NCAA Tournament Thread

Whitehead was flat-out awful tonight: 4 for 24 (including tournament-tying 0-10 on 3-pointers), forcing shots and playing out of control. His NBA lottery dreams for this year may have taken a big hit.
 
If there is one team BE team I want to see exit early it's the Hall and since my bracket is already busted...
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Have no love for the Pirates, but it's not good for the BE to have its tournament winners ousted in the first round. Was actually pulling for them in this game.

(And to quote Samuel Pepys: "And so to bed.")
 
I rooted for the Pirates, Butler, Providence as well a UConn. I even have W. Virginia in the Final Four, Every a game with win from a BE team or a team with BE roots is a win for our conference which is starting to be treated as second class in the selections, the seedings, the matchups and in the press. Everytime one of our teams or one of the teams that are connected to us in history win, a message is sent; don't ever underrate North East basketball. Yale's win was shocking and welcomed in my world. It said smart guys who can play can win over super athlete out-of-towners all the time.
In my world almost all colleges in the south, southwest, and west treated basketball as a less than minor sport until the 70's The East and,to a great extent, the near Midwest was the soul of basketball for almost all of the last century.
Every win for the old guard in the north east is a win for us and keeps irrelevance away from the front door of the Big East. My sense is that if we quietly went away, the NCAA would not shed a tear. I root for everyone who can help us directly or indirectly with a win.
 
I rooted for the Pirates, Butler, Providence as well a UConn. I even have W. Virginia in the Final Four, Every a game with win from a BE team or a team with BE roots is a win for our conference which is starting to be treated as second class in the selections, the seedings, the matchups and in the press. Everytime one of our teams or one of the teams that are connected to us in history win, a message is sent; don't ever underrate North East basketball. Yale's win was shocking and welcomed in my world. It said smart guys who can play can win over super athlete out-of-towners all the time.
In my world almost all colleges in the south, southwest, and west treated basketball as a less than minor sport until the 70's The East and,to a great extent, the near Midwest was the soul of basketball for almost all of the last century.
Every win for the old guard in the north east is a win for us and keeps irrelevance away from the front door of the Big East. My sense is that if we quietly went away, the NCAA would not shed a tear. I root for everyone who can help us directly or indirectly with a win.
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Uconn and W Va winning hurts our conference. Don't think it helps at all.
 
Whitehead was flat-out awful tonight: 4 for 24 (including tournament-tying 0-10 on 3-pointers), forcing shots and playing out of control. His NBA lottery dreams for this year may have taken a big hit.
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I doubt he was going lottery even with his play in the BE Tournament. Any player can get hot for a few games and the NBA doesn't put as much stock in it as people think.

His play this entire year though, definitely has put coming out early in play. He will probably put his name in, get evaluated and see where it goes.
 
I rooted for the Pirates, Butler, Providence as well a UConn. I even have W. Virginia in the Final Four, Every a game with win from a BE team or a team with BE roots is a win for our conference which is starting to be treated as second class in the selections, the seedings, the matchups and in the press. Everytime one of our teams or one of the teams that are connected to us in history win, a message is sent; don't ever underrate North East basketball. Yale's win was shocking and welcomed in my world. It said smart guys who can play can win over super athlete out-of-towners all the time.
In my world almost all colleges in the south, southwest, and west treated basketball as a less than minor sport until the 70's The East and,to a great extent, the near Midwest was the soul of basketball for almost all of the last century.
Every win for the old guard in the north east is a win for us and keeps irrelevance away from the front door of the Big East. My sense is that if we quietly went away, the NCAA would not shed a tear. I root for everyone who can help us directly or indirectly with a win.
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Uconn and W Va winning hurts our conference. Don't think it helps at all.
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I don't know if UConn and West Virginia hurts our conference, outside of beating one of our teams. But UConn and West Virginia winning surely doesn't help our conference at all. They aren't a part of the Big East Conference anymore, so why would their winning help the conference? It doesn't.

The conference receives clout by the current teams winning games. It's that simple, IMO. I believe, at least, two teams will advance to the Sweet 16. Possibly, one to the Elite 8. I feel most will take that scenario as a win for the conference.
 
