RTT's bracket-watching open thread, day two
by Joel Hollingsworth on Mar 19, 2010 12:00 PM EDT
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PrintI don't know how you'll be able to top yesterday, but just in case, here's the awesome NCAA® March Madness on Demand® widget again for you to use to bring up a live video player of all of the games as they're being played.
So again, have at it, all you who are able.
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I don't know how we can top Day 1
Consider this “playing with house money.”
So Sayth King Zach I
by kingofzachland on Mar 19, 2010 12:07 PM EDT reply actions
So how distracted is Minnesota going to be in their game
Sucks for them
by SecondaryViolationU on Mar 19, 2010 12:17 PM EDT reply actions
What's going on with Minn?
So Sayth King Zach I
by kingofzachland on Mar 19, 2010 12:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Auburn close to hiring Tubby away
by SecondaryViolationU on Mar 19, 2010 12:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Is that confirmed?
I thought that was just one of those crazy Internet rumors?
So Sayth King Zach I
by kingofzachland on Mar 19, 2010 12:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Even if it's not confirmed, that's a terrible thing to come out
right before you play. Maybe the players haven’t heard it yet…
by SecondaryViolationU on Mar 19, 2010 12:27 PM EDT up reply actions
cornell
is about to show ya’ll how we roll up in ivy land
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some girl named morgan
is up 8-0 on west virginia
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Yeah, WVU is not looking good so far
So Sayth King Zach I
by kingofzachland on Mar 19, 2010 12:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Correction
10-0
So Sayth King Zach I
by kingofzachland on Mar 19, 2010 12:22 PM EDT up reply actions
1-2 from the stripe!
So Sayth King Zach I
by kingofzachland on Mar 19, 2010 12:27 PM EDT up reply actions
The fighting Andy Bernards just tipped off
Interested to see if they live up to the Bilas hype
by SecondaryViolationU on Mar 19, 2010 12:31 PM EDT reply actions
gus johnson
is calling the WVU morgan st. potential mega upset. looks like friday intends on making a run at thursday’s awesomeness.
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Now that we're out of harm's way
I’m all for it!
So Sayth King Zach I
by kingofzachland on Mar 19, 2010 12:34 PM EDT up reply actions
Morgan St. Shooting 50% from the field
14-5, under 12
So Sayth King Zach I
by kingofzachland on Mar 19, 2010 12:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Looks like WV finally woke up
14-9, Morgan still leads
So Sayth King Zach I
by kingofzachland on Mar 19, 2010 12:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Cornell is entertaining to watch
I like their style
by SecondaryViolationU on Mar 19, 2010 12:40 PM EDT reply actions
Plus, they have a white-out on the floor!
(5 white dudes at one time!)
by SecondaryViolationU on Mar 19, 2010 12:40 PM EDT up reply actions
Temple-Cornell is like our game last night
it’s unfair that these two teams have to play in the first round, while somebody gets to win between Texas and Wake
i saw cornell
put a 36 point whooping on a 3rd place harvard team in january. it could have been 50 if cornell had wanted it too. they are for real.
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Forgive me, I'm new here
But can someone please explain to me why the lead story at KNS today is Bryce Brown?
Football is king
what was on the front page of the sports section, do you know? The basketball game may have ended too late for them to have their usual coverage.
by Will Shelton on Mar 19, 2010 12:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Looking at KNS online,
They don’t even have last night’s game up on their sports page (http://www.knoxnews.com/news/sports/ – look under ‘basketball’), so I’d guess that you’re right. Today is a case where the limitations of print media are dictating their coverage to a degree.
That, and with spring practice just starting up, it’s the first bit of football news we’ve had in a while. Football sells papers, and they have to go with that.
by David Hooper on Mar 19, 2010 1:09 PM EDT up reply actions
But how hard would it be to put the wire story as the first photo when the page loads?
by goodnight_vol on Mar 19, 2010 1:11 PM EDT up reply actions
Online? Not hard.
