2012 ncaa tournament / march madness / anthony davis appreciation thread / RIP gus johnson / shaka smart for ambassador to the UN

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otm

1000 new "my bracket is shot" posts by next Friday.

RIP gus johnson

4 real

murray st/colorado st is a pretty brutal contest for some reason

How far will Syracuse make it without Melo?

I would just like to put in my annual reminder that, contrary to popular wisdom, these games are way worse to watch than any solid NBA matchup. But if you enjoy botched alley-oops and endless perimeter passing

Hey, Bruce Hornsby in the stands at UNC-Ashville v Syracuse!

Syracuse is really killing them on rebounds. Too bad they can't make a shot to save their lives.

"any solid NBA matchup"

BTW $3.99 for all games is awesome.

hurting otm

long beach jerseys are gangster

unc asheville ballin

yeah love long beach jerseys kinda wish I picked them in my pool just for that

any solid NBA matchup"

― dandydonweiner, Thursday, March 15, 2012 4:24 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There are five NBA games on tonight. I guarantee you that in at least three of them you will see an intensity and level of basketball that blows all of today's games out of the water.

long beach state is ballin

what's goin on in the syracuse game, i see twitter blowing up about the reffing

several bad calls that went against asheville

what a shame, cuse is a joke anyway

weird lane violation call, terrible out-of-bounds call, etc.

still pretty amazing that asheville did so well with their leading scorer in the tank

dickey, 1-13 from the field

no crying in the ncaa, ashville

h8 all these teams wearing grey home unis

cuse will prob get by KSU but vandy might wax them

man that asheville ending was depressing

especially since I picked them as an upset in the first round and they came so close

Can someone explain the benefit of the ridiculong shot clock in NCAA? I see so many plays where they kill like 10 seconds passing back and forth btw the same two dudes with no other significant changes in court position for the team.

I can't watch Harvard/Vandy, what's the deal

I see my boys are down 10 but shouldn't Vandy have scored more than 33 pts in the half if things were dire?

harvard/vandy was pretty tight until the end of the half iirc

also: http://atdhenet.tv/44684/watch-harvard-vs--vanderbilt

harvard shouldve got like a 15 seed, theyre terrible

the $3.99 thing is really worth it. I wish the NBA would offer something that was the same price per game and had no blackouts

this Ware kid is legit

long beach/ nm is legit the best 1st rd game

'the beach'

this ware kid is . . . not afraid to shoot the ball, that's for sure

nice showing by sdsu tonight

playing in pittsburgh did not seem to help west virginia

who is this royce white kid for iowa state? 6'8'' 260 bringing the ball up the court and a great passer.

this whole iowa state team is fun to watch

think white's a little bit of a headcase, but he makes that team go when he's on.

I went to ISU. White has clinical anxiety and is on meds, there's all kinds of real issues with him. He's also the second best passer in the NCAA this year (next to UNC's Marshall.) Oh, and his move to the bucket is as good as anyone playing.

ISU can play with anyone. Zero 3 pointers in the second half against UConn, so I don't need to hear from anyone that they only win on their 3 point game. They're not going to beat Kentucky, unfortunately.

ISU can play with anyone. Zero 3 pointers in the second half against UConn, so I don't need to hear from anyone that they only win on their 3 point game. They're not going to beat Kentucky, unfortunately.

― dandydonweiner, Friday, March 16, 2012 7:14 AM (1 hour ago)

well yes this is probably why they were outscored by 10 points after the threes stopped dropping

white did look like a beast though. 6'8", 270! insane numbers too

UNLV might be the stupidest basketball team i've ever seen

one of the worst end of game offenses i've ever seen even by college standards

Former hawks coach Lon Kruger! What terrible days those were. He's done pretty well the the rebels though

i might get a nosebleed in these 1st sesh tix in nashville

nothing like c&w & whisky @ 10 am guh

lol @ texas with 2 points after 12 minutes of play

texas is a worse team than unc ashville by a wide margin

my extremely conservative bracket is not shot yet

Tourney has been pretty lame and predictable so far, even the one upset yesterday was a no-brainer.

2 upsets *

such great bromances in the broadcast booth -- lundqvist and raftery, brando and gminski

len elmore and reggie miller are not among them

Reggie sucks so hard.

Texas making a run.

Lundquist needs to retire.

Also, WTF happened to Leslie Visser.

Texas will be good next year.

wolf

pack

Leslie enjoys getting calls.

texas would lose to the baylor women

NC State has improve so much this year, I'm stoked they won this.

wow "bonnies" really? that's like the "boy named sue" of ncaa basketball.

dude who just got benched for st. bona looks about 37 years old

buh bye Bama

what the

why did fla st just run out the clock am i missing something

ok wait nm I crossed two games and thought the fla st game was ending

lol

college basketball coaches/players do sooooo much dumb shit at the end of games

like that missed dunk that UConn had as time expired last night? Keepin it classy with that.

lol right on cue xp

Vermont with the white-out

lol right on cue xp

― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Friday, March 16, 2012 5:06 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

i seriously can't believe some of this shit

Its kind of what makes it fun though, unpredictable and amateur.

