NCAA tournament 2011 — running thread

No comment.

 

He was off by a year. The point is the same: Pitt does not always lose in the early rounds, just as Huggins does not always lose in the early rounds, and Huggins does not always own Calipari -- two other claims made here. His rhyming attempt was awful, though.

 

Jesus Christ, another four days of fucking Butler and since they get to play a horse shit Wisconsin team, it likely means we are stuck watching them until the Elite Eight. I can't stand watching that team.

Pitt blew a great opportunity to go to the Final Four, this was a perfect bracket for them to get there.

 

Taking it one step further - Pitt under Dixon and Howland have never beaten a higher seed in the NCAA Tournament.

In other words, they don't upset anyone and they usually get upset.

 

Huggins was 8-1 against Calipari going into today's action - that is the definition of ownage.....

 

Why not?

They're well-coached. They have good players.

 

Yes, he was off by a year in this instance, which merely represents the continuation of a long and tortured pattern. I like Devil, I appreciate his enthusiasm for sports, but I wish he'd start doing some fact-checking before posting, it's become increasingly hard to simply ignore the constant little factual errors. Thus why I pointed it out this time.

As for Pitt, it's simply undeniable that they have a pattern of underperforming in the tournament. Even the one year they reached the final 8 they were a 1 seed and thus STILL technically underperformed their seed that year. By my recollection Pitt seems to have underperformed in relation to their seed in almost every tournament this millenium (going back well into the Ben Howland era). And I'm hard pressed to remember one where they've ever exceeded expectations in March.

They've had quite many outstanding regular season team in Pittsburgh, but their pattern for breaking down come March is undisputable.

 

Pitt probably should not have been a No. 1 seed. I thought Notre Dame would get a top seed, but I guess the comparisons of the two teams went against ND.

I did have Pitt advancing in the bracket, mainly because of its opponents.

 

At what point does Jamie Dixon take heat from the Pittsburgh faithful for not doing more in the NCAA Tournament? Or is the fanbase so blase that he gets a pass?

 

New Orleans is hosing the whitest regional since Texas Western won the national title.

And get ready for non-stop viewings of Danny Ainge weaving his way thru Digger Phelps' defense for the next seven days.

 

The Big East has not impressed, has it? All but one first-round win were over double-digit seeds. They seem to be losing all the big games. Pitt to Butler, West Virginia to Kentucky, Villanova to Mason, St. John's to Gonzaga.

Meanwhile, the good wins? Marquette over what I thought was a pretty good Xavier team and a maybe Cincy over Mizzou.

They can still end up with three final four teams (UConn, Notre Dame and the Marquette-Syracuse winner) but so far, it hasn't lived up to the billing.