Who is in your Final Four?

For the first time in my life I have gone straight chalk. Ohio St, Duke, Kansas, Pitt. Kansas winning.

There is alot of parity this year. Who are your upset specials?

Mine are:

Mich State into the Elite 8 - love Tom Izzo in the tournament.
Belmont over Wisconsin
Utah State over Kansas State
Richmond over Vande
Dawgs - in the Elite 8 - Is Lorenzo ever going to break through?

Either the Houston Oilers or the Houston Astros, I'm not sure.

For the Dawgs to get into the Elite 8 they'll have to get past UNC in the 2nd round.

Possible? Maybe.

Depends on which team shows up. The one that got pummeled by the Cougs late in the regular season,...... or the one that beat Arizona in the Pac-10 tourney final.

Pitt
Duke
Notre Dame
UNC

Gotta love March Madness. Best sporting event of the year, IMO.

I like Notre Dame (as much as it pains me), Pitt, UConn (Kemba Walker is insane), and Syracuse for the final four. I really wanted to give my alma mater (Texas) the nod, but I just can't do it. I know they're capable of beating any team in the country, but for some reason, they quit playing defense a couple weeks ago, and their offense relies too much on players who are notoriously trigger happy and inconsistent. I think Duke will take them down in the Sweet 16, although their first round matchup looks dangerous.

I'd like to see Washington make a deep run, but UNC in the second round is a pretty tough draw....

First round upset picks:
Marquette over Xavier
Michigan State over UCLA

Some 12 will beat a 5, but I don't know which one it will be.

Ohio
Pitt
SDSU (F-off Duke)
Notre Dame

Upsets are all around
Marq over Xavier
Oakland over Texas-would be sweet!!!!!!
Miss over Cincy
Richmond over Vandy
Morehead over Louisville
Flor st over A&M
Belmont over Wis
Zags over St johns
Mich st over UCLA

I'm rooting for Louisville, my stepson is good buds with Peyton Siva (point guard) They graduated the same year from Franklin. I want to see the Huskies go far too!

All the #1 seeds in the Final 4.... and Ohio St. winning it all.

Gonzaga will beat both St. Johns and BYU and make it to the sweet 16.

UW makes it to UNC second round... and that will be a good game that the dawgs actually have a shot at.

I'm goin with Irie on this one beleive it or not.Good luck,
SZ

Or is it the packers & brewers??????.

Holly crap!

One down as Morehead beats Louisville. Told ya boys. Right on chuck.

So many good games right in a row! Just love it.

Sat through a 1.5 hour telcon while watching all the games.

Richmond over vandy. Nice bracket start

It's usually week 2 where I reach the point of losing all hope of winning any bracket contests. This year, Morehead State dashed my hopes in the opening hours. I figured Louisville to be an Elite 8 contender. I figured wrong.

Oh, well. The good news is that I can sit back and enjoy the madness from here on out.

I had the Richmond, but 3 of my main competitors in my office pool had the same pick.

My whole SE section is blown to hell. I still have Pitt down there but that is
it. F'n Zags and UCLA.

Four teams from the Big East huh? It could happen but I think the conference is way overrated...proven today by Louisville and St. Johns both going down. Last year they sent 8 and only 2 made the Sweet 16.

What a great day of college hoop! Today and tomorrow are my favorite days of the tournament. The two biggest shockers for me today were MSU losing to UCLA and how well Gonzaga looked against a good St. Johns team. Zags should be able to beat BYU.

My Final Four are: Ohio St., Kansas, UConn, and Florida...with Ohio St. cutting down the nets.

Ike

Ike, I give you credit for not picking all four of the #1's to get to the Final Four...especially because I pick the same four as you, with the same champ.

Tomorrow's upsets? We had a couple good ones today...

Oakland beats Texas.

Florida St. over A&M.

I think Marquette's got a shot at Xavier, and Memphis will be a tough win for Arizona.

I think that the first two are much more likely than the second two, but I wouldn't discount any of them.

Fish on...

Todd

Ike:

Didn't realize I had picked four Big East teams. No science to it, and it certainly had nothing to do with my opinion on the quality of the conference. I agree that the Big East is overrated, but not by much. I probably picked those teams because a lot of 2s and 3s make the Final Four, but it's rare that more than one or two 1s make it.

Judging from the state of my brackets after last night, you should be glad your picks are different from mine.

