The Big 5 College Basketball Thread

pjhawks

good luck to the Explorers tonight. Hope they can pull this one out and at least get to friday. Friday will be really tough without Zack to give them another big body.

Hard to cheer for the Carolina ACC contingent so hope Temple can knock off NC State. the Roy Williams vs. Kansas angle is already annoying so if Nova can beat UNC the goods news is i won't have to listen to that. If Nova beats UNC though I might be worried because I think Kansas is ripe to go out early. I don't think they are a very strong #1 seed at all.

tourny thoughts:
go big on the Big Ten and Mountain West
go light on the Big East other than Louisville and the Pac 12
wish St. Louis wasn't a #4 seed and have to play a #1 in the Sweet 16
Iowa State and Minnesota for 1st round upsets.
Butler over Marquette on the weekend if Butler gets by Bucknell
Michigan pounds VCU on the weekend if Michigan survives South Dakota State

JK_Livin

Well, you can't shoot much better than LaSalle did last night. Hopefully it continues into tomorrow. Go Explorers!

The Juggler

JK_Livin wrote:

Well, you can't shoot much better than LaSalle did last night. Hopefully it continues into tomorrow. Go Explorers!

...especially in the 2nd half. congrats man!


tomorrow is going to be nuts.

Johnny Abruzzo

23 years between tourney wins. Even Dunphy didn't take that long.

Seriously congrats. It was fun to watch and I hope you guys beat Kansas St.

JK_Livin

It should be a wild day tomorrow. Temple into LaSalle, sponge up with dinner before Nova.

DewieCox

Get rid of Gottleib. There's hasn't been a call, play or coaching decision where he doesn't know better today.

JK_Livin

pjhawks wrote:

good luck to the Explorers tonight. Hope they can pull this one out and at least get to friday. Friday will be really tough without Zack to give them another big body.

Hard to cheer for the Carolina ACC contingent so hope Temple can knock off NC State. the Roy Williams vs. Kansas angle is already annoying so if Nova can beat UNC the goods news is i won't have to listen to that. If Nova beats UNC though I might be worried because I think Kansas is ripe to go out early. I don't think they are a very strong #1 seed at all.

tourny thoughts:
go big on the Big Ten and Mountain West
go light on the Big East other than Louisville and the Pac 12
wish St. Louis wasn't a #4 seed and have to play a #1 in the Sweet 16
Iowa State and Minnesota for 1st round upsets.
Butler over Marquette on the weekend if Butler gets by Bucknell
Michigan pounds VCU on the weekend if Michigan survives South Dakota State

I know it's easy to be a Monday morning QB. I'm surprised by this as well. The Mountain West is the joke of the tournament so far.

My big upset will be CSU over Louisville. At least that Mountain West team won.

The Juggler

vcu/akron looked like the harlem globetrotters vs the washington generals. as soon as rachel nichols (pleasant addition to cbs--always felt she was knowledgeable...just fix that fucking nose!) told me akron was besieged with the flu, i loaded up on vcu right at the last minute. :thumbup:

wow--that vcu squad can play. wouldn't be surprised to see them playing next week.





big day today!

Johnny Abruzzo

The Juggler wrote:

vcu/akron looked like the harlem globetrotters vs the washington generals. as soon as rachel nichols (pleasant addition to cbs--always felt she was knowledgeable...just fix that fucking nose!) told me akron was besieged with the flu, i loaded up on vcu right at the last minute. :thumbup:

wow--that vcu squad can play. wouldn't be surprised to see them playing next week.

big day today!

VCU probably caught the flu from Akron and will get crushed by Michigan.

How bout that A-10 - 6-0! What a great conference!

Johnny Abruzzo

I think Temple played a game today too...

So at some point the Temple game is on at the bar and we see Lasalle is winning by 15 or so, and somebody on the other side of the bar says "Is Tom Gola playing?"

pjhawks

JK_Livin wrote:

pjhawks wrote:

good luck to the Explorers tonight. Hope they can pull this one out and at least get to friday. Friday will be really tough without Zack to give them another big body.

Hard to cheer for the Carolina ACC contingent so hope Temple can knock off NC State. the Roy Williams vs. Kansas angle is already annoying so if Nova can beat UNC the goods news is i won't have to listen to that. If Nova beats UNC though I might be worried because I think Kansas is ripe to go out early. I don't think they are a very strong #1 seed at all.

tourny thoughts:
go big on the Big Ten and Mountain West
go light on the Big East other than Louisville and the Pac 12
wish St. Louis wasn't a #4 seed and have to play a #1 in the Sweet 16
Iowa State and Minnesota for 1st round upsets.
Butler over Marquette on the weekend if Butler gets by Bucknell
Michigan pounds VCU on the weekend if Michigan survives South Dakota State

I know it's easy to be a Monday morning QB. I'm surprised by this as well. The Mountain West is the joke of the tournament so far.

