HoosierAloha

  You don't think there's a difference in playing a Kansas, Michigan State, or Virginia instead of an Oklahoma or Oregon?

Can someone care about it but not be mad?  It matters if you lose your first game in your conference tourney, look at the history.  It matters being a 3 or 4, look at the history.  I guess you can just completely ignore stats and history though.

  It's not one mole (ant) hill, rather a mountain that he has built.   It doesn't?  Seeding, no NCAA champion ever lost their first conference tourney game.  Team lost momentum and the coach reverted to old ways.  Other than those things you're probably right.

  Had*   He would be a heck of a grad transfer.  Hawaii up 3 at halftime.

  Janks has half of Hawaii's points. 

Oregon just turned on the afterburners and left Zona in the dust, up 15 at the half.

  Xavier might drop to the 3 but would still probably stay in the south.   If we end up with a 4 I wouldn't mind being in the east with Villanova.  I think they might end up being the weakest 1 seed.

  How does a Texas A&M or Kensucky get a quality win in the $EC tourney without beating each other?  That conference is awful.

Too many good games on.  I need more TVs/monitors.    Arizona vs. Oregon Seton Hall vs. Xavier Miami vs. Virginia WVU vs. Oklahoma

ESPN just showed a replay and said he traveled before the shot.  I didn't see but that's tough. 

  And a pass to the band..

  No, I didn't see it.  I saw KU player take half the steps of the OSU player last night and get called for a travel.  haha

KU had the win and then... yeah.  Up 5 with 18.9 seconds

  They've played a couple of really good games in a row.  I just see them getting in a bad matchup and completely throwing it away.  I guess you can call it a history of pu purduing the crap out of things.

Wayne Seldon just took the elevator to the top floor.  WOW!!!   Wasn't someone saying that Yogi, JBJ, and Troy outplayed several KU players at a camp this past summer?

These B1G coaches commercials are freaking me out man.

  With Iowa and Indiana losing, pu won't have a "quality" win in the BTT before the committee finalizes their brackets.  Maryland is in a similar situation in that they won't get a quality win against Nebraska.  Yes, they reached the semi-finals or finals but they're good wins in the BTT but not really quality.  Notre Dame is getting hammered.  I guess Cal or Zona and Texas A&M or Kensucky could make up the difference but it will take several things to go against us to move us all the way down to a 5.  I don't see it happening.

This is hard to answer without seeing brackets or watching the team play the actual games.  I could give an answer of "Final Four" but I'm not sure I'm being honest with myself without seeing how things play out.   Example:  2011-2012 we made the Sweet 16 but it felt like we were one of the best 6-8 teams at the end of that year.  We just ran up against the eventual NC team that made a ridiculous number of FTs to beat us.  2012-2013 we also made a Sweet 16 but were fading down the stretch.  If we get beat by Kansas in the Sweet 16 after playing a great game but Kansas just playing better I'm not sure I could be upset about that.    Win or lose, I will be upset with any game the team just goes through the motions.  This team is better than that.

  He wasn't too happy with his squad at halftime when they were only up 7.

Baylor with a 3 to close the half and an 23-21 halftime lead on Kansas

MSU is rolling in the second half

  We won't drop to a 5 but we're likely off the 3 line.

pu hitting outside shots can be dangerous.  They also stopped turning it over. 

  Was getting ready to edit.  You shorter your rotation and stay with the hot hand (offense and defense) longer.

  There are a TON of differences.  Just a few   -  You stop runs (Crean weakness) -  You play more to your strengths and make the opponent pay when they take it away -  You have your team prepared and ready to play and understand the implications -  You take TOs in crucial times to stop runs and draw plays to get buckets   IU/Crean did not do enough of those to earn the win today.