2018 conference tournament and NCAA tournament thread

[Taro Tsujimoto]

Kansas State and Kentucky tied with less than a minute to go.

 

[Halladay]

Nice layup, foul if he misses the next.

 

[Natey]

**** the Zags

They almost won with a bunch of freshmen and without their best player lol

 

[Tecumseh]

Kentucky losing means another successful March Madness.

 

[darko]

They almost won with a bunch of freshmen and without their best player lol

Yeah i don't feel sorry for them.

 

[c9777666]

Is there a such a thing as too many upsets?

 

[Kurtosis]

Is there a such a thing as too many upsets?

Nope. Embrace the chaos.

 

[BigMac1212]

Somebody had to tweet this:

 

[Rob]

Looking forward to a Kansas vs Kansas State final.

 

[member 51464]

Looking forward to a Kansas vs Kansas State final.

That’s a weak jinx effort.

I imagine duke is seen as the favorite at this point. Though it would be fun to see them lose in a buzzer beater to Loyola.

 

[Teemu]

Bruce Weber kind of gets his revenge against Illinois

 

[rangerssharks414]

Bruce Weber kind of gets his revenge against Illinois

I still don’t get why they fired him.

 

[b1e9a8r5s]

Is there a such a thing as too many upsets?

It's possible. It's a bit of a trade off. Upsets are fun and exciting but generally speaking those teams aren't ass good and can lead to bad games down the road. The UConn Butler championship game jumps to mind as being a truly awful game. Of course it's possible to have really good teams play awful games too. I guess for me personally, I like a good mix of upsets early and maybe one or two teams going on a run, but with the clash of the titans type of games in the Final 4 and championship.

I'll be a bit disappointed if we don't see Nova vs Duke this year.

 

[b1e9a8r5s]

Anyone else think it was idiotic by Nevada not to foul on the Loyola possession with 36 seconds left? Best case scenario they get a rebound with like 5 seconds left. Didn't make sense to me.

 

[rangerssharks414]

I was looking at the spreadsheet that I made for my bracket pool, and someone actually had K-State in the Elite Eight. Well done.

 

[rangerssharks414]

It's possible. It's a bit of a trade off. Upsets are fun and exciting but generally speaking those teams aren't ass good and can lead to bad games down the road. The UConn Butler championship game jumps to mind as being a truly awful game. Of course it's possible to have really good teams play awful games too. I guess for me personally, I like a good mix of upsets early and maybe one or two teams going on a run, but with the clash of the titans type of games in the Final 4 and championship.

I'll be a bit disappointed if we don't see Nova vs Duke this year.

I completely agree.

Thank god I didn't watch that UConn/Butler game that year. I remember reading about how awful the game was the next day.

 

[John Price]

I still don’t get why they fired him.

Because they had one bad year. Look at Illinois since. Groce failed terribly and Underwood is meh.

The thing is Illini fans will tell you "Weber did a bad job AFTER they went to the Final Four" and that the program was "starting to decline". Well, look at what he's doing now at K State and then look at what's going on at Illinois where the program has actually gotten WORSE without him lol

 

[Avs_19]

This is such a bad game. Both teams playing zone defense and just throwing up brick after brick on offense.

 

[rangerssharks414]

Money pool update:

-I am still alive. I am the only one of the 33 to pick Duke to win it all.
-Someone managed to get exactly one Elite Eight team right, and that team was Kansas State.
-My buddy can win even though he picked Arizona to win it all. He needs Villanova to beat Texas Tech, Duke to beat Kansas, Florida State to beat Michigan and Duke to lose in the title game. Then, he'll tie for first. That's crazy.

 

[HisIceness]

I completely agree.

Thank god I didn't watch that UConn/Butler game that year. I remember reading about how awful the game was the next day.

You didn't miss anything. Butler couldn't hit a shot to save their life.

 

[adsfan]

I still don’t get why they fired him.

He seems to make himself unpopular after a while, kind of like Billy Martin. He has had various issues at the colleges where he coached, especially Iowa as an assistant and Tennessee as a Head Coach. The Iowa incident caused bad feelings when he was at Milwaukee and another coach who had been an assistant at Illinois was the Head Coach at UIC.

 

[Teemu]

Weber did well with the team Self built, but couldn't recruit.

 

[Teemu]

Nice start for the Ramblers

 

[John Price]

 

[rangerssharks414]

Just turned the game back on... holy ****.