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aceboon said:
Marquette has a pretty easy path to the Elite 8
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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.
 
superjohn said:
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.
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We're very much aligned. I just object to framing it presently as, "We got screwed." I think it's bad energy.

"This is what happens when you try to ban us" will live in my heart forever, but Bazz waited til Hathaway presented the trophy to say it on the biggest stage after 6 consecutive win-or-go-home victories over the top teams from each of the top conferences that year.
 
phillionaire said:
If we had ever let the game get this close this late in the first half the chat would have spontaneously combusted
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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.

I'm grateful for the product I see on the court and do my best to fully appreciate the efforts & personalities of those responsible for producing it.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
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.
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Return of Kolek?
 
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?
 
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Travelman32 said:
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?
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Is the Ivy paying NIL?
 
nelsonmuntz said:
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.
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Shaka jitters?? He’d be squirming if they lost that game.
 
Hans Sprungfeld said:
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.
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"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.

"Favorable response"? I mean, who cares? It's a message board. Caring about likes or dislikes—say in smiles or frowny faces—is pathetic.
 
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Vowelguy said:
What’s not to love about a school with the academic standards of the university of Phoenix and the institutional standards of Liberty?
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Which school are you talking about?
 
AntG168 said:
So what? It’s basketball
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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.
 
tzznandrew said:
"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.

"Favorable response"? I mean, who cares? It's a message board. Caring about likes or dislikes—say in smiles or frowny faces—is pathetic.
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Everybody gets it
It doesn't matter
Nobody cares
I don't care
I judge

Sounds like a nothing poker hand that adds up to you caring, disliking, and having little communicative success when you lead with, " You were wrong."

Or, more simply...

"Zero."

"No."

Thanks, I'll file it away.
 
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navery12 said:
Grand Canyon
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We all got hot & bothered back in the day b/c Jerry Tarkanian was definitely providing benefits to recruits and blatantly playing loose with NCAA rules. Turns out Jerry was 1000% right in what he was doing. And the the NCAA holier than thou stance was parallel to Lance Armstrong going after others for doping = vigilant accusations, hypocrisy - covering up one's own wrongdoing by pointing fingers.

Almost every college & university in the country right now is a tremendous ripoff over-charging its students. What are Harvard and Yale's endowments*?! Grand Canyon might be reprehensible but they are on a continuum of grift. So I move we just watch basketball and avoid this quagmire.

*Had to look it up, $49.5 and 47.5 BILLION dollars as of 6/23, respectively. That is criminal but I'm still happy the underdog grifting Yalies beat the better value for your $ Auburn U tigers and sometimes convince myself that Bruce Pearl stands out as a backstabber & liar amongst cheaters.
 
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Vowelguy said:
Are you sure? We have haiku!
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Aw c'mon, give him his due, in winning the "literary journal" argument I didn't make.

He strongly rebutted something I tagged as to be "left aside" but had quoted to set a foundation of understanding that he was asking someone to consider a different point of view...which similarly affirmed his his larger point that knowing that "here" meant "hear" should be sufficient within a message board. I accepted that, even if I made passing mention of the bravado.

In spite of my efforts to the contrary, I seem to have stirred some antipathy (i.e., caring) about telling someone they were wrong. It's ironic that I'd already said it didn't matter, while at the same time being factually correct, whereas, his was an unreferencing bold assertion to introduce an opinion, even if later supported by some factual content.

Without intending to, I thereby strengthened my point about the compromising effects of negatively provocative approaches when one wants to educate or persuade people. Of course, it's just a message board, with dashed off impressions, so who cares and what difference does it make?
 
Hans Sprungfeld said:
Aw c'mon, give him his due, in winning the "literary journal" argument I didn't make.

He strongly rebutted something I tagged as to be "left aside" but had quoted to set a foundation of understanding that he was asking someone to consider a different point of view...which similarly affirmed his his larger point that knowing that "here" meant "hear" should be sufficient within a message board. I accepted that, even if I made passing mention of the bravado.

In spite of my efforts to the contrary, I seem to have stirred some antipathy (i.e., caring) about telling someone they were wrong. It's ironic that I'd already said it didn't matter, while at the same time being factually correct, whereas, his was an unreferencing bold assertion to introduce an opinion, even if later supported by some factual content.