Vermont is kinda predictable and amateur, tbh

duh

what a great shot out of the timeout

way to draw it up, frank haith

fuck...

lol in the little ilx bracket league everyone picked Harvard ;_;

picked st bonnies to upset and they failed me, just like real Saint Bonaventure

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr251/mookieproof/15.gif

i was at the coppin state game

duke is so terrible

lehigh and ohio are making a good showing in the first half

xpost lol

nice that the plumlees will get one more match up vs a team with no bigs so that everyone can pretend like they're good enough to play for duke

i don't really understand them -- they are actually pretty athletic! yet they suck

poor coaching amirite

they're just super unskilled... i'm not sure whose fault that is

the darker haired one is athletic enough to be a pretty good rebounder but whenever they play other good bigs (zeller, reggie johnson) they get dominated

lehigh guy just body blocked duke shooter, nice

i truly believe that duke would never lose a game like this because there's no way the refs could stand up to coach k if things really went down to the wire

i'm trying to think of anything more toxic than nantz & kellogg calling duke

one becomes accustomed to a duke team with maybe one player who can create his own shot, or one that lives and dies by three-point shooting

this team sucks at defense as well, tho

wtf was that free throw form

coach k might forcibly castrate one of these refs before the 15 min mark of the second half

fuck two fouls on that play, at least they called one

wtf was that free throw form

otm

a duke team that loses to miami and fsu at home and needs a miracle 20 point come back to beat nc st at home is.... not going to go very far in the tourney imo

looooool at the flop on that three... must've brought a tear to coach k's eye

imagine if lehigh could shoot

i never thought i'd every feel sympathy for clark kellogg, but apparently his son plays for ohio u who just so happen to be playing right now

clark kellogg is rather more sympathetic than billy packer was, at least

clark is ok! best high school player the state of ohio ever produced

fyi

he's just reeeeeeeeeeeeeally boring on TV

and not that this is necessarily his fault, but he partners with the most hateable man on TV, so some of it drifts toward him

OU up by 10

michigan is not very good imo

when i watch them i'm just baffled as to how they score points

lehigh is just clanking shots now

haha miles plumlee

not totally sure how that was a foul on lehigh

prob should've been a no call

haha i think i'm like a minute behind u (i'm watching online)

i saw the michigan/osu conference tourney game and michigan looked like the worst team in the big ten idgi

basically they had three good wins (osu, mich st, ind) all at home, didn't do shit on the road/neutral court... and that can be good enough to get you a 4 seed

but ohio state is overrated too and they beat mich st by a point

haha ohio state *destroyed* duke too

ohio state looks markedly worse than they did last year imo

MSU is my rooting interest so they got that going for them

but yeah, Big Ten w/e

i dunno -- i guess parity makes seeding harder, tho. 20 years ago you'd expect the 1 and 2 seeds to win by 30

MSU is awesome, i have them in the final game

Sullinger has been a big disappointment for the buckeyes this year

brownie did u go to msu

yeah i was talking to a friend yesterday about how you never hear about him anymore xp

clark is ok! best high school player the state of ohio ever produced

― are chads electorate (brownie), Friday, March 16, 2012 7:59 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait

thought Valparaiso would be the Butler of this year yet they lost to Detroit in the conference rigamarole

i did not go to MSU but my brother (RIP) did.

wait

lol i'm possibly drunk

i'm gonna say that billy owens was the best high school player the commonwealth of pennsylvania ever produced

saw him put up 55 in the '88 championship in a *bunch* of different ways

i hate watching austin rivers play

i can't believe lehigh is still in this!

have you seen duke play this year?

haha no i haven't tbf

i just know someone who played sports at lehigh so it's weird

hell of a game by seth curry

great baseline pass!

interesting this year-- feels like some 12/13 seeds have just gotten wrecked while some of the 15s and 16s have played extremely well.

AYO MAKE FREE THROWS

MA PLUMLEE 60 DUNKS THIS SEASON (SINGLE-SEASON DUKE RECORD)

lol

okay @ lehigh having a guy named MACKIE MCKNIGHT

LOL DUKE

play defense you fucking retards

this is amazing

my brother is up in durham this weekend coincidentally, i'll try and get a full report

oh PLEASE do

RIP michigan

lehigh is soooo gonna blow this

very intelligent foul!

duke player fouls himself out off the ball for absolutely no reason

college basketball, everyone!

it's usually not pretty but it's always kind of fun

guys I don't give w fuck abt amateur ball, but lol duke lololol

well, that's true for the ncaa tournament

any random game you'd find on espn on a monday night..... not so much

xp

how is a double-clutch falling-sideways scoop "taking it strong to the rim"?

