First big news of the week, Cooper Flagg had to leave game after turning ankle. Good luck filling out your brackets!

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I'm heading to the ACC Tournament tomorrow night. I'm looking forward to it.

duke did him no favors putting him in a wheelchair for an ankle sprain

I'm very happy Xavier made it. I hope they beat up on Texas and then it's a no lose situation on Friday v. Illini.

Drake is going to beat Missouri straight up. Take the money line on that one to the bank.

Creighton is going to destroy Louisville.

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Is HY doing his annual bored tournament?

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If I cared enough, Wednesday would be a great late night with X v. Texas at 8 and then Loyola playing in the NIT at 11 pm.

but I don't care enough. I may be in bed by halftime of the first game

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i also have creighton and drake winning their first round matchups, and have creighton going a little farther.

as i filled out my bracket i already knew i'm looking at a high seed going to the S16 that will ultimately blow it and fuck my shit up. there will be some upsets that probably aren't really upsets.

is anyone else offended by the fact we have 11 and 12 loss teams as 4 seeds (arizona and purdue)?

Purdue always offends me.

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DePaul just took Creighton to double OT. No way Creighton beats Louisville. Y'all dumb if you pick them.

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I think we may see a year with 3 SEC teams in the final four

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Thought for sure that Wisconsin and Iowa State would have had flipped locations, so happy Cyclones got Milwaukee, and now my Friday plans are set.


Interesting how seeding/locations doesn't always work out. Part of it is there aren't many top 4 seeds from out west.

Wisconsin ties for 4th in big 10, make a run to title game, and gets the 3 seed, but has to go to Denver (1000 miles from campus)
Illinois ties for 7th in Big 10, gets a 6 seed, and will play in Milwaukee (225 miles from campus)

Louisville should have lost to Stanford.

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Gov of West Virginia is threatening NCAA with legal action for leaving them out of the tournament

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What a dolt

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I might be depending on their position regarding catch and release

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I still remember the year there were 3 Big East teams in the F4 with expected powers Georgetown (Ewing) and St. Johns (Mullin) but then a team out of nowhere lead by a plucky coach and even pluckier point guard crashed the party. Talking about Providence coached by Rick Pitino and led by point god Billy Donovan.

EDIT: I'm mixing things up. 1985 was the year 3 Big East teams made it. 1987 was the year Providence made it.

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i could see wisconsin getting the early bounce again.

Michigan kind of either gave the blueprint to stopping Tonje or he was just exhausted. Either way I tend to agree.

Like Texas A & M, they had tough schedules, and they both played difficult out of conference teams. But you wonder if the SEC is like the Big Ten a few years ago, when they had something like eight of the top ten teams and then fizzled in the NCAAs.

The SEC looked pretty legit whenever I saw them play, though. Florida and Alabama are my SEC teams (if that bad-mustache-looking-dude is healthy for Alabama). Someone please beat Auburn.

Would be nice to see the Big Ten slap around the SEC like they did in football last year.

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Check out the SEC non conference record, they beat that ass.

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Yeah, didn't they win like 90% , or close to it?

Perhaps the Big Ten-SEC tournament match-ups will be more even, unlike the bowl season. By the way, I hope the SEC just lied back and enjoyed that. Might as well, you know?

Some of my guys go to Kansas and say that the team is mentally beaten. That's a great first round game.

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So Indiana hired Darian DeVries who was HC at West Virginia and Drake before that. Do not know much about him. But thankfully he is a guy that has actual college experience. He turned Drake into a consistent winner in his years there. He has to be better than Woodson!

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Final Four
Duke
St. John’s
Texas A&M
Tennessee

Duke cutting down the nets

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Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Shakes lost a lot of weight but didn’t lose ability to make bad prognostications.

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These are one-game series.

Trying to draw conclusions based on past games won't be accurate because anything can happen in one game.

Don't sleep on Florida.

Houston will look dominating on defense early but will sputter out after a couple rounds because they can't score with the big dogs. As usual.