**** OFFICIAL 2017 NCAA TOURNAMENT THREAD ****
 

Did not see the official one anywhere in the first two pages on this forum.

Hopefully there'll be some good upsets....

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas...nament/bracket

Entertaining game between Mount St. Mary & New Orleans on the opening day of the tournament.

It's all NIT games on ESPN. Finally found this on trutv

Terrible play call. 50 50 ball at best, tjen you still have a prayer from half court. Why not inbound and run it up the court? 2.9 is enough time

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I honestly thought they should have fouled. Give themselves more time than 2.9 seconds.

Not fouling at the end was awful. Even if they make both free throws you get 20 seconds to extend the game or tie it with a three.

I agree. Was speaking more to the play call after that mistake

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Good grief....

Let's hope K-State has a team left after all these fouls. Some of them are actually highly questionable.

And I thought the Big XII officials were bad.

The offensive foul at the end of the half on Ervin was all time bad. Most of the others were fouls that the team isnt adjusting to
https://twitter.com/ksu4tc/status/841836430603239424

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Yeah, I hope the rest of the games aren't officiated like this one.

KSU kicking ass.


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Bad basketball. Boring tournament.

Fixed your post.

Anyone whos watched kstate this year knows how this game ends already

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Iwundu is good at basketball

K-State will probably blow it, if past end of game situations remains true.

NCAA shooting for 2.5 to 3 hours tournament games this year? F that.

Hey maybe they wont pee down their legs today

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Iwundu is on some NBA draft boards. Imagine if he could shoot, like at all.

Nice win Kittens!

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Big 12 1-0

Danny Mannings team sure doesn't play very good defense. Young team, if they can convince Colilns to come back they could make alot of noise next year.

Very beatable Cincy team for them now

Manning looks like a hurting unit. Hopefully he doesn't have something seriously wrong.

Pac 12 just got destroyed in the NIT. 1 seed Cal gets punked by Cal State Bakersfield. Utah loses to Boise State (apparently they have a basketball program too?). Going to be a long NCAA Tournament, or should I say short one for the West Coast Girlymen

Zing

Yikes. Cal actually looked decent the last couple times I watched them. I've been on the sprayer constantly so I've been listening to ESPN radio a lot and the PAC 12 has been getting a lot of love. I've seen UCLA several times and thought they looked and played slow. They have great size and Ball can pretty much do whatever he wants but they look to be susceptible to an energy team. That being said the energy was there when they lost to Arizona.

All in all I haven't been overly impressed with the PAC. Accordingly, Oregon, Arizona, or UCLA will now win it all since we talked about it LOL.

Zona, UCLA, and Oregon are fine teams. I think a lot of the hype comes from the league having possibly the first two picks in the draft. Utah, USC, Cal had decent seasons. I can't remember the bottom of a power 5 league being this bad which makes it a bit tough to judge.

Arizona St. went a so-so 7-11 in conference play. In the non-con, they lost in an unholy 115-69 massacre to Kentucky on a neutral court, by 30+ to Purdue on a neutral, and by 19 to N. Iowa which didn't even finish .500 for the year.

Washington has possibly the #1 pick in the NBA draft, won 9 games, ranks below Mizzou in kenpoms metrics. WSU ranks 20 spots lower. Oregon St. Started 2-0 and finished 5-27 LOL. Their non-con was rummies too, wtf. I've never seen anything that bad

Thanks. Hadn't followed the bottom of the conference.

best game we've played all year--nice to see the cats close one out. 69% shooting--helps when 3/4 of the shots are layups/dunks

hopefully bodes well for the big 12 an impressive opening game

seems each year one of the First Four #11 seeds is pissed enough they knock off the 6 see in 1st round. maybe k-state is that team this year.

i'm ready to see my shockers back up marshall's talk these last couple weeks. he's been pretty vocal of the seedings again. better back it up guys!

Can't decide if I wanna pick them against Kentucky or not. The Shockers have burned me every year except the year I picked them to beat my Jayhawks.

Me too. It's time to Play Angry again. :#

Everyone in the Pac 12 is all garbage, overrated teams. UCLA is going to get beat by Cincinnati.

Pac 12 is now 0-3 in the NIT. Colorado lost tonight ROFLROFLROFL

Now, USC is getting punked by Providence. Down 39-26 already. hahahahhaha. West Coast basketball is pillow soft.