oh yes only the tourney is in scope for my comment

welp

guys I don't give w fuck abt amateur ball, but lol duke lololol

― arsenio and old ma$e (m bison), Friday, March 16, 2012 9:30 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm pretty sure purdue-st marys has been going on for 6.5 hours

aaaaahahaahhahaahah

*office space boss voice* yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah we're gonna need more swag on that game clinching dunk........

that's a T in college, no?

dozens of ppl are poised on this wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Men%27s_Division_I_Basketball_Championship_upsets

lol jord

MY GOD

that's a v. useful wiki page

rivers sucks at FT shooting tho

fucking hell people

*ahem*

wow that duke mom looked busted as fuck

lehigh is soooo gonna blow this

― been to lots of college and twitter (k3vin k.), Friday, March 16, 2012 9:27 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

at this pt all i can really say is that i'm glad my team wasn't #3 in the country like j0rd's

errrr not

xp was that glen rivers's wife?

HA!

!!!!

plz show crying duke fan now this is what we paid for

i'd tap a keg w/"gabe knutsen"

am now googling lehigh
betting myself it's in the midwest

this is pretty far from shocking, nantz

Penn, so close

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Men%27s_Division_I_Basketball_Championship_upsets

lol

ooooh finally a good look for a team at the end of the game! but st marys misses

ha no idea liu brooklyn had its own separate basketball team

detroit COULD give kansas a run

lol @ chuck right now

chuck is shitting on duke's talent while also praising coach k for his coaching job... while not mentioning who recruits those players...

do not envy tracy wolfson

C.J. McCollum had the 3rd highest PER in the NCAA this year behind Anthony Davis and Damian Lillard. McDermott 4th, Nicholson 5th.
10:06pm - 16 Mar 12

MY ALMA MATER, BEAT THE DOOK, CAN NOW DIE HAPPY

looooooool

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOKIIIEEEEEEEEEESSS

OMG DOOKIES GOT BEAT BY A BUNCH OF ENGINEERS WITH NO ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIPS AAAAAAAAAAAAGH

;_;

Guys did ya'll get the part where the Patriot League was formed by a bunch of schools that decided they were not gonna do athletic scholarships so they had to band together with their shitty teams to play each other?

OMG BEAT DUKE, DYING, ETC

https://twitter.com/#!/search/Missouri%20loves%20company

Coach K looked like he just got a huge brown and white dick up his ass, in a bad way.

btw mich st is only beating LIU BROOKLYN (huh?) by 5

and a v. creditable half by liu brooklyn

county of kings imo

LUCY LIU BROOKLYN

i lived 5 blocks from liu brooklyn for years and had no idea they had a basketball team

i dont love college basketball but btw its cool how theres one team everyone can hate together

Guys did ya'll get the part where the Patriot League was formed by a bunch of schools that decided they were not gonna do athletic scholarships so they had to band together with their shitty teams to play each other?

OMG BEAT DUKE, DYING, ETC

― quincie, Friday, March 16, 2012 10:26 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is how the ivy league was formed too

quincie is so mean

to me

alas, you are the only Dook man I have ever loved, or ever will love. . .

at least i can still look down on u

I mean I am sorry for your pain, I have been there with both Lehigh and the Heels, but you gotta admit. . . if you gotta go down, might as well go down in flames.

And you can't look down on me to the same extent as like 90% of the US population, male or female.

haha no, lehigh was totally the better team tbh

i only saw the end of tonights came so i cant comment on it particularly but in general the way austin rivers chooses to play basketball is extremely strange and hilarious

tbf, the only way duke could score was by austin rivers doing something, whether it be absurd or sublime

yeah, he's their only respectable player

feel like doc could be convicted of neglect based on game tape alone

i knew c.j. mccollum from when he was in high school, and he is the nicest guy ever. so happy for him and lehigh. fuck a blue devil.

why did duke end up with soooo many borderline worthless players this year?

feel like doc could be convicted of neglect based on game tape alone

― lag∞n, Friday, March 16, 2012 10:37 PM (34 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

did u guys know juwan howard jr. plays for detroit?

juwan howard III iirc

did you guys know juwan howard plays for the heat?

o maybe but he goes by jr. according to the detroit mercy titans athletics site

he is juwan howards grandson is what im trying to say

oh lol then juwan howard jr. must be playing in europe or something, family business and all that

(that was a subtle joke, i tend to miss those)

yah maybe ~too subtle~ tourney is crazy so much pressure

juwan howard legit wouldn't start for UNC or kentucky

detroit

since i know this becuz clevo state is in the horizon league- detroit was the preseason fav to win it this year but only got in to the NCAA due to conference tourney

-brownie nantz

juwan howard legit wouldn't start for UNC or kentucky

― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Friday, March 16, 2012 10:49 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol hm

he's got that fab five championship experience tho

i'm not kidding... he's currently not better than tyler zeller, john henson, anthony davis or michael kidd-gilchrist

it's weird how detroit is still in this game

usf went 16 game minutes w/o a field goal and are only down 4

A strange observation -- NCAA tournament games are much QUIETER than NBA games, and I kind of like it. NBA is super noisy.

yeah, that sorta happens when you have teams travelling to neutral sites on four days notice

I like this Brooklyn team they got heart.

