Selection Sunday-NCAA tournament thread

Just spitballing here, but is it possible that Indiana played the way it did the last two games because the players were choking under tournament pressure and not because they were poorly prepared by their coach? Playing with your own hands on your throat is a good way of looking like you're unprepared.

 

I guess theoretically it's possible that seven or eight players, including two National Player of the Year candidates and probable lottery picks in this year's draft and two senior leaders, were properly instructed by their coach on how to attack Syracuse's match-up zone, and then all seven or eight forgot, all at once. Completely. For 40 minutes. Even after a halftime tutorial to refresh their memories. It's possible.

 

I'd bet 8 out of 10 Indiana fans would gladly ship Crean off to UCLA if they could land Brad Stevens. Don't underestimate the fact that Indiana fans, right or wrong, think they understand the game better than any other fan base and many are starting to question if Crean is a championship-level coach. Many of them want IU to be able to win with inferior talent and when you can't win with superior talent there are questions. Crean's honeymoon is over.

 

Zeller should never be given top-round money. Just is too weak and not good enough. But he should leave NOW, because this weak draft class enables him to actually get severely overpaid.

Side note: It'll be fun to read some of the end-of-the-world reactions here when Gulf Coast beats Florida tonight.

 

Is there anything that can be done about the free timeout Arizona was given last night? Matta even said he did not call a timeout because he didn't want to give Arizona a chance to set up (the Wildcats were out of timeouts), but the officials stop play and add a tenth of a second? That was insane.

 

Why would there be end-of-the-world reactions?

 

People here have inferred they wouldn't like to see them win it all.

 

Who implied it? And how do you know what I inferred?

 

One of my co-workers had FGCU winning it all in her bracket. Boyfriend went there.

She is the 0.3 percent.

 

Must have missed all that. All I saw was people disputing your assertion that Florida Gulf Coast is likely to become an instant perennial national power.

Don't know that I saw anyone hating on the Eagles. I believe most have called them the most fun team to watch in the tournament (or at least one of them most fun). Brett Comer is one of my two favorite players in this whole thing (Marquette's Vander Blue is the other).

And as LongTime noted, you need a little work on the definition of infer vs. imply.

 

FGCU won two games last weekend and sits near a beach, if you don't realize we're looking at the greatest dynasty since Wooden's UCLA you are just a hater.

 

I don't really wanna see FGCU win the whole thing.