Sunday second round NCAA Tournament Games thread
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Anyone try the orange-vanilla coke yet?
It may be the most interesting thing to come out of this tournament .
It may be the most interesting thing to come out of this tournament .
Interesting article about Tennessee on The Ringer.
https://www.theringer.com/2019/3/19/18271721/tennessee-grant-williams-admiral-schofield-rick-barnes
Two paragraphs stand out:
The Volunteers also have more experience playing with each other than most elite teams. Their top six players have played the past two seasons together. Their starting five is made up of two seniors (Schofield, and center Kyle Alexander) and three juniors (Williams, point guard Jordan Bone, and redshirt combo guard Lamonte Turner), and their sixth man (wing Jordan Bowman) is a senior too. Barnes organically grew a team over multiple seasons, something he rarely did at Texas. Every time he put together a good team for the Longhorns, he immediately lost most of it to the NBA. He sent 10 underclassmen to the NBA draft in his last 10 years in Austin.
Barnes didn’t get many chances to coach a player as accomplished and experienced as Williams. As a sophomore, Williams won SEC Player of the Year honors, but his NBA prospects were still dim: He was a relatively one-dimensional 6-foot-7 post scorer without a 3-point shot. It doesn’t matter how dominant a player with his skill set is in college, Williams would have to diversify his game to play at the next level. That is the type of recruit that an NCAA coach should covet. A player who sticks around a college campus for three or four seasons can be far more valuable than a more talented recruit who walks out the door in nine months.
https://www.theringer.com/2019/3/19/18271721/tennessee-grant-williams-admiral-schofield-rick-barnes
Two paragraphs stand out:
The Volunteers also have more experience playing with each other than most elite teams. Their top six players have played the past two seasons together. Their starting five is made up of two seniors (Schofield, and center Kyle Alexander) and three juniors (Williams, point guard Jordan Bone, and redshirt combo guard Lamonte Turner), and their sixth man (wing Jordan Bowman) is a senior too. Barnes organically grew a team over multiple seasons, something he rarely did at Texas. Every time he put together a good team for the Longhorns, he immediately lost most of it to the NBA. He sent 10 underclassmen to the NBA draft in his last 10 years in Austin.
Barnes didn’t get many chances to coach a player as accomplished and experienced as Williams. As a sophomore, Williams won SEC Player of the Year honors, but his NBA prospects were still dim: He was a relatively one-dimensional 6-foot-7 post scorer without a 3-point shot. It doesn’t matter how dominant a player with his skill set is in college, Williams would have to diversify his game to play at the next level. That is the type of recruit that an NCAA coach should covet. A player who sticks around a college campus for three or four seasons can be far more valuable than a more talented recruit who walks out the door in nine months.
I posted this at the beginning of the second half. Clearly there was some discussion at halftime in the Iowa locker room to get really physical. Bohannon had two really blatant pushes trying to fight off a screen. Not typical battling...physical dirty pushes.
That was ridiculous. Just two blatant two hand pushes that would be impossible to miss as a ref
This schedule sucks for a Sunday. Only 2 games in the afternoon and a game starting at 9:40pm.
Ridiculous that it’s 430 and only one game is on now . Then they pack 6 games into the evening.
Very stupid. The turner influence has been good, but this day they need to fix.
Their style doesn't work in the tournament. Cronin's teams defend to the death, but are in the stone age in the half court offensively.
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North Carolina-Washington another bad game. And there’s no other game to turn to.
UNC vs Auburn should be a very good game.
Pearl is a slime ball, but he can coach. When UNC has things rolling they are unstoppable, but I’ve always found that Ol’ Rpy struggles when things don’t go his way. Pearl will be champing at the bit to show his coaching chops.
Pearl is a slime ball, but he can coach. When UNC has things rolling they are unstoppable, but I’ve always found that Ol’ Rpy struggles when things don’t go his way. Pearl will be champing at the bit to show his coaching chops.
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