NCAA Tourney

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:27 pm

bearphonium wrote:Kansas pulled it off. First time ever all 4 #1 seeds are in the final four. Should be some good games next week.

For anyone paying attention, it looks like it will all be #1 vs.#2 in the elite 8 on the women's side.

Pretty odd when something happens in the tourney for the very first time in history, yet it seems somehow anticlimactic, unless, I suppose you are a fan of UCLA, UNC, Memphis or Kansas. I'll bet lots of people with no clue whatsoever about basketball will win their office pools, for no other reason then they just picked all the #1s to go all the way. After that, it's pretty much a 25% chance of getting it right.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:52 pm

bearphonium wrote:First time ever all 4 #1 seeds are in the final four.

Man, I HATE it when people do what machines say...

bearphonium · Post by **bearphonium** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:24 am

I hear you on the machines. HOWEVER, looking at the women's side, both #2 teams won last night--Stanford and LSU.

I was really pulling for Davidson to beat Kansas, though.

bearphonium · Post by **bearphonium** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:32 am

And for the update, if anyone cares at this point, both "favorite to win" teams (UCLA and UConn) were defeated in their semi-final games, so the machines didn't do it best after all.

Men: Go Memphis! (ain't been there in a while)
Women: Go Stanford! (SWMBO is an alum, and Tenn. won last year)

SplatterTone · Post by **SplatterTone** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:07 pm

Oh boy. That terminator picture is begging for some tuba Photoshop work.

ZNC Dandy · Post by **ZNC Dandy** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:09 pm

My bracket's were screwed up once Georgetown lost. I have an INTENSE hatred for the 3-point shot. Its a a hell of alot harder to score when you're under the basket with several people beating the hell out of you than it is to throw a shot up from 20ft away. They at least need to move it back to the NBA line. Ridiculous.

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:24 pm

Hmmmm... John Calipari commented something about 'If the team did everything else right, free throws really don't matter' Hate to tell you this, John...

Jess Lightner · Post by **Jess Lightner** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 10:38 pm

Interesting to see the Kansas "choke" comments at the start of this thread.... Turns out that didn't happen this year (Thank You Stephen Curry for passing the ball).

I thought that last night's game was amazing. Really evenly matched teams. Both of them were capable of mini-runs and bursts of points, but neither team could really put it out of reach. It just so happens that Kansas' last run caught them up at the end of regulation, and carried them through over time.

Getting too long-winded, but I feel like all the scrutiny over timeouts or foul shots are misguided. Like bloke said, the game was not decided with one or two calls...

What do I know, just a biased Jayhawk fan.