The experts I've watched seem to think Butler will get ripped apart by Virginia. If Butler were somehow able to go out there and run all over them that would be a huge moment for the conference, and everyone would forget about Seton Hall.
 
Stop me if this sounds familiar, 11 seed Gonzaga against an inexperienced BE tournament team out in the mountains... The seeding of teams this year was a joke. Duke got a 4 seed!? They were way closer to a 6 seed IMO than a 4. Something needs to change about how these things are determined.
 
Stop me if this sounds familiar, 11 seed Gonzaga against an inexperienced BE tournament team out in the mountains... The seeding of teams this year was a joke. Duke got a 4 seed!? They were way closer to a 6 seed IMO than a 4. Something needs to change about how these things are determined.
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And Syracuse even in the tourney is a joke. Some teams/coaches get a push and a pass.
 
I rooted for the Pirates, Butler, Providence as well a UConn. I even have W. Virginia in the Final Four, Every a game with win from a BE team or a team with BE roots is a win for our conference which is starting to be treated as second class in the selections, the seedings, the matchups and in the press. Everytime one of our teams or one of the teams that are connected to us in history win, a message is sent; don't ever underrate North East basketball. Yale's win was shocking and welcomed in my world. It said smart guys who can play can win over super athlete out-of-towners all the time.
In my world almost all colleges in the south, southwest, and west treated basketball as a less than minor sport until the 70's The East and,to a great extent, the near Midwest was the soul of basketball for almost all of the last century.
Every win for the old guard in the north east is a win for us and keeps irrelevance away from the front door of the Big East. My sense is that if we quietly went away, the NCAA would not shed a tear. I root for everyone who can help us directly or indirectly with a win.
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Uconn and W Va winning hurts our conference. Don't think it helps at all.
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I don't know if UConn and West Virginia hurts our conference, outside of beating one of our teams. But UConn and West Virginia winning surely doesn't help our conference at all. They aren't a part of the Big East Conference anymore, so why would their winning help the conference? It doesn't.

The conference receives clout by the current teams winning games. It's that simple, IMO. I believe, at least, two teams will advance to the Sweet 16. Possibly, one to the Elite 8. I feel most will take that scenario as a win for the conference.
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I would add that UConn is part of a rival basketball conference also in danger of being considered mid major and I want to see the "American" do as badly as possible. Better them than us.
 
The experts I've watched seem to think Butler will get ripped apart by Virginia. If Butler were somehow able to go out there and run all over them that would be a huge moment for the conference, and everyone would forget about Seton Hall.
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Very true. I don't expect any 4+ bid conference to be undefeated at the end of the day and Seton Hall was certainly the last BE team to get in, though they were clearly in before their Tourney win.

PS great picking yesterday.
 
Well, Sir Charles just made a comment that I must say I agree wholeheartedly with. When asked about Syracuse being in the tournament, he was very clear and adamant that they did not deserve to be here. This is one example where his outspokenness (is that a word) is something I admire.
 
Nova seems to be cruising as expected. What is different is they are nailing threes. They are playing their usual solid D v outmanned Carolina Asheville team. I may be wrong, but this may the year Nova surprises & advances a few rounds or further. Law of averages?
 
Nova seems to be cruising as expected. What is different is they are nailing threes. They are playing their usual solid D v outmanned Carolina Asheville team. I may be wrong, but this may the year Nova surprises & advances a few rounds or further. Law of averages?
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I hope you're right. I wonder if losing their #1 seeding was a blessing in disguise; no pressure on them. We'll see.
 
Well, Sir Charles just made a comment that I must say I agree wholeheartedly with. When asked about Syracuse being in the tournament, he was very clear and adamant that they did not deserve to be here. This is one example where his outspokenness (is that a word) is something I admire.
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WHile I agree I would say they deserve to be there more than Michigan or Tulsa, maybe they should have been in the first four. Gonzaga's display last night shows how St Mary's was a huge snub. Otherwise I have a hard time finding the other teams that truly deserved to be in. OK I'll give you guys Monmouth. Who else? Or shrink the field?
 
Syracuse dishing out a beating on Dayton. Whatever Boeheim said about Roberson is working and Richardson is playing well.
 
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