2021 NCAA Tournament Open Thread

No, they aren’t. They are going to wait longer.

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I guess I should be numb to the kind of stuff being cranked out about Izzo here, but. . . had forgotten that one downside of the tourney is the chance for the commentariat to endlessly regurgitate the same tired cliches.

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No one wants their kids to see this.

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Yeesh, I guess cleaning and stuff? Suppose we should anticipate these gaps for the rest of the tourney, though I don’t think this App State game had a huge delay.

They did say on the pregame show that there’s basically a 90 minute sanitization period between games. That’ll obviously be less of an issue with more games.

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Just learned that Mike Smith can’t dunk. I’m surprised but I feel like I shouldn’t be?

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He’s my height, and I can’t dunk either. Nobody my height or shorter is allowed to dunk since Spud Webb retired.

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App State making Norfolk look like world-beaters. Gonzaga is probably watching though covered eyes. “We have to face these guys?!”

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I know I’ve seen video of Dickinson and Davis lifting Smith up to the rim so that he can dunk in like pregame or something. I tried to do a quick search but I think it was during a broadcast.

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App State, more like Crapp Stank

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There’s also the comment he made while he was cutting down the nets after we clinched the outright conference championship (eat it, Illinois) that he’d never been so high compared to the rim.

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Speaking of Izzo and tired, imagine the excuses this will open him up to if (when?) State loses either this game or the next one…

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He was already throwing stuff out there, like he doesn’t know how his team will react to resting for a week.

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App State hasn’t scored in the 15 minutes since I turned this game on.

OMG they scored!

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ESPN is taking that literally…

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“We didn’t get as much rest as teams not in the First Four.”

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UCLA coach looks apprehensive, timid. Izzo never looks like that; very aggressive and territorial.

How long will it take for me to regret staying up to watch this game?

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UCLA is terrible.

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All five UCLA starters average double digits. Only one MSU starter does.