2015 ncaa

pitino v pitino on a coast guard base in Puerto rico tonight, for some reason

ill put this here too -- article is ok i guess, excerpted comment is soo idiotic

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2014-15-ncaa-basketball-preview-aac-uconn-memphis-smu-temple-tulsa-larry-brown-kevin-ollie-ryan-boatright/

Will Tyler Olander be hired to the coaching staff?
Olander has more national championship rings than Jim Boeheim, Tom Izzo, John Calipari, Bill Self, Phog Allen, Lute Olson, Jerry Tarkanian, John Thompson, Al McGuire, and Eddie Sutton. If UConn lets him walk away from the program, it will go down as one of the biggest mistakes in the history of college basketball. (He is currently playing in Lithuania.) Mark my words.

its classic uconn to be down at half to bryant after winning a nat'l title btw

xp greg koubek went to four final fours in his four years

makes u think

https://twitter.com/ChuckCulpepper1/status/534925172080644096

just caught site of charlottes hc, how many yrs til this is bron

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/M3DLrTTo5TM/maxresdefault.jpg

lol @ discussion i actually heard abt uk going undefeated…………..theyre up by 5 at halftime to BU

U Michigan needs to stop being punks and hang up the Fab 5 Final Four banners

also, they should make Jalen Rose president of the university. these are just the sensible opinions that I've formed after finally watching that 30 for 30.

whatevs

good games tonight - uva/md & wisc/duke

wish this thread was more active during the regular season :(

Used to care until around 05-06 when the nba became the better product again.

ND-MSU was pretty fun

uva is a really cool team, would like to see how theyd do vs uk

lolheels

https://null.njit.edu/uisapp00/SEMSStudent/images/njit_logo1.gif

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xV---u9BL._SY300_.jpg

http://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2014/12/9/7365319/michigan-loses-to-eastern-michigan-one-game-after-losing-to-njit

^ Includes A+ Vines

big 12 is really good this year

okafor is really good fyi

can't really get behind the tights

but, you know, kids

uconn is not really good

tougher without calhoun, but i can get behind uconn being not good

they don't really have any talent. i'm sure they'll be fine once ollie establishes himself, but my friends who thought we were gonna contend for the title again this year were/are crazy

tyus jones is really ugly btw i felt uncomfortable looking at him

rude

anyway, he's no nolan smith

agree uconn is bad but they can still def win games in their garbage conference

so i guess kentucky is better than ucla

jesus

3-for-37 from the field!

harvard today vs uva -

FGM-A
8-50

PTS
27

temple > kansas

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5gTNeuIUAE-scy.jpg:large

uconn/temple was disgusting

uconn owns florida, thankfully

greatest real names -http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/66134/beejay-anya

uva/miami going to 2nd ot

solid games 2day

calhoun is doing color for the temple/tulsa game, can only imagine so he can give ollie a scouting report on tulsa

Baylor/TCU overtime preventing me from watching ND/Virginia and refs just reviewed a 3 pointer for 10 minutes.

Now Baylor fouls with a 5 point lead and 34 seconds left ;_;

An official. Not a player. An official is down with a hamstring injury! 11 seconds left!

omg now official called a foul at .2 seconds when the game is in hand

duke getting blown out by a team that lost at home to wofford

Kentucky just took out their frustrations of those last two tough road games on Missouri. They have just physically defensively dominated some clubs this year. They kind of remind me of the 90-91 UNLV club, they just seem huge and awesomely athletic.

I think UK could be beat, but you are going to have to have a good night shooting and stay even with them on the boards and turnovers. That is not an easy task if the Wildcats are imposing their will on defense.

good win by nd, they look p solid

That was so much fun. I really love Jerian Grant. He is so confident this year. And I'm always happy to see Jackson do well since we went to the same high school, where he played ball with my cousin.

also good to see the pavilion get rowdy since it was a bit quiet when I was there during the students' winter break.

starting to feel like this 'beating duke' high will never end. it's dangerous because I didn't actually do anything productive or good in my own life.

naturally notre dame drops its next game

duke's final 15 offensive possessions against virginia: 14 baskets, 34 points

Gotta love college bball. Pitt hit their free throws where duke did not.

lol syracuse

'our team isn't that great this year, so we're gonna voluntarily skip the postseason'

oh man. giving up the NIT. how noble.

is it just because i'm out of college and uconn is mediocre or is college basketball less popular now than it's ever been?

partly you, partly the conference reshuffling i'll guess

obviously by "ever been" you mean "your lifetime". It has slipped a bit compared to the last 5 years. But I don't think it's less popular than it was more than 5 years ago.

^ source: googling "march madness tv ratings"

the 30 for 30 about the Big East is very good, and I'd imagine the end of the true Big East is indicative of something. I guess that's probably just that college football has grown at a larger clip than college basketball.

March Madness is still my favorite sport event of the year

College hoops is the pits now! Can't stomach a full game. Can only watch like the last 5 minutes of a game anymore and even then I need it recorded to ffwd the inevitable foul/ft fest. March madness is still amazing especially the first weekend cos you can jump from close game to close game and you don't have to watch full stretches.

The shot clock is ridiculous.

shot clock will be reduced next year

What's the proposed time?