My Oakland over Texas upset isn't looking too smart right now...

Fish on...

Todd

What day and time are the Huskies playing?

Just on the off chance that's not a joke...tonight at 6:30, Channel 7.

Fish on...

Todd

Serious actually....thanks

Well, Oakland didn't make me look too stupid...but they would have made me look pretty smart if they would have pulled it off...they gave Texas all they could handle.

Fish on...

Todd

Fish on...

Todd

I've got my Pac-10 love going for AZ, but like I said last night, Memphis is going to give them a tough one...a very tough one.

Fish on...

Todd

I love M.M !

How lame is Barkley ?
Damn, he should be paying CBS

DW with another big swat!

I thought a no call was the right call.

What are you predicting for the Huskies game tonight? Close or route?

It looked more of a foul on the guy who was battling for the rebound, not Williams...dude grabbed the ball, got hit in the arm hard, then took the shot that got blocked...if they called that foul, he'd have been on the line for two, blocked shot or not.

At least I was right about that game...Memphis did indeed give them everything they could handle.

I like AZ over Texas.

Fish on...

Todd

I hope so..Texas is long though.

That game felt like another Arizona/UW matchup. Memphis had good guard play, scrappy defense, hit some big three pointers, and could score quickly off turnovers and in transition. They didn't have much front line power and missed free throws that were critical near the end. Throw in that final seconds blocked shot by Derrick Williams and you've got...DEJA VU!

Glad Arizona survived to play the second round game. If Washington had a frontline player like DW to complement IT, making the Final Four might not be "crazy talk".

Is it just me or does Georgia look ALOT bigger?

N'Diaye is more of a liability than anything...so frustrating to watch the poor dude on offense. I have a feeling him and MBA are going to simply overpowered.

We're hanging in there though...just need some shots to start falling.

Ike

Big guys is our weakness...N'Diaye is big, but not good. MBA is good (sometimes), but not big.

When MBA plays at his best, he plays big...but he's still not.

He needs to be solid, and our shooters have to shoot...that's how we will win.

Fish on...

Todd

Fairly low scoring first half. Glad to see them tie it up before going into the break. Seems like UW has played better in the second half recently. That will need to continue for them to get the win.

Yep....MBA is great at alley oops and when he's all alone with nobody around him, but is not able to finish strong in traffic.

This team consists of two mighty mites, a big immobile galoot with zero basketball skills, and six good athletic 6'5" - 6'9" players. I didn't think they were terribly undersized in the Pac-10, but it is evident here at the tourney. If they make it past Georgia they are going to really struggle against UNC...Henson and Zeller, both skilled 7 footers, will chew us up.

That said, it's a tie game at half despite the poor shooting. Get Wilcox and/or Ross hot and I think they can pull it out.

Ike

It'll be same against UNC if we hang on in this one...our only answer to big guys beating us up inside is to rain threes and beat them by one point every time down the floor...problem is that big guys inside have a much higher shooting percentage than our guys shooting outside.

That's when we need Isaiah and Venoy to spend a lot of time at the foul line...get those big guys in foul trouble...and at his best, MBA plays much bigger than he is...we'll need him to be at his best for another two weeks, and he hasn't shown me that he can do it more than one game at a time, maybe two if he's comfortable.

MBA has to step up...period. He's the key to our success.

Fish on...

Todd

P.S. Barkely didn't like us at the beginning...he likes us now.

And...we won't win many games when we score 28 points in a half.

Hopefully this one will be different.

Fish on...

Todd

Focus with a capital "F"...but we're on to the next level...beating UNC in Charlotte will be one of the biggest tasks we've ever had, period.

Go DAWGS!!

Fish on...

Todd

Bring on the Tarheels!

Nice win, Dawgs!

It was.....

Well Chucky, 4 dozen spoons riding on the game Sunday. GO Heels!

Was at a bar for the game. Didn't pay attention to the TV until there was 37 seconds left on the clock.

The ONLY way to watch collegiate basketball!!!!



"One and Done!"

We play UNC next? Even *I* know that can NOT be good!!!!!????!!!



"One and Done!"

PS. Is it football time yet???

Parker, one must go through the pain and the agony of a Mariner season before they are worthy of football.

Tonight's game caused me to recall the Country Joe chant,
"GIMME AN "F", GIMME A "U", GIMME A "G", GIMME AN "L", GIMME A "Y".
WHAT'S THAT SMELL!... WHAT"S THAT SMELL!...

