The One and Only NCCA Championship Week Thread

[Guest teke184]

CBS always has the exclusive right to reveal the brackets first. That's their tradition. Sportscenter will have them soon afterwards and then there's that "Bracketology 101" special at 7.

Things are getting interesting since St. Bona, Villanova, Georgia, and others are either out or probably going to be out...

 

Maybe this means that LSU will move up to an 11 or 10 seed... hell, maybe higher than that if they run the table in the SEC tourney.

[Guest Flyboy]

Whoo.

 

I've signed up and I'm ready to go!

[Guest Choken One]

Tournment Update

 

Automatic Bids

 

Troy State-Atlantic Sun Conf. Champions

NCAsheville-Big South Conf. Champions

Austin Peay- Ohio Valley Conf. Champions

E. Tenn State- Southern Conf. Champions

Pennslyvania- Ivy League Conf. Champions

UNC-Wilmington-Colonial Atlantic Conf. Champions

Creighton-Missouri Valley Conf. Champions

Manhattan-MAAC Conf. Champions

San Diego-West Coast Conf. Champions

Milwaukee-Wisconsin- Horizon Conf. Champions

 

 

Currently Playing

Mid. Tenn State Vs W. Kentucky

[Guest CanadianChris]

San Diego-West Coast Conf. Champions

Yikes...Gonzaga did themselves no favours this year. I think they'll make it anyway, but this could really hurt.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

W.Kentucky and IUPUI have earned automatic births.

 

Tonight

St.Francis (NY) vs Wagner

E.Washington vs Webber St.

[Guest Choken One]

I just hope Wagner and Webber St. Lose because it seems they arrive every year and job staight out...Change it up a bit with St. Francis and E. Washington.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Didn't Webber St beat North Carolina a few years ago?

[Guest Choken One]

Yeah In 1991 I think.

 

Tournament Update

 

Wagner Recieves Automatic Bid

Webber St. Recieves Automatic Bid...

 

 

and on a personal NOTE...

 

FUCK YOU USM! Just Die you worthless bastards.

[Guest Will Scarlet]

I am glad IUPUI made it. That has to be one of my favourite names for a school. Too bad they will be out in the first round.

[Guest Kingpk]

Isn't IUPUI the Indiana University Purdue University - Indianapolis or domething?

[Guest Will Scarlet]

I think so. I just find the abbrevation IUPUI to be kind of funny.

[Guest Human Fly]

Can Cincinnati win an important game this year? Looking back I am shocked we beat Louisville, OK St., and Oregon. If we hadn't pulled those flukes off we would be NIT bound for sure. As it is at 17-11 I am nervous going into selection Sunday.

[Guest Choken One]

Don't be worried...we have a better RPI then TONS of teams that are "sure" picks. Cincy is automatically in...Just the thing is...Expect to be a #7-12 seed.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Choken: Webber St. had a chance at making it has a at-large team if they would of loss. Bilas and Katz on Espn said it. It wasn't certain, but they would of been a bubble team.

 

That game was in 1999?

 

The RPI is so overrated. Did Cincinnati beat anyone.

[Guest teke184]

Heh... my alma mater pulled one out of their asses all right considering they've been playing like crap most of the year.

 

What is it about Cincy and the C-USA tournament anyway? A few years back they lost K-Mart in their game against St. Louis, lost the game, and lost out on a #1 seed as a result. Now they may have lost out on a bid PERIOD considering they lost to a team that flat-out sucks. The only team worth a crap USM's beaten this season was Memphis, and that's because it's one of the few regional rivalries in C-USA.

 

 

Sidenote- What other conference spans the nation from West Point, NY (Army) to Milwaukee (Marquette) to Dallas-Ft. Worth (TCU) to Miami (South Florida)? The only ones even close to covering that kind of territory are in the West like the Pac 10, Mountain West, and WAC.

 

Just about the only things close to regional rivalries that I know of are USM-Memphis, USM-Tulane, and USM-Louisville.