30, I think

Hm maybe that'll help but still only halfway there. Best thing about college hoops to me is that a full court press actually often works.

sooo duke/nd o_0

fg 14-18 77.8
3p 7-8 87.5

;_;

^_^

:-o

cool day of games, itd be sweet if uf had a prayer of beaking uk but prob no

It'd be sweet if uk played in a different conference

rip jerry tarkanian

i'm by no means an nba stan, but i'm not sure that watching top-10 college teams struggle to get into the 50s is ideal

rip hank gathers

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2015/02/asu_curtain_of_distraction_has_arizona_state_university_discovered_the_holy.html

30 years: http://www.si.com/longform/2015/1985/knight

crazy vcu/richmond game

joe linardi is def rocking a hairpiece right

https://twitter.com/ESPNCBB/status/571794643777531904

guess this 'cuse zone is effective

smdh

shorten the shot clock? maybe lengthen the shot clock and have every team run 'cuse zone. 50 shades of grey crossover market.

well, they did give up 73 two days ago

yeah, it's like the knuckle ball or something

there's a jim boeheim looking dude at my gym that's always yelling at the employees and doing curls while looking at himself in the mirror. can't stand this dude.

having a hard time picturing that tbh

it is understandably difficult to picture. perhaps I can grab a picture next time.

rip cuse

http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/syracuse-did-not-control-athletics-basketball-coach-failed-monitor

whats that then, abt 150 of boeheims wins vacated?

tar heels must be scared

boeheim vacates 135, i'm told

carmello anthony to destroy 135 hats, i'm told

weird season for uconn, theyve def improved but i think their dfense is not good enough to run 3/4 games in this acc tourney…v tough loss 2 memphis where backup dude named BURRELL has the game of his life, and uconn shot terribly; i think we'd get the 5 seed if mem loses vs cincy & if we can win @ temple

acc tourney

bite yr tongue

then the path is friday afternoon beat temple (only loss this season in hfd was to temple v end of ot down 2pts, hamilton was fouled shooting a 3 and missed all 3 shots) > sat morning in hartford there is a st patties day parade, whole city get trashed and then afternoon game vs. prob smu is rowdy & packed & they win > then sunday afternoon state is too hungover to show up & support them and they go out to a 30 pt effort by houston's Jherrod Stiggers :|

fukkin autocorrect

of course the could def get the #6 seed, lose first rd to s fla, such is the rich pagaent that is college bball

you going anywhere for the tourney this year?

yea to charlotte, look p locked in to getting 2 #1 seeds, but 8/9 v 1 games are often kinda good & uva almost dropped its 1/16 game last yr so

absurd to choose charlotte over pittsburgh/portland/seattle (just on principle) but i'm sure you'll have a lovely time

presumably duke will be there, to their detriment. charlotte/greensboro are always packed with dirty carolina fans

yea i mean portland/sea are just too far, i do agree basically, runner up was jacksonville tbh lol; 1 attendee is a duke fan supposedly

think i heard bilas? or someone get asked would u take uk or the field? & took uk - isn't super crazy but id not do that, im very impressed uk has gotten this far but im still not a believer they are going undefeated

1 attendee is a duke fan supposedly

that much higher, if possible, on the crunch family now

need ND win and Kansas loss to put ND in 2 seed contention. I might be dreaming though.

@DickieV
So easy to say FIRE THE COACH / have U seen all the good Jim Boeheim has done in bleeding orange / Trusted too many

lol

big FT miss by yogi ferrell

boatrights 1st half - 21 pts, 6-8fg, 4-5 3pt fg

terrance samuel has made like 8 idiotic plays this half

temple p much put on a clinic this 2d half, def a live team going fwd

f'in onions by brogdan

louisville has ZERO depth but are decent

tho maybe mango now gets more mins

ESPN Stats & Info ‏@ESPNStatsInfo 15m15 minutes ago
Louisville's Mangok Mathiang's go-ahead jumper was his first basket of the game. He was 1-for-16 from the floor since the start of February.

villanova is p much peyton-era colts now

omg @ that belmont shot

https://vine.co/v/OEnjLulJjtt

who is to blame for all these cummerbund uniforms

http://i.imgur.com/wWEFFhU.png

the midwest?

'the american' conference is absurd

tournament in hartford: first QF is east carolina vs. smu, second is memphis vs. temple

probably like 1500 people there, hope one is johnny crunch

hope Kentucky gets Wisconsin as #2 seed in their region

getting Gonzaga as #2 seed in your region will feel a bit like winning the lottery

xxp i was def in attendance mooks

yesss

this is 3 consecutive games f/ a shaq fyi

goodwin (mem) / harrison (tulsa) / thomas (cincy)

uconns twenty-ninth 3 pt attempt is an insane ~29 ft bank-in by daniel hamilton, sure ok

dire lack of boxing out

boatright

p much exactly the kemba crossover but from the arc

good job by the espnu commentators to echo my sentiments right off the bat

obvs

fucking flopping coach k basketball

wow ou misses a chippy

spangler slimes the layup

duke flopping and bilas calling them on it

need an nba like rule but where coach is fined

eff you sufjan and your nightmarishly ugly uniforms

ha I found myself really admiring Duke's uniforms as Okafor spent the whole night at the line

Winslow really responded in second half

but to be honest, you just didn't shoot very well tonight. you would have crushed us had you shot well.

i personally never shot well from the line

well, now you'd better beat carolina or i'll really be pissed

I thought you might feel that way, and I'd definitely pull for Duke over UNC had you pulled off the second half comeback. I will still have Duke winning it all in my bracket. Losing to us in South Bend kicked off the last rampage after all.

we had to make ten 3 pointers while getting out rebounded 43-26 by UNC in the regular season to win by 1 o_O. so I am definitely worried.

nice that uconn only had to show up for abt 4 mins of game time to win that *__*

tulsa shot 3-18 from 3

they might miss the tournament cuz of it, committee will prob rate this conf as trash

wish we didn't have to play a UNC home game in the ACC championship o_O

pleeeeeease respond ND. horrible chevron unis or no

we are so small. every rebound is a miracle. now UNC making every 3.

dean smith paper classes

write a paper about dean smith

or don't who cares. at least ND and duke have academic standards.

second chances abound ;_;

everyone shoots 50% when they shoot the second chance from 1/2 foot

paige ridiculous

UNC just shooting the lights out. nothing we can do. go cold please.

and shrink

meeeeech went to my hs

fuuuuuuuuuuuuck

biggest win in ND men's basketball history!

congrats

thank you! I remember being awestruck while visiting an ND practice with my grade school team when Troy Murphy was playing. I was amazed that he got a brand new pair of shoes just for practice. My grandma got Pat Garrity's autograph for me while selling wood crafts at the mall. This has been a long wait. I'm so happy for this team.

and now a guy from my hs is starting at ND, which also a new feeling

a previous ND player taught AP history at my high school while also coaching varsity basketball. he was super intense. he'd put his car into park at 4 way stops and then inhale and exhale deeply.

he refused to ask the class to quiet down on most days. so you could usually talk with friends throughout the whole class, and he'd just talk about american history at a medium volume while you chatted. he definitely cared more about the basketball.

i do not usually watch college hoops bc a lot of it is #bad before tournament time but I'm digging this PAC-12 championship

danny ainge I see you here in the crowd you glorious mormon weirdo, scout some celtics shooters

espn doesn't even know what to say about the ACC tourney. sad because doug gottlieb doesn't even work there anymore.

