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Title: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: yorost on March 12, 2011, 02:23:15 PM
NCAA basketball postseason is here,, and we have a couple groups from last year that are ready to go for anyone wanting to play.  Hef won the standard game last year, and I think that's DTVT that won the alternate points game.

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Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: zxlkho on March 12, 2011, 02:51:43 PM
Awesome. I'm in!
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on March 12, 2011, 03:01:33 PM
I'm in, let's hope I don't suck as much ass as I did last year.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: wkiml on March 12, 2011, 03:06:26 PM
I'm In
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Dr. DTVT on March 12, 2011, 04:13:41 PM
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jLyvhhBme3k/TW52OFhdtMI/AAAAAAAAAdg/kaI1pYRyKlY/s320/I%2527ll%2Bbe%2Bback.jpg)
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: pogoowner on March 12, 2011, 10:53:20 PM
I'm in. I honestly don't follow college basketball as much as I'd like to for most of the season, but I do follow my team, Michigan State, very closely. If it looks like I'm being a bit of a homer with my picks, well, I probably am.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: hefdaddy42 on March 13, 2011, 05:02:41 AM
CBSSports.com is being a bitch to me right now.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: yorost on March 13, 2011, 05:10:07 PM
Brackets are open to be filled in now.

Interesting possibility of two 2nd round games being matchups of Big East teams.  Apparently it wasn't a big deal to avoid that.

Big Ten got some real love on seeding.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: zxlkho on March 13, 2011, 05:15:58 PM
Someone please tell me how UAB and VCU made the tournament... and not Virginia Tech?!?!?

Also, should we make a discussion thread about the tournament?
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Dr. DTVT on March 13, 2011, 05:33:46 PM
Someone please tell me how UAB and VCU made the tournament... and not Colorado?!?!?

Also, should we make a discussion thread about the tournament?

FTFY.  Sorry, but Colorado got snubbed worse.  They beat Kansas St. 3 times.  KSt. spanked VT.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on March 13, 2011, 05:34:15 PM
Dammit!!!  Saint Marys got fucking snubbed.  :censored
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: splent on March 13, 2011, 06:39:43 PM
Done
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on March 13, 2011, 07:23:19 PM
The winning picks have been entered. :\
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: OsMosis2259 on March 13, 2011, 07:33:44 PM
I'm in!

 :corn
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: yorost on March 14, 2011, 05:50:18 AM
UAB, USC, and somewhat VCU are confusing picks.  UAB did next to nothing to deserve a bid other than have a high RPI.  USC is loaded with bad losses.  VCU at least has some wins high quality wins against it's bad losses.

Dammit!!!  Saint Marys got fucking snubbed.  :censored
Disagree.  With losses mounting, and one really bad loss, down the stretch they no longer looked particularly good.

Sorry, but Colorado got snubbed worse.  They beat Kansas St. 3 times.  KSt. spanked VT.
Colorado probably was the worst snub.  I don't like the comparison you mention for who should get in or not, but Virginia Tech really didn't have a great resume compared to Colorado.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Tick on March 14, 2011, 05:54:43 AM
Dammit!!!  Saint Marys got fucking snubbed.  :censored
They should have won more games.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on March 14, 2011, 02:11:02 PM
A 25-8 record and the first conference win at Gonzaga in 10 years should have done it, I feel.  I wish they would have just won the damn tourney so they wouldn't have to worry about it.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: yorost on March 14, 2011, 03:20:53 PM
Off year for Gonzaga, though, so it wasn't even a top 50 RPI win.  One bad loss and one absolutely horrendous loss since that win against Gonzaga really hurt their resume.   Losing twice to Gonzaga since then probably didn't help, either.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on March 14, 2011, 04:22:25 PM
Off year for Gonzaga, though, so it wasn't even a top 50 RPI win.  One bad loss and one absolutely horrendous loss since that win against Gonzaga really hurt their resume.   Losing twice to Gonzaga since then probably didn't help, either.
I'll agree the loss to San Diego did them in.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: hefdaddy42 on March 15, 2011, 09:48:52 AM
Finally entered.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: yorost on March 16, 2011, 02:35:51 PM
Just a reminder that brackets probably need to be filled in today.

