2017 ncaa

RIP uconn btw

this is a cool article http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2016/11/30/notre-dame-fighting-irish-acc-bonzie-colson?xid=socialflow_twitter_si

yea i was too depressed to start this

should be some good basketball on today

big win by ucla @ uk

this jackson kid for kansas has a weird shot

ucla game was really fun, that looks like a really skilled team

all of uk's freshmen look really young it was tripping me out. de'aaron fox looks like he's 16

rip unlv, jeez

12 mins left in uk/unc 74-72, game looks gd fyi

damn, this game

malik fuckin munk

onions

^^^

auburn/uconn was comical uconn improbably forced ot and lost on a 3 by danjel purifoy (who was 0-9 fg when he made it)

uconn was so thin on ballhandlers cuz adams left injured, rodney purvis had to do way to much and had 20 pts on 5-22 shooting (1-13 from 3pt)

okay i know adams is out but wow is uconn bad

down 36-12 at halftime, shooting 3-for-21 (14.3%), went over eight minutes without scoring

sub in the womens team imo

damn @ lonzo ball

gd game

ucla has options for days, v deep

ONIONS

wow @ the end of smu @ cincy

super sick gtown alleyoop dunk

uconn blew a 14 pt lead in like 3 mins

they are bad

Lonzo Ball shoots like Shawn Marion

i know pitt isn't *good* -- kenpom has them no. 64 -- but one doesn't really expect them to get beat by 55 at home

vote to name providence's secondary mascot 'dog shammdog'

https://t.co/uMgCnm1fzJ

crazy comeback win at home for kansas against w virginia, were down by 14 with 3 minutes left in 2nd half.

how is bill walton still paid money to talk about basketball

a no-cut no-trade contract?

is he really worse than vitale?

Why do people dislike Bill Walton calling basketball games? Stop taking everything so seriously

I'd rather have bill walton calling 80% of NBA games than hearing Mike Breen fake laughing 75 times

bill was a lot more interesting as a vegetarian hippie with radical politics than he is now.

BANG tho xp

None of my favorite Bill Walton broadcasting moments had anything to do with those things

Bill Walton and Kevin Harlan are without question the best ever at calling bad games, of which there are many

i wouldn't have pegged matt as a walton fan. vitale is really bad too. i thought walton was fine 15 years ago doing the nba, but i can't listen to him for more than 30 seconds now.

The only time I disliked Walton is when he called games with Snapper Jones and they spent half the game flirting

From the 2017 DRAFT thread, but needs to be said again:

ban college hoops. revamp the d league and pay these kids.

― Spottie

do whatever is worst for Grayson Allen imo

i.e. cancel Hawaii Five-0

johnny crunch are you at this memphis-central florida game

because no one else is

no but i will be at cincy/Tulsa & Houston/uconn

ecu/temple yesterday looked really desolate on tv

btw i have really gd seats to that xp session cash me courtside howbow dah

i'm sure there'll be more people for uconn, but you could have bought rafter seats and walked down to courtside for these early games

gd win by uconn even if cincy works them tmorrow

hai mookie

http://www.actionmoviefreak.com/images/Matrix/matrix-hand-gesture.jpg

lol this uconn game is so dumb. 1000 fouls in the first 10 minutes

terrible

kinda like the uconn-duke 2004 final four game then

40+ free throws by cincy

this is wild

can feel the anti grayson allen weight in every pivot

ND deserves some sort of penalty for not wearing white imo

if i were a tru fan i'd be at the game tho

Farrell's black low tops with off white mid socks deserve something

track star

that merely makes up for whatever mike brey's wearing

V.J. Beachem
Bonzi Colson

these are good names

Brey's coaching success seems to be coupled with midlife crisis

Perhaps related to mindset required to motivate college male athletes

Beach is from fort wayne indiana

Bonzie is an enigma

go tincaps xp

Feel like duke's willingness to take bonzie seriously will pay off for them

He is the secret

though not well kept

MATT JONES

In the turning lane

Congrats on winning a basketball game with all of your elite recruits MOOKIEPROOF

You still must answer for the ted cruz of basketball

<3

k > dean

i now resume loving you SG, and mike brey (put a tie on tho)

<3 cannot stay mad. Just hope we can carry some spark into next week.

