College Basketball Thread

[ncst8fan83]

Originally Posted by thenewfeature06

Took you long enough..

O and Michigan is a realy good team.. very capable of winning a title, that being said there is alot of teams that can do it this year based off of how nobody is DOMINANT.

I was REALLY surprised by the comeback they made. Bullock and Hairston are absolutely deadly from three. The game at the Nose Dome should be interesting.

[thenewfeature06]

Ya I hope Hairston stays but he should.. his stock I don't think is too high it may not matter but if he wants to mature his skills he should.

And yeah when we were getting slaughtered I turned it off but I was surprised they came back, we are just a shooting team at this point because after Mcadoo there isn't another inside presence and he is a little overhyped at this point.

[ph90702]

Originally Posted by P-L

Michigan attempts fewer threes than Florida and Arizona and average only two more attempts per game than Duke, Syracuse, and Louisville. Michigan is third in the country in overall shooting percentage, despite only "hoisting threes."

They don't have an inside game.

[yodapoop]

Originally Posted by yo123

Or Northern Illinois. They scored 4 points in the first half today, breaking their own NCAA record from earlier this year for least points in a half.

http://espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=330262199

Northern Illinois is actually 1 of 3 Milwaukee's actual wins this year. So yeah, we aren't them either!!

[ncst8fan83]

Originally Posted by thenewfeature06

Ya I hope Hairston stays but he should.. his stock I don't think is too high it may not matter but if he wants to mature his skills he should.

And yeah when we were getting slaughtered I turned it off but I was surprised they came back, we are just a shooting team at this point because after Mcadoo there isn't another inside presence and he is a little overhyped at this point.

They need to start James at the 5 and bring Brice/Hubert off the bench. McAdoo is a 4 and shouldn't be anywhere close to Richard Howell.

[iowatreat54]

So just want to post 2 things:

1. Iowa is such an incredible disappointment. Fran has us moving in the right direction, but there's only so much you can do when 75% of your roster is not highly rated underclassmen. Marble has been such an enormous disappointment, it's sad. Oh well, hopefully high seed in the NIT and NCAAs next year with pretty much everyone back.

2. I just have to point out that Michigan's basketball team doesn't know what an acronym is or how they work.

When Everyone Operates In-Sync =/= WE ON

Unless you are paying tribute to the iconic 90s boy band NSync, you're doing it wrong Blue.

[Don Vito]

Ole Miss is #16 in the AP Poll. The Mayans must have been a year off.

[iowatreat54]

Damnit Michigan fans, acknowledge that your program doesn't know how to use acronyms. Otherwise I'll have to resort to kicking the Illini program while their down, which gets old after like 8 years.

[BuckeyeDan17]

Hey, someone other than DeShaun Thomas scored more than 10 points tonight.


I like that.

Nerlens Noel is incredibly bad at the FT line.

[P-L]

Originally Posted by iowatreat54

Damnit Michigan fans, acknowledge that your program doesn't know how to use acronyms. Otherwise I'll have to resort to kicking the Illini program while their down, which gets old after like 8 years.

"WE ON" sounds cooler than "WE OI."

[iowatreat54]

Originally Posted by P-L

"WE ON" sounds cooler than "WE OI."

Well, ya. But it also makes you guys look slightly illiterate. It's not like you had the letters W E O N and had to come up with something to fit it.

And yes, I've given up on Iowa and am just waiting for hopefully a higher seed in the NIT.

[WCH]

I'm a lifelong Michigan fan and my boss is a Gator, so I really want a Michigan vs. Florida game in the tournament.

I'm also still not really believing the #1 overall ranking. I don't think it's the best team in the nation, but whatever.

[JoeJoeBrown]

Originally Posted by iowatreat54

Well, ya. But it also makes you guys look slightly illiterate. It's not like you had the letters W E O N and had to come up with something to fit it.

And yes, I've given up on Iowa and am just waiting for hopefully a higher seed in the NIT.

They look stupid, so I really like it.

[JoeJoeBrown]

Originally Posted by WCH

I'm a lifelong Michigan fan and my boss is a Gator, so I really want a Michigan vs. Florida game in the tournament.

I'm also still not really believing the #1 overall ranking. I don't think it's the best team in the nation, but whatever.

The problem is there are no really great teams this year. The quality of play is pretty rotten all around.

I mean, I think OSU looks really bad, but I can't knock them being in the top 25 when everyone else looks pretty damn bad most of the time as well.

The parity might make for a great tourney this year, however.

[pierce2walker]

This years bracket is going to be ridiculously hard to fill out.

[yo123]

Gophers Beat Nebraska Woooooooooo!!!!!!!!

[bearsfan_51]

Originally Posted by WCH

I'm a lifelong Michigan fan and my boss is a Gator

Get a new job. Sounds unsafe.

[BuckeyeDan17]

What's your guys' final four right now? I know it's early but I'm bored.

The only team I could feel confident putting in there is Kansas. Combination of scoring and post defense is a good recipe for a deep run.

Michigan's balanced perimeter attack is appealing.

I love me some IU but I don't like Crean on a neutral big stage. Right now I see them
getting upset in a sweet 16 or at best an elite 8.

UCLA is a wildcard for me right now. I'm not a fan of Howland at all but Jordan Adams and Shabazz make for one of the best perimeter tandems in the country and Kyle Anderson is a matchip nightmare down low for opposing point guards.

Like p2w said filling out this year's bracket will be ridiculous but the team's I like for deep runs are Kansas, Michigan, Duke and UCLA as a darkhorse.

Conference tournaments will be very very interesting this year.

[thenewfeature06]

Michigan and all these top teams CAN get there so it is a difficult question..

I put Duke there with a healthy Ryan Kelly.. not sure if he is out for season or not but he adds alot to that team. Even without him they could get there so Duke, Kansas, Michigan, Florida, Indiana, and Cuse. I would say out of those 6, at least 2 of them go to Final Four because of this years lack of North Carolinas and Kentuckys.

Probably one of those years a darkhorse gets in there, maybe Ohio State, Michigan State or Mizzouri would be my under the radar teams.

[ph90702]

UNLV for the Final Four. They getting better week-by-week.

[yo123]

Originally Posted by ph90702

UNLV for the Final Four. They getting better week-by-week.

Pls go.



And I'll go Kansas, Florida, Indiana, and Louisville. I like Gonzaga a lot too though, I think they have a really good shot.

[JoeJoeBrown]

Originally Posted by bearsfan_51

Get a new job. Sounds unsafe.

There's only so many pizza delivery jobs out there man. You've got to take what's available.

[yodapoop]

I am using Lunardi's bracketology here and I completely agree that this bracket will be hard as hell to fill out.

My Final 4 is Kansas, Michigan, Indiana, and Florida. 3 of the 4 #1 seeds and a 2 seed. I will prolly get wackier than that as time gets closer, but we shall see...

[ph90702]

Originally Posted by yo123

Pls go.



And I'll go Kansas, Florida, Indiana, and Louisville. I like Gonzaga a lot too though, I think they have a really good shot.

**** you!!!

[Wootylicous]

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