MartintheMopMan

Kakow

I hate that my job only can be setup for two tvs

That was a sick move by Michigan.

If you bet on holy cross to win the champs your payout could be 9999 for every dollar.

I was thinking we'd go round by round for the next threads. Though I didn't communicate that to anyone outside of making a play-in thread because I am much less useful when I don't have work computer access.

All right, I'm back on the Fire Crean train then.

I think they're way way behind. Like a year or two. Cool, that was going to be my first guess. I didn't see the play-in games on their replay site, only a two minute highlight for Vandy, but hopefully that's just because they're play-ins.

If your mom would stop making it he'd stop visiting it.

Anyone know if there is a way to replay missed games? Surely there is something. Maybe on Btn2go. I have no DVR and in their efforts against me the committee schedule the game while I have to be at work engaged with experts so... I hate my life.

I agree with the sentiment saying I expected an elite right before the bracket but probably a sweet sixteen now if we play UNC close. I do disagree with everyone saying they want Kentucky to win their first game. I don't. If every game in our region was an upset except ours in the first round I would be thrilled. It's do-or-die time friends. I don't give a fuck who we beat before we hang our banner. I don't care if our road to the final four is Chatty, Stony, FGCU, and Weber. I don't care if it's Austin Pee in the championship game. None of that is as important to me as number 6.

Saw some calls for a thread to talk about the BTT games themselves. Probably could have just gone in the College Basketball Thread but here we are.   On right now: Minnesota is a sad sad team and Illinois is not being very nice about it.

Wait... If we are on yahoo what is the btownbanners group I joined on ESPN?

I have trouble figuring out anyone but Wisconsin who can keep us from the Final Four if we made the Elite Eight. Once you beat UNC who beats you but MSU? Not Xavier or WVU. I also have trouble maintaining my expectations because of it. Except for losing to Chatty this draw is a whole series of "well, no one could beat them" teams. Like the ideal draw to avoid a hot seat almost regardless of performance.

So are they. Well, only a little bit but only because I haven't met a single person out here, much less an OSU fan, who watches college basketball instead of just watching their team and their conference tournament. I'm not confident they have watched VCU play.

All we can offer so far is the fix is in progress. It's super inconvenient for us too and during our highest traffic month so no one is happy about it.

I mean we can try and justify the results by making excuses for the committee but the answer is very simple. They pulled up the RPI rankings, shrugged, said "this is probably right" and plugged them in before getting ready to watch the two hour selection show. This year shows the least input from the committee that I can recall and destroys the "we use things other than RPI" narrative.

Ok cool, now explain why the other Big Ten teams were underseeded and why teams like Cal were better seeded. Why is MSU a 2 seed? Why is Oregon State the same seed as Iowa? I watch a ton of Pac-12 basketball and can assure you they aren't better than the Big Ten in a relative sense.

Well half-and-half. Crean put us in the position for a lower seed, the committee underseeded us. I live deep in Pac-12 country and have already heard multiple people talking about how the Pac-12 was overseeded. When the fans of the teams above you agree they should be below you, there is a problem. Big Ten was down, but it seems like they thought the Big Ten was entirely out. Conference puts two teams in the Final Four last year and still can't get love.

Well fine, beat me to it because you didn't set your phone down halfway through the message.

You can actually do it on the phone through the mobile site, just not the app. Just go to www.btownbanners.com/chat

I've heard Coach Allen is a champion like something out of a sports movie and is going to shock us all with the high level of defensive play we see this year.

Well, except the number 1 seeds like Temple or Dayton or Villanova. They didn't do so well.

Oregon Arizona was awesome. It was even better as a mild Oregon fan. Almost got rid of our sting and really dented my "Altman is Crean in the West" theory.

Don't forget to vote again, you can vote everyday!

It really turned into a game as soon as my wife and kid woke up and I couldn't devote all of my attention to watching anymore. Like a cruel joke.