Re: 2009 NCAA Tournament thread

[Careless]

I'm missing the first two days of the tournament.

[hawkeyecub]

feels like Syracuse is shooting 100%.

 

Horrible defense by ASU. Everything is an open 3 or a layup and they're not forcing turnovers.

 

It's a miracle they kept it around 10 or less. Harden hasn't done anything and Pendergraph has been in foul trouble (3rd and 4th fouls were super weak) and they're 8/16 at the free throw line. That intentional foul call was laughably bad. He barely touched him and didn't even slow him down.

[Flames24Rulz]

Harden's been some kind of awful these two tournament games.

[Guest]

Looks like the top 4 Pac-10 teams are going down before the Sweet 16. Awesome.

 

Harden might have had a bad game but the solution isn't to have Glasser shoot more. Dude's awful and is awful lucky Harden gets double teamed so much.

[Exile on Waveland]

Great game Sun Devils. Sheesh. I still think USC has a shot, but it's very possible Arizona is the lone Pac 10 team in the Sweet 16.

[Careless]

4 minutes in and it's 2-0

[Guest]

Great game Sun Devils. Sheesh. I still think USC has a shot, but it's very possible Arizona is the lone Pac 10 team in the Sweet 16.

 

USC has the athleticism and physical play that ASU, Cal, UCLA and UW lack (Washington is tough with Brockman and Overton but not across the board).

 

The last two years, the Pac-10 was way more physical (UCLA, WSU, UW, USC, Stanford) than this year.

[hawkeyecub]

I didn't think the Pac 10 was very good but I liked a lot of the matchups. I had Cal, Arizona, UCLA, USC, ASU all winning their first round games. Arizona, ASU, UCLA to the Sweet 16 and UCLA to the Elite 8.

 

Thanks to UCLA and Cal for not even trying in their losses. Thanks to James Harden for not showing up, Pendergraph for committing stupid fouls and their entire roster for deciding not to play defense.

[Guest]

Dayton looks like crap so far.

[snoodmonger]

wtf, nice refs

[Guest]

Dayton is wretched on offense. Geez.

[Prior4CyYoung]

Dayton has 2 points in over 6 minutes played.

[hawkeyecub]

Has CBS ever given any explanation for their 1st weekend schedule? I would assume there has to be some reason they want 1 game in it's own time slot and then 4 on at the same time followed by 3, but I can't figure it out. Usually Duke gets that exclusive slot.

[Mark_R]

Gus Johnson's bug eyed photo will soon be all over the internet!!!

 

In Gus, We Trust.

[Guest]

Has CBS ever given any explanation for their 1st weekend schedule? I would assume there has to be some reason they want 1 game in it's own time slot and then 4 on at the same time followed by 3, but I can't figure it out. Usually Duke gets that exclusive slot.

 

Who doesn't want the whole nation to see Pac-10 teams get blown out?

 

Probably something to do with squeezing non-basketball into prime time slots, though they really need to have two on at the same time no matter what.

[Guest]

I really like the Pitt team and their coach but with my bracket already done with Wake going down, I'm going to root for Ok State here.

 

Get it together, Cleveland State.

[hawkeyecub]

Has CBS ever given any explanation for their 1st weekend schedule? I would assume there has to be some reason they want 1 game in it's own time slot and then 4 on at the same time followed by 3, but I can't figure it out. Usually Duke gets that exclusive slot.

 

Who doesn't want the whole nation to see Pac-10 teams get blown out?

 

Probably something to do with squeezing non-basketball into prime time slots, though they really need to have two on at the same time no matter what.

 

Yeah I understand them not going late like they did yesterday, I just don't know why they go 1-4-3 instead of 2-3-3. You're risking lower ratings when that 1 game is a blowout.

 

Yesterday was 1-2-3-2. Why not 2-2-2-2?

[Guest]

Pitt's D is putrid. And Oklahoma St is hitting everything.

[JimSorgi]

It's kind of strange to watch Wisconsin-Xavier, then change it to Oklahoma State-Pittsburgh.

[Guest]

How can no one besides the shooter know that it's a 1-and-1? That was costly for Oklahoma State.

[hawkeyecub]

How can no one besides the shooter know that it's a 1-and-1? That was costly for Oklahoma State.

 

Especially when you could see the ref signal 1 and 1 and on the broadcast you could clearly hear the PA say "Fields shooting the 1 and 1" right before the shot.

 

It's tied but Pitt should still feel pretty good considering Blair missed time and OSU shot 10-16 from 3.

[Guest]

It would be nice if Dayton could shoot better than 25 percent in the second half.

[Prior4CyYoung]

It be nice if Wisconsin beats Xavier.

[Flames24Rulz]

Pitt's D is putrid. And Oklahoma St is hitting everything.

 

In the bit that I've seen (we have the Kansas-Dayton game here), OSU's offense consists of Eaton driving and kicking to a wide open shooter on the wing. You would think you'd start guarding the perimeter more but apparently that makes too much sense.

[Guest]

Dayton shooting 19.6 percent today.

 

If they were up at even 30 percent, which is still pretty bad, they'd be tied or maybe winning.

Edited March 22, 2009 by soccer10k