CBS putting Iowa St. as a 2 seed now as if a Big 12 two seed is required

idea: the Big 12 sucks

Mamadou Ndiaye on tv! UC Irvine with a shot at making the dance.

big west basketball always fun

Wow first ever appearance

Lol ndiaye with a two handed block for fun

uconns half ct offense is so pathetic

40-0, yo

recent uk grad steve masiello gonna take them out 1st game, sry

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/11001162/manhattan-coach-steve-masiello-completes-undergraduate-degree-kentucky

Masiello is a great coach, and may take UK out early at his next job, or the job after that, but not this year.

I know you're not serious, of course.

didn't know sufjan's man connaughton was a pitcher too

yeah, very happy that he and Grant came back

Pat apparently lost money on his signing deal with the Orioles by coming back, but he is likely trying to gain the leverage of a possible NBA contract as well.

I'm hoping ND gets to play UK, but I have us losing that game. I have Duke beating them in the 'ship since I expect them to be fully awake for the dance.

I will never understand how we became the 12th seed overall in this tournament. just one seed ahead of UNC, who we beat twice and never lost to, and behind a team with 10 losses.

I actually like Iowa State and hope they do not Hampton

does anyone know anything about Arizona? I have them upsetting Wisconsin for mostly superstitious reasons. but is Arizona actually great?

well also because Wisconsin is 2-2 vs top 25

just made my traditional throw away bracket at espn.com in which ND wins it all

dear god they gave magary a fucking podcast about the bracket for his usual hater's guide nonsense

i guess they want to ensure a crowd, but it's bullshit that dayton played at home last night

downloading march madness ipad app

stoked for the march madness

Somebody help me with filling out this thing. Who is in the know re college basketball?

jut do it by patterns imo

two 1 seeds max in the final four

obvs a couple of 12 over 5 upsets, pick some other upsets, have one sweet sixteen game between two low seeds

this is how i do it because i dont follow college basketball at all, someone on twitter said wichita state was very underrated so i picked them to do good

ok thx

good luck!

am i able to watch these games online?

yeah they all on there

ND noon game is killer

don't know how one plays basketball at this hour

amphetamines, man, only the finest kind

need those

ha yeah those early sunday games in the nba are always such train wrecks

Bonzie is always ready

but we lost to pitt in a day game. we lost to duke by 30 in a day game. need to wake up.

i worked w a guy once who was on the northeastern basketball team at the time

what's his cell #?

i dont think he still is tho cause that was like 15 years ago

I still would have called him to psych him out

I learned that from The U 30 for 30

worked on the Boz

its a good technique

Grant is not so interested in this game

i guess northeastern is going to win the tournament

Bracket busting tip o' the day: Northeastern University's address is 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115.

good tip

are you planning an attack?

activate the asset (thats u slothro)

an attack of bracket bustin' facts

I like it when announcers and analysts talk about 'scoring the basketball'

it's a cheap way to fire me up. every time.

hm depends on how bored i feel during my lunch break its only like 10 mins on the T

(xp)

STOP SAYING 'SCORE THE BASKETBALL'

xp ffs

love too score the basketball

xxp please take the T and scream: "Wofford over Arkansas! I have seen it!" at the nearest Northeastern edifice

lmao

ppl here wore their school's gear to the office today, including the editorial vp who really should've considered the timing of wearing a 'cuse shirt (altho he is not making excuses for any of the school's heinous shit at least)

its cool how the country has a three week holiday where u still technically go to the location of yr job

looking forward to a serious drumming of smu by ucla. it's really my only specific interest in the tournament this yr bc i live a couple miles south of smu and pretty much fuck all those people

it would bust my bracket a little bit, but that could be fun

maybe the staples center's waterline will burst, hoisting the entire arena atop a spout of water. but they'll continue to play the game and ucla will win and Andy Katz will say, 'very much like that waterline, my bracket is busted'

announcer just confirmed it: there will be a second half to this game.

also rihanna

but will there be a third half just have to wait and see

on one hand a second half seems a bit self-indulgent. on the other hand, i think I'm up for it.

xp it's like that postal service song where benji says 'like a goalie tending the net in the third quarter of a tied game rivalry'

you have to wonder if that goalie knew the third period would actually turn out to be a quarter

and they were gonna play another one

life is unpredictable

"life is unpredictable, so you have to score the basketball"

i like it

just continue to score the basket until the final buzzer sounds which could happen at literally any time

"my other car is scoring the basketball"

xp think that is actually how cricket works but i'm not sure

how could i know?

really disappointed in Rusted Root. they finally sold out.

'go on the youtube'

no... not the root!

"and thats why they call him SKYwalker in boston" lol i dunno if thats a thing

bracket bustin fact: they actually call David Walker 'Skywalker' because of his wispy hair

and they only do it at quiznos

all the quiznos here went out of business a while back

toasting costs have skyrocketed under this obama administration

too much competition from dangelos

ok i've seen enough college basketball now

how dare you

you can scout some sick picks for the nba draft

it's an nit kind of year for kev

uconn lost already :(

comin down to the wire here folks!

