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2014 NCAA Basketball Tournament (official thread)

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I will never root for M*ch*g*n, ever. Any success they have ever had, mostly talking football here, has come from traitorous Ohioans. Who roots for treason? We hang traitors, we don't root for them.

The rest of the B1G? I don't mind seeing them have some success, except for PSU. Fuck the kiddie diddlers...
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
Yeah.....or even better. We could form the Ridiculous Hyperbole Conference and use extreme examples that don't really relate to the point! I think you're on to something here.




Clearly the major conferences are different than the smaller ones. Wichitaw St goes undefeated and everybody knows they'll be the first 1 seed to drop out. I'm not talking about B1G vs MAC. I'm talking about being a Tennessee fan and chanting S-E-C! S-E-C! S-E-C! when Alabama wins a national championship in football. Tennessee did jack [Mark May] for Alabama, but the douchebag SEC fans needed something to make themselves feel better while their actual favorite teams go 5-7.

And I'm not saying that this conference solidarity bull[Mark May] hasn't worked out for the idiots down south. Obviously it has. That doesn't make it any less stupid. I now have to root for Northwestern to beat Vandy or I'll have to hear about how Ohio State sucks. Because that logic makes total sense somehow in today's CFB.
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Very accurate argument. Part of it is I would like to help support the success of the conference and the BTN, and rooting for ESPN to loose out. People watch two types of game, games between their team and games between big name highly ranked teams. So when there are more highly ranked Big Ten teams, we get higher ratings/ higher contracts with ESPN for those top tier games. But when we have enough highly ranked teams the top tier contracts can't get all the good game and we get big name games on the BTN, increasing demand and bringing more cash to all of the conference members, including OSU. That is why ESPN pushes SEC teams (football and basketball) so much. They are trying to bump in as many ranked teams and get as much attention, so when the ESPN owned SEC network takes off the third tier games that end up there still have ranked teams, higher ratings, more money. Why do you think that on the ESPN front page on Monday there were images of 4 teams, Florida (expected), Kentucky (played the easiest 1 seed), Tennessee (easiest path of any team by far) and Virginia. They are simply peddling their wares getting some hype going for next season hoping someone not a fan of those school will actually tune into some low quality SEC network aired Tennessee vs. Auburn basketball. So, in my mind it's BTN/Fox against ESPN and I refuse to lose to that shit hold of a network.

Not to mention respect for the guys that choose to go quality institutions of higher education.
 
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cincibuck said:
It's more than that. If you go back through the football and bowl season posts, you'll find that this comes up slightly more often than uniform atrocity discussions. There's a segment of the population on this site who sincerely believe that the conference means nothing. Period. That OSU need only win to get a solid BCS bid and that SOS will take care of itself even if the rest of the conference sucks.

I disagree with that. I may fault SEC fans for their over-the-top exuberance, but I understand it. It's pride in their own team and the schools that make up the conference. It's also a part of Old South culture, no small part of which has its roots in the Civil War and Reconstruction. My personal opinion is that the Big 10 and the North could benefit from some of that same sense of pride and history.

I sure don't root for ANY SEC team playing ANY Big Ten Team in ANYTHING.

I will root for ANY team, North, South, East or West playing Notre Dame, even USC and Alabama. Well, maybe not Miami or Florida State.
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It'll take something a heck of a lot less specious than this to get me to cheer for Michigan in anything.
 
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Jake said:
Ohio State was one stop away from beating Dayton, and beat Wisconsin at Madison. Tonight, Dayton and Wisconsin are cruising to the Elite Eight.

Just goes to show it can be a fine line between a tourney run and an early exit.
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1995 UCLA is the best example they were 4.8 seconds away from losing in the 2nd round when Tyus Edney went 94 feet coast to coast for a basket at the buzzer and the 1 point win on route to their 1995 NCAA Championship.
 
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Playing good defense helps, but there seems to be something to having several guys who can hit threes at a high rate. I don't necessarily like it that way, but unless/until they move the arc back you need a team built for it.
 
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If I'm a Vols fan, I think it's great that my team is only down 11, considering my opponent has shot 62% from the field, 78% from 3 (no, that's not a typo) and 100% from the free throw line. If I'm Martin, I'm motivating my guys by saying UM HAS to cool down a bit in the second half, and we're already in the game (and, oh yeah, maybe the refs won't keep Maymon on the bench the entire second half like they did the entire first).
 
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