Tournament Thread 2024 March Madness Discussion

[Brightboat]

Correct. UCLA beat NC St 84-66. NC St paid them back in the Final Four 80-77 in 2OT...beat Marquette in the Championship, ending on a 28-game winning streak.

That was a great team with Thompson and Burleson

 

[Stakesarehigh]

930 tip time.

So dumb.

Annoys me every time.

 

[Xeliou66]

930 tip time.

So dumb.

Annoys me every time.

Agreed the game should start at around 8, no idea why it’s so late

 

[TheGoodMan19]

Good for them. A very deserving team. Its hard to win every game but they did it. I think Indiana did it in 1976 if I remember correctly

The year before, Indiana went 31-1, only losing to Kentucky by two in the Regional Final. Their best player, Scott May, had broke his arm a ouple week before. If not for that, the Hoosiers might have had back to back undefeateds.

 

[Xeliou66]

Pretty evenly matched game so far

 

[jvett77]

The slippery eel! Kevin!

 

[All-Star Benchwarmer]

Purdue looking sloppy.

 

[Xeliou66]

UConn pulled ahead in the last few minutes, Purdue looked off balance the last part of the half. The Huskies are just damn near impossible to stop.

 

[jvett77]

Boilermakers need to start playing like a team if they want to beat UConn.

 

[psaboy]

U Conn will put this game away in first 10 minutes of second half

 

[All-Star Benchwarmer]

Holy shit what a rebound dunk!

 

[Xeliou66]

Huskies are about to salt this one away - Boilermakers offense isn’t executing

 

[Picklerick 2.0]

Uconn is just too complete. Purdue has the best player on the court, but the disparities after that are too great.

 

[Robotech]

Why isn't Purdue shooting a 3 on every possession?

 

[Xeliou66]

Congratulations to the UConn Huskies, back to back champions!! This years Huskies team was one of the most dominant CBB teams I’ve ever seen

 

[TheGoodMan19]

The question is, where does this UConn team rank among the greatest teams ever? To me, they are up with 1982 UNC (Sam Perkins, James Worthy, some Jordan fellow), the back to back Duke (Laettner, Hill, Hurley), the 2012 Kentucky (Anthony Davis and eight other future NBA players). Huskiess were a machine from November to tonight

 

[Robotech]

The question is, where does this UConn team rank among the greatest teams ever? To me, they are up with 1982 UNC (Sam Perkins, James Worthy, some Jordan fellow), the back to back Duke (Laettner, Hill, Hurley), the 2012 Kentucky (Anthony Davis and eight other future NBA players). Huskiess were a machine from November to tonight

Oh man. No love for UCLA?

 

[TheGoodMan19]

Oh man. No love for UCLA?

I was 10 when the last great UCLA team played, the 1973 Walton/Wilkes/Farmer team. Tough to judge a team at that age. And I was just 13 for the undefeated Indiana of Quinn Buckner/Kent Benson/Scott May

 

[The Q]

The question is, where does this UConn team rank among the greatest teams ever? To me, they are up with 1982 UNC (Sam Perkins, James Worthy, some Jordan fellow), the back to back Duke (Laettner, Hill, Hurley), the 2012 Kentucky (Anthony Davis and eight other future NBA players). Huskiess were a machine from November to tonight

Oh man. No love for UCLA?

Hard to compare those ucla teams but their run will never be seen again

But this is a good start to any list

 

[fightinfunbags]

Not a great tournament. College basketball is in a weird place right now.