OMG NORTHEASTERN MISSED A WIDE OPEN ROLL MAN

if u use a pick take a look at where the picker goes he might be open!

file under "reasons not to watch college hoops"

ya srsly

only watch the last two minutes of close games is my rule

there are def a couple of teams i'll watch in this year's iteration of the Clusterfuck Where People Who Don't Usually Care About Basketball Suddenly Care About It Aggressively, Probably For Gambling Reasons - mostly the obvious ones like UK, AZ, villanova, virginia to look for sick draft picks

i just love the chaos of the first weekend of the tournament so many games such crazy shit going on left and right ill watch any and all of it tbh

yea i was having a hard time picking what music to listen to at my desk this morning so i'm glad this is readily available background noise

then of course im hooked for the rest of it which is pretty much always not very fun

damn that was a tough shot that UAB kid hit

CBS putting Iowa St. as a 2 seed now as if a Big 12 two seed is required

― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, March 14, 2015 9:36 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idea: the Big 12 sucks

― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, March 14, 2015 9:38 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Big 12 Big Joke

hope Kansas can at least reach the Wichita St upset I have planned for them

3 seeds: the new 5 seeds

hope not bc I need a wofford victory

dude in our office pool is currently 0-4. had ND and Zona being upset.

also has SMU in final four

nice

roosevelt jones playing with one operational limb rn

bring in more braces and sleeves

a brace for every sleeve. a sleeve for every brace.

@DennisThePerrin
So @stephenasmith lives in Dick Vitale's stomach? That's explains more than I ever want to understand.

kellen

he scored the basketball

8/10 from 3 is just insane

win on a goaltended 3

wow

I can't think of a worse way to lose a game

looking forward to a serious drumming of smu by ucla.

you'll just have to settle for a ucla win

thatgoaltend call was such garbage

big 12 teams getting ambushed is delightful

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2015/0319/2GIF_Demetrius_Jackson_Fancy_Dribbling.gif

holy fuck Georgia State and Iowa State blew a lot of brackets already

thad motta looks like hell

ay just checked my bracket only one game wrong so far (georgia state/baylor)

How far u have ND?

losing to butler next game sorry

wo harvard really just almost banked in a three to beat n carolina at the buzzer

and cincinnati has a lay up rim out bounce off the background and back in to send their game to OT

tournament is p cool

rip purdue

super furry austin

losing to butler next game sorry

― lag∞n, Thursday, March 19, 2015 4:45 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no i am sorry

so sorry to bust your bracket this saturday

lol

the residual power of brad stevens will propel butler

sorry that is just how I feel

the blessings of brad

uuhhhhhh troy murphy 2011 no love?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Troy_Murphy_Celtics.jpg

have honestly zero memory of troy murphy on the celtics

same

memory or no you have a picture of him in a celtics uni scoring the basketball right there

he played 17 games for them it says online

that's right. 17 games that won the admiration and devotion of the Boston faithful.

they call him "Skymurphy"

at Boston Markets

Trade to the Warriors[edit]
On February 23, 2011, the Warriors reacquired Murphy and a second round pick in exchange for Brandan Wright and Dan Gadzuric.[7] On February 27, Murphy and the Warriors reached a buyout agreement. He was waived in time to be playoff-eligible for a new team.[8][9]

Boston Celtics[edit]

Murphy with the Celtics
On March 2, 2011, Murphy signed with the Boston Celtics for the remainder of the 2010-11 NBA season.[10] On April 22, 2011, Murphy played in his first career playoff game, a first round game against the New York Knicks.

he laid the foundation for curry and thompson

lol he got waived by the mavs so they could sign derek fisher

really hope towns doesn't go to the sixers

kentucky looks so much bigger than hampton. it is ridiculous

lsu choking tigers

arkansas gettin handsy with the wofford woffords

call another timeout! that'll make everything better

so many good looks!

kentucky had exactly 69 points and should've held the score to that as long as possible imo, they were 29 up already

announcers would have applauded them for not piling it on

but it would have been secret dirtbag style

exactly! cake had and eaten simultaneously.

lourawls nairn jr., michigan state spartans

after watching the UK All-Frosh make a ton of mental errors against Hampton I'm thinking they can definitely be beaten by a good team that catches a wave in the first few minutes and just rides it to victory

yeah if i'm mick cronin that's the game plan i'm drawing up for my cincinnati team: catch a wave, ride it

^^ assumes Cincinnati is a good team. besides I'm talking about something you can't game plan. I know you've seen it happen, even if you prefer to zing me about it.

Mamadou!

it's as if there is a second, imaginary hoop by UCI's basket. if you can shoot the ball into Mamadou's hands, he'll just dunk it. if you miss a little bit, he'll just let the other team have it.

there is no joy in irvine

have really good seats this session and can confirm tyus jones is really ugly

he is beautiful to me

has beautiful game

marshall plumlee double-double

bobby mo did fairly well, forhaving 2 players on their roster who could play

marshall plumlee double-double
--mookieproof

there's another plumdog with a first name that starts in M? dang

and he looks even more whitebread than the two NBA plumdogs!

there are infinite plumdawgs

kentucky-cincy is pretty close, BUSTED BRACKETS are not a sure thing but far from out of the question

lol that was short-lived, wildcats took like 2 and a half minutes had most to bring its lead from 3 to 11

*at most

cincy is godawful

they looked decent for a lil while! or, ok, to be completely honest kentucky was kinda on autopilot up until they weren't. final result was as anyone would expect.

Yeah, my NC State final four pick still possible.

the footprint of brad stevens' coaching style is def visible in butler's play rn

don't

u mad

yer boys are leading rn! it's just closer than I expected

how is jay wright not fired

feel like butler is def winning this game btw

the ez rules of bracket picking are now - advance dayton/butler/xavier at least 2 rds

jay wright is too handsome to fire

daaaaaang

did they srsly just actually double dribble

SG dang that was dope

:-o my phone died

sorry bout the bracket busting, legume :-o

double dribble almost killed me. I almost died.

hah! I was watching it at a bar with my girlfriend and we met a guy who'd bet heavily in favor of ND. he was nice enough that I set aside my side-eye @ the whole fighting irish thing (which in the long run has fuckall to do with whatever the school is, I suppose) and rooted for him to not lose 200 bucks, which he didn't, much to his own surprise!

it did not bust my bracket bc I did not end up filling one out

there's some story about how "fighting irish" comes from the irish catholic students at ND mocking how they were perceived, but i've never cared enough to remember it.