That I can’t answer to. The basketball game is the second image in their slideshow, but that’s all I got on that.
by David Hooper on Mar 19, 2010 1:13 PM EDT up reply actions
I love Tennessee football
But the off-season departure of a backup contributor to a mediocre team is not bigger than an NCAA tourney win!
by goodnight_vol on Mar 19, 2010 1:14 PM EDT up reply actions
I'd agree.
I noticed that the Brown story is also atop the ‘most viewed’ list on GVX, so maybe that has something to do with it as well. Again, I’m totally speculating; it could simply be that they didn’t think about things like that.
by David Hooper on Mar 19, 2010 1:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Mmm, don't know, I was looking at GVX but I'll go out and get the paper
I do remember a few years ago trying to find basketball Vols vs. Texas on the radio, only to find they were instead playing a depressive post-football-loss press conference with Fulmer. It’s ridiculous.
Cornell providing the requisite 5-12 excitement.
Up 8 at the half. Minny’s tie game is also remarkable, considering that the players undoubtedly heard Dodd’s rumors.
so what i have learned so far this march
the “last teams in” at large bids need to start being ranked in the 12-14 range and give the 9-7 seeds to conference champs.
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Might not be a bad idea.
The middies are getting better every year. At some point, that should cross over.
by David Hooper on Mar 19, 2010 1:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Epic:
I just saw your LOLthread. Love it. (Conveniently linked to the start of the appropriate conversation stream – for the lazy.)
by David Hooper on Mar 19, 2010 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions
It's the only interesting game at the moment.
Unless Minny can make theirs close again.
by David Hooper on Mar 19, 2010 2:04 PM EDT up reply actions
the golden tubbies
are letting me down big time
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Announcers talking about Cornell as a possible at-large team had they not won their tourney.
A question: if they had lost their conference in a very close game and gotten an at-large bid, would they have been ranked higher than 12? Did winning the tourney allow the selection committee to cubby-hole them into a traditional small-conference slot?
lmao
the ivy league doesn’t have a tournament. conference play IS the tournament.
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Ah.
See how much attention I pay to them? The point still stands.
by David Hooper on Mar 19, 2010 2:25 PM EDT up reply actions
see how much attention
the announcers pay? the ivy league just loves to be different. our scholars don’t have time for this post season nonsense. same reason they don’t send any team to the 1AA tourney in football.
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god forbid
they give students something to be excited about outside of a library. harvard has regularly finished the season in the top 25, even as high as #3, yet never gets a shot to prove it in the tourney.
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Huh. In that Intel geek/clueless guy commercial (the one that begins with Space Invaders)
in every scene, there’s a girl walking in the background from right to left. It’s not the same girl, but they themed that very tightly.
Interesting story about Cornell getting a head start on pregame warmup by simulating drills without a basketball.
They’ll be the ones writing the federal budget in a few years. Just you watch.
Maybe we overstate our underdogginess
I really see no reason why we wouldn’t go for the throat in this game.
by goodnight_vol on Mar 19, 2010 3:05 PM EDT up reply actions
if we play good physical defense
i’d say that line is pretty fair from what i saw of ohio. it’s hard to overstate how uninterested georgetown was in playing defense.
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Highlights from yesterday
including pre/postgame locker room, game highlights, team hotel, etc…good stuff from the official site
I'm all for watching the 4-5 seeds fall.
by David Hooper on Mar 19, 2010 3:01 PM EDT up reply actions
*grumblegrumblegrumbe*
We should have been there not them
:grumblegrumblegrumble:
Tennessee Fans: We win at teh Internet!
by bobo_the_vol on Mar 19, 2010 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Also of some interest
though I’m not sure this will make one bit of difference on the second Saturday of September, but Mike Bellotti has resigned as Oregon’s AD and will join ESPN. Those guys haven’t been bored this offseason.
