Afternoon NCAA Games, and Do You Root for Non-Rival B10 Teams?
Mates,
Going to be a short day at work for me and have the games on right now on the computer. Watching Iowa v. Cincy. Question for you all though as you watch these games, do you pull for the other B10 teams that aren't rivals? For instance, it seems like a natural that we'd want Iowa to advance. If I can get over the Pitino factor, I'm good with Minny advancing yesterday. So setting aside ohio and sparty, do you pull for the other B10 teams?
Northern Lights tonight in most of the northern states, so don't forget to look outside if you can get away from clouds and too much light pollution. Have a great weekend and Go Blue, beat those gators!
XM
I wouldn’t mind chalk holding in the Buffalo game so as to provide a better challenge to Texas Tech in the event we advance past Florida.
I tend to root for Big10 teams in the tourney. Except for MSU. Fuck them.
buffalo looks like a team that could give texas tech some trouble. very high powered offense that they have.
I don’t know what happened to Wisconsin
Ain't that the truth. Oregon is NOT good. Wisconsin is playing with no passion, and they can't shoot at all. Sheesh. Hope they wake up.
What happened was exactly what I expected ever since our game against them at the Kohl Center. They're awful, but their flopping and hacking is exactly what works with Big Ten officiating. They won a bunch of games in a fraudulent fashion and got punted into the sun by a double-digit seed when the Big Ten whistle (or lack thereof) dried up.
I root against Wisconsin no matter what. They ruin almost every game they play by turning it into a rock fight and they have the dirtiest player in the NCAA...Brad Davison.
Bye Bye Wisconsin.
hold your head up high Ethan Happ. You can use your 9th year of eligibility to work on your shot outside of 5 feet.
Buh-bye Badgers.
Well, at least two 12 seeds win, plus a 13 - so far
Wisconsin just killing my bracket, I had them beating UCI next round, first sweet 16 pick I've missed. Pac 12 just owns us, stupid Rose Bowl conference.
Wow Wisconsin blows.
These guys really got outscored by 21 pts in what looked like 5 minutes.
Seriously. They were down by like 5 or 6 at one point when I went back to my computer to answer a few emails. I looked up and it was a 20 point lead. Felt like I went through a time warp. wtf.
Anyone else find this years tournament to be kinda boring?
Not enough big-time upsets, I guess.
But, on the flip side, that will give us a lot better games down the stretch as teams will be more on par with each other.
Good point
Yes, been pretty dull overall.
Apparently watching B1G basketball makes me dumb. My bracket is 4-3 in games with a B1G team (got Wisc, Iowa, and Minn wrong) and 15-2 in games without.
Wisconsin was horrible, but wow, the refs really took them out of the game. They couldn't breathe on anyone without a whistle.
Exactly the type of game I hope we either avoid or somehow survive.
Yes. This was the worst crew of officials of any game I've seen (even ours). And I'm a teacher on spring break and I'm single, so I've seen nearly all of them.
Not osu, msu or psu