Hopefully this means we win the big one as it did for you two years ago

i kind of no joke like grayson allen's game

idk, i mostly hate him myself

he's a junior, he shouldn't be so frequently stupid

meeting my brother in vegas next week. How does ilx feel about gonzaga this year?

imo Zags are no better than an Elite Eight team. Well coached, as always, with good talent, but insufficient quickness or rebounding to break into the Final Four. but predicting the NCAA tournament is always a crap shoot.

haven't seen them play but my eternal instinct is to discount west coast teams, particularly those who, like gonzaga, have played essentially no close games

so yeah they'll probably win i guess

I never know what to do with gonzaga or teams in the new big east

Or big 12

Or pac 12. What is up with all of these teams?

Is the oregon injury serious? I know bonzie about that.

All 4 of the top West teams are good. Really good. Three *can* win the NC. Oregon could until Boucher went out. His injury will cost them at some point, no doubt in my mind. (Well, it might've last night. But I think it also knocks them down a notch overall.)

yeah, the Oregon Ducks' chances at a Final Four appearance probably evaporated with Boucher's injury. (sheds a tear)

wichita knocked out sean miller last year, back for archie this yr

The seeding is incredibly out of whack this year, especially with the Big 10. I follow the B1G more attentively than any other conference, and it is clear that the best three teams are Purdue, Michigan, and Wisconsin in some order, and Minnesota is not so great.

maryland at 6 is weirdly high, but i guess 24-8 is a good-looking record

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/tourney/2017/03/13/lavar-lonzo-ball-ucla-march-madness-nba-draft/99126082/

lonzo ball's dad is quite something

small part of me is rooting against that family's success tbh

Boasting about imaginary exploits that no one believes in isn't that hard to do.

small part of me is rooting against that family's success tbh

― k3vin k., Monday, March 13, 2017 5:18 PM (forty-one minutes ago) Bookmark

same especially if lonzo goes to the lakers

apparently liangelo is an ordinary prospect and i wouldn't be shocked if lamelo peaks early

Have to say this line made me laugh:

“ 'Ah, man, your dad’s distracting you. What’s he doing? His dad ain’t out here on the court with no hula hoops going, Hey, make a shot through here. That’s distraction.' "

obama picked unc to beat duke in the final

what a nightmare

michigan over louisville and iowa st over purdue?

these are not reasonable ideas

you can pencil michigan into the final four

#goblue

coach harbaugh will shout them into the final four

wtf sufjan

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/18915797/mike-brey-says-notre-dame-fighting-irish-pg-matt-farrell-better-bobby-hurley

nice, using the LaVar Ball coaching method

tbf matt farrell is playing like bobby hurley in comparison to last year matt farrell. whatever that means.

coach harbaugh will shout them into the final four

― Sufjan Grafton, Wednesday, March 15, 2017 4:20 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whatever works

indiana fired tom crean

seemed like a tough year of injuries

princeton teed up to make 40 3-point shots in 2nd half

virginia is not good at tournaments

or scoring

this tourney could have been so fun if thon maker had only spent a year in the ncaa

but taking millions of dollars was probably the right choice

please, Bonzie

whoa a princeton guy dunked

should not be allowed

we are in trouble. this thing is trending in the wrong direction. Bonzie bruised up. Beachem is not turning it on. Vasturia not making shots.

best free throw shooting team not making free throws

gaaah get a rebound

shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

teams that bring chairs out on the floor during timeouts = lame af

that's the worst inbound play i've ever seen

pllleeeeeease

fyi bobby hurley doesn't miss the front end of a one-and-one there

ND dodged one

xp fyi grayson allen is on your team

he's misunderstood

how could he be misunderstood after so much careful, slow motion study? he is the perfect duke heel, though, and I am glad that he exists

haha it has been posited that kennard and the freshmen have been able to thrive because opposing crowds are so focused on hating allen

london perrantes is a cool name

marial shayok also good

i know we all love hoosiers and whatever, but i think it's time that teams like nc/sd/mich state are forced to put more than just STATE on their unis

required to have one jimmy chitwood to use STATE

middle tenn was favored as a twelve seed, not sure thats ever happened before?

aw maryland lost, what a shame

These Arizona unis are a travesty I hope they lose just so I don't have to look at them past this round

MTSU has DUDES

xp at least the cummerbund unis are gone, right?

true true

This OkSU/Michigan has got to be the most nerve-wracking game I've experienced as a fan in a long time

derrick walton is having a game

woman in my office: GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER, MICHIGAN!

