Tournament (Non-UConn) Thread - 1st Round

[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.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

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

Yeah tonight’s slate is really good.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Creighton looking pretty solid compared to everyone else who played today.

 

[GameTime]

Creighton looking pretty solid compared to everyone else who played today.

I don’t know. Michigan State looked unfortunately very good, AZ and UNC are looking the role of top seeds.

 

[Jaydumo20]

Yeah tonight’s slate is really good.

I'm looking forward to Samford KU almost as much as the UConn game

 

[Jaydumo20]

I don’t know. Michigan State looked unfortunately very good, AZ and UNC are looking the role of top seeds.

Miss state shot atrociously

 

[Sibeerian]

Purdue has a cakewalk to the elite 8, wouldn’t be surprised to see them fudge it up still.

They are under so much pressure. If Matt Painter tucked some coal up his posterior it could prove very lucrative.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

The first 4 minutes of Illinois/Morehead State are about as sloppy mess of a game as it can get. It is like a 5th grade boys game where there are multiple turnovers in succession by both teams without leaving one end of the floor.

 

[superjohn]

Miss state shot atrociously

I had them. It's why I don't bet.

 

[auror]

Miss state shot atrociously

Chris Jans gonna read that Fox Sports Dan Hurley article and get a lot of ideas.

 

[auror]

I like Morehead's defensive gameplan so far.

 

[Jaydumo20]

Chris Jans gonna read that Fox Sports Dan Hurley article and get a lot of ideas.

Indeed. Their Defense was up to their usual standard but that's about it

 

[Jaydumo20]

I had them. It's why I don't bet.

So did I. And I don't bet either.
My wife's bracket is perfect so far, however, and hey, she's the one who said "her money is our money".

 

[auror]

Shannon assaulting Morehead.

 

[auror]

Illinois is going to play 1-4 really fun games in this tournament.

 

[Greedo]

Did they tell Coach K they were going to be showing clips of the Lehigh - Duke upset in this Army commercial he's narrating?

 

[HuskyHawk]

I don’t know. Michigan State looked unfortunately very good, AZ and UNC are looking the role of top seeds.

Mississippi State looked awful more than MSU looked good. But we knew they underperformed their talent all year. Like Nova.

 

[Kolumbo]

Screw Big 12 and SEC. Just as suspected, overrated.

byu losing to duquesne of all teams!!!
Next we'll see s. carolina choke the chicken as a 6 seed. Good.

 

[Kolumbo]

 

[aceboon]

Hopefully Morehead St continues to keep this close to keep the game pressure on Illinois

 

[UCFan1513]

Not many great games yet, but let’s hope Morehead turns into one… would of course benefit us

 

[uconngb]

I had them. It's why I don't bet.

I did too. And I did bet

But thankfully had Duquesne and Creighton too