Is Virginia........
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Refs taking over. Gonna be hard for GW to win
The crowd has already jumped to GW and are loudly booing some suspect officiating the last couple trips down the court.
Anybody believing in UVA ever must have a hole in their head. Bennett's system is not conducive to March Madness in any way, shape or form. I pray to God we never go after him when Cal leaves.
If they lose, my bracket is toast (what was I thinking), but I don't even care - go GW
They remind me of Tubby’s teams that could win the SEC with solid defense then get eliminated by some team they could not contain when they hit the Dance.
Of course a 1 losing to a 16 takes it to a new level of bad.
Just tuned in (finally back in USA!!) and GW is up a bit on UVA late in 1st half. Not a believer in jinxes, so not worried about what I say here, but man wouldn't it be COMICAL if the first team to have lost as a 1 seed to a 16 did it back to back years?
Give up back to back 3s, then go down, pass up open 3s, drain the shot clock and get a 2. That's Bennett in a nutshell.
Only down 6 now. They probably pull it out but they are gonna get drilled by Oklahoma if they play like this.
Me too. But Virginia losing to a 16 seed is much more important to me than my bracket. Virginia is a beast in the ACC but not so much outside of the conference.
But my fear is the refs will get the message at half time and put the brakes on GW
I can't imagine this will happen again. However, if this stays close for too long the panic might start to build for VA. Coming off losing to a 16 just last year doubt has to be creapin in.
I have never had a good bracket. Ever. That’s why I now chose teams I dislike to go to the ff. It’s a guarantee they won't make it lol
There's something psychological going on there.
His teams look SO well-coached and smart in the regular season, but then they always seem to tense up and play scared in the tourney.
Care to elaborate how his "system" is not conducive?
His "system" is the pack line defense. I guess playing really good defense isn't good conducive to winning basketball games? They don't try to slow down the game on offense like everyone says. They slow it down on defense. And that's the point of defense.
I fully recognize they haven't been very successful, but I don't think it has to do with his system.
You really have to question Bennett and his system.. Even if they win this game. It works against **** teams and the bottom feeders and the ACC.. But UofL and UNC should have beat them.
And again I say.. Virginia is doing everything it can to help the ACC and Duke and UNC. It's like it's staged.
And again I say.. Virginia is doing everything it can to help the ACC and Duke and UNC. It's like it's staged.
Pack line gives up threes at an unreasonable rate. It was the rage before people truly knew the value of the 3. Couple that with the slow pace - 15 shots in 16 minutes is a slow pace - makes the 3 even more dangerous. Throw in the beer muscles and adrenaline of playing on the NCAAs, and now any given team can beat them because the system lets inferior teams gain confidence.
Pack Line sags on the three - the single most deadly weapon an inferior team has - and prevents penetration, which inferior teams can’t and weren’t gonna do anyway.
It IS the system!!
Its him..have you ever seen him do anything than just stand on the sideline like a mouse? I think he coaches ppl to do a well refined system but he sucks at making an adjustment from that system if its needed.
And if a kid is just sucking *** at something he cant fix it.
So when was it exactly when people didn't truly know the value of the 3? From what I recall, people have known the value of the 3 since the late 80s.
You've got that right. That last call was absolutely horrible. The UVA player got a and one, when it was clearly an offensive foul. He not only hooked him with his elbow, he put his arm all the way down the GW players leg, holding him. Just shameful.
Are you intentionally being dense? Look at the rise of three point shots in college and in the pros. It is the single most valuable shot, and I don’t mean in terms of ITS WORTH THREE NOT TWO DURRRRRRR. I mean in terms of expected points per shot, you can play much more poorly in other aspects of the game, and a good night from three erased those deficiencies. With the way even poor teams can shoot it now, defending the three is more important than cutting off the driver. The pack line does the exactly opposite. Is it staring to sink in?
