So who's your final four? - Page 7

Baileykat · 03-18-2005, 12:44 PM

All these close games with 2, 3 or 4 seeds vs 12,13,14 seeds...some really great teams this first round! WOW!

Claire · 03-18-2005, 12:47 PM

These scores are so low though, like junior high girls games low. It's like watching blind Brownie troops play. Ugh!

I miss those 100 point games! Come on!!

Baileykat · 03-18-2005, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Claire

It's like watching blind Brownie troops play.

Snork!!!

scaeagles · 03-18-2005, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Claire

These scores are so low though, like junior high girls games low. It's like watching blind Brownie troops play. Ugh!

I miss those 100 point games! Come on!!

Jr High girls ball is excruciatingly painful, I agree. High school gorls ball is too. I have a friend who claimed to know this - he said there was a statistic nationwide that someone had calculated with a masters thesis that a girls highschool basketball game, on average, has a stoppage of play every 7.4 seconds. If you watch and time it, that's about accurate.

I coach HS ball, and I love good D. There's some good D being played. It's also an issue of tempo control, though. The smaller schools can't complete athletically with the power houses, so they play a controlled game looking to keep it low scoring. It's easier to control the game to a slower tempo than it is to control it to a faster one.

Claire · 03-18-2005, 02:07 PM

New Mexico has 11 points at the half. ELEVEN. In the NCAA tournament. OMG.

I hope UNC keeps up with the momentum.....I want someone to break 100 points today, dammit.

Excrutiatingly low scores this afternoon!

scaeagles · 03-18-2005, 02:12 PM

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New Mexico has 11 points at the half. ELEVEN. In the NCAA tournament. OMG.

Yeah, I saw that. Umm....OK. I'll go with ONE jr high girls team involved here.

scaeagles · 03-18-2005, 03:04 PM

UConn flirting with disaster! Barely beating Central Florida 77-71.

Sorry Claire - UNC didn't quite make it to 100.

Claire · 03-18-2005, 03:27 PM

Ah, but they were close.

Good to see a team coming out and playing hard the entire game. My husband has a theory that teams that are so highly ranked come out and take it a little easy the first round. I know that Duke and UNC absolutely don't. If a player came out and took it easy, he'd find his butt on the bench.

So far today, I'm 8 for 8.

NC State--OK
Florida--OK, whew!
Iowa State--OK
OK State--OK
Connecticut--OK
Villanova--OK
North Carolina (Go Tar Heels!!)--OK
S. Illinois--OK
Syracuse
Louisville
Wisconsin
Duke
Michigan State (sorry, ODU)
Georgia Tech
Kansas
Stanford

Time to take a little break....I'm really pumped for tonight's games, especially GA Tech and Duke. My husband and I are battling in the Stanford game. Other than that, we boringly (is that a word?

) have the same picks. He can't believe I picked Stanford. I only picked them because I never do. How's that for strategery?

Claire · 03-18-2005, 06:26 PM

Duke's got me nervous. Coach K is reaming them right now. I expect they will perform their hearts out in the second half!

And Syracuse! Sheeessh!!! These games have me sweating!!!

scaeagles · 03-18-2005, 07:49 PM

What a great game - Vermont over Syracuse. When that kid hit from 28 feet I knew they had it. That's what the tourney is all about - I don't care that I had Syracuse winning a couple. Watching a group of kids jump around the court after winning what no one expected them to is the best part of this tournament.

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Baileykat Hotel Expert! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: follow the yellow brick road and take a left Posts: 396	All these close games with 2, 3 or 4 seeds vs 12,13,14 seeds...some really great teams this first round! WOW! __________________ Me:"Bailey you need to eat some fruit! Fruit never killed anyone!" Bailey" "Yes it did..Snow White!"
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03-18-2005, 12:47 PM	#62
Claire Shagilicious Disneyland!! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Fulfilling my destiny..... Posts: 740	These scores are so low though, like junior high girls games low. It's like watching blind Brownie troops play. Ugh! I miss those 100 point games! Come on!! __________________ Miles: It tastes like the back of a fing L.A. school bus. Now they probably didn't de-stem, hoping for some semblance of concentration, crushed it up with leaves and mice, and then wound up with this rancid tar and turpentine bull**. Fin' Raid. Jack: Tastes pretty good to me.
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Claire Shagilicious Disneyland!! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Fulfilling my destiny..... Posts: 740	New Mexico has 11 points at the half. ELEVEN. In the NCAA tournament. OMG. I hope UNC keeps up with the momentum.....I want someone to break 100 points today, dammit. Excrutiatingly low scores this afternoon! __________________ Miles: It tastes like the back of a fing L.A. school bus. Now they probably didn't de-stem, hoping for some semblance of concentration, crushed it up with leaves and mice, and then wound up with this rancid tar and turpentine bull**. Fin' Raid. Jack: Tastes pretty good to me.
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scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	UConn flirting with disaster! Barely beating Central Florida 77-71. Sorry Claire - UNC didn't quite make it to 100.
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03-18-2005, 03:27 PM	#68
Claire Shagilicious Disneyland!! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Fulfilling my destiny..... Posts: 740	Ah, but they were close. Good to see a team coming out and playing hard the entire game. My husband has a theory that teams that are so highly ranked come out and take it a little easy the first round. I know that Duke and UNC absolutely don't. If a player came out and took it easy, he'd find his butt on the bench. So far today, I'm 8 for 8. NC State--OK Florida--OK, whew! Iowa State--OK OK State--OK Connecticut--OK Villanova--OK North Carolina (Go Tar Heels!!)--OK S. Illinois--OK Syracuse Louisville Wisconsin Duke Michigan State (sorry, ODU) Georgia Tech Kansas Stanford Time to take a little break....I'm really pumped for tonight's games, especially GA Tech and Duke. My husband and I are battling in the Stanford game. Other than that, we boringly (is that a word? ) have the same picks. He can't believe I picked Stanford. I only picked them because I never do. How's that for strategery? __________________ Miles: It tastes like the back of a fing L.A. school bus. Now they probably didn't de-stem, hoping for some semblance of concentration, crushed it up with leaves and mice, and then wound up with this rancid tar and turpentine bull**. Fin' Raid. Jack: Tastes pretty good to me.
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03-18-2005, 06:26 PM	#69
Claire Shagilicious Disneyland!! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Fulfilling my destiny..... Posts: 740	Duke's got me nervous. Coach K is reaming them right now. I expect they will perform their hearts out in the second half! And Syracuse! Sheeessh!!! These games have me sweating!!! __________________ Miles: It tastes like the back of a fing L.A. school bus. Now they probably didn't de-stem, hoping for some semblance of concentration, crushed it up with leaves and mice, and then wound up with this rancid tar and turpentine bull**. Fin' Raid. Jack: Tastes pretty good to me.
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03-18-2005, 07:49 PM	#70
scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	What a great game - Vermont over Syracuse. When that kid hit from 28 feet I knew they had it. That's what the tourney is all about - I don't care that I had Syracuse winning a couple. Watching a group of kids jump around the court after winning what no one expected them to is the best part of this tournament.
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