NCAA Tournament Thread

[greenminer]

On 3/21/2025 at 6:20 PM, greenminer said:

I heard one of the media mouths say that Gonzaga sits at 9 straight S16s, with an opportunity to reach 10 straight.

So, trivia: No team since the expansion (1985) has ever made 10 straight S16s.  But two other programs have made it 9 straight, tied with the current Zags.  Who are they?

@CMJ can you name them without Googling?

Zags fail to reach S16 and their run ends at 9 straight years.

[BigWillie]

13 hours ago, CMJ said:

See the amount of free throws Tech missed too though.

Yeah, wasn't the only reason they lost though.

Edited Sunday at 02:19 PM by BigWillie

[CMJ]

It was the main reason they gave up the lead IMHO.  If they hit FTs at the end, Florida likely doesn't go on the run.  The misses kept giving the Gators hope.  When Tech was up 6 with about two minutes to go and missed the front end of the 1 and 1, that kept Florida in the game big time.  Then it happened again on the very next possession.  UF might not even have gone for threes if they were down by more than two possessions, but tried to drive for quick twos.  The entire complexion of the game changes because of the two straight front end misses.

[Cougar King]

Calling it now. We'll be champion when it's all said and done.

[NorthTexasWeLove]

4 minutes ago, Cougar King said:

Calling it now. We'll be champion when it's all said and done.

Simmer down. 

Congrats the last W of the season. Great year. 

[CMJ]

6 minutes ago, Cougar King said:

Calling it now. We'll be champion when it's all said and done.

[cousin oliver]

2 hours ago, Cougar King said:

Calling it now. We'll be champion when it's all said and done.

Congrats on a great season @Cougar King

[NT93]

I’m rooting for either Houston or Duke,  but I hate the SEC more than most people.

[greenminer]

I think the Duke-Houston winner will be national champ.

[UNTLifer]

4 hours ago, Cougar King said:

Calling it now. We'll be champion when it's all said and done.

You go to the neighbor’s house for the holidays, don’t you?

[greenminer]

Just now, UNTLifer said:

You go to the neighbor’s house for the holidays, don’t you?

Why walk that far when your mom is serving dinner downstairs?

[Matt from A700]

It was disappointing no mid-major Cinderellas made it to the second weekend. But I don't think we panic about that yet. The big boys didn't pull off any seed upsets either, with Grant's Red Raiders being the only non-Top 2 seed in the Elite 8, and now of course we have all four 1 seeds in the Final 4. I'm gonna serve this year up as an anomaly and hope for better next season.

In order of who I want to win the title: Houston, Auburn, Florida, Duke.

I like when champions reside in the Lone Star State.

[NorthTexasWeLove]

1 hour ago, Matt from A700 said:

It was disappointing no mid-major Cinderellas made it to the second weekend. But I don't think we panic about that yet. The big boys didn't pull off any seed upsets either, with Grant's Red Raiders being the only non-Top 2 seed in the Elite 8, and now of course we have all four 1 seeds in the Final 4. I'm gonna serve this year up as an anomaly and hope for better next season.

In order of who I want to win the title: Houston, Auburn, Florida, Duke.

I like when champions reside in the Lone Star State.

A lot of people say this. I don't understand it. 

[NT93]

43 minutes ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:

A lot of people say this. I don't understand it. 

I think part of it stems from when Texas colleges generally had players from Texas high schools.  As Texans, we wanted to see other Texans be successful. Just a state pride thing.

[CMJ]

A whole lot of the best Texan kids also went and played out of state at your blue blood type programs that took basketball more seriously.

[NT93]

1 minute ago, CMJ said:

A whole lot of the best Texan kids also went and played out of state at your blue blood type programs that took basketball more seriously.

For sure…that’s a long list of great players.  I think that also played into wanting Texas teams to win to show kids they didn’t have to go out of state to win.   This is a moot point nowadays.  I couldn’t tell you how many TT of UH players are from Texas.

[CMJ]

31 minutes ago, NT93 said:

For sure…that’s a long list of great players.  I think that also played into wanting Texas teams to win to show kids they didn’t have to go out of state to win.   This is a moot point nowadays.  I couldn’t tell you how many TT of UH players are from Texas.

I'm not sure kids went out of state to win as much as they went out of state to places that cared.  At many/most Texas localities, they don't even really get into basketball season until football season is over.  Not just college football, but pro too!  Why stay in Texas when you could goto Kansas or whatever, and be the big man on campus? 

[UNTLifer]

11 hours ago, greenminer said:

Why walk that far when your mom is serving dinner downstairs?

Because, I surmise much like the UH boards, he's not welcome at the family table.