Conference Tournament open thread
UConn and Cincy in 4OT! right now edit: UConn wins 104-97
OSU-MSU on BTN
ND-UNC on ESPN
BU-Kansas on ESPN2
Arizona-Oregon at 9:00 P12N
OU-WVU 9:00 ESPN2
Miami-UVA 9:00 ESPN
I didn't think he was that close, but if he was then so be it. Still frustrating to have 3 guys celebrating nowhere near the play while a shot goes up.
As a Bearcat and Wolverine, that felt like losing to MSU in football this year.
Cronin, "my guys know a kid can't catch the ball, turn, bring the ball below his waist and get enough power to launch it 80 feet in .8"
Actually only took .4 seconds lol
I think we need to root for UConn to beat Temple and eventually win the AAC. One of these bubble teams (UConn, Cincy, Temple, or Tulsa) were going to get in to the tournament via auto-bid with SMU on a tourney ban this year. It might as well be UConn, and UConn could help our RPI with each win they get as they are the only one of these teams that Michigan played.
Can anyone explain to me how Temple is a lock for the NCAA Tourney right now besides being the AAC regular season champion? Their resume is soft (RPI #57, KenPom #81).
we now have to switch to rooting for uconn. ugh.
Goddammit Sparty is so good. They probably get to the Final Four again. There's no matchup for them I don't think, that is a kyrptonite. Unless they go ice cold from Three-land in a game, they're going to knock teams off on their way to Houston.
AND I HATE THEM SO MUCH. Fuck Forbes. Fuck Valentine. And straight to the face, fuck you, Matt Costello.
msu is going all the way, the way they are playing right now is unbeleivable. This has to be one of Izzo's best teams.
The consensus chatter seems to be that we need to win tomorrow to get in. Why do I believe this? We seem to not be getting much credit for beating the Big Ten Champs.
Yea it's all bullshit. Harbaugh done pissed everyone off. Our wins are MUCH better than any of those other half-ass bubble teams (not that we're world beaters, but c'mon).
NO ONE is mentioning out wins are top-25...just "meh, only 4 top 100 wins". Fuck the pundits. There must be a beef with us. Again, maybe Harbaugh!?
I don't think we control our own destiny if we lose to Purdue. There are still some possibilities for stolen bids, and our resume is so close to some other bubble teams right now. We may still get in with a loss, but it would make a very stressful and uncertain Sunday.
Northern Iowa, Gonzaga, Iona, and the UConn/Temple winner have all stolen bids. Maybe we get in over Monmouth & St Mary's, but it is not a sure thing like it would have been had they won their conference tournaments.
And there are still some potential bid thiefs left out there in the American and SEC Tournaments.
Gonzaga and St. Mary both felt like fringe teams, and I'm not sure that was more than a 1-bid league regardless. Monmouth has a bunch of wins but a number of bad losses.
There are always bid stealers out there, but it doesn't seem nearly as dire as people are making it, especially with a couple of sure-fire teams out because of sanctions.
Also, well done BTN, getting Bill Raftery from God knows where!
And the Spartans come out...MANTOMAN!
Oklahoma's AD Castiglione is the chairman this year. Hollis is vice chair and the chariman next year. Oklahoma and MSU are two of the last teams in consideration for a #1 seed so it will be interesting to see what the committee does.
Why are athletic directors even on the committee in the first place? It makes no sense.
I think the committee has always been ADs and conference commissioners.
Aren't they ranked #2 in the country?
March 12th, 2016 at 12:02 AM ^
IU won the conference but they were not the best team this year. Just like MSU may have won the conference in football, but they were not the best team in the league.
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I'm loving the look of the UNC uniforms, Jordan does a great job on uniforms.
ALL the so called experts have been saying for a week or more that Michigan needed to beat NW AND Indiana to get in...Now that theyve done that SUDDENLY they are aying it doesnt matter....FU Lunardi, Jay Bilas and all the others that suddenly changed your tune....Do we have one more in us? Yesterday on here I predicted we would beat Indiana...Even though Ive been down on them and certain players all year....When youve followed Michigan sports as long as I have you get certain feelings when and if things are going to happen and Ive been right way more than wrong..(Including losses) when it came time to make the actual predicition I predicted a win...Trying to figure out if we enough gas in the tank for 3 in a row as it looks like accoridng to many we still arent in...Leaning towards another upset but not quite there yet.....what think you?
Always somewhat satisfying to see Ohio State get destroyed and eliminated from NCAA consideration. If you don't pay attention to the name on the jersey, that team in white they were playing is really fun to watch, they play the game the way it's supposed to be played.