College Basketball

[Carey]

17 minutes ago, mojoween said:

Alabama had “an incident”.  Greg Gumbel, shut, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck up.

With that said, I’m still watching a bunch of names get put on a bunch of lines and enjoying it.  Does CBS ever put out the ratings for this?

No.  There aren't any ratings.  If so, someone else handles that.

It's not a big deal mojoween.  I was surprised that he said it.  Usually he just reads the names and saves the other stuff for another time.  BTW, I'd rather have this version of a selection than that stuff ESPN did for the College Football Playoff

[mojoween]

Fully wearing homer glasses, but there are not 17 teams better than Duke.  The committee is dumb.

[Carey]

They're also a little hypocritical.  Whatever reason they have of not moving them to the 3 (or even 4 line) is what it is, but based on that, some of their other decisions don't add up.

Despite the difficulty of going 63 for 63, it isn't easy when good teams face bad teams but would still be in danger of losing outright due to the game being a bad matchup

[Salacious Kitty]

1 hour ago, mojoween said:

Fully wearing homer glasses, but there are not 17 teams better than Duke.  The committee is dumb.

Strongly disagree. Also strongly hate dook. They are nowhere near my final four. 😁

[mojoween]

I know the muckety-mucks don’t care about us lowly peons when there is a kajillion dollars at stake, but they are considering expanding the tourney again which is just the STUPIDEST idea.

Half or all of the next 30 teams would have losing records and get bounced immediately.  I know there are some people out there who still think that 32 was the perfect number, but I only remember starting with 64, which was perfect.  

[Carey]

The Madness is here!

WVU for the win in the first game. I'll get to everything else later

[Carey]

Thursday game picks:
Furman
Utah St
Kansas
Alabama
Chaleston
Arizona
Arkansas
Auburn
Duke
Texas
Boise State
Houston
Tennessee
Penn State
UCLA

[JTMacc99]

Just so everybody knows, in the event that a 15 or 16 seed loses today or tomorrow, that team was the one I picked to win my bracket. 

I have a knack. 

 

[Carey]

Saint Pete will do that to you!

[mojoween]

I feel badly for that UVA kid who cried and said fuck, but what a fun game.  Also #3 for Furman confessed to a crush on Candace Parker when he was younger so he has good taste.

[mojoween]

The 5 seed had to fly all the way across the country and the 12 seed goes a few hours down the coast?  Fail, committee.

[Salacious Kitty]

2 minutes ago, mojoween said:

The 5 seed had to fly all the way across the country and the 12 seed goes a few hours down the coast?  Fail, committee.

And their chartered plane was delayed two hours due to a conflict with Air Force One. 

[AimingforYoko]

Apparently it's either first round exit or NC for Virginia. 

[Salacious Kitty]

6 minutes ago, AimingforYoko said:

Apparently it's either first round exit or NC for Virginia. 

I had them losing in the second round, so no big loss. 

[Carey]

I picked them to lose in the first round.  I love Virginia, but their gameplay is so tough to watch.  When they lost 5 years ago, that was the team that would be vulnerable to anybody that was on fire.

Can't kill the clock in the whole game unless you can hit the 3.

But yeah, you're fine if you had UVA losing on Saturday.  That's why I'm not too bitter that Maryland won over WVU.  Neither team is beating Alabama

[Salacious Kitty]

Agreed. 

[Mean Machine]

Virginia's Instagram page is a pretty entertaining read right now.

[mojoween]

Can Kevin Harlan, Stan Van Gundy and … the other guy be on the call for every game?  Even ones happening at the same time?

[Salacious Kitty]

Holy crap, can Princeton pull this off?

[mojoween]

4 minutes ago, Salacious Kitty said:

Holy crap, can Princeton pull this off?

I think so!

This one’s for you, Pete.

[Carey]

The good news is that several people are not done (unless they actually had Arizona winning it all).  NO one picked both Furman and Princeton to win.

The best news is if you have a bracket that has Alabama winning.  ZONA was their biggest threat

[Salacious Kitty]

3 minutes ago, mojoween said:

I think so!

This one’s for you, Pete.

Princeton now has a TRACK RECORD of knocking off #2 seeded Pac 12 teams. 

1 minute ago, Carey said:

The good news is that several people are not done (unless they actually had Arizona winning it all).  NO one picked both Furman and Princeton to win.

The best news is if you have a bracket that has Alabama winning.  ZONA was their biggest threat

I had Zona and Bama in the Elite 8. 

[Carey]

I couldn't care less for Princeton going forward, unless they make it into the regional final.

I do care for UCLA.  I feel bad for the most accomplished program for having to lose in back-to-back years against a bunch of people that call themselves a college basketball team

[JTMacc99]

In case anyone was wondering, I did NOT have Arizona as my champions!

Perhaps my doom streak is broken. 

[emma675]

I haven't watched a lot of college ball this season, but some of these boys are wearing really short shorts. I'm an old, so I remember the days when players' shorts were so long and baggy they were practically pants.

[LexieLily]

I had Furman for the upset over Virginia, but I also had Arizona to the Elite 8. So my bracket averages out, I suppose.

Edited March 17, 2023 by LexieLily
Alabama is not the same as Arizona, lol.

[Carey]

Well I guess it's official that no one is going 63-0.

For what it's worth, if you had time to do 10 quintillion brackets, then you'd be guaranteed a perfect bracket.