Also, there is an option to copy your bracket from the standard game into the alternate scoring one.  The standard might be the main one, but the alternate scoring game does produce a winner, too. :p  The alternate scoring puts an emphasis on predicting the lower seeds more accurately.  You get very little bang for predicting wins by top seeds until the late rounds, and if you can correctly predict a 13 seed to the Sweet 16 you get rewarded well.  Still best to predict everything accurately, obviously, but it does try to reward being correct on harder picks.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: cramx3 on March 17, 2011, 12:05:03 AM
UAB, USC, and somewhat VCU are confusing picks.  UAB did next to nothing to deserve a bid other than have a high RPI.  USC is loaded with bad losses.  VCU at least has some wins high quality wins against it's bad losses.

Dammit!!!  Saint Marys got fucking snubbed.  :censored
Disagree.  With losses mounting, and one really bad loss, down the stretch they no longer looked particularly good.

Sorry, but Colorado got snubbed worse.  They beat Kansas St. 3 times.  KSt. spanked VT.
Colorado probably was the worst snub.  I don't like the comparison you mention for who should get in or not, but Virginia Tech really didn't have a great resume compared to Colorado.

Colorado played a terrible out of conference schedule which is the reason they are not in. I do think they are more worthy than UAB and Clemson though.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: hefdaddy42 on March 17, 2011, 04:52:06 AM
I'll give you UAB but not Clemson.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: OsMosis2259 on March 17, 2011, 08:05:15 AM
Brackets need to be filled in ASAP!
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: zxlkho on March 17, 2011, 02:09:50 PM
These games have been awesome so far today. Butler-ODU was so exciting and Taylor Battle just hit a clutch 3 for Penn State!

EDIT: Temple just won!
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: wkiml on March 17, 2011, 02:22:31 PM
Louisville  one and done
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on March 17, 2011, 03:18:13 PM
Louisville  one and done
That one hurt.  Bracket=busted.



(sidenote-GO BEARS, beat Colorado!!!)
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: pogoowner on March 17, 2011, 04:53:40 PM
Well, I was about 10 minutes late in filling out my bracket. Got one done on ESPN yesterday, though.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: splent on March 17, 2011, 05:07:22 PM
Guess who had Morehead St. beating Louisville.

 :metal
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on March 17, 2011, 06:17:24 PM
Guess who had Morehead St. beating Louisville.

 :metal
Not me.  :metal
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: pogoowner on March 17, 2011, 10:24:01 PM
That was literally the worst possible way for that game to end for Michigan State. And to see Kalin Lucas, one of the greatest players in program history, go out like that, is heartbreaking.  >:(
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: splent on March 20, 2011, 02:12:47 PM
So.  Pitt vs. Butler.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on March 20, 2011, 02:22:39 PM
So.  Pitt vs. Butler.
Killed my brackets.  Had Pitt in the final four. :(
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: j on March 20, 2011, 02:46:42 PM
My bracket is fucked.

Lots of really stupid, stupid plays happening at the end of these games.  Kansas State's Jacob Pullen forced a 3 with three guys draped on him and got it stuffed, when his sharpshooting teammate was wide open not 5 feet away.  And there was time to kick it back to him.

Henson for UNC made a brilliant defensive play near the end, then almost gave up the game TWICE with idiot plays in the final few seconds.

Only two I can think of at the moment, but there have been quite a few.

-J
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: hefdaddy42 on March 20, 2011, 02:54:24 PM
Henson for UNC made a brilliant defensive play near the end, then almost gave up the game TWICE with idiot plays in the final few seconds.
Yes, I was quite upset with him.  However, UNC survives and advances.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on March 20, 2011, 03:07:43 PM
Henson for UNC made a brilliant defensive play near the end, then almost gave up the game TWICE with idiot plays in the final few seconds.
Yes, I was quite upset with him.  However, UNC survives and advances.
Thank god.  I got them losing to Kansas in the finals.(sorry Hef, nothing but love for ya)
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Dimitrius on March 20, 2011, 03:09:13 PM
Well, that was a much closer game for Duke than it should've been!
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: splent on March 20, 2011, 03:18:17 PM
I'm still doing pretty well with my brackets.  My final four is still intact.  My elite eight is still intact as a matter of fact.  Barely with Duke and UNC playing like they did... but yep.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: pogoowner on March 20, 2011, 05:52:54 PM
So.  Pitt vs. Butler.
Killed my brackets.  Had Pitt in the final four. :(
Well that was a mistake. Everyone knows Pitt chokes every year.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: j on March 20, 2011, 06:40:49 PM
Kansas is the best team in the country.  I've got them and OSU in the finals, but KU is so athletic, disciplined (except for Josh Selby who I'd have benched mid-season), and deep, that if they don't win it all with the team they've got, they should be ashamed.