My big upset will be CSU over Louisville. At least that Mountain West team won.

yea Mountain West with New Mexico and UNLV came up really small. They looked like completely different teams than last week. dead on with the average (can't score) Big East and the 2 1st round (thursday-friday still 1st round despite what CBS tries to tell us) upsets though.

Jay got way more out of this team than what could be expected. played hard all year. Should be the best team in the New Big East next year.

really good wins for Temple and Lasalle. LaSalle got a real chance to go with Sweet 16 although Ole Miss should dominate them inside. Temple hard draw with Indiana. Not sure the Owls can score enough against IU.

cutz

Jay got way more out of this team than what could be expected. played hard all year. Should be the best team in the New Big East next year.


Nova should be good next year in the New Big East, but i think Georgetown returns ther whole team. But, will Otto Porter return next year?

Jearlpam0925

Wow. Just wow. Good fuckin' Burger Garland.

eeriepadave

out of all the philly teams to still be alive, who'da thunk LaSalle?

cutz

eeriepadave wrote:

out of all the philly teams to still be alive, who'da thunk LaSalle?

Who'da thunk it, is right. WOW!

And, LaSalle has a great shot at getting to the Elite-8.

Frickin' Temple should've won.

JK_Livin

If you told me that La Salle was going to be the last A-10 and Big 5 team, I probably would've said you're crazy. But Fuck yeah. It's hard to believe this is the same team that finished up the season. Galloway has been the constant and in each game someone else has stepped up. The " Southwest Philly Floater" has been born. I was wondering why they didn't try to get it to Henderson at the end game. It took a few watches to realize he wasn't even on the court. My biggest fear was that he would have the ball in his hands with a chance to win. We got lucky on the no foul on Henderson near the end but it was a bad call that gave them the ball.

We're even little under the radar with "Dunk City" FGCU rolling.

Henderson doubled barreled the crowd walking off the court because someone said something about his sister being a whore and something about cocaine.

Props to the TU and Nova fans. I got to see the end of the Nova game but wasn't able to see the TU game yesterday because of youth soccer.

St. Louis had to be the biggest surprise of all the A-10 teams going down.

pjhawks

JK_Livin wrote:

If you told me that La Salle was going to be the last A-10 and Big 5 team, I probably would've said you're crazy. But Fuck yeah. It's hard to believe this is the same team that finished up the season. Galloway has been the constant and in each game someone else has stepped up. The " Southwest Philly Floater" has been born. I was wondering why they didn't try to get it to Henderson at the end game. It took a few watches to realize he wasn't even on the court. My biggest fear was that he would have the ball in his hands with a chance to win. We got lucky on the no foul on Henderson near the end but it was a bad call that gave them the ball.

We're even little under the radar with "Dunk City" FGCU rolling.

Henderson doubled barreled the crowd walking off the court because someone said something about his sister being a whore and something about cocaine.

Props to the TU and Nova fans. I got to see the end of the Nova game but wasn't able to see the TU game yesterday because of youth soccer.

St. Louis had to be the biggest surprise of all the A-10 teams going down.

awesome win jk_livin. And a legitimate shot to get to Elite 8. wow. Haven't seen anyone be able to stay in front of Garland all year. he takes some wild shots at times but he can get where he wants to go. The game winner was just a great finish. Over the big guy who had blocked the attempt just a few minutes before. Mills came up with 2 HUGE 3 pointers when it looked like it was getting away from LaSalle a bit. guards and shooters are the way for mid-majors to compete with the big boys. they haven't figured out how to guard LaSalle.

Temple - tough loss. Should have won the game but just couldn't get anyone to make a shot other than Wyatt and Lee. Thought Temple played the better game. and down 1 under 30 seconds you cannot under any circumstances give up a 3 there. You have to give yourself a chance to at last tie.

Hated the timeout with about 50 seconds left. Just no reason to call timeout there. all game temple had someone dribble out top and Wyatt come and get the ball from them. This time Dunph calls timeout and gives Indiana a chance to double team Wyatt on the inbounds resulting in throwing the ball in the backcourt to their power foward with 9 seconds on the shot clock. Awful timeout. Coaches just can't help themselves in the end game and often times call unnecessary timeouts.

on the same topic of coaching i can't understand Ole Miss letting LaSalle just dribble out the time and give them one shot to win. To me you have to force the action. I never want the other team to get the last shot to win in a tie game if i can help it. I'd rather pressure the ball and force them to shoot early. Even if they make it you at least give yourself more time to tie or take the lead. Especially in a game where you couldn't stop the other team.

interesting fact. Dr. G. now has as many career NCAA Tournament wins as Dunph.

Johnny Abruzzo

I hated that timeout too but Dunphy did a great job getting this team into the tourney and in position to win. I take back what I said after the Duquesne game. It's not the coach's fault when you shoot 3 for 24 3 pointers. GODDAMMIT

Congrats Lasalle. Even most Philadelphians don't even know SW Philly exists.

JK_Livin

I just saw that 3 TU players didn't make a shot. Wow.

Jearlpam0925

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