Championship Sunday Open Thread
Selection Sunday is finally here! A small slate of games today as most conference tourneys are complete. The American takes over the Big Ten's annual Time Slot That Is Too Late For The Committee To Care About The Result, tipping at 3:30 and finishing mere minutes before the selection show begins. Actually, can you imagine if the game went into OT or even double OT? It's too bad that Memphis lost yesterday because that could've led to some hilarity on the set of CBS TBS and in the committee's board room if the show had to begin but the game result was still in doubt.
Anyway, here are today's matchups:
MATCHUP | TIME (ET) | NAT TV | TICKETS | LOCATION | ||
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Pennsylvania | 12:00 PM |
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Buy on Vivid Seats | The Palestra, Philadelphia, PA | ||
Davidson | 1:00 PM | CBS | 147 tickets as low as $38 | Capital One Arena, Washington, DC | ||
Kentucky | 1:00 PM |
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658 tickets as low as $44 | Scottrade Center, St. Louis, MO | ||
UT Arlington | 2:00 PM |
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Buy on Vivid Seats | Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, LA | ||
#21Houston | 3:30 PM | CBS | 570 tickets as low as $6 | Amway Center, Orlando, FL |
Don't think it matters who wins in the SEC or the American -- Michigan isn't passing UT or UC and I think UK has too much ground to make up (Houston is pretty solidly a 6). A Davidson victory steals a bid from a bubble team so schools like Louisville, ASU, and St. Mary's are big Rhode Island fans today.
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I don't care what region. We match up very well with most of the 1 and 2 seeds and we will have to beat them to advance anyway.
March 11th, 2018 at 10:58 AM ^
OJ did it
Side note: I've watched a ton of college hoops these last couple of weeks and I've yet to see a team that really scares me
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UVA definitely takes the smartest shits.
March 11th, 2018 at 12:56 PM ^
i would love UM to carve up that weak zone D of duke's.
Gonzaga scared the shit out of me and its was only party because they have a 6'10 guy named Killian who shoots 50% from three
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Do you have some inside source you're not sharing? Most brackets I'm seeing have Michigan as a 3.
A majority of major polls have us as a three, and--if we aren't a three--which teams take our place?
It seems pretty likely that the 1-seeds are UVA, Villanova, Kansas, and likely Xavier
The 2-seeds are almost certainly UNC, Duke, Cincy, and Purdue
The 3-seeds are UTenn, UM (us), MSU, and...? (Auburn, WVU, or Arizona)
Are we going to get jumped by two of those last three schools? Seems unlikely, although I'd accept a 4-seed under the condition that it puts us in an easier region.
March 11th, 2018 at 12:47 PM ^
The Pac-12 was absolute garbage this season. Arizona is their only team that was a lock for the NCAA Tournament before their conference tournament, and UCLA and USC are only barely in. ASU is the last team in the bracket in many projections and is definitely out if Davidson beats Rhode Island today.
March 11th, 2018 at 11:28 AM ^
That's where Hoffa is buried.....
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Hunkering down to watch my Davidson Wildcats start another run to the Elite 8.
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I can't say I expected Amaker to turn Harvard into an Ivy powerhouse. But good for him, he's a good guy and cleaned up our program. I hope they win today.
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I'll never forgive the man for his haircut and wardrobe choices when he was our coach ;).
March 11th, 2018 at 12:52 PM ^
On paper, his recruiting wasn't all that bad, but guys didn't develop under him like they have for Beilein. His halfcourt offenses were rough to watch.
with Amaker. He was a good dude and could get decent recruits. He just couldn't develop them consistently like Beilein can. Amaker's teams always charged into a season winning. Then the rest of the teams got better and his didn't. Then they'd lose a ton and miss the NCAA tournament. I hope he's developed that talent. It's what sets most great coaches apart from the average ones.
Especially considering that the program was a train wreck on the court, and on probabtion when he took over. But then it fell off a cliff, and he got nobody worth a darn until Harris and Sims. And unfortunately, he did not develop the guys he had, but the talent was there for Big Ten title contenders and tournament bids. Courtney Sims could have been one of the best centers in the conference, if not the country, but he needed a coach who would kick his ass, and Amaker wasn't it.
Never figured out what happened to his half court offense, though. In his third year, when they won the NIT, it was really quite good. After that, his teams just seemed to revert to throwing the ball around the perimeter for 30 seconds, then chucking up a wild 3.
during the Amaker era..maybe the first year we did...Coack K did not like scheduling games against teams coached by those he coached...Knight was the same way against Coach K until very late in his career