-J
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: yorost on March 20, 2011, 06:48:10 PM
No, they really shouldn't be ashamed if they don't win.  Single elimination tournaments packed full of good teams are brutal.  No matter how good you are it's hard to string out 6 straight wins against top opponents, most of which happen to be on winning streaks against other top teams.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: j on March 20, 2011, 07:49:43 PM
Agreed, "ashamed" was a stupid word to use.  But whenever you've got the best team in the tournament, the expectations are high enough that it's going to be highly disappointing if you don't win it all, regardless of how tough it is to accomplish.

-J
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: yorost on March 20, 2011, 07:54:28 PM
Alright, Marquette!
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on March 20, 2011, 08:12:34 PM
What has two thumbs and put Marquette in the sweet 16?


That's right, this guy.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: yorost on March 20, 2011, 08:37:46 PM
Nice call.  I didn't even make that pick, and I'm a fan.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Dr. DTVT on March 20, 2011, 08:49:00 PM
Is it just me, or are there a lot more down to the wire games this year.  Seems like about 2/3rds of them go down to the last possession or two.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on March 20, 2011, 09:16:36 PM
Is it just me, or are there a lot more down to the wire games this year.  Seems like about 2/3rds of them go down to the last possession or two.
You mean with the exception of the ass pounding Notre Dame is taking right now?
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Dr. DTVT on March 20, 2011, 09:35:47 PM
But ND getting ass raped is still a thing of beauty.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on March 20, 2011, 09:43:54 PM
But ND getting ass raped is still a thing of beauty.
You and I would get along famously.  My favorite part of the tourney is when Duke gets knocked out, it's like getting a shiney new bicycle for Christmas.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Dr. DTVT on March 20, 2011, 09:50:54 PM
But ND getting ass raped is still a thing of beauty.
You and I would get along famously.  My favorite part of the tourney is when Duke gets knocked out, it's like getting a shiney new bicycle for Christmas.

The only think that would make a dook loss sweeter is if someone would take a lead pipe to Kzyakjsdgfy's skull after they lose.  He's such a prick, I hope he retires so Bob Knight can keep the wins title.  Knight is an asshole I can root for.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on March 20, 2011, 10:02:51 PM
Kzyakjsdgfy's

 :rollin :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Dr. DTVT on March 20, 2011, 10:04:29 PM
Fuck him.  I don't like him, I'm not learning how to spell his name.  I got more important things to commit to memory, like Cosmo's avatars.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on March 20, 2011, 10:22:13 PM
Fuck him.  I don't like him, I'm not learning how to spell his name.  I got more important things to commit to memory, like Cosmo's avatars.
Amen to that, brother, amen.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: hefdaddy42 on March 21, 2011, 10:08:25 AM
Henson for UNC made a brilliant defensive play near the end, then almost gave up the game TWICE with idiot plays in the final few seconds.
Yes, I was quite upset with him.  However, UNC survives and advances.
Thank god.  I got them losing to Kansas in the finals.(sorry Hef, nothing but love for ya)
No worries, I didn't have UNC making it that far!  :lol  I love them, and will be pulling for them, but they are extremely young (which really showed itself in the ACC Tournament), so I will be surprised if they can come up with the willpower to make it to the finals.

BTW, how about the Big Least Conference?
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: yorost on March 21, 2011, 10:52:57 AM
I just get sick of seeing and hearing all the bickering about the Big East.  They did not do well in the tournament this year or last year... but so what?  It doesn't mean they suck as a conference.  They are large, and they are deep, but what they apparently are not is a conference carrying truly top flight teams.

The negativity surrounding these teams is saddening, if you ask me.  An 11 seed team makes the Sweet 16 and you can hardly find a conversation involving them that doesn't immediately become about how the Big East sucks. 

I hope Marquette beats UNC, but I don't expect it to happen since UNC is obviously a much better team.  Frankly, I'm shocked Marquette is in the Sweet 16, but certainly thrilled.  The odd feeling I get is that we're actually going to see a game where the general audience is cheering for a 2-seed over an 11-seed.  ...and when Marquette loses to a team it should lose to all we're going to hear from people is how much more it proves Marquette and the Big East sucks.

