NCAA tournament 2011 — running thread

You guys are funny, ripping on MSU when two players from previous Final Four runs are gone. It hurt them bad and wasn't reflected upon in their No. 2 ranking. It takes pride to be down 23 and come back like that. Crappy season, yes, but to say they shit the bed completely? You deserve no response.

 

Love that Morehead State won. Saw them play a month ago and thought they were legit.

 

Best of part of Morehead State game was hearing Francesa smugly say how sure he was that 'a freight train is coming' and that Lousiville would shake off the slow start and steamroll to victory. Pitino and Francesa upended, it's a good day.

 

Hey, NCAA, how's that tournament money-grab coming along?

$81 per session for the worst seat in the house in Tucson? Ya think that might be the reason there weren't 100 people in the upper level?

 

Great afternoon session almost negated by the dud that was the night games. Not one interesting game among the eight. Unless you consider UCLA nearly shitting the bed interesting.

 

Another crack in the Italio-American Alliance . . .

 

1. One of those players was kicked off the team in August. They could have had others step up. Appling for instance. And what about Nix? What has he done? Some of these players aren't being developed as they should.

2. It takes pride to come back from 23 down. It also takes a massive amount of suckitude to be down 23 against a mediocre team at a neutral site.

 

Is it me, or is that how the pattern goes every year? Exciting afternoon, much less so in the evening.

 

Byrd was supposed to step in and be the team's biggest three-point threat, but he messed up his ankle. That hurt. And the development of the bigs has been a problem for years.

 

He should change his name to Jammer, then he'd at least have a marketing schtick

 

Good thing that coaches aren't involved with developing their players!

 

Yeah, Izzo sucks!!!!!