NCAA Tournament Saturday (Day 3) Thread

[WhereistheDove?]

The St. John’s style just does not play that well outside of the BE officiating. They had to rein in the contact so much because of how the game was called and it really limits how many easy looks they get on offense. Add in the absolutely awful shooting night and they’re just not as good as they seemed. Unfortunately this was all too predictable.

 

[Doctor Hoop]

Now, the fighting Caliparis need to lose the next one.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

StJ not even losing this one because Arkansas played well, they just stunk. What an egg this one was. To not have your best player in during crunch time is wild.

There have been a few of these games over the last two years where the favorite lays a surprising egg, where they do a lot of the details right, but the ball just doesn't seem to go in the basket, and then there are a few weird defensive breakdowns. Hmm.

It feels like college sports is hanging by a thread.

 

[uconngb]

Bye bye slick Rick

I don’t think you can do better than this year so you are now a thing of the past

 

[Hi-Low]

Up to UConn to carry the water for the BE yet again

 

[TroyHall98]

Remember the Pitino quote about waving past the Storrs campus on the way to Providence? Maybe on the way back to Queens they can study some past UConn games to learn how to win tournament games as a high seed.

 

[NCHusky91]

Suck on that Zach Brassiere

 

[jdb50]

Arkansas had players that could really defend Luis as they were his size and quickness, and then he also missed some open looks he usually makes and it snowballed.

 

[phillionaire]

Me thinking a non UConn or creighton big east team had a shot at a tournament run

 

[shizzle787]

This is really bad for the Big East. I don't know why people are celebrating this.

 

[IndyLives]

The zone killed SJU.

Yup. No true bigs to get easy points. Still Luis choked big-time today.

 

[KingAG]

This is really bad for the Big East. I don't know why people are celebrating this.

Because it’s hilarious and we all seen it coming.

Also it’s wonderful for us if we just win

 

[blkknight1]

They are who we knew they were a team built for a conference that allows physical play and doesn't call fouls. Unfortunately BE refs don't call tourney games foe BE team. Once they got into a game where they weren't free to just beat up the other team they were going to struggle

 

[BFieldHusky]

@RuffRuff must be heartbroken.

 

[gtcam]

Bye Bye Ricky - don't let the door hit you in the arse as you leave and take that loser Kadary with you
I could care about the fact that they are conference brothers of UConn

 

[cellocgg]

Hey what do you know, our conference sucks lol

 

[JustbrewitMan]

SJU-Arkansas two lousy shooting teams trying to out-lousy each other. And two slimeball coaches trying to out-slime each other.

In the end, SJU won that battle and lost the game.

Embarrassing performance for the BE.

Pitino should stop at Electric Blue on his way back from Providence and buy the team some sympathy lap dances.

 

[Dooooooomed]

Us and Creighton are the Big East's only hope every March.

Now beat Florida and the West is wide open for the taking.

 

[CTFaninCali]

This is really bad for the Big East. I don't know why people are celebrating this.

Because we hate St John’s more than we care to wave the banner of a league that doesn’t do anything to support us.

 

[REB1094]

Turns out that being unable to shoot the basketball makes it hard to win the basketball tournament

 

[Sibeerian]

Cal wins the Slime Bowl.

 

[superjohn]

Luis, Kadary, Scott, and Wilcher went 7-39.

 

[Ripper32]

SJU got a bad matchup. All those long bodies tormented them. You could tell early on.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

This is really bad for the Big East. I don't know why people are celebrating this.

There are several posters on this board that would like to see the UConn athletic program burn to the ground if they could get a one post dig at another internet poster who they will never meet.

 

[storrsroars]

I'm not doing the research, but gonna guess that 28% shooting performance was the worst of any 1 seed in modern NCAA tourney history.

Just embarrassing for Pitino, for St John's and for the conference.

 

[Doctor Hoop]

This is really bad for the Big East. I don't know why people are celebrating this.

Because St. Johns, because Pitino. Of course, I'd have preferred they lose to someone else, but it is what it is. Let's have UConn and Creighton make the Sweet 16 and the Big East can carry on proudly.

 

[firstnline]

That will shut up the New York media.

 

[JustbrewitMan]

Think piece idea: does Hurley need to reconsider his reconsideration of his portal strategy in light of this result?

Getting players that can shoot still seems like a sound idea in the long run.

 

[my2cents]

Remember the Pitino quote about waving past the Storrs campus on the way to Providence? Maybe on the way back to Queens they can study some past UConn games to learn how to win tournament games as a high seed.

They should go down I 95 and avoid Storrs. Give them credit, they won ONE NCAA tournament game against a 15 seed.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

I'm not doing the research, but gonna guess that 28% shooting performance was the worst of any 1 seed in modern NCAA tourney history.

Just embarrassing for Pitino, for St John's and for the conference.

They were a 2 seed.