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I'll take Otto the Orange over your stupid drunken leprechaun any day of the week!
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And why'd he get into early foul trouble?
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Green shot below 37% from the field last year... not too hot. And Brewer is not a guard. Even if they do have some good guards, the two best players on that team are Horford and Noah.
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wow, Maryland is down 13 at the half to Miami... with the way the Terps have been playing, that's very surprising. The Cuse is putting up another strong showing in the BE tourney, up two on the Irish at halftime. And, Moo leads Northwestern in another Big Ten shootout (32-23)... I think the Spartans need this one to be a lock for the tourney. So far so good for them.
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besides, i don't think traveling exists any more... i watched a game earlier this year when a duke guy took 5 steps against holy cross and didn't get called for a walk. I think the only way edney gets called for a travel there is if he picks up the ball and runs the length of the court with it under his arm.
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miller and prospects for joe mauer
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http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40535000/jpg/_40535697_refsignals_trav_violation1.jpg are you kidding? If that was traveling then just about every play in every basketball game is also a walk.
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I was going to tune in but decided that listening to 10 minutes of dead air wasn't worth the 2 somewhat interesting tidbits of info that I already knew.
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They're re-drafting Ryan Harvey?
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how are the fatties though?
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Michigan 49 Minnesota 40 terrible.
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I really, really, really don't want WVU to get in. Their schedule was a joke, they haven't beaten one decent team on the road, and their only really impressive win was against a team that had to travel across the country in the middle of their conference play without a point guard. 17-1 against teams outside the top 100 RPI, but 4-7 against top 100 RPI teams. Sorry, not impressed at all.
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22% were 3's, and he took many, many 15-18 foot jumpers in that tournament. He was a wing player-he did not play inside very much at all. He must have been a hell of a player to finish 3rd in the conference in rebounds per game (10.0) and average 3 offensive rebounds per game while "not playing inside very much at all". And 22% of your shots for three is not a lot. 67% of Gerry McNamara's shots were from beyond the arc. THAT is a lot.
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oh, and Carmelo Anthony was NOT a perimeter player. He took 99 shots in the tourney and only 21 (about 22%) were threes, and he averaged 10 rebounds a game. Gerry McNamara was the perimeter player on that team.
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The problem is, half of those years had great guards as well. UConn relied about as much on Gordon as Okafor. Warrick was important, but Anthony on the perimeter was key during the tournament (he's not a big man really or a guard). Maryland got there in 2002, but it was not Baxter and Wilcox that was the difference-IU would have won without the 25-30 points scored by Juan Dixon. Guards get you deep in the tournament-a team with at least one great guard and a great big man wins the tournament. I don't think you need a great guard. Florida didn't have one last year. My point was not that a team can win with crappy guards - obviously no team is going to win with glaring holes on their team - but that I won't even consider picking a team like the 2005 Illinois squad to win it all. I want a team with at least one really good option down low who they can go to when they need points.
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which is what almost happened to the Illini against Arizona a couple years ago. That's why I didn't pick Illinois that year... just way too much reliance on the three. btw looks like nova decided to finally show up
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digger phelps is on the winthrop bandwagon i disagree about good guard play being the key to a deep run in the tourney... gimme a team with a reliable inside game and/or a dominant big guy over a team with great guards anyday. 2006: Joakim Noah, Al Horford 2005: Sean May 2004: Emeka Okafor 2003: Hakim Warrick 2002: Lonnie Baxter, Chris Wilcox Guards are nice, but at some point a perimeter team is gonna run into a good perimeter defense, or just have an off game.
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hell, even holy cross-bucknell might have more than 36 points at halftime tomorrow by the way, michigan and minnesota are a combined 13-44 (just under 30%)
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Lunardi and others have basically called that game an elimination game. They even go so far as to say that Clemson has to win that game AND the UNC game in the quarter finals That's a little much... but I do think Clemson has to beat UNC to feel secure about being in the field. Big 10 brickfest of the day: Michigan 20, Minnesota 16 :roll:
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I'm still trying to figure out who your first pick was.
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btw, Clemson-FSU is a big, big game as far as bubble implications. Clemson has played poorly down the stretch, but I think there's a decent chance they get in with a win over the Noles. Their non-conf schedule was a joke, but the ACC was tough, and they have a pretty good road/neutral record. I guess they might need a good performance against their next opponent, though.
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Good God, Nova is losing to G'Town 28-5 with about 8 minutes left in the first half. I'm pretty sure Nova is in, but that type of performance isn't going to help their case.
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Bracketology is wrong. No way ND is below a 5 if they win today against Cuse IMO. Their RPI is 33, but just about every other ratings system known to man has them in the top 20. Well, since they will lose to the Cuse, they'll end up as a 6 or 7. We beat Cuse by 12 on the road with Carter hobbled and Kurz out with an injury. I wouldn't say there's no way ND loses, but I like their chances. I think you're probably right, but ND's piss poor schedule (#307!! OOC) will keep them from getting a seed as high as one might expect from a 23-6 Big East team. If they beat Cuse I think they're a 5, though, since they seem to be playing well right now.
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Sad... second player from that 1980 championship team to die from a brain tumor (Tug McGraw).
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ooh bracketology has #6 ND versus #11 winthrop.... i'll gladly take the eagles in that matchup