2015 NCAA Tournament thread

Agreed. Entering the tournament, I thought there were three teams who are best suited to upset Kentucky, and one of those teams (Virginia) is already gone. Assuming we get Arizona-Wisconsin in the Elite Eight, I think that winner has the potential to give Kentucky the most problems.

I'm really hoping for a Wisconsin-Kentucky meeting in the national semis.

 

That's the kind of thing that sites like SBNation, Awful Announcing and Deadspin like to get on announcers about, but if you've ever done any live broadcast - whether radio, television, even an internet stream - it's easy to say a wrong name, or confuse two players in your head. Heck, it's easy to do it if you're covering one game, never mind a tournament with 68 teams.

 

Shoot, Verne Lundquist does that kind of thing regularly with games he's broadcasting.

 

Thuggy Bear's daughters are just as classy as the old man.

Bob Huggins’s daughters make rape jokes about Maryland’s Dez Wells - The Washington Post

 

I'm thinking Charles is just that uninformed, though.

But he's still entertaining.

 

Fair on both points. That's the risk CBS runs by not having a well-established college basketball studio show. If they had announcers dedicated to covering the sport all season, rather than having the NBA crew parachute in for three weeks, the coverage would be 100 times better.

 

But not as entertaining as in prior years. At least from the parts I've seen, seems like that crew is just mailing it in this year. Not much insight or effort. Not much humor.

 

Guys, this can't be repeated enough: NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR BRACKET

I saw the studio guys gleefully marking out someone's bracket that had Villanova going far.... Barkley, or Clark Kellogg's whoevers it was, we really don't care that his finalist lost, and that his bracket is screwed.

 

Things no one cares about, yet people talk about incessantly:

1. Your bracket
2. Your fantasy team
3. Your bad poker beats

 

Yeah - those three. I actually really like all three. 2014 was the first year I ever played fantasy - I loved it! But you don't care about my fantasy team, my bracket, or my poker bad beats, and I don't care about yours.
(the corollary to the poker bad beats is the recounting of 'interesting' hands, with minute details, by street.

 

Yeah, the good definitely outweighs the bad with Barkley.

 

By adding all the seeds in this year's final 16, I come up with 70 — the lowest number in the last six years.

When was it, after Friday? when the 11.5 million brackets at espn.com were down to one perfect entry? That's the one time I would have loved to have seen a story about someone else's bracket, just to see what kind of answer the person had to the question, 'What was the reasoning behind picking two 14 seeds to advance?'