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NCAA HOOPS THREAD! -- K petitions to get Maui Jim Maui Invitational moved to Transylvania (1 Viewer)

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Raider Nation said:
Premier said:
UCLA +5 against UF. Thought it would be 3 or so.
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The one that surprised me is Michigan -2 over Tennessee. I know the Vols' bigs can cause some problems, but I'm on UM large.
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I was just about to ask what we thought would be the most exciting games would be this next week. I think Tennessee gives Michigan all they can handle. I am biased though because I hate the Wolverines. Actually all the Midwest games this weekend should be good. No matter who wins.

 
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Some good games next week. MY RANKINGS:

1. Louisville - Kentucky

2. Virginia - Michigan State

3. Florida - UCLA

4. Wisconsin - Baylor

5. Iowa State - UConn

6. Michigan - Tennessee

7. Arizona - SDSU

8. Stanford - Dayton

 
lol at these guys calling the UVA game delving into a full analysis about Tennessee vs. Michigan State.

Hey guys, they're playing Michigan.

 
Raider Nation said:
Abraham said:
Raider Nation said:
Premier said:
UCLA +5 against UF. Thought it would be 3 or so.
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The one that surprised me is Michigan -2 over Tennessee. I know the Vols' bigs can cause some problems, but I'm on UM large.
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That's not a lot of points to give. If you like Tennessee May as well bet the ML. Vols will either lose by 15 or win by 4.
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I think you may have misinterpreted. The surprise was that they are ONLY favored by 2.
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No, I got your point. Tennessee May as we'll be a big 10 team. They are slow and plodding and the defense is girthy and long, making the lane hard to get in to for any success. Of michigan is shooting well from outside it will get ugly because the vols can't keep up. But if it is a grind of a game, it will be close. I'm a vols fan but two points isn't enough.

 
Abraham said:
Is anyone tLking about Virginia as a legit contender? Why not?
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Not yet but they should be. The Duke and UNC fans have been dismissing them for weeks because of the unbalanced ACC schedule but they were overlooking the fact UVA was crushing their opponents. Friday night against Mich St is going to be a great game.

 
The voice "actress" doing the kangaroo in the Dish ad has the worst fake Australian accent I've ever heard. Also, it's Gonzaga's recently typical tourney performance.

 
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The voice "actress" doing the kangaroo in the Dish ad has the worst fake Australian accent I've ever heard. Also, it's Gonzaga's recently typical tourney performance.
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It's horrendous. It's also probably real. I can't imagine spending that much money to get a fake voice actress for a commercial airing every two minutes. Then again, that commercial is going down in the annals of the worst commercials of recent memory.

The Ramones garage/commercial is a great one.

 
I remember watching UVA rip FSU up in Tallahassee the first week in January. I thought they looked really really good (because I thought FSU was still good then, and it was a beating)....but I sure didn't see this coming.

 
Premier said:
Some good games next week. MY RANKINGS:

1. Louisville - Kentucky

2. Virginia - Michigan State

3. Florida - UCLA

4. Wisconsin - Baylor

5. Iowa State - UConn

6. Michigan - Tennessee

7. Arizona - SDSU

8. Stanford - Dayton
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Agreed - some very interesting match-ups.

Go Blue!

 
Ramblin Wreck said:
Abraham said:
Is anyone tLking about Virginia as a legit contender? Why not?
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Not yet but they should be. The Duke and UNC fans have been dismissing them for weeks because of the unbalanced ACC schedule but they were overlooking the fact UVA was crushing their opponents. Friday night against Mich St is going to be a great game.
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What do Duke and UNC fans have to do with this? Pretty sure he was talking about the national media which has largely ignored UVA.

Beyond that, nobody dismissed UVA b/c of the imbalanced schedule. Just acknowledged that they didn't have to go win at 'Cuse or at UNC and that might be a reason why they ran away with the ACC. But most seemed to agree that the schedule wasn't worth 2 extra wins which is what they won by.

 
Bruce Dickinson said:
Raider Nation said:
Greg Anthony never.... shuts.... up!
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He has a lot of interesting things to say, but the sheer volume of words reduces their impact. If he could drop his word count by 20-30%, he would be one of the best color commentators in the sport.
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I wrote to my buddy Mushnick this afternoon to ask if he noticed this too. He replied "read tomorrow's column!"

Here it is:

We’ve been too hard on ourselves, blaming our runaway imaginations and caught in a trap with our superstitious minds. There is a Dept. of Linguistic Nonsense within TV networks. There is because there must be.Having suffered the latest new-age nonsense football season — standard, self-evident, hardly-worth-speaking acts such as jumping were decorated with fantastic claims of “verticality” and “high-pointing the football,” basketball is now under siege.

