Two going on so far.
A&M is up 1 at half over Providence 28-27. Both teams building brick houses from the floor
Purdue up 4 at the under 4 timeout. Also building brick houses from the floor so far.
Purdue stretched the lead to 9 at half
Purdue looking like we did yesterday.
A&M up 6 early in the 2nd half.
While Early, at the under 12 timeout, Wichita is down 3 to Marshall. Lynn must be at least 10 deep by now
Didn't realize Marshall has two 20 point scorers on their team. Still up 1 at the 8 minute mark
Providence, A&M tied at 50 with 8 left in the 2nd half.
Purdue crushing CSF now
Thundering Herd +7 under 4 timeout
WSU just chucking 3s from the cheap seats, down by 6 late in the first half.
Foul trouble for Wichita.
Frannie the only shocker playing well
So far Cincinnati hasn't realized Georgia St's leading scorer at 21 a game needs to be covered. Has all 8 points early
@BeddieKU23 I think theyâll be fine once someone tells them at half time that no one on Marshallâs team can stop Shaq. Marshall should be up more WSU is shooting 32% right now.
Not many can cover that offensive lineman
A&M is going to beat Providence unless a miracle happens
This is crazy. Simonds of Georgia St has 13 points. The team has 13 points..
@BeddieKU23 that was a weak T on Marshall the team lol right there.
Simonds with 16. Beating Cincinnati all by himself
Terrible call. That's Higgins for ya
Iâm sorry be the refs just turned this game wow.
Its a shame they changed the entire game with a switch.
I bet WSU wins by 20 now.
Marshall battling like crazy, Conner is on fire and keeping WSU ahead
My live stream quit saying I needed to sign in. Anyone else have this problem? Half day at school meaning I could watch this afternoon. Looks like I'm missing some good games.
Sooooo Butler came to play as usual.
Buster 1926 said:
Shamut only one basket in 2nd half. WSU many turnovers & Herd with 11 steals Lead only 3 with 35 ticks.. Nailbiter now. WSU no toâs Herd wit 2
Wish Marshall hit their fts earlier.
Jeez, Butler 21-2 over Arkansas with 7 minutes gone in the first half.
Finish them off Thundering Herd!
Refs are killing the momentum of the WSU/Marshall finish.
That should be Marshall ball
You call the play out to Wichita and then immediately walk to the monitor
The ending of this game is a travesty. REPLAY REPLAY REPLAY REPLAY REPLAY.
WSU was overrated all season long.
Woot woot bye marsha
Lynn blacked out a while ago they will have to let her know they lost
Go home shockers!!!
Another 13 seed wins... Cah-rap schooooot!
Annnnddd.... cue the pictures recording Lynn Marshall getting in an altercation with a fan.....
HOLY SCHNIKES! Wichita St plays a good team and loses. How weird..........................
Now, how 'bout a Marshall - WVU matchup on Sunday?
Forget about the 12-v-5 upsets...this year it's all about the 13s.
Charleston over Auburn, anyone?
I used to cheer for the shocks but their fan bases arrogance rivals KSUs. Have a couple of good years and think youâre a national power. GTFO! They are finding out, when you donât play in a typewriter maintenance league, you can rest starters for 10 minutes the last 2 months of the year.
kjayhawks said:
I used to cheer for the shocks but their fan bases arrogance rivals KSUs. Have a couple of good years and think youâre a national power. GTFO! They are finding out, when you donât play in a typewriter maintenance league, you can rest starters for 10 minutes the last 2 months of the year.
And its harder to be the hunted than to be the underdog. Now that everyone talks about them, the pressure is on them to perform. A little dose of reality is all. This is the sort of thing the blue bloods have to deal with every game.
@kjayhawks I find their fan base much more obnoxious than KSU. Many KSU fans I know are quite realistic about Bruce and their program at this point.
Gregg Marshall should've taken the big-money coaching offer(s) while he had the chance. That loss could cost him a million or two when he moves on to his next gig.
