NCAA - Big Dance Thread of Champions

[Thin Red Swine]

If we get past Arizona, which we won't, I hope Cal tells the refs to watch for Purdue flopping and hooking. That was some bullshit and Texas fans have every right to bitch about it.

Yeah, poor Texas never got help from the refs. 

[BleedinRed]

Score is 3-0 at the 15:31 mark in the UH/Illinois game.  WTF?

[Thin Red Swine]

Score is 3-0 at the 15:31 mark in the UH/Illinois game.  WTF?

Houston missed a long field goal or it would be tied.

They're picking up first downs, though. 

[Cornhogio]

Hoiberg soft blames the refs for his team only having four players on the court?

[Show-Me Hog]

Illinois beating Houston by more than Az is beating us. Weirdly.

[Thin Red Swine]

Houston has 4 points in 8 minutes of the second half.

[Thin Red Swine]

Houston making a late push. Too little, too late though. 

[mr.zorak]

Houston has 4 points in 8 minutes of the second half.

This is what I hope doesn't happen to us tonight.  We are prone to late turnovers and second half droughts.

[mr.zorak]

Iowa State is good defensively and are good shooters. They play good as us on defense, and has a 49% 3 point shooter.  Tall order for us to stay in this.

[buff2.0]

Easy way to make two grand

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[mr.zorak]

Easy way to make two grand

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That is a lock.  Rick ain't breaking that door down unfortunately. Us and Iowa are the worst teams still here (based on the rankings)

[Show-Me Hog]

"What I want to happen" with the rest of the games.  Not predictions, which would be worthless anyway since I am in last place I think.

St. John's over Duke.  Cmon it's Duke.
Bama over Michigan.  SEC...SEC....SEC.  It's close though because fuck Nate Oates.
UConn over Michigan St. Anti-Big 10 bias.
Tennessee over Iowa St.  SEC...SEC....SEC.
Illinois over Iowa.  I like Stojakovic a lot.  Plus an ex-Hog.
Purdue over Arizona.  FUCK ARIZONA.
Alabama over Tennessee.  Just like their style better.  But fuck Nate Oates.
UConn over St. John's. No reason.

Final Four:
Illinois over St. John's.
Alabama over UConn.
Alabama over Illinois.

I didn't know I would end up there.  Fuck Nate Oates.

[BASS]

I want maximum chaos. Iowa over Tennessee to win it all.

St John's over Duke. Purdue over Arizona. Alabama over Michigan.

[buff2.0]

There's no eternal forgiveness for posting that.

[BleedinRed]

I got a little sick just reading it.

[Thin Red Swine]

Fuck the SEC. No offense, Mr. Z.

Of the most realistic contenders, I want to see Arizona, Purdue or Illinois cut the nets.

I'd love to see the Iowa farm boys do it, but that's not realistic.

If you force me to root for the remaining SEC team I dislike the least, it would easily be Tennessee.

That other team can't get skulldrug hard enough tonight. 

[BASS]

i'm not rooting for anyone.  i just listed the winners of every game where the higher seed wins over the lower seed.  where highest = 16 and lowest = 1.  woah, ptsd moment typing the where sentence, like a coding nightmare.

[Show-Me Hog]

Boozer the Elder looks like he's wearing a fake beard from a costume shop.

[buff2.0]

Keep going, St. John's

[Corn Pop]

Pitino looks half-embalmed.