***Official 2024 NCAA Tourney Thread***

[WhawhaWhat]

Alabama and Grand Canyon just running wind sprints right now.

[WhawhaWhat]

Originally Posted by WhawhaWhat

Alabama and Grand Canyon just running wind sprints right now.

This game is ugly.

[GabyKeepsMeWarm]

Originally Posted by WhawhaWhat

This game is ugly.

Weird, wild stuff…. But this a great tourney game. Wish they’d get the mic away from some high pitched screaming banshee, but I digress…

[WhawhaWhat]

Originally Posted by GabyKeepsMeWarm

Weird, wild stuff…. But this a great tourney game. Wish they’d get the mic away from some high pitched screaming banshee, but I digress…

For sure very entertaining but it's been playground basketball for large portions. Refs letting them play, bodies on the floor on every possession and they are running themselves ragged.

[GabyKeepsMeWarm]

Originally Posted by WhawhaWhat

For sure very entertaining but it's been playground basketball for large portions. Refs letting them play, bodies on the floor on every possession and they are running themselves ragged.

I’ll take this over the alternative. It isn’t pretty basketball, but it’s better than seeing the refs take over the game and turn it into a slog. As tight as it is though, I expect the latter to take over in a few minutes…

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by WhawhaWhat

Alabama and Grand Canyon just running wind sprints right now.

I saw them, Grand Canyon, win their first two NAIA championships in KC back in the day at Kemper. My team, in the 70's, Washburn, just couldn't get past Marymount (Salina) or Kearney St (Neb) to get a bid.

Those NAIA battles between Washburn, Rockhurst, St Benedict's (now Benedictine) were great fun. The old Great Plains Athletic Conference. Then to the CSIC. I spent many a Saturday night watching my favorite players in Whiting Fieldhouse. Harold Brown, Allan Joy, Joe Luebke. Got to play with them and against them at summer camps.

They made it to the quarters a few times but would get knocked out on like a Wednesday afternoon game. I'd have a transistor radio with an earpiece to listen at recess.