2022-2023 College Hoops

Postby **RonnieFranchise** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:18 pm

It was a great run. Took their best shot at it. No shame in where they got this season.

Postby **King Colby** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:19 pm

Texas is legit. Every time penn state went on a run they had an answer

Postby **RonnieFranchise** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:24 pm

Had no answer for 8 ppg guy Disu.

Postby **Sam's Drunk Dog** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:36 pm

Had Funk made a few of those 3 pt shots near the end PSU would have probably won. Great season regardless. Hopefully they can build on it for next year

Postby **willeyeam** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:03 pm

Damn a Pitt/PSU sweet sixteen would have been fun

Postby **mac5155** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:37 pm

Had Funk made a few of those 3 pt shots near the end PSU would have probably won. Great season regardless. Hopefully they can build on it for next year

The over and back call was a back breaker as well.

Postby **Orlando Penguin** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 12:19 am

Day 3 musings:

--It's uncanny that 85% of the NCAA Tournament games that I've been to have been decided by 10+ points. Today's was my first that I've attended since 2010 and unless my team makes it, which likely will be never, I might go back to sitting it out. Only reason I went today was because they were the standalone early games. Had they been night games, I'd have skipped them.

--Defense travels. It was men amongst boys out there in both of my games. I picked SD State to the Elite 8 because they pride themselves on their defense and if they ever get things cranking on the offensive end, they become a wagon. Tennessee turned it into a physical game and Duke wasn't equipped for it. Roach getting his 4th foul so early forced Scheyer to go zone and Tennessee ate that alive. I give Barnes **** for coming up small often but he had them ready for that zone and they carved it up.

--Fundamentals. I harp on them all the time. Make your layups and free throws. Check your defender on the boards. Make the easy pass. Limit your turnovers. Kansas missed a pair of front ends of 1 and 1's up by 4 with about 4 mins left and I was like, 'uh oh, they're in trouble'. Then on the biggest play of the game, they can't get a boxout on a free throw and Arkansas goes back to the line for the points needed to play the end game correctly.

--If a NJ school gets a 15 seed next year, I'm just gonna go ahead and advance them to the Sweet 16. One of the things I loved as a player was that moment when you broke another team's spirit. It didn't happen for me too many times. But Princeton just destroyed Missouri's spirit and then stomped on it with those 3's every time Missouri got it to within 7 or 8. Gotta think Princeton would rather see Creighton in the next round rather than the bullying that Baylor might give them.

--The selection committee avoided having the entire city of Houston send them bags of dogshit for putting a 9 seed mere miles from their home. When Houston is all in like they were in the 2nd half, they can't be beat.

--Penn State's lack of size finally caught up to them. If Rodney Terry doesn't get the Texas job permanently, then they truly have idiots in that athletic department. He came up with the perfect setup on offense and Disu executed over and over again. Gotta hand it to the Lions though because a smallish offense like theirs that relies so much on the 3 is going to flameout spectacularly more often than not. Texas knew to keep Funk under wraps the most and it led to him having a pretty quiet game.

--It's difficult to win games when you only have 2 players on offense. But damn, Audige and Boo Buie almost carried NW over the hill. UCLA just had too many clutch playmakers in the big spots. Just hope that Singleton's injury is just a roll because him being out on top of Jaylen Clark's injury will really hurt UCLA against TCU/Gonzaga.

--Say what you want about Brandon Miller's situation around the on-campus shooting (and if you read the article in the Tuscaloosa Patch that just dropped this weekend, you may get a new opinion about the whole thing), but he is the #1 pick in the draft in June. That play where he had the block and then the 3 on the next sequence was very eye-catching. Bama is as good as they come when they hit on all cylinders like they have many times in this last month of the season. That game against San Diego State next week is going to be war.

Postby **RonnieFranchise** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 3:58 pm

I wonder if FAU had to get their home unis shipped up to Columbus for the game today.

Postby **Beveridge** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 8:00 pm

Michigan State is the St. Louis Cardinals of the NCAA.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 8:04 pm

Izzo is a hell of a coach

Postby **willeyeam** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 8:09 pm

Michigan State is the St. Louis Cardinals of the NCAA.

Way more likeable though

Postby **shafnutz05** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 8:39 pm

FDU beating Purdue looks more unbelievable by the minute.

Postby **RonnieFranchise** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 8:48 pm

Jesus the FDU SID is a Junior at the school.

