Ohio St is good

posted by gerb132

Ohio St is good

I appreciate the timely use of sarcasm. Not sure what happened to the team that beat Duke (or, for that matter, Illinois on the road last fucking week), but they looked like a team that would get handled by 40 against a top 10 team last night. No defense other than Liddell's blocks and no offense beyond 2-3 people.

I know injuries and illnesses have plagued the team all year and last night they were without Key and only had a few minutes of Young, but getting dumped at home by the shittiest team in the conference is a very bad look.

The last 3 loses by OSU have been, "worst loss of the season". Which is not a trend you like to see. Thankfully, they cant really top losing at home to Nebraska the rest of the way, so the trend should be done.

Of course Duke lost that game. 

posted by friendfromlowry

Of course Duke lost that game. 

It almost seemed scripted. That was legit the most perfect thing for that rivalry. 

OSU was up 37-28 and then just sucked the next 11 minutes. UM had a huge run. 28-7 run.

Not good.

That NEC championship was bizarre. Fight breaks out in stands, game paused for 25+ minutes. I typically like the small conference championships taking place in small gyms but it didn’t seem to help anything in this instance. Or that they were playing at Bryant’s gym instead of a neutral site. 

Cool little March Madness story from Youngstown. Video included.

https://www.wfmj.com/story/46027192/hubbard-and-struthers-students-and-featured-in-national-ncaa-basketball-commercial

Sucks for Bellarmine that they can be one of the top teams in their small conference and win the conference tournament, only to be fucked out of the Big Dance because they're in a "transitional" stage of moving from D2 to D1 and have to be postseason-ineligible for four years because the NCAA hierarchy is a collection of incompetent twats who exist to screw over others with moronic rules.

So, yeah, big ups to Jacksonville State, who backed into the NCAA tournament despite not even being in the conference tournament championship game because they had a better regular season conference record than the team who won the conference tournament OR the team that beat them in the conference tournament.

posted by Heretic

Sucks for Bellarmine that they can be one of the top teams in their small conference and win the conference tournament, only to be fucked out of the Big Dance because they're in a "transitional" stage of moving from D2 to D1 and have to be postseason-ineligible for four years because the NCAA hierarchy is a collection of incompetent twats who exist to screw over others with moronic rules.

So, yeah, big ups to Jacksonville State, who backed into the NCAA tournament despite not even being in the conference tournament championship game because they had a better regular season conference record than the team who won the conference tournament OR the team that beat them in the conference tournament.

Its one thing to be on probation. What TF is the point of a 4 year waiting period? LOL

posted by Laley23

Its one thing to be on probation. What TF is the point of a 4 year waiting period? LOL

According to the NCAA's statement when they devised this dumb-as-fuck idea. I mean, call me insane, but I would think having the second best team in your conference and following that up by winning the conference tournament is as good a way of saying you have a successful, competitive program. However, I'm not the sort of low-tier bureaucrat who gets off over making stupid rules to fuck over student-athletes (while at the same time professing that what they're doing is for their good) that the NCAA loves having on staff, so I might just not be able to relate.

"The resulting structure will ensure that reclassifying members are committed to the D-I philosophy and operating principles," the NCAA statement reads. "In addition, this legislation will increase the likelihood that such institutions will operate successful, competitive programs at the D-I level."

Va Tech from 27 at the buzzer to win by 1

Awful defense by Clemson

Saw Pitino's Iona lost to a 14-18 team in their championship. That'll sting.

So far today in early-round conference tournament match-ups, both Michigan and Texas have had epic choke-jobs to lose.

Texas led by 18 at the half and Michigan led by 13 and both lost to TCU and Indiana, respectively. Texas was outscored 43-20 in the second half and Michigan was by a 46-28 margin.

Indiana was down 17 with 12 minutes to go. Season was over. They went on a 28-4 run to take the lead by 7 and held on. That was wild, considering Indiana has been the one blowing double digit leads all season long.

Meanwhile, Iowa's just out there casually putting up 64 points in 20 minutes on Northwestern. That's something.

From the box score, they're hitting 67.6% from the field and 68.8% from three. And have 15 assists so far.

iowa elite 8

iowa elite 8

Fucking Oklahoma. 

Kansas has to go through WVU and TCU to get to the Big12 championship game 🙄

HOOSIERS!!! Goddamn, I am HYPED!

VTech has to be in now

Sorry Laley. 

….but that was an amazing shot

posted by friendfromlowry

Sorry Laley. 

….but that was an amazing shot

See, I don’t mind losing on a real offensive play — and Indiana was not cut out for OT.

But don’t call it amazing. Call it what it was. Shit offense and lucky shot.

It was amazingly lucky. We’ll go with that. 

It’ll be interesting to see what Duke looks like next year without Coach K. They have problems getting up for big games it seems. I could see them being a 2 seed and eeking it out against the 15 seed.