2014 NCAA Tournament Thread: Buzzer Beaters, Bracket Busters & More...

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The Horseshoe is still firmly placed inside Iowa State's ass. That is at least the 4th game this year they had no business winning. Made their last 4 threes of the game and UNC blew an 8 point lead with less than four minutes left. Really, really tired of watching other programs get lucky.
 

EG#9 said:
The Horseshoe is still firmly placed inside Iowa State's ass. That is at least the 4th game this year they had no business winning. Made their last 4 threes of the game and UNC blew an 8 point lead with less than four minutes left. Really, really tired of watching other programs get lucky.
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Yeah, nice choke job, UNC. My bracket is in shambles aside from my Final Four surviving.
 

LongLiveMilesTarver said:
Williams took that better than can be expected. I'm also very impressed the officials had the balls to call that correctly.

Now onto Tennessee-Mercer or UCLA-SFA. After the last two games this is like watching an NIT game.
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I absolutely agree about Roy's demeanor when told by the officials "the game is over". Roy was very classy. Can you imaging Bo's head exploding if that happened to him?
 

I picked North Carolina so I'm a little upset about how that game ended. North Carolina really killed themselves though by taking some quick tough shots when they were up with under 4 to go and some bad late turnovers. Was surprised the officials didn't stop the game and review the clock immediately after the Iowa State basket. It looked like Williams had been calling timeout and none of the refs acknowledged it earlier which is part of the reason I was surprised how calm he was able to remain. Hard to see a game end that way because somebody running the clock made an error.
 

LongLiveMilesTarver said:
Williams took that better than can be expected. I'm also very impressed the officials had the balls to call that correctly.

Now onto Tennessee-Mercer or UCLA-SFA. After the last two games this is like watching an NIT game.
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I was thinking the same thing. I wouldn't blame any coach if they went ballistic in that situation, even the Grinch.
 


ALL MIGHTY CREIGHTON, not looking so good against Baylor, The Great Big East likely to have ZERO sweet 16 teams, wonder if that tv deal was worth it if it won't get renewed after this current contract is up
 

GophersInIowa said:
How can they do that? The players for North Carolina had to base their decision on what the clock says. Bizarre way for a game to end.

My bracket for money was looking awesome coming into today. The first three games have now killed me. Amazing how quickly you can go from looking so great to pretty much done.
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The clock said that there was 1.6 seconds left, and if they based their decision on that, there was no way to get halfway across the court in less than a second and a half.

As for EG's comment about other programs getting lucky, I watched the game, and I felt like ISU earned it. Don't know what part of executing well and no panicking when behind late is "lucky". Its not like some bizarre half court heave hit back rim, bounced up 10 feet in the air and went it. They were making open threes.
 

Section201 said:
I absolutely agree about Roy's demeanor when told by the officials "the game is over". Roy was very classy. Can you imaging Bo's head exploding if that happened to him?
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I know people love to hate on all the Blue Bloods, but I've always like Roy in both places as well as Pitino. Coach K, Self, Crean? Not so much.
 

bleedsmaroonandgold said:
The clock said that there was 1.6 seconds left, and if they based their decision on that, there was no way to get halfway across the court in less than a second and a half.

As for EG's comment about other programs getting lucky, I watched the game, and I felt like ISU earned it. Don't know what part of executing well and no panicking when behind late is "lucky". Its not like some bizarre half court heave hit back rim, bounced up 10 feet in the air and went it. They were making open threes.
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So you're saying a player should just disregard what he physically sees on the clock while running down the floor and go by what his gut tells him?

Or what if there were 3 seconds left instead? Are you saying a player should just know the difference between 3 and 3.5 seconds?

I just think it is hard for a player to know what fractions of seconds feel like. Either way, I don't know why UNC didn't just take a TO right away to try and set up a play.
 



Multiple-Bid Conferences through Round of 32

We have no true Cinderellas, as all 16 teams come from major/multi-bid conferences.

Records, with teams still remaining.

1. SEC (7-0) -- Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee
2. American (5-2) -- Connecticut, Louisville
3. Pac 12 (7-3) -- Arizona, Stanford, UCLA
4. Big Ten (6-3) -- Michigan, Michigan State, Wisconsin
5. Mountain West (2-1) -- San Diego State
6. Big XII (6-5) -- Baylor, Iowa State
7. ACC (6-5) -- Virginia
8. Atlantic 10 (3-5) -- Dayton
9. Big East (2-4)
10. WCC (1-2)

Noteworthy
ACC vs. Atlantic 10 (re: Coach K calling out A-10) = A-10 leads 2-0 after Dayton beats Syracuse (in Buffalo)
Big Ten vs. Big XII (re: generally regarded as season's best 2 conferences) = all square 1-1 after Michigan beats Texas
 

GophersInIowa said:
So you're saying a player should just disregard what he physically sees on the clock while running down the floor and go by what his gut tells him?

