College Basketball 2008

[iwishiwasthere]

LadyD, do you think Davidson has what it takes to get to the final four?

I can only hope they keep pulling it off. One of my daughter's graduated from there, and the other is a junior. Stefan Curry is a really good guy as are all the other players....no huge egos running the team. I love to watch Curry hit his threes as he makes it look so easy. In the fall, Davidson lost to NC by 4 so maybe that will be in their favor when they play Wisconsin.

Regardless the Wildcats have given it their best shot.

 

[JB]

Gotta agree about the UofM tigers. Two squeaker wins do not make a F4 team. Never did believe they would make it all the way and probably will get hammered by Michigan.

I am thinking NC myself

Whether you blow someone out doesn't matter as long as you advance. Personally, I think it's easier for a coach to fine-tune for the next game when you win a close one. I don't think anyone is going to hammer Memphis. They are too talented and too well-coached. Their depth may be a slight problem, but I still have them playing UNC in the championship game. Miss State was not a good matchup for them, but they managed to get it done.

 

[Minnie]

Whether you blow someone out doesn't matter as long as you advance. Personally, I think it's easier for a coach to fine-tune for the next game when you win a close one. I don't think anyone is going to hammer Memphis. They are too talented and too well-coached. Their depth may be a slight problem, but I still have them playing UNC in the championship game. Miss State was not a good matchup for them, but they managed to get it done.

I think the Memphis/Michigan State game will be close but I believe the free throws will cost them the game this time, close but they will lose out on this one.

I think they are well coached and I think they have the talent but as Coach Cal said earlier in the season you never know which player is going to show up for the game. The well coached, talented one, or the one with his head anywhere but in the game. Memphis is famous for that.

 

[seaside2]

Amen sister!!!

 

[whiteyfunn]

I picked Memphis to win it in my pool, as a nod to my father-in-law who is an alum... but I don't think they really can win it because they can't shoot free-throws.

My husband, who picked more seriously, picked UNC. Which I think is more realistic.

But all I have to say about this year's Big Dance is.... WAY TO GO, BELMONT!!!! I graduated from Belmont, and work there, and I cannot TELL you what an exciting thing it was when they played Duke. We were on our way home from SoWal and had to listen to it on crappy AM stations, which made it even more heart-stopping because we kept losing the game. For us, a small regional christian school, to almost pull off an upset against Duke... wow. The last two minutes of the game I don't think I even breathed... and at the end I was crying. And I do NOT cry at sporting events.

But I KNOW the coach, I KNOW some of the players... it was so personal to me, and I know how hard our boys played. They have a tremendous amount of heart, our team.

GO BRUINS!!!

I work with a Belmont alum and he is just crazy about Bruins basketball! He's just two years out of college so he's still very much connected.

I was at the bar watching the game that night and EVERY person was pulling for the Belmont upset. I guess that would make sense...I was watching it a bar down the road from Belmont...

 

[Minnie]

Amen sister!!!

You would agree with anything this week, you are just thrilled King W. is stepping down from the throne.

 

[Lady D]

I picked Memphis to win it in my pool, as a nod to my father-in-law who is an alum... but I don't think they really can win it because they can't shoot free-throws.

My husband, who picked more seriously, picked UNC. Which I think is more realistic.

But all I have to say about this year's Big Dance is.... WAY TO GO, BELMONT!!!! I graduated from Belmont, and work there, and I cannot TELL you what an exciting thing it was when they played Duke. We were on our way home from SoWal and had to listen to it on crappy AM stations, which made it even more heart-stopping because we kept losing the game. For us, a small regional christian school, to almost pull off an upset against Duke... wow. The last two minutes of the game I don't think I even breathed... and at the end I was crying. And I do NOT cry at sporting events.

But I KNOW the coach, I KNOW some of the players... it was so personal to me, and I know how hard our boys played. They have a tremendous amount of heart, our team.

GO BRUINS!!!

Belmont played Duke tough. BTW, where is Belmont? These lower seeded teams play better than their seeds. For example, American University really hung tough with Tennessee for a good bit of the game. And then Tennessee was finally able to pull away.

 

[Minnie]

Belmont played Duke tough. BTW, where is Belmont? These lower seeded teams play better than their seeds. For example, American University really hung tough with Tennessee for a good bit of the game. And then Tennessee was finally able to pull away.

Belmont is in Nashville.

 

[Lady D]

Belmont is in Nashville.

Thanks Minnie.

 

[lisaloebmalone]

Yep, we're in Nashville. And I agree about the seedings not being correct, at least in our case. We've won our conference three times in a row, been in the big dance three times, and we're still a 15 seed.

This year, we had a GREAT season -- only lost two games in conference play, won most of our out-of-conference match-ups including Alabama and Cincinnati (though Xavier did whip us pretty good...) and yet, there we were still 15 seeded. Georgia barely squeaked out a winning season and they got a much better seed than us....

I'm pouting now. Can you tell?