I love sports, but the vile negativity that can start to emanate from fans is a real turn off.  Conversation regarding the Big East is becoming one of those things.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: j on March 21, 2011, 11:01:12 AM
^Part of the problem is that there's no frame of reference for comparing teams in different conferences other than at best a couple of games at the beginning of the season.  The Big East looked great all year, but the fact is, each conference plays the vast majority of its games within itself, so it's impossible to say how a team will fare when pitted against top teams from other conferences.

-J
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: zerogravityfat on March 21, 2011, 11:45:49 AM
my bracket is in shambles as usual but at least kansas is rockin  :metal
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: yorost on March 21, 2011, 12:04:29 PM
@j:

The Big East looked good during conference play largely because it actually did do well in nonconference.  A good number of wins were scored against top teams as well as the bottom feeders scoring wins against eventual bubble teams.  I think they've shown they're deep as a conference, but that shouldn't be translated as dominant,as so many seem to think it does.

I don't think the Big East is the best conference out there, but then again I have no idea which one is.  I question the overall quality of the ACC even though it might have the best two programs in the nation.  Perhaps the Big Ten or Big XII, I'm not sure.  The Big East is one of the best, though, regardless of their failure at the tournament this year.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Dr. DTVT on March 21, 2011, 12:05:16 PM
The other part of it is that it is a single elimination tournament.  Does anybody think the 1983 NC St. team that beat Houston was the best team in the country that year?  How about 1985 Villanova?  Fact is that in a single elimination tournament, the underdogs are going to make a little noise.  Combine that with the fact that when you are branded the best conference, you're likely to get everyone's best shot, just like dook takes everyones best shot as the defending champs.

Of the 8 Big East teams eliminated, 2 were eliminated by other Big East teams (Syracuse and Cincinnati), St. John's lost a significant player for the season in the BE tourney, Villanova has been in free fall, Pitt lost to last year's runner-up who were only seeded low because they started slow due to injuries, WV lost to a higher seed (#4 seed Kentucky) that a lot of people thought should have been a 3 seed, Georgetown lost their PG to a wrist injury before the tournament, which leaves sorry ass Notre Dame - and the eat ass so I'm not going to defend their pasting by a great defensive team in Florida St.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: yorost on March 21, 2011, 12:08:29 PM
No excuses for Louisville, either! :lol  What was that?
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Dr. DTVT on March 21, 2011, 12:39:38 PM
No excuses for Louisville, either! :lol  What was that?

They were too busy making jokes about "Morehead State" to take the game seriously.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on March 21, 2011, 02:47:32 PM
On top of the standard point system after the first round. :metal
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: zxlkho on March 21, 2011, 03:04:47 PM
I'm in second place :metal

but my bracket sucks. :sadpanda:
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: wkiml on March 22, 2011, 09:32:15 AM
On top of the standard point system after the first round. :metal

Holy shit you really are Ron Jeremy   :metal

no wonder you know so much about sausage
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: hefdaddy42 on March 22, 2011, 09:47:34 AM
I just get sick of seeing and hearing all the bickering about the Big East.  They did not do well in the tournament this year or last year... but so what?  It doesn't mean they suck as a conference.  They are large, and they are deep, but what they apparently are not is a conference carrying truly top flight teams.
Look, you may be a Big East fan, but there is no way they deserved 11 teams to make the tournament.  That was ridiculous, and it shows in looking at how many of them made the Sweet 16. 

I've been a UNC fan all my life, and I am convinced that for the past several decades, the ACC has been consistently the toughest conference for basketball.  Do we have down years?  Of course - see this season, for example, when I thought that probably the Big 10 or Big 12 had the best season.  But even in a down year, we have 3 teams in the Sweet 16.

If Big East fans don't want to hear crap about their lack of performance in the tournament, then they need to perform better in the tournament. That seems fairly simple.

But in the end, any gibes here on the forum are in good fun.  And it's only sports, anyway, so there's no reason for anyone to get upset.  After all, DoC isn't posting in this thread.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: yorost on March 22, 2011, 10:10:54 AM
As you may or may not have read, I clearly stated I do not think the Big East is the best conference and that the ACC might have the best top of a league.

