2021 NCAA Tournament Open Thread

More like on the back of great defense, but Loyola looks like an absolutely terrible team.

If Michigan doesn’t win it, I’m rooting for Gonzaga because of my bracket. But if that doesn’t happen an Oregon St. title would be by fair the best outcome, IMO.

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And 3 point luck. Their opponents have shot about 20% from 3. A defense can’t do that

Eh, OK State only shot slightly worse than their season average (29% vs. 33%) and Tennessee is a poor shooting team.

I want a good basketball game in the championship so I want Gonzaga vs. Baylor, Arkansas, or Houston

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Houston is going to lose to Syracuse today, which greatly pains me to say as a Boeheim hater.

Yeah the cinderella teams make the early weekends fun, but they make the last weekends awful.

The four games today are all trash.

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I don’t think that really changes what I said. Tennessee shot 19% from 3 on 26 shots. Ok State burned the nets off at 29%. Now Loyola is at 14%, quite a few were eide open

Yeah possibly the most unappealing S16 day I can ever remember. Best game will be Houston and Syracuse and Syracuse being involved in the best game is bad news

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Apparently, even god is no match for the PAC12.

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So did Brad Underwood not even scout Loyola? Absolutely embarrassing Illinois got dominated by this team.

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You are too pessimistic my man. Be happy we get basketball and a tourney at all during the pandemic!

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That would’ve been the most hilarious tourney play so far if Loyola hit the wide open three

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Various computers in AD offices running search and replace “Porter Moser” for “Wayne Tinkle”.

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So if Houston wins today, their toughest seeded opponent on the road to a Final Four was… Rutgers

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Put another way, if Rutgers wins that game, they’d have had a more than legit shot at a Final 4.

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OSU would have probably clobbered them.

I think my tone was lost in internet translation lol. Not complaining, just stating these games are not entirely appealing from most stand points and this game was very ugly. Just the price you pay with a lot of first weekend upsets

United States of Al looks so bad. If that’s their best jokes, I don’t know if I could survive watching an entire episode

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I’m just over here day dreaming about the Rutgers Final 4 run that we’re missing out on.

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