Running 2018 college rings postseason thread

My impression that most champions are tested once in the early going is wrong. No eventual champion has won its Round of 32 game by fewer than five points since Arizona in 1997. Only six of the 34 champions in the ≥ 64-team era have had a game in the first weekend decided by five or fewer points.
In all, champs have claimed 118 of their 204 tourney wins by ≥ 10 points and only 22 by ≤ 5 points. The best team generally proves its excellence. Notable exceptions UConn in 2014, Arizona in 1997 and Villanova in 1985, when there was no shot clock.

 

It's been longer than that. The Hoosier Dome hosted it in 1991, followed by the Metrodome and the Superdome in 1992 and 1993.

 

The last non dome Final Four was, I believe, at the Meadowlands in 1996.

 

I remember Maryland-Indiana in 2002 being a snooze fest, too.

 

MSU covered five, Duke four.

So it looks like UNC and Villanova are the only two to win all by double digits and cover the spread in each game.

 

This is really fucking lame, USA Today. He was 14, for fuck's sake.

An offensive tweet from Donte DiVincenzo's account in 2011 surfaces

 

I went to bed at halftime. Doesn't look like I missed much.

 

Eligible for sex jokes in this joint, though.

 

Are they fucking serious with that? He was quoting a rap song. And Donte doesn't exactly strike me as a white supremacist.

 

Fun fact from the radio this morning: Since Loyola's games are not broadcast, they had to cobble together a radio team for the local feed on Sirius/XM on Saturday night.

 

Someone also dug up a tweet from around the same time about how good it feels to have one's asshole licked.