Friday night on CBS, Kentucky was up on Kansas State 29-23 with 44 seconds left in the first half, thus nearly 21 minutes left in regulation. Yet, that’s when the NCAA Tournament’s lead analyst, Greg Anthony, announced, “It’s a two-possession game.”

It would be preposterous to even consider K-State’s strategy at that point would be to stop Kentucky from scoring on its next two possessions then shoot — and make — two consecutive 3-point shots to tie the game.

Yet, by saying “it’s a two-possession game,” rather than “it’s a six-point game” or, better yet, saying nothing and allowing the score graphic to serve its purpose, Anthony went with the latest foolish fashion — up there with “score the basketball” — telling us K-State was now just two possessions — both 3-pointers — away from tying the game (given Kentucky’s full cooperation). Nurse!

(Coach Blatherskite: “We tried to make it a seven-possession game before the half, but we kept turning it over. We have to do a better job of reducing the number of possessions we’re down, especially three-point possessions, in the second half.”)

Minutes later, Len Elmore, analyzing the Virginia-Coastal Carolina game on TBS, noted, with Virginia up three, “It’s a one-possession game.”

That would have held some meaning if there were, oh, 43 seconds left, but Elmore’s observation — words he’d never have considered saying a few years ago — was seriously spoken with nine minutes left!

Yesterday, Stanford up 18-16 six minutes left in the first half, Anthony again chose the long-form way to say nothing, expertly noting it’s “a one-possession game.”
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http://nypost.com/2014/03/23/assault-on-common-sense-continues/

 
Raider Nation said:
Bruce Dickinson said:
Raider Nation said:
Greg Anthony never.... shuts.... up!
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He has a lot of interesting things to say, but the sheer volume of words reduces their impact. If he could drop his word count by 20-30%, he would be one of the best color commentators in the sport.
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I wrote to my buddy Mushnick this afternoon to ask if he noticed this too. He replied "read tomorrow's column!"

Here it is:

We’ve been too hard on ourselves, blaming our runaway imaginations and caught in a trap with our superstitious minds. There is a Dept. of Linguistic Nonsense within TV networks. There is because there must be.Having suffered the latest new-age nonsense football season — standard, self-evident, hardly-worth-speaking acts such as jumping were decorated with fantastic claims of “verticality” and “high-pointing the football,” basketball is now under siege.

Friday night on CBS, Kentucky was up on Kansas State 29-23 with 44 seconds left in the first half, thus nearly 21 minutes left in regulation. Yet, that’s when the NCAA Tournament’s lead analyst, Greg Anthony, announced, “It’s a two-possession game.”

It would be preposterous to even consider K-State’s strategy at that point would be to stop Kentucky from scoring on its next two possessions then shoot — and make — two consecutive 3-point shots to tie the game.

Yet, by saying “it’s a two-possession game,” rather than “it’s a six-point game” or, better yet, saying nothing and allowing the score graphic to serve its purpose, Anthony went with the latest foolish fashion — up there with “score the basketball” — telling us K-State was now just two possessions — both 3-pointers — away from tying the game (given Kentucky’s full cooperation). Nurse!

(Coach Blatherskite: “We tried to make it a seven-possession game before the half, but we kept turning it over. We have to do a better job of reducing the number of possessions we’re down, especially three-point possessions, in the second half.”)

Minutes later, Len Elmore, analyzing the Virginia-Coastal Carolina game on TBS, noted, with Virginia up three, “It’s a one-possession game.”

That would have held some meaning if there were, oh, 43 seconds left, but Elmore’s observation — words he’d never have considered saying a few years ago — was seriously spoken with nine minutes left!

Yesterday, Stanford up 18-16 six minutes left in the first half, Anthony again chose the long-form way to say nothing, expertly noting it’s “a one-possession game.”
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http://nypost.com/2014/03/23/assault-on-common-sense-continues/
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Now imagine there was a 4-point basket in play.

 
Just got back from the PNC arena

The atmosphere was pretty good lots of orange in the building (UVA, Mercer and UT all wear orange) only one section of blue in the whole building

Neither of the games were all that fun to watch but I did enjoy getting a close up of Rachel Nichols in her sexy hi heels

Tough to get updates on the other games while in there hope the NCAA does a better job with this in the future

 
Know when I fully realized Gonzaga had no chance? When Mark Few was interviewed before the 2nd half. He looked utterly defeated. Never saw that from him before. I think he even half-heartedly said "We'll try to make it a game", and they were only down by 13.

 
Raider Nation said:
Know when I fully realized Gonzaga had no chance? When Mark Few was interviewed before the 2nd half. He looked utterly defeated. Never saw that from him before. I think he even half-heartedly said "We'll try to make it a game", and they were only down by 13.
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I think in college ball more than anywhere else, you know when you just don't have the talent to compete against a team firing on full capacity.

All these 13 and 14 seeds winning are great to watch but that's usually against a team that is killing themselves, and/or against a team without truly elite talent like Zona has.

 
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