NCAA Tourney Evening Thread (Tennessee is Our Next Foe, FYI)
So our next opponent is playing on TNT as we speak. Mercer Bears vs. Tennessee Volunteers. Tennessee's big men...are big, and athletic, and good. Theire guards can shoot and hit shots which also propel them.
Iowa St. - UNC is at halftime on CBS
Stephen F. Austin - UCLA will be on at 7:10 on TBS
Creighton - Baylor at 7:40 on TruTv
Whaaa?
Have watched a lot of Tennessee all year. Not sure why you guys are suprised about their performance. They are actually playing about how they usually play--strong athletes across the board, huge on the boards, play great defense. There are #6 on KenPom right now and blew out #4 Viriginia by 30 points. 30!!
I would ber we are actually an underdog going into the game.
Also Mercer doesn't have their big guy down low. I assume that a team like Mercer probably doesn't have the top end depth of a team like Tennessee to deal with that.
They do have their big man. Coursey is it. The near-7-footer they have, Monty Brown, averaged only 9 min. a game, 4 points, and 2 rebounds. He wasn't anywhere near a high usage player. He would be helpful today, for sure, matching up with Tennessee's bigs. Sorry if you knew all/some of that and were just mentioning how they're down a bench player (a Big one at that).
I'd still rather play Tennessee over Duke.
Be playing good teams and that we are a damn good team too. Bring em on.
Not about quality of a team but mismatches. A ton of teams are better than Indiana but I'm sure a majority of UM fans would prefer to play some of those better teams before IU. ee
Me too...but mainly bc I trust a more fairly officiated game if we are playing TN
State has such a cakewalk. Iowa State looks much worse without Niang.
Harris sat out the weekend before that game and that game is when Appling got injured.
You have no clue. Iowa State looks excellent today, much better than expected against a dangerous #6 seed.
We have a #11 vs #14 winner next week but MSU has a cake walk when they might play a #1? Go home now.
Refs are killing ISU right now.
I turned off the TN/Mercer game in favor of this awesome UNC/IA State game.
UNC is mugging and Iowa St. getting called for shit the past few minutes.
Refs trying to make the game as close as possible to the regular season, that's all.
Up your butt, Jobu.
to the movie! Well played!
Naz Long keeping Iowa St. in it right now. Two big 3s to keep UNC from pulling away...
Iowa St. finally getting a call
about how the SEC sucks in basketball, but it looks like it's going to have as many teams in the 16 as the Big Ten will have.
but Tennessee can thank Mercer for beating Duke and Florida's looked mediocre. I think the main dig on the SEC is that it's so so top heavy. A few good schools and then a ton of abysmal ones in slots 4-14
He looks like he should be the antagonist lawyer in a movie set in the south.
Canadians man.
Walton accepted the offer first.
Weird to think that we could have been playing Iowa in the Sweet 16. They lost to Tennessee in OT.
What a late fucking whistle.
Virginia doesn't exist?
Huge free throws by UNC there.
That time should have been started quicker.