It got 11 teams in, which is equivalent to 7-8 from an 11 team conference like the Big Ten.  This year was a bit of a fluke, it normally doesn't put in the highest percentage of teams compared to the other big conferences.  Before this year 8/16 was the most, a 50% clip.  It never would have landed this many if the bubble wasn't so weak this year.  Not many Marquette fans even thought Marquette earned a bid, it's just that they compared well to a glutton of other teams that didn't really earn a bid.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on March 22, 2011, 01:03:18 PM
On top of the standard point system after the first round. :metal

Holy shit you really are Ron Jeremy   :metal

no wonder you know so much about sausage
:lol
Actually, my last name is Dunn.  I think I was drunk when I did that last year and was fucking around.  (the Ron part is correct, but I go by R.J.)
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: TheOutlawXanadu on March 23, 2011, 02:45:44 PM
TOX might be going to the Final Four.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: splent on March 23, 2011, 03:36:03 PM
UWGB is in the women's sweet sixteen!  Go Green Bay!
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: yorost on March 24, 2011, 07:06:25 AM
Their only loss is to Marquette. :)  Hopefully they can make the Final Four, but it's so hard to tell how good a team is that hasn't played many top opponents.  Great season for them no matter what happens now, though.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Dr. DTVT on March 24, 2011, 07:12:01 PM
I hate when my bracket says one team and my heart says the other team.  I have UConn, but there is a part of me that wants to see San Diego St. win.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Dr. DTVT on March 24, 2011, 09:39:33 PM
Dook is having the most epic collapse since the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: zxlkho on March 24, 2011, 09:42:50 PM
Fuck Duke.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on March 24, 2011, 10:03:25 PM
Fuck yeah!!!  Later Duke!!!


Oh, and who was the fucking genius that had Arizona beating Duke to go to the Elite 8, that's right, yours truly. :metal
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Dr. DTVT on March 24, 2011, 10:10:05 PM
Fuck yeah!!!  Later Duke!!!


Oh, and who was the fucking genius that had Arizona beating Duke to go to the Elite 8, that's right, yours truly. :metal

You're not the only one who had the upset, I did too.  Great minds truely think alike.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: zxlkho on March 24, 2011, 10:10:52 PM
I had Uconn beating them in the elite eight.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on March 24, 2011, 10:18:44 PM
Fuck yeah!!!  Later Duke!!!


Oh, and who was the fucking genius that had Arizona beating Duke to go to the Elite 8, that's right, yours truly. :metal

You're not the only one who had the upset, I did too.  Great minds truely think alike.
Sp do people who just flat out fucking hate Duke.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: zxlkho on March 24, 2011, 10:19:15 PM
*raises hand*
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Dr. DTVT on March 24, 2011, 10:22:40 PM
If dook played Notre Dame, I'd root for a tomahawk missle to blow the building up.

Thank goodness Wisconsin lost.  They play a style of basketball that's uglier than a syphaltic hooker with rosatia and a cleft palate.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: zxlkho on March 24, 2011, 10:27:26 PM
:lol :lol

I don't have as big of a problem with Notre Dame.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: j on March 24, 2011, 10:39:15 PM
So I hadn't actually watched a BYU game until tonight, and thus hadn't seen Jimmer actually play outside of highlights.

I know he had an off-shooting night, which is gonna happen from time to time, but given the hype surrounding him, I was not at all impressed.  The guy can obviously score, but he takes a ton of shots, and a lot of them are just plain stupid.  He's pulling up for contested 30+ footers time and time again (he went three for FIFTEEN from 3 point range alone) when he's got the ability to get into the lane and create.  Dumb.

Also he's a HORRIBLE defender.

Got nothing against him at all; hell I even picked BYU to upset Florida (mistakenly).  He's just nowhere near the basketball god the sports media has made him out to be.  Which I should have expected.

-J
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: wkiml on March 25, 2011, 06:57:56 AM
Standard pool  I'm done

Alternate Pool...who's your leader baby
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: hefdaddy42 on March 25, 2011, 09:49:13 AM
So I hadn't actually watched a BYU game until tonight, and thus hadn't seen Jimmer actually play outside of highlights.

I know he had an off-shooting night, which is gonna happen from time to time, but given the hype surrounding him, I was not at all impressed.  The guy can obviously score, but he takes a ton of shots, and a lot of them are just plain stupid.  He's pulling up for contested 30+ footers time and time again (he went three for FIFTEEN from 3 point range alone) when he's got the ability to get into the lane and create.  Dumb.

