I disagree, unless waiting for Purdue to lose so he can take a shot at a guy that's been banned for a year is how he gets his rocks off. but anyway, I'll get back on topic... I'm really looking forward to the IU/Kentucky and Wisconsin/Syracuse games. I have a bad feeling (bad in terms of I want an exciting game more so than rooting interest) that Kentucky will plaster IU. Hope I'm wrong.
Wellp, that's another Elite 8 team down (3 so far). I knew I shouldn't have broken the 'don't change your picks for any reason' rule after Fab Melo flunked out. Deserved that.
I look forward to all the technical fouls we'll see in the next couple days for coaches being outside the coaches' box, the turnovers whistled for guys stepping over the inbound line before they inbound the ball, and all the other hyper-inane rules that have no practical application strictly enforced the rest of the way. It should be fun
which game? The one where they ended my team's season on some sub-rule that made no [expletive] difference because Atkins hit the free throw sorry, i wasn't paying attention. Yeah, I'm sorry no one hates my team, maybe that way we could spend half the [expletive] thread talking about it like you piss away time talking about a team that isn't in this [expletive] tournament. Go away.
His cousin Deontay Greenberry bolted to Houston at the last minute (presumably without much notice to Shepard), so this isn't entirely unexpected, apparently.
...to the tune of 4 points, combined. oops. Last year's Kemba explosion notwithstanding, I don't know if there's a coach in the country that gets less from more than Jim Calhoun the last 6 years or so.
UConn is being exposed. That's three Big East teams that have looked bad today. EDIT: Of course, Iowa State does have to remember that the game doesn't end as soon as you go up 20. West Virginia isn't a Big East school anymore as far as I'm concerned. They played their last game in the league. :-) Everyone knew the Big East wasn't good this year, though. No big shock. WVU and UConn were very predictable losses.
Long Beach St Damn, I've got MSU in the Final 4... anyone else? I'm looking for a good upset pick. I have Harvard and Creighton in the Sweet 16, although I'm quite certain Creighton is one of the dumbest picks I've ever made.
If Mizzou had been placed in the St. Louis bracket as a 2 seed, it would have been, no joke, one of the biggest screw jobs in the history of the tournament towards whoever was the 1 in that region. Come on.
I took Davidson over Louisville and Harvard over Vandy. I also made the probably completely insane pick of taking Creighton past UNC and into the S16. Creighton's not a great defensive team. I think UNC would get whatever they'd want against them. I'm pretty sure I'm going to put FSU in the FF. Harvard I actually took to the S16. I also picked FSU to the Final 4. I ended up with a KU over UK final.
Yeah Xavier is a pretty bad draw. ND hasn't been playing well and Xavier just went to the A10 title game (although pretty disappointing performance). ND can win but I'd think Xavier is favored slightly. ND's gas gauge is on E. Bunch of young kids not used to these minutes had their pedal to the gas for two straight months to get as far as they did. Just not enough talent to cruise in any game unfortunately. It's been the problem for a while, they always look gassed in March. I'm picking Xavier, but hopefully they surprise me.
Xavier is very tough and we'll probably lose, but I have nothing to complain about. Of the top 8, Duke seems like the most beatable, at least to a team like Notre Dame, so getting them in a potential 2nd game is a favor as far as I'm concerned.
FWIW, Lunardi is consistently near the bottom when it comes to scoring brackets for correct teams and for seed placement. Who actually is good usually? Palm I feel like has a good rep, but he inexplicably has Northwestern in the field right now. Glockner is a guy I like but I have no idea how his brackets tend to stack up.