@kjayhawks Yeah they are pretty delusional about football especially their older fans.
@nwhawkfan He is perfect for Wichita why would he ever leave?
Just keep cashing them Koch checks imo.
@BShark Ya, my question always is who did they dominate? Being statically the 4th best team in a conference over a decade isnât celebrated anywhere but Manhattan, KS. Iâve been giving my KSU buddies trash about after finishing 4th in B.B. this season it will be no time before they are playing on Bruce Weber âsqueak courtâ.
Forgive me if this has already been mentioned - Does anyone else remember the last time two #13 seeds advanced in the First Round? Hmmm - believe it was 2008. Oh - the Final Four is in San Antonio this year, correct? Wasn't it also in San Antonio in 2008? Hmmm. Seems like something else significant happened in 2008.....
@nwhawkfan Marshall will never leave WSU. Any A.D. with basketball knowledge knows he's all smoke and mirrors.
@nuleafjhawk Still, there's gotta be a school out there with a big budget that's willing to spend beaucoup bucks so they can make a splash with a big-name coach.
(see: Charlie Weis)
@nwhawkfan I've ALWAYS seen Marshall as a charlatan. He puts together enough wins against nobody teams in weak leagues and sprinkles in 1 or 2 upsets per year against teams that are short on depth or have injured players and the media thinks he's the next Bill Self, John Wooden, Roy Williams, Dean Smith, Bob Knight, (Fill in the blank with your favorite Hall of Fame Coach).
He's not.
He's the wizard of oz. PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN.
I looked long and hard at the Marshall / WSU matchup and on my three brackets, I picked WSU all three times. I did not see it coming. Also didn't anticipate a Buffalo win, let alone a blow-out.
@bskeet I didnât pick WSU far in any bracket but yes the Arizona upset killed a few of mybrackets. The South is the weakest bracket IMO and I picked them to the FF because of their talent and how they were playing the last few weeks. An upset is one thing but that was the most lopped side I remember a 4-13 game that a 13 won.
Assuming WVU wins it will be an all West Virginia matchup Sunday. I always like it when that happens except the last time there was an all Kansas NCAA tournament matchup of course.
@nwhawkfan Mark Few is better than Marsha, Few has won 19 of the last 22 conference regular season titles, Marsha has 3 in 11 years at WSU, not in the same ball park IMO.
Wichita St. Why do I enjoy them losing? Why does a team that I used to love make me want to wish losses on them all the time? Why does the shiny dome, that grosteque, monsterous forehead that at times appears to stick out a full 8 inches, seem to visualize the Shlocker program for me. That's the Mona Lisa for me... MASSIVE FOREHEAD = SHLOCKERS. I hate punks and coaches that are punks.
Looks like WV is holding against Murray St - both literally on almost every possession and being up 14 with under 4 minutes left
Free throws are kind of an important part of the game....
Great end of game gameplan...or not
What kind of inbound play was that Shaka?!!
Looks like OT, but Bamba fouled out
StLJhawk said:
Looks like OT, but Bamba fouled out
Stick a fork in Texas
CRH107 said:
What kind of inbound play was that Shaka?!!
No one accused Shaka of being a great coach. :p
Boy Texas and OU gave away games at the line.
Wow. What a long, slow, painful journey to defeat by Texas..
I know I should be rooting for B12 teams, but sometimes they are just so unlikeable.
Also, Eric Musselman's wife... I can see why she got so much camera time.
BRUUUUCE
Do you see any KState fans at the game? Good grief, the entire section behind the KState bench is empty. Creighton has a lot of fans.
I had Rhode Island over OU, Marshall over WSU and Nevada over UT. But AZ only to the Elite Eight.
stoptheflop said:
Do you see any KState fans at the game? Good grief, the entire section behind the KState bench is empty. Creighton has a lot of fans.
Bruce gonna get another tournament win tho.
