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Just a few hours away from tip.

Streaming some of the early action at work. Really interested in the UNC Wilmington/Virginia game.
Two Contrasting styles of play. Wilmington likes to get up and down the court, Virginia will put you to sleep if your not paying attention and we all know their defense prowess. UNC W played Duke tough last year but couldn't play enough defense to win. Virginia doesn't score so unless they have a breakout game I expect this could be an upset. The coach of UNC W is playing for a new job, expect his group to be ready to go.

What other games is everyone excited for today- besides all of them?

@BeddieKU23 I'm up for any huge upset that improves KU's chances down the road!

@ParisHawk

Then we should be rooting for Nevada in the late game tonight. I don't think UVM can beat Purdue but we've seen crazier things happen.

The 1 and 2 seed games usually are blow outs, of course not always. I tend to look for anything that may help my bracket, KU, and Big 12 teams or old KU coaches. So today I will be very intrigued to watch

1. Iowa State
   a. Big 12 team
   b. Directly impacts KU
2. West Virginia
   a. Big 12 team
3. FGCU
   a. Coach Dooley
   b. Coach Miles
4. Purdue
   a. Directly impacts KU

Also did anyone notice that ALL 5 vs 12 seed games are on today? That has to be intentional, 12 seeds are 10-10 over the last 5 years, that should be fun

@BeddieKU23 Wanting to keep up with the West Virginia game and then of course the Iowa State game tonight, then others might be the Florida vs East Tenn St. MAYBE Maryland vs Xavier those would be the main one's - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

These came in just for the start of the tourney!!!

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@HawkInMizery

Those are soooooooo sweet! Where did you get them?

@tis4tim right????? i got them as a graduation present. http://www.opckicks.com/store/p188/rockchalknikes ↗

@HawkInMizery said:

i got them as a graduation present.

Congrats on your graduation! If I got something like that as a gift, I'd probably never wear them as I'd hate to get them dirty!

@tis4tim Thank you!!!!! Fortunately they scratch/crack proof them and waterproof them. I'll probably never wear them outside of when the Jayhawks are playing. they'lll never be everyday shoes.

First game is blah. ND struggling and Princeton's offense consists of jacking up guarded threes.

Don't know if this was already posted, kinda funny

http://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/march-madness-2017-ncaa-tournament-haiku-previews/ ↗

@BShark

Definitely hasn't opened up yet. I bet it does towards the end of half early 2nd though once teams get jitters out of the way. The 436 timeouts should help the coaches yell at them until they do

@BeddieKU23

I'd complain about all the breaks, but I think it favours this KU team and the lack of depth.

big fan of this announcing crew though. madness we always get the best. much better than ESPN's dog crew

UNCW UVA has tipped off. UNCW coach could be on to a bigger job after this year.

@BeddieKU23

Agree. Pretty much garbage free!

@BShark

I want UNCW to win, felt they got Duke ref'd last yr big time.. Let's see if they can take down a diff ACC squad

FYI Tom Crean out at Indiana...

@BeddieKU23 said:

FYI Tom Crean out at Indiana...

Shocker....

Too bad he didn't have any recruits. Then again, Ill and and UW firings already opened up a ton of players. I just hope Harris doesn't reopen and then quickly decide. KU chasing Duval could be a killer.

long range bomb for UNCW!!!

@BShark

KU's new recruiting motto "poaching the coaching carousel"

I'd give anything to have Cacok- 79% shooter on 224 shots! Yeah 79%.

@BeddieKU23 said:

@BShark

KU's new recruiting motto "poaching the coaching carousel"

New?

UNCW on fiiiiiiiiah

Lol at a track meet favouring the mid major and not the P5 team but I think the announcer is right...

Virginia's offense in a nutshell. Bring the ball up the court, dribble for 20 seconds, pass once, shoot. If option A isn't available- crap

@BeddieKU23

And people wonder why I wouldn't want Bennett as the next KU coach. HARD PASS.

Overseeded UVA getting demolished. ACC! ACC! ACC!

my upset pick is looking good so far

@BShark

5-5 3pt shooting from 2 guys certainly helps..

@BeddieKU23 said:

@BShark

5-5 3pt shooting from 2 guys certainly helps..

Who do they think they are playing against, KU?

@BShark

don't tell them. haha

@BShark

No I didn't see that article you linked to on CBS, but did see this crappy one ↗ about us. Grrrr. I almost created an account to log in just to say "Bite me.." It will be so nice finally shut up all the naysayers.

