NCAA Basketball 2008-09 Season
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I would love to have him in a Piston's uniform. We need somebody who's willing to play in the paint.
He's a big strong kid, he may not be as tall as the UCONN guy, but he has a 7 foot wingspan.
The last two national titles UNC won they failed to win the ACC Tournament both times. In 93 our point guard, Derrick Phelps, was given a hard foul and injured his tail bone in the semis. We then lost to Georgia Tech in the finals.
In 05 we simply played like crap in the quarters and then lost in the semis. We played like we didn't care about the ACC tournament.
So winning the ACC tournament isn't a prerequisite to winning the national title. So if resting Lawson, which means we don't win the ACC tournament, means we have a better chance of winning the national tournament, I'm all for it.
That's what I want to avoid. I can handle losing if Lawson is out. I can't handle guys not caring.
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Good job opening for someone. Virginia used to be really good once upon a time. The lesson from this kids is don't hire a coach with DePaul on his resume.
Good job opening for someone. Virginia used to be really good once upon a time. The lesson from this kids is don't hire a coach with DePaul on his resume.
They were good for a while after he left. UVA made the FF in 84 the year after Sampson graduated and they made the elite 8 in 89 and in 95. Since then it's been pretty bad, but with the right coach Virginia could be good again.
Virginia was one of only three schools that made three consecutive Sweet Sixteens from 1981-1983. North Carolina and Boston College were the other two.
Speaking of those BC teams, they were involved in one of the freakiest trends in college hoops history: from 1980-1982, DePaul was a top-seed in their region, but couldn't win a single game (this was before the 64-team field, BTW), and the teams that pulled those shockers went quite far:
1980- UCLA beats DePaul; the Bruins were #8 in a 12-team region, but made it all the way to the title game!
1981- St. Joseph's beats DePaul; gets to the Elite 8 before losing to Indiana (I still think Bob Knight was fortunate that DePaul was roadblocked that year)
1982- Boston College beats DePaul; gets to the Elite 8 before losing to Phi Slamma Jamma.
That region was turned upside down that year: St. Joe's knocked out DePaul, BC knocked out Wake Forest, UAB knocked out Kentucky. Out of the top four seeds in that region, only Indiana won their second round game (of course, the Hoosiers went on to win the National Championship). BC lost to St. Joe's in the Sweet Sixteen by a point, and then St. Joe's got absolutely destroyed by Indiana in the Regional Finals.
I used to feel so bad for DePaul's head coach, the late great Ron Meyer. he just looked so deflated after those excruiating losses.
BTW, after BC made consecutive Sweet Sixteen runs in '82, '83 and '84 , they missed the tournament entirely in 1984. But in 1985 they made another run to the Sweet Sixteen. This time knocking out third seed Duke (led by Johnny Dawkins) in the second round. The Eagles lost to Keith Lee and Memphis St. in the regional semi's (on a last second shot by Vincent Askew). Had the Eagles won that game, they would have faced Wayman Tisdale and Oklahoma in the Regional Finals (Memphis St. ended up beating Oklahoma). So we could have very easily had an all Big East Final Four in 1985 (Villanova, St. John's and Georgetown made it along with Memphis St.).
During the Heat-Celtics game tonight, they're asking viewers to vote on which school has supplied the NBA with the best talent (ACTIVE players only).
There are five schools to choose from: UConn, Arizona, UNC, Duke and Wake Forest.
Surprisingly, Wake Forest is running away from the other four with over 40% of the votes. They were reasoning on ESPN that Wake doesn't have the quantity the other schools have (the Deacons only have four players mentioned). However, they more than make up for it in quality with Tim Duncan, Chris Paul and to a lesser extent, Josh Howard.
There are five schools to choose from: UConn, Arizona, UNC, Duke and Wake Forest.
Surprisingly, Wake Forest is running away from the other four with over 40% of the votes. They were reasoning on ESPN that Wake doesn't have the quantity the other schools have (the Deacons only have four players mentioned). However, they more than make up for it in quality with Tim Duncan, Chris Paul and to a lesser extent, Josh Howard.
On Bill Simmons podcast he was saying that Wake should make the FF because they have 3 potential lottery picks on their team and he was ripping UCLA for not having won a NC the last few years in spite of the guys they sent to the NBA. Unfortunatley NBA talent has nothing to do with how a team will fare in the NCAA Tournament. Wake never got to the FF with either Tim Duncan or Chris Paul and college teams don't have the luxury of mailing it in every other night like NBA teams can in the playoffs.
Killed my bracket.
In 2003, Wake has CP3 AND Josh Howard; I had them playing in the title game, and they lose to Auburn. Freaking Auburn!
Paul didn't actually get there until the next year, but Howard was plenty good. And I know, Auburn.
Auburn has not been kind to me.
First, I pick them to win it all in 1999. They were the team I thought could upset Duke if they got that far (lose to Ohio State- once again, HD teams kill my bracket!)
Then, I pick Wake Forest to play for the title on Monday night in the Superdome- and this happened.
It's definitely not Duke.
All Dukies seem to have become mediocre talent at best in the NBA.
