Re: College Basketball 2012-2013

[Smack]

Shavon shields scoring at will, lol

[snoodmonger]

I'll miss Ben McLemore. Dude's got a sweet stroke. KU/ISU round 3 tomorrow. That should be fun.

[illiniguy]

Shavon shields scoring at will, lol

He's a decent player.

[UMFan83]

How were the times chosen for this tourney? I would guess of the teams playing on day 1, the only teams non-fans would care to watch are Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa. Of course 3 of those 4 teams played in the early portion. Nebraska-Purdue is the early prime time game, followed by Iowa-Northwestern?

 

The most compelling games of the day was probably Illinois-Minnesota and it was on at 11. Michigan is the best team playing today and they played at 1:30.

 

Even tomorrow...you have Indiana and Wisconsin anchoring early games, while the night games are MSU and OSU probably whipping on Iowa and Nebraska/Purdue.

 

Weird way to avoid putting the most compelling games on primetime

[Smack]

I'm embarrassed

[rawaction]

How were the times chosen for this tourney? I would guess of the teams playing on day 1, the only teams non-fans would care to watch are Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa. Of course 3 of those 4 teams played in the early portion. Nebraska-Purdue is the early prime time game, followed by Iowa-Northwestern?

 

The most compelling games of the day was probably Illinois-Minnesota and it was on at 11. Michigan is the best team playing today and they played at 1:30.

 

Even tomorrow...you have Indiana and Wisconsin anchoring early games, while the night games are MSU and OSU probably whipping on Iowa and Nebraska/Purdue.

 

Weird way to avoid putting the most compelling games on primetime

 

I believe it's always set up this way. I think the point is to give the #1 seed the benefit of the most rest. For example, if Michigan St. gets to the semi-finals, they'll have to play at around 3pm CST Saturday after finishing probably around 10pm the night before. IU as the #1 is guaranteed at least a full 24 hours between games by playing the early game tomorrow.

[SouthSideRyan]

I'd rather play on 20 hours rest than have to play my first game of a tourney at 11 AM

[rawaction]

I'd rather play on 20 hours rest than have to play my first game of a tourney at 11 AM

 

Teams play 12/11c games all the time on the weekend. Teams play tourneys in Maui at 1am their time. Granted this tourney is a little bigger, but it's possible they'll do the same next week/weekend too.

[Bruno7481]

Will be interesting to see gameplan by IU tomorrow. Recently, they have really emphasized going to Zeller. There were many times this year where that effort wasn't made consistently. I know Egwu is prone to foul trouble, so I would assume that will be the plan tomorrow.

[UMFan83]

holy hell what the heck is ND wearing?

[Andy]

holy hell what the heck is ND wearing?

Jay Bilas said it looked like someone's Shamrock Shake vomit.

 

I really hate Adidas.

[E.J.]

Jesus those are horrible. [expletive] Adidas.

[bcl412]

Northwestern has used all their timeouts with 19 minutes left in the game. Nice.

[CubInOK]

holy hell what the heck is ND wearing?

Jay Bilas said it looked like someone's Shamrock Shake vomit.

 

I really hate Adidas.

Baylor must have put their old jerseys on Craigslist.

 

ETA: I just realized Baylor is wearing sleeved jerseys tonight. Please don't make this a thing Adidas.

Edited March 15, 2013 by CubInOK

[Irrelevant Dude]

Northwestern has used all their timeouts with 19 minutes left in the game. Nice.

You can't take em with ya!

[bcl412]

Iowa's going to screw this up.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Iowa's going to screw this up.

The 2nd half has been annoying as hell.

[bcl412]

Thank God. A win tomorrow just might put Iowa in.

[bukie]

Thank God. A win tomorrow just might put Iowa in.

Hell, have you seen what happened to all the borderline teams today?

[bcl412]

Thank God. A win tomorrow just might put Iowa in.

Hell, have you seen what happened to all the borderline teams today?

 

Don't do that to me.

[Exile on Waveland]

How were the times chosen for this tourney? I would guess of the teams playing on day 1, the only teams non-fans would care to watch are Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa. Of course 3 of those 4 teams played in the early portion. Nebraska-Purdue is the early prime time game, followed by Iowa-Northwestern?

 

The most compelling games of the day was probably Illinois-Minnesota and it was on at 11. Michigan is the best team playing today and they played at 1:30.

 

Even tomorrow...you have Indiana and Wisconsin anchoring early games, while the night games are MSU and OSU probably whipping on Iowa and Nebraska/Purdue.

 

Weird way to avoid putting the most compelling games on primetime

 

I believe it's always set up this way. I think the point is to give the #1 seed the benefit of the most rest. For example, if Michigan St. gets to the semi-finals, they'll have to play at around 3pm CST Saturday after finishing probably around 10pm the night before. IU as the #1 is guaranteed at least a full 24 hours between games by playing the early game tomorrow.

 

I always figured the No. 1 seed played in the afternoon and not prime time because they expect the No. 1 versus No. 8/9 to be a mismatch and not a good game for television. Obviously that's not the case this year, but the league typically isn't this deep (and Illinois is better than two teams seeded ahead of them, compounding that).

[bukie]

@JohnGasaway

I've trademarked "Random Results Generator." RT @kpelton Just assume every Pac-12 Tournament game is going to be tied with 5 minutes left.

[hawkeyecub]

How were the times chosen for this tourney? I would guess of the teams playing on day 1, the only teams non-fans would care to watch are Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa. Of course 3 of those 4 teams played in the early portion. Nebraska-Purdue is the early prime time game, followed by Iowa-Northwestern?

 

The most compelling games of the day was probably Illinois-Minnesota and it was on at 11. Michigan is the best team playing today and they played at 1:30.

 

Even tomorrow...you have Indiana and Wisconsin anchoring early games, while the night games are MSU and OSU probably whipping on Iowa and Nebraska/Purdue.

 

Weird way to avoid putting the most compelling games on primetime

 

The bracket and game times are set months in advance.

[hawkeyecub]

Thank God. A win tomorrow just might put Iowa in.

Hell, have you seen what happened to all the borderline teams today?

 

Knock it off.

 

Ugly game but to be expected I guess. Fran has had some odd (dumb) sub patterns this year but I feel like he really overdid it for the tournament. Should have been a 20+ point game but whatever. Biggest Iowa game in 7 years tomorrow.

[SouthSideRyan]

Bill Walton is blitzed out of his mind on ESPNU. Moreso than usual