The Official 2009 "Running Commentary of Every Single Tourney Game" Thread

[BunnyHardaway]

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Go Louisville, I guess.

[Cebby]

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BORING...BORING...BORING games tonight. I'm sorry but I didn't find any of these games entertaining except for the last couple of minutes of the Pitt game, but even that is a stretch.

Do you have no heart? If dook getting stomped isn't entertaining, I don't know what to tell you.

The seeding this year for the tourny was a joke and it showed.

The seeding for this year's tournament has been the best seeding ever.

14 top 4 seeds in the Sweet 16 with one being a 5 seed and so far, the Elite 8 teams are two 1 seeds and two 3 seeds.

Looks to me like the committee did an amazing job.

[Gizmo]

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Do you have no heart? If dook getting stomped isn't entertaining, I don't know what to tell you.



The seeding for this year's tournament has been the best seeding ever.

14 top 4 seeds in the Sweet 16 with one being a 5 seed and so far, the Elite 8 teams are two 1 seeds and two 3 seeds.

Looks to me like the committee did an amazing job.

Honestly I had Duke losing in my bracket(s) so that was already a forgone conclusion.

Yeah some of those top four seeds advanced, but IMO some of those teams are overrated. Some of teams in first two rounds were no competitions for some of these teams and it showed. I can see all four #1 seeds making it again this year, but like I said, that South region will be tough.

[Cebby]

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Yeah some of those top four seeds advanced, but IMO some of those teams are overrated. Some of teams in first two rounds were no competitions for some of these teams and it showed. I can see all four #1 seeds making it again this year, but like I said, that South region will be tough.

That doesn't make any sense.

How can you be overrated if you advanced?

Your issue appears to be more with the poor quality of basketball than with the seeding. The selection committee's job isn't to make good competition, it's to seed the 4 best teams #1, 5-8 #2, 9-12 #3 and so on. It's up to the teams to create a quality product.

[J0nnD0ugh]

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Honestly I had Duke losing in my bracket(s) so that was already a forgone conclusion.

Yeah some of those top four seeds advanced, but IMO some of those teams are overrated. Some of teams in first two rounds were no competitions for some of these teams and it showed. I can see all four #1 seeds making it again this year, but like I said, that South region will be tough.

So your contention is that the teams that have lost already were more worthy of higher seeds?

[Gizmo]

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That doesn't make any sense.

How can you be overrated if you advanced?

Your issue appears to be more with the poor quality of basketball than with the seeding. The selection committee's job isn't to make good competition, it's to seed the 4 best teams #1, 5-8 #2, 9-12 #3 and so on. It's up to the teams to create a quality product.

True, maybe the it's the quality of basketball being played that isn't making the competition good. You can be overrated and still advanced if you are barely winning those two games and getting "lucky" in those games. It has happened before in the tournament.

So your contention is that the teams that have lost already were more worthy of higher seeds?

No, the teams that lost already were worthy of losing and were seeded high.

[Cebby]

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No, the teams that lost already were worthy of losing and were seeded high.

Aside from Wake Forest, which highly seeded teams lost?

4 seed Washington lost to 5 Purdue, and 5 Purdue and 4 Xavier lost to 1s. Both 2s that lost lost to 3s.

1 out of 16 "highly seeded" teams lost to teams that weren't either ranked higher or one seed worse. You can't do better than that.

[kaipo07]

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Does Digger Phelps have money on Pitt? If he doens't calm down he's going to have a heart attack.

[Gizmo]

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Aside from Wake Forest, which highly seeded teams lost?

4 seed Washington lost to 5 Purdue, and 5 Purdue and 4 Xavier lost to 1s. Both 2s that lost lost to 3s.

1 out of 16 "highly seeded" teams lost to teams that weren't either ranked higher or one seed worse. You can't do better than that.

Basically, what I'm trying to say is that the games so far have been disappointed IMO. I think 2-3 games have been entertaining so far. I expected more competition.

As far as Wake Forest. I was 50/50 about them, because I wanted to put them in my final four, but I also knew Cleveland State was a sleeper because they had beaten Butler. So that lost wasn't suprising.

[BigDofBA]

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Does Digger Phelps have money on Pitt? If he doens't calm down he's going to have a heart attack.

I think a lot of people have money on Pitt.

This is the one year I wasn't partial to Big 12 teams and it has screwed me big time. I had Mizzou losing to Marquette, Okie State losing to Tennessee, and OU losing to Syracuse.

Knowing my luck, the only pick that will be right is OU getting beat tomorrow.

[Matt Diesel]

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After today: My life expectancy - 10 years.


Pitt is killing me.

[stewaat]

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[KG]

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Not only was it great to see Duke get beat but the manner in which they got beat down was great.

The last second desperation heaves by Sheyer were fantastic to see, as was Lance Thomas yelling at that scrub on the bench.

[P2K]

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UCLA, stomped. Duke, stomped. Bring on the rematch with Pitt!

[ehh]

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Let's go Cuse and Louisville! I want 5 BE members in the Elite 8 and I think it's gonna happen.

I didn't think the Xavier/Pitt game would be so close, I thought Pitt was going to beat them by 12+.

No way Dook could defend all those Nova guards, also didn't think Henderson would go 1-14 from the field or whatever. Definitely didn't see the margin of victory coming.

Been saying it since Selection Sunday, I've never seen a team get more unwarranted hype than Memphis this March. You don't subtract Rose, CDR and Joey Dorsey and add just Tyreke Evans and become Final Four worthy.

UConn looked okay, Purdue played very good defense IMO and it was an ugly Big 10 style game. Glad to get the win though.