NCAA tournament 2011 — running thread

Blitz · Mar 20, 2011

mustangj17 said:

suburbia said:

Blitz said:

Duke and NC have for years gotten an easy route to the Sweet 16.
It's really pretty easy to see.
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Since when has the NCAA not been about what will provide the greatest financial return,"

Business is business. And the NCAA is a business, as much as it wants us to think otherwise. It is what it is.
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I didn't say put them in Alabama. Put them in NYC, Chicago, LA, Detroit...
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Exactly.

Jake_Taylor · Mar 20, 2011

It sucks that there's games in North Carolina every year (except for the year UNC doesn't make the tournament, go figure), but yeah, it's easy to understand the dollars and cents of it. But you don't think UK and/or Louisville fans would sell out games in Lexington, Louisville, Nashville every year? Or Kansas fans wouldn't buy a ton of tickets in KC, Wichita, Omaha.

mustangj17 · Mar 20, 2011

Jake_Taylor said:

It sucks that there's games in North Carolina every year (except for the year UNC doesn't make the tournament, go figure), but yeah, it's easy to understand the dollars and cents of it. But you don't think UK and/or Louisville fans would sell out games in Lexington, Louisville, Nashville every year? Or Kansas fans wouldn't buy a ton of tickets in KC, Wichita, Omaha.
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Look at the Kentucky/Tennessee area this year: Kentucky, Tennessee, Memphis, Vanderbilt, Louisville, Morehead State... am I missing any?

mustangj17 · Mar 20, 2011

Also Michigan is 6 points down playing with a 6-4 power forward. Maybe Duke needs to start recruiting NBA players to continue winning.

BYH · Mar 20, 2011

Gutter said:

I want to kiss Tom Penders.

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/118297114.html

Jay Bilas: "Takes himself and his opinion far too seriously. I know he works hard and knows the game as a former player, but he goes over the top when he tries to demonstrate a play or gets too technical. He uses basketball terminology like hedging, showing and sealing and never lets the audience know what he’s talking about. He rarely gives credit to the mid-major teams, and when one of them makes the NCAA Tournament as an at-large entrant he throws a fit. . . . He works the Maui Classic every year with Raftery and Sean McDonough and tries to dominate the telecast with his academic ‘know it all’ approach to basketball. . . .Bilas rarely takes a stance on coaching scandals and other controversial topics that Gottlieb will grab by the throat. He needs to lighten up and let the game flow once in awhile. . . .I wonder if he’s given any thought to becoming a professor."
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Aside from loving fellow Houston guy Nantz, that was outstanding.

And Michigan is making things real interesting here.

BYH · Mar 20, 2011

amraeder said:

BYH said:

Stoney said:

No, the Big East has not. But how about their competition for best overall conference this year-- The Big 10?

The Big 10 is 6-2. Their only two losses were on a last second shot (Penn St.) and by only 1 point (Mich. St), meanwhile, their six wins included Michigan utterly slaughtering Tennessee, Illinois utterly slaughtering UNLV, Purdue utterly slaughtering St. Pete's, OSU utterly slaughtering UTSA, ans Wisconsin getting two very convincing victories over Utah St. and Kansas State.
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Let's not get carried away. Two of those routs were very high (or low) seeds over very low (or high) seeds. Another one was Michigan throttling a team that quit so disgustingly that me, you and three other people from here would have beaten Tennessee. Then there's Wisconsin handing Utah State its annual first round loss that the rest of us will forget by next March, when we all pick the 30-4 WAC champ to win a game or two. Michigan State's comeback was impressive, but not nearly enough to counteract falling behind by 23 in the first 33 minutes.
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Kansas State played Utah State. Wisconsin played Belmont.
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Thanks, total brain fart there.

mustangj17 · Mar 20, 2011

Darius Morris is as clutch as he comes in terms of leading a team but Hardaway is a pure scorer. They go well together.

exmediahack · Mar 20, 2011

Wouldn't that just suck for Jalen Rose and the Fab Five is this rag-tag collection of jump-shooting Wolverines beats a 1-seed Duke... and they couldn't?

franticscribe · Mar 20, 2011

mustangj17 said:

When was the last time the state of North Carolina did not host any tournament games?
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2010

BYH · Mar 20, 2011

Oh Morris, you just gave America a giant case of the sadz.

Stoney · Mar 20, 2011

Damn nice showing by Michigan in this tourney. Blasted UT by 30 and took Duke all the way to the game's final shot.

Hard to believe this is the same Michigan crew that was ranked dead last in the Big 10 midway through the conference season, very impressive late season surge.

Jake_Taylor · Mar 20, 2011

Gutter said:

I want to kiss Tom Penders.

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/118297114.html

Jay Bilas: "Takes himself and his opinion far too seriously. I know he works hard and knows the game as a former player, but he goes over the top when he tries to demonstrate a play or gets too technical. He uses basketball terminology like hedging, showing and sealing and never lets the audience know what he’s talking about. He rarely gives credit to the mid-major teams, and when one of them makes the NCAA Tournament as an at-large entrant he throws a fit. . . . He works the Maui Classic every year with Raftery and Sean McDonough and tries to dominate the telecast with his academic ‘know it all’ approach to basketball. . . .Bilas rarely takes a stance on coaching scandals and other controversial topics that Gottlieb will grab by the throat. He needs to lighten up and let the game flow once in awhile. . . .I wonder if he’s given any thought to becoming a professor."
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I think Bilas is one of the best college basketball analysts out there, and I love his Twitter feed. But Penders makes some good points.

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