NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Thread - 2014 Edition

[Jackrabbit Hog]

Raftery on Aaron Craft: Every guard in the B1G may go to his graduation.

Love me some Raftery.  Wish he'd called our '94 championship game instead of Billy "Fudge" Packer.

[Jackrabbit Hog]

Ryan is to Anderson as Bielema is to Petrino.

Boring, but effective.

[onebadrubi]

His style this year has laid some serious eggs too.

I prefer our style of play.  I believe it gives as best of a chance as any. I also believe it equips us for tournament play with depth and shape of players.  What we are missing right now and hope it comes is the ability to back down and bang with the slower types of a bama or even wisconsin.  Because we can run them out of gyms currently, but that doesn't mean our game that day will be capable day in and day out

[jbcarol]

Love me some Raftery.  Wish he'd called our '94 championship game instead of Billy "Fudge" Packer.

Here's Packer whining about Magloire

[jbcarol]

Dayton 33  OhioSt 28  1:00

[The real Hogules]

I've always preferred the up and down the court, helter skelter type of basketball that Nolan and now Mike employs over a slower pace.

I can appreciate both methods of play, but really prefer the quicker pace and in your face defense that run and exicute teams utilize.

[jbcarol]

American 14  Wisconsin 10  11:10

[z1on]

Hell no, that is one team that I can't stand to watch. Worse than Heath ball.

[The_Iceman]

I'm happy with Mike and don't want this to turn into a thread about him as a coach.  I'm more interested in style of play. 

Wisconsin runs a slower, methodical style.  Bo Ryan is a proven coach.  Would you have been happy with him as our coach or is the style of play too much of a deterent?

If we had hired Bo Ryan in 2001 and he had the exact same success over the last 13 years running the same style, I would be thrilled!

- 1 Elite 8
- 4 Sweet 16's
- 13 NCAA appearances in 13 years
- annually in the Top 25, usually Top 15.
- 8 consecutive 20+ win seasons, including two 30+ win seasons.
- .725 winning percentage

[jbcarol]

Dayton 33  Ohio State 30   Halftime in Buffalo

[jbcarol]

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[hambone]

For me, sports are a form of entertainment. As a fan, I find Wisc to be extremely boring to watch.

[Jackrabbit Hog]

Here's Packer whining about Magloire

ACC shill.  Never forget how he tried to cotton up to Nolan after we won the championship and Nolan wouldn't take the bait, basically ignoring him during the post-game interview.  I was proud of Nolan for that.

[The Boar War]

Ryan is to Anderson as Bielema is to Petrino.

One of the reasons I thought this might be an interesting question.

[jbcarol]

Dayton is hitting 50% from the field and 9 of 13 FGs are assisted.

Both teams have only one offensive board.

Neither team has a player with more than one foul. OhioSt. committed only five fouls in the first half.

[jbcarol]

American 19  Wisconsin 13  7:05  TV to

[SPAL]

That was a fun 1st half. Just wish the wizards calling the game would stop working on their comedy bit though.

[Adam Stokes]

I have Dayton in my Sweet 16 as one of my (somewhat) Cinderella's.  OSU has been playing so terrible it didn't seem too difficult.  I went to have Tennessee beating Duke in the 2nd round, but brackets had closed for my billion dollar bracket before I could change it.  (Yet somehow it allowed me to make the change in my non-billion dollar brackets... odd.)

[jbcarol]

American 22  Wisconsin 32  Halftime in Milwaukee

[jbcarol]

UD 37  OhioSt 32  17:27

[jbcarol]

American was 3-6 from 3, 5-12 inside the arc.  They had no offensive rebounds.

Wisconsin was called for only four fouls in the 1st half.

[jbcarol]

Craft has five turnovers

[jbcarol]

Dayton 43  OhioSt 39  11:51  time out Dayton

[jbcarol]

Pitt and Colorado about to tip off on TBS.

[HamIAm]

Ohio State is begging for Dayton to beat them.

[ricepig]

Anybody got Dayton costing them a potential billion? I hate to lose a billion dollars on the first game.

[jbcarol]

UD 43  OhioSt 43  10:46

[HamIAm]

Dayton is trying to maintain contact with Ohio State, problem is they were ahead at the time. OSU just now takes lead.

[jbcarol]

Pitt 7  Colorado 0  17:26

[jbcarol]

UD 47  OhioSt 48  7:49  TV to

Dayton ball

[jbcarol]

Pitt 9  Colo 0  15:49  TV to

Colorado is cold as ice

[jbcarol]

American and Wisconsin have started the 2nd Half.

AU 24  UW 37  18:34

Rare 3 second call on American

[jbcarol]

Anybody got Dayton costing them a potential billion? I hate to lose a billion dollars on the first game.

What did Buffett and backers require to allow one to play: personal info?

[Adam Stokes]

What did Buffett and backers require to allow one to play: personal info?

They got your phone number, that was really the only thing I thought was a little too personal.  They also had questions that quicken loans would like such as "Are you looking to buy a house soon?"  I have Dayton winning, so I hope my billion dollars aren't gone in the first game.

[jbcarol]

Verne: "And the foul is called on ... Siebert?"

Raftery: "There just saying he knocked it out (of bounds)"

[jbcarol]

You gotta take a 5-on-4 when Craft is laying on the floor.

[jbcarol]

They got your phone number, that was really the only thing I thought was a little too personal.  They also had questions that quicken loans would like such as "Are you looking to buy a house soon?"  I have Dayton winning, so I hope my billion dollars aren't gone in the first game.

Not too bad.   Thanks!

[Jackrabbit Hog]

Verne: "And the foul is called on ... Siebert?"

Raftery: "There just saying he knocked it out (of bounds)"

Nice to know Verne is still in top form.  Next made basket will result in a "Yes, SIR!"

[jbcarol]

Four fouls on Ohio St.'s Loving.  Backup F.

[HamIAm]

What did Buffett and backers require to allow one to play: personal info?

I don't know but his money is safe.  I calculated the number of possible bracket outcomes if every team was evenly matched and had an equal chance of winning. I don't remember the exact number but it was something like 1,7 followed by another 34 zeroes. 

[jbcarol]

Craft looked like Brian Downing on that scramble for the loose ball.

[jbcarol]

I don't know but his money is safe.  I calculated the number of possible bracket outcomes if every team was evenly matched and had an equal chance of winning. I don't remember the exact number but it was something like 1,7 followed by another 34 zeroes.

If Dayton holds on they will take it up a notch.

[Adam Stokes]

If Dayton holds on they will take it up a notch.

Here's an interesting page.  It shows how far each team was chosen to.  Only 17% picked Dayton to beat OSU.  If they can come back that'll be 12.5 million brackets that are already out of the running.  (I wanna say 15 million brackets were submitted.)

https://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/quickenloansbracket/group/all/pickdistribution?round=1

[jbcarol]

American 25  Wisconsin 51  12:35

Badgers have outscored the Eagles 41-8 since 9:30 in the first half

[HamIAm]

With 4:44 left in the first half American was leading 20-18.  Wisconsin now leads 51-25 with 12:26 left. That game sure turned around

[jbcarol]

Intentional foul on Craft.

New Auburn coach snickers somewhere.

[jbcarol]

UD 55  OSU 52  2:35

UD ball

[HamIAm]

Is that ref ok that just swallowed his whistle?

[jbcarol]

Another 9-year-old boy in charge of cleaning the floor in a major tourney game.

[jbcarol]

Craft and1