I also used to live blocks from the school and walk by what I'm pretty sure was their gym, but until last year I thought it was a community college.

they go hard to the rim in a way not a lot of ncaa teams do

they just built a huge new athletic facility a few years ago and im p sure before that liu only had one team and they played at the long island campus

NCAA tournament games are much QUIETER than NBA games, and I kind of like it. NBA is super noisy.

also when you don't have 'pump up the jam' playing constantly at high volume, etc

where is the facility xpost?

my boss picked mich state to win it all and I will be really annoyed if he wins the office pool because he has a porche and a house in the hamptons

it abuts their athletics fields on like s felix or maybe ashland btwn dekalb n willoughby, basically at the back of the school if flatbush is the front

ooh irish being robbed on this lane violation

REALLY GLAD THIS REF SHOWED UP TO MAKE SOME CALLS

FANTASTIC ENDING

just when there was an opportunity for buzzer beating...

Chuck otm about that lane violation call. Disgraceful.

so after the game is over i watch Letterman for the first time in five years

i dunno, he's out of it. there's something wrong.

@ the biggest dive ever & justin tuck, laurence tynes & like 8 other nygs are here getting trashed

i thibk im nor that far from playing in the nfl tbh

<i>NCAA tournament games are much QUIETER than NBA games, and I kind of like it. NBA is super noisy.

also when you don't have 'pump up the jam' playing constantly at high volume, etc</i>

Not only that, but most NBA games pump the crowd noise through the P.A. This is one of the many things I hate about the NBA.

Also, am currently hungover and wondering how much hope I should invest in my alma mater beating Kentucky.

"I've never seen anything like it," Lehigh forward Justin Maneri said with a deep laugh. "We came to the practice the other day and as soon as you walked in they were going crazy for us and we're like, 'What's going on?' They were like, 'Go Lehigh, beat Duke!' They were screaming. It was nice to have fans here that weren't Duke. I've never seen two schools that hate each other so much."

"We had 56 people on our ticket list," Norfolk State assistant coach Robert Jones said. "We had 56 fans. By the end of the game, there were 10,000.

I love this time of year. The only thing that sucks about it is that after it's over baseball starts.

<3 that second quote. so awesome.

Well, part of the reason for that is because so many UNC fans stayed for that game and we all hate Duke.

^^ otm

They were like, 'Go Lehigh, beat Duke!' They were screaming. It was nice to have fans here that weren't Duke. I've never seen two schools that hate each other so much.

Tickets for UNC - Duke are always scalped for $500 - $1000. And that's twice a season. I can't think of another college rivalry so intense.

Also, things like this intensify the hatred. Fuck the refs who shamelessly allowed it all season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi9fMxwglqU

^^ that vid shows numerous instances of horrible, obvious, unforgiveable traveling. The refs must never once have looked down to figure it out, or else they were gambling on the games. The ACC should be burning red in the face with shame for those refs' incompetance.

i don't have much of a problem with the walks off the catch, but the shuffling is terrible and blatant and is further evidence that no one ever taught rivers how to play basketball

makes me think of my old, slightly cranky coach at bball camp when i was like 10 exhorting us to catch the pass and "stop on a dime"

Syracuse looked pretty strong today but I think KSU was a #10 seed at best.

They were like, 'Go Lehigh, beat Duke!' They were screaming. It was nice to have fans here that weren't Duke. I've never seen two schools that hate each other so much.

yeah this is the drawback of the pod system for duke -- they don't have to travel far for the first round, but there are always more carolina fans

Favorite pic from that game: Lehigh dude holding huge sign that said "DUKE WAS MY SAFETY SCHOOL."

niiice

ive got the steven tchiengang over

jae crowder is awesome

looks exactly like faried pt 2

haha yeah i was thinking that too

ha me too

this wiltjer kid looks like he's 12 years old

guh college basketball swinging the ball around the perimeter pointlessly for 30secs every possession, they need a shorter shot clock so bad

smh at the end of that vandy game

try doing one of four things:

- getting a rebound after you force a team to jack an nba three with 2 seconds left on the clock
- making the front end of a one and one
- calling a time out and not letting clueless players orchestrate an end of game sequence on the fly
- not launching a miracle three after coming back thanks to pounding the ball inside

rip shaka

at least shaka called a time out at the end of the game and didn't have his team just senselessly launch a three pointer from two ft behind the line

dude had a wide open look, RIP

Yeah if you can't make a wide open three, that's just how it goes.

Wide open threes are still only a 50% opportunity for most college players.

