Maedhros

Really fun up and down game. Indiana picked things up defensively to close out the second and stopped allowing as many drives. Assembly Hall sounds on fire!

2 minutes ago, dgambill said:

I believe he still has a Covid year. No lock he leaves.

Edey has already announced this is his final year in college.

I am so very tired of watching Edey ball. I'm tired of his swinging elbows, of his walking through people with impunity. I'm tired of the Big Ten style of basketball Edey embodies, and I know it won't end when he leaves, but I'll be very glad to at least have him gone.

Just now, Joe_Hoopsier said:

Vermont can beat Duke, they just can't throw it into the ocean from the beach. 

It's a landlocked state. They only have a big lake.

Purdue starting to make many of the same silly mistakes we saw last year. Balls bouncing right off guys. If this stays close, how soon until they start to pucker?

Almost twelve minutes in, and Purdue gets whistled for their first foul. After multiple Grambling players knocked to the floor. College officiating is a vibes based business, performed entirely on reputation.

4 minutes ago, Maedhros said:

I jinxed it. Nebraska has gone ice cold since the timeout when I posted that. Of course they were due, after all those threes they got against us.

Attention fully turned to Duke Vermont. I've spent many a winter in Vermont, and Burlington is a neat place. Would be one of my favorite upsets ever if this happens.

1 minute ago, Joe_Hoopsier said:

Apparently, of the 37 things I've signed up for... TNT isn't on any of them.

Oh well, it looks like Hoiberg is getting boat raced. I'll just watch the ticker. 

I jinxed it. Nebraska has gone ice cold since the timeout when I posted that. Of course they were due, after all those threes they got against us.

Just now, Joe_Hoopsier said:

Are you streaming that game? WHERE ??? What EFF'ing streaming service?

 

 

It's on TNT. I'm streaming on Hulu, but there's also the March Madness app.

2 minutes ago, Joe_Hoopsier said:

 

You KNOW the answer, but you havn't made it out of your current stage of grief yet. 

But your repeated ... No, continual passive aggressive post are well noted.

Glad to know someone else is exhausted by all this.

My God, this Nebraska/A&M game is a banger.

12 minutes ago, DWB said:

So how many of you guys picked Yale to beat Auburn in the first round?

My wife did. I'm firmly last place in my own household. 😬

Two down to the wire finishes taking place at the same time. I had two screens up, switching the audio back and forth. Now I need a cigarette. This Tournament is the best.

Louisville may have their guy:

Couldn't be Dusty May this early.

Did anyone catch why an Auburn player was ejected?

Still in this one:

Nicholas Boyd misses that layup at the end of the Memphis game in the first round last year, Dusty May isn't on anyone's radar for the Indiana job.

Khristian Lander and Western Kentucky up on 2-seed Marquette, coming up to halftime.

Then they miss an actual out-of-bounds call and give the ball to Northwestern without going to review when it was needed. What the hell?

I'm going to hear "and the officials are going to head to the monitor" in my sleep at this point.

How do you screw up a baseline OOB call, when no player nor the ball ever crossed the baseline?? lol lmao

With so many names going in, it's tough to know who's been mentioned and who hasn't. Scrolling Twitter since the games tipped today, I saw Borzello mention a couple:

JP Pegues, guard from Furman. First team all So-Con, 18.4 points, 4.8 assists, over 36% from 3

Jordan Sears, guard from UT Martin. First team all OVC for two seasons. 21.6 points, 4.6 rebounds, 4.5 assists.

Lots of guard talent out there, hope we get some.

20 minutes ago, bronkonagurski said:

If they are going to review 10 million other things in the last 2 minutes of a game, they need to review foul calls too. Give the coaches the ability to challenge a foul call like the NBA does. 

This is what burns me. College basketball officials will go to the monitor for damn near anything. It's exhausting. College basketball is too often a bad product, not because of the play but because of the constant stoppage. And here they have a legitimate call that needs reviewed and overturned, yet they can't act. If we're going to be overturning goaltending calls, changing three point shots to twos, let's make sure we get something this consequential correct as well.

By itself, it's such a perfect example of what's wrong with college basketball officiating. They don't call what happened, they call what they expect to happen. It's why Malik gets called for a charge when the defender runs into him with a foot in the circle, and it's why the Big Ten DPOY gets rewarded with a tie-up call, despite raking Xavier Johnson on the arm on a breakaway.

8 hours ago, MrsStoller said:

Yeah, I knew IU turned it down, pretty much right after the loss in the B1G tournament. We would have been in the NIT where there are teams actually continuing to play and work towards a goal. Oh whatever. Gotta make sure we work in the portal. If that isn’t a sign of leadership dysfunction. But anyway, I repeat myself.
 

Still celebrating Kentucky’s loss! 🥳

The situation with Woodson set aside, I take no issue with skipping the NIT. We started out with ten returning players:

• three already transferred,
• one is surely going pro,
• one is on a medical redshirt
• your two senior guards are both injured.

I like having Indiana games, and would have tuned in to watch, but I don't think there was much to be gained by having Cupps, Reneau, and Mgbako as the only guys building for next season.

I like that when you say to someone "Indiana's rival just lost to a double digit seed in the first round again", you have to specify which rival. 😄