What an awesome win for UMKC, first post season win as a division one program.

Heh. I didn't watch it but ISC pulled it out.

Virginia sucks

You jinxed it! Way too early

I picked SD State to beat Gonzaga in two of my three brackets. I figure statistics say that a 16 seed has to eventually upset a 1. May as well try to bank on it hard this year. The Jacks are really good for a 16, and Gonzaga is probably weak as a 1.

Notre Dame lucked out.

Luck of the Irish.


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I don't really watch college basketball until the tournament, so in the pick em contest at our local bar I flip a coin. Heads, and the top team advances, tails, the bottom one does.

I've got only one top seed getting out of the first round, Villanova. ROFL They did go all the way on my sheet though. 5 bucks well spent. :)

LOL, foxsports... maybe wait until the 2nd half, at least. LMAO

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I think Gonzaga has it figured out now. There will be no 16-seed upset this year.

Gonzaga is always over-rated.

I wish people would start to figure that out.

Lynch for Minnesota shitting his pants. 2 fouls in 9 seconds in first half. 10 seconds in in the second half-foul.

Minnesota not looking good. Two 5 Seeds have won. Odds are Minny as a 5 loses.

WVU wins against a good effort from Bucknell.

BigXII now 2-0

I think they're going to do well this year but that first game wasn't inspiring.

People have said that for years.

No final fours.

Frauds.

Big ten frauds on display. Minnesota looks like dogshit. Gonna get blown out.

My first round fliers were Bucknell and Middle Tn. Just missed the Bucknell upset, but the MTn is looking good.

They always overperform when they're a low seed and bomb when they're a high seed.

Vanderbilt just gave a foul to Northwestern up by 1 with 14 seconds left. Huge mistake. The player obviously thought they were trailing.

Big mistake by Vandy player no knowing the score, up 1, then inexplicably fouling the NW player. That's just a shame.

Amazing finish to this point

Yes.

**** Gonzaga.

Cost Vanderbilt the game. Brutal. They'll remember that one for a while.

Also, Northwestern has never lost an NCAA tournament game.

They already beat the 2 seed in their bracket (Zona) on a neutral court so we know they can do it!

Glaringly biffed call in Xavier/MD game.

Shot clock violation doinked off backboard a foot wide of the rim, offensive rebound puts it in 2-3 seconds later.

Villanova off to a terrible start.

Nova finally scores a basket, over 6 minutes into the game.

Rough start but Novas righting the ship. Mt. St. Mary's looks pretty salty early

They struggle shooting though

Mount point guard with a nasty dish. That was great.

Not as big of frauds as the Pac 12. But I guess everyone already knows the Pac 12 is garbage in the 1st place, so maybe we can't call them frauds after all.

VCU-St Marys half time keeps flipping from the score to Jeff Graves being blocked out by Melo. hah, wonder what made them go back that far for a photo

I did not fill out a bracket this year.

St Marys started really struggling against the press. Then wrecked it for a while. Now their offense is barely functional against it again. Interesting

Swanigan swattin' em.

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The ref in the VT - Wisc game prances like a show pony when he runs. It's ****ing hilarious.

He reffed KSU the other night too. Wtf

man...ROFL
what in the hell....
I wish you hadn't pointed that out...I'm watching him more than the damn game now...that is just freaking bizarre!

I switched over to that game just to watch him run.

I want to know that guy's back story. Like, did he go to finishing school for horses? Maybe his parents were killed by a gopher hole?

Surprised Nevada managed 73 points, their offense looked like a pick up game.

I hope tomorrow's games are better than today's.




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Me neither.


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15/16 so far. Did not expect the Xavier upset. I usually get 14 or 15 right the first day and then it goes down hill from there.

Stop picking upsets. That is your problem. I'm not talking about 5 vs 12 or 11 vs 6, cuz those aren't really upsets anyway. But people that pick 7 seeds to the Final Four. How often does that work out?

There is this narrative that if you have your 4 year old pick the bracket, flip a coin, or pick based on colors only you would do better than someone who actually watches basketball. GTFO. No chance. If you did that, half your #1 and #2 seed would be gonzo by the end of the 1st day.

New Mexico State leading Baylor at halftime. Another first round slog for them.

Drewwwww

Incredibly entertaining game between OK Lite and Michigan.

Ummm. Why is okie light dribbling around for :20 down 3 scores with under a minute? I thought their coach was good.