Running 2018 college rings postseason thread

More from the Big East Refugee contingent: During an alleged moment of silence in memory of Woody Durham, the four-decade voice of UNC athletics, some lout from Syracuse yelled, "Go Orange!"
Remember how lucky you are to have been given a life raft to flee the sinking ship of a conference for which your coach still pines.

 

The only thing I have in common with Jimmy Boy is I miss the Big East, too. When they played on Big Monday in the mid to late '80s and early '90s, those Big East games were appointment TV. From Mullin to Ewing, that conference was stacked.

I was in the dorms when Pitt's Jerome Lane shattered a backboard, and the shouts from rooms all across my floor prompted the RA to tell us to tone it down.

 

Va Tech is in. Louisville probably now, too. ND’s losses to Ball State and Indiana - with Colson - are just killers. Win one of those and we’re not having this conversation.

 

You're right, and this is probably reason one why they went to the quad formula on team sheets in judging teams. By RPI alone, as was the former metric, they'd be in trouble. Us Tech fans have some scars from years past, though they really only had one legitimate argument for inclusion during all of those Seth years. (The clinically insane year.) That said, Buzz needs to get in the habit of scheduling better if he wants to avoid this dance on a yearly basis. 10-8 in the ACC with wins over UNC, Duke, UVa and Clemson should be a slam dunk. It isn't because of that embarrassment of a non-con slate.

 

A win today would do a whole lot to get ND off the bubble, of course, but I think asking Bonzie to wreck shop for the third day in a row is pretty unrealistic.

 

I still don’t know how (1) Notre Dame won that game last night and (2) how Notre Dame lost to Ball State. I watched both games and don’t know.

 

The Indiana loss is the one that will haunt them. They had it won. Couldn’t hit a free throw. Couldn’t grab a rebound.

 

People forget that when Syracuse sports were good their fanbase could out-douchebag anyone.

 

Oklahoma's freefall ought to take it right into the middle of the pack in the NIT.

 

The thing about ND-VaTech was that ND has open looks and were missing absolutely anything they threw up, while VaTech couldn’t miss. I didn’t think Notre Dame would erase a 21-point second half deficit, but it wasn’t that they were getting monumentally outplayed.

 

Even though those Pitt teams never did shit in March, they also never backed down from Thompson's intimidation tactics.

 

Hokies were flying around on defense, too, much more than usual. They couldn't sustain that for 40 minutes. Add in Buzz's inexplicable game plan for the second half, which appeared to boil down to "Have your only big man float around the perimeter and jack 3s against a smaller, thinner team," and you have the recipe for a collapse.