Called it. You're on notice Ohio State. The West region was a nightmare for me last year also. Oh God, yeah, I just looked it up. I think MSU's first two games might have been the only two games I got right in that whole region last year.
I literally have every single higher seed winning today. I fully expect total carnage, especially with UNC/Nova, where I somehow ended up with the Heels in the Elite 8.
Fouling immediately was a sketchy strategy that may well have blown up in Cal's face if the refs had called the foul UNLV tried to commit with 5 seconds left.
They might have to wait longer than that. 10 teams is ideal for basketball (18 games, true home and home with everyone). Yeah, I hope the new Big East sticks with 10. They won't, of course. SLU and Dayton are probably going to the Big East in '14-'15.
I'm probably the only one that kind of wishes they didn't change the Jim Schwartz rule. If you're [expletive] stupid enough to throw a challenge flag on an auto-reviewed play, you deserve whatever you get.
Why? NIT and NCAA have different selection committees. Didn't someone say on TV yesterday that Iowa was the 2nd team out? Iowa was one of the last six out. The list I posted yesterday was in alphabetical order apparently.
I picked Bucknell and the MTSU/St. Mary's winner (I'm predicting MTSU), but those are literally the only two lower seeds I have winning. I'm very unnerved by this. I also picked Illinois to beat Miami and UNC to beat Kansas and go to the Elite 8.
Exact time and broadcasters of last year's craptastic game, where ND pissed away a free Sweet 16 berth (Duke had just lost to Lehigh) against Xavier. I hope that's not an omen.
I should add that I'm going to blame you all if my Illinois to the Sweet 16 pick doesn't work out, because it was no doubt influenced by their contingent on this board.
Seems like a lot of the 'experts' actually did well too. Lunardi for instance had all 68, all the 1's and 2's, and the last four in. I'm not shocked, as this year seemed pretty cut and dried in terms of who was getting in once everything actually shook out.