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Originally Posted by panerd
Everyone should go ahead and pick UConn. Vitale already had them in the final 4 on the radio on the drive home. Just like Memhpis, right guys?
Go Tigers! The incredible run continues!!!
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I was watching the Mizzou-Memphis game with my wife and the local Mizzou alumni group. Really, really good game for Mizzou tonight. When you hit the half court three pointer, it's just your night. If Mizzou plays like they did tonight, they don't just win the next game, they win the next 3 and a shiny trophy. But I'm pretty sure that was their best game all year so they'll likely have to find other ways to win.
I still haven't seen a ton of them this year, but just a quick napkin sketch of what I've seen the first three tourney games with them and talking with some Mizzou alumns. They still need a better slasher and seem to lack some height but balance out those weaknesses by moving quicker than other teams (since they don't have a tall big man slowing them down) and spreading the floor.
The officiating was odd in the fact that the first 25 minutes were called really loose- very few fouls on either side. And then, starting with that stretch where Mizzou had 4 fouls called on them in 1 Memphis possession (since Mizzou couldn't get a rebound)- it got ridiculously tight for the last 15 minutes. Again, I thought it was reasonably even but it just was like someone hit a switch at one point and they went from really loose to really tight. That's why Calipari was so pissed in the first half- you know how we say stuff like "if it's called tight, the Big East team is in trouble, etc"- if you were Mizzou, that was the perfect way to call that game to play right into your hands. I had to say I was more shocked than anything about that.
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