MartintheMopMan

It's going to be a very stressful two months for fans, coaches, and recruits. And I am very interested to see how this affects the combine, specifically the number of players who go through and return to school and how it changes draft boards.

Because we are finding success with our starters anyway and he has been huge off the bench with the unique ability to sub half the team and he plays tons of minutes (third v. Kentucky) anyway? I know it comes up a lot, but I have not seen any convincing argument for why we should change what is working.

Fisch's was amazing, he was so hilariously mean about Kentucky in the beginning. I'm going to resume my quest to find a way to sync him up with my TV without using tunein and being a minute behind.

That's harsh, they won a Big Ten game!

It's right there in the name.   1.

Oh my gosh you guys, I just realized we're still playing basketball and the coaching carousel has already started!   This is a good year.

Yes. Thank you!

Love it. That was probably the best moment of Yogi's life so far... until he wins the championship next Monday.

There is some website that streams all of the old tourney games and I cannot remember what it is called. I feel like I learned about it here.   Old games like, 2010, not old games like last week. Anyone know?

He's 52? That's some facial care plan he's got.

It's not confusing or weird when schools are in multiple power conferences depending on the sport.

Great move by OK state. He's by far my favorite young coach. Heartbreaking for a team who already was beaten down though.

Amazingly, all 6 ACC teams could move into the Elite Eight and they have at least 1 team in each region after that. The big ten can only advance two to the Final four.

I wish I'd been tracking them since the beginning. It's so interesting how the percentages change each round. Our low projection is because UNC is in our way.

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Though, like all sports statistics, it has trouble with the smaller intangibles like match ups. It gave us only a ~20% chance of getting past Kentucky too. I think we had the highest chance of a 12-5 upset too.

UNC has an intelligent and basketball oriented fan base right? Why can't I find any posts like this on their forums or articles like on ITH for them? I see more posts about a potential rematch with Wisco than any matchup analysis from their perspective.

UNC plays at a higher tempo than we do but seems to run less. Troy will be huge this game, they have a ton of size but for the most part their defensive sets are ripe to be exploited by a player like Troy because once he beats one man he will have the space he needs to shoot under more control. UNC is also very deep which will help with stamina. Besides playing defense without fouling I hope to see good shot selection in general from us. UNC is exploitable on jump shots and can be forced to spread out if we are getting high percentage looks.

Of all our opponents, I think we need RoJo most against UNC. Him not playing would make me very nervous.

Kentucky beat us 1459 days ago (March 23, 2012 Sweet Sixteen) Purdue last won a tourney game 1466 days ago (March 16, 2012 Round of 64)

That's how you lose yourself a game.

Seriously. That last call was just giving them the game.

PRIME TIME ON THE WEST COAST!! WHOOOOO!!!

They've been terrible. The refs have been awful today, but those last three calls especially were crap.