If I saw FDU/FAU on the live events page at ESPN+ in November there is absolutely no chance of me clicking on it. And yet here we are.

Dusty May sounds like the name of your favorite daisy dukes wearing pron star.

Tobin Anderson seem over caffeinated.

Postby **willeyeam** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:21 pm

FDU beating Purdue looks more unbelievable by the minute.

Shad

Postby **RonnieFranchise** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:25 pm

There is one person on the planet who could assure the first 16 seed advancing to the Sweet 16.... and he is nowhere near the basketball court.

Postby **willeyeam** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:27 pm

Postby **MR25** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 10:12 pm

Big fan of FAU's in-bound play set up

Postby **willeyeam** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 10:31 pm

@RonnieFranchise ??

Postby **Orlando Penguin** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:06 am

Day 4 musings...

--I'm too smart for these bracket things. In the future, I need to just go with my first instinct rather than grinding over matchups. 3 of my final 4 are already dead and I would have done better if I just trust myself on what I'd seen all season rather than one conference tournament week.

--Great run by FDU and they really had a shot to win that game tonight. That turnover down 3 with 3:00 left on the miscommunication on the pass really turned things. FAU is showing why they won 30+ games this year and they'll be a real threat to Tennessee. To all those money-grubbing whores out there, especially people like Greg Sankey from the SEC, this is the way this Tournament is supposed to be. It's about competition and not the damn money. Keep this event exactly as it is and don't even think about expanding it.

--If you had told me before the Tournament that only 1 Big Ten team would make the Sweet 16, I wouldn't have been surprised by that number nor would I have been surprised that the one team would be Sparty. Izzo just has a way of getting the most out of his team in this event and while the last couple of years has been a bit lean in March, he's retooled and found a way with this group.

--I rode Miami and Xavier all season on the betting side but when the chips were down, I went against X today and ignored Miami in their matchup vs Indiana. Another good lesson to trust what you've seen all season. Pitt did X a big favor by playing that scramble defense and Miller had it scouted perfectly, hence all those lobs to Nunge. Then when Pitt goes zone, here are some 3 pointers for ya. That's the team X was all year and not whatever that was that played against Kennesaw. Miami just plays at a different speed than most teams and against a plodding post team like Indiana (hi, Big Ten!), that's gonna be trouble. What that means for their matchup against Houston, we'll see.

--Gonzaga/TCU was a great way to end the weekend. Two high-octane turbo teams that just kept going at each other. The difference was that TCU had zero answer for Timme at the offensive end of the floor. That and Malachi Smith, who doesn't see much playing time, coming off the bench to hit two massive 3's during the Zags run to snatch the lead away.

Every Sweet 16 matchup is going to be so good whether it's similar styles or contrasting styles. Matchup breakdowns later in the week.

Postby **Orlando Penguin** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:12 am

Sweet spreadbuster buzzer beater out of TCU.

(I didn't play the game)

Postby **RonnieFranchise** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:52 am

@RonnieFranchise ??

Yeah it’s been discussed for a while now, all involved claim it wasn’t but hard to believe them shitting the bed down the stretch and in the postseason was not related.

He says it is related to family needs but… something needs to have changed drastically since he just signed a contract extension in September.

I don’t have any illusion that PC is some blue blood or something but the guy has become the face of the school. For him then to pick up and leave what he’s built, 8 tourneys in 12 years I believe, for a conference rival, one that hasn’t been relevant since the ‘90s,even if it’s a “better job” is really hard to swallow.

Postby **willeyeam** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 6:59 am

Weird. I didn't know if he was on the hot seat there but assumed not.

The vaunted big twelve with 2 sweet sixteen teams.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 7:41 am

Yeah that last second three by TCU was a great bad beat.

Postby **Orlando Penguin** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 8:51 am

I went to Vegas for the Tournament 4 different times and I always loved the various reactions in the book when a number flipped. Here’s one from that TCU 3:

Postby **RonnieFranchise** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 9:03 am

Ed Cooley yesterday

Ed Cooley's house today

You'd think I'd know better after 50 years to have faith in humanity. All the great things the guy has done for this program and he apparently (unless he was in the process of buying a new house already which I guess is reasonable doubt level, maybe) lied to everyone's face about it. Unbelievable. Get the eff out, man. Enjoy your homecoming when you bring your Hoyas in next winter.