I don’t know how Michigan St. keeps winning. Every team they play decides to lay an egg.
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I’ve seen pivot feed slide that are called travels. Taking 3 full steps is an NBA move aka travel
The tournament games have been incredibly physical. MSU and New Mexico have bodies colliding.
Our game seemed really physical too.
Our game seemed really physical too.
I hate Jalen’s voice and cadence. Just can’t listen to it. Of the Fab 5, Chris Webber was a way better player and way way way better announcer. I don’t know why Webber stopped he was good on the mic
For the most part, but there’s been a couple games where the refs have set the tone early and made it quite apparent that it wasn’t going to come down to who was the most physical. I don’t normally mind it but I just wish there was consistency. One call that I wish was handled better is the jump ball. More often than not, there’s an obvious hit to the arms before the wraparound but on the perimeter, the slightest contact on a reach is called. It’s weak.
S.Barkley took less strides through the line for a Philly first down. Lets get back to basketball finesse!
MSU hitting some clutch 3s...I get jealous when I see other schools splashin' the nylon.
I also see every other team playing with intensity, I'm jealous of that too.
I also see every other team playing with intensity, I'm jealous of that too.
DICKnaggie
- Champaign
Congrats to Sparty. Whatever you think of him, Izzo is an incredible coach who continues to do incredible things. Congrats to MSU and coach Izzo. His record is indisputable and amazing. That means he has done it in all aspects of the game, including recruiting, player development, in-game coaching, etc. We should aspire to as much.
DICKnaggie
- Champaign
There was a great post on the college basketball sub Reddit about this a few days ago. It really will/has changed the game. Any smaller teams that do well will immediately be poached.
Sweet Sixteen tip times and announce teams:
Looking at previous Cinderella in past tournaments they relied heavily on a veteran team with good guard play or a star player who got overlooked and went on a hot streak like Morant. So that still could happen
The thing that killed mid majors more is the larger conferences have taken the good mid majors. The A-10 has teams in the Big East like Xavier. American has teams in the Big 12 like Houston.
FAU was only a couple years ago. So who knows
For those questioning whether Queen traveled or not, Steratore just said on the broadcast that by rule it was not a travel. According to Steratore, Queen took a step and a half before putting up the shot.
Illini2010-11
- Sugar Grove
Fighting Ducks showing major stones.
dana altman might be the only one whos got worse out of bounds plays then tyler
Difference in the game was at the free throw line. That’s got to be hard to stomach for the ducks.
Oregon misses 10 foul shots, 54% ... sounds familiar
54% from the line in a close game in a tourney setting .... yikes. But then Illinois not a whole lot better today either - 63%.
It won’t still happen because a low or mid-major player that plays well as a FR/SO will be paid to go up to the high major level.
Also, you won’t see 13/14/15/16 seeds making upsets because they simply won’t have the paid talent to do it.
Before NIL, the playing field for all NCAA teams was theoretically fair. Each school could only pay scholarship. Now, it it’s not. If Illinois is paying 500,000 per starter, and Northern Iowa pays just their scholarship, I mean it’s as uneven as it’s ever been.
He said that??? Interesting. Every time they showed that shot I counted three big steps.
Queen traveled. College isn’t much different than the NBA regarding traveling and that’s unfortunate. I counted three big steps
just rewatched and agree. looks to me steratore needs to learn how to count
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