And Huskers are making the UCLA loss sting just a little bit less.
Week of 3/2 Games Thread
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Nebby goes down! 20 point blow out
Go Iowa!
Can we at least get it right? He literally had the rebound on the previous play. He didn't come from the bench. He woulda been ejected.
Ref named Doug Sermons was a disasterclass in the KU game.
Does he do B10 games or no?
Does he do B10 games or no?
I really hope this ends up being wrong because last years tournament was a dud but am kind of leaning this way.
I think it might realistically only be 3 teams in Zona, Michigan, and Duke. I don't think Florida's guards are good enough but their frontcourt is extremely good.
I'm on the fence on UConn but they are just all around a solid team, have the best coach in the country, and run the best offensive scheme in the country imo. I question their interior a bit against the other elite teams but they played Zona right(lost by 4) and beat Florida.
If I was a betting man Id probably say I like Zona the best of them because I think Burries and Bradley is the best backcourt of those 5 but I also don't really trust Lloyd and they need Peat to get back to full strength for March. I think Michigans achilles heel might also be their guards especially with Cason out.
I'd probably rank them Zona, Duke, Michigan, then a tossup between Florida and UConn.
Is it me or has pretty much every result that we needed over this past week has come through? I'd think that MSU is the only team fighting us for a #2 seed(NCAA Tournament) that isn't floundering.
OrangeBlue98
Iowa is not in a great spot right now (LvilleILL1)
- Des Moines, IA
He was on our game at Nebraska and is a Final Four official. That missed timeout was bad.
UCLA just curbstomped Nebraska. At some point people might have to accept that they're a tournament team who is hard to beat at home.
They have just 1 home loss on the season and it was in double OT to Indiana.
And on a horrible call.
OrangeBlue98
Iowa is not in a great spot right now (LvilleILL1)
- Des Moines, IA
Someone has to cue the Sean Miller flame GIF after seeing that.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
People do accept that, doesn’t mean they have to accept blowing a 20-point lead literally ever.
We need Iowa to win at Lincoln this weekend.
I don’t understand how someone can think that watching these games. Duke lost to UNC not long ago. UConn lost at home to Creighton. They came close to losing to some other bad teams at home. Arizona lost to a KU team recently that just got stomped on by ASU. Michigan just lost an important player and while great overall has looked less than great in some games. It’s a one and done tournament. What makes you think these teams can’t be beat before the F4?
People do accept that, doesn’t mean they have to accept blowing a 20-point lead literally ever.
just went back and checked box score and looks like it still happened... guess we do have to accept that too
Thanks, Narrow J.
BillyBob1
- Champaign
That wasn’t Sermons that missed the timeout call.
He reffed the Michigan game for us last week.
Don’t know if it was posted but he’s had like 2 days off all month. I don’t care that games are only a couple hours long, that amount of travel is going to cause you to lose some effectiveness reffing.
It's my biggest gripe with officiating. 100% the fault of the NCAA and conferences to not hire full time, accountable professional referees. The current system incentivizes a "hired gun" mentality with officials chasing dollars by doing as many games they can logistically get to. Mentally and physically there is NO WAY they are consistently at their best. Hurts the product immeasurably IMO.
Chad Fleck
- Eureka, IL
There probably should be far more technical fouls assessed to coaches than there are in today's game. It's insane that they are allowed to act like petulant toddlers and we all accept that as passion.
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