2021 NCAA Tournament Open Thread

Here’s my three year olds bracket in case anyone wanted a second opinion on any of the regions. That Midwest is going to be a mess. :joy::joy::joy: Can’t wait for this to be better than mine…

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I hope this guy loses every game he coaches for the rest of his miserable career.

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I have a feeling they are going to be hit with the heaviest sanctions cbb has seen in awhile. Somehow LSU brought in the #4 recruiting class this year! Just unfathomable given their current situation.

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Doesn’t Assembly seat like 18,000? I guess any fans are better than none but 500 (3%) seems really low.

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A post was merged into an existing topic: Givony: Juwan Howard will have NBA interest

even more fsu hype, the analyst types adore that team(a team that went to ot at home against iu, lost to ucf and nd)

Had my 2 year old pick games based on team colors (my wife would hold out two crayons and we’d go with the color he picked). Michigan was the only 1 seed to survive the opening round. :rofl: :face_with_monocle:

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When they are on, they look like world-beaters to me. . . which doesn’t explain their lapses. But I can see why they’re a dark horse. I think that Leonard and Juwan are friends. . . don’t imagine they’d look forward to playing one another.

Given the relative lockdown of the players in hotel rooms it begs the question: if a team gets down in a game by > 10 points in the second half, how many squads are going to mail it in (to some degree) to get out of the bubble? I’ve got to think minds would begin to wander and the ‘hey, we made the tourney and it was nice but I’m looking forward to some freedom after a long season of protocol and lockdown’.

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In case the headline makes anyone feel too badly for D. Vitale, make sure you read the body of the story. (“I have always been good to LSU!” he complains.) Guy has spent too many years slathering the usual suspects with his own house blend of lickspittle to get an out of jail card now, IMO.

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Random question, what is the website where you can pick two random college basketball teams and it will tell you who would be favored on a neutral site? Dylan and Brendan were doing this on a pod at some point a few weeks back.

I found it hilarious that Dylan had to let my post out of forum jail because the article link has Mr. Vitale’s very naughty first name in it. :joy:

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Not sure it belongs here, but 40 min video of Dylan and Stu Douglass talking about Michigan’s tourney chances (among other things)

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There might be some observations to generate about the former-player-as-coach debate from this interesting list of current NCAA tourney coaches and their achievements as basketball players:

Fun facts: Only one did not play high school or college ball–Will Wade. Ten didn’t play college ball. Tom Izzo comes in at number 43. Leonard Hamilton weighs in at 20. Mark Turgeon is ranked high on the list. Juwan Howard is not number 1, and that’s only fair.

Not gonna lie, seeing Dylan’s face talking is freaking me out. He’s a disembodied voice to me.

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Ha, sorry if I don’t live up to ya’lls visual expectations. :rofl:

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Edit. Wrong thread.

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I was gonna say the same thing. I feel like the only visual reference I have is the picture on his articles. But other than that I don’t think I’ve ever seen his face, much less in a video :rofl:

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I remember it was similarly jarring to hear his voice for the first time

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