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56 minutes ago, btownqb said:

These two teams combine to play one guy over 6'8. 

 

It’s so weird. Purdue handled Villanova pretty easily earlier in the season. Purdue just didn’t get better as the season went on. People figured out how to attack them and they just never made the adjustments. Seems to really come down to your guards playing well and timely shooting. Houston shot well Against Arizona….couldn’t hit broad side of barn tonight.

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1 minute ago, Steubenhoosier said:

For those guys swearing by Kelvin Sampson. He was exposed tonight. His teams won by out toughing their opponents. No real offense. Pound the boards and play relentlessly on defense. They ran into a team just as tough, who wouldn’t back down, and shot the ball better.

No thanks to Sampson ball 

That was always the flaw with his OK teams

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Just now, Steubenhoosier said:

For those guys swearing by Kelvin Sampson. He was exposed tonight. His teams won by out toughing their opponents. No real offense. Pound the boards and play relentlessly on defense. They ran into a team just as tough, who wouldn’t back down, and shot the ball better.

No thanks to Sampson ball 

No one that was complimenting Sampson was saying that Jay Wright was chopped liver.  I would much rather be Villanova than Houston, but that does not take anything away from Sampson's coaching acumen.   

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Just now, 5fouls said:

No one that was complimenting Sampson was saying that Jay Wright was chopped liver.  I would much rather be Villanova than Houston, but that does not take anything away from Sampson's coaching acumen.   

He had no answer tonight. His guys kept missing 3’s and he didn’t adjust. 
Villanova was the much more disciplined team, and it wasn’t close 

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4 minutes ago, Steubenhoosier said:

For those guys swearing by Kelvin Sampson. He was exposed tonight. His teams won by out toughing their opponents. No real offense. Pound the boards and play relentlessly on defense. They ran into a team just as tough, who wouldn’t back down, and shot the ball better.

No thanks to Sampson ball 

Similar to Texas Tech….they out work out tough you and out hustle you. It’s a winning formula until you just run into a more talented team that plays just as hard or just too much athleticism. 

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1 hour ago, Kdug said:

I really think it’s being overstated how bad the big ten was in the tourney this year. Here’s a summary of each team:

Wisconsin - 3 seed, R32; underperformed by 1 game. Really shouldn’t have been seeded that high, had mediocre efficiency metrics for a 3 seed

Purdue 3 seed, R32; met expectations. With the way the bracket shook out, you could argue they underperformed. But St Peters has shown they’re no fluke.

Illinois - 4 seed, R32; although according to the seed line, they should make the S16, they had the worst possible 5 seed in Houston. According to efficiency metrics, Houston should’ve been a 1 or 2 seed. I’d say they met the tourney expectations, and just got a really bad draw.

Iowa - 5 seed, R64; underperformed by 1 game. Seems worse than that since they were a popular pick to make a deep run

Ohio St - 7 seed, R32; met expectations

Michigan St - 7 seed, R32; met expectations

Michigan - 11 seed, S16; exceeded expectations by 2 games

Rutgers/IU - play in 11/12 seeds, R68/R64; grouping IU and Rutgers together since both were in the play in games. Play in games are supposed to be close to a 50/50 matchup, so you’d expect 1 of 2 teams to win. Combined met expectations.

So based on the seeds the big ten got, it basically matched expectations with a few higher seeds underperforming by a game, Michigan over performing by 2 games, and everyone else doing exactly what they were supposed to based on the seeding. The big ten just didn’t have a top tier team this year, even though Purdue looked like they were going to be early in the year. There was just a lot of depth in the conference.

 

We made the S16 before choking in epic Purdue fashion haha. 

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1 minute ago, Steubenhoosier said:

He had no answer tonight. His guys kept missing 3’s and he didn’t adjust. 
Villanova was the much more disciplined team, and it wasn’t close 

Houston was without I think two starters. They were hit hard with injuries this year. They way overachieved.

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27 minutes ago, 5fouls said:

No one that was complimenting Sampson was saying that Jay Wright was chopped liver.  I would much rather be Villanova than Houston, but that does not take anything away from Sampson's coaching acumen.   

This.

If Houston's players were not absolutely $%# awful from 3 and just crap they win by 6-8. They locked up Nova the entire night. 

Can't hide from 1-20 from 3. That isn't a nod to Wright at all...or a knock on Sampson. All players in that one. 

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33 minutes ago, dgambill said:

It’s so weird. Purdue handled Villanova pretty easily earlier in the season. Purdue just didn’t get better as the season went on. People figured out how to attack them and they just never made the adjustments. Seems to really come down to your guards playing well and timely shooting. Houston shot well Against Arizona….couldn’t hit broad side of barn tonight.

We also shot like shit in the tournament which hurt and turned it over too much. Our “A” game, we were good enough to win the whole thing.  But our off-nights you saw what could happen lol. 

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2 minutes ago, Seeking6 said:

This.

If Houston's players were not absolutely $%# awful from 3 and just crap they win by 6-8. They locked up Nova the entire night. 

Can't hide from 1-20 from 3. That isn't a nod to Wright at all...or a knock on Sampson. All players in that one. 

He saw that they weren’t shooting well and did nothing to change the game plan. Sorry, he was out coached, his team was out toughed, and as I said to begin with, would not want his style of play at IU. 
 

Sorta like Crean. Had one way to beat you, and if that didn’t work, he had no plan B.

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