Cannot see wichita st uni w/o hearing "truuuuue dreeeeeeeeams. Of Wichita."

lolll did not know anything about wichita, least of all that their name is the "shockers"

from their coach's hand signal, Wichita st is running some kind of vagina based defense.

http://i.imgur.com/ebAmsXq.jpg

Caught!

ernie_johnson_eating_barbecue.gif

there's some story about how "fighting irish" comes from the irish catholic students at ND mocking how they were perceived, but i've never cared enough to remember it.

Well that's pretty much the story

fair enough, but the story begins with "along time ago, at rocco's pizzeria" or something

where are the games

gonna need some games

Always amazing to me that it takes so little time to eliminate 52 of 68 teams. It's like Pickett's charge at Gettysburg.

man I could go for some Rocco's right now

go Irish, beat my hunger

lol

I'd even eat their shitty salad right now

I love almost any pizza place that offers green olives as a toppings choice

do feel like the shitty iceberg lettuce, onions, tomatoes, olvie Italian salad is a requirement to which rocco's simply must submit

putting olives with pits in a salad is perhaps irresponsible, though

isn't that everywhere in the USA?

tbrr Bruno's is better than Rocco's, but you're right, Rocco's is like the most rah rah Fighting Irish place there is. I can't remember, is that the place that plays the fight song, with a "light show", every 10 minutes or so?

er xp, to the green olives thing

Rocco's is pretty understated in its rah rahness, i think. just pictures of regis on the wall, etc. we went there for late night pizza during high school, and the current owners (former employee) are very nice. I am not a Bruno's fan. I am typically all about Barnaby's, but I don't really consider Barnaby's to be pizza. It is Barnaby's.

watched many ncaa tourney games on that tv
http://hr.nd.edu/assets/37545/20101117_barnabys_500x375.jpg

you know I never went to Barnaby's, because of the sign that said "Beef Bar Pizza Kitchen", and I wondered what a beef bar could be, and I called once to ask what the deal was with their beef bar, and the person on the phone was just puzzled, and so I was embarrassed and never went

lmao

GIS of 'beef bar' yields pictures of much finer looking establishments

'beef bar' maybe just means the pizza looks like this:
http://slice.seriouseats.com/images/20100728%20Barnabys%20Slice%202.jpg

yeah. tbh a lot of south bend institutions are not very fine looking

FUCK I could go for that pizza though. midwest pizza rules.

I used to see the football team show up at the Bruno's South buffet pretty often and clean it out, on a sports tip

too much crust!
http://s3-media3.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/GF1weM7T2hVAmG08OWiunQ/l.jpg

yes but SO MUCH CHEESE. and the sausage too. stuff of dreams. tbrr I have eaten a bruno's that size all by myself on at least one occasion. maybe over two days, though. I don't get to the big sb very often anymore but bruno's is basically my main goal when I am there.

I am in a city in the south of france right now that has a pizza place that reminds me of Bruno's, and I am going to go there in a couple of nights and eat way too much of it.

It's interesting that Wichita State and Gonzaga are the only small schools remaining. Usually you have some left-field teams but this year the upsets were by traditional powers like UCLA and Michigan State. Interesting year.

mannnn, chicago/midwestern pizza is so bizarre to me as a new york/new jersey native and boston resident - its like pizza cake

i once told this to my supervisor at work, who is from chi, and he got super pissed at the term "pizza cake," like all caps ranting

undergraduate/postgraduate/total:

Xavier University: 4,485/2,165/6,650
Gonzaga University: 4,896/2,795/7,691
University of Notre Dame: 8,371/3,362/11,733
Wichita State University: 11,763/3,043/14,806
Duke University: 6,471/8,379/14,850
University of Louisville: 16,151/6,400/22,551
University of West Virginia: 22,757/5,077/27,834
University of Kentucky: 21,441/6,994/28,435
University of North Carolina: 18,350/10,785/29,135
University of Oklahoma: 20,892/9,411/30,303
University of Utah: 24,840/7,548/32,388
North Carolina State University: 25,176/9,591/34,767
University of Arizona: 31,670/7,443/39,113
University of California Los Angeles: 29,633/12,212/41,845
University of Wisconsin: 29,504/11,956/41,460
Michigan State University: 37,988/11,355/49,343

from wikipedia, anyway

Xavier is smaller and Wichita St. is larger than I expected. But MSU is insane. That is too many students.

wichita st big winner in acceptance rates, though:

Wichita State University: 96%
University of West Virginia: 85.3%
University of Utah: 81.7%
University of Oklahoma: 80.4%
University of Arizona: 77%
University of Louisville: 76.3%
Michigan State University: 68.7%
Xavier University: 67.7%
University of Kentucky: 67.3%
Gonzaga University: 65%
University of Wisconsin: 51.1%
North Carolina State University: 46.9%
University of North Carolina: 29%
University of Notre Dame: 21.2%
University of California Los Angeles: 18.2%
Duke University: 10.8%

slothroprhymes, you would like rocco's and I feel that you'd appreciate Barnaby's for what it is.

which is a beef bar pizza kitchen

gregg marshall just said his team is "much baligned"

when you malign a baller

if these places are in chicago proper i might have a chance to check 'em out in the near future for possible work travel reasons

"beef bar pizza kitchen" as a single concept is admittedly strange but all four of those things are pretty enticing in and of themselves

they are about 1.5 hours outside of chicago. plenty of good food in chicago, though!

I like tomatoes, bread, and cheese in pretty much any ratio or format.

we ordered domino's with friends during the Saturday games, and my wife secretly got 'extra sauce' on the pizzas. she had apparently done that before without anyone noticing, and everyone liked the results. but we were all 'wtf is up with the sauce to cheese ratio today'. I am slowly learning to trust again.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CAz-6-DUUAAggWI.png:large

crazy

having that pic alone is worth the half million he apparently lost by playing this year (and being honest about his intention to play this year).

looks kinda like little mac from punch-out!

