Running 2023-24 NCAA Basketball Thread

Rene Portland. Another one that Penn State used the big broom on to sweep under the rug until they couldn’t anymore. Bill Parcells looking bitch.

 

That trash talking kid is the only offensive thing Virginia has managed in March since the pandemic.

 

To whom are you referring?

 

Tony Bennett could use her if she can hit from the perimeter and double up DJ Burns inside.

 

OK. Not an actual player.
I find it interesting that general fans are far more angered and offended by Virginia's recent play than the Cavaliers' actual fans are.
It would have been far better for the committee to take Pitt or Seton Hall or St. John's or any number of others over the Cavs this year. That would have been the right call.
On the other hand, we'll still have an NCAA title to remember.

 

If there's a fan base that has no grounds whatsoever to take shots at Virginia, it's the Wolfpack. The gift of a missed free throw with 5.3 seconds left in the ACC Tournament semifinals made this whole thing possible.

State has become only the fourth team ever to win ≥ 3 NCAA Tournament games after posting a losing record in regular-season conference play.
The Pack joins Syracuse in 2017-18, which went 8-10 in the ACC; LSU in 1986-87 (8-10 SEC); and Virginia in 1983-84 (6-8 ACC). The Cavaliers made the Final Four and took Houston to overtime in the national semifinals.

 

Why is it that I have time to watch the tournament and I am watching two games with both teams struggling to get to 30 points in the first half?

 

I'm not taking shots at Virginia. Tony Bennett knows he needs shooters and defenders.

And this will be intriguing either way in Dallas. Either it's Houston - please, some national columnist write that NCSU hasn't a hope in ... well ... you know to win the game - or Duke, which will be for family bragging rights and a Final Four berth at stake - in that order.

 

Because Kelvin Sampson lives to take a game into the mud.

If Houston somehow hangs on, I'm worried about DJ Horne and some of the guards. I'm NOT worried about DJ Burns, Diarra or Middlebrooks. If the Cougars want to play bully ball ...

(Of course, if the officials would call the freaking game and stop being so eager to "let them play," that might help.)

 

That famous national columnist line in 1983 has been misquoted in at least two books. And it was in print.
Dave Kindred, ladies and gentlemen:
ALBUQUERQUE, April 3, 1983 -- Trees will tap dance, elephants will drive at Indy and Orson Welles will skip lunch before North Carolina State finds a way to beat Houston in the NCAA's college basketball championship game Monday night. We might have added, speaking of unlikely, " . . . and the Easter bunny will offer an egg to a Nigerian soccer goalie." Except that she did.