Page 2 of 5 FirstFirst 1234 ... LastLast
Results 11 to 20 of 46
  1. #11
    Moderator at Work ilan's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Location
    Celestial Fields
    Posts
    8,641
    Rep Power
    293
    Except for Loyola-Chicago, all the higher seeds won yesterday. Let's see how it shakes out today. Does UMBC have the chops to shake things up against Kansas State?
    Beginner's Guide for Rocket, NFPS and IKS66...
    http://iptvtalk.net/showthread.php?2...-you-should-do

    Kodi Options for Rocket, NFPS and IKS66...
    http://iptvtalk.net/forumdisplay.php?71-Kodi

    Check the Announcement Section...
    http://iptvtalk.net/forumdisplay.php...-Announcements

  2. #12
    Moderator at Work ilan's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Location
    Celestial Fields
    Posts
    8,641
    Rep Power
    293
    Syracuse upsets Michigan State. Drat!
    Beginner's Guide for Rocket, NFPS and IKS66...
    http://iptvtalk.net/showthread.php?2...-you-should-do

    Kodi Options for Rocket, NFPS and IKS66...
    http://iptvtalk.net/forumdisplay.php?71-Kodi

    Check the Announcement Section...
    http://iptvtalk.net/forumdisplay.php...-Announcements

  3. #13
    Moderator at Work ilan's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Location
    Celestial Fields
    Posts
    8,641
    Rep Power
    293
    Loyola-Chicago made it into the Sweet Sixteen. UMBC didn't fare as well.
    Beginner's Guide for Rocket, NFPS and IKS66...
    http://iptvtalk.net/showthread.php?2...-you-should-do

    Kodi Options for Rocket, NFPS and IKS66...
    http://iptvtalk.net/forumdisplay.php?71-Kodi

    Check the Announcement Section...
    http://iptvtalk.net/forumdisplay.php...-Announcements

  4. #14
    Moderator at Work ilan's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Location
    Celestial Fields
    Posts
    8,641
    Rep Power
    293
    The two low seeds, Loyola-Chicago (11) and Syracuse (11), will try to keep their runs alive this Thursday and Friday. From my perspective, LC will have an easier task with Nevada (7) than Syracuse will with Duke (2). We shall see...

    ------
    First page of this thread has the tournament schedule.
    Last edited by ilan; 03-20-2018 at 04:57 PM.
    Beginner's Guide for Rocket, NFPS and IKS66...
    http://iptvtalk.net/showthread.php?2...-you-should-do

    Kodi Options for Rocket, NFPS and IKS66...
    http://iptvtalk.net/forumdisplay.php?71-Kodi

    Check the Announcement Section...
    http://iptvtalk.net/forumdisplay.php...-Announcements

  5. #15
    Moderator at Work ilan's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Location
    Celestial Fields
    Posts
    8,641
    Rep Power
    293
    Vegas odds have the Wolf Pack (Nevada) slotted as a 1.5-point favorite over Loyola-Chicago.

    Vegas odds have the Blue Devils (Duke) slotted as an 11.5-point favorite over Syracuse.
    Beginner's Guide for Rocket, NFPS and IKS66...
    http://iptvtalk.net/showthread.php?2...-you-should-do

    Kodi Options for Rocket, NFPS and IKS66...
    http://iptvtalk.net/forumdisplay.php?71-Kodi

    Check the Announcement Section...
    http://iptvtalk.net/forumdisplay.php...-Announcements

  6. #16
    Moderator at Work ilan's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Location
    Celestial Fields
    Posts
    8,641
    Rep Power
    293
    16 fascinating facts about the Sweet 16
    Chris Chase - For The Win - Tuesday, March 20, 2018

    The 2018 NCAA tournament started with a wide-open 68-team bracket from which any of a dozen potential winners could emerge. Now, after 52 games, the tournament has shifted to a far different 16-team bracket … from which any of a dozen potential winners could emerge. FTW looks back at the first weekend of the NCAA tournament with 16 fascinating facts about the Sweet 16.

