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  • Laley23
    Classyposter58;1410162 wrote:The bets I made for Thursday ($15 a piece)

    Michigan (-11) over SDSU
    Colorado State (+3) over Mizzou
    VCU (-7.5) over Akron
    I hate that Michigan pick. I doubt that is more than a 5pt game, and it could be S. Dakota on the winning end pretty easily.
  • Iliketurtles
    Laley23;1410165 wrote:I hate that Michigan pick. I doubt that is more than a 5pt game, and it could be S. Dakota on the winning end pretty easily.
    This. I am amazed that the spread -11. I haven't even really checked those either. Thanks for posting Classy... Just put down 50 on SDSU +11 and 10 on them straight up haha.

    Also LIU needs to start playing better! Really want them to win this game.
  • Laley23
    Iliketurtles;1410183 wrote:This. I am amazed that the spread -11. I haven't even really checked those either. Thanks for posting Classy... Just put down 50 on SDSU +11 and 10 on them straight up haha.

    Also LIU needs to start playing better! Really want them to win this game.
    lol, who else has an LIU player? You two really need them, cause versus IU they will lose by maybe 30, but they will put up 70 haha.
  • Iliketurtles
    Laley23;1410187 wrote:lol, who else has an LIU player? You two really need them, cause versus IU they will lose by maybe 30, but they will put up 70 haha.
    Terry Tate does haha... And I don't care about the player pickem (will I do) but I got 10 bucks on them straight up and a 5 dollar parlay with them -2 and the over of 146!!
  • Terry_Tate
    Just saw the LIU Brooklyn score, they better get their shit together.
  • Mulva
    What a close by LIU.
  • Iliketurtles
    Terry_Tate;1410214 wrote:Just saw the LIU Brooklyn score, they better get their shit together.
    They fucking did and CJ almost got you a 3 at the buzzer. My guy is in god damn foul trouble is has played so bad in the first half. That was a great end to the half for LIU though really started playing better once Olasewere went out lol.
  • wildcats20
    Mulva;1410216 wrote:What a close by LIU.
    Just about to post this.
  • Iliketurtles
    Olasewere need to make his FT's god damn. Game of runs right now it seems though.
  • Laley23
    Boise State getting run out of the gym right now.
  • reclegend22
    My LaSalle pick from the Early Predictions thread is looking nice. The Explorers will win this game and then they will beat K-State.
  • Laley23
    reclegend22;1410389 wrote:My LaSalle pick from the Early Predictions thread is looking nice. The Explorers will win this game and then they will beat K-State.
    No they wont, and no they wont.

    Mostly cause I have McGruder in the pick-em, and thus went from having Boise beat them to having K-State in my Elite 8 lol

    Fucking gambling...
  • reclegend22
    We will see, but your boy Bo Ryan will outcoach Bruce Weber all day long. The Badgers are going deep IMO. Better just go ahead and auto-tune to a different channel during their games lol.
  • Iliketurtles
    Laley23;1410393 wrote:No they wont, and no they wont.

    Mostly cause I have McGruder in the pick-em, and thus went from having Boise beat them to having K-State in my Elite 8 lol

    Fucking gambling...
    Yes they will! Lets go LaSalle! Lets go Tyrone Garland :)! Also thank you LaSalle for ensuring that I will make money tonight.
  • Laley23
    reclegend22;1410399 wrote:We will see, but your boy Bo Ryan will outcoach Bruce Weber all day long. The Badgers are going deep IMO. Better just go ahead and auto-tune to a different channel during their games lol.
    Yap yap yap. Ive heard it all before with Bo. When he finally wins in March, Ill take notice on the following years brackets.

    Brucie is terrible, imo, but when he has another coaches players...well...we all know what happened last time lol.
  • reclegend22
    Laley23;1410420 wrote:Yap yap yap. Ive heard it all before with Bo. When he finally wins in March, Ill take notice on the following years brackets.

