2021 NCAA Tournament, Brackets and games

[ScriptOhio]

Alabama coach Nick Saban remembers speaking to Suggs, a Minnesota native and considered the state's top athlete since Joe Mauer, at the Crimson Tide's win over The Citadel in 2018.

“Well I vaguely do recall him as a player and he was a really good player," Saban said this week after Alabama's first spring scrimmage. "He's a really good basketball player, you know, too, so I can't argue with anybody about the choice that he made in terms of, you know what he's known future and how he's trying to, you know, build a career in athletics. So he was a fine young man he was a good leader. He was a very talented player, and you know I enjoy watching him play.

"He always liked playing guys you think you know a little bit, so I really enjoyed watching them play and those guys have a good team, no doubt.”

Ohio State coach Ryan Day, who was the Buckeyes' offensive coordinator when he offered Suggs in 2018 after a summer camp in Columbus, said the upside was there as a potentially highly-skilled quarterback.

“We offered him, and in the end, just didn’t feel like he was going to throw it well enough to come in and play right away,” Day said, in an interview with Yahoo Sports. “I felt like if he spent 100% of his time on football, he had a chance to develop as a quarterback. He was just raw.”

Suggs is a gifted athlete and his father says he his natural ability on the football field carried over to the hardwood. He had the "it" factor, so to speak.

 

[OHSportsFan]

I have a handful of Gonzaga future bets I’ve been building this season.

Decided to hedge in the Final Four with a Baylor ticket so I’m winning no matter what, but I’m a fan of this Gonzaga team. Suggs and Ayayi are cool dudes. Kispert can shoot. Timme is a teen villain but can work the post. Hope Mark Few can get it done finally.

Baylor is tough though. Vital, Mitchell, Teague, Butler. What a group.

 

[OHSportsFan]

Yesterday was 4/3/21...buzzer beater.

 

[DZ83CK]

I have a handful of Gonzaga future bets I’ve been building this season.

Decided to hedge in the Final Four with a Baylor ticket so I’m winning no matter what, but I’m a fan of this Gonzaga team. Suggs and Ayayi are cool dudes. Kispert can shoot. Timme is a teen villain but can work the post. Hope Mark Few can get it done finally.

Baylor is tough though. Vital, Mitchell, Teague, Butler. What a group.

I'm with you. Butler and Mitchell are the best guard duo in the NCAA in quite some time. It looks to me like Baylor is the better team, so I would take the points with Baylor in this game.

 

[NJ-Buckeye]

Baylor showed us the gap... elite shooting and ferocious D

 

[OHSportsFan]

I'm with you. Butler and Mitchell are the best guard duo in the NCAA in quite some time. It looks to me like Baylor is the better team, so I would take the points with Baylor in this game.

Baylor ended up being way better- maybe if they played 10 times it doesn’t go that poorly but Baylor had more length, athleticism, quickness, shooting, defense, rebounding, everything.

That’s a great team.

 

[LitlBuck]

They need to change the water supply or something up in Spokane. Few has quite a few good players but Baylor had the athletes who could also play the game. Made the Gonzaga players look like elementary school kids the first couple minutes of the game. I am beginning to wonder what is so great about Few. All of these NCAA appearances and no national championship and really not that many Final four appearances.

 

[ScriptOhio]

They need to change the water supply or something up in Spokane. Few has quite a few good players but Baylor had the athletes who could also play the game. Made the Gonzaga players look like elementary school kids the first couple minutes of the game. I am beginning to wonder what is so great about Few. All of these NCAA appearances and no national championship and really not that many Final four appearances.

JMHO, In recent years Gonzaga has been a very good team; however, they are usually over rated due to their won/loss record*, i.e. this year they were undefeated up until the final game. They are the far superior team in a 2nd tier conference. Yeah, they did beat Iowa, Kansas, Auburn, West Virginia, and Virginia; but (other than Virginia who were no where close to their 2019 Championship team) none of these teams were the top team in their respective conferences this year, etc. I seriously doubt that Gonzaga could have gone undefeated in the B1G this year playing a 20 game conference schedule. They probably would have been a legitimate contender; but would likely have ended up with 2 to 4 conferences losses.

* Hell, before the championship game CBS Sports was hyping them as one of the greatest teams of all time regardless if they beat Baylor or not:

Gonzaga is a win away from undefeated immortality, but already deserves to be placed among the greatest teams

The 31-0 Zags are trying to become the first undefeated team since 1975-76 Indiana, but have already shown their greatness

Gonzaga does not need to beat Baylor to secure a highly perched place in college basketball history.

Championship games understandably carry considerable weight; they are the arbiters of a season. Yet: a single result should not overrun nor overshadow, in Gonzaga's case, an accumulation of 31 wins by an average of 22.4 points. These undefeated Bulldogs are storybook as is. The Jesuit school tucked away in Spokane, Washington, out of the West Coast Conference, a once-plucky outfit with the quirky-sounding name that always showed up in the bracket.

Entire article: https://www.cbssports.com/college-b...serves-to-be-placed-among-the-greatest-teams/