If anybody ever needs a definition of a death spiral, Oregon's athletic department may be your answer.
Their only good news at the moment is that Tennessee has absolutely zero continuity from year to year.
by David Hooper on Mar 19, 2010 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions
all aboard the siena bandwagon
OD Anosike, aka nicky’s brother, is their forward.
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check out his bio on siena's site
Given first name is Oderah…Born January 3, 1991…The son of Ben and Ngozi Anosike…Older sister, Nicky, is a center on the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx and was named the 2008 NCAA Woman of the Year…Has six additional siblings: Nneoma, Rotanna, Ikenna, Ifesinachi, Anulika and Ejimofor…Also recruited by Villanova, Rutgers, St. John’s, Davidson, Manhattan and several other Division I schools.
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Let's see... that leaves q, ... p, ... v, w, and x.
The rest of the alphabet is represented.
by David Hooper on Mar 19, 2010 3:33 PM EDT up reply actions
Heh.
Close, though. Nkolika “Nicky” Nonyelum Anosike according to Wiki.
by David Hooper on Mar 19, 2010 3:36 PM EDT up reply actions
oakland player
bleeding like a stuck pig after catching a nasty elbow to the head.
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By the way, the Ivan Brothers bit on Youtube is pretty good.
6 minutes in length and a sad ending, but funny.
all these commercials that depict vikings as towering behemoth men are funny
I’m pretty sure the average height back then was like 5’6"
siena
forgot to come out of the locker room after the half
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oakland
has disappeared ever since the blood started gushing
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I'm sure
they felt the same way we did about having their season’s body of work pretty much dismissed
by goodnight_vol on Mar 19, 2010 3:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Sienna battling back though
down 3 with 62 seconds left
RIP Steve McNair (1973 - 2009) Retire #9!
by Pride of the Southland on Mar 19, 2010 4:28 PM EDT up reply actions
nah...being goofy I'd say....
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." A. Bartlett Giamatti
siena comes roaring back
down 3 with a minute left
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down 5 with 36 secs
RIP Steve McNair (1973 - 2009) Retire #9!
by Pride of the Southland on Mar 19, 2010 4:30 PM EDT up reply actions
purdue getting some
very kind iron on these FTs
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barring a miracle 3 I think Purdue has this
RIP Steve McNair (1973 - 2009) Retire #9!
by Pride of the Southland on Mar 19, 2010 4:35 PM EDT up reply actions
nooooo
wisc trailing woff! i hope i didnt pick the wrong 13/4 today
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I didn't buy Murray or Siena
But I did buy on Wofford. They have a shot. Let’s go Terriers!
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 19, 2010 4:46 PM EDT reply actions
Wofford started the second half 0/6 from the line
This is not helping!
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 19, 2010 5:00 PM EDT reply actions
mizzou over clemson
RIP Steve McNair (1973 - 2009) Retire #9!
by Pride of the Southland on Mar 19, 2010 5:04 PM EDT reply actions
Looks like Wofford is going down
They gave it a good run though.
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 19, 2010 5:05 PM EDT reply actions
Came down to FTs
Wisconsin made theirs. Wofford didn’t. Darn. Should’ve gone with Murray instead.
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 19, 2010 5:07 PM EDT reply actions
Other than UC-Santa Barbara, do we have any rooting interests tonight?
(And yes, I know that UCSB is a long shot.)
Games of interest, at least
Oklahoma State-Georgia Tech, especially if you like the Gauchos
by Will Shelton on Mar 19, 2010 8:03 PM EDT up reply actions
So who do we want?
And, so far as I understand, going for UCSB is simply to clear the road a bit in the S16 matchup.
by David Hooper on Mar 19, 2010 8:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Georgia Tech might be the most underachieving team in the nation
Favors is an NBA lottery pick – they’re the talent that doesn’t know how to play together team. Oklahoma State would be revenge from last year, though most of those guys are gone.
