Why did Bucknell go away from the perimeter game for so long? Crazy with the shooters they have. Force-feeding it to the big guy was not the answer.
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I think they were trying to get State’s bigs into foul trouble. Unfortunately they we’re not able to utilize pump fakes and draw fouls before they themselves got rattled. There also wasn’t any inside outside game after a certain point. When they threw the ball into the block, it stayed in the block.
Would Syracuse or TCU present the best matchup against MSU? Need to figure out who to root for.
What a comeback by Bucknell. Never seemed feasible to win it, but just wish their 3s drained way earlier when the game was still at arms’ length.
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Two killer missed FTs by Charleston.
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Some real weird late game management by Charleston. Taking forever to bring the ball up the court and fouling the best free throw shooter after 12 seconds already went off the shot clock. Plus you have three timeouts. Maybe set something up on offense coach
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Make that four missed FTs in the last 2 minutes . . . of a 3-point game.
Although Auburn’s keeping them alive, too!
What.the.f. You don’t get extra points at the end for timeouts you didn’t use Charleston
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Unless Syracuse looks a lot different tonight, not them.
Of course, we looked horrific last night, so…
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I think Syracuse might be an interesting matchup, based on how patient MSU could be in attacking the zone and not settling for long jumpers, which we know they love.
The bigger question might be if Syracuse can score on Sparty. Battle could if he has the matchup with Winston, but would he get enough help?
I don’t think Cuse or TCU are particularly good teams, so I think MSU would have a clear advantage over both. However, Boeheim’s zone is hard to prepare for because you never see it the rest of your season so if you have a really bad shooting night, it could make things really difficult. But MSU is also a good rebounding team, so Cuse would have to deal with that as well.
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Also if realistically MSU beats TCU and/or Syracuse, playing Cuse’s zone might in a weird way prepare them for what they will see from Duke
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TCU looking good against the zone early so far.
Now they’ve looked pretty bad against it since the TV timeout
Let’s go retrievers! Last chance for this year to get the 1/16 upset. If any 1 seed was gonna lose to a 16, Virginia is kinda the perfect team. They play so slow that they limit their opportunities to assert their superior talent. Plus Virginia already owns one of the biggest upsets in college basketball history.
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Just speculating, but the choppy nature of games that I have seen so far in the tourney (a brief scan of articles on the subject suggests commercials are longer in the tournament, in fact longer than the games) is wearing. And I wonder if this has something to do with why stellar guard play becomes more important–teams have a hard time getting into sets, running their stuff consistently, finding rhythm. . . Totally speculative, as I say, but an idea that might want investigating.
Watching this thoughtful discussion about Virginia and how it projects without its star guard and thinking: we are being very polite. Virginia, quite simply, looks like crap without him.
That’s crazy! Umbc has one win over a p5 school ever. Currently up 14 on the number one overall seed
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This is wild. I don’t really mind UVa but to see history made would be interesting.
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Yea I got nothing against Virginia. Just rooting for
History. This lyles guy is good.
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Where is their defense? UMBC is getting whatever it wants. Was Hunter that important to their D?