NCAA Tourney games

[triaddukefan]

Why does Vandy have the same school song as Chapel Hill ?? 😡😡😡😡

 

[nwhoopfan]

Okie St. about to take care of Princeton. It's gonna all fall on Cal Baptist's shoulders. Last mid major remaining. Against UCLA I give them just about a 0% chance. Cinderella is officially dead.

 

[JellyBean]

Is South Carolina's depth so compromised as to require keeping front-line starters in the game until 5:30 left in the 4th quarter while leading by 67?

That was an interesting with South Carolina & starters. Like you are up 40 plus, why your starters still on the floor?

 

[JellyBean]

Okie St. about to take care of Princeton. It's gonna all fall on Cal Baptist's shoulders. Last mid major remaining. Against UCLA I give them just about a 0% chance. Cinderella is officially dead.

Cal Baptist keeping it close for now.

 

[VA Huskie]

Syracuse took out Iowa St. After 100% chalk yesterday, we have a few small upsets today. Although a #10 over a #7 and a #9 over a #8, especially when both are P4 teams, is hard to get too excited about. But at least it's not all chalk.

Actually I thought UVA’s win was a pretty big “upset”. They barely made the tournament, won the play in by 2 points, and two days later beat a 7 seed who’d been off for well over a week. Given how UVA played at the end of the season (lost their last 3), I got pretty excited about it. But I realize you’re more talking about non power conference teams upsetting someone.

 

[maple]

Cal Baptist keeping it close for now.

I would love to see them pull off the upset.

 

[JellyBean]

I would love to see them pull off the upset.

That would probably be one of, if not the biggest, March Moments ever! It would replace Stanford's March Madness upset

 

[husky98]

I think UCLA is going to lose the regional final to LSU. UCLAs guards aren’t athletic enough to defend LSUs guards and will be in foul trouble early.

 

[husky98]

That was an interesting with South Carolina & starters. Like you are up 40 plus, why your starters still on the floor?

A cocks fan said it’s because they have a short bench tonight.

 

[husky98]

It was in another thread, but like I said before Iowa whipped Michigan twice in the last few weeks. I have no problem with them being a 2 seed. Maybe today was just a bad day for them?

I continue to be unimpressed by Iowa. They definitely have Michigans number, they beat OSU, that’s it. Them and Michigan are 2 seeds because the fall off after LSU and Vandy is dramatic.

 

[husky98]

LSU won 116-58. You can always count on Mulkey to run up the score as much as possible against an overmatched opponent.

I don’t know why I find this so funny, if you can’t win the tourney at least you can have the highest MOV?!?!

 

[JellyBean]

Welp. Cal. Baptist had it close for a minute with UCLA. At one point it was 33-38, UCLA. Now. 38-73, UCLA....35-5 run by UCLA.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Well, it looks like UCLA woke up after halftime. Q3 is a landslide. What is that about don't poke the bear?

 

[nwhoopfan]

Actually I thought UVA’s win was a pretty big “upset”. They barely made the tournament, won the play in by 2 points, and two days later beat a 7 seed who’d been off for well over a week. Given how UVA played at the end of the season (lost their last 3), I got pretty excited about it. But I realize you’re more talking about non power conference teams upsetting someone.

Yeah, I get that. Nice for UVa fans. Syracuse feels like a bit of an underdog story too.

 

[husky98]

Well, it looks like UCLA woke up after halftime. Q3 is a landslide. What is that about don't poke the bear?

I think they’re going to have real problems when they face a top tier team.

 

[JellyBean]

I am just waiting for the Coach Close post game presser so that she can address the LA crowd. We put 10,355 in the Barn, Coach!!

 

[husky98]

I’m excited for battle of the SCs on Monday! There can only be one! Though I think we know who’s gonna win that one. Hoping they play again next year when it’ll be a much fairer battle.

 

[cancontent]

I am just waiting for the Coach Close post game presser so that she can address the LA crowd. We put 10,355 in the Barn, Coach!!

And West Virginia had 13,000.

 

[JellyBean]

And West Virginia had 13,000.

Way to show up, West Virginia!! West Virginia folks gonna show up no matter what! Love to see those numbers.

 

[Floridaduck]

B1G went 11-1 in First Round games so a bit more than 1/3 of the teams in Second Round. Some like my Oregon Ducks and USC have zero chance of advancing but good showing for the conference to this point.

 

[nwhoopfan]

B1G went 11-1 in First Round games so a bit more than 1/3 of the teams in Second Round. Some like my Oregon Ducks and USC have zero chance of advancing but good showing for the conference to this point.

The Big 10 is the new Pac 12.

 

[nwhoopfan]

It was 52-9 UCLA in the 2nd half. Poor Lancers.

 

[Bone Dog]

As I was watching the CBU-UCLA game it occurred to me that Audi is a very similar player on offense to Lauren. On defense there’s no contest between them, and Lauren is a bit more mobile. But when it comes to post moves, Audi just has more of them, immobile as she is, and her shooting is rather more skillful. If you ignore the difference between height vs width, the basic play is the same: a post entry pass into a physically imposing person who is pretty much impossible to defend once they get the ball.

Two additional things: first, Lauren would probably defend Audi much more effectively than vice versa. Second, analysts like to gush about Lauren’s mobility in the lane. But on offense this only consists of a pivot move to her left that she developed last season. That’s it. I get that she likes doing the pivot but it’s seems largely cosmetic since in almost every case she could more easily muscle the ball up through smaller defenders. As soon as you recognize this, then it becomes clear that she’s not doing anything different from Audi. And she misses more layups than Audi does.

To consider the broader context, I’d say that Audi probably has very little future in the W. By contrast, Lauren will be drafted and will get playing time. It’s a question how she’ll adjust to playing against opponents who are as tall and as strong as she is, are more mobile, and who can hit midrange jumpers. I’d compare her to Li Yueru, who is the same size, has a dependable midrange shot and is more mobile. Lauren is probably stronger than Yueru, but may not have any other advantage.

 

[FanInNC]

I’ve watched plenty. She’s had way too many no shows. She’s zoned out numerous times. For her sake, she needs to hit the portal to improve her W stock

Interesting to hear. I’ve watched 2 games all year of Tennessee and came away thinking Cooper was great. Scanning her game log I guess I caught 2 of her top 5 scoring games. Had 23/11/7 in the opener an 24/6/2 the other day in the 2 games I saw of her.

I’d roll the dice on her in Raleigh from what I’ve seen - although State already has some issues with players sometimes zoning out so maybe that would be a recipe for disaster lol.

ACC 8-2 so far is a little surprising. Felt like a down year in the conference and the league placed a lot of teams in that 7,8,9,10 seed range so plenty of coin flip games and the conference held their own first round.

 

[JellyBean]

It was 52-9 UCLA in the 2nd half. Poor Lancers.

Holy smokes!! I just remember watching the score at halftime, I believe and it was something like Cal Baptist 33 and UCLA 38. It was a 5 point game and then all of the sudden, UCLA was up 10 and 20 points.