Who you rolling with? Who is this year's Cinderella?

I got Texas winning it all. I think experience is a big factor in March. And Texas is old. And big12 battle tested.

Cinderella: I got Drake getting to the Sweet 16. Why? *shrug*

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Would like to see Pitt vs UCONN

Also keeping my eye on Marquette.

I don’t have faith in Kansas or fucking Purdue in making it deep in this tourney.

Hate to say it but Duke has an easy path this year and they are healthy and focused.. I just hate them too much to pick them to win it all

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The way to beat Duke is to draw them out of their drop coverage, make them defend ball screens where they're pretty aggressively mediocre, and have multiple shot makers who can take and make shots from anywhere. And Oral Roberts, more than really anyone else before the Elite Eight in our side of the bracket, is tailor made to do all of that.

Duke will need to play inside out, destroy the boards, and impose will with size and athleticism to take ORU out of their rhythm. If we do that? I like our chances to make Sweet 16-- and considering Purdue has a pretty brutal second round draw imo, the shot they'll have at an Elite Eight is fairly decent as well.

Feels dumb as shit to say "either first round exit or Elite Eight," but that's the tournament for you. Matchups, matchups, matchups.

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love the VCU shout out too

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Blown coverage of the 3-point shooter on the final play and blown box-out for the tip-back-- yet Mississippi State misses both. Unreal. Happy for Capel-- Iowa State's vulnerable, so maybe he can put a miracle run together.

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Marquette, UConn, UCLA…

I’m already expecting Illinois to get bounced in the first round… too capricious of a team
to make a run. Hopefully, having that perception of not expecting anything will lead to
them having success.

I’ll still be rooting for them on GP

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We play like trash away from home so I’m not expecting much.
Let’s go though. Shock em all Kev Willard.

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We play like trash away from home so I’m not expecting much.
Let’s go though. Shock em all Kev Willard.

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Capel lucks out against Mississippi State, Hurley absolutely demolishes Nevada.

This can only mean one thing: KENNY BLAKENEY PULLS OFF THE MIRACLE AND HOWARD UPSETS KANSAS.

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I understand he was trapped, but damn. I know yall practice passing out of traps. Dude just threw a smooth pop-fly.

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he is usually very steady with the ball and calm under pressure. He's the guy UVA wants with the ball in his hands in those situations, just like he was in 2019's championship run. He just found himself trapped in a bad spot, and he is tiny (he's listed as 5-10 but he is like 5-8 tops, probably closer to 5-7) and just panicked.

Just an awful way for a great career to come to an end. But regardless, salute to a champion:

https://twitter.com/Zach_Carey_/status/1636466064966950912

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We (Ohio U.) were a 13 seed when we knocked off defending champs Virginia 2 years ago. One of the kids on the team, Ben Vander Plas, transferred to Virginia after that. I was a little salty but his dad had played ball at Virginia so I kinda get it.

Fast forward 2 years and he gets to be a part of another 13 over 4 upset but from the wrong side.

he's named after them, Ben is short for Bennett. So yeah their ties run pretty deep.


> Fast forward 2 years and he gets to be a part of another 13
>over 4 upset but from the wrong side.

he broke his hand last week so he was out, but yeah March Madness is wild.

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> he's named after them, Ben is short for Bennett. So yeah
>their ties run pretty deep.

Oh damn, I didn't know that at all.

>he broke his hand last week so he was out, but yeah March
>Madness is wild.

That's a lousy way to end the season & maybe his college career. I think he's a grad student so I don't know how much eligibility he might have.

that being said, this is me right now:


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If you win it all, that washes a *lot* of tough tournament losses, lol.

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(along with all UVA fans right now, myself included)

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The line had Mizzou as the underdog, but the team's played well post-Kansas.

With Arizona out, there's a legit chance the school gets to the Sweet 16. I can't even remember the last time that happened. Was that the D'Marre Carroll team?

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D'Marre, Marcus Denmon, Lyons, Bowers, Kim English. Fun times. Won the Big 12 Tourney, got in the dance and made a deep run. Couldn't get past UCONN in the Elite 8. Too much Kemba and Thabeet owned the boards.

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Even with Flip battling food poisoning apparently, we still easily took care of business with our defense first. Have to love that.

For Scheyer's first season, no matter what happens from here, I absolutely love what I'm seeing from a schematic perspective.

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18 turnovers last night against a bad defensive team, including 10 by the primary ball-handlers (3 of 4 being seniors)

not even good turnovers either, just throwing the ball into the stands and getting it stripped in slow motion

Tennessee averages over 12 turnovers per game so this isn't just a no-Zakai-Ziegler issue, they are sloppy in general

going 12-21 at the free throw stripe didn't help matters

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I doubt Tennessee will score effectively the way our halfcourt defense has been playing, so we just need to avoid one of those 18-to-20 turnover games, which would give Tennessee easy points.

If we don't shoot ourselves in the foot and we avoid good shooting luck for Vols/bad shooting luck for us, I like our chances.

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>I doubt Tennessee will score effectively the way our
>halfcourt defense has been playing, so we just need to avoid
>one of those 18-to-20 turnover games, which would give
>Tennessee easy points.

>If we don't shoot ourselves in the foot and we avoid good
>shooting luck for Vols/bad shooting luck for us, I like our
>chances.

I guess you could call the Nkamhoua game lucky, but this is why Barnes stuck with him all year (he had 27 against Texas too) -- he has incredible extremes but his upside can win a game

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Lifetime locks.


Brad Underwood is the Thibs of the NCAA


He is shit and needs to be fired.

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Out of conference teams are in for a surprise…

They are one of those teams that every top team should beat, but run into
trouble because they are very tough.

Beat Illinois three times
Beat NW twice
Beat Indiana twice
Beat Maryland
Played Purdue to a 2 point loss

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So they can certainly lose if Pickett and Funk are cold... but that doesn't happen often.

If they're both hot, they can make a run.

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is high end elite at getting to the hoop and creating his own shot. I’m a huge fan of their coach - Micah Shrewsberry - and it seems like his players all love him.

With that said, they do lack size and will struggle against bigger teams/players. They had no answers at all for Edey. He killed them on the glass and in the paint. Surprisingly, PSU still had a chance to win the game and only lost by 2 in the conference championship.

It was ridiculous that they were given a #10 seed. Indiana - who they recently beat - had a similar/slightly better record got a #4 seed. Iowa was 19-13 and somehow got an #8 seed.

Pitt had more turnovers than made field goals... and they won by TWENTY, because Iowa State couldn't hit the broad side of a fucking barn, both from the field or the free throw line.

Unwatchable basketball. But happy for Capel-- he's a former Duke guy, he never beats Duke, and he always beats UNC, so he's basically everything I want from an ACC coach imo.

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