Gant has two fouls in the first two minutes, MBA plays like MIA the first half, Huskies only score 28 points the first half, MBA hands out four fouls faster than a JW handing out brochures, and the Huskies blow a comfortable, if not commanding lead, in the last three minutes, BUT THEY STILL WIN! A fugly win, but a win no less. Good to see the PAC-10 pick up two wins in the first round. Looking for a miracle on Sunday.

GO DAWGS!

Look at Keith riding Tarheel jock.

Seriously? You're going to cheer for a team from North Carolina?

Go set yourself on fire.

We can beat UNC. Nobody thought Georgetown was going to lose.......and yet they did.

GO DAWGS!!

Great game! The MVP was Thomas again...always played under control, ran the team effectively, and hit some big shots. Can't wait to see what the O/U is for the UNC/UW game...it should be played in the 90's somewhere. Win or lose it will be a fun one to watch.

Upsets today:

If the Zags can play like they did against St. Johns they should roll one dimensional BYU.
Butler is the new giant killer and I can see them sending Pitt packing.
Not sold on SDSU and would not be surprised to see Temple beat them.

Major props to the NCAA or the networks or whoever thought it might be a good idea to show four games at once on four different networks instead of being stuck on the "regional game" that they think you want to watch like in past years!

Ike

Ya, the worse thing I have done to a Husky is wish for em to get anal herpes w a bad bout of the runs...wanting me to burn in my house is crossing the line...and Im afraid of the lil guy w the lighter, GO DAWGS!

Seriously though, ya never know. Always like the 1st weekend the most in the tourney, the pretenders are gone and this is where the first big upsets happen. Im on the Dawg, ZAG, SD St, UoA and even BYU bandwagon. Gotta keep the love out West with all the East Coast BS Bias!

WEAK PARKER

Forgive me, Father, for I have committed blasphemy. Last night I called a Husky win "fugly", which is closely akin to saying Sweet Mary, Mother of Jesus, wasn't all that attractive. In the same breath, I asked for a miracle on Sunday. I failed to acknowledge the rock solid play of Isaiah Thomas, improved Husky free throw shooting, and the 28 point contribution of the bench.

Unless you're chatting up Charlie Sheen, winning and fugly don't belong in the same sentence. It won't happen again. Please accept the following video as an act of atonement:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mYBSayCsH0&feature=related

Amen

btw- about that miracle thingy on Sunday, still on???

No, what's "Karma" is that you just tossed some fire at a Husky Football Season ticket holder who also happens to coordinate the tailgating parties.

Who's going to a tailgate party now????

That's Karma, baby!



PS. I have AAA, so I'm not worried.

PPS. Hell will freeze over before I'd ever cheer for any team over the Dawgs. Go Dawgs! Duke Sucks!

Your son is thanking you!

Did anyone see the ending of the Pitt/Butler game? The strangest ending i've ever seen.

I saw the recap after the Zag/BYU game, although I just saw the action and could not hear the commentary. They interviewed the Pitt coach and he looked pretty perturbed.

As good as the Zags looked in their last game and as poor as BYU looked in their last game, I'm really surprised of the outcome. I don't know what the spread was or who was even the underdog, but that was one game where I would have picked the 11 seed over the 3 seed and not have called it an upset.

Like Dan said in WSU loss to Butler earlier in the season... There's no shame in losing to Butler.

Husky's are going to run N.C. all the way to the sweet 16.

GO COUGS!!!

Mf

Awesome 10 point run there, Dawgs!

I'd better fire up the pellet gun and go look for a crow........

Keep it up, Dawgs!

This foul discrepancy is likely going to cost them the game. Definitely some bogus calls.

I think these Huskies can do this.
Here we go....

Husky's playing tough! I liked MBA aggressive play, and way to keep trying to rip the ball away after the whistle.

GO COUGS!!!

Mf

Breathe Chuck Breathe....

Mf

Not a good time to go on a scoring drought. A couple of turnovers in a row, a couple of missed shots, a few shots falling by NC and the momentum is shifting. It's gotta shift back in a hurry if they are going to pull it out.

UW to make history right now.

Mf

Good game until about 5:00 left to go, then the Dawgs just went in to Stupid Mode.

Good grief. Now I remember why I don't watch college basketball.

Good run UW fan's. Now let's all get on the COUG express.

