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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Mar 10, 2010 18:31:13 GMT -5
I agree, cny. This format is squeezing BE bubble teams because they won't get rewarded for beating a DePaul or Providence and are forced then to beat one of the single bye teams. I am not sure what alleviates the problem, but maybe a first round 8/9 game or a 7/10 game gives a 50/50 shot to the lower-seeded team. Then again, we are getting that anyway today with GU/USF and SHU/ND.
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Post by kghoya on Mar 10, 2010 18:44:56 GMT -5
What the hell is with Marquette and constantly close games? Kind of ridiculous if you look at their schedule/results for the whole year they better hope they dont play davidson in the 2nd round
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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on Mar 10, 2010 19:33:00 GMT -5
One of the most ridiculous things is that if Harangody never gets injured I don't think ND makes the NCAA tournament. How often can you say that? THe best player goes down and it makes them a better team. Not because of his absence, but because it forced their coach to change their style of play to one that includes defense. We would've destroyed the run and gun ND team. But the slow it down patient ND is actually a legitimately good team.
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Post by cnyhoya on Mar 10, 2010 19:35:02 GMT -5
I agree, cny. This format is squeezing BE bubble teams because they won't get rewarded for beating a DePaul or Providence and are forced then to beat one of the single bye teams. I am not sure what alleviates the problem, but maybe a first round 8/9 game or a 7/10 game gives a 50/50 shot to the lower-seeded team. Then again, we are getting that anyway today with GU/USF and SHU/ND. Exactly. USF took a hit on their SOS by beating Depaul, so that was really no help to them. I say make Syracuse play Depaul in round 1. Just my opinion.
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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on Mar 10, 2010 19:41:00 GMT -5
I think the idea is to make sure the best teams are rested for the NCAAs and reward them for doing well in the regular season. Otherwise in theory everyone has an equal chance to win the conference tournament.
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Post by hoyarooter on Mar 10, 2010 19:41:41 GMT -5
I think you could structure it by having four first round games on both Tuesday and Wednesday, followed by four games among the eight winners on Thursday, semifinals Friday, finals Saturday. I would have the first four seeds play on Tuesday so as to give them the advantage of a day off before their second round game (assuming they would beat the 13-16 teams).
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Post by BubbleVisionBiff on Mar 10, 2010 19:56:37 GMT -5
Let ND go to the Big 10, and then only invite the top 12 to the BET. Harsh for DePaul and the other two who wouldn't make it each year, but IMO Tuesday-Saturday is a little much.
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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on Mar 10, 2010 20:09:03 GMT -5
Great quote from one of the student athletes at St. John's: "We all love the game of basketball so whatever we can play in, NIT, CBI…we want to play, that’s what we’re here for. We really don’t want to be in school doing schoolwork"
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Post by cnyhoya on Mar 10, 2010 20:55:06 GMT -5
I think the idea is to make sure the best teams are rested for the NCAAs and reward them for doing well in the regular season. Otherwise in theory everyone has an equal chance to win the conference tournament. Valid point of view to be sure. But this favors the top seeds too much. I have never seen a major tournament before with a double bye like this. The bottom 8 need to win 5 games, which is the equivalent of a 32 team tournament. Crazy.
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Post by westendhoya on Mar 10, 2010 21:08:53 GMT -5
Anyone watch the ND post-game on ESPN...Reese Davis almost blew up on Digger for interrupting him. Funny stuff
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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on Mar 10, 2010 21:17:05 GMT -5
frankly i'd be ok with going back to the old format bottom 4 don't make it and top 4 get 1 bye.
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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on Mar 10, 2010 23:14:30 GMT -5
I'm calling it right now. Louisville cinci game will end with lance drawing a foul at the last second.
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Post by kghoya on Mar 10, 2010 23:27:28 GMT -5
well he has been there a lot towards the end
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Post by kghoya on Mar 10, 2010 23:27:48 GMT -5
just think...next game is good vs evil on this same court
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Post by HometownHoya on Mar 11, 2010 0:25:23 GMT -5
just think...next game is good vs evil on this same court +1
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Post by ceshoya on Mar 11, 2010 16:25:21 GMT -5
I am really rooting for Marquette right now. Not because I don't want to play Nova, but I want to avenge the loss we had to them earlier.
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Post by superan on Mar 11, 2010 16:26:29 GMT -5
Marquette leading Villanova 65-59 with 4:30 to play
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Post by Buckets on Mar 11, 2010 16:28:22 GMT -5
Cubillan and Johnson-Odom a combined 8/12 from three. I thought role players only played well against us...
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Post by GUJook97 on Mar 11, 2010 16:28:45 GMT -5
Marquette is going to choke. You can see it coming.
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Post by Boz on Mar 11, 2010 16:31:19 GMT -5
Marquette is going to choke. You can see it coming. Except I've said that so many times this year and it hasn't happened that often.
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