Without intending to, I thereby strengthened my point about the compromising effects of negatively provocative approaches when one wants to educate or persuade people. Of course, it's just a message board, with dashed off impressions, so who cares and what difference does it make?
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I was right. Auburn wasn't that good despite everyone suggesting we had a bracket of death.

You were the one who made a comment about the "here"/"hear" misspelling as if that were relevant to the topic at hand (something something it undermined my point and highlighted arrogance?) and then made a comment about my general tone getting positive feedback (unlike some sensitive posters here, I don't particularly care). In each case, I dismiss out of hand the relevance of those comments. And if the "hear"/"here" thing didn't matter, you wouldn't have said it. It's apophasis, and everyone sees through that.

Instead, I continue to assert that we weren't screwed by the committee. That's the point and the context of my original post.

You have stirred no antipathy. It's a message board. It's supposed to be fun.
 
Hans Sprungfeld said:
Aw c'mon, give him his due, in winning the "literary journal" argument I didn't make.

He strongly rebutted something I tagged as to be "left aside" but had quoted to set a foundation of understanding that he was asking someone to consider a different point of view...which similarly affirmed his his larger point that knowing that "here" meant "hear" should be sufficient within a message board. I accepted that, even if I made passing mention of the bravado.

In spite of my efforts to the contrary, I seem to have stirred some antipathy (i.e., caring) about telling someone they were wrong. It's ironic that I'd already said it didn't matter, while at the same time being factually correct, whereas, his was an unreferencing bold assertion to introduce an opinion, even if later supported by some factual content.

Without intending to, I thereby strengthened my point about the compromising effects of negatively provocative approaches when one wants to educate or persuade people. Of course, it's just a message board, with dashed off impressions, so who cares and what difference does it make?
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Haiku AND long form journalism!
 
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tzznandrew said:
I was right. Auburn wasn't that good despite everyone suggesting we had a bracket of death.

You were the one who made a comment about the "here"/"hear" misspelling as if that were relevant to the topic at hand (something something it undermined my point and highlighted arrogance?) and then made a comment about my general tone getting positive feedback (unlike some sensitive posters here, I don't particularly care). In each case, I dismiss out of hand the relevance of those comments. And if the "hear"/"here" thing didn't matter, you wouldn't have said it. It's apophasis, and everyone sees through that.

Instead, I continue to assert that we weren't screwed by the committee. That's the point and the context of my original post.

You have stirred no antipathy. It's a message board. It's supposed to be fun.
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if anyone else is sort of killing time on a rainy Sunday waiting for the games to start, you, like me, might as well learn something:

apophasis - a rhetorical device wherein the speaker or writer brings up a subject by either denying it, or denying that it should be brought up. Accordingly, it can be seen as a rhetorical relative of irony.
 
After UConn, which other teams are playing well and look really tough- Houston? Not worried about Purdue. Will get more clarity after the 2nd round, but who are the biggest threats to our team?
 
aceboon said:
Marquette has a pretty easy path to the Elite 8
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Conndog said:
After UConn, which other teams are playing well and look really tough- Houston? Not worried about Purdue. Will get more clarity after the 2nd round, but who are the biggest threats to our team?
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For the East and West: Illinois, Alabama and Arizona are my only teams of concern.

1. Illinois - Hawkins will have Clingan on the perimeter. He can shoot or drive and is quicker - Clingan will struggle with that assignment.
2. Alabama - lightning fast, take and make a ton of 3s.
3. Arizona - Ballo can pretty easily get Clingan in foul trouble. Not super talented but big, strong and wide. Samson, Yousseff or Karaban will be no match if he gets in foul trouble.

However, I don't expect to be playing any of those teams.
 
Vowelguy said:
Haiku AND long form journalism!
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It's a big tent, containing multitudes.
I even wrote a song parody yesterday.
Except for the inevitable snakes in the grass, we're all on the same team, pulling the sled to happy destiny.

Go Huskies!
 
Purdue is currently giving 11.5 to Utah State Sunday. I really don't think the matchups justify 11.5 but maybe they feel playing in Indy gives them the edge. Hopefully Colorado and Marquette fans stay after their game and show USU some love to balance things out. Utah State does have size and depth. I like those points.
 
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