If GT actually beat both OSUs, it’d mean they finally figured out how to play together…so I’m pulling for Oklahoma State
by Will Shelton on Mar 19, 2010 8:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Sounds good.
Always pull for the team with a lower ceiling.
by David Hooper on Mar 19, 2010 8:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Looks like all the 730 games are blowouts
Except for OSU/GT, which is 5 points at half.
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 19, 2010 8:14 PM EDT reply actions
And now they're all close
FSU is within five, NMSU is within 3.
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 19, 2010 9:06 PM EDT up reply actions
That was a really poor sequence by FSU
GT and OSU is tight.
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 19, 2010 9:18 PM EDT reply actions
NMSU takes the lead on Michigan State
That’ll be something to switch to after GT and Okie State are done.
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 19, 2010 9:20 PM EDT reply actions
Wow
Georgia Tech hasn’t hit a FG in the last seven minutes. But they’re 9/10 from the line in that span, and are still up 1.
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 19, 2010 9:22 PM EDT reply actions
Looks like Georgia Tech will take this one
My bracket is getting absolutely thrashed. At least I haven’t lost any Elite Eight teams.
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 19, 2010 9:31 PM EDT reply actions
Georgia Tech shoots 65% from the line this year
They shot 96% today (24/25)
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 19, 2010 9:32 PM EDT reply actions
Which means they still haven't fixed their offense.
by David Hooper on Mar 19, 2010 9:33 PM EDT up reply actions
Nope
Did they make a single FG in the last 9 minutes? I don’t think they did. But they were 13/14 from the line in that span.
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 19, 2010 9:34 PM EDT up reply actions
And on that note
You have to hate a game where one team shoots 12 FTs in 7-8 minutes when the other team isn’t fouling (intentionally fouling to prolong the game, that is). Not only have we been on the wrong end of some of those, they’re just not fun.
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 19, 2010 9:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Okie State just gave a clinic on folding in the final minute.
Wow. Just no effort on either of their final two possessions.
Yuck
neither of those teams looked any good down the stretch…Ohio State has to like what they see in front of them
Meanwhile, back in Spokane
NMSU leads Michigan State by 1.
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 19, 2010 9:33 PM EDT reply actions
I turn to it just in time to see two leg injuries to Sparty.
Aside: for no apparent reason, MSU has always rubbed me the wrong way. I have absolutely no idea why.
by David Hooper on Mar 19, 2010 9:39 PM EDT up reply actions
On that note: does any neutral fan ever watch the 1-16 game? I can't recall ever having bothered with it.
by David Hooper on Mar 19, 2010 9:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Nope
I’ve never bothered except when ETSU has been the 16, where they’ve shown remarkably well (this year notwithstanding).
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 19, 2010 9:44 PM EDT up reply actions
I have MSU in my Sweet Sixteen
But I think I’m cheering for New Mexico State anyways. I don’t really like Sparty. Or any Big Ten team.
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 19, 2010 9:42 PM EDT reply actions
There have been some HUGE offensive rebounds late this tournament
us, GT, Wisconsin, now Michigan State. That may salt this away. Also, what’s with all the spammers?
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 19, 2010 9:53 PM EDT reply actions
Vermont with the lead on Syracuse!
Okay, so maybe at 3-2, excitement is not warranted.
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 19, 2010 10:00 PM EDT reply actions
I can't believe the announcer just asked if you foul intentionally.
You know – when the shotclock is already turned off…
Oh my!
A lane violation gives MSU a second chance at the FT. They could still take a 3 point lead.
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 19, 2010 10:01 PM EDT reply actions
should've gotten more time on that last play, shouldn't they?
maybe .6 instead of .3
by Will Shelton on Mar 19, 2010 10:03 PM EDT up reply actions
The announcers are right
That lane violation was correct, but should that really be called at that point in the game, when MSU wasn’t even going for a rebound?
by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 19, 2010 10:03 PM EDT reply actions
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