NCAA Tournament Thread

[Outshined_One]

Oden has Corey Patterson Syndrome. I swear, the guy never gets excited or cracks a smile for anything.

[Derwood]

wow, shame on Tennessee for losing that one.

[Chocolate Milk]

:shock:

[Andy]

ODEN!!! Two Elite 8 teams correct now with maybe three more to go (UNC, GTown, Florida)

 

Really great effort dew - I underestimated your guys all tourney.

[Sosa21MVP]

The shot would not have counted anyways, it was still in his hand when the red light went off.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Oden has Corey Patterson Syndrome. I swear, the guy never gets excited or cracks a smile for anything.

 

Don't you remember his tip-dunk in the B10 Championship where he broke the glass in the surrounding block with his primal scream?

[Mark_R]

Oden has Corey Patterson Syndrome. I swear, the guy never gets excited or cracks a smile for anything.

 

You can tell by the look on his face that he just doesn't care!

[CubColtPacer]

It wouldn't have mattered if Oden had blocked that or not, the ball was still on his fingertips when the light came on.

 

A great game though-it just feels like the higher seeds are going to find a way to advance this year no matter what for some reason.

[Andy]

Oden has Corey Patterson Syndrome. I swear, the guy never gets excited or cracks a smile for anything.

 

Don't you remember his tip-dunk in the B10 Championship where he broke the glass in the surrounding block with his primal scream?

My friends and I spent all week leading up to the first round imitating that.

[Flames24Rulz]

How can one team be such a bad defensive team like Tennessee? That's why I picked them to have an early exit...that and their run and chuck offense was bound to end against a decent team. When tOSU was down by close to 20 at half, I told my roommate that this thing wasn't over yet (he had UT in his Final Four for some reason). At least I got something right tonight..

[TruffleShuffle]

hey terrific, foul not called on the rebound and another on conley's body contact on the drive... good to see ohio state in the elite 8 after deserving to win all of one of their first three games.

[TruffleShuffle]

Aaaaaaaaaaand here come 25 OSU free throws.

 

And at least half of them have been ticky-tack crap.

 

the officiating in that game was awful... are these really the best college basketball refs?

[dew1679666265]

ODEN!!! Two Elite 8 teams correct now with maybe three more to go (UNC, GTown, Florida)

 

Really great effort dew - I underestimated your guys all tourney.

 

Yea, we really played terrific in two and a half games. Somehow, we just collapsed in this second half. It never should have gotten to that point, no excuse for giving up a 20 point halftime lead.

This really sucks. But thanks for the kind words Andy.

[TruffleShuffle]

ugh people rooting for tosu for the sake of their pools... these are the same people who were pulling hard for the empire to destroy the republic in star wars

[CubColtPacer]

hey terrific, foul not called on the rebound and another on conley's body contact on the drive... good to see ohio state in the elite 8 after deserving to win all of one of their first three games.

 

The officiating in the game might have been biased towards OSU, but in the last minute if anything it was to UT-the only real questionable call was the one on OSU where the two players hips just happened to collide while the UT player was on the way down.

[dew1679666265]

How can one team be such a bad defensive team like Tennessee? That's why I picked them to have an early exit...that and their run and chuck offense was bound to end against a decent team. When tOSU was down by close to 20 at half, I told my roommate that this thing wasn't over yet (he had UT in his Final Four for some reason). At least I got something right tonight..

 

We're not that bad a defensive team when we're playing. When you run the style of offense we do, you're going to allow points, that's just a simple fact.

We force many turnovers and the full-court pressure D is excellent, but when the tempo gets going the way we want it, both teams are going to score because each team gets alot of possessions.

The problem tonight was not our defense, it was that we were running our offense and simply couldn't score on the fast break and this team's half-court offense is terrible. It's something Bruce has been trying to fix all year, but alot of it is because we are ridiculously young.

[TruffleShuffle]

hey terrific, foul not called on the rebound and another on conley's body contact on the drive... good to see ohio state in the elite 8 after deserving to win all of one of their first three games.

 

The officiating in the game might have been biased towards OSU, but in the last minute if anything it was to UT-the only real questionable call was the one on OSU where the two players hips just happened to collide while the UT player was on the way down.

 

no way, really? What pisses me off more than this game is the fact that Ohio State should already be out. Greg Oden throws a guy out of bounds and somehow that's not a flagrant foul. Go Memphis, then go UNC/USC/Georgetown/Vandy. Please don't let this overpaid, undeserving team win a title.

[BleedCubbieBlue81]

In my opinion, Ohio State has now been exposed twice in this tournament as the most mediocre #1 seed I can remember. They were virtually eliminated in both games until the other teams decided that instead of "playing to win", they were just going to play "not to lose".

 

I came into this game thinking Tennessee was the better team, and to be honest, I still feel that way. They outplayed Ohio State. Don't get me wrong, Ohio State still played their way back into it, and they are the team that's moving on. But they have not shown me anything all year that makes me believe they are very good. Now, having said that, I'm sure they'll win the national title and I'll have to eat crow.

[rocket]

hey terrific, foul not called on the rebound and another on conley's body contact on the drive... good to see ohio state in the elite 8 after deserving to win all of one of their first three games.

 

The officiating in the game might have been biased towards OSU, but in the last minute if anything it was to UT-the only real questionable call was the one on OSU where the two players hips just happened to collide while the UT player was on the way down.