Also he's a HORRIBLE defender.

Got nothing against him at all; hell I even picked BYU to upset Florida (mistakenly).  He's just nowhere near the basketball god the sports media has made him out to be.  Which I should have expected.

-J
I've seen him play several times.  He just had an off night.  He really is an awesome offensive player, trust me.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: j on March 25, 2011, 10:05:58 AM
Fair enough, others have told me that as well and I'm sure you're right.  I probably shouldn't be judging his game based on one isolated performance.  But to clarify, it was his poor decision making, not his missed shots, that left a bad taste in my mouth.

-J
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: wkiml on March 25, 2011, 10:24:32 AM
Fair enough, others have told me that as well and I'm sure you're right.  I probably shouldn't be judging his game based on one isolated performance.  But to clarify, it was his poor decision making, not his missed shots, that left a bad taste in my mouth.

-J

I've watched him a few times since his name kept popping up on sportscenter all the time , my knock is he forces alot of shots, his judgement at times makes me scratch my head, and you were correct earlier he plays almost no defense what so ever, so whats it all mean, he would fit right in with a majority of NBA teams right now
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: yorost on March 25, 2011, 10:47:08 AM
Thank goodness Wisconsin lost.  They play a style of basketball that's uglier than a syphaltic hooker with rosatia and a cleft palate.
:lol

So what?  Since Dick Bennett took this program over 10-15 years ago or so they have been winners with this not so pretty play every year since.  Isn't that what counts?  They usually play good basketball, that's something any basketball fan should be able to appreciate.

Between the mid 1940's and the mid 1990's I don't think Wisconsin finished in the top half of the Big Ten more than maybe once or twice, and no NCAA or NIT bids over that entire span.  Stu Jackson brought a taste of success in 1994, but it wasn't until Dick Bennett and later Bo Ryan that they became considered a top program in the Big Ten.  Neither have flashy teams, but you can't argue with their success.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: j on March 25, 2011, 11:54:48 AM
Fair enough, others have told me that as well and I'm sure you're right.  I probably shouldn't be judging his game based on one isolated performance.  But to clarify, it was his poor decision making, not his missed shots, that left a bad taste in my mouth.

-J

I've watched him a few times since his name kept popping up on sportscenter all the time , my knock is he forces alot of shots, his judgement at times makes me scratch my head, and you were correct earlier he plays almost no defense what so ever, so whats it all mean, he would fight right in with a majority of NBA teams right now

That's true. :lol  I wonder how early/late he'll get drafted.

-J
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Dr. DTVT on March 25, 2011, 12:20:33 PM
Thank goodness Wisconsin lost.  They play a style of basketball that's uglier than a syphaltic hooker with rosatia and a cleft palate.
:lol

So what?  Since Dick Bennett took this program over 10-15 years ago or so they have been winners with this not so pretty play every year since.  Isn't that what counts?  They usually play good basketball, that's something any basketball fan should be able to appreciate.

Between the mid 1940's and the mid 1990's I don't think Wisconsin finished in the top half of the Big Ten more than maybe once or twice, and no NCAA or NIT bids over that entire span.  Stu Jackson brought a taste of success in 1994, but it wasn't until Dick Bennett and later Bo Ryan that they became considered a top program in the Big Ten.  Neither have flashy teams, but you can't argue with their success.

There's nothing wrong with it, it's just that its a team I have no rooting interest in, so I'd rather see teams that play faster than frozen snail.  I heard they tried showing that Wisconcin/Penn State game from the B10 championship to POWs and now the captors are up for war crimes charges of torture.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: yorost on March 25, 2011, 12:31:37 PM
Look on the bright side, Bo Ryan's system is like a highly caffeinated version of what Dick Bennett had at Wisconsin.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Dr. DTVT on March 25, 2011, 02:15:46 PM
Bo Ryan also looks like he could be a super-villian.  Man, he looks pissed all the time and has a scowl constantly.

(https://www.whitesuburbanpunk.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Bo-Ryan-3.jpg)

(https://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/img/2011/01/20/012011-CBK-Bo-Ryan-JW_20110120233309829_660_320.JPG)

(https://thegazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Bo-Ryan-300x187.jpg)

(https://www.midwestsportsfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/bo-ryan.jpg)

(https://www.wolverineliberationarmy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/BoRyan.jpg)

Yup, that's one evil looking guy if I ever saw one.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: j on March 25, 2011, 03:52:59 PM
He does have kind of a scowl all the time (but what coach doesn't).  The scariest coach in college basketball is BY FAR Frank Martin (K-State).

