NCAA Tourney games

[ISUnorth]

Risked channel flipping out my Cyclone MBB game for a couple of minutes to catch the end of my local Gopher gals game. Risk was rewarded with this shot of the day to win it. Crowd in the The Barn sounded electric. Been a while, 20 years since last Sweet Sixteen.

 

[JellyBean]

Mayhem here in Minneapolis!! What a game! 10,795 packed the Barn. Thank you. Them Gophers held on and showed a lot of grit and grind. Ole Miss is a physical and intimidating team and them Gophers did not buckle. Sweet Sixteen!!

 

[Zanzman]

Duke is a 3 seed. They play lsu next week. I expect Duke to win

Duke is a much better team and lsu has lost all games of significance vs better teams. While they have good players the coaching is lacking and they have not showing they can handle the pressure

Duke 74
LSU 62

Don't know why I thought Duke was 2 seed

 

[nwhoopfan]

Oregon hung in there for a while, but Texas has run away. Up 30 thru Q3. Booker has scored 32. Oregon only has 42 as a team.


Are we on a record pace for number of players w/ 30 point games?

 

[nwhoopfan]

So far today 4 out of 6 games are blow outs. About as lopsided as Day 1 games were.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Hmm. Booker was playing pretty late in this game. She got up to 40 points. Texas won 100-58. I don't think they needed her on the floor much in Q4 but she was still playing. Logged 35 minutes. They went 11 deep, so I don't think there is a lack of depth argument.

 

[Bone Dog]

Amaya Battle played HS ball with the great Paige Bueckers.

Most of Minnesota’s upperclassmen either played with Paige or against her in high school. It’s one reason I like to watch them. Battle, Woodson, Braun, Senden and even Hart.

 

[Bone Dog]

As for Texas Oregon, I was left scratching my head how on earth Oregon rated a #8 seed the way they played. I get that Texas plays tough D, but most of the first half turnovers were self-inflicted. And so many missed layups that didn’t even look like basketball shots. After awhile I found myself yelling at the screen, “Katie, stop passing the ball to your so-called teammates. You’re going to have to carry this team all by yourself.” Such a waste of a substantial talent by Kelly Graves.

Analogous things could be said about many Big10 and Big12 teams. We are very far from anything resembling parity, and some of it can probably be attributed to the NIL/portal concentrating talent too much.

By contrast, the OU-Mich St game looks like a classic tournament game. Very intense, very competitive into the third quarter.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I don't have a dog in the fight...but Michigan St. is getting EVERY call in this game in Q3. The crowd in Norman is getting very restless, led by Mr. Beers.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Chavez is 1 point away from joining Paris as the only freshman in Oklahoma history to score 600 points in a season.

 

[Bone Dog]

I don't have a dog in the fight...but Michigan St. is getting EVERY call in this game in Q3. The crowd in Norman is getting very restless, led by Mr. Beers.

I didn’t see it that way. The whistles are pretty even, 16-14. But there has been a lot pushing and shoving in the paint, and surprisingly the refs are calling them. The flagrant on Beers was obvious on replay, for example. Same for Verhulst, Jones and VanSlooten. I think Mr. Beers is doing the game a disservice by enflaming passions. And extravagant shove down by Stewart on one contested rebound looked over the top.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I think both teams got tired. LOTS of miss jump shots. Oklahoma prevails 77-71. Double double for Beers, 5 straight in Tourney games w/ Oklahoma for her.

 

[triaddukefan]

Duke will be the heavy favorite against lsu the way Duke is playing right now

Simmer down fella

 

[nwhoopfan]

I didn’t see it that way. The whistles are pretty even, 16-14. But there has been a lot pushing and shoving in the paint, and surprisingly the refs are calling them. The flagrant on Beers was obvious on replay, for example. Same for Verhulst, Jones and VanSlooten. I think Mr. Beers is doing the game a disservice by enflaming passions. And extravagant shove down by Stewart on one contested rebound looked over the top.

When did Beers get a flagrant? Chavez drew one much earlier. They got Beers on a push off, she did, but she was surrounded by 4 defenders, there's no way there was no foul by any of them prior to Raegan getting whistled. Call the first foul, not the response several seconds later.

 

[Bone Dog]

When did Beers get a flagrant? Chavez drew one much earlier. They got Beers on a push off, she did, but she was surrounded by 4 defenders, there's no way there was no foul by any of them prior to Raegan getting whistled. Call the first foul, not the response several seconds later.

You’re right. I meant an offensive foul. Typing got ahead of myself. It didn’t look like a response to a prior foul. Just trying to prevent a held ball call. And it wasn’t a subtle push off. Full extension of the arm, not a flop.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I'm getting myself mixed up. The flagrant I'm thinking of was against Michigan St. While she did flare her arm out, it was in response to Chavez grabbing her arm while she tried to drive. So that one did go in Oklahoma's favor. I thought that was bad, too. Refs need to do a better job of seeing the initial action, not the response.

But there was a good long stretch of Q3 where every whistle was going in the Spartans favor.

 

[Joetro]

Brutal finish by UW

 

[nwhoopfan]

TCU by 3 in OT. Washington led most of the game, but couldn't hold on at the end of regulation. Frogs immediately went up 7 in the extra session. Huskies clawed back in it, had the last shot w/ a chance to tie.

Miles and Sellers were leading scorers w/ 18 each. Neither efficient--9-24 and 7-22.

 

[Stagnant]

Washington blew it. They should have won that game. It’s apparent to me now how easy that region is. South Carolina to the final four is basically a lock. I think Oklahoma is actually their biggest threat.

 

[nwhoopfan]

McGaughy missed 2 FTs late in regulation, that should've won the game for them. Too bad.

 

[jdote33]

Happy for tcu. I really thought they may lose. Washington is an interesting team. Should be good next year. I'm bummed for Elle ladine. I really like her but I felt she never found her stride this season and I think that's why Washington couldn't really be the type of threat some expected.
Disappointed in Baylor and Ole Miss. Happy for Amaya Battle tho.

 

[triaddukefan]

Washington blew it. They should have won that game. It’s apparent to me now how easy that region is. South Carolina to the final four is basically a lock. I think Oklahoma is actually their biggest threat.

 

[nwhoopfan]

'm bummed for Elle ladine. I really like her but I felt she never found her stride this season and I think that's why Washington couldn't really be the type of threat some expected.

My thoughts too. She had an undisclosed injury early in the season, missed a few games, just never got on track. There's zip for information coming from the program, but I think that injury nagged her all year. She was so good last year, completely different player now, there's has to be a reason for that.

 

[packwrap]

NC St with so many self-inflicted wounds.

Biggest one was injured scoring guard.

Barring transfers, whole roster back next year with this year of tough experience. Trygger/Pierre and all those guards.

 

[southie]

I don't want to dog the Big 12 conference, but I'm not surprised by their performance in the NCAA tourney so far. I was pretty shocked that Baylor (6-seed) and Texas Tech (7-seed) were seeded higher than their NET ranking would have suggested they be; probably should have been 8 or 9 seeds. West Virginia being given a 4-seed was also very generous by the committee considering their NET Q1 record was only 3-3; probably because they won the Big 12 conference tourney. We'll see how WVU does today against 5-seed Kentucky.