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Let the big boys play

We have 2.5 bigs in!!

PUT TWO BIGS IN BILL

I've seen enough of KJ

air foul

Oh boy, chuck on the loose

I'd be happy if we just pushed up the court and didn't run our offense at all.

There's the Dot we all know and love

Bill also might think KJ can hit a 10 footer against their zone. Which I doubt.

Well, NE only has 7 guys, so maybe we'll wear them out chasing KJ around.

Better start rebounding a little better. If they get 2 or 3 cracks per trip, we're in trouble.

Nice job, Ochai

might need 40 from dedric since the rest of the team is afraid to shoot

NE is packing the paint on D. Going to have to make some shots, boys

Dude on CBS says KU has no pro-caliber players.

what a ridiculous ending in the Auburn NMSU game. Bonehead decisions by everyone involved, started off by Coach Big Oyster deciding to foul up three with 16 seconds left.

I'm making sure I didn't pick St. Johns or ASU to win anything. These teams both stink.

I filled out two brackets... one with my hopes and one with my nightmares. The nightmare one has KState in the final 4, then Kentucky losing to Duke in the championship 79-45.

I can live without the piggy and ratface stuff... as long as it's still ok to call Calipari "Squid"

works for me on AT&T cell iPhone while not on wifi

@Texas-Hawk-10 thanks for that link. I was curious about how other people graded the prognosticators. I'm basing my opinions about how often I saw Lunardi (and his followers/ESPN) discussing possible first and second round matchups--in February. I know there's nothing else to talk about except Zion's breakfast, but... :dizzy_face:

Using the final results from past matrices, each site was graded based on a scoring system made by Paymon at PHSports. This rubric awards 3 points for each team correctly picked, 3 points for each team correctly seeded, and 1 point for each team not seeded correctly but within one seed line. With 68 teams, a perfect score is 408. The variance section of the data table below lists the absolute deviation between each score and the mean for that particular year. Thus, a 10 point variance means that site's bracket scored 10 points higher than the average bracket that year.

Lunardi is 63% for seeding. (cough big deal) O% for first round matchups.

@Woodrow what is considered good for that? I figured him to be at about 64%

@Crimsonorblue22 Hey, I ain't sayin' anything about the way he looks. In fact, I'll give him some serious props for getting his ugly ass mug on TV from January to March.

@Crimsonorblue22 on the flip side, their little guard on Lawson while we're on offense. I'd take that matchup. I know Self is preoccupied with defense, but our problem is on the other end of the court.

Also note, Lunardi picked (at best) 1 of 32 first round matchups if NC Central gets past Iona. That's useless. This guy should be selling used cars.

WHOA! Lunardi got 23% right this year. Including all four obvious #1s. (minus those #1s he was a whopping 18.75% correct. Give him a bonus, ESPN, or hire a random fan off the street who could probably predict a more accurate bracket. :rolling_eyes: :stuck_out_tongue:

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@Woodrow I don't want us to play 4 guards again this season. We've lost about 7 games that way

(edit: US playing four guards, not against four guards)

Now I'm leaving

Only down 9

All right. Gotta go. Don't give up yet!

It doesn't look as bad on the radio fwiw

I still feel like isu could blow it

Here we go

Jk. Listening on the radio

Had to go to the airport to pick up me wife. How's the game going?

Let me guess, Roy still had 3 timeouts at the end of the Duke-NC game.

Zion TIME

Without Mathew's 30, WVU got nuthin

Teahan tried to kill Fran

@approxinfinity uphill or downhill

Ochai just hung around the rim and waited for that lob

Lawson wanted an alley oop ?

Textbook Bill Self offense

Ochai still has some hops. Nice pass by big dave

looks like a cramp. I get those when I'm sleeping one in a while.

we had a big lead in Morgantown too

I know Dot needs some rest once in a while, but can't Garrett play point and just have Charlie run back and forth on the baseline?

I don't think we're going to hit 100

Ask the Ochai's folks how much Bill payed them, holly.