What hinders that is if one were to do one bracket per second, they'd be able to get, at the max, about 324,000 from the eligible start to the deadline

[mojoween]

8 hours ago, emma675 said:

I haven't watched a lot of college ball this season, but some of these boys are wearing really short shorts. I'm an old, so I remember the days when players' shorts were so long and baggy they were practically pants.

Heh.  I’m so old I remember college kids wearing shorts so short they were practically underwear.

[DrSpaceman73]

Houston was lucky. Northern Kentucky shot 15% from 3 and that wasn't due ti great D.  

My brackets ruined but I dont pay much attention to it

[JTMacc99]

2 hours ago, DrSpaceman73 said:

My brackets ruined but I don't pay much attention to it

The only March Madness bracket I ever play is at work. We have about a dozen people who have been playing for over 10 years, and the only prize is that you get your name on the trophy which you take possession of and proudly display for a year. (We also take the winner out to lunch.)

While I'm currently in 11th place out of 12, I did look at everybody's final four teams and not only was I the only person to pick Marquette as my champion, I'm the only one who even put them in the final four.

So pretty much all of my hopes for getting my name on that trophy for a second time are riding on that one team. Hopefully they at least make to the sweet sixteen to keep my bracket alive.

[Carey]

Time For Friday Picks!

 

NC State
Baylor
Purdue
Memphis
Kentucky
Montana State
Michigan State
Marquette
Drake
Indiana
Pittsburgh
Xavier
VCU
Connecticut
TCU
Gonzaga

[Salacious Kitty]

5 hours ago, JTMacc99 said:

The only March Madness bracket I ever play is at work. We have about a dozen people who have been playing for over 10 years, and the only prize is that you get your name on the trophy which you take possession of and proudly display for a year. (We also take the winner out to lunch.)

While I'm currently in 11th place out of 12, I did look at everybody's final four teams and not only was I the only person to pick Marquette as my champion, I'm the only one who even put them in the final four.

So pretty much all of my hopes for getting my name on that trophy for a second time are riding on that one team. Hopefully they at least make to the sweet sixteen to keep my bracket alive.

LOL, I also have Marquette in the final four. Crazy times! 😂

[Carey]

52 minutes ago, Salacious Kitty said:

LOL, I also have Marquette in the final four. Crazy times! 😂

53 minutes ago, Salacious Kitty said:

LOL, I also have Marquette in the final four. Crazy times! 😂

Officially safe!  You'll have a great weekend, but before it ends come Michigan State

[AimingforYoko]

It's happening...

[Salacious Kitty]

Just now, AimingforYoko said:

It's happening...

Yup. They're donezo.

[mojoween]

 

Kinda was hoping UMBC would have this forever, though.

[LexieLily]

Holy crap, Farleigh Dickinson!

[cambridgeguy]

Looks like google searches for Farleigh Dickinson are about to spike.

[AimingforYoko]

IT happened. Big 10, not showing out.

[ebk57]

10 minutes ago, AimingforYoko said:

IT happened. Big 10, not showing out.

Just wait till the Terps beat Alabama tomorrow! 

 

 

(And this is probably my last post for this season... )

[Popples]

You love to see it.

 

[Carey]

25 minutes ago, AimingforYoko said:

IT happened. Big 10, not showing out.

Except for the part where Penn State gets crowned as the 2023 National Champions

[AimingforYoko]

Purdue, 2024 National Champs?

 

[shoregirl]

Haha...go New Jersey teams

[LexieLily]

I don't follow college basketball except for March Madness; in regards to the ending of the Memphis/Florida Atlantic game, they don't do jump balls at the NCAA level? It looked like there was some sort of possession arrow that the refs just alternate back and forth who gets possession of the ball when there's a tie-up/scramble/unclear who it goes off of? That seems unfair. 

[DrSpaceman73]

15 minutes ago, LexieLily said:

I don't follow college basketball except for March Madness; in regards to the ending of the Memphis/Florida Atlantic game, they don't do jump balls at the NCAA level? It looked like there was some sort of possession arrow that the refs just alternate back and forth who gets possession of the ball when there's a tie-up/scramble/unclear who it goes off of? That seems unfair. 

Yes they rotate possessions.  No jump ball

[DrSpaceman73]

Iu with the final round one win.  Played well.  Miami up next. 

[Fukui San]

3 hours ago, LexieLily said:

I don't follow college basketball except for March Madness; in regards to the ending of the Memphis/Florida Atlantic game, they don't do jump balls at the NCAA level? It looked like there was some sort of possession arrow that the refs just alternate back and forth who gets possession of the ball when there's a tie-up/scramble/unclear who it goes off of? That seems unfair. 

NBA refs fuck up jump balls all the time. I heard of complaints on at least two games in the past couple of days. Possession arrow always seemed simpler and fairer in the long run to me. 

[mojoween]

FDU wasn’t even supposed to be in the tournament, were it not for dumb NCAA rules.  (They finished second in their conference tourney, but the winner hasn’t been Division I long enough so was ineligible for the NCAAs)

What a way to make the most of your opportunity.

[DrSpaceman73]

2 hours ago, mojoween said:

FDU wasn’t even supposed to be in the tournament, were it not for dumb NCAA rules.  (They finished second in their conference tourney, but the winner hasn’t been Division I long enough so was ineligible for the NCAAs)

What a way to make the most of your opportunity.

Yeah I never understood the reason for that rule.