Thursday 1st Round games thread

[HuskyHawk]

Think Oral Roberts will score this game? SMH

There it is. Took 8 minutes but they finally have a hoop.

If I didn’t think it was just wrong as a UConn fan I was going to bet Duke -6.5. Felt like an easy one they way they have been playing and given they have top 10 level talent.

 

[millertime7774]

I went back 10 years on KenPom, Iowa is 168th in defensive efficiency this year. The only worse at large teams are Indiana in 2015 at 200th and Wake Forest in 2017 at 176th. There's honestly very few autobids worse than them most years either, only 2 or 3 every season

And Pearl immediately goes to "Iowa is #3 in Offensive Efficiency" in halftime interview...

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Holy moly Chris Collins looks old.

 

[alexd]

I'll leave this here....

 

[Ripper32]

Duke is so collectively big that we would have to dust off Samson against them. It's 7 footer after 7 footer.

 

[AzHusky]

Is that our favorite Timmy Allen playing for Texas now?

 

[navery12]

Is that our favorite Timmy Allen playing for Texas now?

Our archenemy is his older brother Teddy

 

[FfldCntyFan]

think their claim to fame was they were the first 2 to lose to a 15

Yeah, looked it up, their loss to Vermont was 13 over 4 so Cuse fans can hold their heads high, especially as that game was vacated.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Northwestern packing the paint with legit size and daring Boise to shoot. So far, not good for Boise. This isn’t going to be attractive basketball.

 

[Jay-Bone]

the lone bright spot...UVA is going to be a mid-bottom conference team next year even in a garbage ACC. Losing the entire starting 5 assuming Beekman declares for the draft

That sucks, because I prefer teams beating up on Duke and UNC. Plus Bennet seems like a good guy. Too bad they lost Van Der Plas and feel awful for Kihei.

 

[UCSouth]

I was just looking at the ESPN Bracket and there are still over 18000 perfect brackets left. WOW

17999 to go

 

[HuskyHawk]

I'll leave this here.... View attachment 85202

The dramatically increased frequency in recent years tells you how much the game has changed. Top teams just aren’t as loaded as they once were.

 

[auror]

Is that our favorite Timmy Allen playing for Texas now?

No, but his buddy/teammate Sir'Jabari Rice cooking in the NCAA tournament again. Getting flashbacks.

 

[auror]

Rice was 3/6 against us from 3 last year, 4/5 in the first 12 minutes tonight. He was B12 6th man of the year.

 

[Ripper32]

Iowa getting reamed now.

 

[auror]

Hope everyone saw that Auburn was playing in Birmingham and bet accordingly.

 

[Ripper32]

Hope everyone saw that Auburn was playing in Birmingham and bet accordingly.

I did. Plus, that Auburn team may not be Pearl's most talented, but they play hard.

 

[Rocktheworld]

Duke is so collectively big that we would have to dust off Samson against them. It's 7 footer after 7 footer.

They’re going to get to a final four and go through MSG to do it. /barf

 

[storrsroars]

Hate to admit it, but with my South region pretty much fried, I kinda need Duke to go very far to have any shot at winning anything. I have them in FF.

17999 to go

None in any of the BY groups I'm in. We suck at this.

 

[storrsroars]

Time for ORU's "kill shot", ya think?

 

[storrsroars]

Willie Nelson must still be deep in delinquent tax debt to be pitching credit cards.

 

[SouleMan]

Iowa starting to hit some 3s. One or two more and this game will get interesting (I hope)

 

[SouleMan]

Iowa starting to hit some 3s. One or two more and this game will get interesting (I hope)

4 pt game under 5 min to go

 

[UCSouth]

Hate to admit it, but with my South region pretty much fried, I kinda need Duke to go very far to have any shot at winning anything. I have them in FF.



None in any of the BY groups I'm in. We suck at this.

My BY bracket is hot garbage already

 

[auror]

Auburn somehow milking the clock too early and playing out of control at the same time. And then not getting back on D.