NCAA Tournament Second Round Open Thread

by BSD on Mar 20, 2011 12:00 PM EDT in Open Threads

So how is your bracket looking now?

These are your games for the afternoon.

12:15 PM - (7) Washington vs. (2) North Carolina - CBS

2:45 PM - (8) Michigan vs. (1) Duke - CBS

5:15 PM - (8) George Mason vs. (1) Ohio State - CBS

6:10 PM - 57) Arizona vs. (4) Texas - TNT

7:10 PM - (11) Virginia Commonwealth vs. (3) Purdue - TBS

7:45 PM - (11) Marquette vs. (3) Syracuse - CBS

8:40 PM - (9) Illinois vs. (1) Kansas - TNT

9:40 PM - (10) Florida State vs. (2) Notre Dame - TBS

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Michigan has everyone - including me - thinking they're going to beat Duke.

Too bad that’s not going to happen. It never happens when it really should.

I hope Bubba Jenkins’s machine guns jam and explode next time.

by ReadingRambler on Mar 20, 2011 12:26 PM EDT reply actions

Pitt's loss yesterday

was hilarious. It was wild. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a shooting foul occur from underneath the other team’s basket, much less being the most important play of the game.

by millzners on Mar 20, 2011 1:21 PM EDT reply actions

It wasn't a shooting foul

Otherwise it would have been 3 shots.

That said, it was completely fantastic. Watching the tide of public opinion shift against the Big East is so entertaining.

by elefantstn on Mar 20, 2011 1:40 PM EDT up reply actions

Haha

If found this awesome comment on the Bob Smizik blog.

This also demonstrates another reason Pitt made a mistake in firing Wanny. He would have been a tremendous resource for Dixon in how to deal with colossal failure and unreached expectations. Wanny had that down perfectly.

Adam
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by Adam Bittner on Mar 20, 2011 1:59 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs

Henson of UNC almost matched the stupidity of those closing seconds

I'm your late night evening prostitute

by Frank O'Brien on Mar 20, 2011 2:21 PM EDT up reply actions

Twice...

By letting it go through his hands and then almost goal tending (though they did show it would only have been a two pointer).

Also, the Wash. guy made a “bonehead” move by putting it up from 1/2 court with 2 seconds or so left.

With time running down, the mind just doesn’t work right.

People will always forget what you do, and they will always forget what you say, but they will never, ever forget the way you make them feel.

by PaJoe on Mar 20, 2011 2:29 PM EDT up reply actions

I must say..

It was one of the better games on that evening. I always forget how much I love March until it rolls around again. It is kinda like a mini football season when it comes to levels of excitement.

by archerbullseye on Mar 20, 2011 10:20 PM EDT up reply actions

Early Michigan-Duke Thoughts: Building a brick. House.

by MainLion on Mar 20, 2011 2:54 PM EDT reply actions

Damn,

I hate UNC. Washington just gifted them a game.

'We've got too many people analyzing everything and sometimes they don't know what they're talking about.' -Joseph Vincent Paterno

by PSUinBOSSton on Mar 20, 2011 2:55 PM EDT reply actions

how can someone hate UNC? does not compute…

by PSUmob on Mar 21, 2011 9:27 AM EDT up reply actions

The Big Ten is criminally unlucky thus far

3 losses by a combined 6 points. One due to a ridiculous looking last second shot going in, one due to a great last second shot missing (Darius Morris against Duke).

I've got the brains. You've got the looks. Let's make lots of money.

by ckmneon on Mar 20, 2011 6:02 PM EDT reply actions

by bigs26 on Mar 20, 2011 10:45 PM EDT reply actions

Big East teams in the Sweet 16: 2

Teams from Richmond Virginia in the Sweet 16: 2

Ouch. Maybe they shoulda got 13 teams in the tourney. What makes it worse is that the two that made it through did so by beating other Big East teams.

WE'RE DANCIN!!!

by bigs26 on Mar 20, 2011 11:50 PM EDT reply actions