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Butler +3.5 vs UConn (ov/un 129.5) Mon 9 ET, CBS

As we all know, the tournament is a terrible time to have a bad shooting night.

But this is historically bad for Butler - 15%? :shake:
 
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jlb1705;1903239; said:
This is going to be weird to say, but I'm only watching this game because my wife is making me. I was happily watching MLB Network when she came home and asked why I wasn't watching the game.

This is the coup de grace in the worst tournament I've ever seen. I stopped watching when Ohio State bowed out. I watched all kinds of games leading up to this tournament that I had no other reason to be interested in other the potential for something exciting to happen. Now that the stakes are the highest, I'm just not interested. The field was assembled and developed in such a way that make a mockery of the idea of calling this a "national championship". The level of play overall has been low, and most of the teams that teams that stood a chance of elevating it were put in the same damn region.
I have to think that Ohio State is 10-20 pts better than damn near every team in the tourney if they don't have their worst shooting performance of the year. Yeah I know I'm being a sore loser right now but tOSU would be running either of these teams out the gym.
 
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Jake;1902993; said:
If you listen to Mike & Mike at all you probably know Liam's mum, the producer's mom, who lives in England and knows nothing about our sports. They went through the bracket with her, game by game, and she picked winners. They did this before the tourney began.

She had UConn and Butler in the title game, with UConn winning.

Oh by the way, her score prediction - made 3 weeks ago - was this:

UConn 52
Butler 39

It's 43-30 with 6 minutes left! :lol:
 
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Oh. My. God. Worst game of basketball I've ever seen. I turned it off after Howard missed that bunny just after the 10:00 mark.

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jlb1705;1903255; said:
9th place in their conference. National champions.

There are some people who want to do this to college football (not all playoff proponents mind you, but some). I want no part of it.

I don't know anyone who is suggesting a 9th place team belongs in a football playoff. A field that large would play into March, too. :lol:

But I'll never buy into the notion that we can "know" who the two best teams are by casting ballots, either.
 
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jlb1705;1903239; said:
The field was assembled and developed in such a way that make a mockery of the idea of calling this a "national championship". The level of play overall has been low, and most of the teams that teams that stood a chance of elevating it were put in the same damn region.
agreed 100%. smith and company failed miserably by creating a massively strong east region and a woefully weak southeast region. everybody knew it when the bracket was released.

bilas, knight, and vitale (among others) are undoubtedly correct: the committee that constructs the basketball tournament should comprise... uhh... basketball people. the ncaa's incompetence is boundless.
 
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you know.......their shots aren't falling, but just sit and watch the precision passing that butler is doing. if they didn't have such a size/talent disparity that comes from UConn's recruiting advantage, they wouldn't be this far out of it.

i kind of wish stevens would take the next step.
 
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jlb1705;1903255; said:
9th place in their conference. National champions.

There are some people who want to do this to college football (not all playoff proponents mind you, but some). I want no part of it.

Well, I think having 68(!) teams in the tournament is stupid. In football I think an 8 team playoff would be the max. Of course you would have ~95% of fans complaining that their team was left out but that's an issue for another day. Butler took care of business up to this point in the tournament and I thought they were going to win tonight. Boy was I wrong.
 
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