Sometimes I forget that Bruce can coach. Especially if you give him a week to gameplan. Absolutely just outcoached McD today.
Charleston with key free throw misses
Wow Charleston really coughed up a lot of chances to win. Auburn very very fortunate to win.
@HawkChamp When the brackets came out I mentioned to some friends that SHU scares me way more than Auburn. Which probably means that KU beats SHU and loses to Auburn but heh...
And the ref misses a game changing call at the end. Whatâs new?
@HighEliteMajor I would say the refs played a major hand missing that foul on the 3 and with how many Fts auburn shot, but Charleston missed so many free ones down the stretch it killed them I think they went 3 for 9 in last 2 minutes.
Thanks to the Sooners and the Horns for representing the B12
If the Toads dont play they will be the next victims
Wow Virginia is down 7 early in the second to UMBC
kjayhawks said:
Wow Virginia is down 7 early in the second to UMBC
Would not be disappointed to see uva go down
After Higgins last yr, theres gonna be a lot of lynch mobs. Refs make bad calls or miss calls, but teams cant let games come down to those calls.
UMBC looking good...might stun the cavs
Losing this game makes Bennett 100% unhireable by any blue bloods lol.
Virginia down 14 points with 16 minutes left.
Kcmatt7 said:
Losing this game makes Bennett 100% unhireable by any blue bloods lol.
Which blood is looking to hire him?
UMB self destructing
truehawk93 said:
UMB self destructing
I mean they are Kenpom #188
@truehawk93 I would think all of them. He would be on the top of my list as a Bill replacement. Well maybe after today lol
Hey most agreed a 16 would win someday, could it be today? Long ways to go.
This is why I'm glad we play a faster pace than UVA.
Boy wouldn't it be nice to hit some 3s right now, Tony?
Virginia is getting tight now
Dependency on going inside because they can't hit 3s when they need them.
Not sure about Bennett's record, but I think he has a little bit more to play before the bloods look at him.
Boeheim retiring after this year?
Dook may go after him, but K is going to be much like Snyder. They will put him on life-support and put him on the side lines.
They absolutely need to speed up their offense....but they aren't built to do it. THIS IS HAPPENING GUYS.
A tight team that also plays a slow pace was the exact recipe for this type of upset.
Sitting here in my UVA shirt, wishing it was some other 1 seed that lost in first round. Hang this albatross around Duke's neck, Syracuse, someone I despise.
Virginia isnât geared to come back with how they struggle to score for minutes at a time, if UMBC can keep it Double Digits till around 8 minutes Virginia will start sweating like crazy,
Good board. let's go.. good look, lets do it again. get loose.
That noose around Virginiaâs neck is starting to get awfully tight. What a pitiful performance so far. They need to make up 16 points in 11 minutes when theyâve only scored 29 points in 29 minutes.
A 16-0 run would be the most efficient way eh? :)
I remember seeing UMBC play in their conf championship game. Don't remember any details, but I was thinking...they don't look that good....I hope we play them. UVA is going to have a tough time coming back given that they play such a deliberate offense.
Down 13 with 9:45.
UVA can score in bunches but its when the other team gets rattled and rushed leading to easy buckets. Don't think they can score in bunches when they're down.
approxinfinity said:
UVA can score in bunches but its when the other team gets rattled and rushed leading to easy buckets. Don't think they can score in bunches when they're down.
Tiny little awesome PG ain't gonna get rattled.
Nice D stop. Every possession matters at this point.
Man. that hurts.
approxinfinity said:
Man. that hurts.
TINY LITTLE AWESOME POINT GUARD AINT FOOLIN AROUND SORRY APPROX
Yeah, they're not getting stops. The D right now def reminds me of us... a couple focused stops, shotclock expiration, then next 3 possessions wide open layups and 3s.
