Selection Sunday-NCAA tournament thread

That, and if his team wins the title this year, they'll make a movie about it.

 

Fast Break meets Notting Hill.

 

Go back and watch it again.

Refs screwed that one up.

 

Just a blind poll right now, but I'm curious to see how many people who have watched FGCU's first two games DON'T see the Eagles at least making the Final Four.

 

Seriously? Florida is playing better than anyone, with Michigan not far behind. In the East, I might agree. But the South is the strongest region.

I'm betting the combined seeds of the Final Four teams is less than 15.

 

Let's not go crazy. It could happen, but it's not likely. Unlike San Diego State, Florida has a week to prepare. Unlike Georgetown, Florida has a better coach too.

 

Maybe so, and I could be a bit irrational. It's just strange to me that a team that lost to Maine, Lipscomb (twice) and TCU and played close games in its conference tournament is suddenly finding lightning in a bottle, and that it's really good lightning. They almost look as if they've been hustling us all along.

It's a great style of play, however, and if UCLA doesn't take a serious look at hiring Enfield, they're doing themselves a disservice.

If they can gel this well and play this great now, why didn't they earlier in the season? And does it matter? Kansas lost to TCU, most still agree they were deserving of a No. 1 seed and looked like a championship team in the second half against Carolina.

 

And does it all of a sudden become easy to recruit and become, down the line, a Gonzaga-type program in terms of mid-major success.

It doesn't appear FGCU is that academically rigorous, it's in beautiful Fort Myers, dorms overlook beaches and pools. There's a freaking spa on campus.

And the aforementioned style of play (dunking like crazy) has to be appealing to recruits. Go to Spokane to play in a system that will never advance you far in the dance or go study on the beach where, with a walk-on leading the team (Sherwood Brown), a 15-seeded team in its second year of Division I status made the Sweet 16? Seems like an easy choice to me, and if Enfield stays it should be easy to keep getting talent and maybe start actually dominating his regular season schedule.

 

They did beat Miami in their second game, so you could say they've been playing well from the start after a blowout loss to VCU.

From the looks of it, when they get beat by teams not named Duke and Iowa State, there's a big free-throw disparity. And since all of those losses were by 10 points or less that's probably the main reason they lost those games.

And it's a great story but writers who want to talk about how in the 75 years of brackets a 15 seed has never made it this far, it's because 16 seeds only go back to 1985. But whatever.

 

1985 was nearly 30 years ago. It's still impressive that Florida Gulf Coast broke the No. 15 duck.

 

I'm not implying it's not impressive. It's history what Gulf Coast is doing and that accomplishment stands on its own. But don't write it like 16 seeds have had a chance since 1936 or something to make it seem even more amazing.

 

Oh I understand that. It just seems inconceivable to me that the same team that took USC Upstate to overtime somehow beat Miami, San Diego State and Georgetown.

Obviously, they aren't the same team now and that's what matters. Something had to have happened before the A-Sun tourney to get them in gear, and it's working.

Now will they continue it and become the dominant mid-major in the sport? If Enfield stays, with that location and style of play, I say why not?