^lol otm

that play was so awesome

I am in a city in the south of france right now that has a pizza place that reminds me of Bruno's, and I am going to go there in a couple of nights and eat way too much of it.

― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, March 23, 2015 2:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

Euler needs to take that pizza into an abandoned factory next to a psychiatric care center to truly get the SB feel

maybe shoot some wedding photos after

sufjan knows what's up

I lived next to a Superfund site for a while in SB and we grew the most amazing basil, maybe that's the SB pizza secret

to bring things closer to the thread, once I made a 6-11 Irish center cry (after catching him in a hilariously dumb academic integrity violation). just looked him up and he played 7 years in Europe and now works at an auto factory in Indiana as a safety inspector. let's just say I do not have confidence in motion.

sounds like a 30 for 30 pitch if I've ever heard one

I got games
She got games
We got games
They got games
He got games
It does feel good
I might tream a lil' somethin
But fuck the games if wichita's winnin'

you ppl in NYC wanna do the NIT at MSG

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2409853-nit-tournament-2015-bracket-and-schedule-for-semifinals-in-new-york

shockers not looking to be all that shocking

although getting some good stops against ND right after post that

grant was fouled

marv on the call just fantastic

well that comfy lead didn't last

these wichita st luke skywalker haircuts will be my end

that or auguste's sky walkin'

this fred van der sloot guy

how about that frank the tank huh folks just wonderful stuff

marv on the call just fantastic
--Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton)

for some reason imagining this in waka flocka flame voice, like "marv marv marv on the call BOW"

wisc has 69 points so can NC just not score anymore and allow wisconsin to win with that score

or they can not score again and NC can blow them out, how the number is achieved is not important

ugh whatever no one cares about dreams certainly not god

hmm wonder when we'll next see the tar heels in the tournament

cya wvu

well this can't make the huggy bear happy

Wonder if Kentucky will have 100 rebounds on Saturday

86,000 boards

some tite goggles on this WV guy

should give those to grant for next game

this is not fun to watch

Stanley Johnson looks bigger and faster than he should be if you get what I mean.

Like he's a blown up hologram of a 2 guard

I am on the matt stainbrook nba bandwagon

https://twitter.com/netw3rk/status/581290571773403136

man he is fat

for the record I don't mind fat guy hoopin', as a celtics fan I have to appreciate jared sullinger after all

lol UK benchwarmers struggling to inbound the ball

christ almighty that stainbrook kid is built like me. it's nice to know that if i were 10 inches taller i could have played some mid-level d1 ball

http://i.imgur.com/6fIpRLs.jpg

lol

man kevin harlan is getting into my favorite harlan call mode (death growls) over this outstandingly graceful fat baller

what team is the fat guy on

xavier

is it 40? he's not that fat

i just saw the score of that kentucky game, what happened

kentucky has all the best players

west virginia has barstool bob huggins

this davis kid on xavier is legit

the upset was not meant to be, much to the discontent of quite a few

I can only imagine how much mileage both the play-the-right-way crowd would've gotten out of stainbrook takes

(cut "both" from that)

kentucky abt to complete a perfect season yet the media seems to be not freaking out abt it?

freakout will start prob only @ final 4 or maybe even title game

it doesn't help that its uk and not like Wichita or st joes, think a lot of the public thinks its 'unfair'

ya just feel like theyre uncharacteristically passing up the opportunity for extend freakout its weird

I'd still put money on the field.

idk kentucky is crushing it, someone had a stats piece today (which i did not read) saying theyre the best defense ever

tho of course betting 11 teams over 1 is generally not a bad idea

they haven't played a very tough schedule, but it's pretty fuckin impressive

especially how deep they are, and how good at defense they are despite being so young

duke's defense, for one, has suffered badly since it began relying so heavily on freshmen

@keithlaw
If WVU's Billy Dee Williams isn't nicknamed "Colt 45" we have all wasted our lives

theres a top 10 hs senior named diamond stone fyi

rozier is going full russ smith

Frank is owning az

and floppin' on em, or so the internet tells me (only just turned the game on)

man that decker three was coooooold bloooooded

flow chilly

the poor harrison twins

so many turnovers!!

maaaaaan this shit's wild

I'm tuning in to watch a good game

need too upset

That wite dunked on Kentucky. Even if they still win I will no longer respect them

ND on some lob city shit kentucky shouldn't allow this

yea def asterisk

pretty sure i've never rooted for notre dame this vehemently

zach august dunks still not quite on the level of that james young dunk from the championship game last year but pretty close

ilxor sufjan grafton is most likely in a complete coma rn

timeout kentucky :)

this game is v crazy

i hate college ball but this is pretty fun

Where did they get this real leprechaun I am extremely disgusted right now

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBOyp0jUUAEEtm7.jpg:large

I'm happy they made this game competitive because I'm watching. It feels good to know they care about me

why did ND take their best player out, wtf

one thing I love abt the tourney though is the deer in the headlights white guys playing crunch minutes

How are these teams able to take so many times out. Why aren't the refs calling fouls on the coaches for wasting our time

It's almost like a nba game in that regards.

I have the same question as dayo

the stepback 3 is not always the answer

chaos reigns

notre dame not getting shot within the first, oh, 20 seconds of that last possession was pretty dumb

wow dang

coulda used one of those 500 timeouts they wasted earlier in those last six seconds

who knew there were a limited number of timeouts

yea nd kinda gakked that down the stretch but oh well

fuuuuuuuuuuck

THat white dude had a goatee that was unkempt and rough. Thank goodness I don't watch college basktetball

slo mo replay of Kentucky player literally grabbin zach Auguste's wrist uncalled in first half will be buried with me

we deserved it but they were tall. I'm sad.