Can't be us on D and them on O! lol
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I said before the tourney that Virginia might run into a hot shooting team and lose. Looks like UMBC might be the hot shooting team.:smile:
This is brutal. The consolation is that Virginia was unranked coming into the year and lost their most athletic player. Unfortunately, nobody will look for astericks when jackass announcers remind people for the next decade that UVA was the first 1 to lose to a 16. The overall 1 even!
Just like Kansas, overachieve every year, then get remembered for losing after overachieving.
@approxinfinity Just glad it isnât us in this position.
@kjayhawks definitely.
approxinfinity said:
Just like Kansas, overachieve every year, then get remembered for losing after overachieving.
DOES THIS MEAN THE ACC SUCKS? #elpoyo
NOOOOO. UMBC's best player cramping NOOOO.
Get him fluids and a rub down
DO MORE OF THAT GUY!
Cuse fouling hard and no call
UMBC super good at milking clock lol.
Garbage call on Jerome there.
@approxinfinity Can't imagine being a UVA grad and seeing that soft call lol.
Real upset alert of a #1...me likey
Lyles is unreal.
"This game is over!" The fat Raftery sings.
Wow fouls off charts in cuse game
Race to 60 IMO, can Virginia get enough stops or even make enough shots to get there?
This reminds me so much of Kansas in some respects... These kids are bought into an absolute formula that has won for them all season, how can they possibly break out of that formula now?
FLSt sticking it to Fizzou
I'm sitting next to a guy whose brother goes to Virginia. He is preventing me from going crazy about this potential upset. I still think VA is coming back unfortunately.
I don't think they have the time to get stops now.. they need to force turnovers. And I don't think they're capable of that being down.
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Virginia going on a run here like every said, we call time out to regroup and see if we can cut into their insurmountable 12 point lead that we have
If they can do more like that Dawkins steal then yes. but I don't think so.
UMBC official account already drunk tweeting.
@approxinfinity how the refs call Virginiaâs tight D will play a huge factor here.
approxinfinity said:
"This game is over!" The fat Raftery sings.
He got the UNC KU game right in 08!
Lyles hurt and still gets buckets. TOUGH
Game! Wow unreal
Down 17 and under 4 mins......history is going to happen
Let's not get double digits behind this tournament. Agreed?
Well I guess we already did. Let's not do it again.
Virginia fouling like crazy with no whistles
@approxinfinity YES THAT IS REAL
Well I'm kind of hoping Lyles torches Squeaky next game.
DG IS IN THE HOUSE
although I'll confess, I enjoyed the way K St played today.
Seminoles puttin to the Tiggers
approxinfinity said:
Well I'm kind of hoping Lyles torches Squeaky next game.
Just as likely the fall back to earth and KSU destroys them.
Style of play, is all Iâll say. Made UVA vulnerable. I never want to return to that slug it out style. The high/low can be dynamic. I believe Self is well aware of that. Already excited for next season.
Virginiaâs defense is MIA.
Wellp, hopefully this is both a wake up call and loosens us up.
We won't be the highest rated team to go down first. Now let's get loose and torch the field!
This was awesome.
Hist or eee
Virginia destroyed by 20...historical day in NCAA. ACC in mourning.
Welp. Kentuckyâs road just got a lot easier.
KSU was handed a gift, a team with a victory hangover.
Feeling great about my Kentucky FF pick.
@Buster-1926 Well in fairness, this loss wasn't Bennett losing on just X's and O's tonight, this team wasn't built to win this game. Their pace was too slow, 100% dependent on playing inside out, not terribly athletic and didn't know what to do with Lyles (+ injury to hunter).
Any the south, which most including myself thought was weak and any team could win is turning into a cake walk for UK.
Cuse playing BE thug ball
UMBC -- U Must Be Cinderella!!!! ~Grant Hill
Florida State abusing Missouri 42-20 at the half, 7 points from FTs and only 13 from the field for MU.
Not gonna talk about how I had Missouri in the EE tho.
