Didn't realize Houston was the favorite nor paid attention to who the higher seed was. Regardless, Illinois is used to bowing out early in these tournaments.
NCAA March Madness
- Thread starter Charlie Marlow_rivals363743
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It’s was only 3.5, either way I get that either team could have come out with a win but the only B1G teams I had advancing to the sweet 16 were Purdue and Wisconsin..
i don’t follow ISU basketball - did the head coach who went 2-22 replace some assistants and now has a chance to get to the sweet 16?
Totally over seeded Wisky team falls flat.Wisky shooting 9% (2 for 22) from 3-point line
And they had the easiest winning 2 games when Iowa st won their first round..
But, but..... they had National Championship aspirations!
Buh-bye, media darlings.
Always a great day when Wisconsin loses. College basketball is finally rid of that ******* Davison.
And that is the kind of crap they play during the Big 10 season majority of the time..
On the other hand....I tend to root for the underdogs. For a team that has actual college student players. A team that needs to be put together and do whatever it takes to win. Rather than a 1-and-done NBA factory non-student team that has an overwhelming talent advantage.
Plus Gabe Kalsheur is giving me flashbacks to Royce White. Through our negligence, the Gophers keep giving Iowa State their best player.
And Utah “gave” them Timmy Allen and Creighton “gave” them Christian Bishop.
And guess what? Nobody gives a ****.
I've mentioned before how Minnesota self-sabotaged Clem Haskins right after the Final Four....as well as Tubby and Pitino's best teams.
I didn't even mention how our starting lineup this year should have been legit true center Liam Robbins along with 4 guys who can easily go for 20+ in big games... Kalsheur, Carr, Battle, and Willis. If we kept Pitino. And if we fired Pitino 1 year earlier, Eric Musselman was begging to be our coach.
Am I the only that thought Arizona should have been called for a foul at the end of regulation? Quite a lot of contact there
Although TCU's offensive set was a **** show, I did think Arizona bailed them out with a foul.
That’s true, I don’t know what the hell TCU was trying to do there. But it has always pissed me off when officials won’t call obvious fouls at the end of a game because they want the players to decide it or whatever. Maybe that’s just me though
I love the parity in this tournament. Look at this spread of number teams by conference of who is in the sweet 16, I wish football could somehow get to this but that seems impossible:
Big 12 - 3
ACC - 3
Big 10 - 2
PAC 12 - 2
Big East - 2
SEC - 1
WCC - 1
MAAC - 1
American - 1
Big 12 - 3
ACC - 3
Big 10 - 2
PAC 12 - 2
Big East - 2
SEC - 1
WCC - 1
MAAC - 1
American - 1
TCU was doing what way too many teams do in that situation: trying to run the clock down to 5 or 6 seconds before they even look at trying to score. The problem with that strategy is that any team worth a damn can play defense for 5 seconds, and the end result is usually a terrible shot.
I would much rather see a team run its offense and take a good shot, even if it leaves a few seconds on the clock. But that almost never happens in the over-coached, micro-managed sport of college basketball.
That still doesn't excuse the no-call though. As Tuco pointed out, you have to either call a foul or a backcourt violation, and that crew just chose to do nothing.