March Madness

Bigger payroll than the nets last year and can't get in the final

Freeza wrote:Bigger payroll than the nets last year and can't get in the final

William Wesley is gonna have to make it two duffle bags of cash in order for UK to get more talent next year.

Only semi joking, look up William Wesley. Caliparis right hand man who works for an sports agency but he's only a "consultant", so it's all within the rules.

edit: http://www.gq.com/sports/profiles/200706/william-wesley-worldwide-wes-nba-basketball

UK fans are burning their own teams jerseys on campus. What a truly despicable fan base.

I'M SO *bleep* HYPED LETS GOOOOO

WE'RE GOING TO THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

MADISON MONDAY NIGHT IS GONNA BE WILD

THE GOOD GUYS WIN

WISCONSSSIIINNNNNNN

WISCONNSSIINNNNNNNNNNN

Congrats man, now beat Puke and Wisconsin will become my 2nd favorite team

Thanks brah it feels amazing

To beat the undefeated team to get there...we can lose the championship I don't care this has been the best journey

*bleep* Kentucky

America's team right now

http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/story/2015-04-05/andrew-harrison-live-mic-explicit-kentucky-post-game-interview-wisconsin-badgers-2015-final-four-frank-kaminsky-question-video?eadid=SOC/Twi/SNMain

Andrew Harrison with a live mic, under his breath: "f that *****"

Wow

I knew it! It just wasn't wasn't gonna happen for Kentucky. This is the only part of my bracket I've gotten right

Congrats Badgers. I think they're more than a match for Duke.

Bring that title back to the Midwest ffs

Congrats CB, hope you guys win it!

McLewis wrote:I knew it! It just wasn't wasn't gonna happen for Kentucky. This is the only part of my bracket I've gotten right

Congrats Badgers. I think they're more than a match for Duke.

Bring that title back to the Midwest ffs

They are but unlike Calipari, Coach K won't straight up ignore the fact that Okafor has a massive advantage inside so i'm still leaning towards Duke.

Duke has also beaten us already this season. That being said they shot something like 65% that game and we still kept it close until the fouling game at the end that led to an inflated 10 point difference in the scoreline. However a win is a win so I can't say that Wisconsin has an advantage going in at all. Form is not in the discussion either because both teams are at their top form right now and have been throughout the tournament. It will be a good game and I hope for a Wisconsin win is about all I can say.

Also looking back on this thread, alcohol is a wonderful thing

It won't be like that game, i watched that game and you have improved a lot since then. Obviously Dekker and Kaminsky for starters, the key will be how you stop Okafor inside as Duke will go to him a lot unlike Kentucky who for what ever reason ignored Towns.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:It won't be like that game, i watched that game and you have improved a lot since then. Obviously Dekker and Kaminsky for starters, the key will be how you stop Okafor inside as Duke will go to him a lot unlike Kentucky who for what ever reason ignored Towns.

Towns gotta save himself for Kobe's last championship run next year.

Dekker

Hope he stays next year. He has only started playing like a stud this tournament. Before now it has only been hints and glimpses of this Dekker. It's his team next year, let him make this kind of form a normal thing, let him lead the team and develop his game to become a top draft pick.

We''re finally seeing his potential consistently, I hope he stays next year to develop a bit further.

I'm also just selfish. We can have a decent team next year. We're not going to the final four or anything tho lmao.

Refs against wisconsin again

Lets *bleep* go though

Welp, Okafor looked compeltely irrelevant throughout the game and still managed to get a title. Hope the Knicks dont draft him, he looked extremely passive.

Sorry CB, you guys deserved that but unfortunately it just didnt happen. Keep your head up though, that was a fantastic run.

fn d00k

Refs yet again were awful. I mean they review the out of bounds call and still get it wrong?


edit: from Reddit http://gfycat.com/ChillyAmusingArrowworm

https://twitter.com/WorldofIsaac/status/585279397843828736

cost 5 points and that was game

I'm upset but it happens. The team had a great run...congrats to duke...whatever. We didn't play our game and it cost us. I can accept that.

The important thing is I'm not the idiot that probably broke his hand tonight. God, i both love and hate this place.

At the end of the day it's a game. No need to do damage.

We had a helluva run, we have a respectable program...best of luck to our seniors and maybe another year.

On Wisconsin! Love this team and everyone in it. Love this state, love the Midwest. I wouldn't trade it for the world.