Always interesting to see which commercial will annoy me most. Buick's Peter Frampton ad is my one seed.

its funny because peter frampton prob does play bars these days

Wait, where'd this Exxon Keystone Pipeline ad come from? Could pull an upset.

the toyota coach is making me start to miss n-n-n-napa knowhow a little

usf is getting bailed out by some highly questionable foul calls imo

hey guys lets be cool peter frampton never bothered anyone

man lehigh really gave this thing a run

zip em up, that's our motto

oh, hey, it's bill self! it's march!

after the usf/ohio game i saw a usf player go ovr 2 a booster in the stands and get handed a wad of ca$h

lol whut

that program is gonna get slammed for recruiting violations soon btw

wow, hair on my neck was on its feet for last few mins of that kansas game

some historic end of game execution from purdue there

blake griffin in that subway commercial is really making me hate blake griffin

srsly these commercials are garbage - that one, the buick ad. are these online only? they're like student- created ads

I don't know how many times with the clock going down this weekend clubs just needing a basket settling for some at best 35% long range bomb instead of pushing it inside to go for the shot and see what happens. Driving it down to shoot - it might go in, you might get fouled, it might be like in the IU game and get knocked out to your own guy...either way, I bet it is a better chance of success (either scoring or going to the line combined) than just launching one up half cocked from the 3 line.

The 3 line is crack for some college teams and I think it leads to some bad shots.

move the 3pt line out shorten the shot clock go more pro game would be better

20-17 at half. Butler vs Penn. CBI classic.

The 3 line is crack for some college teams

y

some of these coaches need to be straight up fined for this shit

how do you watch your PG dribble in no man's land three feet from the half court like with 8 seconds left and just swallow your whistle

my mind is numb right now

swallow your time out, i mean

vern setting raft up is the best thing

"how do you describe that call"
"ennnh a little nickle dimer"
"i thought thats what u might say"

looool

it's a travesty that nantz/kellogg call the big games over them

osu/cincy is a surprisingly hot game

i'm all in on cincy, team is pretty fun

oh well

yea i amend my use of 'hot' to only signify thad mottas red face now

Baylor looking good despite the uniforms.

rooting hard for Xavier if only for tu holloway and lyons

zip em up

surprised, elated that ohio is actually in this game

crazy finish to Xavier-Baylor going on right now.

unc looking shook

baltic owns

^^^

fuuck

nice shot

ugh

wauuu

WALTER OFFUTT

offutt

ugh make the ft

oh my god

all offutt all the time

1st ot game of the whole tourney iirc

marv concurs

fuck, now they're gonna start heaving 3s

jesus christ ohio got outrebounded by almost 30

damn, zeller went kinda ham

ohio had 30, zeller had 22

kentucky/IU is gonna be sick

if theres any way ohio could get an impact forward/center, theyll still b p good next yr, only 1 senior

interesting point

Chad Ford ‏
No one helped their draft stock more than Kendall Marshall. 6 HS All-Americans struggled to score without him running the show

jesus christ i didnt realize dj cooper was 3-20

to win the first game in nashville he was like 7-9 and i remember remarking abt how hed matured, what efficiency

who was the color guy? kerr? kept going on about how lost UNC was on offense (except for bullock, evidently).

kerr was being such a cunt, i loved it

his entire commentary was just "... *smh*"

it sounds better from him than from billy packer tho

or bilas

kansas' offense has been comically bad so far

i kinda want NC st to win cuz i think it would be hilarious if they beat UNC minus marshall to make the final four -- that would be some all-time butthurt by UNC fans

oh gross, the harbaughs

^verbatim quote what i thought

how can anyone not love nc state? THEIR SHIRTS SAY 'STATE'

they've been the destitute shitstain on tobacco road for almost 20 years and have wrecked good coaches like herb sendek (and heroes like sidney lowe). go pack

eh sendek wasn't that great a coach

herb wasn't much of a recruiter, but i think he did pretty well with what he had -- better than his predecessors anyway

if you're coaching basketball in north carolina and aren't much of a recruiter you prob shouldn't have a job

otm

...

i'm still butthurt about him yelling at me at a kentucky basketball camp 20 yrs ago

haha ok

i went to five star but no one bothered yelling at me

i'm sure i deserved it

kidd gilchrist is a fucking beast

i think dude is gonna be a stud in the nba

the only reason i ever scored in camp was because this guy on my team (who was on an opposing team in actual high school) was an incredible passer. dude could play.

unfortunately i was with him when a scout asked him what his sat score was. he said 740, and the scout asked math or verbal. oops

look at these ppl

http://30fps.mocksession.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2012-March-23-20-19-38.jpg

wau wolfpack

tyshawn has been godawful here

why would you run a play w/ a pass like that involved

yeah, just asking for it to go out of bounds

Withey with 10 blocks, the most blocks in a tournament game since Shaq.

UK plays like tonight, no one is going to beat them. They got everything: inside game, shooting, defense and tonight they just lit up the charity stripe. IU played a pretty good game for the most part, but once the fouls piled up and Oladipo had to go to the bench, they just couldn't hang.

Glad they called those fouls early on Zeller to reign him in. Dude plays dirty and doesn't have to. Can't see anyone beating Kentucky, either.

