2010 Men's NCAA Basketball Tournament Thread

[SandraC]

Syracuse already played Cornell and destroyed them...and yes, Cornell is better NOW than they were when Syracuse beat them...but so is the 'Cuse.

NCAA basketball is a March sport. If you go back to the regular season and state 'who beat who' you can come up with anybody winning the championship.

What matters is how you play over this six game stretch. Period.

Anyway, Syracuse is a one seed...they are SUPPOSED to get to the final four. Anything else would be a huge disappointment.


Sandra

 

[anders5189]

NCAA basketball is a March sport. If you go back to the regular season and state 'who beat who' you can come up with anybody winning the championship.

What matters is how you play over this six game stretch. Period.

Anyway, Syracuse is a one seed...they are SUPPOSED to get to the final four. Anything else would be a huge disappointment.


Sandra

I heard somewhere that Jim Boeheim tricked the selection committee into giving the Orange a better bracket than they deserved. After Arinze Onuaku got hurt (and if you saw the injury you'd know it was bad) Boeheim acted like it nothing so the selection committee kept Syracuse as a 1 seed, and gave them a much easier bracket than say Kansas got. Now we can see that Onuaku is nowhere close to being able to play, but Syracuse never got penalized.

 

[SandraC]

I want to give credit to Roy Williams and Jim Calhoun for treating the NIT with class and dignity. They easily could have taken a different approach, but both brought their teams into the tournament to win it, and never cast any aspersions on it whatsoever.

It would be very easy for these schools to look down on the NIT, as Carolina will be back in the top five next year and perhaps UConn too, but they did not.

New respect. :up


Sandra

 

[salsadancer7]

Anyway, Syracuse is a one seed...they are SUPPOSED to get to the final four. Anything else would be a huge disappointment.


Sandra

ABSOLUTELY! Don't mean a thing if you ain't got that ring baby!

Interesting that Western NY is WELL represented in the tourney... hmmmmmm.....


EDIT: There corrected.....

 

[SandraC]

ABSOLUTELY! Do mean a thing if you ain't got that ring baby!

Freudian slip?


Sandra

 

[salsadancer7]

I heard somewhere that Jim Boeheim tricked the selection committee into giving the Orange a better bracket than they deserved. After Arinze Onuaku got hurt (and if you saw the injury you'd know it was bad) Boeheim acted like it nothing so the selection committee kept Syracuse as a 1 seed, and gave them a much easier bracket than say Kansas got. Now we can see that Onuaku is nowhere close to being able to play, but Syracuse never got penalized.

Hmmm....I like to see that.

 

[salsadancer7]

Freudian slip?


Sandra

Nope...just typed to fast and forgot a couple of letters....will even CORRECT just for you!

 

[SandraC]

Hmmm....I like to see that.

It's true. It's well documented Boeheim used the same type of persuasion that I used on my fiance to get him to marry me.

Well, probably not.


Sandra

 

[SandraC]

Nope...just typed to fast and forgot a couple of letters....will even CORRECT just for you!

Now you're back on tract!


Sandra

 

[anders5189]

I want to give credit to Roy Williams and Jim Calhoun for treating the NIT with class and dignity. They easily could have taken a different approach, but both brought their teams into the tournament to win it, and never cast any aspersions on it whatsoever.

It would be very easy for these schools to look down on the NIT, as Carolina will be back in the top five next year and perhaps UConn too, but they did not.

New respect. :up


Sandra

I only hope that we will be back in the top 5 next year. We should be better, but this season showed you should not take anything for granted. I'm a little surprised that Carolina is still alive in the NIT, but we're not really much improved. If you ever watch NIT games you'll quickly see why each team is there and not in the NCAA Tournament. I think Carolina is taking advantage of the low fat diet provided by the NIT. I've never seena a less disciplined team than Miss St. And all you need to know about UAB is that they're coached by Indiana reject Mike Davis. Enough said!

I'm pretty agnostic to the whole thing since winning the NIT means nothing other than you're the 66th best team. Hooray!

 

[salsadancer7]

It's true. It's well documented Boeheim used the same type of persuasion that I used on my fiance to get him to marry me.

Well, probably not.


Sandra

That is open to SO many interpretations that I will NOT touch that one with a 20 foot pole.

 

[SandraC]

That is open to SO many interpretations that I will NOT touch that one with a 20 foot pole.

Good....who needs your 20 foot pole anyway...


Sandra

 

[salsadancer7]

Good....who needs your 20 foot pole anyway...


Sandra

sssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

 

[SabresRule]

If Syracuse beats Butler, will their center be back for the Elite 8?

 

[HD MM]

NCAA basketball is a March sport. If you go back to the regular season and state 'who beat who' you can come up with anybody winning the championship.

What matters is how you play over this six game stretch. Period.

Anyway, Syracuse is a one seed...they are SUPPOSED to get to the final four. Anything else would be a huge disappointment.


Sandra

You're a nasty little devil today!

 

[SandraC]

You're a nasty little devil today!

Hey, I gave him credit for a 20 foot pole, what more would a guy want?


Sandra

 

[Ramy]

Hey, I gave him credit for a 20 foot pole, what more would a guy want?


Sandra

A 40 ft one?

 

[SandraC]

A 40 ft one?

Perhaps if he was Italian...


Sandra

 

[Ramy]

Perhaps if he was Italian...


Sandra

Who said I was talking about him?

 

[SandraC]

Who said I was talking about him?

Do tell! :devil:




Sandra