All Things 2016 NCAA Tourney Thread

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Well that was a pretty awful call late in the game.
 

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GophersInIowa said:
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Ha! That's funny.

Self showed again this year that he is one of the top 2-3 regular season coaches year after year, but he continues to underachieve in the postseason. Obviously an Elite 8 appearance is nothing to sneeze at, but this is a year KU should have made the Final Four, and most their fans expected a title.

Go Gophers!!
 

Could be cheaters vs cheaters in the final 4 next Saturday. Virginia choked that one big time.
 

Brutal choke job by UVa. I hope our resident Tony Bennett fan is OK.
 




Come on Fighting Irish, make it a shutout on the ones.
 

I couldn't stomach a UNC national championship right now. What is taken by the NCAA so long to drop the axe on them?
 




scools12 said:
He will be around soon enough letting us all know the brilliance that is Tony Bennett.
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If he couldn't get this team to the Final Four with the draw the got, I'm not sure it's going to happen. Maybe he should call up Barry Alvarez after all.
 

MennoSota said:
Come on Fighting Irish, make it a shutout on the ones.
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This is an interesting development from a Vegas standpoint. I'd have to look back on my Twitter feed but there was a casino taking action at 100/1 that no one seed makes it to the Final Four. All of them making it was going for 4/1
 

UNC just too much on the offensive end.


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scools12 said:
UNC just too much on the offensive end.


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Paige was MIA in the middle of the season. He's been really good, which is why they keep moving on. UNC vs. Oklahoma would be a great final.
 


Cayman said:
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Someone in the forum where that was originally posted said "I think UNC asked for a delay on their punishment due to the having a good shot at winning the championship this year."

And someone responded with "What they actually did was way worse. They went and found, and reported new violations in other minor sports so the entire investigation and thus its results were forced back. They actively threw other sports under the bus to save this year's basketball team."

I'm not sure if that is true, but I suppose it could be.

http://the-boneyard.com/threads/a-disgusting-day-in-college-basketball.90451/
 

Pat Forde chimes in:

The Final Four matchups are now set. In one national semifinal, we have Villanova vs. Oklahoma. In the other, we have On Probation vs. Under Investigation.

Also known as the Outside Counsel Billable Hours Invitational, underwritten by Bond, Schoeneck & King. Also known as Questions 1 through 30 for NCAA president Mark Emmert, should he have his annual meeting with the media in Houston. Also known as Syracuse vs. North Carolina.

In college sports’ ongoing game of scandal Russian Roulette, the chamber was destined to come up loaded at some point. And so we have this: a Final Four contest matching a team that played nine games without its coach this season as part of NCAA sanctions, against a program that has been under interminable investigation after what the school itself admits was systemic academic fraud that went on for nearly two decades.
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http://sports.yahoo.com/news/on-probation-vs--under-investigation--final-four-marred-by-schools-with-scandals-045055152-ncaab.html

Edit: looks like Forde is saying the same thing, that they purposely reported the additional findings to delay everything:

In mid-August, North Carolina went Four Corners on the NCAA and delayed its endlessly ongoing academic fraud case until after this promising season was complete. Dean Smith would have been proud of the stall ball: The school announced that it found additional violations in women’s basketball and men’s soccer that would delay its response to a Notice of Allegations and thus extend the timetable for the entire case.

There is no assertion that the discovery of the violations was bogus, or that this was a ruse concocted by the school. But as negative announcements go, this one was fortuitously timed. It meant that this promising basketball season – North Carolina would start No. 1 in the AP poll – would not be compromised in any way by a Committee On Infractions ruling.
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And I'm sure ol Roy will retire before the first report gets printed.

Guys like him always have great timing.
 



Cayman said:
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This is exactly my sentiments. People I talk to think I'm crazy for being this upset about these two, Syracuse especially. They were essentially rewarded for Boeheim getting suspended and the Selection Committee decided that rewarding cheaters was more important than rewarding one of the 4 or 5 mid-majors that could be debated as earning a spot. A couple of who did EXACTLY what the committee told them they would need to do to become at-large bids from a mid-major.

Instead we have Syracuse getting arguably the easiest 10 - 7 match-up and then some luck puts them in the final four. What does that say to the other schools that get crushed by the NCAA on academic scandals? This whole thing make me not give two craps about the tourney, since one of those two cheats will be in the championship.
 

Oh, and I am SUPER tired of the articles that are headlined about cheating but then turn into a Williams and Boeheim overcame such and such to get here. Keep celebrating the cheaters.
 

The silver lining is that allegedly (and you can assume they weren't cheating while under investigation for the last 4 years) the kids on the UNC roster today, were not involved and did not benefit from the cheating.

Whether or not you are sympathetic to the kids or not is entirely up to you.
 

That was a heck of a first half for 'Nova. They couldn't do much wrong.

Go Gophers!!
 




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