Saturday 2nd round thread

[storrsroars]

Has an ivy team ever made it to sweet 16?

Princeton was in the FF in 1965.

Since the field went to 64/68, I think it's only Cornell in 2010.

 

[AntG168]

We beat their evil much scarier twin in Alabama by 15. They can win, but they’re far from “scary”. Our execution scares me more than anything they’d do

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Auburn rocking Houston at the half was very predictable

 

[Waquoit]

Just said that Penn did it twice in the 70s and Cornell did it in 2010.

And the Cornell coach parlayed that performance into the coveted BC job!

 

[huskyjawz]

Just said that Penn did it twice in the 70s and Cornell did it in 2010.

One of those Penn teams went to the Final Four, I think.

 

[VA Blue Dog]

The best basketball game ( most entertaining) I’ve watched all year was Arkansas beating Creighton in Maui. They had a similar pre conference to us. And had a real rough conf season ( rougher than us) and like us figured a bunch of stuff out and turned it around.

Arkansas lost to Creighton 90-87.

 

[REB1094]

I always forget Christian Bishop still plays college ball. He was pretty good with Creighton. 23 years old now on Texas lol

 

[bendm]

Arkansas has talented freshmen but they aren’t Bama. They lost their only good big man Brazile for the season and Smith for a good chunk. People assumed they’d figure it out once Smith came but they didn’t. They finished the season 3-6 and now smith has a gimpy knee again. There’s a reason theyre an 8 seed.

KU woulda won if self was coaching. Ark can’t shoot. Sanogo will abuse the Mitchell twins. There’s no way they’re getting 30+ second chance pts against us. We should be favored in that matchup.

 

[Kathy]

Good call. And I agree he was insightful today.

Has been every game I've heard him call.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

One game at a time. I remember the 94 tournament being wide open after BC took out 1 seed North Carolina in our Bracket, we were in the process of having 427 straight wins against BC and salivating at how wide open our cruise to FF was going to be, all we had to do was beat a meh Florida team.

We didn’t.

UConn has won 4 National Championships since then, Boomer.

 

[REB1094]

Penn State averages over 10 threes a game at 38.5%
At halftime they're 2-13 (15.4%)

Somehow only down 8, partly because Texas is 0-7 from three (62.5% from two)

Feels like Penn State generally isn't taking horrible shots. They're just not going down

 

[superjohn]

Arkansas has talented freshmen but they aren’t Bama. They lost their only good big man Brazile for the season and Smith for a good chunk. People assumed they’d figure it out once Smith came but they didn’t. They finished the season 3-6 and now smith has a gimpy knee again. There’s a reason theyre an 8 seed.

KU woulda won if self was coaching. Ark can’t shoot. Sanogo will abuse the Mitchell twins. There’s no way they’re getting 30+ second chance pts against us. We should be favored in that matchup.

Agreed. Just need to take care of business tomorrow.

 

[Hurleyman216]

Refs taking over this Houston game

 

[August_West]

You mean when they beat Creighton by -3, 87-90?

Yeah that one

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Houston is playing like garbage, but Auburn may not be good enough to take advantage.

 

[uconngb]

ACC teams still left in the Dance:

Miami & Pitt

Not for long

 

[housekeys]

IN the Houston game, the officiating is atrocious. Just horrible. Both teams are bitchn and both teams have legitimate complaints.

 

[HuskyFich]

Be thankful our coach is not Bruce Pearl.

Talk about AWFUL second half adjustments…

(And FT shooting, woof)

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Northwestern is bad. How did this team get a 7 when a team like Memphis had an 8? I am surprised this game is as close at it is.

 

[pj]

Auburn shooting 3-19 in the second half, that's the difference.

 

[storrsroars]

IN the Houston game, the officiating is atrocious. Just horrible. Both teams are bitchn and both teams have legitimate complaints.

If we got these refs, we'd be toast.

 

[Ripper32]

Broone missed 10 fts.

 

[storrsroars]

Auburn shooting 3-19 in the second half, that's the difference.

Not to mention they're under 50% from the FT stripe. Broome alone is 6-16.

 

[connVA]

I wish Auburn knew how to shoot free throws

 

[August_West]

I agree. The teams we've struggled against the most this season are Xavier and Marquette. Neither of them are very athletic, they play ok defense, but they can score like hell. Arkansas is the opposite, they play great defense with a lot of great athletes, but they definitely struggle offensively.

I’m not so hot facing athletic players who can get to the rack.