    Brucie is terrible, imo, but when he has another coaches players...well...we all know what happened last time lol.
    Bo Ryan does have five Sweet 16s (including two straight now) and an Elite Eight. For having only one McDonald's All-American during his career at Wisconsin (Brian Butch), that's pretty impressive. As you've stated before, who wants to go play at the North Pole?

    LaSalle, meanwhile, drumming Boise State. The Explorers are for real.
  • reclegend22
    Personally, I think you are way off base in giving Bo Ryan pretty much no respect for the program he has built in Madison. I'm sure you respect what he's done to a degree, but he deserves more than what you give him IMO.
  • Azubuike24
    I wouldn't crown La Salle as an easy win yet. They can't miss...
  • reclegend22
    Azubuike24;1410466 wrote:I wouldn't crown La Salle as an easy win yet. They can't miss...
    Well, like Iowa State, that's their game. When they are hitting and spacing the floor for their driving game, LaSalle is a team that can pull off an upset or two. If they don't win, it's no big deal because I simply will pick K-State to win one game before being bounced by Wisconsin. But if the Explorers do win, then I think they give K-State all it wants. Again, that's predicated on whether or not they are hitting their threes.
  • Laley23
    reclegend22;1410456 wrote:Bo Ryan does have five Sweet 16s (including two straight now) and an Elite Eight. For having only one McDonald's All-American during his career at Wisconsin (Brian Butch), that's pretty impressive. As you've stated before, who wants to go play at the North Pole?

    LaSalle, meanwhile, drumming Boise State. The Explorers are for real.
    I think he has done great, but they have limitations...like March.

    When have they done better than what their seed says? I mean, a S16 this year is expected. He has been a 2 seed many times. Those numbers you lay out arent that impressive when you factor in he is top 4 in the B1G in each of those seasons.
  • reclegend22
    Laley23;1410476 wrote:I think he has done great, but they have limitations...like March.

    When have they done better than what their seed says? I mean, a S16 this year is expected. He has been a 2 seed many times. Those numbers you lay out arent that impressive when you factor in he is top 4 in the B1G in each of those seasons.
    Wisconsin was a six seed when it went to the Elite Eight in 2005, and then proceeded to take one of the best teams of the past 20 years to the final minutes (eventual national champion North Carolina). Like Nolan Richardson at Arkansas in the '90s (albeit implementing completely opposite styles of play), the greatness of Bo Ryan is that he forces your team to play his way no matter what. If you can beat them playing that way, then congratulations. But you are going to work for it.
  • Laley23
    reclegend22;1410502 wrote:Wisconsin was a six seed when it went to the Elite Eight in 2005, and then proceeded to take one of the best teams of the past 20 years to the final minutes (eventual national champion North Carolina). Like Nolan Richardson at Arkansas in the '90s (albeit implementing completely opposite styles of play), the greatness of Bo Ryan is that he forces your team to play his way no matter what. If you can beat them playing that way, then congratulations. But you are going to work for it.
    thats true. But his other postseasons upsets trump the 1 run, imo.

    For as good as they are in the regular season, and the seeds they get, the constantly disappoint.

    Also, fuck Boise and Derrick Marks. Couldnt even get your average in the 1 fucking game your gonna play in.
  • reclegend22
    I stand behind my prediction that the A10 might be the best represented conference in the tournament (aside from whatever big-conference team inevitably wins the title) when it's all said and done. LaSalle, VCU, Butler, Temple and Saint Louis are going to all be extremely tough outs. I look for Saint Louis to either reach or come within seconds of reaching Atlanta.
  • Ironman92
    Not over quite yet.
  • reclegend22
    Ironman92;1410529 wrote:Not over quite yet.
    Even if they lose, would it not be a true statement that La Salle is a tough out? Boise is a decent team.

    The Atlantic 10 is so damn good. And La Salle isn't even a team that contended for the conference title.