Archive 2016 NCAA Tournament Discussion

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ironman02

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Mar 19, 2016 11:22pm

That was a pretty awful call on Bentil, in my opinion.

GOONx19

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Mar 19, 2016 11:25pm

Damnit.

SportsAndLady

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Mar 19, 2016 11:25pm

I was worried about uconn. KU played well and took care of them. Hoping for Hawaii over Maryland but doubt that happens. Maryland/KU should be a classic.

Laley23

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Mar 19, 2016 11:28pm

unc and Indiana, 2 of the deeper teams, both beat teams where the best 2 players were arguably on the other team.

reclegend22

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Mar 19, 2016 11:29pm

Well, Indiana and North Carolina will be interesting.

Ironman92

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Mar 19, 2016 11:30pm

ironman02;1788056 wrote:I see that Providence likes to play Duke basketball.

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ironman02

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Mar 19, 2016 11:31pm

Ironman92;1788066 wrote:[emoji206]

Lol.

Ironman92

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Mar 19, 2016 11:34pm

reclegend22;1788065 wrote:Well, Indiana and North Carolina will be interesting.

Interesting matchup. I hope Indiana wins on a missed travel followed by 79 foot hook shot that hits off the back of the rim, bounces up, catches front of the rim, hangs there and then falls in.

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ironman02

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Mar 19, 2016 11:37pm

Ironman92;1788068 wrote:Interesting matchup. I hope Indiana wins on a missed travel followed by 79 foot hook shot that hits off the back of the rim, bounces up, catches front of the rim, hangs there and then falls in.

So you're saying you want my head to explode from an indescribable amount of rage?

Ironman92

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Mar 19, 2016 11:43pm

ironman02;1788070 wrote:So you're saying you want my head to explode from an indescribable amount of rage?

You fired first. [emoji41]

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ironman02

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Mar 19, 2016 11:43pm

Ironman92;1788072 wrote:You fired first. [emoji41]

Haha. I know. I deserved the comeback, which was quite well played.

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ironman02

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Mar 19, 2016 11:46pm

ACC with 4 Sweet 16 teams and looking for two more tomorrow. Pretty impressive.

Ironman92

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Mar 20, 2016 12:02am

Games should be close tomorrow (well today I guess)...I don't really see any locks....maybe Oregon/St Joe but Pac 12 seems to be a sucking factor

Ironman92

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Mar 20, 2016 12:02am

Hoping Iowa over Nova

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ironman02

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Mar 20, 2016 12:27am

Ironman92;1788078 wrote:Games should be close tomorrow (well today I guess)...I don't really see any locks....maybe Oregon/St Joe but Pac 12 seems to be a sucking factor

Oregon is now carrying the PAC12 banner by itself. Pretty poor showing for the conference for 6 of 7 teams to be gone already. St. Joe's has been hot, but I would expect Oregon to handle them.

Agree that all the other games could be very interesting.

Laley23

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Mar 20, 2016 5:12am

ironman02;1788074 wrote:ACC with 4 Sweet 16 teams and looking for two more tomorrow. Pretty impressive.

Until you realize the best team (i.e. Seed) was 7 Dayton. Which is almost as remarkable of a feat...

Heretic

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Mar 20, 2016 11:30am

Classyposter58;1788000 wrote:Hey Azutakesitinthebuttke, looks like UK lacks talent. Couldn't even get out of round 2. Not one of the 16 best

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I'm not sure what is more hilarious; that Classy STILL hasn't been able to understand the point of the whole MSU/talent argument, despite it being explained to him every way besides color pictures and hand-holding, or that he's still trying to use his poor interpretation of said argument to "score points" despite MSU getting bounced in their first game by fucking Middle Tennessee State in a game they never led for even one damn second.

This about makes up for how my bracket got fucked up hard by that loss, just due to the hilarity.

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ironman02

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Mar 20, 2016 12:17pm

Laley23;1788083 wrote:Until you realize the best team (i.e. Seed) was 7 Dayton. Which is almost as remarkable of a feat...

That's a fair point. I do feel like Miami beating Wichita is a good win though. Carolina and UVA have just had to take care of business, which is something many top teams haven't been able to do. I guess the true test of "strength" will be if the ACC teams can win in the next round.

SportsAndLady

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Mar 20, 2016 12:39pm

ironman02;1788089 wrote:That's a fair point. I do feel like Miami beating Wichita is a good win though. Carolina and UVA have just had to take care of business, which is something many top teams haven't been able to do. I guess the true test of "strength" will be if the ACC teams can win in the next round.

I guess it's a good win, but it's still just a win over a double digit seeded, play-in team that barely squeeked in the tournament.

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ironman02

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Mar 20, 2016 1:03pm

Nova is absolutely smashing Iowa, 54-29 at the half. Figured they would win, but didn't quite expect it to happen in this fashion.

Ironman92

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Mar 20, 2016 1:03pm

While the ACC hasn't had a great win in the tourney the other conferences have been upset multiple times. A ton of the bottom seeds have been winning and knocking off the better seeds. Some credit with that.

Ironman92

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Mar 20, 2016 1:08pm

Wasn't expecting Nova to be dominating. They look like a really good tournament type team.

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superman

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Mar 20, 2016 1:10pm

Ironman92;1788092 wrote:While the ACC hasn't had a great win in the tourney the other conferences have been upset multiple times. A ton of the bottom seeds have been winning and knocking off the better seeds. Some credit with that.

Lulz at the big 12 and Big 10 fans trying to justify their conferences sucking.

Ironman92

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Mar 20, 2016 1:14pm

B1G 6-3 and doing better than most conferences. Iowa not helping.

ACC is 10-0. I think ND is the first loss later on today.

SportsAndLady

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Mar 20, 2016 1:16pm

superman;1788094 wrote:Lulz at the big 12 and Big 10 fans trying to justify their conferences sucking.

Who's justifying that?

This conversation happens every year. A conference goes 7-2 through the first week and everyone creams over the conference. The other conferences hover around .500 and everyone says they suck.

Fact is, most conferences have a top team, maybe two. They rise to the elite eight, the other teams lose at some point. If they have good first and second round matchups, that conference will look better than others with not-so-good matchups.

Those facts don't make me change my mind and say that 5 months of a regular season is meaningless and that a conference that was clearly the top (this year the big 12) is now an embarrassment because their 6th best team lost in an 8/9 game.