Bad matchup for Wisconsin, JMU had a player who could match up with Chucky and also enough athleticism to bother Storr and speed him up. Wisconsin bigs otherwise seemed intimidated by the bodies flying at them. Also just not Wisconsin’s day. Bad shots by JMU went in and accidental, off the back board passes were nice assists for them this night. While shots Wiscy topically makes rimmed out. Single elimination tournament….
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Doubtful. Unless they can get Lamont Paris, I don't see why they get rid of Gard. I think they're content with just getting to the tournament at this point
I did not expect Auburn to lose. I was super high on them and they played incredible basketball every time I caught them on tv.
Mazara getting tossed was kind of game changing in that Auburn was imposing their will early and that kind of flipped the momentum. Then Yale just hung around and hung around before putting a run together to take a lead and then Auburn just kind of panicked.
As much as I enjoyed watching Pearl lose. I thought Auburn may have been good enough to knock off UCONN. I think UCONN will have a cakewalk to the elite 8 at this point.
Not sure if this means anything, but the two red teams from the Big Ten lost, all the non-red teams won.
That's all I got. Going to bed now.
That's all I got. Going to bed now.
If your love for the Illini exceeds your hate for the other B1G teams. It certainly does for me, but apparently not for all.
We'll take them right after we take ASU.
They ran into a good team, with an awesome 6th man to make terrible calls and break Wisconsin's momentum repeatedly. That missed blatant foul when WI had a chance to cut it to 4, and then gave up a 3 was huge. Giving the ball out of bounds to the wrong team, on another obvious call killed another run. WI, once they settled, was the better team IMO. They had some players lose hope and start taking bad shots w/~5min to play. That doomed them. I was underwhelmed with Storr this game. Selfish play. Bad decisions. Terrible shot selection.
my comments on JMU from last week. I don't think it's so much that they were under seeded, as Wiscy returned to their February form.
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Mr. Tibbs
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highly doubt that
Sunday's tip times are set:
I seriously think in our final games against each of them, we just simply broke Nebraska, Wisky, and Iowa. Chucky's face in the selection show said it all. We ripped their hearts right out.
sacraig
- The desert
They're a for-profit "Christian" school, so... pretty much this. They shouldn't have been allowed in the NCAA.
Which means you are sometimes rooting for ACC and SEC teams which I will never do.
sacraig
- The desert
Sportswashing is a great description of what they're doing.
I fell asleep at halftime of the Wisconsin game.....did they at least make a run to get it close?
Man they were really bad in that first half.
Man they were really bad in that first half.
Or maybe over performed and got lucky last year??
I am late to this thread but I believe it is a reference to Kelvin Sampson late of Indiana. He was forced to resign due to allegations of serious NCAA violations and played a role in the controversial recruitment of star player Eric Gordon, who signed with Indiana after reneging on an early verbal commitment to the University of Illinois.
Maybe it's personal bias because of how personally painful the game was, but I feel like with the expectations that are put on a 1 seed and the popularity of picking us to win it all, our '21 loss to Loyola is right up there. We looked totally lost the entire game and Loyola took us completely out of our game from tip to final buzzer. I think we're exorcising those demons tonight though!
BillyBob1
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They would make a small run, but JMU always had an answer.
He kept driving against a wall and turning it over. JM has done some scouting,
If he loses to us in Madison next year, he's toast.
They aren’t for profit. That changed 5+ years ago
ETA: they have a great home court with awesome fans as well
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