****2015 March Madness thread****

[Mr. Flopnuts]

I'll probably find the time to keep daily updated brackets in the thread. In the mean time, who do you have winning it all? Kentucky a lock? Teams lose. So I don't think so. I truly believe undefeated hurts you going into The Dance.

Virginia's head coach Tony Bennett comes from Wazzu and I remember being happy the day he left even though I wondered why Virginia? Not rooting for them. I really don't know.

I expect Kansas to not make the sweet 16 potentially. Definitely not a championship contender (which would make it all the sweeter should they defy the odds).

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Hootie 2.0

oh but read the study ! it was the right move !

And this is what's called a straw man argument.

Ignore the facts if you want, but fouling is the right decision there (and no, that doesn't mean fouling Jones is the optimum way to employ that strategy).

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

And this is what's called a straw man argument.

Ignore the facts if you want, but fouling is the right decision there.

So buddy. This is the part you remind me again how bad K is in the tourney. Lulz

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

And this is what's called a straw man argument.

Ignore the facts if you want, but fouling is the right decision there (and no, that doesn't mean fouling Jones is the optimum way to employ that strategy).

so allowing 15 seconds to run off the shot clock and then foul one of the best foul shooters in the country at mid court when there was a 15 second differential between game clock and shot clock .... was the right move

riiiight

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by eDave

Happens everywhere. Every sport. From team to individual player.

The lesson here kids is be really good.

The best do tend to get the calls, yes.

Unfortunately, I think Wisconsin was the better team this time around and got the worst of it.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Hootie 2.0

so allowing 15 seconds to run off the shot clock and then foul one of the best foul shooters in the country at mid court when there was a 15 second differential between game clock and shot clock .... was the right move

riiiight

No, fouling immediately with a worse shooter would have been the best way to employ that strategy. Who said differently?

[Hootie]

well ****

duh

my entire point was premised on the fact they waited 15 seconds

once the shot clock hit 20 and the ball was at midcourt ... you don't ****ing foul ... you play for a stop

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

So buddy. This is the part you remind me again how bad K is in the tourney. Lulz

If Self was losing to schools like Mercer and Lehigh in the first round every other year, I can only imagine how stupid your trolling would get.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Hootie 2.0

well ****

duh

my entire point was premised on the fact they waited 15 seconds

once the shot clock hit 20 and the ball was at midcourt ... you don't ****ing foul ... you play for a stop

No, the fact that they waited 15 seconds doesn't mean letting them kill off any more time makes any sense. Having the ball with 10 seconds left at this level down by 3 (which would have been the best case scenario) is a horrible situation to be in.

[Hootie]

that would not have been the best case scenario

more like 13-17 seconds

10 would have been had they waited until about .5 on the shot clock and chucked a three

and I'd rather be down 3 with 10 seconds then down 5 with 25 seconds

[GoChargers]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

God, I hate Emmert and the NCAA. I hope the major conferences get together and create their own tournament some day.

That would be boring and would remove the upsets that make everyone who doesn't root for the blue-bloods start caring in March. They'd kill the golden goose by doing that.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Hootie 2.0

that would not have been the best case scenario

more like 13-17 seconds

10 would have been had they waited until about .5 on the shot clock and chucked a three

and I'd rather be down 3 with 10 seconds then down 5 with 25 seconds

Your best case scenario involves having a 50/50 shot of being down by 3 with 10-15 seconds and the ball with a team that is simply incapable of scoring quickly. So basically it's no shot at all.

Creating several more possessions and hoping for a Duke mistake was really the only chance they had.

[Discuss Thrower]

Get rid of the bullshit cash grabs that are conference tournaments, eliminate non sense scheduling like Duke taking on the previous D-2 champs or Kentucky v Coppin State and make every D-1 conference play a round robin schedule. Each conference gets to send one team as the representative to the NCAA championship which will consist of five or six best-of-three series against other conference champions.

[Hootie]

50/50 shot?!

Since when do any college teams score on 50% of their possessions?

Not only that, but Duke is going to isolate their ball handler up top and inevitably settle for a pull up three to kill clock ...

so I'd say they had around a 70-75% shot of getting the ball back in a 1 possession game ASSUMING they get the rebound

well, probably more like 65%

[Hootie]

and I guarantee you THAT gave them a much higher winning % than fouling ****ing J.J. Redick, Jr. at midcourt with 25 seconds left down 3

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by GoChargers

That would be boring and would remove the upsets that make everyone who doesn't root for the blue-bloods start caring in March. They'd kill the golden goose by doing that.

Maybe, maybe not. It's not like there wouldn't be huge upsets with just the major conference teams in a single elimination tournament. The key thing, though, would be getting a full share of the money and not having it go through an entity like the NCAA.