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2018 NCAA Basketball Tournament Discussion (Official Thread)

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just looked at the sweet 16 match-ups. not exactly feeling the hype.

ksu vs. uk? meh.
loyola vs. nevada? not feeling it.
fsu vs. gonzaga? potential but not excited.
ttun vs. a&m? probably good.
nova vs. wvu? probably good.
ttu vs. purdue? without haas, meh.
ku vs. clemson? potential but not excited.
duke vs. cuse? boring the first time.
 
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OhioState001 said:
But upsets!
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not really. upsets are almost always great. this year, though we have upsets playing upsets instead of other top teams. shoot, i'd rather see umbc than ksu face uk. umbc vs. uk would interest me far, far more. and then there is purdue's key player being injured. purdue vs. ttu is a 2-seed vs. a 3-seed, but the game loses luster if one team is incomplete. as far as duke vs. cuse, well, they've already played each other. usually i'm all for duke playing a lower team. the tournament has a great history of duke being upset by (much) lower ranked teams.
 
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OSU_Buckguy said:
just looked at the sweet 16 match-ups. not exactly feeling the hype.

ksu vs. uk? meh.
loyola vs. nevada? not feeling it.
fsu vs. gonzaga? potential but not excited.
ttun vs. a&m? probably good.
nova vs. wvu? probably good.
ttu vs. purdue? without haas, meh.
ku vs. clemson? potential but not excited.
duke vs. cuse? boring the first time.
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Awful lineup. The upsets have been fun, but at this point, I'm pretty much done with this tournament.
 
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DZ83CK said:
Low key storyline to the early rounds of the tourney every year is the petty refs from lower conferences calling crap fouls because you have too many games for the top refs to call. This is why ideally you should have a reliable bench, as you will invariably need those guys to play important minutes at some point in the tourney if you are going to make an F4.
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Yup, there is actually very little skill required in the tournament it seems. Hit 3s and stay out of foul trouble. That’s about it. Certainly there is individual skill on display, but from a team standpoint, those are the two things that seem to matter.
 
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NFBuck said:
Have to post this here, too, because it’s epic...

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izzo playing the virtually unknown ben carter reminded me of tressel playing andree tyree in the game in '05. the guy barely played throughout his career as a tackle. but against ttun? good ol' wily tressel tricks everyone, slaps a tight end's number on tyree, and lines him up as a third tackle. game-winning touchdown by pittman with just seconds to go? yeah, that was tyree absolutely caving in ttun's right side. no one saw it coming. so izzo going with a guy who averaged 0.7 points and 0.9 assists was pretty wild and unpredictable just like tressel going with tyree up in ann arbor in '05.

except izzo played tyree at quarterback.
 
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OSU_Buckguy said:
izzo playing the virtually unknown ben carter reminded me of tressel playing andree tyree in the game in '05. the guy barely played throughout his career as a tackle. but against ttun? good ol' wily tressel tricks everyone, slaps a tight end's number on tyree, and lines him up as a third tackle. game-winning touchdown by pittman with just seconds to go? yeah, that was tyree absolutely caving in ttun's right side. no one saw it coming. so izzo going with a guy who averaged 0.7 points and 0.9 assists was pretty wild and unpredictable just like tressel going with tyree up in ann arbor in '05.

except izzo played tyree at quarterback.
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I was unaware of how poorly Izzo has performed against top coaches until he rattled off the records. That is dismal.
 
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When watching the game, I wondered who the hell this guy named Carter was. I never saw him play very much during the Big Ten. Granted I did not watch every MSU game but Carter?. I also wondered where Jackson was most of the game.. The radio announcer hits the nail right on the head regarding Izzo.
 
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OhioState001 said:
But upsets!
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They were great. My favorite part of the tournament is over. It usually boils down to blue bloods who hold no charm for me.

But for guys like you we should just have an 8 team field:

Duke vs UNC
Kansas vs Kentucky
UCLA vs Louisville
Notre Dame vs Syracuse

Same teams. Every year. :excited:
 
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OSU_Buckguy said:
just looked at the sweet 16 match-ups. not exactly feeling the hype.

ksu vs. uk? meh.
loyola vs. nevada? not feeling it.
fsu vs. gonzaga? potential but not excited.
ttun vs. a&m? probably good.
nova vs. wvu? probably good.
ttu vs. purdue? without haas, meh.
ku vs. clemson? potential but not excited.
duke vs. cuse? boring the first time.
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I'm just bummed we can't have UNC and Duke play each other for the 4th time this season. I might have actually watched this time, but I doubt it. :roll1:
 
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