It was a thoroughly entertaining game that I would've absolutely loved if I didn't have a rooting interest. Still, I'm glad Michigan prevailed and if we shoot like that, we'll be hard to beat.

overcame being outrebounded more than 2-1 by amazing 3 shooting, props

groans in the office when that last-second OK state three supposedly covered the spread

there was also a ~5 yr old behind me @ this game who recited the "mama told me not to sell work/17.5 same color tshirt" song, unprompted

you in indy?

omg seton hall guy trying to dunk just got crushingly rejected

yea indy

nice

morelike SMhU

uk just had a lineup w fox and mulder in

go norse btw

fyi you'd better go to the slippery noodle iirc

adebayo on uk looks soo much like a mini dwight howard

COME ON WISCONSIN

nice

4 straight sweet 16s are impressive

Would love to see them lose to Duke again.

Brutal no-call plus T in the Zags game.

northwestern is almost making it intersting

papists win: gonzaga, xavier
papists lose: notre dame, villanova, st. mary's

not actually papists, i guess: butler

Purdue: 27 assists on 31 buckets in the win over ISU. Pretty amazing.

Would love to see them lose to Duke again.

BITE ME

this is karma for giving Bucky the 8 seed, btw

Man, Michigan has a team of destiny feel surrounding them. Haven't been this happy from sports in a long long time.

Only made one bet in vegas. Halftime over on msu/miami at 57.5. Go boilermakers!

Watching the ND loss at 915am with a terrible hangover might have been the saddest moment of my life

Wisconsin/nova ending was messy and disappointing

beilein super soak those hoes

"duane notice" is an outstanding name

frank martin is probably insane but is also a very good coach

watched the last quarter and 80% of the possessions were fouls lol that madness

the end was totally unwatchable it's true

refs were not afraid of the big moment

lol

v mad rhode island is not in sweet 16

pro-duke twitter is so funny

south carolina played way over their heads but that's still an insanely bad loss for duke

eh, it's not as bad as the lehigh etc. losses of years past. duke was wildly inconsistent all year -- they lost to nc state at home ffs -- and were missing a point guard

will say that frank martin had south carolina better prepared tho

there was a beautiful moment when the game was clearly over but the tv guys were pretending it wasnt and one of them was all dukes got to maintain its composure have nerves of steel like their coach [cut to coach k who is literally crying]

eh, it's not as bad as the lehigh etc. losses of years past. duke was wildly inconsistent all year -- they lost to nc state at home ffs -- and were missing a point guard

will say that frank martin had south carolina better prepared tho

― mookieproof, Monday, March 20, 2017 11:56 AM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark

idk the duke team that lost to lehigh wasn't that great. austin rivers, seth curry and two plumlees. cj mccollum put up 30 points in that game for lehigh. losing to mercer with jabari parker and rodney hood was prob worse.

this team has a top 5 pick, another lottery pick, maybe two or three more first rounders, four of the top 16 recruits... south carolina had 1 really good player but yuck

this is anecdotal but it does seem like going the all superstar freshman route is pretty boom or bust

ultimately i don't see top coaches turning down guys as talented as tatum or giles even if they're only going to stay for one year, but if roy williams goes to a second straight final four w/ a team that probably has no NBA players outside of maybe justin jackson it will be interesting to contrast that with coach k's newfound calipari approach to recruiting (of course if one year you get okafor, winslow & tyus jones...)

i can accept the argument that a team with that much future nba talent should have been better overall, but it never really came together with any consistency, perhaps because the freshmen got late starts due to injuries, perhaps because k's short-bench instincts never let giles or bolden emerge. wonder if bolden will transfer.

(i also think that playing four games in four days the previous weekend wasn't helpful, but hey, michigan managed okay.)

having an experienced team is an asset, but i don't think roy goes recruiting with the idea that he wants someone good, but not so good he'll leave after only a year or two. no one turns down talent, even if it results in the relatively crappy defense duke has played lately

fsu had 2 likely 1st rounders & lots of other talent and got washed by xavier

leonard hamilton is a bad coach

my bracket was particularly ruined this year by my proximity to acc basketball

yeah, it has served me so well recently. but not this year.

xxp absolutely true

I need to memorialize this for posterity (it is also really difficult to search online for), so bc the ncaa is too cheap or just doesn't want to deal w arranging halftime shows at these games, this year they did a shooting competition where I think a non athlete student from or somehow related to each school had 60-seconds to get as many pts as possible - scoring was 1 pt for layups (but you couldn't take them consecutively), 3 for free throws, 5 for 3 pts and 10 for halfcourt makes; it was run at all sights and you were competing against all other participants, top scorer for each round 1 and round 2 got $500 and a chance to be entered to win a trip to the final 4 (or something like that)

the Wichita contestant confidently ran right to a corner three pt shot and started hoisting, airballed AT LEAST ten in a row, but stubbornly would not move off that shot and ended w/ 6 points

the UK contestant confidently went to the top of the key 3 pt shot and started hoisting -- he made 16 3s in 60 seconds!! 80 points, it was impressive as hell; nb the previous highest point total we saw was 39 pts from the sacramento site

john thompson iii out at georgetown

mich/ducks is hype

ducks offense looks so smooth, escaped another 1

The Ducks would need to make a lot more of their shots to beat Kansas.