Props to Stillman White. I told my wife he's the Tar Heels' Matt Seracen.

Any team is beatable, but Kentucky looks like the best team still in the running. I don't have a beef against the UK players. Lamb looked especially underrated as an efficient role player against Indiana. But fuck Calipari with a nightstick.

who'd of thunk boynton & walker would both miss 3s w/ the season on the line? good comeback by l'ville

amazing comeback

erv walker sucks

good call on the traveling at the end, i thought for sure there was a foul

this reminds me when i predicted erv walker's stat line in the elite 8 last year, i need to find that

yea that was classic

it's gonna be hilarious when UF loses next weekend during a game where erving walker shoots 1/7 from 3

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Harrison Barnes cannot make a basket. wtf?

And I don't understand how North Carolina is getting out rebounded.

i don't understand why the #2 seed gets the home game

jayhawks were really lucky that withey didn't get his 5th foul w/ about 2 minutes left. they totally had the momentum after that.

Barnes soooo not ready for pros.

UNC shot 11% from 3 point range.

I hate KU with the fire of 1000 suns. They can go eat a bag of dicks.

poor heels

This put me in the uncomfortable position of rooting for Ohio State. Bill Self's smirk needs to be permanently wiped off his face.

Kentucky/Louisville should be kinda fun. Not that I care for either team or coach, but the stands should be filled with all sorts of hate.

Really wanted Stilman White to rise to some mythical place in Tar Heel history. At least it wasn't his fault that they last. No turnovers in two games from a third-string point guard is nothing to be ashamed of.

Thankfully White didn't step on his dick, but he was a liability the whole game because his vision of the court is pretty narrow and KU guards ran all over UNC--the Tar Heels looked like they were learning an offense the last 10 minutes. Who the hell draws up an offensive set that has the #4 and #5 men up on the three point line for much of the shifting. DUMB.

Three of my least favorite coaches in the sports world are now left (Calipari the Cheater, Facelift Pitino, and Self) so needless to say, I'm not looking forward to the Final Four.

^^dw's last sentence otm

cal is awesome

he's pretty awesome at bailing out just before the NCAA police arrive with the sanctions, fwiw

hope the announcers talk about how this is calipari's second trip to the final four, since he's had two others vacated

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7737280/harrison-barnes-two-years-north-carolina-tar-heels

@blazersedge
Blazers must be 1st team in history w/ Acting GM, Interim Coach & unofficial "support" assistant. Mascot will be on 10-day contract by April

Oops, wrong thread!

i liked that barnes story -- he has a pretty interesting decision... he can cut bait and STILL probably get picked in the bottom of the top 10 or maybe he comes back to carolina and becomes actually great and goes top 3 in a weaker 2013 draft

the question is more if he comes back and plays himself out of the first round, a la josh mcroberts . . .

yeah, that would certainly be the risk -- i'm sure he'll go

who the fuck is gonna be on carolina's team next year

also injuries are injuries but i'm kinda surprised that roy isn't catching more flak for not having someone even 10% as good as kendall marshall backing him up. PG is the most important role in his offense and his back up plan was stilman white??

ppl in my office today were talking about how roy was outcoached by bill self (despite self not being much of an in-game coach).

i dunno, i didn't see the game. i'd be reasonably pleased with seven assists and no turnovers from a guy who averaged six minutes this season tho, just from the line.

yeah i don't know, UNC almost lost to ohio. they clearly weren't gonna beat kansas w/o marshall. you could just as easily make the argument that it was a miracle that they were even that close.

i mean seven assists and zero turnovers sounds okay on its face but... the guy is playing with literally seven potential first round picks. he wasn't doing anything but swinging the ball to really, really good basketball players. he had one good play where he slipped into the lane and hit henson for a dunk. but other than that he wasn't doing anything that any random bench guard off any team in america couldn't do, and that's not good enough for north carolina imo.

it's obviously not his fault, and to his credit up until the final desperation 90 seconds he didn't try and do anything he can't do (i.e. score) but they should've had someone better than him.

> catching more flak for not having someone even 10% as good as kendall marshall backing him up
> they should've had someone better

Kendell Marshall started the year as Larry Drew's back up. When Larry Drew left the school in February, Dexter Strickland was Kendell Marshall's back up until he tore his ACL. Stilman White was effectively the fourth string point guard at the start of the year.

i think i basically cheer for players and coaches who violate recruiting rules because they show what a sham the whole college athletics industrial complex is. so i want knetucky to win

knetucky

the guy is playing with literally seven potential first round picks

then one of them needs to be able to create his own shots amirite

its all happening

this is going to be a blood bath

74000 ppl @ a bball game is ludicrous

srsly

wow this is gonna be over quick

guess i should start learning who these other guys are besides davis

katie kuric needs 2 have a good game

bobby knight falls asleep on live tv

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/did-bobby-knight-fall-asleep-live-television-203435854.html

he has not having to wear suits, etc in his contract w/ them right? maybe he also has a 'can fall asleep on live tv' clause

i look forward to welcoming anthony davis to the nba

cant recall someone who so consistently blocks shots on the perimeter

i look forward to watching anthony davis in the nba provided he doesn't get drafted by the bobcats

college refs are so bad

is it march monotony... no! its march madness people

whats the logic behind this raised court, i dont like it, not at all

ok so I guess I'm watching this.

which one is Anthony Davis.