Guess I'll watch that YouTube o the brow destroying Townes in international play to feel better.

in the end, too many hyphenate names for us

Too many people named Kentucky Goodat-Basketball

And Kentucky-Goodat Basketball

worst part is calipari reminds me exactly of a hs friends overbearing mother

he prbly makes his kids friends do chores the next day of they sleep over

Just counting every johnsonville brat they eat and then tryin to cash in on yard work the next day

Maybe make them pick up his very specific Starbucks order at the supermarket. "I need a grande nonfat latte but in a venti cup. Calipari spills, sir."

I am irl loling at all of this (your jokes, not the loss)

def one of the best tourney games in recent memory & never seen ND kick it up to that level, which was dope

Yes will tell my son about this team. Loved this team. Will try to replicate their heart as I negotiate the price of a Mazda tomorrow since my 2000 camry died yesterday.

Might play that Auguste noncall for the sales manager while crying.

Will try not to laugh thinking about the Cleveland broadcast Mazda commercials.

Just counting every johnsonville brat they eat and then tryin to cash in on yard work the next day

― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, March 28, 2015 11:16 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

god dammit agh

we had em!

to lose on free throws as well

I am shook

mike brey was there when duke beat unlv in '91

but so was i, and i wasn't there tonight

how could you. You should have been there.

Please beat gonzaga and Kentucky pleeeeease

Okafor has the moves like Davis. I hope he gets the chance to tear it up.

too old to be everywhere

but i'm trying

Kentucky so bad at offense. Just oops. Endless tream of oops. That will haunt me forever.

Just tall. Too fucking tall. It's bad for college basketball.

So tall

and ~twins~ *slams a coors light*

Please beat gonzaga and Kentucky pleeeeease
--Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton)

why idgi duke is as awful and megalomaniacal as any of the big juggernaut teams also mike K is a royal douchenozzle of the absolute highest order

Duuuuuude calipari

Do I have to talk about the brats again

he's a douche too! this is kind of a shit sandwich/turd burrito dilemma with basically every college matchup

I have a good friend from Louisville tbh

notre dame (#2) was the first kenpom top-25 offense kentucky had faced this season

wisconsin is #1
duke is #3
gonzaga is #4

and god knows no one has intangibles like izzo (or cum down his leg like pitino)

word. Will take any of those over UK.

Gonzaga prbly coolest option tbh. But I already have acc bias.

Sabonis ftw

gonzaga seems chill, they have a weirdass name that I can appreciate and take a lot of, y'know, actual shots instead of an endless lowpost game

slothroprhymes tell us yr rooting interests (besides red sox, i mean)

Thought sloth would appreciate Okafor and Justise more tbh

Freshmen with more game imo. But yeah, coach k. (Brey was coach k assistant, full disclosure)

I have no college loyalties bc I went to a dippy arts/communications school that went no higher than D3, although my girlfriend went to USC so I will usually watch their football games

NBA wise I'm celtics but will literally watch any pro hoops between good teams

I do like okafor's game it's too dope not to admire but I am generally more a fan of shooters and weirdo point guards than of big men

Oh no USC football

sloth how could you

I have no loyalty to them but can appreciate when they play well bc honestly my entire football appreciation is the absurdity and theater of it father than any rooting interest. the lady actually cares but hey you can't change yr alma mater

lol

k basically hates big men and would (and too often has) played five guards if he could. i mean, over 30 years his low post guys were elton brand, carlos boozer and shelden williams and that's pretty much it

but yeah okafor is amazing -- never seen a big guy so polished at that age

I'm kinda worried about okafor and towns and frank the wite kid bc I'm thinking about sick draft picks, which won't be that sick if towns goes to like the sixers and is horribly treated, or the knicks and gets traded on draft night to someone losing an aging marquee free agent

Okafor will be special in the nba. Don't know how he couldn't be.

he absolutely will be, I just hope it's for one of the more decent rebuilding teams

so like not the knicks or sixers, even the lakers would be preferable tbh

frank's not projected that high really. i've hated cal for years and uk has precisely the kind of taking this shit too seriously type fans that i usually despise in college sports but i kinda enjoy how his embrace of one and done makes a mockery of the ncaa and gets ppl bemoaning about how he's tainting the purity of a corrupt as fuck system.

but i kinda enjoy how his embrace of one and done makes a mockery of the ncaa and gets ppl bemoaning about how he's tainting the purity of a corrupt as fuck system.

otm

Lex native, UK alum and lifetime fan here. What an effort by ND. Grant's a wizard, Connaauughhgannaughton's tough as nails, Auguste played the game of his life. That looked like UK's games against Florida this year, the right kind of guards can get to the rim against 'em if you can pull the big men away from it.

I fear Bo Ryan w/ that blueprint.

Towns is a beast. Aa Harrison's got stones.

Kentucky went 9-9 FG and 4-4 FT in last 11 minutes, and got three big stops at the end. At least I don't feel like they backed into the win.

Great game, tho.

A legit d league that's better than one and done can only benefit schools that aren't Kentucky so I agree.

Great game alpine. I am shook, but Kentucky def always looks like an impressive team. They def have the goods.

Auguste was fouled, though, so I'm gonna need $10 to make this right w my bracket and everything.

We all saw it in slo mo b4 that mercial break

Hope people lost a lot of money on that 11.5 point cover

wish nd had the seed we deserved. This could have been the final.

These grapes. So sour. Best year for us. I need to get over it. 6 pt lead. Lost on a foul call made. Slo mo foul call not made. So many grievances.

think they should've been a 2, Suf?

A 2 maybe not, but def not the 12th seed overall, as Baylor and Iowa st nicely proved

Def had winnable games up to now though, so can't actually complain. But region, matchups, and a history of tourney runs clearly matter to committee. Then there's just plain luck. Louisville's 4 seed sure worked out nicely for them.

lol

k basically hates big men and would (and too often has) played five guards if he could. i mean, over 30 years his low post guys were elton brand, carlos boozer and shelden williams and that's pretty much it

but yeah okafor is amazing -- never seen a big guy so polished at that age

Casey Sanders!!!!

coach k - calipari - pitino is the holy trinity of ppl who are worse than hitler

wld be kinda cool if all three of them were in the final four and then ol wiscony won

"Players have too much power in the NBA the coaches have no power" *looks at NCAA* "Dear God drown all these coaches in a lake"

h8 how the most successful college coaches arent even good coaches theyre just good recruiters

like tom izzo is clearly a good coach, brad stevens good coach, jon calipari is a good salesman

He's def got a cult of personality around him

is bo ryan somehow not an evil fuck or do we just not know about him yet? I don't know him at all

Two first names. Don't trust it.

h8 how the most successful college coaches arent even good coaches theyre just good recruiters

Self is pretty good. Calhoun could call a good game.

