Running 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament thread

There will be a ton of Cornell people from the NYC area traveling to the game. Cornell has about 3,500 grads a year and probably half settle in the NYC area. Granted, very Big Red alums pre-ordered, but my e-mail has been burning up with friends looking for tickets or looking for people to in with them on buying.

 

Accept the proposition that Cornell fans willing to go to this game are well-heeled, as are, of course, Kentucky fans. I'd still be willing to bet Cornell fans dominate the secondary market (scalpers in common parlance), because Kentucky fans, who expect to go to the NCAA every year, probably have established ticket-getting connections and strategies, or, anyway, more of them do.
And if it's a bidding war, and one side is bidding to see another big game, while the other is bidding to see THE BIGGEST GAME IN SCHOOL BASKETBALL HISTORY!!, Side B is going to have more alums willing to win the auction.

 

PS for clarity: To amend my first paragraph, the fact that Kentucky fans have more channels for tickets means X amount of them were in at the Dome last week, while another subset who didn't get in went straight to the top and began seeking Final Four tickets.

 

I'm 20-80 going to the game. The prices which I've seen are simply obscene. However, I can leave work in NYC by 3 and be up there for the second half of the first game and then drive back after the inevitable blowout and be at work on Friday morning.

 

Stars are made in the tournament and others are exposed. Lucious isn't great, but he isn't a bum either.

I'm not saying Mich State takes care of business, but if I had to pick one coach to get me through a tournament game it'd undoubtedly be Tom Izzo.

Also, Draymond Green seems like he can really play when he wants to – he rebounds, he can step out, he can distribute.

It'll be tough, but I think the Spartans get by UNI and knock off Ohio State to get to another Final Four. Because just when we say there's no way, Izzo seems to find a way to prove people wrong.

 

Kansas gets the Hitler treatment:

 

Here's a prediction: Kentucky will not blow Cornell out of the gym. Cornell has played athletically superior teams already -- at their place -- and hung in with Syracuse and Kansas. Cornell's team is practically all seniors -- in their third NCAA tournament -- thinking this is the biggest game they will ever play in their lives. Kentucky is dominated by freshmen looking forward to playing in the NBA next season. Cornell doesn't make many mistakes and can shoot the lights out. And while Kentucky will have its large contingent, so will Cornell, and the neutral fans will surely get behind the Big Red.

I'm not bold enough to predict a Cornell win, but it is certainly possible. At the least, Cornell will be in it late.

Or, I could be completely wrong.

 

Love it.

 

I just watched a couple fat farm kids and a goofy-undersized Iranian take out one of the most athletic teams in the tournament. Why not.

This tournament has shown that you don't have to be jumping to the moon or throwing down alley-oops to win games. Stephon Curry and Davidson did it with defense and shooting.

 

A hell of a lot of shooting, but yes, I get your point. And all it takes is for a team like Cornell to play one more really good game to advance against Kentucky. They've obviously shown they can do it for a couple in a row.

 

Kentucky's very talented, but this is a team that took Kansas down to the wire in Lawrence and then put a beating on two solid defensive teams to start this tournament.

Dale, Wittman and Foote are a great trio of seniors who have been all been top notch players for three-plus years now.

On top of that, they have five guys who average at least 1.2 three-pointers per game while also shooting better than 39% (Dale is the only one of them under 40 percent at 39.3%).

That sounds like a recipe for an upset to me. And if they beat Kentucky, and Washington beats West Virginia, I wouldn't at all be surprised to see a Cornell-Syracuse rematch in the finals. That's certainly getting way way way ahead of things, but I'm just saying.