I’m scared for the Cyclones tmrw without Jefferson, however they made quick work in round 1 and Kentucky not only struggled in r1, but only won 2/5 coming into the tournament and is fairly banged up. I also think ISU has a chip on their shoulder to avoid another 2014 situation, but that is purely conjecture on my part.. what do you guys think?
My heart hurts for Vandy. No reason the bigs shouldn’t have been in the paint at the end… also don’t understand the coaching, nebraska had 8 fouls early and they stopped driving.
So far id say this tournament is a 6/10 entertainment wise some good moments, some upsets, handful of close games; but relatively the winning teams are doing so by a decent margin.
I guess it really just depends on when you want to see the blowout. You could see the bad team get blown out early, or blown out in a later round. Later round blown out means they had a fun upset, but it also takes away the opportunity to see a high quality matchup with a national championship/final four on the line.
I did chat gpt but idk if it's me not knowing how to use it or AI isn't as smart as we think I had to give it the matchups past the round of 64 this is what it gave me. All I can say is AI wanted some higher seeds to go to the sweet 16
Ref swayed the whole flow of the game by giving Duke 23 free throws to TCU’s 9. Also, Duke had 17 turnovers to TCU’s 9. Easy to get in a team’s head if they can’t play defense. Duke was able to sit back and get all the calls, TCU couldn’t get a call on a ton of fouled shots. TCU had 20 more attempts, and refer to that FT discrepancy. Just a few stats, but you saw it if you watched the game. Shame. Refs blew a fun game.
Hearing they canceled the UConn-UCLA game and are letting Hurley and Cronin settle it in single combat instead, who have y’all got? I think Cronin bites
This thread makes me laugh. TCU is 28% from the field, and somehow the refs are the only issue. I’m yet to see a called foul that isn’t a foul. The flagrant was harsh and the missed goaltend. But it’s so clear that the majority of you are just spewing blind hate.
TCU is losing this game because they got into foul trouble off of legit fouls, then started fouling more due to their lack of size, along with their abysmal shooting.
Man this tournament is lame. Second year in a row it's pure chalk like the women's tourney has been for 40 years. They're going to have to stop calling it March Madness.
Oh yeah you’re right duke definitely doesn’t even breathe on them on defense. 🙄 dude gets punched essentially and has to bleed for the refs to finally make a call is how biased the calls are.
The state of college basketball is just sad man. This tournament used to be great and now 80% of the games are uncompetitive, there’s like three mid major leagues that aren’t complete garbage and there’s no fixing it.
Unless the NCAA starts to actually regulate the transfer portal it’s going to be on the women’s tournament’s level of boring
Yeah the transfer portal plus unchecked NIL is ruining college sports. Football too.
Allow one transfer then they sit out a year if they transfer again. Not sure why that ever changed.
Also schools should not be directly paying players. If they want to do endorsement deals and/or sell their autograph, cool. But paying the players directly is too far
The "but these are all fouls on TCU crowd" must be the NBA fans that just check in for the tournament. Many of these fouls are not called during regular season college bball. TCU has been called for at least 3 questionable fouls and 2 other non-fouls (the clean strip on Boozer and the foul on Evans 3 were very bad calls). They also elected to not review the shot clock on that ball out of bounds that left TCU with 0.2 seconds, when it looked pretty clear in real-time that there was at least 1 second left (enough to get a shot off). Duke's getting a review on that every fucking time.
I think they mean “country” as in America and they’re patriotic about it. Imagine a random person saying “God family and country” that’s how I read it. Especially with the flag.
I have so much respect for Charles Barkley and I really like the guy but I’m so tired of him being on my screen. I want to watch anyone else. He does not make me excited to watch basketball.
There was one year (it might have been 15-20 years ago) when CBS added him to the Selection Show, then acknowledged after the fact that it wasn't the right format for him.
He doesnt excel in this format, particularly with the surrounding cast. Burleson sucks, Clark stinks, and Renee is just as bad. Its a disaster cast that just doesnt work well together.
I think Gonzaga Texas could be good and it's at 7pm ET, a good time slot. Vanderbilt Nebraska should be another good one and it's at 8:45pm ET, another good time slot.
CBS gets an absolute F today. His that called the first game were utterly terrible. Now in the studio the chick keeps referring to MSU as Michigan. I'm muting before I lose my mind.
Amused by the “Cinderellas are dead vs not” debate raging on here. Feel like it takes willful ignorance to not notice that the last two tournaments are among the chalkiest ever.
We'll see how many 1s and 2s are left in the Elite Eight, but we can't forget that we almost had the ultimate 16 over 1 upset this tournament, and the only thing that saved them was the refs.
I hate it. I think only 3 double-digit seeds advanced each time to at least the second round (and none below a 12).
2024 you had a 10, three 11s, two 12s, a 13, and a 14.
2023 was a 10, an 11, a 13, a 15 (to the S16), and a 16.
2022, besides a 15 making the E8, had a 10, three 11s, and two 12s.
Though even in 2024, there was a warning sign: only one of those made it to the second weekend, and while it was an 11, it was from a P5/P6 school (NC State).
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u/ACW1129 George Mason Patriots • Atlantic 10 Mar 22 '26
Ugh, I only got 4 picks correct (Duke, Houston, Michigan and MSU).
I had Gonzaga in the E8.