Running 2023-24 NCAA Basketball Thread

Louis Gossett says hello.
#crossthread

 

Now, it’s over

 

Incredible fucking run. Congrats, N.C. State fans. My goodness.

Go win the whole fucking thing.

 

If it’s Bama-NC State in the finals, this board might melt down.

 

Gen Z-Bo is a tremendous nickname.

 

OK ... now it's up to you folks to explain to people that headlines reading "N.C. State men AND women advance to Final Four" is not an April Fools joke.

 

Also ... is Kevin Keatts fired?

 

I can hardly wait for Burnes vs. Edey. It's a cosmic battle of the body types, like the Hulk vs. Mr. Fantastic.

 

America is just a better country when Duke loses.

A FF without Duke, Carolina, Kansas, Villanova, Michigan State, Kentucky ... wonderful.

And what a day for NC State. I have a State tee-shirt from a long-ago SJ.com Secret Santa, have to break it out.

 

Was he done if they lose to Virginia in the ACC?

 

What was up with Duke's Jared McCain at the end of that game?
Nine guys on the court are perfectly happy to let NC State run the clock out. The 10th was McCain, who was defending and chasing the ball like the world was going to explode if he didn't get a stop. He finally gets called for a foul (which we didn't see because CBS was showing a ridiculously extended shot of NC State's coach standing on the sideline trying to figure out what was going on) to send NC State to the line with 1.9 seconds left. They hit two free throws, then McCain takes a half-court shot that just misses.
O/U on the game was between 141.5 and 143.5, depending on when and where you got it. It came in at 140. It was 138 when McCain got weird at the end, meaning the only way it could hit the over was for NC State to make those two free throws and for Duke to make a meaningless basket at the end.
Curious finish.

 

I’m in a group text……I made the joke that someone had over 139…..having no idea at all that it was 140.
Curious indeed.