NCAA tournament run without a close game?
Last done by Magic and MSU 1in 1979, all wins by double digits -
though that was 5 games, not 6.
Can Villanova do it?
No, they are due for a close game.
How will they respond?
Also, our patter is, game 1, bad shooting, game 2, same
game 3, shoot the lights out
game 4, bad shooting, game 5, same
game 6 -
SHOOT THE LIGHTS OUT!!!
Moe's mom is there!
We're undefeated in the BTT and NCAAs when Moe's mom is there.
Um, actually we're undefeated when she's not there too.
But work with me here.
Moe's mom is there!
We lost to Oregon last year when she wasn't there. It's good to have her around.
how we put our brackets together and we see how most of them turned out
Florida State too, make the Wildcats quit with 10 seconds left!
The last time isn't MSU '79; UNC did it 2009. That UNC team was arguably the best CBB team of the 21st century, yet people seem to forget about them for some reason. Granted, maybe they deserve an asterisk in light of events that later came to light. But:
1st Round: UNC 101 Radford 58
2nd Round: UNC 84 LSU 70
Sweet 16: UNC 98 Gonzaga 77
Elite 8: UNC 72 Oklahoma 60
Final Four: UNC 83 Villanova 69
TItle Game: UNC 89 MSU 72
I knew I would be corrected if wrong.
with no wins by less than 13 points. They had two wins, including the Elite 8 game, with 30+ point victories. It's not that rare for the NCAA champs to go through the bracket like Sherman through Georgia - UNC was the 12th to win all tournament games by double digits, but the majority of NCAA champions have average margin of victories in the double digits. Only about a quarter of champs don't. Here's an article about it:
However, many of those double-digit margin average teams did feature a game closer that finished within 2 possessions, so there's something to the OP. Interestingly, the 1963 Loyola Chicago team had the second highest margin of victory (at least as of 2012, when that article was published).
Double post. D'oh.
We will play intense D - Nova has seen nothing like it. We have a great coaching staff - they will make the adjustments. We have a LOT of ways of beating teams - will it be Moe, Matthews, MAAR, Duncan, Z, Poole? Who knows, but a few guys will have strong games. We ARE Michigan. We are winning a national championship tomorrow night. We bow to no man, no team. Let's get it.
Also I would like to add. Kansas got off a ton of outside shots on the so called Nova stellar defense. They couldn't keep up though. Michigan should be able to pick and pop where they want at will. This has nothing to do with your post but I needed a good spot to throw it in because I don't believe anyone has mentioned this yet. The game is there for the taking. Immortality, take it, it's yours Michigan Basketball!!!
a muchkin like Brunson in the post.
I think it was Jess Settles on BTN last night who said UM will put Mathews on Brunson. Not sure what that woud mean for the other matchups but that ought to exterminate the might mite.
Brunson likes to lean in (aka foul) to create space in the post,
Not sure he can do that on Z as he is very strong.
damn, now we are screwed.
My theory is that Nova is due to give back some of the karma from the Gerogetown upset from my youth.
He was not very athletic and had a very flat shot.
shot clock
first of our back to back BT champs that lost in the second round
yes, we can use that karma too
Villanova deserves to be favored, but we can beat them. If Butler, St. Johns, Providence, and Creighton can beat them....we can too. Seton Hall took them to OT. If they are a little flat and we are hitting our threes....watch out.
And then hit your own three's so you're trading three's for two's.
Nova was much more calm than us. They were shooting their three's slower, more square, and they got under the ball more. We were a lot more frantic on our releases.
We have nothing to lose and we've seen the court now. We calm down and we'll hit some shots.
Nova is Nova, but we'll get to see how well they can shoot those 3's when they don't have all that luxurious space and time to shoot them. it might be a different story.
Loyola only had like one three all night long against Michigan after lighting them up all tournament against everybody else.
If Michigan just shoots a season average across the court, this game will be too close for Nova's comfort. With Michigan's defense, Nova will find it difficult to get open looks. They can (will) hit some, but certainly not like last night. With our defense, a season average offensive game promises a good possibility for a win. An A&M night shooting is a comfortable win. Against they way M stops 3-pt'ers and transition, an A&M-like offensive performance is the absolute worst thing Nova wants to see...
And I like the way this team closes out games for the win. In a close one, I like M.
Yes...can they do it? YES... with DEFENSE DEFENSE DEFENSE...and as we saw in the Texas A& M game one Hot night doesnt transfer to the next game...SO lets say we have a TXA&M performance on offense and our stellar Defense and Nova Doesnt have the same performance as last night AND we will probably have a big Home court crowd so it is within the realm of possibility...Now if Nova shoots like last night then were in trouble obviously
I don't recall all their games, but seems to me they were never materially behind, and that thei games were largely put away early. Hope they react poorly to some tough D.