-J
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: yorost on March 25, 2011, 06:08:49 PM
Pathetic by Marquette.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: DarkEternalNight on March 25, 2011, 06:30:08 PM
UNC puttin' in work!
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: hefdaddy42 on March 25, 2011, 08:37:20 PM
HEELS

Although I must say that Marquette put up one of the most awful first halves of basketball I've ever seen.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on March 25, 2011, 10:36:14 PM
Well, looks life I've pretty much sealed up the standard scoring, pay up bitches. :hat





Damn, forgot no money was involved. :(
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Tick on March 26, 2011, 07:41:39 PM
UCONN!!!! :metal
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: carl320 on March 26, 2011, 08:24:30 PM
Butler!!!! :metal

Fix'd for me.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: hefdaddy42 on March 26, 2011, 08:56:25 PM
Let's hear it for Butler.  :clap:
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Tick on March 27, 2011, 06:22:37 AM
Let's hear it for UCONN.  :clap:
Fixed for me. :tick2:
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on March 27, 2011, 02:48:22 PM
Wow, good thing I won the brackets yesterday, I had Kansas taking it all.  Kudos to VCU, the team that most of the nation said didn't belong in the tourney to begin with.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: yorost on March 27, 2011, 02:51:11 PM
Interesting Final Four that's shaping up.  One game of middling seeds from mid-major conferences and the other one of high seeds from major conferences.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: yorost on March 27, 2011, 03:18:22 PM
Well, looks life I've pretty much sealed up the standard scoring, pay up bitches. :hat
I don't think you've locked up the win, yet.  Until Connecticut is out you're in danger of losing.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on March 27, 2011, 03:47:06 PM
You're right, I was looking at the correct, not the score. 
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: hefdaddy42 on March 27, 2011, 06:25:26 PM
I'm sad that UNC lost.  I'm even more sad that they lost to Ken-fucking-tucky.  But hey, they made it farther than I thought they would, so bully for them.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: j on March 27, 2011, 07:49:00 PM
Wow, good thing I won the brackets yesterday, I had Kansas taking it all.  Kudos to VCU, the team that most of the nation said didn't belong in the tourney to begin with.

VCU played a very good game, but Kansas also had one of the worst performances I can ever recall seeing in college basketball.  VCU literally did EVERYTHING better.  If anybody's earned their spot in the Final Four, they have.  They've gotta be feeling good; if they can beat KU, they can sure as hell take Butler.

-J
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: KevShmev on March 27, 2011, 11:29:09 PM
Kansas and UNC both lost today!  Wow, Christmas came early for this Mizzou fan (I hate Kansas, and now hate UNC since Roy Williams is there). :tup :tup
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Dr. DTVT on April 02, 2011, 09:38:21 PM
If Butler wins, I win the standard scoring.  If UConn wins, letters wins standard scoring.  Either way, VT owns and will take the title and second place.

Wkiml (Bill) won the alternate scoring no matter what.  Congrats on wresting the title from me :clap:
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: zxlkho on April 02, 2011, 09:39:34 PM
No shit really? I thought I was way behind in the standard scoring. :lol
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on April 02, 2011, 09:40:28 PM
Lonestar, snatching defeat from the hands of victory. :metal
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: hefdaddy42 on April 02, 2011, 09:40:49 PM
Go Butler!
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on April 02, 2011, 09:47:08 PM
Go Butler!
PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Dr. DTVT on April 03, 2011, 12:50:15 AM
Go Butler!
PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE

This - and my routing interest has nothing to do with me winning the bracket.  And for fucks sake stay out of foul trouble Matt Howard.  Just because you pick up a foul doesn't mean you have to go out of your way to pick up your next one.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on April 03, 2011, 02:38:47 AM
Go Butler!
PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE
I just want to see an 8 seed win it all.  I can see all the suits from the majors calling for a BCS system for B-ball all ready.  Too bad VCU lost, that would have implemted it  immediatly.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Tick on April 03, 2011, 06:05:22 AM
Sorry to rain on your parade folks but UCONN WILL BE NATIONAL CHAMPS, BABY!!!!!!! :metal :metal :metal
MEN AND WOMEN!