GO COUGS!!!

Mf

Well they had a great run. They had their chances towards the end of the game but just too many bonehead mistakes to overcome when your playing a team like NC. I hope that somehow UW and the west coast in general won some respect in the east.

Great game. ughh.

If someone told me before the game started that we would have a chance to win it down one our ball with 7 seconds left, I would have taken it... Holidays inbounds and Venoys premature heave were two idiot plays that didn't even allow us to have a chance to win..That's what hurts, hey if we get that inbounds play and Isaiah or someone gets off a decent shot at the buzzer to win atleast we had a chance and that I would be happy with...

Romar continues to prove how bad of an X's and O's and late game coach he is.

-He f'ed up on that inbounds play. He gave Holiday ONE read to throw it to, easy play for a defender to read and telegraph the pass. He needs to be aware that with tough defense being played and no timeouts that he has to have more than one option to pass to.
-Why does he have Overton in game with 10 seconds left and let him drive to the hoop so early? Control the damn ball / game and the outcome could have been much different...Driving to the hoop down 1 with 7 seconds left leaves them way too much time even if we make it.
-Why does he take Terrence Ross out, arguably our best player in the game? We needed a 3 point shooter with those 4-5 seconds left and Ross couldn't miss all game...
-How does he not have a half court offense designed to control the ball and not turn it over late in the game? With a few minutes left our offense went stagnant, players had no direction, a few turnovers and thats where we really got behind.
-How does he not go to the refs and ask them to review the time left on the clock? It should have been over a second left not .5 seconds....????

Glad they lost. Can't stand a program that isnt' willing to do boot a F'n criminal off the team. We're paying for his scholarship.

That too. I thought Romar would have made the right decision. Kick his ass off the team, you can tell he doesn't have chemistry with anyone else and he sure as hell hasn't been playing well since the whole drama came up. I thought we played great in the Pac 10 tourney without him, Ross showed that he should have been getting the minutes all year.

I was surprised Romar let Overton play in the tourney. I disagree Romar is a bad x/o's Coach, he's not throwing the ball inbounds,Holiday was.

"Without criminals we wouldn't have sports programs to watch".

-Marv Albert-

Well said.

Mf

Who drew up the play? Who told Holiday where to pass it to? Romar. Watch the play unfold, Holiday is telegraphing the damn pass the entire time because Romar drew up a play with one option and that was some ill advised lob over the top. As a defender that's an easy play to make. Whens the last time you have ever seen the Huskies score off an inbounds play on the baseline?

Granted Holiday shouldn't have telegraphed it and made a pump fake to get the defender off him, but Romar's inbounds are garbage....

Tough loss.
They had a great season and almost walked away with a win here.

.... to say thank you for making a not very popular comment amongs a few blind followers:)

Do you support their decision?

You know what they say about hindsight......

Romar is not at fault for the loss...his players are. How does Romar have control over poor ball handling? Careless ball handling on two consecutive possessions at the 5 minute mark by Holiday and IT contributed to a 7-0 run by UNC. Ross's careless turnover at the 2 minute mark and Holiday's bad inbounds pass were the nails in the coffin. The players simply did not value the ball at the end of the game.

The coaching staff DID ask for more time on the clock after Venoy's heave.

Criminal is a pretty strong word for someone that furnished alcohol to a minor. Against the law, yes....but criminal?

Ike

I have been a UNC fan since I was a wee toddler. 1 other reason I'm glad to see them lose.

MAYBE a little harsh;) I'll keep the stone throwing to a minimum

Nothing, yet. Model program. GO DAWGS!

Not a blind follower here. I did spend 3 quality months at the U.

Who wins the Texas/Arizona game? I have Arizona in my bracket but wish I would have went with the Horns. Texas has 3 guys that can defend Williams...tall, long, and athletic. Watch how that trio finishes in traffic around the rim. Violent and ferocious....

I also think Kansas is going to have it's hands full with Illinois today. Another #1 going down?

Ike

I think Kansas is safe

Sure wasn't long ago that Texas was thought to be the #1 team in the country. Boy that late season slide hurt em, put them all the way to a #4 team in the tourney. Dangerous team, they have athleticism and were a top team in the country earlier this year, haven't been playing well, but if they play to their potential they can be goooood, if they play the mediocre ball they've been playing AZ might have a decent shot to advance...

Duke's feeling it against Michigan.

GO COUGS!!!