[Guest Choken One]

Cincy beat Oregon, Louisville, Oklahoma St...

[Guest teke184]

Choken, look again. I clarified it to say "only quality team *USM* has beaten".

[Guest cabbageboy]

I have no idea what to make of Cincy. They've played basically 3 good games all year, and that U of L game was screwy due to Cincy shooting 58 friggin FTs.

 

To be honest CUSA has some of the worst looking basketball one will ever see. The league has been influenced so long by Cincy's thuggish bone and club type play that everyone plays that hideous style aside from U of L. Violent, slowdown crap.

[Guest El Satanico]

Hey damnit Cincinnati's thug ball style rules all.

 

I'd much rather watch thug ball than watch finesse ball.

[Guest Choken One]

Choken, look again. I clarified it to say "only quality team *USM* has beaten".

I was answering Vern Not U Teke...

[Guest Crazy Dan]

My biggest problem with Cinnci is:

 

A) They don't graduate anyone. Last I checked they have one of the lowest graduation rates in the country. It may even be at 0%. That to me is pathetic.

 

B) They tend to choke in the NCAA's. Last year they choked against UCLA. In other years they never seem to get to the sweet 16.

 

 

In other news: UCLA is about to pull off a huge upset against Arizona... Which shows how hard it is to beat a team three times in a row in a season. It also shows that UCLA has probably badly underachieved this year.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Cincy beat Oregon, Louisville, Oklahoma St...

Thanks.

 

The Arizona came doesn't mean anything. They've locked up a #1. seed, hopefully UCLA doesn't win the Pac 10 tourney.

[Guest Choken One]

I wouldn't Mind seeing Lavin win as a "Fuck You" to UCLA...

[Guest kingkamala]

OMFG UCLA beat Arizona, stop the presses! Damn, Arizona is one of my current favs and I frikkin hate UCLA. I hope UCLA gets eliminated by whoever they face in the next round.

[Guest Choken One]

It's their fault. They played HORRIBLE "D" and Olson's "Who gives a Fuck" attitude about the Pac10 tourny is what did them in.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

I agree with Olson about the tournament. I wish the Big 10 didn't have one.

[Guest Choken One]

True...I find the B10 the most lackluster divison around because they all seem the same.

 

My Take is that Conf. Tourneys are merely Appitizers for non-regular season watchers so they can get a good feel for their brackets.

 

All they tend to do is allow two or maybe three undeserving teams that just happen to play good for three games straight and cancel teams out that were good in the season but just didn't perform in the Conf. Tourny.

 

Oh, Well...Still The Conf. Tourney is still fun enough though...

[Guest phoenixrising]

(begin incoherent celebration)

 

UCLA UCLA UCLA GOODBYE ZONA GO BACK TO TUCSON UCLA UCLA #1 I LOVE YOU LAVIN THANK YOU THANK YOU

 

(end incoherent celebration)

 

Now I have some doubts about firing Lavin, though quitting on the team in midseason is still inexcuable. As to the person who said UCLA has underachieved all season...dead on. Remember UCLA was ranked 14th or 15th to start the year...there is a lot of talent on the team, way too much for them to be having the bad season they had. There's a small ray of hope though...two more games to win for an automatic bid.

 

Next year UCLA should be good with Cummings, Thompson, Patterson and Hollins all returning. It remains to be seen who will be guiding that unit. Eh, I'll worry about the near future later. I just want to be excited for now.

[Guest Spaceman Spiff]

Anyone catch the end to the Kansas St./Colorado game?

 

That K-State player has got to feel awful.

[Guest Crazy Dan]

I still think Lavin needs to go. I have noticed that UCLA continually underachieves in the regular season every year Lavin has coached. With all that talent, UCLA should be battling year in and year out for the Pac Ten crown. I think that Lavin might be able to save his job if UCLA can win Pac-10 tourney and then win a few games in NCAA's. But UCLA should not be in this position, and that is why Lavin needs to go, and start anew at another team.