NCAA Basketball March Madness Discussion

Post by **ScoopBrady** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 5:45 pm

Don't look now but George Mason is 17.6 seconds away from eliminating UConn.

Post by **ScoopBrady** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 5:50 pm

UConn gets 4 in the last 17.6 to tie it.

It's been a helluva tournament so far this year.

b_assassin · Post by **b_assassin** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 6:03 pm

UConn is on the brink again, down 5 with 40 seconds to go in OT.

Post by **ScoopBrady** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 6:12 pm

Wow, only 1 number 1 seed remains.

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 6:12 pm

That was tight. Who has GM in their final four bracket?

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 6:16 pm

George f*cking Mason in the Final Four. And like you said, db, it is stuff like this that makes people tune in even if some of the games are stinkers.

UConn seems to be one of the least intelligent teams I've watched, though.

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 6:18 pm

Great stuff....I knew there was a reason this is the only basketball I will watch.

tjung0831 · Post by **tjung0831** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 6:23 pm

There are just way too many timeouts in college basketball. I hate that more than anything.

Tim

blueduke · Post by **blueduke** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 6:51 pm

tjung0831 wrote:There are just way too many timeouts in college basketball. I hate that more than anything.

Tim

That's my biggest beef with the NCAA and always has been. When Dean Smith was at UNC he'd make the last minute drag on for an eternity. Another beef I have with college basketball is they're trying too much to become like the NBA in a sense that hand to hand combat is being ignored. Games are starting to look like NBA Eastern Conference games. Not calling the game closely enough is one of the reasons I think scoring is down. Now I don't want 30-40 free throws taken by each team a game if the refs call it more closely a team has no choice than to adjust

Post by **ScoopBrady** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 8:19 pm

It's looking like the last number 1 seed might bow out too. When's the last time there wasn't a number 1 seed in the Final Four?

JackDiggity · Post by **JackDiggity** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 8:40 pm

1980 Scoop.

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 10:15 pm

It's been a very entertaining tournament with more overtime games than I can remember in previous years. The Final Four is set, but in all honestly I'm not overly excited about any of the teams involved. Don't get me wrong. They all deserve to be where they are, but without a number one seed in the tourney, it just feels strange. Maybe also it has to do with there not being a lot of household names, although the Big Baby is well known by now.

I'll obviously be tuning in, but I think the Final Four loses a little luster this year because of lack of star power. Everything leading up to this point has been phenomenal.

blueduke · Post by **blueduke** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 10:47 pm

I hope Geore Mason wins and they snubb Billy Packer at interview time

TRI · Post by **TRI** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 11:49 pm

LSU is in the final four and they will face UCLA. UCLA better bring it or go home. I just cannot imagine UCLA stopping Davis who has size AND speed. LSU is poor at outside shots, but they are dominate in the paint and very good defensively. They match up well with UCLA.

jLp vAkEr0 · Post by **jLp vAkEr0** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:25 am

tjung0831 wrote:There are just way too many timeouts in college basketball. I hate that more than anything.

Tim

Yeah, that's basically my beef with the college game.

But, man. what a tournament.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:01 am

sportdan30 wrote:It's been a very entertaining tournament with more overtime games than I can remember in previous years. The Final Four is set, but in all honestly I'm not overly excited about any of the teams involved. Don't get me wrong. They all deserve to be where they are, but without a number one seed in the tourney, it just feels strange. Maybe also it has to do with there not being a lot of household names, although the Big Baby is well known by now.

I'll obviously be tuning in, but I think the Final Four loses a little luster this year because of lack of star power. Everything leading up to this point has been phenomenal.

Dan:

Maybe you suffer from the same malaise as me. I always find the first weekend of the Tournament to be the most exciting unless Syracuse makes a deep run.

The opening weekend is just an orgy of basketball. Wall-to-wall games from noon until midnight on TV and now on the Net, upsets, scares, blowouts, big schools, small schools, tons of interesting stories, etc. In most years, by the time you get to the Elite Eight and Final Four, all that's left are power schools from power conferences. Of course, this year is the exception, with George Mason.

Still, the Elite Eight and Final Four most years resemble a "Big Monday" on ESPN with a hell of a lot more on the line. That's still huge, but there's just some sort of magic about the opening weekend that the second and third weekends simply can't re-create.

Take care,
PK

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:28 am

jLp vAkEr0 wrote:
tjung0831 wrote:There are just way too many timeouts in college basketball. I hate that more than anything.

Tim
Yeah, that's basically my beef with the college game.

But, man. what a tournament.

I thought the Illinois /Washington game would never end. Did Illinois have 23 timeouts?

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:55 pm

March Madness is heating up off the court as well. Kelvin Sampson to be introduced as the new Indiana coach.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2387372

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:07 pm

sportdan30 wrote:March Madness is heating up off the court as well. Kelvin Sampson to be introduced as the new Indiana coach.

Better than Alford...

But from his recruiting record, I'd imagine he's indicated a top priority is to get after landing the top Indiana recruits, which never seemed to be one of Davis' top priorities.

Sudz · Post by **Sudz** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:50 pm

anyone dare to pick a winner?

florida?

ddtrane · Post by **ddtrane** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:20 am

Sudz wrote:anyone dare to pick a winner?

florida?

GMU, GMU.

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:39 am

BTW...on ESPN.com they had over 5 million entries into their pickem pool. 4 people had the correct Final Four. Those people are my idol.