With Livers out, it would be understandable if we lost. Illinois and OSU have no excuse.
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Nutjobs were without Kyle Young
Fair. I just wanted to highlight MSU couldnât even win it in Detroit.
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True. But against a 15 seed you need more bad luck than that to make it understandable.
Almost an ill block but the follow through was a rough foul.
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Bad Boy Pistons did that every game for a few years
Personally, I think it was the right call. I donât think he could have initially gotten to the ball without swinging his arm that fast.
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Why am I still irrationally upset about that Rutgers game? I donât care about conference pride and didnât have money on it.
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These Pac12 teams are better than I was made to believe.
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I think it is because of how they lost. They didnât make a great comeback that fell short. They didnât lost to a crazy fluke of a buzzer beater. They lost because they tightened up down the stretch playing prevent offense, chucked up some horrible shots, turned it over, had another instance of Miles Johnsonâs stone hands, and failed to box out on what became the game winning play. They had numerous ways to win and blew them allâŚI am mad about it too.
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Lol is the Midwest region going to have a Sweet 16 of Loyola, Oregon State, Syracuse and Houston?
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We were two minutes away from replacing Houston with Rutgers
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Yeah, thereâs some bizarre revisionist history going on here and I donât really understand what the goal is. The Big Ten isnât notably good or bad historically except for winning that last game. And Iâm not sure why weâre supposed to be acting like the Big Ten is the only conference suffering upsets this year. Every power conference sans the Pac 12 has multiple bad losses.
If youâre drawing sweeping conclusions about conference supremacy because of 10 games, you donât understand statistics super well.
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This.
Plus, you know, 2 of the 3 (or so) best teams in the conference are still alive and favored tomorrow.
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Anyone acting like a single game elimination tournament somehow is the best way to determine conference quality isnât worth talking to.
The B1G was probably a little bit overrated this year, but still easily top 2 in the country.
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On my way to block 78% of Reddit right now, brb.
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The Big 12 was the only other conference in contention for best in the country and they havenât fared so well either (Texas, WVU, Texas Tech, OKST)⌠Baylor and maybe Kansas is all they have left (fully assuming Gonzaga beats the brakes off Oklahoma tomorrow)
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This is just a response to all the hype the B10 got all year and then Illinois, who was probably the second most chosen winner in bracket pools, chokes early after OSU did the same thing. So two of the supposed elite were beaten in the first weekend. People are going to chirp after all the pro B10 talk they heard all year.
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Yup. Big 12, SEC, and ACC all have multiple losses to double digit seeds. Oregon State looks ready to add another to the Big 12. The Pac 12 is the only conference thatâs really doing well. Itâs crazy out there, which is the least unexpected thing in the world. I guess a year of no March madness made some people forget the nature of single-elimination tournaments 