Mf

Come on Blue Devils....Do it for all the little Rich white kids with ball skills out there!

Mf

Yes!

Mf

Go f.uck yourself, Mr. Finger-Pointer.

I can't stand a guy who tosses stones from a glass house.

Boy your saying Hoiday telgraghed his pass and it's Romars fault.. Anyone that has ever played ball knows to fake down and get the defenders hands down then make the pass..Not Romars fault..

Hi Stumpy. Not quite sure what I've done or said to you that would encourage such a class response...? But, having been a member of this site for quite a while I wouldn't expect much from you other than another irrational post. Pure class!

I didn't say anything bad about that school on Montlake. I have nothing against the UW. Sometimes I just question decisions that are made starting at the top on down.

Don't you think a school should expect a bit more from people who represent it whether that be on the court or teaching in the classroom? Sex with a couple 16 yo's is not illegal. Providing them with alcohol and then having sex with them should be applauded? Pure class!

Dan, as long as it's not your 16 yo he's providing alcohol to and then banging it's ok?

So, are you saying Klay should be play or not?

'nuf said!

I said I was glad they lost. Part of that is me being a
UNC fan and part of it is my opinion that the UW made a poor decision about VO. I don't approve with the way it was dealt with. Last I checked it was within my right to have that opinion.

Each school can deal with their student athletes how they see fit. It doesn't mean I have to agree with it. As we've seen this past month different schools deal with these things in their own way. BYU, WSU, UW, Ohio State (Tressel), etc. I'd rather have my hometown team take a stronger stand than they did.

Re read my post(s). I never said that was Romar's fault. It certainly was Holidays and I even said that he should have made a fake to get the defender off him or not telegraphed it...

However, drawing up a schit inbounds play to start isn't going to help. He had one outlet, and everyone else was too busy getting ready to run the play. First things first, get the ball inbounded then run your play.

That's a change from "I can't stand the program and I'm glad they lost." which is what your first classy post said.

Don't f'n lecture me on class, dumbphuck. It's a subject you obviously don't have a clue about.

Go back to your sewing circle to get more of your info about me. Are you really that miserable? F'n little man's syndrome. [censored] your sock again... I'm sure it doesn't have an opinion you disagree with.

Awww. Did your feelings get hurt, Sally?

I can have an opinion, too. It's my opinion that you're an asshole and you should go set yourself on fire.

Class.

You heard it from 1 person who seems to not like me. No big deal, he's not the only one:)Talk to the rest of the crowd and you might find I brought a couple unopened bottles and put them on the table at camp.

I knew the rat pack would be all over this. Safety in numbers! Where's the rest of your crew?

Congrats to the Wildcats for not giving away the game. And surviving into the Sweet 16.

Arizona vs. Duke

I'm torn on this one. PAC 10 pride or Rich white boy's that learned to play ball with a silver spoon in their mouths....

GO COUGS!!!

Mf

Abu never fails to be the little doucheweisel that he is, coming in taking blind shots at people...

They ain't silver spoon fed... They're have the best coach, proves that a well trained group of white boys can beat anyone in the country..

I find it interesting that when the NBA Olympic "Dream team" needed a coach, they didn't choose an NBA coach, but rather Coach K... Says a lot about the differences between the NBA versus college ball...

Tough loss for the Dawgs. Those turnovers late in the game were painful to watch.
Hopefully they learned their lesson from this years tournament. That being, take care of your business in the regular season. Then you won't be the Pac 10 team that has to travel nearly 3,000 miles, play the late game Friday and the early game on Sunday in your opponents home state.
I'm looking forward to the rest of the madness and to see what Thomas, Ross, Wilcox and company bring next year.

I didn't follow the UW alcohol thing very well so maybe I shouldn't comment but following Chuck S logic (what's he been convicted of?), if he has NOT been convicted yet (I don't know) and Romar kept him out of the the PAC 10 tournament (again, I don't think he played) then that is at least SOME acknowledgement by the university. The degree of punishment is administered by the school. We saw varying degrees of school administration for wrong doing recently.

The extremes:

WSU-one game suspension on your best player for illegal posession of a controlled substance (don't know if he was convicted or not).

BYU-suspended their second best player for the remainder of the season right before the tournament for having consensual sex with his girlfriend, thereby violoating their honor code.

UW-suspended one of their top players for three games during PAC 10 tournament.