Or what if there were 3 seconds left instead? Are you saying a player should just know the difference between 3 and 3.5 seconds?

I just think it is hard for a player to know what fractions of seconds feel like. Either way, I don't know why UNC didn't just take a TO right away to try and set up a play.
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That's what makes this such a difficult situation. Bottom line, there's no substitute for competent clock operation.
 





I had Baylor in my Elite 8 - just had a feeling they'd make a run. Beat Becky!!!

Lost my first Elite 8 yesterday tho in damn Kansas.


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Jeshurun said:
I had Baylor in my Elite 8 - just had a feeling they'd make a run. Beat Becky!!!

Lost my first Elite 8 yesterday tho in damn Kansas.


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have Baylor in Final 4. Beat Becky!
 

Just saw that Deandre Kane is 24 and turning 25 this year, he is the same age as Kevin Love, Kevin Durant, and Russel westbrook, and makes him older than James Harden, Jrue Holiday,Kyrie Irving, John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Blake Griffin, Derrick Favors, Serge Ibaka, Nicolas Batum, Ricky Rubio all of whom would be considered NBA vets now and have gotten their 2nd nba contract or will be signing their 2nd within the next year, you got top college teams recruiting 17/18 year old kids and than you got Hoiberg who is recruiting men who have eligibility left, tactic a lot of coaches are trying emulate now
 

GuyFawkes said:
Just saw that Deandre Kane is 24 and turning 25 this year, he is the same age as Kevin Love, Kevin Durant, and Russel westbrook, and makes him older than James Harden, Jrue Holiday,Kyrie Irving, John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Blake Griffin, Derrick Favors, Serge Ibaka, Nicolas Batum, Ricky Rubio all of whom would be considered NBA vets now and have gotten their 2nd nba contract or will be signing their 2nd within the next year, you got top college teams recruiting 17/18 year old kids and than you got Hoiberg who is recruits men who have eligibility left, tactic a lot of coaches are trying emulate now
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We need a USHL for basketball.
 

SelectionSunday said:
We have no true Cinderellas, as all 16 teams come from major/multi-bid conferences.

Records, with teams still remaining.

1. SEC (7-0) -- Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee
2. American (5-2) -- Connecticut, Louisville
3. Pac 12 (7-3) -- Arizona, Stanford, UCLA
4. Big Ten (6-3) -- Michigan, Michigan State, Wisconsin
5. Mountain West (2-1) -- San Diego State
6. Big XII (6-5) -- Baylor, Iowa State
7. ACC (6-5) -- Virginia
8. Atlantic 10 (3-5) -- Dayton
9. Big East (2-4)
10. WCC (1-2)

Noteworthy
ACC vs. Atlantic 10 (re: Coach K calling out A-10) = A-10 leads 2-0 after Dayton beats Syracuse (in Buffalo)
Big Ten vs. Big XII (re: generally regarded as season's best 2 conferences) = all square 1-1 after Michigan beats Texas
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It is ironic that the A-10 gets as many Sweet 16 appearances as the ACC. And the only team to make it for the ACC was #1 seed UVA who had the easiest route while the A-10's worst team was the one who made the Sweet 16 run. I didn't feel the A10 deserved 6 bids really, but certainly UD is proving their worth and so it's hard to argue against, maybe you could argue against GW making it because they weren't very good but 68 teams need to make it either way.
 

toughest road to go

The favorites according to Vegas: Florida, Arizona, Michigan st, and Louisville.
Although Virginia looked tough yesterday.

Who has the hardest and the easiest road?

Darkhorses no one wants to play: Kentucky and Baylor.

Teams who will come up short: Uconn, Dayton, UCLA.

In two backets my champions are Florida and Michigan st.


Your thoughts?
 


Originally Posted by march madness

In two backets my champions are Florida and Michigan st.

Bad Gopher said:
...who would play in the national semifinal.
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Right in one bracket Florida wins, in the other bracket Michigan st. does, and then I have Florida beaing arizona and in the other bracket Mich st. over Louisville.
 

I think the national champ game is florida vs mich st.

I have fla over az.
 

march madness said:
Originally Posted by march madness

In two backets my champions are Florida and Michigan st.



Right in one bracket Florida wins, in the other bracket Michigan st. does, and then I have Florida beaing arizona and in the other bracket Mich st. over Louisville.
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Oh yes, I got it. Was just making the observation that you had the national championship being basically determined in the semis.
 


Three consecutive commercial breaks where I flip to the other game and the officials are at the monitor reviewing a foul.

This is beyond ridiculous.
 



Dayton isn't any kind of cute little underdog. They're really this good.
 

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Go Gophers!!
 

station19 said:
****ing Wisconsin is pissing me off.
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19...There is not one BIG team that wouldn't have beat Baylor tonight. Wisconsin is running into teams that are laying
major eggs. Baylor ' s first half and Oregon ' s second half were real stinkers.
 

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