NCAA Tournament Thread

SNUBBED (in order):1. Syracuse2. Drexel3. Air Force4. WVU5. Oklahoma St.6. Vermont7. Akron8. UConn9. Liberty10. George Mason

 

Made a bracket tournament if anyone is interested:http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/...oinprivategroupName: NFLC NCAA TournyPassword: redskins

 

Need the Group #, not the name.

 

119499

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (The Punisher @ Mar 12 2007, 01:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>SNUBBED (in order):1. Syracuse2. Drexel3. Air Force4. WVU5. Oklahoma St.6. Vermont7. Akron8. UConn9. Liberty10. George Mason</div>How did Florida St. not make the list? They're my biggest snub. 0-5 without Tony Douglas. Which means if they even went 2-3 with Douglas, they would have been 9-7 in the ACC. Plus the win in the ACC tourney over Clemson, they should have made it.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (chang @ Mar 12 2007, 06:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (The Punisher @ Mar 12 2007, 01:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>SNUBBED (in order):1. Syracuse2. Drexel3. Air Force4. WVU5. Oklahoma St.6. Vermont7. Akron8. UConn9. Liberty10. George Mason</div>How did Florida St. not make the list? They're my biggest snub. 0-5 without Tony Douglas. Which means if they even went 2-3 with Douglas, they would have been 9-7 in the ACC. Plus the win in the ACC tourney over Clemson, they should have made it.</div>Yeah, good point. I forgot about them.I joined your league JHair.

 

I'm in

 

For all you people that may want a little help or just another opinion, here's my breakdown for the tourny and my predictionsWestRound 11. Kansas over 16. Niagra/Florida A&M9. Villanova over 8. Kentucky5. Virginia Tech over 12. Illinois4. South. Illinois over 13. Holy Cross6. Duke over 11. VCU3. Pitt over 14. Wright St.10. Gonzaga over 7. Indiana.2. UCLA over 15. Weber St.Round 21. Kansas over Villalona4. South. Illinois over 5. VT3. Pitt over 6. Duke2. UCLA over 10. GonzagaRound 31. Kansas over South. Illinois2. UCLA over 3. PittRound 41. Kansas over 2. UCLAMidwestRound 11. Florida over 16. Jackson St.9. Purdue over 8. Arizona12. Old Dominion over 5. Butler4. Maryland over 13. Davidson11. Winthrop over 6. Notre Dame3. Oregon over 14. Miami(OH)10. GT over 7. UNLV2. Wisconsin over 15. Texas A&M CCRound 29. Purdue over 1. Florida DUN DUN DUN12. Old Dominion over 4. Maryland3. Oregon over 11. Winthrop2. Wisconsin over 10. GTRound 312. Old Dominion over 9. Purdue3. Oregon over 2. WisconsinRound 43. Oregon over 12. Old DominionEastRound 11. North Carolina over 16. Eastern Ky.9. Michigan St. over 8. Marquette5. USC over 12. Arkansas4. Texas over 13. New Mexico St.6. Vanderbilt over 11. G. Washington14. Oral Roberts over 3. Wash St.10. Texas Tech over 7. Boston College i dont care what you say, Jarrius Jackson will own all2. Georgetown over 15. BelmontRound 21. North Carolina over 9. Michigan St.4. Texas over 5. USC6. Vanderbilt over 14. Oral Roberts2. Georgetwon over 10. Texas TechRound 34. Texas over 1. North Carolina2. Georgetwon over 6. VanderbiltRound 42. Georgetwon over 4. TexasSouthRound 11. Ohio St. over 16. C. Conn. St.8. BYU over 9. Xavier5. Tennessee over 12. Long Beach St.13. Albany over 4. Virginia6. Louisville over 11. Stanford3. Texas A&M over 14. Penn10. Creighton over 7. Nevada Here's a little rhyme: Without their star, Nevada ain't going very far2. Memphis over 15. North TexasRound 21. Ohio St. over 8. BYU5. Tennessee over 13. Albany3. Texas A&M over 6. Louisville2. Memphis over 10. CreightonRound 31. Ohio St. over 5. Tennessee3. Texas A&M over 2. MemphisRound 43. Texas A&M over 1. Ohio St.Final Four3. Oregon over 1. Kansas2. Georgetown over 3. Texas A&MFinals2. Georgetown over 3. Oregon75-68 the finalcomments....

