 but they'd have to be a double digit seed regardless. WVU is roughly seeded where they should be.

While each may have the right to claim they should have been facing a lesser opponent in round one, neither can gripe about the outcome of this game as WVU should be able to handle a double digit seed and SFU should have been up against a pretty solid opponent.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Huggins makes it very hard on refs. There are so many potential fouls on both ends of the court, that I can see why he has 2 Final Fours, and also a lot of early exits.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

The last two possessions SFA seemed more worried about running the clock than getting a quality shot. There's a ton of time left, this is stupid.

 

[tzznandrew]

SFA deserved better than a 14 but they'd have to be a double digit seed regardless. WVU is roughly seeded where they should be.

While each may have the right to claim they should have been facing a lesser opponent in round one, neither can gripe about the outcome of this game as WVU should be able to handle a double digit seed and SFU should have been up against a pretty solid opponent.

Right: but they should have been an 11 or a 12, so getting a very good WVU team--better than all the 4/5 seeds except Kentucky--was messed up. That said, they're doing well. But West Virginia should have gotten a team like Stony Brook instead. Better seeds should mean easier opponents. That hasn't entirely happened this tournament.

 

[champs99and04]

Stephen F. Austin isn't a 14 seed. Good job committee, screwing over both West Virginia and potentially, SFA

Between that and Wichita State being an 11, it's clear the committee didn't take the metrics that seriously. It's interesting because SFA had kind of a nothing resume, so it isn't like they 'deserved' to be that much higher, but there's no sense in punishing a great team like West Virginia while Syracuse gets to play freaking Dayton.

I would like to see a better balancing act in future years.

 

[tzznandrew]

Between that and Wichita State being an 11, it's clear the committee didn't take the metrics that seriously. It's interesting because SFA had kind of a nothing resume, so it isn't like they 'deserved' to be that much higher, but there's no sense in punishing a great team like West Virginia while Syracuse gets to play freaking Dayton.

I would like to see a better balancing act in future years.

Once you get into those later seeds, where no one beat anyone, KenPom/BPI/Sagarin is probably the way they should seed. RPI is meaningless in judging between those teams.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Huggins is getting the calls tonight.

 

[jdb50]

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Refs missing WVU pushing fouls on rebounds, trying to hand them the game.

 

[Revrat]

I can't believe the fouls WVU is getting away with. two forearms to the face is a double fould?

 

[Tommyboy]

Number 2 on SFA is not getting a fair whistle.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

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Refs missing WVU pushing fouls on rebounds, trying to hand them the game.

A game like this is really tough to officiate. WVU fouls almost continually, and their offense is dependent on creating a lot of contact. I think WVU is getting more than their share of the calls, but it is not as crazy as the Duke/UNCW game, for example.

 

[BUHusky]

The refs have no control of this game. College officiating is really horrendous.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Terrible technical foul by Huggins.

 

[boba]

T on Huggy saying something, to the tune of 13.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Huggy with the T.

And it looks like he added ~120 lbs since he left the BE.

 

[James]

I've noticed a lot of college coaches hate making in game adjustments . Huggins has been playing 2 bigs all game, while the other team plays a 6'7 guy at center with Walkup playing point forward. He should have had a better gameplan, you can't rush Walkup it's obvious on film and by his low turn over rate