Well that first day was predictably bananas.
UCLA and the Alfords continue to lead a charmed life.
The Big 12 faceplants — hard. Texas down to Butler. Iowa State never put away UAB, destroying brackets everywhere.
Then there was Baylor blowing a huge lead against Georgia State. Creating an all-time moment at the buzzer. Both for the shot by R.J. Hunter and Head Coach/Dad Ron Hunter.
I can’t tell you how many times I keep watching that.
Matt Painter pulled a Jamie Dixon overcoaching special in the final seconds, which fails. Leading to overtime and Purdue falling to Cinci for the right to lose to Kentucky.
Then there was the 8-9 game between two talented, but — trying to be kind here — mercurial, teams in NC State and LSU. These two teams make me irrationally angry. Undeniable talent and athleticism all over the place. Poor coaching and no consistency are just as obvious.
In the end, the team that lost to Auburn in the SEC Tournament created an epic collapse to the team that lost by 16 to Boston College late in the season. Sixteen point halftime lead. Six straight missed free throws in final minutes. Unable to make a field goal in the final 10+ minutes — 0-12.
NC State is fully capable of knocking off Villanova. Or lose by about 15.
Hopefully today will be just as bonkers.
E.g., at ACC Tourney, NC State whips Pitt – not even close, next night Duke whips NC State – not even close, the next night, ND whips Duke -not even close.
This uptempo game may be fun to watch, but if you are not shooting well, you will not compete
Always have my wife and kids pick a bracket and enter each one in a $10/entry pool. Have won or placed a few years with biggest payout a little over $200 and one year where we got 1st, 2nd AND 3rd place al within the fam.
This year my overly competetive 13yo son is absolutely HATING that his Mom(“she knows nothing about basketball” is the phrase I had to hear much of last night) is leading our pool after day one.
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tvax1 Jen tvax1 140 0 0 0 0 0 Virginia 1700 140 99.9
My upsets aren’t falling in place this year.:( Ha, ha, ha.
In fact, I was thrilled when UConn won last year.
I also must admit that while I hope the ACC does good, it doesn’t bother me nearly as much when one of those teams lose compared toa few years ago when a BE team lost in the tourney.
I’m sorry … I guess I still haven’t warmed up to the ACC – in basketball.
Love that video also. Kid shot that with confidence…he knew he made it as soon as it left his hands.
1. RECRUITING: 5 (out of 10)
2. IN-GAME DECISIONS: 7
3. PRACTICE COACHING: 9
4. BASKETBALL PHILOSOPHY: 7
5. REPRESENTS UNIVERSITY: 10
Total: 38 (38×2=76)
76 out of 100 or 76%
Would love to hear your score for Jamie with this criteria. Thanks!
about time!
Of course, not to be outdone, Audrey PG PSU beat writer is currently (once again) providing a blow-by-blow twitter acount of their BOT meeting. (I actually think that’s hilarious!)
I’m pretty sure you could shoot a sequel of World War Z at a PSU home game with a camera on a tripod outside one of the gates to the stadium. You could save a boatload on film because if you shot it in B&W it would look identical to a color film.
But that’s the way it is – PSU FB non-conf schedule for the next few years pretty much guarantees a bowl bid…PSU’s basketball coverage (especially the women’s) became less and less as the season progressed though.
Regret the lack of coverage locally. Sam
Werner provides little or no news or
insight. Pitt must be a part On my way! job.
And they won in Pittsburgh.
Talent separation between the two teams as wide as The Gulf of Mexico, but the Crimson showed that they were not intimidated by the Carolina Blue uniform.
Pitt has a loooooong way to go before it becomes
relevant again//// a loooooong way!
Yep Arizona is a long ways from Pgh. He can’t get here fast enough !
Too funny Chas !
Perhaps with all the ‘goings on’ at Cuse, they will lose their highly rated 2015 recruit class as well.
Or portions of it.
A short trip to Columbus, Ohio and a 5 seed.
Oliver Luck connection.
Jamie has to get a big man this off season. We are big name and should have a couple bigs on the bench.
That being Wichita State.
Some pretty good games for the first two days though. ACC hanging in so far.
And infusion of talent.
Believe I said words to the effect, who was going to replace the rebounding & scoring of Patterson & Zanna and who was going to replace the passing of Patterson and of him being the conduit of the offense.
Same Kool-Aid gang will be out in full force next year as well.
Another factor in my disinterest of this pretty much anymore.
For all you cry-babies complaining about how other teams get preferential treatment, heres a teat for you to suckle: Pitt has underperformed in virtually every tournament they’ve ever played in from a seed-line perspective. The committee has cut us out share of breaks. Was it their fault we crapped out pants against Kent State? Marquette? Bradley? Pacific?
Make a few final fours, win a title or two, earn some respect, or STFU. It’s really that simple, and it’s all that really matters.
Carry on 🙂
Underseeded us, getting stuck in an 8/9 game which meant we had to play a #1 seed in the 2nd round.
And if that wasn’t bad enough, the game was in Florida as well….against Florida.
Carry on my …….. …
You’ve got to work hard and WANT to play defense.
This group gave a half-ass attempt at playing defense all year. Which is why they were dead last in the ACC in defense FG %. And why even rent-a-win teams shot over 50% against them.
Last year’s team wasn’t great defensively either, they just had a much better offense because of Patterson. And a better post threat with Zanna.
