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  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,834
    Spent 10 days or so in 1st place, hoping to win $500. I will finish the tournament in LAST PLACE, all by myself, and will have to hear shit from my friends for 365 days. Hahaha
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  • May 30th
    May 30th Posts: 1,890
    Insane collapse by Duke… 

    Can’t even inbound the ball!?
  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,834
    May 30th said:
    Insane collapse by Duke… 

    Can’t even inbound the ball!?
    I've watched the last 2-3 minutes of that game on YouTube a few times this morning. 
    What a disaster for Duke. Like you said, just an insane collapse. But all the credit in the World to Houston. They hit big buckets, and got HUGE OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS. 
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,264
    I turned it off with Duke up 13 :lol:
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  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,907
    edited April 6
    pjhawks said:
    What a total choke by Duke.  Can’t believed that happened 
    Yeah you can say that again. I have no idea who's gonna win. I did have Florida in one of my pools. So that means Houston will probably win :lol:
    I had Texas Tech beating Florida and Duke winning it all.  So two all time chokes were teams I picked.  I’m a jinx.

    the underrated play in the game was when Duke was up 14 and Gillis had the inadvertent elbow to Houston giving Houston’s six point play and gave them life.  I hate  that call.  I get you don’t want guys to hit guys in the head but with no intent should they really get two shots and the ball?  I don’t like that.  Florida also were penalized in the first game on the same type of play.
  • JOEJOEJOE
    JOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,821
    I was 16th in the Sweet Lew bracket contest before yesterday.  I had FL and Duke.  I have FL winning on Monday.
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,455
    I went to bed when Duke was up. Woke up to my wife screaming and sending me pictures of the tv when Houston won
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  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,231
    pjhawks said:
    pjhawks said:
    What a total choke by Duke.  Can’t believed that happened 
    Yeah you can say that again. I have no idea who's gonna win. I did have Florida in one of my pools. So that means Houston will probably win :lol:
    I had Texas Tech beating Florida and Duke winning it all.  So two all time chokes were teams I picked.  I’m a jinx.

    the underrated play in the game was when Duke was up 14 and Gillis had the inadvertent elbow to Houston giving Houston’s six point play and gave them life.  I hate  that call.  I get you don’t want guys to hit guys in the head but with no intent should they really get two shots and the ball?  I don’t like that.  Florida also were penalized in the first game on the same type of play.
    Good point
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,455
    pjhawks said:
    pjhawks said:
    What a total choke by Duke.  Can’t believed that happened 
    Yeah you can say that again. I have no idea who's gonna win. I did have Florida in one of my pools. So that means Houston will probably win :lol:
    I had Texas Tech beating Florida and Duke winning it all.  So two all time chokes were teams I picked.  I’m a jinx.

    the underrated play in the game was when Duke was up 14 and Gillis had the inadvertent elbow to Houston giving Houston’s six point play and gave them life.  I hate  that call.  I get you don’t want guys to hit guys in the head but with no intent should they really get two shots and the ball?  I don’t like that.  Florida also were penalized in the first game on the same type of play.
    on the replay it didn't look flagrant at all to me. totally agree. 
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,264
    pjhawks said:
    pjhawks said:
    What a total choke by Duke.  Can’t believed that happened 
    Yeah you can say that again. I have no idea who's gonna win. I did have Florida in one of my pools. So that means Houston will probably win :lol:
    I had Texas Tech beating Florida and Duke winning it all.  So two all time chokes were teams I picked.  I’m a jinx.

    the underrated play in the game was when Duke was up 14 and Gillis had the inadvertent elbow to Houston giving Houston’s six point play and gave them life.  I hate  that call.  I get you don’t want guys to hit guys in the head but with no intent should they really get two shots and the ball?  I don’t like that.  Florida also were penalized in the first game on the same type of play.
    on the replay it didn't look flagrant at all to me. totally agree. 
    they want to protect the head and neck, but head and neck and flagrant (by definition ) are two different things. Sometimes they’re both; sometimes they’re one or the other. maybe they should just give two shots for any head and neck but assess the “flagrantness” separately.
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,264
    don’t know if any of you have watched any of the women’s tournament but, is it just me, or do they call a lot less fouls? I like it.

    #12 for Geno’s huskies!
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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,179
    Wobbie said:
    don’t know if any of you have watched any of the women’s tournament but, is it just me, or do they call a lot less fouls? I like it.

    #12 for Geno’s huskies!
    I only caught the last minute of the women’s championship game. UConn definitely dominated their last two games though. Congrats to them.
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,116
    I am glad Duke got spanked. I love to see them lose, which does not happen often.
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    That epic collapse by Duke was something else...

    Cooper did not deliver.  Wow.
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,455
    what a bizarre ending. 
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  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,907
    Why does CBS let the NBA clowns who know nothing about college basketball do the final four pre and post games?  These guys are terrible on the college game.

    Florida 3 double digits comebacks in last 3 games.  Heck of an effort.  


  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,834
    what a bizarre ending. 
    Indeed
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  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,231
    I just heard, and I was wondering myself, that ther were only 4 fouls called the entire first half and 23 fouls called in the 2nd half.

    I don't think the players played any differently, but the refs called the game differently. But the Refs didn't decide the game for either team. I just find it strange at how the game was called from the First Half to the 2nd Half.
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,264
    cutz said:
    I just heard, and I was wondering myself, that ther were only 4 fouls called the entire first half and 23 fouls called in the 2nd half.

    I don't think the players played any differently, but the refs called the game differently. But the Refs didn't decide the game for either team. I just find it strange at how the game was called from the First Half to the 2nd Half.
    second half was a slog. between fouls and video reviews, ay yi yi.

    pjhawks said:
    Why does CBS let the NBA clowns who know nothing about college basketball do the final four pre and post games?  These guys are terrible on the college game.

    Florida 3 double digits comebacks in last 3 games.  Heck of an effort.  


    are you talking studio or courtside?
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  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,907
    Wobbie said:
    cutz said:
    I just heard, and I was wondering myself, that ther were only 4 fouls called the entire first half and 23 fouls called in the 2nd half.

    I don't think the players played any differently, but the refs called the game differently. But the Refs didn't decide the game for either team. I just find it strange at how the game was called from the First Half to the 2nd Half.
    second half was a slog. between fouls and video reviews, ay yi yi.

    pjhawks said:
    Why does CBS let the NBA clowns who know nothing about college basketball do the final four pre and post games?  These guys are terrible on the college game.

    Florida 3 double digits comebacks in last 3 games.  Heck of an effort.  


    are you talking studio or courtside?
    pre and post game.  Johnson, Barkley, Kenny Smith.  They are awful on college basketball. I feel bad that Jay Wright has to sit next to 3 guys that know nothing about college basketball.  CBS has their own guys on all year then have to defer to those morons come Tourney time.

    I guess we saw last night why Florida buried the sexual harassment allegations against Golden.  it just means more in the SEC :)

    3 good games in the Final 4.  All 4 teams could have won it.  Florida just made the plays late.