#23 kentucky

whats the logic behind this raised court, i dont like it, not at all

― lag∞n, Saturday, March 31, 2012 7:00 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

i guess the way football stadiums are laid out they need to do it like that? just seems crazy dangerous

kentucky should win the whole thing but they do some dumb stuff at times

having the benches below court level is just unnatural

i just fail to see how UK loses unless davis fouls out

chuck kenny greg anthony cbs worlds colliding

have u seen Vandy's basketball court? benches are at the ends, behind the baskets.

fucked up man

http://157.166.255.30/images/6/69/MemorialGymVanderbilt.jpg

it's no way to live

wow good thing that court is so wide

http://bbcourts.blogspot.com/

This dude is super into basketball courts.

http://i.imgur.com/8LNq0.jpg

kentucky needs a rebound every once in a while

louisville showing good spurtablity

the one thing about kentucky is like... they're kinda like the nuggets? they can look amazing at times but they don't have one player who can definitely get their own offense when things get really bogged down. prob their one achilles heel.

oh shit

hoooooo

that was reeally close to being deflected gdamn

what the hell is louisville doing?

thank god i dont have 2 listen to clark kellogg talk abt louisville's effort anymore

srsly nbd dont foul w/e

down by 6 with 30 seconds left and you don't foul? huh?

anthony davis no less?

they shouldve fouled on the previous possession too!

yeah that was bizarre

nice lil 4-step travel there

i wanna see some highlights of davis before his growth spurt. apparently he was a 6-1 PG three years ago?

ha yeah thats nuts

ok wtf is up w/that pattern on the back of the ohio state uniforms

dude played for some little high school that played in a gym that sat about 100 people. wtf

yeah thats crazy just some unknown point guard for a lil chicago charter school and then two years later hes the #1 pick in the nba draft

i kind of love him and am pissed at myself for ignoring college bball this year

Way to end the half

lol wut was that call

refs be reffin

would uk beat these two teams combined y/n

lol college basketball

lol, ku hasn't been able to choke away games b/c they've never been ahead

college basketball in a nutshell, the ends of these 2 ga
games today

This KU season is pretty fucking awesome. Lose their two best players, two top recruits ruled ineligible and they're in the finals with a 7 man rotation.

http://30fps.mocksession.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/EyeTVSnapshot13.jpg

aww

*_*

the one thing about kentucky is like... they're kinda like the nuggets? they can look amazing at times but they don't have one player who can definitely get their own offense when things get really bogged down. prob their one achilles heel.

― J0rdan S., Saturday, March 31, 2012 7:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

man I kinda feel this is true for like, all college teams - watching college bball is always boring for me cuz it's like, 15 passes for a contested 3 or jumper

anthony davis looks pretty serious, wonder if he'll be able to fill out or be a forever thin dude

I am p sure he gets his eyebrows sculpted, just to troll national TV

hell be able to put on muscle, hes not that skinny right now, looks m/l like this guy

http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/PJ-AO862_SP_BIG_DV_20090325213829.jpg

yeah he's only 19

davis has a GREAT body imo n/h

agreed

lol

http://i.imgur.com/J4AgR.png

yeah he's gotta work on that tho

it doesn't help he has a mole RIGHT THERE

everyones talking abt this as the greatest block in history and tbf is is vv impressive closing out on and then blocking a fade away from a 6-11 guy w/v long arms, after contesting the post up and forcing the pass in the first place too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abVqNqNwMYQ

his mom had drawn a unibrow on her face yesterday and also on her cheek

hakim warrick 2003 championship game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeZ86-8auRc

lol i love the shooters reaction *welp*

obvs not comparable magnitude games but the davis play is imo clearly more impressive

it's not just that he has a unibrow, it's also the shape of his unibrow

yeah shit is so dramatically arched

he looks a lot like his dad but he got those eyebrows from someone else

also have you seen his teeth

http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/full/2012/03/31/256008-davis.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/iW7Qj.jpg

full disclosure i grew up in upstate new york, i may be biased

think he got it from his mom xp

jesus he's like a shark or something xp

his whole face is p remarkable

poor kid in shitty teeth shocker

he'll have plenty of $$ to get those fixed pretty soon

yep

yeah :(

xxp

if he just got the stray one pulled it really wouldnt be that bad

braces take a long time to work tho

I know a guy who has a 2x2 array of front teeth, his fam doesn't really have the money to fix it... yet. he is a really happy dude however, think he might be getting dental work done soon

maybe he is a shark

his teeth are jacked the fuck up and i guess it's cool that he owns the unibrow and shit but i'm sure he'll choose to get some work done on those chompers

so i guess davis projects as a calmer, better-shot blocking kevin garnett? though the skinny young duncan comparison is intesting too, body-wise. davis seems like a good scorer, but maybe a more opportunistic one than a guy who can always get his own shot.