(but we will so have to eat crow for years to come if we flame out early again this year. Please, please, please Basketball Gods, don't let us flame out early this year. Tell me what it will take to appease you - I could sacrifice one of my Misery neighbors flags to you in offering, I could buy Adidas instead of Nike's next time I need tennies, you could even make us suck next year if you absolutely had to, just let us make the FF at least)

I had to check, I do have UNCW advancing here (then losing to UF).

@BShark

Nice pick but you should have kept it going, this team can beat Florida. I picked them to the 16

@BeddieKU23

They definitely can, but I chickened out. Florida basically had one really good stretch this year and it's been over for a bit now.

@BShark

They lost a lot of their identity without Egbunu in the post. KU couldn't replace Landen Lucas if it had too, hard to expect the Gators to replace similar important talent

okay the UNCW guards are EN FUEGO

if Keats leaves UNCW as expected after this tourney and Cacok transfers, Bill Self better be at his front door...

@BeddieKU23 said:

if Keats leaves UNCW as expected after this tourney and Cacok transfers, Bill Self better be at his front door...

With a mariachi band and a bouquet of roses (with a scholarship offer inside the bouquet).

Virginia coming to life with a 15-2 run..

this looks way too much like a KU game

@BeddieKU23 said:

Virginia coming to life with a 15-2 run..

Sadness

@BeddieKU23

No lead is safe with this KU squad EITHER WAY.

wow UNCW fell apart there. Hero ball don't win games.. need to regroup

I bet MU is wishing it had waited one more day so it could have taken a stab at Crean. On the other hand, how bad is the MU program that they had to so grossly overpay and give a long term contract to an average (at best) coach?

@JayHawkFanToo

Going to end up with a better recruiting class with Martin than Crean would have done imo. I mean, we will never know. Neither is a great coach really.

@BShark

Crean >>> Martin...not even close.

@JayHawkFanToo

Their winning percentage is identical.

@HawkInMizery

Super Cool shoes. Is that a Nike Swoosh?

UNCW reclaims the lead!

Wait tied, I thought that was a three for a sec

Now they did!

Princeton hanging tough with Notre Dame..

@BShark

yes Bryce finally came alive. in that 1st half I don't think either of their leading scorers scored and they were up 15 at one point.

@BeddieKU23

Not sure they can turn the corner, but at least the Donkey is sweating.

@BShark

His first 3 seasons at Indiana lowered his percentage quite a bit from what he had at Marquette and where he built his reputation. I would take him any time over Martin.

@JayHawkFanToo

At the end of the day, neither has done much of anything. Crean had a fortunate run with DWade. Give Cuonzo a DWade and he probably makes a run.

Crean's non-DWade ceiling appears to be the S16.

@BShark

Martin has had plenty of talent and has not much to show for it. Even with lottery pick Rabb and good support players they just got booted out of the NIT in the first game.

@JayHawkFanToo

We will see what Rabb really ends up being. DWade is a hofer.

I don't think even Self has had a hofer. Maybe Embiid has the potential if he stays healthy.

rabb strikes me as a Ed Davis type..

really that was a shooting foul??

since when is battling for an offensive rebound without getting it a shooting foul?

LOL GONZAGA

OMG HERE COMES PRINCETON MADNESS

UNCW looks toast

Last 3 plays in Notre Dame/Princeton game.

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That's about 15 minutes real time

WOW. ND tried to give Princeton the game.

I picked Princeton to win. I like the way they play basketball. So close!

@BeddieKU23 said:

UNCW looks toast

I'm watching Gonzaga struggle now.

@BShark

shooting a lot of 3's early

@KirkIsMyHinrich

Close, ND was not pretty

I believe KU briefly recruited Gonzaga's mountain man center.

can't beat virginia bricking ft's

I have West Virginia advancing to the Sweet Sixteen so I thought I'd take a chance with Princeton. It was a fun game, I can't be mad.

@BShark Let Gonzaga be the FIRST 1 seed to lose to a 16!

UNCW's leading scorer is 2-10 from the field and 2-6 from the FT line yeah that sums it up

According to CBS UNC won the title back in 2008. Guess we better take down the banner.

nobody wants to score in this Zaga game..

Virginia lives by Perrantes making acrobatic shots..