 

no way, really? What pisses me off more than this game is the fact that Ohio State should already be out. Greg Oden throws a guy out of bounds and somehow that's not a flagrant foul. Go Memphis, then go UNC/USC/Georgetown/Vandy. Please don't let this overpaid, undeserving team win a title.

 

i hope holy cross wins

 

oh wait

[Flames24Rulz]

hey terrific, foul not called on the rebound and another on conley's body contact on the drive... good to see ohio state in the elite 8 after deserving to win all of one of their first three games.

 

The officiating in the game might have been biased towards OSU, but in the last minute if anything it was to UT-the only real questionable call was the one on OSU where the two players hips just happened to collide while the UT player was on the way down.

 

no way, really? What pisses me off more than this game is the fact that Ohio State should already be out. Greg Oden throws a guy out of bounds and somehow that's not a flagrant foul. Go Memphis, then go UNC/USC/Georgetown/Vandy. Please don't let this overpaid, undeserving team win a title.

 

I gotta root for Kansas just because it'll make us look that much better.

[dew1679666265]

Aaaaaaaaaaand here come 25 OSU free throws.

 

And at least half of them have been ticky-tack crap.

 

the officiating in that game was awful... are these really the best college basketball refs?

 

They must be, and that's the sad state of officiating. I've seen it in high school games too. Officials just seem to be getting worse all the time.

This game was weird, though, in the fact that they would let obvious calls go (JaJuan getting thrown around on the final rebound) and call ticky-tack fouls (hand checks right beside each team's bench) all second half.

It honestly looked like two completely different officiating crews in each half.

No excuse though, we had a 20 point halftime lead - we should have won that game but we blew it.

[CubColtPacer]

hey terrific, foul not called on the rebound and another on conley's body contact on the drive... good to see ohio state in the elite 8 after deserving to win all of one of their first three games.

 

The officiating in the game might have been biased towards OSU, but in the last minute if anything it was to UT-the only real questionable call was the one on OSU where the two players hips just happened to collide while the UT player was on the way down.

 

no way, really? What pisses me off more than this game is the fact that Ohio State should already be out. Greg Oden throws a guy out of bounds and somehow that's not a flagrant foul. Go Memphis, then go UNC/USC/Georgetown/Vandy. Please don't let this overpaid, undeserving team win a title.

 

A little bit of hatred there? If we are going to correct all the calls from that previous game, then a foul on Xavier should have been called on the rebound just as an intentional foul should have been called on Oden. Those two non-calls were both bad and canceled each other out.

 

I only said maybe it was biased towards OSU because I wasn't watching that carefully for most of the game, so I only have the people I trust here who says the officiating was biased to fall back on. I did watch the final minute closely though-multiple times, and there were no bad calls that went OSU's way in the final minute.

[TruffleShuffle]

hey terrific, foul not called on the rebound and another on conley's body contact on the drive... good to see ohio state in the elite 8 after deserving to win all of one of their first three games.

 

The officiating in the game might have been biased towards OSU, but in the last minute if anything it was to UT-the only real questionable call was the one on OSU where the two players hips just happened to collide while the UT player was on the way down.

 

no way, really? What pisses me off more than this game is the fact that Ohio State should already be out. Greg Oden throws a guy out of bounds and somehow that's not a flagrant foul. Go Memphis, then go UNC/USC/Georgetown/Vandy. Please don't let this overpaid, undeserving team win a title.

 

i hope holy cross wins

 

oh wait

 

hey, on the good side, if you guys win the title, it'll be your second major college sports title in five years that you can credit to incompetent officiating!

[dew1679666265]

In my opinion, Ohio State has now been exposed twice in this tournament as the most mediocre #1 seed I can remember. They were virtually eliminated in both games until the other teams decided that instead of "playing to win", they were just going to play "not to lose".

I came into this game thinking Tennessee was the better team, and to be honest, I still feel that way. They outplayed Ohio State. Don't get me wrong, Ohio State still played their way back into it, and they are the team that's moving on. But they have not shown me anything all year that makes me believe they are very good. Now, having said that, I'm sure they'll win the national title and I'll have to eat crow.

 

I don't see how we did that. We tried to play the exact same style as we did in the first half, but between our shots not falling and the extra fouls being called (whether correct or not) slowed the tempo of the game down. There wasn't a fundamental change of style on our part, it was simply poor performance from the young players and especially Lofton.

[CubColtPacer]

Aaaaaaaaaaand here come 25 OSU free throws.

 

And at least half of them have been ticky-tack crap.

 

the officiating in that game was awful... are these really the best college basketball refs?

 

They must be, and that's the sad state of officiating. I've seen it in high school games too. Officials just seem to be getting worse all the time.

This game was weird, though, in the fact that they would let obvious calls go (JaJuan getting thrown around on the final rebound) and call ticky-tack fouls (hand checks right beside each team's bench) all second half.

It honestly looked like two completely different officiating crews in each half.

No excuse though, we had a 20 point halftime lead - we should have won that game but we blew it.

 

Believe me Dew, if you saw that play again, you'd agree with me on this one. I've watched it about 5 times, and it was completely incidental contact-the OSU guy was backing up to run down the court and the UT player almost fell on top of him-if he had fallen to the ground, the officials might have been forced to make a call, but there was really no foul there.