2024 NCAAB - MADNESS

[Pete]

Oblig.

 

[Pete]

Count the steps! It's fun! I don't know what event at Prudential forced the Hall to use Walsh Gym (capacity: 137), but I'll be damned if that isn't the atmosphere the NIT needs. Hell, make every school use their on-campus gym if they have one.

[RIPPA]

Seattle won the CBI (over High Point)

Norfolk State won the CIT (over Purdue - Fort Wayne)

EDIT - I should note that I didn't even realize the CIT was back. Only 9 teams accepted playing with Norfolk State being granted a bye to the semis and they hosted both games they played so... yeah

[Log]

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39815759/dick-vitale-picks-mens-ncaa-tournament-sweet-16-elite-eight-final-four-winners-games

Whoa! Dickie V gets crazy with his picks!

[Contentious C]

43 minutes ago, Log said:

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39815759/dick-vitale-picks-mens-ncaa-tournament-sweet-16-elite-eight-final-four-winners-games

Whoa! Dickie V gets crazy with his picks!

I know people do the "they were still alive?" thing when celebrities die, but when he "officially" dies, I'm going to cite this as evidence he's been dead since the pandemic.

[Pete]

Oh.

[Log]

11 minutes ago, Pete said:

Oh.

Aggressively stupid.

[Zimbra]

He's still doubling down on it, too.

[Contentious C]

CLEMSON!!! Super Hunter Bros!

[Cobra Commander]

NC State in the Elite 8 just as everybody expected

[Cobra Commander]

37 minutes ago, Cobra Commander said:

NC State in the Elite 8 just as everybody expected

also, NC State would play Duke or Houston in the Elite 8

[hammerva]

Seems like a miracle Houston put up 22 in the 1st half as their shooting was just awful.  And losing their top player does not help

[Brian Fowler]

Well finally the chalk is taking a bit of a beating.

[Contentious C]

The Mulkey article is out and...it's almost kind of a nothingburger, totally worth getting up in arms about and threatening lawsuits because, surprise, people think you're a fucking asshole.

[TimLivingston]

It really is. And they just won so now we get to hear more lovely sound bites. 

[Pete]

Just now, TimLivingston said:

It really is. And they just won so now we get to hear more lovely sound bites. 

Those soundbites were going to happen no matter what. Since they won she's just going to be vindictive whereas shed've blamed the "distraction" if they'd lost. You know, the distraction of her Streisanding a non-story to the nth degree and forcing her girls to lose focus.

[hammerva]

UCONN is now on a 30-0 run in the 2nd half.   Talk about escalating quickly  

[Brian Fowler]

I guess Illinois won't be the latest Big Ten team to lose the title game. Still hope for Purdue though.

[Tabe]

13 hours ago, Pete said:

Those soundbites were going to happen no matter what. Since they won she's just going to be vindictive whereas shed've blamed the "distraction" if they'd lost. You know, the distraction of her Streisanding a non-story to the nth degree and forcing her girls to lose focus.

Threatening to sue over an article she hasn't even read. 

She is a garbage human being. 

[hammerva]

So NC State and Texas are playing (and agreed to it) in the women's March Madness on a court where the 3 point line is different for each side.   No way any part of this happens in men's version 

[Brian Fowler]

Duke's decision to not double team D.J. Burns in order to reduce the impact of his excellent post passing looked smart in the first half.

It's looking like the worst strategic decision in recent basketball history in the second.

Edited March 31, 2024 by Brian Fowler

[Cobra Commander]

either Purdue or NC State is gonna be playing for a National Title

[Contentious C]

3 hours ago, hammerva said:

So NC State and Texas are playing (and agreed to it) in the women's March Madness on a court where the 3 point line is different for each side.   No way any part of this happens in men's version 

Oddly enough, though, there was one regulation and one "shorter", but the shorter line had a worse percentage for the games played using it.  Besides, don't teams switch the ends of the floor they're going to at half?

Still bullshit, though.

Edited March 31, 2024 by Contentious C

[Dolfan in NYC]

The content we love to see:

Fuck Duke.

[Cobra Commander]

I don’t know how long DJ Burns would hang around pro basketball. But for some weird reason, it wouldn’t shock me if he was coaching somewhere one day. As impossible as it would seem to predict current college basketball players future coaching prospects.