purdue def can beat ku

go purdue!

this zag/wv game is good

ugh what a tough loss for the maize and blue, felt like we should have pulled it out

that five-minute ref timeout with 1:59 left in wv-gonzaga was painful

Wowwwww

purdue def can beat ku

not today

11 seed needs to win this

yea Kansas was insane, wow

3 of 4 games within a possession, crazy

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south carolina's second half against duke was pretty damn good

they were def ballin'

Sindarius Thornwell s such a great name

20-28 is considered good in this sport

namewise i also enjoy duane notice

that final possession by AZ last night was some bad b-ball

the WV final possession (or two) was worse

wow i didn't watch but the gamecocks smoked baylor tonight didn't they

ok gonna watch lonzo ball

ucla-kentucky game is off the chain

UCLA is one of the most NBA looking offenses i've ever seen in college

and i love watching de'aaron fox, he's one of the most athletic guards i've ever seen. i think monk has been rated ahead of him for the draft but lately fox has been playing like the second coming of john wall or something.

lonzo is a sneaky good athlete and really good finisher but i think he's having trouble getting what he normally gets vs kentucky's kinda athleticism

ya imo there are major question marks abt what balls gonna do in the nba when he doesnt have an overwhelming athletic advantage

de'aaron

this game is unreal

lonzo really sees the court amazingly well tho

yeah hes an amazing passer for sure

well that was a game

that was sick

that shot was amazing

Both the shot to go to ot and the game winner were so good. Game of the tourney easily. So many reverse layups!

:(

nothin like a good ol fashioned 3pt floater to win it at the buzzer

Three SEC teams made the Elite Eight, but two west coast teams are already in the Final Four. Go ducks!

weve got a cinderella in the final four baby!

sindarius

go (south) carolina!

ducks cocks zags

obviously not rooting for unc, but . . . having two sec teams in the final four would be wack

why?

because it was the fifth-best conference this season -- which is an improvement on the last several years -- and because i already hear enough about sec football

ACC won football this year! We now get a pass for basketball!

did not quite realize the history of s Carolina in the tourney wow the beginning of this run was really like their first win of the modern era?!

The Gamecocks have appeared in the NCAA Tournament nine times. Their combined record is 8–9.

Results

1971 Sweet Sixteen
Regional 3rd Place Game Penn
Fordham L 64–79
L 90–100
1972 Round of 25
Sweet Sixteen
Regional 3rd Place Game Temple
North Carolina
Villanova W 53–51
L 62–92
W 90–78
1973 Round of 25
Sweet Sixteen
Regional 3rd Place Game Texas Tech
Memphis State
Southwest Louisiana W 78–70
L 76–90
W 90–85
1974 Round of 25 Furman L 67–75
1989 #12 Round of 64 #5 NC State L 66–81
1997 #2 Round of 64 #15 Coppin State L 65–78
1998 #3 Round of 64 #14 Richmond L 61–62
2004 #10 Round of 64 #7 Memphis L 43–59
2017 #7 Round of 64
Round of 32
Sweet Sixteen
Elite Eight
Final Four #10 Marquette
#2 Duke
#3 Baylor
#4 Florida
#1 Gonzaga W 93–73
W 88–81
W 70–50
W 77–70
TBD

1997 #2 Round of 64 #15 Coppin State L 65–78
1998 #3 Round of 64 #14 Richmond L 61–62

lol i was at both of these

coppin state band/cheerleaders/crowd were a+

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2017/3/27/15072236/lavar-ball-playing-basketball-video-michael-jordan

omg the uconn women are (briefly) losing

great ist half by the bulldogs. gonna take one helluva halftime pep talk to keep Mississippi State on top in the second half.

56-52 MSST up under 4:00 to go.

brilliant play from geno to go for the trap with 3 fouls

oh man if that half court shot went in

OT!

yea that shot was not too far from going in tbh

first time uconn trailed in the fourth in three years,ni'm told

a flagrant here would b wild

that would be a pretty soft flagrant man

sort of questioning whether announcers/refs can read and/or know the rules of basketball

Please don't call a flagrant

God this is horrible

What channel is this on?

ESPN 2

she was clearly just raising her arm up to reach for the ball lol, wtf is going on

huh, there was nothing on the espn graphic about hands to the face?