Again I don't know if all the facts are correct but if so, it seems like the UW suspension seems to fit the pretty well with some of the other suspensions handed out by various schools.

Coach K got his 900th win today, that's 30 years with 30 wins. Not a Puke fan, but that is an amazing feat.

That gal in your avatar is nothing less than amazing.

Mf

Salmosalar,
Have you seen an NBA game there is no defense, they just try to figure out how to score more than the other team. Daley quit coaching 12 years ago the NBA game has changed since then..

Partially true...kinda. The rule allowing professionals to play in the Olympics did not occur until 1989, so the "Dream Team" was in 1992. And Coach K was an assistant coach on that team. Coach K has also been the head coach of the USA squad since 2005.

Defense in an NBA game? You must be kidding. They don't even play defense until the playoffs. Defense is played intensely from the tip to the ending buzzer in college ball; that's the reason the college game is so much better, IMO. Well, that and heart. Coaching in the NBA is more about managing/babysitting a bunch of crybaby millionaires than it is about X's and O's...and is the reason I don't watch it at all. I don't give a rat's ass about Lebron, Le Heat, Kobe, etc., etc.

Ike

I used to follow the NBA game closely...until I got sick of it. The Sonics leaving town probably had something to do with it too. To each his own, eh?

Ike

Hate to say I told you so there Flea (and Keith), but I told you so. Since Notre Dame is down by 21 with 12 minutes to play it's pretty safe to say that only 2 teams from the Big East will advance to the Sweet 16. And the only way those two teams (UConn and Marquette) advanced is by playing and knocking out another Big East team! So pathetic....

As opposed to other conferences with multiple teams in Sweet 16:
ACC - 3 out of 5 teams
MWC - 2 out of 3 teams
SEC - 2 out of 4 teams

Hey Committee, next year just increase the field to 80 teams so you can invite all 16 teams from the Big East and have 6 more lameass play-in games!

Ike

I was talking about the current NBA olympic team that most recently went to Beijing and took gold. Didn't mean the original dream team in 88....

I agree to some extent, finding a way to guard a guy like Durant or Kobe or Carmelo is damn near impossible, but they just don't play great team help defense in the NBA like they do at the collegiate level.

Was there a game today?

Red Sox better hope they have some real pitiching this summer if their "pay for the playoffs" mo is goin to work...:)

Has anyone heard from Dan? Hope he's calmed down by now....

Mf

My bracket went into the fire last night. Pretty pathetic picks on my part.


I did have the UW beating UNC. I thought they had the game to get it done.

I am way out of the running now. My Southeast bracket was pretty much all wrong. Since I have been pretty consistent in my office pool (top 1 or 2 every year). I am getting all kinds of sh!t flipped my direction for sucking it up so bad.

the UW game was a great game. to bad they fell, but oooh so close to a sweet 16 birth... so goes the tourny. duke nearly got beat too.

And what about VCU's total domination through 3 games. They have yet to be challenged so far.

Cougs look to get some pay back tonight. And show the world why they should've been selected to the big show.

GO COUGS!!!

Mf

Thanks for the heads up MF! I would have never known it was on. Probably a repeat but they are up 11 with 16 minutes left. It would be nice to see them win the NIT.

VCU was one of the teams the "experts" said should not have been invited and they have been playing with a HUGE chip on their shoulder...like a 5'1" cop that was teased and picked on all the way through HS.

Ike

Yup. I took a bigger beating than usual this year, and that's saying a lot. Guess I shouldn't have picked all those Big East teams after all. Honestly, I would have done better this year if I had put my bracket on a wall and thrown darts at it. At this point, all my rooting interests are out of the tourney, and my brackets are shot to hell. That said, I'll still be watching the VCUs of the world playing great team basketball and giving the powerhouse teams all they can handle or more. Fun stuff.

Whenever I play the brackets myself, I generally fair poorly.
I got entered into a nationwide sales contest at work and was assigned Florida St.
Their first two tournament wins got me a Flip HD video camera and an iPad.
I never was much of an FSU fan until now. Go Noles!

Will do....

Damn Plunkers...

Damn! Those are some nice prizes! What do you win if they make it to the Final Four, a new car?

Just saw Casto was suspended indefinitely by Bone for violating team rules...what now? They play tomorrow night for a trip to the semi-finals in the Garden. I can't believe I'm saying this but...GO COOGS!