UCONN RULES!!!! :metal :metal :metal
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: yorost on April 03, 2011, 10:43:03 AM
No shit really? I thought I was way behind in the standard scoring. :lol
In the early rounds It has less to do with where you currently stand in points and more with what your potential point total is.  Points double each round, so picking the champion correctly is the same point total as picking every game correct in the first round.

That's partly why I like alternative point systems, there's too much weight on picking the champion.  It makes the earlier rounds almost just tiebreakers.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: KevShmev on April 04, 2011, 03:15:44 PM
Sorry to rain on your parade folks but UCONN WILL BE NATIONAL CHAMPS, BABY!!!!!!! :metal :metal :metal
MEN AND WOMEN!

ORLY?
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on April 04, 2011, 03:49:34 PM
Sorry to rain on your parade folks but UCONN WILL BE NATIONAL CHAMPS, BABY!!!!!!! :metal :metal :metal
MEN AND WOMEN!

ORLY?
Seems to me they still have one game left, just saying.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: yorost on April 04, 2011, 03:53:23 PM
I think KevShmev was aiming at the fact that the women already lost.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on April 04, 2011, 04:04:57 PM
Did they?  Wow, haven't been following the women's brackets this year.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: zxlkho on April 04, 2011, 04:10:05 PM
Butler FTW
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Tick on April 04, 2011, 05:10:54 PM
UCONN!!!!!! :metal :metal :metal
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: j on April 04, 2011, 05:15:32 PM
Don't give a damn about either of these teams, so obviously I'm pulling for the Butler upset.

-J
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: zxlkho on April 04, 2011, 05:19:58 PM
Don't give a damn about either of these teams, so obviously I'm pulling for the Butler upset.

-J
Good man.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on April 04, 2011, 09:28:42 PM
Fuck.

Didn't watch much of the game cause I was working, but did Butler just go ice fucking cold in the second half?
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: KevShmev on April 04, 2011, 10:24:45 PM
Riveting game tonight. :lol
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: j on April 04, 2011, 10:30:19 PM
Riveting game tonight. :lol

 :lol

Worst title game ever.  And one of the worst games I've ever seen, period.

-J
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Dr. DTVT on April 04, 2011, 10:35:12 PM
I'd expect a good college team to shoot better than 18% against a GOOD NBA team.  That game was just painful to watch, it's like Butler was shooting at smaller than regulation hoops like they use at carnivals.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: chrisbDTM on April 04, 2011, 11:03:08 PM
i go to uconn. this place is absolutely nuts right now. no cars or fires like 2004 but still amazing to see this many people going completely nuts
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: lonestar on April 04, 2011, 11:04:34 PM
i go to uconn. this place is absolutely nuts right now. no cars or fires like 2004 but still amazing to see this many people going completely nuts
Enjoy it, man. :tup


Sounds like SF when they won the series last year.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: zxlkho on April 04, 2011, 11:06:07 PM
I WIN!

:victorydance:
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: chrisbDTM on April 04, 2011, 11:16:11 PM
people are pulling fire alarms and shit

heres a pic i found on facebook. we watched the game at the basketball stadium
(https://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a323/ckychrisb/uconn.jpg)
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: zxlkho on April 04, 2011, 11:21:52 PM
STOP POSTING ON DTF

GO GET DRUNK AND CELEBRATE
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Tick on April 05, 2011, 04:00:54 AM
Riveting game tonight. :lol

 :lol

Worst title game ever.  And one of the worst games I've ever seen, period.

-J
Who cares!!! WOOOOO HOOOOO!!!!! UCONN ARE NATIONAL CHAMPS!!!!!
It doesn't matter if it was pretty, they did it.
Truly amazing run UCONN has just accomplished, from the 5 games in 5 days to win the Big East championship, all the way through the tournament to be champs. It was on of the most phenomenal stretches I've ever seen in all of sports. The 9th seed in the Big East tournament!
 
As far as Butler goes, what an awful night they had. They were flat out bad. I have never seen a team shoot so badly.
Thank you Butler for saving your best for last.
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: hefdaddy42 on April 05, 2011, 04:53:30 AM
Fucking UConn.

At least it wasn't Kentucky. 
Title: Re: NCAA Basketball: March Madness - 2011(with brackets)
Post by: Tick on April 05, 2011, 02:42:56 PM
Fucking UConn.

At least it wasn't Kentucky. 
HUSKIES!!!! :metal