@BeddieKU23

Having nightmares of when we ran 2 bigs and had opposing teams pack the paint in the tourney. Essentially what SDSU is doing.

@BShark

the best player in the game plays for SDSU. Not surprised they are playing well but winning this late in the 1st half. oh boy

Former KSU player Michael Orris sighted!

UNCW needs a stop bad

Goodbye UNCW.

UVA, ND, a few close games so far, but no upsets. Hope that non-upset thing holds for a while for a certain #1 seed that I'm quite fond of

some dude named Nana has 7 points for Bucknell already

West Virginia having no problem today.

Assuming WVU wins this game, I'm curious to see how the game is called when they play Notre Dame. If the game is called tight then WVU is probably going to lose because ND is the best free throw shooting team in the country. Since Notre Dame is Notre Dame, and is in the ACC, I can see them shooting about 40 free throws against WVU.

@KirkIsMyHinrich

I look at the game a little differently if they meet. The press will be hard to prepare for in 1 day. Notre Dame only starts 1 true ball handler, the rest of their lineup is full of wings and an undersized 5. They don't turn the ball over much (only 9) a game but nobody outside of the Big-12 is prepared for the pressure WVU puts on you for 40 minutes. This could be a game where ND is up early because they are the better offensive team but one that WV wears them down as it goes on

as usual almost everyone with a pulse for West Virginia has a foul. Went up 27-12, game of runs puts Bucknell within 6 at 33-27.

@BeddieKU23 That's what I mean, though. Notre Dame's ability to handle the press will be largely determined by how the officials decide to blow the whistle. If the game is called tight it will take a lot of pressure off of ND's guards and mitigate a major strength of West Virginia's. It will also allow the best free throw shooting team in the country to get to the line frequently. If the officials let them play a little bit, I like West Virginia to win the game.

As I write this, though, WVU only leads by 3. Need to win this game first.

Bucknell FIGHTIN, CLAWIN

Bucknell's center is good, he'd probably start for us.

@JayHawkFanToo yup! the company orders base nikes and them paints on them and adds different facbric to them. They're the Nike Roshe Runs

I'm sorry, but Vanderbilt, you had Florida's number, granted, but who else did you beat on the way to a 19-15 record and a NCAA tournament bid? And a 9 seed at that. You lost by 20 at Missouri. You lost by 23 to Middle Tennessee. I have no animosity towards the alma mater of my very bright nephew who just graduated, but goodness, you have no business being in any postseason tournament other than the Not In Tournament tournament.

Actually kind of wishing that Vandy would have been seeded where they belong, at about a 14 and they put them opposite Baylor and you'd have a Drew vs. Drew matchup.

@JayHawkFanToo

As much as I hear Indiana fans complain about Crean, I don't know. I don't think Martin is great, but Crean isn't very good.

Haha minnesota. HaHa idiot tournament committee who made the ground squirrels a 5 seed.

Total mental lapse by vandy.. they deliberately fouled an 86% foul shooter with 18 seconds left up by 1. He sunk both. Then they launched a 3 from 10 feet behind the arc.

@BeddieKU23 Cool thread!

SO! I am living in Vermont and the Catamounts of UVM are playing Purdue in 30 minutes....guess who I'm rooting for?
Its actually kind of cool. I mean, all the people I work with that follow basketball are excited that Vermont University got into the NCAA's this year. So, naturally I think its cool too. Small town Vermont school getting into the big dance? Cool right?
But, what if they beat Purdue tonight!? It would ruin one section of my bracket but WHOA that would be awesome!

@Lulufulu I still remember when big Taylor Coppenrath and the Catamounts took down Syracuse in 2005. Epic!

Nova will probably win bye 29 but man they are getting out played right now.

@wissox said:

Haha minnesota. HaHa idiot tournament committee who made the ground squirrels a 5 seed.

Maybe the committee got Wisconsin and Minnesota confused?

@approxinfinity They have a junior coach ...

I had the VCU game on waiting for ISU & the heads said 61 fouls called in that game-AWFUL !bolded text

@globaljaybird

VCU asks for it.

@globaljaybird VCU got screwed with phantom fouls for sure.

ACC/east coast team getting every call against Badgers

@HawkInMizery

They look awesome but I would think Adidas might have a problem since they pay KU a lot of money for the rights to use the logo and the last thing they want to see is the KU logo on a Nike shoe.

