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2018 NCAA Basketball Tournament Discussion (Official Thread)

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OhioState001 said:
Hope everyone enjoyed the upsets, TTUN is walking into the championship game
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For the love of all things holy, please stop whining about upsets. :slappy:

Is this your first tournament? Upsets happen. Oh, and who we root for doesn't change the results of games. So do yourself (and everyone else) a favor and petition the NCAA for the AP voters to crown a national champion so we can avoid all of these games where sometimes lower seeds beat higher seeds.

But I beg you, resist the urge to fire off 100 more posts about upsets pissing on your tournament cornflakes. We get it. Good grief. :lol:
 
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OhioState001 said:
Absolutely, would be awesome to see a team that dominated in the regular season and won their conference play one of the other hottest teams in America that won a conference tournament. Now we are stuck with a stinker with teams that don't really deserve to be there
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Unfortunately, the team "that dominated in the regular season" shit the bed and scored 54 points against UMBC. Whose fault is that?

Let's just take a vote at the end of the season and crown a champion. Fuck this tournament bullshit. :lol:
 
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OhioState001 said:
Absolutely, would be awesome to see a team that dominated in the regular season and won their conference play one of the other hottest teams in America that won a conference tournament.
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were you asleep the first weekend? you do know that virginia was absolutely obliterated by a 16-seed, don't you?

Now we are stuck with a stinker with teams that don't really deserve to be there
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yep... the team that lost by 20 points to a 16-seed "deserves" to be there. and the team that beat a 1-seed by 5 and a 4-seed by 15 doesn't.

you really are the this board's whiniest poster. :lol:
 
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My hypothesis for the upsets: over officiating has eliminated any opportunity for dominant post players. The game is now about 3 point shooting and who can survive foul trouble. The random results are from teams being scorching hot from 3 one day and then ice cold the next. Also allows mid majors who don't have the size to be more competitive.
 
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OSU_Buckguy said:
were you asleep the first weekend? you do know that virginia was absolutely obliterated by a 16-seed, don't you?


yep... the team that lost by 20 points to a 16-seed "deserves" to be there. and the team that beat a 1-seed by 5 and a 4-seed by 15 doesn't.

you really are the this board's whiniest poster. :lol:
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Yea they aren't one of the best teams in the country cause some school got hot from 3 one night
 
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OhioState001 said:
My hypothesis for the upsets: over officiating has eliminated any opportunity for dominant post players. The game is now about 3 point shooting and who can survive foul trouble. The random results are from teams being scorching hot from 3 one day and then ice cold the next. Also allows mid majors who don't have the size to be more competitive.
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And yet, no matter how much you complain you're not entirely against upsets unless you were rooting for Gonzaga against Ohio State.

As for your hypothesis...so what? in 2014, a 7 seed beat an 8 seed in the title game. It happens. I'm guessing since their names were "Connecticut" and "Kentucky" it didn't feel so undeserving to you, but it's only a guess because I don't recall anyone throwing a fit in this thread about upsets until this year.
 
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Jake said:
And yet, no matter how much you complain you're not entirely against upsets unless you were rooting for Gonzaga against Ohio State.

As for your hypothesis...so what? in 2014, a 7 seed beat an 8 seed in the title game. It happens. I'm guessing since their names were "Connecticut" and "Kentucky" it didn't feel so undeserving to you, but it's only a guess because I don't recall anyone throwing a fit in this thread about upsets until this year.
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No it's because UCONN actually legitimately could have been one of the best teams because they ran a gauntlet including the Big East Tournament. Just like Michigan could be one of the best, however they won't get to prove it against any team worth a damn until the final. Kansas State and Florida State have no business competing for a championship after the regular seasons they had. At least Loyola had a good regular season they just didn't play anyone.
 
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