MARCH MADNESS 2014 - NCAA Tourney Thread

• Mulva

  

  Tharpe is so god damn bad.
• wildcats20

  

  gut;1594559 wrote:Have you looked at their bracket? Not very good/consistent this year, but the talent & tournament experience to put something together. I said they were about as likely to lose R1 as they were to make the Elite 8.

  No.
  
  They were WAY more likely to lose to Dayton than making a deep run. There "run" was ending in Buffalo.
• Azubuike24

  

  Ohio State's pairing with Syracuse in a foursome was possibly the worst possible 3/6 game OSU could've gotten. Normally a 3/6, 4/5 advancement is fairly split on brackets, at least like 65/35. A neutral evaluation of OSU vs Cuse really was pretty simple...OSU getting rolled.
• gut

  Terry_Tate;1594558 wrote:I'm so upset I didn't take ULL over Creighton in any of my brackets and took David Brown over Elfrid Payton. Not my best year.

  Losing Creighton would definitely hurt me pretty bad, although I think they're probably a pretty popular pick to sail thru to the Elite 8.
• reclegend22

  

  Terry_Tate;1594563 wrote:Kansas is about to go down. I can't believe this.

  It's 23-14 lol.
  
  But it'd brighten my day. I hope all the top teams lose. I'm in Cinderella mode now.
• queencitybuckeye

  Degenerate gambler update: The Billion Dollar Bracket has 16 perfect entries as of this post. Won't last the weekend.
• wildcats20

  

  Azubuike24;1594567 wrote:Ohio State's pairing with Syracuse in a foursome was possibly the worst possible 3/6 game OSU could've gotten. Normally a 3/6, 4/5 advancement is fairly split on brackets, at least like 65/35. A neutral evaluation of OSU vs Cuse really was pretty simple...OSU getting rolled.

  Exactly. There was basically no chance of them beating Cuse.
  
  And yes, I realize stranger things have happened. But this OSU team had no chance at making a run, especially after drawing Cuse.
• SportsAndLady

  

  WTF is Tharpe out there?
• Mulva

  

  Azubuike24;1594567 wrote:Ohio State's pairing with Syracuse in a foursome was possibly the worst possible 3/6 game OSU could've gotten. Normally a 3/6, 4/5 advancement is fairly split on brackets, at least like 65/35. A neutral evaluation of OSU vs Cuse really was pretty simple...OSU getting rolled.

  Have you not watched Syracuse play the past 2 months? Not good enough offensively to roll OSU. Would have been a first to 40 wins type of game.
• reclegend22

  

  gut;1594568 wrote:Losing Creighton would definitely hurt me pretty bad, although I think they're probably a pretty popular pick to sail thru to the Elite 8.

  Yeah, I need Creighton to survive. I had Duke in the national semis, so not sure I can survive under huge upset this early on. I have Arizona winning it all over Iowa State so there is still hope, since there are very few brackets favoring the Cyclones in my pool.
• Azubuike24

  

  OSU would've needed a miracle game from behind the arc. Cuse did score 77 yesterday too...
  
  Maybe I'm wrong, but I never had OSU going past the first weekend once. Just a terrible match-up for them.
• KB0938

  Mulva;1594574 wrote:Have you not watched Syracuse play the past 2 months? Not good enough offensively to roll OSU. Would have been a first to 40 wins type of game.

  Syracuse's 2-3 would of ate OSU up. Ohio state has next to no outside shooting. And nobody to put in the high post who could facilitate.
• SportsAndLady

  

  HOLY SHIT
• gut

  Mulva;1594574 wrote:Have you not watched Syracuse play the past 2 months? Not good enough offensively to roll OSU. Would have been a first to 40 wins type of game.

  Exactly. Their zone is a terrible draw for OSU, but 'Cuse has not been playing well.
  
  And Kansas looks like they have all they can handle with EKY. My saying OSU could go on a deep run had more to do with the teams in their bracket then thinking OSU was some sort of sleeping juggernaut.
• wildcats20

  

  lol ok Wiggins
• Mulva

  

  Holy Wiggins. I think I saw a cape fluttering behind him on that one.
• Mulva

  

  KB0938;1594578 wrote:Syracuse's 2-3 would of ate OSU up. Ohio state has next to no outside shooting. And nobody to put in the high post who could facilitate.

  Syracuse is 3-5 in their past 8 games, and their average margin of victory since February started is 8 points. And that includes a 24 point win yesterday. You do the math on what they've done against legitimate opponents.
  
  There would not have been any kind of "rolling".
• gut

  reclegend22;1594575 wrote:Yeah, I need Creighton to survive. I had Duke in the national semis, so not sure I can survive under huge upset this early on. I have Arizona winning it all over Iowa State so there is still hope, since there are very few brackets favoring the Cyclones in my pool.

  That's the tough part. I usually stay away from picking too many of the popular favorites if I can to create some margin of error. Nothing worse than being basically eliminated after the first weekend.
  
  You got lucky not many picked ARI, especially with an easier region than others.
• SportsAndLady

  

  This is hyperbole but I want Self fired if he doesn't get Tharpe off the fucking court
• KB0938

  Maybe not a rolling, but Cuse would of won by 8-10 I believe without much worry. But the game will never happen, so it doesnt really matter
• SportsAndLady

  

  Keep with the underclassmen, plus Ellis.
  
  Keep Tharpe off the fucking court
• SportsAndLady

  

  Jesus Wiggins can leap, not that we didn't already know that
• SportsAndLady

  

  Youv'e gotta be shitting me Traylor
• Mulva

  

  What a dumb foul. Not even his guy, either.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  www.diddukewin.com