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
1.6 seconds on the clock so you dribble it to halfcourt and try to call a timeout? No way any time is left
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure in college you don't get the ball out of bounds past halfcourt unless you call the TO past halfcourt.
But yeah, they had a better chance with a prayer-launched 3. I think they got a break, actually - the clock should've started sooner.
You're right - but they didn't have to inbound it in the backcourt. Throw it to halfcourt and then call timeout.
but UNC has to realize it's either a) timeout immediately or b) go for the game-winning 3 without it. You don't have enough time to cross halfcourt with 1.6 on the clock at the in-bounds
What would have been interesting is if he would have taken it, releasing it with .2 secs left and made it, then would the refs have been able to review to clock starting late and waved off the shot?
Cyclones!!!
The clock took half a second to start the game should be over!
Should be game over, clock started wayyyyy too late. 1.6 definitely went off the clock before that timeout.
Did they really think they could dribble it across the timeline and call a timeout in 1.6 seconds?
Two games in a row (WSU-KY being the other) where people seriously overestimated how fast they could dribble across the timeline.
Clock shouldn't have even run down to 1.6 left. There's time left.
Doesn't seem right being critical of an NC timeout issue in the tournament...
Seems like the clock was late starting when NC took the ball in.
Iowa State would've beaten MSU with Niang.
They won't play them.
The game should be over but there is no way they will end it.
Do the math, game over.
Great bucket by ISU
Great work by refs
Bravo refs for getting that one correct.
Not so fast. I like Virginia to beat them.
Probably been quite some time since none of UNC, Duke, Kansas, or Syracuse made the Sweet 16
2011 to be exact.
ah yes....eons ago. I knew it.
Another hated program going down early. My GOD, how Iove it. Had MSU, Wisconsin, Louisville and Kentucky lost this weekend, this would have been THE perfect weekend in the history of sports.
Only thing that sucks for UNC is if the clock had actually started on time I'm guessing he would've taken a shot seeing the clock was almost expired.
Roy Williams didn't want the timeout.
Deandre Kane is a nightmare for opposing teams.
Iowa State is TOUGH!!!
Not really.
seriously
just wait til I'm dead
More clock issues. The clock easily should have run off earlier than it did. North Carolina got a HUGE break there before they called timeout and the commentators never even noticed.
Just like with the Nebraska/Baylor game, there are some serious morons running the clocks. This shouldn't be an issue.
They still have to play Virginia who is no Delaware/Harvard.