Tues/Weds Tournament Games

[caw]

Maybe because they're playing each other?

A lot of teams had mid season injuries that hurt their regular season but X had to be one of the most stifled by injuries. They are better than an 11 when healthy just like UConn is better than an 8. Texas also had some injuries and they have a crap coach, but they have talent. They win solely on talent. So when they are clicking they look good as individuals. If they had a good coach they would be a 3/4 seed.

Not sure if Moser is as bad as Terry but OU fans seem to hate him. Not sure if that’s due to his coaching or rumors of him possibly bolting OU.

 

[Kolumbo]

I was working late and missed all the action but holy longhorn. Texas with more money than anyone can't put away Xavier. Glorious. Football drives the bus but no bus is as pretty as the basketball Lambo.

Let's give props to the Best Team in the great state of Ohio. Eat 'em if you got 'em!

 

[freshler40]

I was working late and missed all the action but holy longhorn. Texas with more money than anyone can't put away Xavier. Glorious. Football drives the bus but no bus is as pretty as the basketball Lambo.

Let's give props to the Best Team in the great state of Ohio. Eat 'em if you got 'em!


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All posts were very sporty comments. While I did watch the game, the deep game flavor came through from our posts. Thanks!

 

[Ha Who]

Texas continues to do the least with the most. If the end game is two conferences with 80 percent of the bids say bye bye. Squawk box this morning was talking about all the newbie schools, not the 13th team from the southleast conference

 

[UCTitleTown]

Texas continues to do the least with the most. If the end game is two conferences with 80 percent of the bids say bye bye. Squawk box this morning was talking about all the newbie schools, not the 13th team from the southleast conference

I was shocked that Texas has made 31 of the past 36 tournaments. I've always considered them a middle of the road program.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Well, UGA beat Florida. We'll see if the two-time defending champs can match that "nothing" (not that I won't be finding that Georgia victory comforting on Sunday morning).

I really do not get the fascination with a big win or two. Seton Hall beat UConn. They did in 2023 too. Were they good? Don't you need to look at the details? It was in Athens. Florida had a horrible shooting night and UGA shot 54% for the game and 55% from 3. Built a 26 point lead and almost blew it.

Georgia 88-83 Florida (Feb 25, 2025) Final Score - ESPN

Game summary of the Georgia Bulldogs vs. Florida Gators NCAAM game, final score 88-83, from February 25, 2025 on ESPN.

www.espn.com

 

[sdglast]

I really do not get the fascination with a big win or two. Seton Hall beat UConn. They did in 2023 too. Were they good? Don't you need to look at the details? It was in Athens. Florida had a horrible shooting night and UGA shot 54% for the game and 55% from 3. Built a 26 point lead and almost blew it.

Georgia 88-83 Florida (Feb 25, 2025) Final Score - ESPN

Game summary of the Georgia Bulldogs vs. Florida Gators NCAAM game, final score 88-83, from February 25, 2025 on ESPN.

www.espn.com

If UConn makes it to the Florida game, they are gonna need some help. Florida is going to have to have an off shooting night, and UConn's big 3 are gonna have to shoot it well. If both teams show up with their A game, Florida is gonna win.. Nothing against UConn, but that's just the fact. Certainly, the Georgia game is an example of 2 things--Florida is not a great defensive team and they can have an off shooting night. But let's not get ahead of ourselves, UConn has a tough game tomorrow night, and they can certainly lose if they don't come to play hard and with emotion on both ends of the floor.

 

[RedStickHusky]

Texas continues to do the least with the most.

The Lefty Driesell award.

 

[HuskyHawk]

If UConn makes it to the Florida game, they are gonna need some help. Florida is going to have to have an off shooting night, and UConn's big 3 are gonna have to shoot it well. If both teams show up with their A game, Florida is gonna win.. Nothing against UConn, but that's just the fact. Certainly, the Georgia game is an example of 2 things--Florida is not a great defensive team and they can have an off shooting night. But let's not get ahead of ourselves, UConn has a tough game tomorrow night, and they can certainly lose if they don't come to play hard and with emotion on both ends of the floor.

