HuskyWarrior611
Mid range white knight
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GCU to the sweet 16 and JMU to elite 8 in my brackets
gcu going to the second weekend fellas. im sold.
GCU to the sweet 16 and JMU to elite 8 in my brackets
gcu going to the second weekend fellas. im sold.
Grand Canyon is good and St. Mary's is what they always are.St. Mary’s looks so small and unathletic in this game. GCU is impressive.
It's all part of the same cosmic vibration. Cherry-picking which aspects of the ineffable meet your approval is a facile approach that has undeniable appeal, but reveals compromising inconsistencies upon closer examinationIt doesn’t matter at all if the fans get cocky. Only if the team does.
To assert that the committee was some combination of biased, corrupt, dishonest, cynical, and lacking motivation to make corrective changes so that this would be less apparent is better argued than that UConn got screwed, a now-stale claim that benefits from simplicity but sounds whiny.There's 4 top 10 teams in the same bracket and they all won major conference tournaments.
Perhaps there's some small consolation in imagining that Brown could have beaten Auburn by 1 point, because it lost to Yale by that margin and Yale beat Auburn by 2.As happy as I am that Auburn is donezo it pains me to think that Brown had that team dead and buried last weekend.
Hell of a game for that wing with the Greek name. Auburn remains probably my least favorite team in college basketball, starting with the evil clown on the sidelines.
Brother, I think we're going to win the whole thing.It's all part of the same cosmic vibration. Cherry-picking which aspects of the ineffable meet your approval is a facile approach that has undeniable appeal, but reveals compromising inconsistencies upon closer examination
To assert that the committee was some combination of biased, corrupt, dishonest, cynical, and lacking motivation to make corrective changes so that this would be less apparent is better argued than that UConn got screwed, a now-stale claim that benefits from simplicity but sounds whiny.
Should UConn prevail through arguably dubious additional challenges, the notion that it got screwed will completely vanish in relevance & applicability whereas the Committee's actions will still fit the descriptions I've offered when viewed through a lens of static history in telling the story after the fact.
I don't like it any more than you do, but the time to highlight the victimhood angle has passed in favor of playing the dealt hand as well as possible.
Leaving aside the overconfidence red flag of your homonym error for a moment, how many times have you invited somebody to give something a closer look, told them point blank, "You were wrong," and gotten a favorable response?Or. Here me out.
You were wrong.
Marquette has a pretty easy path to the Elite 8
We're very much aligned. I just object to framing it presently as, "We got screwed." I think it's bad energy.Brother, I think we're going to win the whole thing.
I also think UConn didn't get a bracket that a #1 overall should get and I think the Big East got hosed on # of bids. Our record was gaudy, Marquette and Creighton got their respect and the committee pretended everyone else stunk.
No grand conspiracy, I don't believe it was the two football superpowers doing their thing...Mountain West got 6.
This place has rarified air that is so combustible that anything less that winning the NC last year, and doing so in the fashion it was done, held that threat until the end of the SDSU game, and it still bubbles not too far below the surface. I don't think it can be helped.If we had ever let the game get this close this late in the first half the chat would have spontaneously combusted
Return of Kolek?I don't know what to make of Marquette. WKU is not great defensively and is just bad offensively, and that is compared to all teams in D1, and it took 30 minutes for Marquette to pull away. Marquette's shooting picked up at the end, but Marquette missed a lot of wide open shots in the first 2/3's of the game. Maybe it was just a bad game.
You see what Yale did to Auburn as well as what they did a few years ago as well as what Princeton did last year and people really think msu or Virginia deserved an at large over this years Princeton, really now?
Shaka jitters?? He’d be squirming if they lost that game.I don't know what to make of Marquette. WKU is not great defensively and is just bad offensively, and that is compared to all teams in D1, and it took 30 minutes for Marquette to pull away. Marquette's shooting picked up at the end, but Marquette missed a lot of wide open shots in the first 2/3's of the game. Maybe it was just a bad game.
So what? It’s basketballI find it very weird to see people rooting for a for-profit school that accepts anyone and graduates 40% of students.
"Overconfidence red flag of your homonym error" lol. Bro, it's a message board, not a literary journal. When I submit to those things I proofread. When I post here I dash it off and move on. Language is first and foremost about communication, and everyone knows what I meant.Leaving aside the overconfidence red flag of your homonym error for a moment, how many times have you invited somebody to give something a closer look, told them point blank, "You were wrong," and gotten a favorable response?
Have you warmly received my comment? That should be your first clue.
What’s not to love about a school with the academic standards of the university of Phoenix and the institutional standards of Liberty?I find it very weird to see people rooting for a for-profit school that accepts anyone and graduates 40% of students.
Are you sure? We have haiku!Bro, it's a message board, not a literary journal.
If only they could play Duquesne next …So it will be the JM Dukes vs Duke Sunday.
What’s not to love about a school with the academic standards of the university of Phoenix and the institutional standards of Liberty?
Exactly, I can root for Yale and revel in smart school beating a supposed athletics first school and also root for Dook to lose because they think they have outsmarted every school. My rooting doesnt affect the outcome and although a great sports team can have an effect on a schools admissions it isn’t something I’m losing sleep over. Buyer beware, if you get hoodwinked by Highpoint or Grand Canyon or even overpaying for Dook you probably deserve it.So what? It’s basketball