I honestly feel bad for The Virginia players, they played great all year and had one terrible game UMBC shot lights out and played better than they couldâve dreamed of. KSU has a great shot to make the sweet 16. I really will be pissed if KSU goes further than us. Iâm in shock I really am.
Not the same but reminds me of the 2010 loss. Must be very heartbreaking for that fan base as that loss was for ours. Basketball is evolving and the talent gap is closing. Seems like seeds mean less and less every year.
Syracuse can suck it. Man, how I despise that team and especially Boeheim.
Well looks like the Big 12 goes 4-3 in the first round. Sadly the 3 losses were games I felt that were given away. If OU or Texas would hit a modest perentage from the line or TCU wouldnât have had some silly turnovers and missed a ton of open 3s.
So if TCU goes down....of the 4 B12 teams left...we have the toughest game.....How the heck did that happen?
tis4tim said:
Welp. Kentuckyâs road just got a lot easier.
There's always a downside to these things.
And there you have it... no 1 seed goes down to a 16
welcome to the essential nature of the ncaa hunger games.
Survive and try to advance
Go ahead and run all the stats and numbers and ranking and power indexes you can run about Virginia compared to UMBC.
Itâs still college age kids playing a game against each other. It was eventually bound to happen 1 going down to a 16.
@SkinnyKansasDude The 2010 UNI loss is not even in the same ball park as this. UMBC is the worst rated team in the tournament in several formulas. UNI was a 3 loss team that was ranked in #23 in the country going into the tournament and a top 35 team in nearly every ratings that I saw. A 1 seed loses in the second nearly every year compared to a 16 seed never having won before tonight. The UNI was painful but not historically the biggest upset arguably of all time in the sport.
Michael Porter looks like a tool. He looks like Ball.
approxinfinity said:
Michael Porter looks like a tool. He looks like Ball.
Well he did pick Missouri over KU...
@kjayhawks I literally just said it reminded me of it. We were the number one overall and lost very early in the tournament and it was a very painful loss. Thank you for taking the time to explain the magnitude of this loss though. Even though all of social media has been talking about it for the last 2 hours your explanation really was the best. Great job.
@SkinnyKansasDude Please stay with rational discussion and leave out the personal attacks.
Unless you're talking about Missouri players. Then feel free to call them tools :)
Porter did not help himself playing this late and not looking good. He will now move to the NBA having won zero games in college; no wonder he was crying at the end of the game.
I bet Ayton was also crying thinking why did I not pick Kansas?
@JayHawkFanToo add Trae to your list
With Ayton KU would have been a heavy favorite...or even Preston...
There is a very large gap between Ayton and Preston. Still it would have been nice to get anything out of Billy.
I always wonder how deflated Trae's stat line would have been if he played for Bill Self? I am not sure that Trae would have played his way in to the draft lotto if he were on our team? I personally think he made the right decision to showcase his talent to make the big bucks.
kjayhawks said:
@SkinnyKansasDude The 2010 UNI loss is not even in the same ball park as this. UMBC is the worst rated team in the tournament in several formulas. UNI was a 3 loss team that was ranked in #23 in the country going into the tournament and a top 35 team in nearly every ratings that I saw. A 1 seed loses in the second nearly every year compared to a 16 seed never having won before tonight. The UNI was painful but not historically the biggest upset arguably of all time in the sport.
Worse for me personally...
Statmachine said:
I always wonder how deflated Trae's stat line would have been if he played for Bill Self? I am not sure that Trae would have played his way in to the draft lotto if he were on our team? I personally think he made the right decision to showcase his talent to make the big bucks.
Definitely not going to be close to the same usage rate. I agree he made the right choice.
I saw this item this morning .. the biggest upset in the tourney, as far as the spread goes, is still Norfolk St. over Missouri. MU was favored by 21 1/2. Apparently UVA was favored by 20 vs. UMBC.
@HighEliteMajor But missouri only lost by like three. Virginia was blown out.