 

Purdue doesn't have the talent or depth to beat Florida. Arizona, you can make a case that there's enough talent to compete with Williams, Budinger, Shakur, Radenovic. Still even Lute Olson said they lack heart and brain...I think S. Illinois will foul its way out of the tourney. Averages about 17-18 per game... teams will be in the bonus and double bonus early in games which isn't good for the Salukis.Don't think Gonzaga has the talent to beat Indiana this year. DJ White will be able to own Gonzaga inside and the guards Price and the other fellow can make it rain.I don't think Oregon can have 5 straight good 3 point shooting games. If they have an off night from outside, they don't have any inside game to bail them out. I just don't trust pure jump shooting teams to go very far. And if a team can dictate the tempo (prevent Oregon from running and setting up 3s) and outrebound (won't be hard), Oregon will have trouble. If you notice, in the Pac-10 tourney, USC was a 3 guard team, Cal had noone outside of Hardin. I still think they'll make the Elite 8 if they can get past Winthrop. Bradshaw might be too much for Oregon to handle though with Martin and Jenkins capable of matching 3 for 3.BC and Texas Tech is the shittiest matchup ever. But Dudley, Marshall, Rice will do enough to get past Jackson and Zeno. Barely though.Marquette should be able to own Michigan St. Marqutte is getting Jemel McNeal back finally reuniting the 3 guard trio that was very good early on until McNeal went down.Xavier is a dangerous team. They can really do it all and BYU will have their hands full.Memphis is a weird team to diagnose. Haven't been tested all season and were beaten by the decent teams they did play early on.I think GW will be able to beat Vanderbilt. Sure, they're 6-2 against ranked teams but ranked SEC teams. 4 wins against teams that didn't make the tourney. Byars is a great player but the Colonials have athleticism.I don't think Pitt has enough gas left in the tank to beat Duke. Duke will have had a week's rest, Coach K is Coach K. He'll have his players ready.I don't think ODU has the talent to match up with Maryland for 40 minutes. Should be a good game though.I don't think Texas A&M has enough to challenge Ohio St. Oden now has use of both hands so he's 2 times more dangerous than he was earlier. I'm buying into the theory that there will be a freshmen led team that makes the Final 4. Either Ohio St or Texas for me.Just my thoughts.

 

Florida is a real streaky team, and I really like Purdue. Arizona is not that great, as I've been able to watch them all year in teh Pac-10. I really like Purdue, and I think Florida is not going to get far.I dont know why I didnt have Marquette as the game winner, I have them on my bracket, I just typed it out wrong. That may be true about Southern Illinois, but they can get past Holy Cross and either V.T./Illinois, but not a team like Kansas. Gonzaga can beat Indiana. Easily. They won't get past UCLA though.Oregon can still go slow and score. They wont score as much, but they can still score. They do have some stellar D too. They have an unbelievable team. Thye have a lot of depth. I just dont think BC can do it this year, and I really like Jackson, so, I picked TT.Xavier may be dangerous, but so is BYU, and Xavier will have their hands just as full.Memphis was 30-3 last year, and everyone doubted them, and they go tto the Elite 8. They are 30-3 this year, and everyone is doubting them. Um, I really dont know anything about Vandy or GW, so, I just kinda guessed.Duke does not have a good team this year, and I'd almost pick VCU to upset them. Pitt will be able to get by Duke. Pitt is stacked. Yeah, Old Dominion is kinda my George Mason, and it's just completely random, I wouldnt be surprised if they lost to Butler in Round 1, but I wanted to pick a George Mason, so I did. Yeah, Texas A&M and Ohio St. could be a real good game. I too think Ohio St. could beat them, but thats what everyone will pick, so I'll pick something different.

 

I had Memphis is the final 4 last year because they had Darius Washington, Shawne Williams, and most importantly Rodney Carney. This year, they don't have close to that talent. Plus Joey Dorsey's FT shooting woes will kill this team.I dunno if we watched the same Pitt team during the end of the season. For the first 3 months of the season, they were a top team. But it seems they've lost all the gas left in the tank. They couldn't beat ranked teams until the Big East tourney (a Marquette team without Jerel McNeal) and a Louisville team that got crushed in 2-20 in the first minutes of the 2nd half because of lack of intensity. They have no real go to guy outside of Gray which will kill them if a team simply sets it offense to stop Gray. They don't have huge 3 pt threats that scare anyone outside of Ramon (still not a shooter coaches will have nightmares over).Oregon... I just can't see them getting that far without big men. Big men are very important in big games because they shoot high percentage shots and have 35 seconds to get position on the block. They can get far but it'll take a lot of accurate jump shooting. One off night and they're done. To me, that's scary.

 

i can accept that about oregon (your argument).for PITT, yeah, im really not sure what i was thinking, i actually have them losing in the first round now in my bracket, so yeah, i donno what i was thinking there, and i have duke now advancing to the sweet 16, because Coach K is Coach K.

 

I joined.All I'm saying about my bracket is that UCLA is the champion.

 

March Madness On Demand is pretty cool. Though, CBS is having a hard time with its audio online.

 

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Ohio State will win it all

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (MLibid @ Mar 15 2007, 03:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Ohio State will win it all</div>you can say that again

 

7-0 today. :creep:

 

7-0.Then GW had to get destroyed.

 

6-2 so far, but all my Sweet 16 teams are still in play.