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Open Thread; Sweet 16 Preview

by coldwarrior ( 153 Comments › )
Filed under Open thread at March 24th, 2015 - 9:09 am

 

Sorry, gotta get to bed….that was a long, gross, nasty night….4 Nights on, then 5 days off. I like those numbers!

 

Yinz can Google Fournier’s Gangrene if yinz like.

Husky Lover Bonus:

Here is a ranking of the teams that advance to the Sweet 16.

It was a wild opening weekend of the NCAA Tournament, chock full of exciting finishes, upsets and memorable performances. But now comes the real drama — when the contenders separate themselves from the pretenders.

Before the games begin, however, let’s break down the teams. Below, The Post ranks the remaining 16 teams:

1. Kentucky (36-0, 1 seed in Midwest)

The undefeated Wildcats haven’t come close to playing their best basketball yet, and still won their first two games by an average of 18.5 points. West Virginia and Wichita State or Notre Dame don’t stand a chance this weekend in Cleveland.

2. Arizona (33-3, 2 seed in West)

Arizona deserved a 1 seed. Nobody is playing better basketball than the balanced Wildcats, who feature the most underrated player left in the bracket — heart-and-soul senior point guard T.J. McConnell.

3. Duke (31-4, 1 seed in South)

The four-headed offensive monster of Jahlil Okafor, Quinn Cook, Tyus Jones and Justise Winslow is the scariest thing in the tournament this side of Kentucky’s horde of NBA-bound shot-blockers.

4. Wisconsin (33-3, 1 seed in West)

Of the three top seeds left, the Badgers have been the least impressive. But they could be adding a major piece this week — senior point guard Traevon Jackson, who returned to practice recently after fracturing his right foot Jan. 11 at Rutgers. He adds a major dimension — a penetrating guard — to Wisconsin.

5. Gonzaga (34-2, 2 seed in South)

The first weekend of March Madness has done nothing to change the way we feel about the Zags, our pick to reach the national final. They treated No. 7 Iowa like a sparring partner needing a whipping on Sunday.

The question remains, can anyone stop Kentucky?

 

 

 

NCAA Basketball Championship Open thread

by Phantom Ace ( 29 Comments › )
Filed under College Basketball, Headlines, Open thread, Special Report, Sports at April 4th, 2011 - 9:00 pm

Tonight is the NCAA Championshiop game.   Butler (8) will face off with Connecticut (3) for tonight’s Championship showdown. I’m symaptetic t0wards UCONN since their team name is the Huskies and I love Dogs. Hopefully this will be a great game.

HOUSTON (AP) — Butler coach Brad Stevens loves an underdog, whether it’s his team back in the Final Four or Connecticut making an unprecedented five-games-in-five-nights run through the Big East tournament.

Wait, what?

A Big East team as an underdog? The coach at tiny Butler cheering for big, bad UConn?

Welcome to the bizarro world of college basketball in 2011 — a sport where not only is anything possible, but where nothing quite makes sense. A sport in which the story of a small school from a small conference making a run to a title is no more rare than that of the late-season magic conjured by a power program with one of the nation’s best players.

Butler and Connecticut will meet Monday in the national title game — the eighth-seeded Bulldogs trying to finish the deal after coming oh-so-close last season and the third-seeded Huskies (31-9), led by Kemba Walker, talking about shocking the world with their 11th straight victory after a regular season that foreshadowed none of this.

Enjoy and Discuss.

March Madness: Round 1

by Phantom Ace ( 175 Comments › )
Filed under Music, Open thread, Sports at March 15th, 2011 - 7:00 pm

 

This thread is to discuss March Madness. Tonight the tournament begins with the first round for teams to qualify for the open brackets in the 2nd round.

Tonight’s games are:

This is an open thread and anything will be allowed to be discussed. Politics, history, sports, gossip, sex, movies, Lady Gaga, Lil Wayne, The Bee Gees, The Philadelphia Phillies, NY Knicks, Miami Heat, Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Barack Hussein Obama, Hillary Clinton, the 1980 Election, Mike Tyson, Battle: LA, The Battle of the Bulge, Las Vegas Casinos, Mexican Cartels, Hugo Chavez, the Colombian AUC, The House of Saud, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Afghan Pedophilia, Pakistani Nukes, George Soros, The Italian Wars, Napoleoan, The Austrian Hapsburg, The Russo-Turkish war of 1887-1888, Serbian Chetniks, AL-Qaeda, Hizballah, Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Chilean Social Security, The Vikings, King ARthus, Attila the Hun, Paris Hilton, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, Frank Sinatra, Brazilian Waxing, HAARP conspiracy theories, Bob Marley, Biggie Smalls, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Israel, Lebanese Christians, Coptic Christians, the Pope, The Roman Empire, Louis the XIV, Robespierre, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, The Lusitania, WWI, Kaiser Wilhelm, Fidel Castro, Tom BRady, Payton Manning, Aaron Rogers, Oprah Winfrey, The 30 years war, The 100 years wars, Cuban Sandwiches, Mexican food, Thai food, Japanese Akitas, Shiba Inus, Cats, Ferrets, Possums, fishing, Godzilla movies, Voltron, Robotech, Transformers and washed up Jazz Guitarists turned online cult leaders can all be discussed.

This is an Open thread!