Ike

Allegedly, Casto's apartment was searched by the police and a small quantity of pot was found. Seems to be a lot of players that are stricken with glaucoma over there.

Why don't these guys store their pot at the home of the guy who is sitting on the "deep bench"?

I'm about to get my Christmas present for next year...tonight.

BYU and Duke knocked out of the Tournament on the same night.

Glory be.

Fish on...

Todd

Williams looked like a beast for Arizona..

Well, the first two games look like duds.
40 - 15 NC over Marquette
37 - 16 Kansas over Richmond

Arizona looked awesome.
Gonna be trouble for UConn.

I think Kansas is going to be hard to beat. Did anyone see the BYU game last night? Jimmer's ridiculous, reminds me of a bigger Ridnour.

Yep, Jimmer's got some next-level mojo.

I'm a little butt hurt that UW got bounced seeing what UNC is doing to Marquette.

I'm a huge Zona fan now.

They're not only going to have to move the three point line back for him, but the half court line as well. One dribble over half court; he's in range. Jimmer is probably the best pure shooter I've seen. Maybe CJ Wilcox will have those kind of games for the Huskies, when he's a senior.

You see that MONSTER tip dunk by DW last night ?

Kentucky winning just killed me..

How about those Phucking Cougs making the Final 4!

GO COUGS!!!

Mf

YAY ?

I believe you meant "the Final 72!" 'course, you could just ignore "The Big Dance."

Go Cougs!

Hey, you gotta give MF some credit....way back in Dec or Jan when WSU lost to Butler he said "we'll see them again in the Final Four". He was kinda right...

Arizona beating the Dukies was the biggest shocker for me thus far in the third round....I didn't think they had it in 'em.

I hated to see Kentucky beat OSU, and not because I had OSU winning it all...I can't stand Coach Cal. He runs a semi-pro basketball program at best. I think he's graduated 2 players in the last 10 years and after his program gets put on probation, like Kentucky will here soon, he just leaves for another coaching job at another prominent program and does the same thing all over again.

Ike

He was kinda right? Is that like kinda pregnant?

The winner of the NIT is #65 at best. The 'Final Four' occurs in the NCAA Tournament, not the NIT.

GO CATS!!

Not true. An NIT Final 4 would've been a safe bet to make it to the Sweet 16.

NIT F4=Dance S16

GO COUGS!!!

Mf

If my kid said that kind of bullsh!t, I'd slap him upside his head for being stupid.

No NIT team is even good enough for round 1 NCAA, so your claim of NIT F4 = NCAA S16 could be among the dumbest things ever said on PP.



































































And that's saying something.

I have a dream, that one day on the rolling Palouse hills of Eastern Washington.......

Sorry, tearing up.

I'm tearing up, too...but mainly from laughing so hard

Fish on...

Todd

butler is badass!!!!

what is NIT? Not Impressive Teams maybe.

Not Interested.

Yeah....kinda. They're both in the Final Four aren't they? Granted, different tournaments...


According only to the Selection Committee. VCU was widely acknowledged as being one of the last, if not the very last team invited. Let's call them #68...and they're playing Kansas tomorrow for the right to go to the Final Four.

I know what you're saying Dan. NIT F4 = Dance 16 is some seriously flawed (Coog) logic, but you know what MF is trying to say. I think teams like Alabama, Colorado, and WSU, all NIT 'Final Four' teams, have proven in the postseason they were probably just as worthy of an invite to the 'Dance', if not more, than a number of other teams.

Ike

Dammit, Ike.

What do you have to be all reasonable and sh!t for?

This is the Dark Side, man.

Sorry man, I forget where I am sometimes...I'll work on it!

Too bad about Arizona...they started out en fuego, fizzled a little, but were in it 'til the end. Similar to UW, silly costly turnover(s) in crunch time. I think Miller went for the 3 and the win because he knew they would have fouled Williams immediately down low...and he wouldn't have made both freethrows.

Ike

From one F4 team to another, my Coogs would like to welcome the Butler Bd's to the fraternity of the elites.

With Arizona's heart breaker. All eye's are on the Coogs to bring another championship to the PAC 10.

GO COUGS!!!

Mf

Damn, how 'bout VCU ?
Shock and awe all over Kansas.
Wonder if they can continue the onslaught in the second half.....

Just got my Stam text......."Go Coogs?"

Not a good way to end it

I think the whole team should go pro next year Or start growing their own