NCAA tournament 2011 — running thread

Isn't the Big East just kind of on par with other conferences - it just has more teams.

Everyone focuses on 11 but conveniently forgets about 16.

 

That's still one team shy of 2/3 of the conference. Did any of the 12-team conferences get 7 or 8 in? I don't think.

 

Did anyone else enjoy, nay, laugh out loud at the shot of the girl crying after the Texas loss? For a minute, I thought Sanjaya was in the house!

 

No, that was sad. She gets a pass because of her age.

 

You won't get an argument from me. Shit, start the season Jan 1.

 

11 of 16, um, is actually, one team shy of 3/4 of the conference. And the Big Ten got 7 of 11 in.
Other than that ...

 

Why is he better? Because his uniform says Purdue?

His team played VCU and was destroyed. This was not a game where VCU needed a 50-foot shot at the buzzer. This game was a slow death from the five-minute mark on, and in the second half VCU was getting to rim at will and uncontested. Johnson is a 6-10 center, right? Stopping layups is part of the job description when you play defense.

But if the Purdue coach did not want to at least attempt a zone defense, well that's on him, but teams with better players do not get taken apart the way VCU took apart Purdue last night.

If VCU's largest lead was four points the entire night, then I could agree with Purdue had an off night and could win most times these teams played. But last night VCU toyed with Purdue and embarrassed them.

 

An event Mrs. BYH would call the Sweet Sixteen.

 

And later in the week she gets the Elite Eight, but he's so tired later in the month that she only feels the Final Four.

 

I really hate using the "athleticism" moniker to degrade a team but Notre Dame really looked like they lacked the necessary athleticism to compete with FSU.

FSU crowded ND on the perimeter and ND could do absolutely nothing offensively. If the Big East was so good this year, how is it that Hansborough is the Player of the Year based on how FSU suffocated him? I know this is the first game I watched of him this year but he had about two clean looks all game. ND had no inside game whatsoever and looked like they spent 25 secs of each possession running a weave 25 ft from the rim. I know FSU is an elite defensive team (led nation in FG%). FSU shot better than they ever had too which helps but even their post players were having their way. ND, very disappointing.

 

To me the essence of the NCAA tournament is watching a guy like "Jellybean" Rodriguez from VCU burst onto the college scene. Love watching his feeds to guys cutting to the basket, beautiful timing.

 

Georgetown and Purdue got carved up so badly, they looked like they play in the Big West.