2025 NCAA Mens Basketball Tournament Discussion

[TheWatShot 15,416]

1 minute ago, LamarCheeks said:

With 11 losses, no way did Purdue deserve a No. 4 seed -- and to get sent to the Indy regional. 

 

It pays to be Matt Painter and be adored by the media. The selection committee is made up of human beings who are biased for certain people/teams and biased against others. When Purdue was announced as the 4 in the Midwest, it almost felt like they were saying "Tough season, Purdue, but we love what you did last year, so here you go." 

[DChoosier 9,475]

PU definitely got some calls but why in the world did that ref swallow his whistle on that push off with 2.2 to go. The Houston dude’s “arm bar” was fully extended, knocking down the 5,000,000 man, right in front of the ref. Right in front of him.

The MBB refs really detract from the game.

[LamarCheeks 21,901]

Was a bit of a different play, but that reminded me of our loss to Illinois when we were No. 1 in 2013.  

We got caught up in a series of screens, an Illini player was left wide-open for a layup and like Purdue tonight, we were left standing there with our d-cks in our hands. 

That was the genius of John Groce. LOL! 

[TheWatShot 15,416]

It sure was nice of the refs to immediately stop the game after the bucket so Purdue would get a free timeout to draw something up. 

 

Really getting tired of officials micro-managing the end of games. 

[SlamaJamaSisley 3,478]

1 minute ago, LamarCheeks said:

Was a bit of a different play, but that reminded me of our loss to Illinois when we were No. 1 in 2013.  

We got caught up in a series of screens, an Illini player was left wide-open for a layup and like Purdue tonight, we were left standing there with our d-cks in our hands. 

That was the genius of John Groce. LOL! 

Sadly, you’re right.   I remember that play like it was yesterday.  

[WayneFleekHoosier 50,850]

Beautiful play call and execution.

Tough teams winning games. Guards winning games. Athletic teams winning games. Are we paying attention yet?


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[HoosierHoopster 8,039]

Buh bye PU

[HoosierHoopster 8,039]

1 minute ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Beautiful play call and execution.

Tough teams winning games. Guards winning games. Athletic teams winning games. Are we paying attention yet?


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Yeah that play call at the end was perfect- that’s a Hell of an X’s and O’s coach, and well executed 

[TheWatShot 15,416]

Going into a commercial break in the first half between Tennessee and Kentucky, the score graphic in the lower left corner of the screen showed Tennessee leading Purdue. In the final minutes of Purdue-Houston, I became convinced it was a glitch in the matrix. 

[TheWatShot 15,416]

I've had some pretty wicked insomnia lately, so that's why I'm still up. But when is the NCAA going to decide enough is enough with these games running past midnight? It was 12:45 a.m. when Purdue's season ended. 

[IUHoosier5 2,140]

13 minutes ago, TheWatShot said:

I've had some pretty wicked insomnia lately, so that's why I'm still up. But when is the NCAA going to decide enough is enough with these games running past midnight? It was 12:45 a.m. when Purdue's season ended. 

It’s maddening…as maddening as it is. It’s March 

[Demo 22,857]

Couldn’t bring myself to watch PU-UH last night, no thanks, but just saw the Uzan no call and that really was about as egregious a swallowing of the whistle as you’ll ever see. Dude is 10’ from the play with a perfect angle and 100% clear view of an easy call. Easy, that’s offense 100 times out of 100. Wow. I don’t care about PU getting jobbed, but I freaking hate refs “not wanting to decide the game”  by not calling something they auto call for 39:50 of the game and thereby, whoops, deciding the game. Much worse than the missed goaltending because sometimes they’re just gonna not see things. But this was consciously deciding that there’s simply nothing that can happen here that I’m gonna call. Nothing. 

[RaceToTheTop 30,209]

1 hour ago, Demo said:

Couldn’t bring myself to watch PU-UH last night, no thanks, but just saw the Uzan no call and that really was about as egregious a swallowing of the whistle as you’ll ever see. Dude is 10’ from the play with a perfect angle and 100% clear view of an easy call. Easy, that’s offense 100 times out of 100. Wow. I don’t care about PU getting jobbed, but I freaking hate refs “not wanting to decide the game”  by not calling something they auto call for 39:50 of the game and thereby, whoops, deciding the game. Much worse than the missed goaltending because sometimes they’re just gonna not see things. But this was consciously deciding that there’s simply nothing that can happen here that I’m gonna call. Nothing. 

Game of two halves in terms of calls.  First half, Purdue got every call, second half, Houston got the calls.

But man, was that 2.2 second defense as bad as it could be.  You HAVE to make Houston make a shot to beat you.  Braden Smith was guarding the in bounds throw and ran off that to cut to a player when another Purdue player got lost on a pick.  Heide failed to switch to the in bounds man -- again, have to make them make a shot, so you have to switch to the interior man.

[Rico 3,497]

13 hours ago, DChoosier said:

PU definitely got some calls but why in the world did that ref swallow his whistle on that push off with 2.2 to go. The Houston dude’s “arm bar” was fully extended, knocking down the 5,000,000 man, right in front of the ref. Right in front of him.

The MBB refs really detract from the game.

Purdue got screwed.  I felt sorry for them.  No, no I didn't.

[HinnyHoosier 6,511]

28 minutes ago, Rico said:

Purdue got screwed.  I felt sorry for them.  No, no I didn't.

I was about to request a ban until I got to your last sentence.

[TheWatShot 15,416]

8 of the top 9 Kenpom teams make up the Elite 8. I'm guessing that's never happened before. 

[Asha’man 695]

5 minutes ago, TheWatShot said:

8 of the top 9 Kenpom teams make up the Elite 8. I'm guessing that's never happened before. 

Usually I enjoy the first weekend and then the S16 can kinda suck bc of some previous upsets. I’m excited to see this elite 8 and final four from a quality standpoint. 

[FloridaHoosierGirl 4,994]

GO GATORS!  (Well the start is less than stellar)

[Hoosierfan1901 8,186]

Florida is my favorite in  all my main brackets, so CHOMP CHOMP

[TheWatShot 15,416]

Everyone wondered why Houston was the Midwest #1 and had to go to Indy to face Purdue, but why is Florida in the West? It's about 2,500 miles from Tallahassee to San Francisco. 

 

Houston to the West and Florida to Indy would have made more sense. Still feels like the committee pandered to Purdue this year. No way they get that much of a crowd in San Francisco and Florida probably would have waxed them.