Running NCAA men's tournament thread 2012

Somebody needs to tell him those extra timeouts can't be exchanged in cash after the season.

Also, can a journalist here please bust Calipari before the Final Four? He cheats and I'm sick of him.

 

Roy still hasn't figured out why all those folks were cheering for Kansas and why he couldn't have them all thrown out.

 

He's never been known for bench coaching, true enough. But that's hardly the entire job description. And perennial powerhouses, like Cinderellas, end their seasons with a loss. All but one. Will Self's critics (and he has a few) come out of the woodwork if they lose to Kentucky? Probably.

 

Once you make it to a showcase event, the NCAA doesn't give a shit. In fact, the NCAA doesn't want to know. It'll wait six months and pop your ass then. See Ohio State in the Sugar Bowl, Cam Newton in the SEC title game and BCS title game.

 

It looks like Carolina will be headed back to the NIT next year. Recruiting could really suffer from it, because it will be Roy's third team that gets relegated to the NIT. In addition to Zeller and Watts, who graduate, and Stilman White, who is going on a Mormon mission, these players will probably declare for the NBA draft:

Kendall Marshall
Harrison Barnes
James Michael McAdoo
John Henson

I doubt James, Tokota, Paige and Johnson can make up for the loss of all that talent.

 

You can't coach any worse than ol' Roy did in the last two minutes. That's not piling on, it's fact. They have to determine whether his recruiting acumen is worth the pain of watching him piss it all away against anyone other than Illinois.

 

Are you really implying that they'd consider getting rid of a coach who has two national championships in the past eight seasons? Especially when you consider that they'd very likely be in the final four right now if it wasn't for the best distributing point guard in the nation getting hurt during the tournament.

 

Ignore fuction works wonders.

Can I get a Whatwhat?

 

Dre, you also can't ignore that next year is likely the third NIT in his tenure at Carolina.

That's not acceptable.

 

He's won 2 championships there. That's as many as Dean Smith won in three and a half decades. I only remember him making the NIT once at UNC.

 

You're right, my bad. I confused Doherty's NIT with Roy's. Still, next year will be Roy's second NIT.

Since Roy took over in the 2003-04 season, he's won just two national championships.

 

Just two?