defensively he looks like garnett, offensively he looks a lot more like duncan

tho he's prob a bit more athletic than duncan? i'm too young to remember what timmy was like in college tho.

davis is pretty unique.

davis is frequently compared to camby

i think he's frequently compared to camby in terms of "that's the absolute, worst case scenario" -- i don't think anyone thinks he's gonna be camby tho. he's gonna be way better all around.

his post game is p raw at this point which makes sense

ehhh camby was a pretty beastly player who just happened to be made of glass xp

yeah, but that's understandable considering his story xp

his turn around was looking very silky yesterday

cambys a great defender/rebounder but his offensive game was never for much

ehhh camby was a pretty beastly player who just happened to be made of glass xp

― dayo, Sunday, April 1, 2012 2:48 PM (44 seconds ago) Bookmark

fair enough but there's still a big difference b/w garnett & duncan and a healthy, in his prime marcus camby. i think most scouts think davis has a great chance of being closer to the former.

his turn around was looking very silky yesterday

― J0rdan S., Sunday, April 1, 2012 2:49 PM (23 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah the shot looked good but you could see he was v slow and robotic gathering himself and making his move, which is fine when youre playing against college dudes but would get eaten up by pro defenses

the worst case for davis is, idk, stromile swift

if you put him in the pros today hed prob be better than peak stro swift

the worst case for davis is, idk, stromile swift

― dayo, Sunday, April 1, 2012 2:52 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark

no

there is no good comparison for Anthony Davis, which is why he's so intriguing.

yep

My wife calls him Frida Kahlo.

hahaha

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

pitino accidentally shows his real face, calipari is more pro

Rick Pitino = Bethenny Frankel. Just had to get that out there.

calipari doesn't have a real face tho

troo

Q: If Calipari wins, and the championship is later vacated, will the secret trophy rooms in the heads of basketball announcers reflect this? Or will they continue to call him a champion?

http://paulacizek.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/chka-mango.jpg?w=500

the practice of repossessing schools wins is so silly, like yeah it never happened

Yeah, it is silly. But Calipari's image is too glossy, and that includes the image projected on him by most announcers. He should be forced to look like Smiegel to match his inner corruption. Bill Belichick's doing it right.

post on the nyt basketball blog today saying anthony davis' best comparison is c-webb in that both are crazily talented and could totally dominate games but may end up being viewed as "disappointments" bcuz of their passivity

davis plays like a shooting guard who wished on a magic lamp for inspector gadget arms

closing in on tip-off time, stoked!

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTgG2S89zKknRh2JzinAej7g2pTV55c7oLv-95vYGPLPmcCzbeg2PIu3xLO

kentucky looks great

if MKG is hitting jumpers and teague is finishing at the rim... RIP

jesus uk is ballin

kidd-gilchrist 1 handed rebound snatch was sicc

this anthony davis kid is pretty good

davis working on a little 1-15-5-3-6 right now nbd

ridiculous move

again

lol @ calipari reaction "shots fired ???"

god MKG balled the fuck out tonight... dude had me bowing at my TV

kidd-gilchrist 1 handed rebound snatch was sicc

― johnny crunch, Monday, April 2, 2012 10:45 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark

THIS WAS LIKE "PREDATOR: REBOUND" omg

First game I really got to watch Anthony Davis. Impressive player. Somewhat comparable to Kareem as a UCLA freshman.

literally sirens, helicopters, & gunshots in lexington tonight

KegsnEggs: "They also have a propane tank" was just mentioned over the Lexington police scanner. #runyall

ha holy shit
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/538365_10150625364820766_248553767_n.jpg

nothing on fire yet
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/546354_10150634765928247_593553246_9021400_1670299959_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/562808_10151664806123539_508023538_403744520_1836594832_n.jpg

Look at me! Look at me!

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1x5zs0x8o1qk4a0ho1_500.jpg

Anthony Davis's mom <3

smgdh

come on that hilarious

^^

Meanwhile, in the other NCAA basketball tournament, the Baylor Bears win the chip by finishing the season 40-0, behind 6'8" center Brittney Griner.

Cody Zeller and Christian Watford will both return for the Hoosiers next season.

indiana will come back big

mason plumlee will return to duke next season

no one cares; he sucks

uconn is imploding

dummond and lamb both gone, oriakhi transferring

that's like a normal offseason at any major cbb school

well idk i mean all our impact players are gone, we can't play in the tournament next year which kills our recruting, plus i bet calhoun will retire in the next couple months

yeah, RIP

I think Drummond might have come back without the NCAA bringing the hammer down on the program

i'm a little surprised

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/blog/eye-on-college-basketball/18789656/report-greenberg-out-at-virginia-tech