Game Thread 2019 March Madness Thread

let's see now....drowning in a sea of estrogen or blinded by a wall of bling? I've drowned in that sea before and it's damned unpleasant; and my eyesight is already failing...

 

No, Platypus, I am quite sure Auriemma could pick any coaching job he wants. He has fame, well paid, gets the pick of the best athletes, and they stay four years so he has stability. He'll stay until he decides it's time to retire and prepare his HOF speech.

 

Do Ducks have a shot at the title??? I'm enjoying their run here. 10 straight wins! Only have to win two more to reach Final Four!

 

One game at a time young man, but I did hear Kenny Wooten found a can of whoop ass in his gym bag with Virginia’s name on it after the game last night.

Go Ducks!

 

As a Duck die hard I would say........ No.
They are playing way over their heads right now. It is fun as hell to watch, but in the end they do not have a go to scorer. Eventually that will catch up with them. But I love how hard they playing on defense diving for loose balls, forcing turnovers, blocking shots....

From watching the first weekend I would have to say Gonzaga is by far the best team. Duke's lack of 3 pt shooting will eventually catch up with them.

 

14/16 (missed on Purdue and Houston) and my Elite 8 are all still alive.

Kentucky is my champ though and I've got FSU beating the Zags...so my bracket could be bust pretty quickly.

 

agreed

further, over the 10 game win streak, they've been punching within their weight class. Pac-12 teams, Wisconsin, UCI...all those teams weren't more athletic or longer; about the same level. Virginia is a big step up in weight. Worse is that the Duck kryptonite in NCAA tournaments under Altman have been teams that shoot the three well; Virginia is 4th in the NCAA in three-point % and they launch 21 a game

just about everything will have to go right for the Ducks to beat Virginia

 

Considering 14/16 left are chalk (Oregon and Auburn are the only two that weren't) and all 12 of the 1, 2, and 3 seeds are still alive I don't really think it's that impressive if your bracket is still in good shape.

Anybody who simply picked the higher seed would have all of their elite 8 left. The next round is where some separation could happen.

UCF and Wofford could've destroyed like 80% of the brackets over the weekend. I still don't know how those two shots both rimmed out against Duke.

 

What this kid said!

 

How many teams do you have left?

 

I have 7/8 Elite 8 teams left. The one I missed was I had Wofford as my sleeper team to take down Kentucky and then win once more. It's too bad they had one of their worst shooting games of the year. I'm guessing I'm one of the only people in our group that has Texas Tech in the Final Four so my final place in the standings is pretty dependent on that happening.

Of course I could just say I picked all of them right but somehow must have hit the wrong button when filling out my bracket, right?

 

Not just Oregon, it is the kryptonite for almost every team every year now. Those teams with 3 and 4 guard lineups that can shoot lights out is a problem for everyone. Virginia does not really have a size advantage since they do not play their bigs much. Out of their top 7 players who get the most minutes.......5 are guards and 2 are forwards. These guys can just flat out shoot. Virginia is 31-3 for a reason. And that is in the ACC.

 

You can say whatever you want if you are comfortable with lying. I'm certainly not.

What i was asking is what is your record now as we aren't at the elite 8 yet so that part is kind of irrelevant right now.

 

Agreed. Felt like a chalky tournament going in though.

And I wanted to pick Wofford to go deep too and actually had them in the final four in my original draft. But Kentucky was my sleeper out of the power teams so decided to go the compete other way on that.

 

Oh, I have 21 teams still left.

 

Good for you. At least we now know which end of the spectrum you lie in regarding an earlier discussion we had.

 

UCLA scored upset over Maryland in a thriller. Two Pac-12 teams in Sweet Sixteen with three to play.

UCLA gets rewarded with UConn.

Wait. I s San Diego State a Pac-12 team? They just upset Syracuse. Tourney could have a definite west coast look

 

Crap. It's pouring out and my very wet cat just came inside and sat on my bracket.