I guess that's tier 2 of programs tho.

upset looming for pitino

lol just as I post that tho some mich. state wite screws up a dunk in the truest NCAA fashion

Hate linking arms on the bench.

did i hear verne say "his mom nicknamed him tum-tum from the three ninjas movie" earlier or did i just hallucinate that?

the march madness ipad app is for shit man

duke more like puke

otm

gonzaga more like gone see ya

or "gonzaga, we bagged ya"

duke more like duke of hurl

guessing badgers will be the sentimental fave for many of the ppl w/o an alma mater dog in this fight, kentucky would be #historic and kinda cool if they pull off the perfect (asterisk) season I spose but ultimately shrug

if duke wins the championship will krzyzewski buy a new toupee or blow his bonus cheddar on some serious plugs

i hate all these one seed teams and i hope they all lose, that is all

michigan state for presidtn

yeah rooting for michigan state - izzo, magic, plus i like their bio dept

thought everyone was all in love with frank the large witeboy

its true he is a nice big wite

he's pretty good, I can understand the love in this case

https://i.imgur.com/U2WGg1K.gif

wait, why the asterisk on perfect season, slothroprhymes? because undefeated doesn't necessarily = perfect, or some other reason?

also, many xposts: Self does not work for a tier 2 program.

1: UK, KU, UNC, Duke
2: UCONN, Arizona, Mich St, UCLA, Syracuse, Louisville, Indiana (?), who'd I miss?
3: Florida, Michigan, Ohio State, OK now we're just getting into massive state schools where football is king, plus Gonzaga and G-Town

He gave you the asterisk bc Pat dunked on you with whiskers most unkept

I'd say ucla, IU, and uconn are tier 1 as well

and prbly Louisville

if KU is anyway

haha, fair enough on the whisker-slam *

I was looking at where the recent mcdonald's all americans are signing, and it is mostly the schools you listed as tier 1 + UCLA tbh.

kinda weird that UCLA isn't better

weird history of great recruiting/awful coaching dating back like 15 years

i guess its like not that weird if u think abt it

but how can coaching be that awful. it just doesn't seem possible.

my guess ucla atracts top recruits cause it is cool in l.a. etc, has a bad program that attracts bad coaches and is generally bad

i mean if u cant win with kevin love and russ westb theres prob not much hope for u

haha, fair enough on the whisker-slam *
--alpine static

lol yea I was concurring with dayo's original statement about not respecting them bc of the brutal connaughton dunk, their perfection is pretty indisputable otherwise

UCLA's pedigree as a hoops school in recent years stems almost entirely from producing famous/great NBA players afaict, but hey at least they're not USC's basketball team that has been repeatedly sub-.500 recently and cursed the NBA with nick fucking young

about fucking time

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/report--espn-won-t-renew-its-contract-with-bob-knight-183421641.html

did bob knight once assault a pizza hut employee for not refilling the salad bar fast enough? or did I just imagine that?

you can tell when he's been around peanuts

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/10/50/4c/10504cdc94f28c731de0b9f94c0dd556.jpg

he assaulted a texas tech prof after the prof complimented him on having learned to control his temper at a salad bar

lol perfect passive aggressive provocation

who knew salad bars were such hotbeds of violence? salad is supposed to be good for you, what a bunch of bullshit.

xxp yes! but my dad was telling me about it at a pizza hut

terry bogard def assaulted geese howard in that pizza hut

every time i visited

"kinda weird that UCLA isn't better"

Howland had a couple classes of recruits with some idiots that kind of sunk him. Of course going to three Final Fours in a row is impressive, but not at UCLA if you don't win it all. Winning the NCAA tournament is just not that easy to do, the guy came pretty close and ran into Florida's buzz saw. That Florida club was pretty loaded with Noah, Al Horford and Corey Brewer.

Sounds like Texas is going to open up their Uncle Scrooge vault and try to buy Shaka out of VCU. Smart has been able to turn down everyone so far, but Texas will blow money like crazy. I've always kind of thought of Rick Barnes as a pretty good coach, I just think that Texas is probably not the best state to recruit b-ball players.

I guess you guys don't give a shit about the NIT, cuz it's not the NCAA? Anyway Stanford beat Miami in OT in the final last night.

My dad usta take teenage me to the NIT. His voice really carried at the Garden, and the two things he would yell were "GET IN THE GAME, REF" and then, in the 4th quarter, "FOUL HIM, FOUL HIM, FOUL HIM!"

i enjoyed the year that north carolina went to the NIT final and lost. and that they had to host their first-round game at the old carmichael gym rather than the dean dome

yr dad otm

I like the NIT, but my attention tends to be absorbed by whichever tournament my team is in. Dr., did you catch any Big East tourney's while the conference was in its prime? The Big East 30 for 30 is great.

I don't remember. Probably went to 6-8 college games in the '70s, one or two Knicks.

yr AP player of the year is big frank!

COTY: calipari

coach K is already so pouty looking I think his rug might fall off

clap clap clapclapclap

When did even the Final 4 not get televised on national tv anymore

I'm watching on sling TV and it suuuuuuuucks. Goddammt.

sling's actually okay for me today. it's been bad in the past though.

how exactly is a duke-msu game broadcast Duke™ branded?

Michigan state exposed. Turns out they are Michigan State.

ouch

I switched to the sling tnt stream and it's better. Tbs was unwatchable.

Sad though, I won't hear grant hill tell me that good things happen when I penetrate.

wow this is a massacre