UConn is certainly the underdog. Florida had like 15 steals in that UGA game, that's how they came back. That worries me for sure. It's not a team I wanted UConn to face. That said, I'm sure UConn isn't a #8 seed that Florida wants to face. Great coach, better talent than our record reflects, knows how to win in March. If Florida plays an A game, not much UConn can do. Against UGA I think it was Georgia A+ game and Florida D+ game. UConn is a lot better than UGA. If Florida gives us a B- and UConn an A, we can win.

 

[cellocgg]

I'm hearing that Terry is likely to be canned and Miller is a candidate for successor

What is Xavier's prize for beating Texas? Losing their coach to Texas

 

[HooperScooper]

I'm hearing that Terry is likely to be canned and Miller is a candidate for successor

What is Xavier's prize for beating Texas? Losing their coach to Texas

At that time, I was told if Terry didn't have the run he had, Del Conte would've hired Xavier coach Sean Miller.

In fact, a source told me if Miller and Xavier had beaten Terry and Texas in a 2023 Sweet 16 matchup in Kansas City, Miller would've been hired at Texas - not Terry. So, the irony of Wednesday night's First Four matchup of Miller and Xavier against Terry and Texas - again, in the NCAA postseason - possibly having more significance than simply the outcome of the game is almost unbelievable because Miller is still a leading candidate to replace Terry.

https://247sports.com/longformarticle/texas-letting-go-of-basketball-coach-rodney-terry-after-three-seasons-247317026/

 

[gtcam]

The Texas team is not that strong, and I would have expected X to have an easier time with them.
Tre Johnson was by far the best player on the floor last night.
X is Dr Jeckyl and Mr. H on defense. Sometimes they play like world beaters and other times, like UConn - all hands and arms and no feet.
The team that wanted it more however won the game. Terry exudes zero excitement or confidence from the sidelines
Because X is a NBE team, I hope they continue to rep the league well, but I still feel Miller should never be allowed on the bench of any basketball team - he's a scumbag cheat who was blatantly caught with his hand in the cookie jar and blamed it on everyone else but the person who was recorded by the FBI on tape.

 

[ec33]

I really do not get the fascination with a big win or two. Seton Hall beat UConn. They did in 2023 too. Were they good? Don't you need to look at the details? It was in Athens. Florida had a horrible shooting night and UGA shot 54% for the game and 55% from 3. Built a 26 point lead and almost blew it.

Georgia 88-83 Florida (Feb 25, 2025) Final Score - ESPN

Game summary of the Georgia Bulldogs vs. Florida Gators NCAAM game, final score 88-83, from February 25, 2025 on ESPN.

www.espn.com

So you want to have it all ways. They didn't beat anyone but the (at the time, iirc) #1 ranked team in the country but that doesn't count because it doesn't fit my narrative.

Oh and they beat the Big East regular reason and tournament champs (something UConn couldn't do on two opportunities) but that doesn't count either because reasons. (Nor does Kentucky, I'm sure.)

I am not arguing that they are a great team. But you can't say they did nothing when they beat two top ten teams along the way (and a fair number of games against teams in the tournament). They belong in the tournament.

 

[uconngb]

Adam Lefkoe just cuts off Jay Wright while he's in the middle of his thoughts and then swings it to Seth Davis

Seth with his usual 0-2 picking last night. Word to all the gamblers out there: take the other side of Seth....you will win about 80% of the time. Still have no idea what qualifies him as an "expert" and he has one of those punchable faces to boot

 

[NHUConnfan]

Has there been a "good" team that's had their brains beaten in as much this year as Illinois? Multiple 20+ point losses. Maryland and Duke could name their score against them. I think 7 double digit losses...

Illinois is one of the best teams in the country when they're right. Too bad that they almost never are...and when they're bad, they're really really bad.

