Tournament (Non-UConn) Thread - 1st Round

[August_West]

I scheduled a hernia surgery yesterday so I can sit at home for the next four days watching basketball and hopped up on opiates…

 

[August_West]

And what the hell is a Zip?

An ounce of weed

or a racial slur that already emigrated Italians called newly arriving Sicilians.

 

[August_West]

Big XII fans should be nervous. BYU was one of their teams that got a lot of undue credit, and they look like frauds so far.

They have to hope it's just a matchup thing, where BYU's finesse game ran into the buzzsaw of a hot and improving Duquesne team who play tough D.

We have plenty of BigEast bubble frauds who cant win an NIT home game. Cant throw shade.

 

[auror]

BYU going to make them make both FTs here

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I like the color commentator on the BYU game. Who is it?

 

[millertime7774]

I like the color commentator on the BYU game. Who is it?

Avery Johnson, just from his voice, I believe.

 

[uconngb]

Down goes the first overrated Big 12 team. Just heard Kobe whimpering…..

 

[phillionaire]

i picked byu to make the elite 8 because i'm a moron. I'm going to become an anti-papist but for mormons.

 

[uconngb]

Avery Johnson, just from his voice, I believe.

Correct

 

[nelsonmuntz]

@auror BYU had a NET of 12 and was the poster child for NET gaming. Are efficiency ratings good or bad now?

 

[August_West]

I like the color commentator on the BYU game. Who is it?

Best color guy in the tournament will be Robbie Hummel. Just wait.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Duquesne wins! First NCAA Tournament win since 1969!

Fousseyni Drame reprises his role as a defensive specialist on a mid-major Cinderalla! Freshman Jakub Necas w/ a career high 12 points off the bench!

 

[Jaydumo20]

Duquesne wins! First NCAA Tournament win since 1969!

Fousseyni Drame reprises his role as a defensive specialist on a mid-major Cinderalla! Freshman Jakub Necas w/ a career high 12 points off the bench!

They looked real tough

 

[How Sway?!]

We have plenty of BigEast bubble frauds who cant win an NIT home game. Cant throw shade.

You took that Providence loss hard huh

 

[superjohn]

Everyone do yourself a favor and look up the Duquesne coach and his family history. That's a basketball family.

 

[auror]

@auror BYU had a NET of 12 and was the poster child for NET gaming. Are efficiency ratings good or bad now?

Good for predicting play (with outliers), bad for predicting the committee bubble choices. BYU did beat three decent/high major teams in non conference. Plus Duquesne is playing good ball right now. Won 9 in a row. Great coaching for them today. Extreme overplaying of three-point line. Obvious play against BYU, but most teams don't want to go that far away from their game plan.

 

[August_West]

You took that Providence loss hard huh

And Nova's and Butlers.

 

[Inyatkin]

With Duquesne finally making a tourney run, who's next in the A-10? Most teams in there at least have something in the recent past. Maybe it's Fordham's turn?

 

[storrsroars]

Take that Mountain West!

Sleeper Teams that will surprise

Oakland beating Kentucky Play the over

the-boneyard.com

 

[Jaydumo20]

Everyone do yourself a favor and look up the Duquesne coach and his family history. That's a basketball family.

I love cbb history. When NYC city schools were king. Such a cool period for the sport. And crazy that he was LeBron's HS coach.

 

[August_West]

I love cbb history. When NYC city schools were king. Such a cool period for the sport

"CCNY versus Kentucky, 1951. Nobody beat the spread, I bought a black Fleetwood."

 

[auror]

Take that Mountain West!

Sleeper Teams that will surprise

Oakland beating Kentucky Play the over

the-boneyard.com

They're from the mountains and the west, but ...

 

[storrsroars]

They're from the mountains and the west, but ...

I'm from Pittsburgh. We're five years behind.

Take that B12! (even better)

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Good for predicting play (with outliers), bad for predicting the committee bubble choices. BYU did beat three decent/high major teams in non conference. Plus Duquesne is playing good ball right now. Won 9 in a row. Great coaching for them today. Extreme overplaying of three-point line. Obvious play against BYU, but most teams don't want to go that far away from their game plan.

12 NET. 12. BYU had 2 OK OOC wins (SDSU and NC State) and only 5 wins over tournament bound Big 12 teams. 1 of those Big 12 wins was over Kansas without Dickinson and McCullar. This is a bubble team on its best day, and it got a 6 seed and lost to a dodgy 11 seed.

Props to BYU's stats department for reverse engineering and gaming the NET and KenPom as well as any program in the country. Respect.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Rest of early games are kind of meh. Looking forward to Oregon/USCe and Dayton/Nevada.