March Madness Discussion Thread

[Plow]

I can't decide up to this point who's tourney mvp between Pullen and the collective referees working to eliminate Kansas teams.

[Headspace]

Glad UC 2.0 was representing well.

[Headspace]

I can't decide up to this point who's tourney mvp between Pullen and the collective referees working to eliminate Kansas teams.

Evan Turner.

[Plow]

I guess since Pullen stepped up and owned em in the face there he's winning so far.

[Moss]

It was destiny for Gus Johnson to have that game.

[Plow]

Man it's hilarious how my bracket was completely fucked when KU lost, but I've literally only gone up in percentile since *before* it happened.


And looking at other people, our group's 2nd place person has KU winning it all and is 98.9 percentile rofl

[Plow]

It's also hilarious how quiet it gets after k-state wins around here ;p Late game is a good excuse this time tho lol

Anyway, now the question is how does this affect us going forward. Incredible gamesmanship on both sides, definitely something to feed off of, but man that was an insane amount of energy expended. It was beautiful how when Pullen was off, Denis stepped up and scored 20+ in a half, and then when he got too tired to keep it up, Pullen took back over once again despite having been really off for quite a while. I think he was like 4/13 going into the last 2 minutes of regulation and went 5/6 the rest of the way.

There was definitely a massive battle of wills going on, and as any fan can tell you it's incredible to watch your team when they're good and they want it that bad. It's both promising and a little worrisome moving forward, but I'm thinking we'll carry momentum from it.

Basically everything that concerns me is shored up some way or another.

Our depth inside let us dominate overtime with easy shots despite having major foul trouble.

Denis wasn't running at the end the way you'd like to have seen (just a couple of bursts from him would have cause serious trouble for Xavier... of course they have to miss some damn shots for that to really work tho lol), but Pullen and the bigs still had plenty in them well past when you'd "typically" need.

When the outside shooting was off, in order for Xavier to cut off the slashing they were forced to man up down low, and they couldn't. It's going to be tough for anyone that's left between now and the final to do so as well.

So, yeah altogether decent confidence, as long as we don't put up a downright bad game, it's going to be reeeeeeally hard to knock us out.

[Diamicles]

I liked Xavier in that matchup, but had KSU moving on to the next round in my (busted) bracket.

The Syracuse v. Butler game was really entertaining though. Butler will be a handful for KSU in the elite 8.

[Moss]

It was funny how every time they showed Crawford and Pullen they were chatting away like crazy.

[Plow]

I noticed that too, I really wanna know what gets said between 2 guys like that playing a game like that lol.

[Moss]

they are calling some pussy ass fouls in this game, appropriate for Tennessee

[Kyo]

I smell that tiger coming out.

[Moss]

also stop calling that fatass Big Baby, that nickname is taken

[Akiyama]

lofuckingl Saint Mary's. Where's Omar Samhan's shit talking now?

[Kyo]

Saint Marys doesn't belong on the same floor as Baylor.

[Kyo]

Hey Tennessee you might have a chance if you would, you know, guard Evan Turner.

[Moss]

they can't hear you over Prince's crying

[Kyo]

I mean I'm pulling for OSU, but, I mean cmon, you gotta guard Evan Turner to have a chance.

[Moss]

is it just me or are all the announcers on Tennessee's dick

[Ryany]

Hey Tennessee you might have a chance if you would, you know, guard Evan Turner.

My guess is they don't want to foul out for breathing on him. (I'm talking about mostly games earlier in this year)