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2017 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament - Elite 8
Might as well post before the Final Four games kick off, right? (By the way, if you missed it last night, the UConn Women's Basketball Team lost a game. I was fading in and out from sleep as it happened, but I had it turned on for the second half as my twitter went into red alert over it.)
First, the breakdown:
- B1G: 8-7 overall and done. Solid ( Read more... )
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2017 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament - Sweet 16
Well, that'll be 25% upsets for rounds 2 and 3. *ALMOST* more, as our first overtime game decided to pop up late between Wisconsin and Florida, with an epic collapse for each - Wisky's was last, though, and that's the buzzer-beater that counted. Yeah, let's start with the breakdown...
- B1G: 0-3 this round, 8-7 overall. As good as the last round ( Read more... )
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2017 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament - Second Round
Oh, the teasing this tournament brings. One of the lines from Mid-Majority (rip) that sticks with me is, "This Game Will Hurt You". It's a concept that focuses heavily on the close games that don't go the way you're rooting in a tournament, but its origin is from Isiah Thomas by way of one Coach Donnie Tyndall of Morehead State, both of which can ( Read more... ) -
2017 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament - First Round
...not the most exciting first round ever, maybe? Two big foul errors, maybe one buzzer beater, and the few upsets were foreseen? Yeah, this is what happens when you get the right teams into the tournament - the auto-bids don't wreck brackets. Some of this may again be the result of conference realignment grabbing all the good schools away from ( Read more... ) -
2017 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament - Play-in games
So, it's that time again. I have a bracket. Draft is done as well - I'll report on that as things go along.
We'll be quick with this post, and then get to the first round discussion tomorrow. First, there's very little travesty this year around who was picked - the two really arguable misses are Illinois State and Syracuse, and the latter can be ( Read more... ) -
Happy New Year! Flip Flappers breakdown!
Happy New Year, everyone! Let's talk about "Flip Flappers" as an interlude before we get to March. (OSU might not be playing in the tournament. It made a football tournament - and DON'T ASK HOW THAT WENT EITHER)
So, "Flip Flappers", produced by Studio 3Hz, is the anime of the year in my eyes, and would be in everyone else's were it not for my #2 ( Read more... ) -
2016 NCAA Tournament, National Championship
The beginning was close with a fair amount of not scoring. Towards the middle, I took a nap. I was awake shortly after North Carolina tied it with four-plus seconds left.
Then Villanova did *THAT* OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
Twitter is exploding with Crying Michael Jordan Meme all over the place. EDSBS is wondering if that or the 30-point blowout is ( Read more... ) -
2016 NCAA Tournament, National Semifinals
The other post!
The first game was Villanova shutting down Oklahoma harder than they put down UNC-Asheville. Buddy Hield's previous four tourney games involved 27, 36, 17, and 37 points. He scored all of nine against Villanova. Not a game I should have missed, but not a terrible one to miss as it turned out.
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2016 NCAA Tournament, Regional Finals
Two posts to squeeze in; this will be the longer one, because I barely paid attention to the national semifinals. ^_^;;
So this is the round where three of the four #1 seeds disappeared. Pity Virginia, which got to avoid Michigan State to lose to Syracuse. No such pity for Oregon getting pasted by Buddy Hield. Kansas met its demise at the hands ( Read more... ) -
2016 NCAA Tournament, Sweet 16
So, that round went chalk. Boooo.
3/24 is 12.5%. That's the upset ration for the second and third rounds combined. Pat Forde blames bad seeding for Middle Tennessee State over Team Up North State. If this were a single blip in the first round or if the next two rounds were as full of upsets as the first, I might listen. The overall evidence, ( Read more... )