Thanks got it

w....t......f.......

wow terrible play chong

Wow

nice shot

damn

they say that all good things must end some day

omg that block

block / tko

if i hadnt known what happened and only gauged it by how karnowski is reacting on the bench id think hed been.....pepper sprayed?

zags playing well

scar can't miss

officials are giving SC a big boost with a string of questionable calls and no-calls, imo

RIP ducks. They had 8 or 10 chances in the last 6 minutes that bounced off the front of the rim. I gotta think tired legs. They pushed the Tarheels hard. Couldn't get over that last hump.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/sports/ncaabasketball/north-carolina-final-four-cheating-fake-classes.html?_r=0

This is the best article I have read on the coach changes at IU. As an IU grad, it's pretty dead on.

https://theringer.com/archie-miller-indiana-hoosiers-basketball-tom-crean-dbe7b96b398b

patrick ewing to georgetown!

def seems like he's earned this shot

some good d but lotta misses this half

the finals have really suffered since the best players jump up to the NBA after a year or two. still kind of fun, but not especially good hoops.

zags execution in the last two minutes was horrendous if i'm putting it generously.

that was a horrendous game

gonzaga put their guy who had just re-injured his ankle into to two iso situations in the most critical possessions of the game

that was a horrendous game

― J0rdan S., Monday, April 3, 2017 11:40 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah calling it a rock fight would be kind.

Zags big dude got expooooosed. College bball is bad.

sub big country

@AlexRoseNews
North Carolina lawmakers file bill that would pull #UNC + #NCState from @theACC if #ACC boycotts the state again after #HB2 fallout.

mike krzyewski a bitch

*krzyzewski, point still stands

corruption in college basketball? shocking stuff

damn, they got the rifleman

louisville friend convinced death penalty on the way

never happen

or maybe

https://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa-needs-give-louisville-basketball-death-sentence-bombshell-allegations-prove-correct-181930063.html

I'd definitely believe this could just be the start. There has been shoe contract/AAU shenanigans happening for 30+ years. I'm sure eventually something with the Nike schools is to come. There has been allegations around the Nike/AAU for decades but nothing ever happened.

Then again, North Carolina got off pretty much with nothing considering how much academic fraud their sports programs were doing.

I'd figure something will happen with football next.

penn state football and carolina both got off easy, but i don't think those investigations involved the feds?

(the former should have been burned to the ground and had its fields salted)

at a certain point, though, there's so much money involved that it will be worth it for schools to end the charade and leave the ncaa -- unless they're too afraid to so blatantly profit off unpaid athletes

According to sources, Tom Jurich was asked to fire Rick Pitino, refused, both were fired

— Kent Taylor (@KentTaylorWAVE) September 27, 2017

daamn

pay the players

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/20848092/louisville-cardinals-basketball-coach-rick-pitino-coach-2-federal-complaint-source

Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino, who has been placed on unpaid administrative leave amid a federal investigation into fraud and corruption, is the "Coach-2" who played a role in funneling money to a recruit, a source confirmed to ABC News on Thursday.

According to court records, Christian Dawkins, the former agent for ASM Sports who was charged in both parts of the college basketball case, told the cooperating witness, Marty Blazer, that he helped funnel $100,000 to the family of recruit Brian Bowen "at the request of a coach," identified as "Coach-2."

CBS first identified Pitino as "Coach-2" on Thursday.

Court records also said Adidas executive Jim Gatto "spoke directly with Coach-2 multiple times in the days before [Bowen] publicly committed" to Louisville.

During a meeting in a hotel room in Las Vegas on July 27, which was recorded by video cameras placed in the room by the FBI the day before, Dawkins, Jonathan Brad Augustine (the director of a Florida-based AAU program) and an undercover agent discussed how to pay $100,000 to the family of Bowen, a highly recruited player from LaPorte, Indiana, who had recently committed to play for Louisville, which has a shoe and apparel contract with Adidas.

Because two Adidas employees involved in the scheme were having difficulty getting the money, they wanted to funnel the payments through Augustine's AAU program, which was sponsored by Adidas. At one point during the conversation in the hotel room, according to FBI documents, Augustine allegedly said, "No one swings a bigger [expletive] than [Coach-2] at [Adidas]" and added "all [Coach-2] has to do is pick up the phone and call somebody, [and say], 'These are my guys; they're taking care of us.'"

pay the players

― Spottie

Gophers vs Alabama was weird, after entire Alabama bench is ejected, they have eligible players which got whittled down to three. damn near got the lead back playing 3 vs 5 on the floor, just insane game

Yeah, I would have liked to see that one.