2021 NCAA Tournament Open Thread

College Basketball
1046

Ugh more soft fouls on Trevion

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1047

I mean, come on refs, no one wants to see the top players on the bench with ticky tack fouls

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1048

There are no Purdue haters here. Only Purdue less-lovers.

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1049

The only way the B1G gets love is if they finally win another title. The B1G has done basically everything else with lots of bids, deep runs, multiple teams in final 4, etc. And the teams that can pull that title run off (Illinois and UM) are still alive.

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1050

I wonder if there are viewers out there getting their first introduction to Davison tonight.

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1051

Iveys going to be a problem next year

1052

The block was clean! AND Louisville had to vacate their title. Shouldn’t that make it ours? :sunglasses:

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1053

I don’t think we are a realistic candidate without Livers. Just as OSU isn’t (err wasn’t) one without Young

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1054

Purdue keeps clawing close . . . can they climb the mountain?

1055

I don’t know why, but I just thought about how Trevion once hit a stepback 3 against Michigan.

How the heck did that happen?

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1056

would be a very misleading introduction

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1057

It was never likely to be a top-to-bottom dominant performance for the BIG, but it would absolutely suck to have the two biggest upsets of day one both being to Big Ten teams (if North Texas pulled this off, I mean). The narrative doesn’t mean much in reality–though you’re right it won’t completely flip unless the Big Ten wins a national championship–but it certainly would be annoying.

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1058

What’s your prediction for tomorrow? Texas Southern by 20?

1059

You can hear the snide Seth Davis “and what about the Big Ten?” That would be annoying, but Seth Davis would just be saying something else annoying so we’re not really gaining or losing annoying.

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1060

“So dynamic on offense. And he plays the game the right way.”

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1061

Did I hear correctly that Davison has 27 points? How is that possible?

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1062

I think he and Cade Cunningham did a Freaky Friday thing tonight.

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1063

Come on Purdue. B1G needs another win.

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1064

I’ll have to crunch some numbers but right now my model has Texas Southern 88-55.

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1065

Wow, you think we can put up 55 against them? I’d kill for us keeping it within 33.