🏀 RollTideBama NCAA Tournament Bracket Challenge

[TerryP]

Yahoo re-seeds the Sweet Sixteen.

 

[psychojoe]

Truly agree with their evaluation of UK. They have gotten good guard play their last three games. Their guards handled Florida's press pretty well, which should be a good sign for them versus Louisville. I would love to see UK versus UT in the Elite 8. That would guarantee at least one SEC school in the Final Four.

 

[TerryP]

Truly agree with their evaluation of UK. They have gotten good guard play their last three games. Their guards handled Florida's press pretty well, which should be a good sign for them versus Louisville. I would love to see UK versus UT in the Elite 8. That would guarantee at least one SEC school in the Final Four.

I'm interested in watching this aspect of the game as well. 'Ville's press is almost as unique to college basketball as the 'Cuse zone defense.

 

[bamaraider]

<!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: dbtech_usertag_mention -->@psychojoe @TerryP what is you guys take on the Arizona-Wisconsin match-up?

 

[psychojoe]

Raider, this game features two of the best coaches in Seth Miller and Bo Ryan. 'Zona is the one seed, but Wisconsin had a decent case for a one. The teams are evenly matched. Wisconsin is more offense oriented, Arizona more defense. Since Arizona is playing much closer to home, and since I generally favor the team with the better defense in games like this, I like Arizona to advance

 

[bamaraider]

Man that was a great game between Kentucky and Louisville.

 

[TerryP]

[MENTION=17619]bamaraider[/MENTION] One question I think sums up that match-up: How does the Arizona defense handle Wisky's big man; Kasinksy (sp?)
[MENTION=11349]bear facts[/MENTION] mentioned Zona losing Ashely due to injury. That comes into play if Wisconsin can get 'Zona in foul issues and the Badgers have been pretty damn good at that.

With the foul issues I thought 'Zona was going to end up dropping their game against SDSU. On the other end, Wisky has been able to get their opponents in foul trouble consistently.

If AZ ends up with bench/role players playing a good bit (by that I'm thinking a third of the regular time) this one is Wisky's to lose.

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I've got half of the E8 and if my picks win I'll have half of the final four.

How's your's?

 

[bamaraider]

Lol terrible. Here's my original elite 8 I had predicted: Duke-Michigan, Creighton-Arizona, Michigan State-Nova, Syracuse-Florida.

For this elite 8, I have Florida, Michigan State, Arizona, and Michigan all winning and making it to the final four. Then for the Title, I have Arizona-Florida.

 

[planomateo]

Great photo.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Incredible photo of Patric Young. Catch all of the best <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FloridaVsDayton&amp;src=hash">#FloridaVsDayton</a> action (PHOTOS) <a href="http://t.co/GAL60NgMWH">http://t.co/GAL60NgMWH</a> <a href="http://t.co/6rWa0XVhaf">pic.twitter.com/6rWa0XVhaf</a></p>&mdash; Amber Matsumoto (@AmberMatsumoto) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmberMatsumoto/statuses/450061224026185728">March 30, 2014</a></blockquote>
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[psychojoe]

Doing better than last year. LOL. With Florida's win I do have one team making it to the final four. This time last year the upset had ripped my bracket to shreds. I still Have Arizona and Michigan State live to reach the final four. Unfortunately I had Wichita State reaching the championship game.

I did find myself in the rare position of pulling for the Vols. That was just as gutsy a comeback as Kentucky's, it just fell a little short. SEC is now 10 and 1. Tomorrow I will be cheering for UK to make it 11-1.

 

[bamaraider]

Great photo.

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HA! I love the Dayton guys face

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[bamaraider]

That was an incredible game last night between Arizona and Wisconsin. Kaminsky (sp. check?) had 28 points, hit three 3-pointers, and 11 rebounds.

 

[bamaraider]

Well, my bracket is officially torn to bits. Michigan and Michigan State losing pretty much did it for me.

 

[planomateo]

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[psychojoe]

The NCAA basketball officials went to a lot of trouble the off season to change rule interpretations on block/charge and hand checking. In spite of the attention given to this, controversial calls late in the Louisville/Kentucky and Arizona/Wisconsin gams definitely affected the outcome of these games.

Block/Charge is still the toughest call in the game.

 

[planomateo]

Well, was kinda hoping for an SEC championship game, wanted to see UK vs FL and listen to some anti-SEC whine.

 

[bamaraider]

UCONN-UK...Rematch from a few years ago in the final four.

 

[bamaraider]

UCONN beats Kentucky to win the National Championship. Congrats to them.