I was hoping for a Kentucky vs Duke final tbh.. I like to see history be made so I would of liked Kentucky to go all the way but meh

Wisconsin is a tough team though

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/04/grayson-allen-duke-march-madness-hate-christian-laettner

Glad I'm not the only one that came away feeling the same way The next annoying dook guard a la Greg Paulus, Jon Scheyer.

and the Onion was on point too, and ruthless as usual  
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After calming down and with hindsight, I would love to blame the refs and it certainly played a role in the end of the game but...Badgers just blew it. Full choke, just like Kentucky. Can't blame anyone but ourselves tbh. The occasion got to us. Duke won without playing particularly well.

Still can't believe that the refs actually looked at the replay, just like the one against Gasser in the Kentucky play, and STILL decided to go with Duke ball after it's quite clear Winslow gets his fingers on the ball

Ah well. See you guys again next year. At least we know Nigel Hayes is returning, which was kind of expected anyway.

That time of the year again..



one of the best games I've ever seen

Missed it but my friend was keeping me updated. Kept getting messages saying "overtime", "omg double overtime" and expecting it to be done...then that happened.

I forgot that there are a fair amount of U Conn fans here. Crazy. Wish I had seen it.

Also missed the ending of Michigan-IU. Michigan pulls it off with a buzzer beater three

Very good timing dmize, I was just about to come here to bump this thread.

Every year I get more and more hyped about this tournament. Such a great tournament. Perhaps I was more excited last year because of Wisconsin (scrolling down this page is such an awful reminder) but I'm looking forward to supporting the guys for another year. I don't expect us to do anything great because quite frankly we're a young team and we're really not that great this year, but we've had some huge wins and Wisconsin has proven throughout the year that we have a lot of upset potential. Wins over Indiana, Maryland (at Maryland), Michigan State, and Iowa (at Iowa) mean that we'll be a threat against the higher seeds.

Looking at our record you would be deceived at the ability of the team, since our nonconference play and earlier play before Bo retired was so bad, I think we were 10-9 at one point, and now we're 20-12 (should be 21-11, how we lost to Nebraska last night is beyond me).

So inconsistent though at times, as evidenced by last night. If we can't get Nigel and Bronson going, we're absolutely going to struggle badly. Happ as well. However, if we can get all three on form, I actually think Wisconsin is a tough game for anybody in the entire tournament. A lot of upset potential.

In other big 10 news: Michigan State is going to be as scary (well, according to their regular season, more scary) as they always are. Denzel Valentine has been going off and they look great in general. Purdue has had a couple weird losses but that aside I think they have a very, very good team. Wisconsin got pounded both times we faced them as we match up very badly against them, and tbh, a lot of teams will. Hammons looks great and Swanigan and Haas complete the trio of three big men that can give anyone a really tough time. Hoping they do well so I can support them (parents went there) when Wisco go out.

Maryland I'm not so sure about. Melo Tremble has been poor for a while now and he's vital to their offense. I don't know. I haven't watched too much of them, but they needed a 3 point buzzer beater from very deep to beat Wisconsin the first time, and we beat them very clearly the second time. They somehow lost to Minnesota as well within the last couple weeks and tbh the tournament is coming around at not that great of a time for them. I think they'll do well but I can't see them making a deep run, personally. Unless Melo goes off of course.

Iowa are a joke, wouldn't be surprised to see them go out first round.

IU I haven't watched enough of to know, but I still haven't forgiven them for losing so early to Syracuse 3 or 4 years ago when I watched the NCAA tournament for the first time. Yogi is a great player and they're a fairly balanced team.

With all of that being said, I still consider myself fairly average in basketball knowledge, so all must be taken with a grain of salt. Except my Wisconsin opinion, I've watched every game

dmize wrote:fn d00k

Refs yet again were awful. I mean they review the out of bounds call and still get it wrong?


edit: from Reddit http://gfycat.com/ChillyAmusingArrowworm

https://twitter.com/WorldofIsaac/status/585279397843828736

cost 5 points and that was game

Looking back I still cannot believe this. The second one is very close, alright fair enough (they can't review/didn't review that right? Potentially stepping out of bounds?).

The first one, with the finger touching the ball. I will never understand that call. How can you not reverse that? How in the world? It's absolutely incredible.

We didn't deserve that game with the way we threw it away. If you throw away a nine point lead you deserve to lose the game...but my oh my were we on the receiving end of some poor calls. Thinking back to the Kentucky game too where Lyles slaps Gasser in the eye very blatantly and on purpose and they didn't call anything.

I don't like to talk about refs but if anyone had a case, it was Wisconsin last year I guess that's just how it goes sometimes.

Duke seems to always get the ref's benefit on close calls like that, especially in the tournament.

Michigan State and Maryland in a good game right now. Maryland got outplayed early but bouncing back in the 2nd half.

And yeah, I like Purdue too. Hammons had a monster game today.

ESPN wanted LSU/Ben Simmons in the tournament so bad Their beatdown today ended that.