NCAA HOOP

gonzaga out of the top 25 for the first time in eight years

more like gone zaga

who’s #1?

lol duke

I look forward to watching a game or three during the Frantic First Four Days. The crazy intensity of a single-elimination tournament of that size isn't reproducible,even if the quality of the hoops is really ragged.

otm

uconn

wolfpack tho

I watched the first 10 minutes of the Big East final and good lord.

The pack is back! That was fun. My dad graduated from state and we grew up watching them. Haven’t paid attention to them in a decade or so, but my parents are visiting so we got to watch it together. Their big man is something

Man, Bill Raftery is an exhausting listen.

this bracket is pretty sketchy

uconn gets the #1 overall seed and sees 3 other kenpom top 10 teams in their region…very cool and fair

if you're mad, imagine how auburn feels

put yourself in auburns shoes and walk a mile

i was . . . not expecting the mountain west to get twice as many bids as the big east, although i don’t know or care enough to complain about it

but no matter how good their kenpom or their conference, michigan state going 19-14 (10-10), 3-7 on the road, 2-7 against ranked teams, and a loss in the conference quarters sounds like a first four team to me at best, not a straight-up 9 seed

no feeling bad for auburn and bruce pearl in this house

it does seem like the committee worked hard to make sure uconn won't repeat. might not be hard enough though.

re: mountain west, they've been a very strong basketball conference for several years now. pretty much on par with if not better than the erstwhile pac-12.

i'm rooting pretty hard for arizona and caleb love, and creighton with my guy ryan kalkbrenner. and of course, i am down bad for keisei tominaga and nebraska

no feeling bad for auburn and bruce pearl

that’s fair

also, yikes @ virginia

DUQUESNE DUKES

excited to watch dayton vs nevada. my cousin is the starting center for nevada and they're family friends with Daron Homes who's the star for Dayton (nba prospect). Had thanksgiving dinner with both of the, kinda wild they got matched up in the tourney.

nice

ooof, that Nevada meltdown. wow

ROUGH

kentucky feat a bigtime nba backcourt is down in the second half

it would be funny to watch the tourney and root for all the favorites, theres no point!

im just learning that both reed sheppards parents played ball at kentuky thats wild

more like breed shoopers

lol nice

reed sheppard was the top pick in kevin o’connor’s mock draft

uh oh

oakland holding on to this lead bb

theyre gonna win this dang thing

this is very gratifying for me as a lifelong oakland fan

that gohlke dude has attempted 20 threes and zero twos

classic underdog player

3 seed down

eat it calipari

What a game. Gohlke taking every shot like a 12 year old kid counting the clock down to zero. Love it.

Dude was Setshot from the Fish that saved Pittsburgh.

One and done just does not work anymore. No poise, way too many fxxk it chuck it possessions by UK.

yeah you want to find guys who are good but not quite good enough to go to the nba early aka the villanova

lol gohlke is 24, looks like he’s going on about 35

the new jimmer

6th year player, transfer from uh Hillsdale college

The 11 seeds are doing well against the 6 seeds today and my gut says another 11 seed, NC State, could take out Texas Tech. Winning your conference tournament indicates how you're playing right now in ways that your overall record doesn't capture.

does d2 not count against d1 eligibility

Gohlke is in his first season with Oakland, but his sixth college season overall. He spent the previous five seasons, from 2018-23, at Hillsdale College, a private Christian school in Hillsdale, Michigan that competes at the Division II level.

Jack Gohlke has taken 8 2PT shots the entire year pic.twitter.com/lWkvKGx6Cn

— Cha〽️p Willy (@jackwilly83) March 22, 2024

My wife somehow got on a Hillsdale College mailing list and they send her several pamphlets a year with insane articles by conservative scholars like, "is slavery actually illegal?"

lol yikes

Apparently so, which is why had to manumit their best three-point shooter