NCAA tournament 2011 — running thread

It's been asked here before, I know, but why are Duke and NC placed in brackets where they can wind up playing in their home state/area for a Round-of-32 game? These schools constantly get preferential treatment from the NCAA instead of being sent to a remote site like so many other teams have happen to them.
Damn they get it easier than the rest of the field year after year after year!

 

This team doesn't listen to what Williams tells them, in terms of preferred style of play. They were lucky, today. They're going to go down, and badly, when the proper defensive pressures are applied.

 

Is Pitino blowing the refs live on the halftime show?

Christ, Ricky. Wipe the chin.

 

Positioning himself for '11-'12.

Every little bit helps.

 

Blitz, do you really look at the big picture or just when a school you don't like gets what you deem to be something and Mississippi State what you deem to be the short end of the stick?

Let's look around ...

San Diego State was in Tucson.
Brigham Young was in Denver.
Ohio State is in Cleveland.
Florida was in Tampa.
Notre Dame is in Chicago.

The NCAA is going to do everything it can to keep top seeds in nearby sub-regionals because they know that will spur ticket sales. It has been part of the "pod" concept by the NCAA and, as many things as that organization has screwed up, it got this one right.

If Mississippi State were a top-ranked team with a sub-regional nearby, rest assure the NCAA will look into the possibility. It isn't always feasible for everyone every year, though. But please ... keep acting like the NCAA paves the way for Duke and Chapel Hill every year ... nothing any of us will ever say will make you think differently ...

 

So in the 2009 Big 12 championship football game, after replay it's determined the clock stops the minute McCoy's incomplete pass hits the turf, not when the ref blows his whistle to signal an incomplete pass. Texas gets the extra second it needs to win.

But in the 2011 NCAA basketball tournament, the clock stops when the ref blows his whistle and UW gets .5 of a second, not the 1.2 seconds it should have gotten when the ball touched the court out of bounds, as was clearly shown by the replay.

I realize they are different sports, but the rule should be applied in the same manner.

And that was clearly goaltending.

 

Washington, D.C. is just about as far from Pittsburgh as Charlotte is from Durham-Chapel Hill, too. I don't like this policy, as I think it gives the top seeds another advantage when they already get plenty, but it is certainly applied across the board. Now as to why North Carolina the state gets a tourney subregional on a damn near annual basis, that's another question.

 

First of all, this has nothing to do with MSU so leave them out of it.
Second, I don't "not like" Duke and NC

Now, those others that you mentioned were never given preferential treatment prior to this new NCAA podding system which, by the way, guarantees the tournament process won't be random and fair.
Ticket sales and TV dictate how the tourney is structured.
No doubt about it.

Duke and NC have for years gotten an easy route to the Sweet 16.
It's really pretty easy to see.

 

In that football game, it sure seemed like the ruling was, in effect, that time stopped when the ball crossed the sideline in mid-air. I think by the time the ball hit something out of bounds, there was no time left. Or at least that's how I remember it as I nursed a Turbodog.

I will never figure out how Bo Pelini's head did not explode.

 

The NCAA has been giving geographic priority to the top four seeds, when possible, for a decade now. Everyone knows the rules going in, it isn't that big of a deal.

Duke and North Carolina are usually good. Can't blame them for that.

 

Nothing to do with basketball, but the guy in the skinny jeans commercial does not sweat in the deodorant commercial.

It's a Goocher when a guy is in back-to-back commercials.

 

A football pass is not incomplete until it hits the ground, I think, even if it goes out of bounds. A basketball isn't OOB until it hits the court or something else out of bounds.