Tournament (Non-UConn) Thread - 2nd Round

[brihman]

Iowa St has this game

 

[HuskyHawk]

That ain’t Carolina’s fault or anything that should be complained about. If anything it’s an indictment against UConn fans then.

The second game is different than the first as winning team fans buy tickets from losing team fans. Especially when they are close. We will have a good crowd tomorrow.

 

[huskyjawz]

That ain’t Carolina’s fault or anything that should be complained about. If anything it’s an indictment against UConn fans then.

That's the way I meant it.

 

[Hi-Low]

Starting multiple games at noon limits west coast audience, who outside of diehards are gonna start watching at 915 am

They used to just have the stand alone game around 12:15 on weekends and then staggered starts times from 2:00 on so multiple games in afternoon, it's been a few years though since they did it that way. Now the weekend games are backloaded to evening

 

[HuskyHawk]

Neither of the teams in this Iowa St. - Wash St. game are particularly impressive.

Washington State is a good offensive team and has 44 points. Iowa State is the #2 defensive team per Kenpom. Tends to make the game look ugly. Their offense is ok, but really comes from the defense.

 

[Huskiefan23]

If Wazzu was a halfway decent team Iowa State would be losing.

 

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Iowa St defense is impressive. They didn’t give Wazzou anything in the 2nd half.

 

[aceboon]

Game was over with anyway considering Wazzu can't score but the 1-3-1 was not the move

 

[Rocktheworld]

The second game is different than the first as winning team fans buy tickets from losing team fans. Especially when they are close. We will have a good crowd tomorrow.

That’s what I expect too

 

[huskyjawz]

The second game is different than the first as winning team fans buy tickets from losing team fans. Especially when they are close. We will have a good crowd.

I hope you're right. Typically it goes from four teams down to two. In this case it's a doubleheader so there's still four teams fans.

 

[runner11]

David Dastmalchian can hoop

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Washington State is a good offensive team and has 44 points. Iowa State is the #2 defensive team per Kenpom. Tends to make the game look ugly. Their offense is ok, but really comes from the defense.

Don’t disagree they’re a really good defensive team (though Washington State is only 68th in offense on Kenpom). I just don’t believe in their offense enough and I think they’d struggle with our size.

 

[aceboon]

Iowa St's defense vs Illinois' offense is gonna be something

 

[runner11]

Don’t disagree they’re a really good defensive team (though Washington State is only 68th in offense on Kenpom). I just don’t believe in their offense enough and I think they’d struggle with our size.

Marquette flustered Tristen on a couple of traps but overall I think we shred that strategy. Good luck trying that consistently on Cam.

 

[Lefty2one]

For the #4 KenPom team I'm not particularly impressed with ISU.

 

[phillionaire]

They used to just have the stand alone game around 12:15 on weekends and then staggered starts times from 2:00 on so multiple games in afternoon, it's been a few years though since they did it that way. Now the weekend games are backloaded to evening

Damn I forgot they used to start earlier my memory sucks

 

[August_West]

I’d rather play Iowa st than Illinois. Really hoping Duquesne has some magic in them

Not me. Iowa St D is unique enough to cause some trouble. We can “out Illinois” Illinois . But I’m worried about Northwestern.

 

[J187Money]

Watching Iowa St - WSU I see only these possibilities:

Iowa St is just cold.

Washington St's defense is very good

Iowa St can't score in a halfcourt offense.

It could be a little of all three but I am now worrying a little that we're being fed false intel.

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Iowa St has the 51st ranked offense per Kenpom. We should be able to shut them down or slow them down enough to have it not be an issue. I didn't see the Houston game so can't figure out what happened there but I doubt something like that happens twice.

 

[tzznandrew]

For the #4 KenPom team I'm not particularly impressed with ISU.

Yup. Very mediocre. Worthy of the 4th 2 seed.

 

[tzznandrew]

Iowa St has the 51st ranked offense per Kenpom. We should be able to shut them down or slow them down enough to have it not be an issue. I didn't see the Houston game so can't figure out what happened there but I doubt something like that happens twice.

Part of what happened is that Houston has injuries and isn't deep, so the third game in three days is going to be a lot more difficult for them.

Houston is good, but because of the injuries someone is going to clip them in their region. If they were fully healthy, they'd probably be the one team I was worried about because their coach isn't a an unsteamed vegetable.

 

[August_West]

I hope you're right. Typically it goes from four teams down to two. In this case it's a doubleheader so there's still four teams fans.

A Sunday night 745 start ( and we all know that means 830) ain’t doing us any favors on that front.

 

[Hi-Low]

Damn I forgot they used to start earlier my memory sucks

The worst was way back when and only CBS carried all the games.....and the 1st round Thur / Fri you would have to wait for them to "switch" to a close game if you were stuck with a dud in your market. Ahhh the good old days, many things were better but not the NCAA Tourney coverage.

 

[phillionaire]

The worst was way back when and only CBS carried all the games.....and the 1st round Thur / Fri you would have to wait for them to "switch" to a close game if you were stuck with a dud in your market. Ahhh the good old days, many things were better but not the NCAA Tourney.

Feels like the dark ages compared to what we’ve got now

 

[Ctedgeman]

Does anybody else find Lappas incredibly annoying?

 

[jibsey]

Does anybody else find Lappas incredibly annoying?

I never liked him as SJ coach but he's ok.