March Madness Round 1 Thread

[REB1094]

Let’s use this to discuss round 1, including the first four

Great start to March Madness. UMBC and Howard was a really fun game

UMBC was dead in the water, down double digits with about 2 minutes left. But Howard missed two front ends of 1 and 1s and 1/2 FTs with a few seconds left. But UMBC missed a 3 at the buzzer, Howard holds on and gets Michigan

 

[BFieldHusky]

Brian Anderson sounds terrible.

 

[Revrat]

One thing I never understood. Why are the playin games 2 16s and two 11s. Seems kind of random.

 

[HooperScooper]

They have Vitale and Barkley doing these games? And a hoarse Anderson? Good thing for the mute button.

 

[Leebo]

One thing I never understood. Why are the playin games 2 16s and two 11s. Seems kind of random.

It's not. These are the teams considered the weakest auto-bids and the weakest at-larges. The weakest auto-bids will pretty much always be 16s, but the weakest at-larges can be a range of seeds.

It's basically their way of weeding out some of the low end of both categories.

 

[JakeTheDog]

One thing I never understood. Why are the playin games 2 16s and two 11s. Seems kind of random.

The play in game should be the last four at large teams. It’s not automatic qualification if you win your conference tournament and then have to go play in Dayton.

 

[aboogieee]

Caught the Solo Ball TurboTax commercial and the Invesco QQQ commercial featuring Solo, Silas, Alex, and Tarris.

 

[HooperScooper]

Caught the Solo Ball TurboTax commercial and the Invesco QQQ commercial featuring Solo, Silas, Alex, and Tarris.

Curious how much Solo got for doing that commercial.

 

[CardiacAndre7]

 

[gsmooth]

NC State was down 8 with under 1:30 and now just down 2 with 1:06.

 

[Huskyforlife]

Inbounding is apparently hard.

 

[gsmooth]

Inbounding is apparently hard.

Misery loves company. Texas and UConn not giving clinics on how to inbound or break pressure.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Really fun ending to that Texas-NC State game. Hell of a shot to win it by UT.

 

[uconngb]

Inbounding is apparently hard.

Only if you are Uconn or Texas apparently

 

[Kolumbo]

Caught the Solo Ball TurboTax commercial and the Invesco QQQ commercial featuring Solo, Silas, Alex, and Tarris.

as if any of those guys will be using a diy software package. But hey, money talks and bs takes the bus

 

[aceboon]

I was wincing on every Texas inbound into the corner down the stretch

 

[aceboon]

Is this Vitale/Barkley experiment just for the First Four? Barkley has been doing March Madness for 15 years and seriously asked if a timeout could advance the ball to halfcourt, cmon man.

 

[Huskyforlife]

Is this Vitale/Barkley experiment just for the First Four? Barkley has been doing March Madness for 15 years and seriously asked if a timeout could advance the ball to halfcourt, cmon man.

That was so bad, keep him in the studio where he can crack jokes and be whimsical.

 

[pepband99]

The play in game should be the last four at large teams. It’s not automatic qualification if you win your conference tournament and then have to go play in Dayton.

This is always the simplest, but wrong, answer.

Howard just got a full NCAA credit for winning that game. Ask their AD if that's a big deal or not.

Can't eliminate the 16/16 play-in without some revenue offset.

 

[BGesus4]

The CBS guys were calling UT-NC St the FBI Cup lol

 

[aceboon]

 

[CTBasketball]

Does anyone think a First Four team advances to the S16?

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Looking forward to rooting for Lehigh tonight. My dad lives 20 minutes away from campus and it’s refreshing to see a program that truly prioritizes the student-athlete experience.

Also, how may programs nowadays have a head coach whose last NCAA tournament appearance was with the same team 14 years ago when they had their own March magic, when the CJ McCollum-led Mountain Hawks defeated Duke?

 

[ConnZag3]

This is always the simplest, but wrong, answer.

Howard just got a full NCAA credit for winning that game. Ask their AD if that's a big deal or not.

Can't eliminate the 16/16 play-in without some revenue offset.

This is the struggle that I have with the play in games too. It's great for small, low major conferences to get a $2 million unit payout for a tournament "win" (even though it's paid to the conference and over 6 years I think I saw), but most people don't consider the tournament starting until we get down to the actual 64-team field so I too would like to see all AQ's make the "true" 64-team field and go from there. Save the play-ins for teams that do truly need to play their way in. A conference tournament champion should not have to play its way in.

 

[Mr. French]

I’m still bitter about my HS team I coached hitting a game winner with less than a second vs our rival and a perennial state title winner and 1 of our players did that…ran out, came right back, I grabbed him but the ref saw him. It affected nothing but the other coach got in their ear and they gave us a T, and we lost.