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DZ83CK said:
Virginia does that often, their depth and physicality catches up with teams at the end of the game. They obviously show the importance of strength and depth.
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Yes. They have been a 2nd half team all season. Uncharacteristic UVA turnovers today - both forced and unforced, and the Wright State guy who had 1 3-pointer all season made 5 of them, kept this game close. I would be really curious to hear why Wright State kept their top scorer (16 in 1st half) out for so much of the 2nd half. Really a head scratcher without knowing more.
 
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31 points and 27 rebounds for Taris Reed against Furman. Basically carried the team. Uconn isn't going very far if the rest of the team plays this bad again. They were terrible shooting the ball against St Johns in the Big East tourney game too.
 
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buckeyemania11 said:
31 points and 27 rebounds for Taris Reed against Furman. Basically carried the team. Uconn isn't going very far if the rest of the team plays this bad again. They were terrible shooting the ball against St Johns in the Big East tourney game too.
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That’s the first 30 pt/25 rebound game in the tournament since Elvin Hayes in 1968.
 
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I heard today that Friday was the first time since 1992 that on a single day that didn't have a single 10+ seed advancing.

The first 40 years of NCAA tournaments with 64 teams (1985-2024) before NIL and massive portal moves

#13 seeds went 33-127 (20.6%)
#14 seeds went 23-137 (14.4%)
#15 seeds went 11-149 (6.9%)
#16 seeds went 2-158 (1.3%)

In total 69 wins in 40 tournaments with only 5 tournaments out of the 40 years going 0-16.

2025+2026 about to be 0-32 for 0.0%

Pretty safe to say the NIL error and massive portal movement has killed the true mid majors.

The days of 2011 VCU, 2010 Butler, 2011 Butler, 2006 George Mason, 2013 Wichita State, 2023 Florida Atlantic, 2018 Loyola Chi making the final 4 are gone forever.

Even a St Peter's 15 seed making the Elite 8 won't ever happen again.

We got the High Point win but they were a 12 seed and VCU and they were an 11 seed and is VCU even a true mid major ?

That is about what we will get each year a couple back in the day we used to have 5 or 6 true mid majors and almost always got a 13-16 usually 2 of them each year. Some years we got 4 of the 13+ seeds.

All that is all but over we might get a lucky one here and there but the years of them having all 5 seniors gone. If anyone are good they are taking the money and moving up.
 
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OHSportsFan said:
St. Louis, fun offense but they stand no chance defending Michigan. Could get worse in the 2nd half as the talent separates.

I hate how strong and good that team is.
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Get a couple 3s to get it to 4 points. Then they get lazy on a switch screen, easy mismatch that leads to pass and dunk. Then another breakout dunk pushes it right back to 8.

They might hang if they hit 3’s but I don’t see enough stops to get over the hump when it gets late.
 
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henry_muto said:
I heard today that Friday was the first time since 1992 that on a single day that didn't have a single 10+ seed advancing.

The first 40 years of NCAA tournaments with 64 teams (1985-2024) before NIL and massive portal moves

#13 seeds went 33-127 (20.6%)
#14 seeds went 23-137 (14.4%)
#15 seeds went 11-149 (6.9%)
#16 seeds went 2-158 (1.3%)

In total 69 wins in 40 tournaments with only 5 tournaments out of the 40 years going 0-16.

2025+2026 about to be 0-32 for 0.0%

Pretty safe to say the NIL error and massive portal movement has killed the true mid majors.

The days of 2011 VCU, 2010 Butler, 2011 Butler, 2006 George Mason, 2013 Wichita State, 2023 Florida Atlantic, 2018 Loyola Chi making the final 4 are gone forever.

Even a St Peter's 15 seed making the Elite 8 won't ever happen again.

We got the High Point win but they were a 12 seed and VCU and they were an 11 seed and is VCU even a true mid major ?

That is about what we will get each year a couple back in the day we used to have 5 or 6 true mid majors and almost always got a 13-16 usually 2 of them each year. Some years we got 4 of the 13+ seeds.

All that is all but over we might get a lucky one here and there but the years of them having all 5 seniors gone. If anyone are good they are taking the money and moving up.
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You're right. Might as well quit picking mid-major upsets in the tournament.
 
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