Looks like ISU will advance, Nevada can't buy a stop. Burton is killing them

Bronson Koenig makes 8 three pointers bailing out Badgers. Nova next.

@wissox maybe the refs were making up for the NCAA screwing Virginia Tech out of a tourney berth for the last decade (particular Delaney/Allen years). Between that, the decimating injuries year after year, and surviving the lackluster Greenberg offense and the unqualified James Johnson years, fate has not been kind to the Hokies for a long time. Finally, with Buzz the future looks bright.

Grats to your Badgers! Hayes was deadly down the stretch. 8-9 from the line for a 56% (?) FT shooter. Beast mode. Hope our guys respond in a similar way when they find themselves on the line with the game in the balance.

@globaljaybird said:

Looks like ISU will advance, Nevada can't buy a stop. Burton is killing them

Burton is a rascal. Nevada is pretty terrible on D though.

@wissox said:

Bronson Koenig makes 8 three pointers bailing out Badgers. Nova next.

Best of luck.

@approxinfinity I like Buzz too. He's a good coach and recruiter. They were tough. Nigel took over the game down the stretch. Yes FT's are another way this Badger team mirrors the Jayhawks.

ISU looked really good for the most part, I thought Purdue was lucky. That could be a pretty interesting game.

@kjayhawks

ISU is going to kill Purdue. @KirkIsMyHinrich doesn't know basketball very well. :kissing_heart:

Was I the only one to hear the NU/ISU talking head mention that ISU had beat KU in AFH in Kansas City? Man, watching AFH being moved along the turnpike would've been worth paying to see.

@brooksmd heard it too, played it back to make sure?💩

@JayHawkFanToo you're probably right im a little fish though they'll go after the maker

@HawkInMizery

I don't believe you are in any jeopardy. You can get permission from KU to use the logo in most everything, I.e. licensing. You have to provide samples for approval and make they make sure all the details, such as color, are correct and meets certain standards before granting licensing rights and you have to keep track of sales to pay royalties. The process is long and expensive and only pays if you are selling a fair amount. A friend of mine made wall hangings with the logo made out of carpet and went through the process so I am somewhat familiar with it.

Given that a sneaker with the KU logo would compete with its biggest licensor, I would be surprised if the grant a license, particularly if it is a Nike sneaker that directly competes with Adidas. Really nice sneaker regardless.

@Lulufulu

I rooted for UVM as well last night. I live in Southern Vermont! They played well, just came up short and the injury to Steidl didn't help. I thought Ernie Duncan missed some bad attempts. Lamb is good enough to play for anyone though. He stays 4 years and he's going to break a lot of records at the school

@BeddieKU23

These days, some bigger program will try to get him for the final year via grad transfer...

@BShark

He is a true freshman, unlikely he'll be eligible for that exception unless something happens. Surprised he flew under the radar, he was one of the finalists for NY state player of the year last season.

@BeddieKU23

Tarik Black graduated in three years right? So it is possible.

And yeah, looks like a big whiff on the recruiting services, known to happen from time to time. Appeared to be in the 300 range for rankings.

@BShark

Good point, I guess it's not impossible. I'm just stunned Lamb ended up at UVM. Always a solid American East school but Lamb is a definite step up in talent level from usual.

@BeddieKU23

Interesting to think where Trey Burke or OG Anunoby would have ended up without the keen eye of Belein and Crean.

OG's 247 profile, hilarious!

http://247sports.com/Player/OG-Anunoby-34775?Institution=14526 ↗

@BShark

Oladipo, another!

@BeddieKU23

I knew I was forgetting one. Crean has a GREAT eye for talent.

@BShark

Definitely, someone will give him a job

@BeddieKU23

I think he is well suited to a mid-major and that's not a dig at him.

@BShark

:thumbsup:

@JayHawkFanToo Yup it's definitely a nike sneaker even came in the original nike box. I didn't even think about the fact that it was a nike shoe when i ordered it I just saw Jayhawk shoes and said i want! Lol

That is a pretty thorough process to go through and I agree I doubt the school would grant the license to Nike.

@HawkInMizery He sells them as handcrafted unlicensed art pieces. Is the quality good? I had to order a pair too! Gameday shoes Ha

@dylans yeah that quality is great! I don't see any noticeable flaws in them. I plan on having him make a Royals pair for me too now that these have come

@dylans if he just wears them in bed quality doesn't really matter, bed sores?😉