Me walking to my home office to talk to all my Columbus colleagues tomorrow.

BB73 said:

Finally, a karma loss for Duke to even things out from 1992. When Laettner stomped on a guy’s chest on purpose, got a T but should have been ejected, and then hit the famous buzzer-beater from the top of the key against KY after catching the long pass from Grant Hill.

Not that I have any love for either KY or UConn. But it was the same situation, a win or lose shot in the final second of a game where the winner advanced to the Final Four.

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Although the Boozer sons aren’t responsible for what their father, Carlos Boozer, did to the Cavaliers around 2006, they certainly remind me of him and his lying deeds. F Carlos Boozer.

Pro sports in Ohio, ladies and gentlemen

Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux said:

Perhaps. They definitely can, and on paper should. But it's Zona, and they traditionally have found creative ways to choke.

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Having lived in AZ for the last 30 I've seen them find miraculous ways to choke. However I believe that Peat is Bibby 2.0. He won 4 state titles in high school and is just a winner like Bibby. I wouldn't put money down but I like their chances. scUM is pretty solid though, they're gonna need to bring their A game and not lean on their two freshmen stars.

Thump said:

Shootout loss forthcoming.

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So predictable

Shootout loss forthcoming.

Disgusting how easy of a road to the final 4 scUM ended up with. Now a choking ass Arizona In the final 4. Karma never fully hits those bastards.

Finally, a karma loss for Duke to even things out from 1992. When Laettner stomped on a guy’s chest on purpose, got a T but should have been ejected, and then hit the famous buzzer-beater from the top of the key against KY after catching the long pass from Grant Hill.

Not that I have any love for either KY or UConn. But it was the same situation, a win or lose shot in the final second of a game where the winner advanced to the Final Four.

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This is some wild shit…..

The commentator on CBS just said “as Bobby Knight said, dumb will get you beat more than smart will win for you”. Ouch. But true.

catastrophic choke job, a absolutely unforgivable dumb penalty on Jenner with 45 seconds left allows Boston to go 6 on 4 and tie it at 3 with 11 seconds left.

Total gag job

Illini Dylan said:

Good. Illinois has a serious demon to exorcize against the Huskies.

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Good luck. Dan Hurley is demonic.

DZ83CK said:

Duke did have one timeout left. Maybe they wanted to save it in case they needed to use it on the court. I don't even think that was a situation where the coach needed to set anything special up. It's not that hard to avoid turning the ball over in 10 seconds when the other team has to foul you to avoid letting the clock run out. This game showed why teams with elite PG play tend to do better in the tournament, you need guys who don't make mistakes when the game is on the line. Duke's weakness was lack of a pure PG and they ended up with 13 turnovers compared with 5 for UConn.

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Yes. You need that one or two guys who are quick enough to get open for a clean inbound vs a full-court press…..and to dribble or pass to the open space. Boozer was not able to dribble or pass to the open space. He should have called a TO.

Good. Illinois has a serious demon to exorcize against the Huskies.

DZ83CK said:

Then Arizona will take out the winner in the next game.

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Perhaps. They definitely can, and on paper should. But it's Zona, and they traditionally have found creative ways to choke.

Duke did have one timeout left. Maybe they wanted to save it in case they needed to use it on the court. I don't even think that was a situation where the coach needed to set anything special up. It's not that hard to avoid turning the ball over in 10 seconds when the other team has to foul you to avoid letting the clock run out. This game showed why teams with elite PG play tend to do better in the tournament, you need guys who don't make mistakes when the game is on the line. Duke's weakness was lack of a pure PG and they ended up with 13 turnovers compared with 5 for UConn.

System_id said:

ACC and massive blown leads: Name a more iconic duo.

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TCUN and blatant disregard for the rules?

BuckBackHome said:

I just flipped on the game with about a minute to go and figured I would see how it ended as the lead from halftime was about gone. Hell of an ending! The announcers said tourney teams with a 15 point lead at half were like 100+ something and zero. Guess Duke is now that 1.

And can someone who knows about college basketball explain why the duke coach did not take a timeout before the final possession to tell them to just hold it once they got it inbounds? I think they still had a timeout.

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Scheyer looked like he was confidently telling them what to do. In actuality, they had no idea what to do that would keep them out of risk. It just goes to show you that the truly great bench coaches…..the ones you want to be your coach in moments like these…..are pretty rare. Scheyer has as good of a lineup as money can buy but Coach K isn’t sitting on that bench with him. The Florida coach doesn’t have Billy sitting on the bench with him. Hurley is the best all around coach in the game as far as I’m concerned. Like Kenny Smith said early today before the M-T game, “coach Hurley is so good he can steal a game he shouldn’t win”. We just witnessed him steal that game from duke.