Xavier can absolutely beat Illinois. They can keep up with the scoring. They just have to play "enough" defense to slow the Illini down. And they showed they could do that in the 2nd half against Texas.

 

[NHUConnfan]

The Texas team is not that strong, and I would have expected X to have an easier time with them.
Tre Johnson was by far the best player on the floor last night.
X is Dr Jeckyl and Mr. H on defense. Sometimes they play like world beaters and other times, like UConn - all hands and arms and no feet.
The team that wanted it more however won the game. Terry exudes zero excitement or confidence from the sidelines
Because X is a NBE team, I hope they continue to rep the league well, but I still feel Miller should never be allowed on the bench of any basketball team - he's a scumbag cheat who was blatantly caught with his hand in the cookie jar and blamed it on everyone else but the person who was recorded by the FBI on tape.

Texas was shooting the absolute bajeezus out of the ball last night, especially in the first half. I don't think many teams would have faired much better...Texas was just playing out of their minds for the first 25 minutes of the game.

 

[NHUConnfan]

I was shocked that Texas has made 31 of the past 36 tournaments. I've always considered them a middle of the road program.

Well, they really haven't had any teams that have been considered "contenders"...Rick Barnes made sure to squander that away from those few teams that were the closest to contender status.

They've only made 1 Final Four since 2000 (2003) and 3 Elite Eights (2003, 2008, 2023). They have a slew of first round losses in that time frame. So they basically are "middle of the road"...nothing special until they prove otherwise.

 

[HuskyHawk]

So you want to have it all ways. They didn't beat anyone but the (at the time, iirc) #1 ranked team in the country but that doesn't count because it doesn't fit my narrative.

Oh and they beat the Big East regular reason and tournament champs (something UConn couldn't do on two opportunities) but that doesn't count either because reasons. (Nor does Kentucky, I'm sure.)

I am not arguing that they are a great team. But you can't say they did nothing when they beat two top ten teams along the way (and a fair number of games against teams in the tournament). They belong in the tournament.

I didn't say they did nothing. They had some wins and they had a lot of bad losses. Not so much to bad teams, as 8 double digit losses, including a few real beat downs. That tells me they are very inconsistent and if they get hot against a good team that has a bad day, like they did against Florida, they can win.

By the way, St. Johns shot 10% from 3 in that loss and only 31% overall. If St. Johns played like that against UConn we'd beat them by 16, not 3. Marquette shot well against them and beat them by 11. Similar to the other wins, Kentucky shot 24% from 3 and 37% overall against UGA. UGA did win that comfortably, so credit to them.

 

[7774]

I really do not get the fascination with a big win or two. Seton Hall beat UConn. They did in 2023 too. Were they good? Don't you need to look at the details? It was in Athens. Florida had a horrible shooting night and UGA shot 54% for the game and 55% from 3. Built a 26 point lead and almost blew it.

Georgia 88-83 Florida (Feb 25, 2025) Final Score - ESPN

Game summary of the Georgia Bulldogs vs. Florida Gators NCAAM game, final score 88-83, from February 25, 2025 on ESPN.

www.espn.com

The first time we beat Marquette it was because we made everything, and the 2nd time we beat them it was because they had their worst shooting game from 3 in the entire season. So do those not count? That's how college basketball works, teams don't play consistently. You're basically saying ignore the results of the games and just go with my opinion, which is laughable. Bringing up Seton Hall is not even trying to have a real discussion.

 

[Hunt for 7]

I'm hearing that Terry is likely to be canned and Miller is a candidate for successor

What is Xavier's prize for beating Texas? Losing their coach to Texas

I actually heard some idiot on Mad Dog sports talk radio suggest that Danny Hurley would strongly consider taking the job. It was the host sitting in for Adam Schein and the guest who was the expert quickly dismissed a Hurley move to Texas.

 

[Bonehead]

They play well a few possessions then go all bonehead for a few

Hey!