    1. The South region is the first in NCAA tournament history to send none of its top-four seeds to the Sweet 16.

    Virginia, Tennessee and Arizona all lost in the first round while Cincinnati fell in the second round after blowing the biggest lead in the history of the 64-team bracket. (Nevada's 22-point comeback tied Duke's rally against Maryland in the 2001 Final Four.) But the average seed of the four teams remaining in the region (8, Nos. 5, 7, 9 and 11) isn't even the highest this decade.

    2. North Carolina's loss continues a woeful 11 years for reigning NCAA tournament champions.

    Since Florida won its second-straight title in 2007, seven of 11 defending champs have been out of the tournament on the first weekend. (Four of those seven missed the event completely.)

    Of the four that played in the Sweet 16, each lost.

    2008: Florida - MISSED
    2009: Kansas - Sweet 16
    2010: North Carolina - MISSED
    2011: Duke - Sweet 16
    2012: Connecticut: - first round
    2013: Kentucky - MISSED
    2014: Louisville - Sweet 16
    2015: Connecticut - MISSED
    2016: Duke - Sweet 16
    2017: Villanova - second round
    2018: North Carolina - second round

    3. Virginia, Arizona, Michigan State and North Carolina combined to shoot 20-of-108 (18.5%) on 3-pointers in their upset losses.

    4. When Duke faces Syracuse this week, the teams will have the two winningest coaches in college basketball history on the sideline, with Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Boeheim combining for 2,026 victories between them.


    The total counts Boeheim's vacated wins. If you want to be all NCAA about it, the count is 1,925. The Nevada-Loyola game will have coaches - Eric Musselman and Porter Moser - with a combined 305 wins.

    5. The NCAA tournament legend of Tom Izzo has taken a hit over the last three years.

    Michigan State has failed to make it past the first weekend in every tournament since 2016 and has losses to No. 11 and No. 15 in two of those years. The Spartans had made such an early exit just once in the previous eight years.

    (What do the struggles mean for Izzo? The same thing they meant for Mike Krzyzewski when he recently lost two first-round games in three seasons. The same thing they meant for Bill Self when Kansas lost two early games at the start of his career. The same thing it means for Tony Bennett after UVA's loss to UMBC. Nothing. Coaching reputations aren't made over a single season, or even three. It's all about the long game.)

    6. Entering Thursday, there had only been two games in NCAA tournament history in which a top-two seed lost a first-weekend game by 20 points or more. Those games were in 1990 and 2003.

    Over the 48 hours from Friday night to Sunday night, it happened twice on the same court: first with Virginia's 20-point loss to No. 16 UMBC and then with North Carolina's 21-point second-round loss to Texas A&M.

    7. For all the craziness of the first two rounds of the tournament, there's only one true Cinderella left in the field: No. 11 Loyola.

    It's the first time since 2014 that a true mid-major (aka not Gonzaga) with a double-digit seed has gone to the Sweet 16, a surprising drought given that at least one such school advanced to the second week of the tournament every year from 2010-2014 (with two schools doing it in 2010, 2011 and 2013).

    8. Kentucky is setting up to have the easiest Final Four road in history - it'll make Sesame Street seem like Fury Road.

    If the Wildcats continue to win (far from a sure thing given the historic craziness of the South), they would have faced the Nos. 12, 13 and 9 seeds en route to an Elite Eight game versus the No. 7 or No. 11 team in their bracket. The team's first-round opponent (Davidson) will have been its toughest competition. How common is that?

    If the Wildcats make it to San Antonio, they'll be the first team since Kansas in 2008 not to face a top-six seed en route to the Final Four. (The Jayhawks faced the Nos. 12 and 10 seeds in the regional that year.) In the past 25 years, only Michigan State (2001) and Duke (1999) have had such luck. The difference is that each of those three teams were No. 1 seeds - their good bracket fortunes were at least partially earned. Kentucky is a No. 5. The team has fallen backwards into a fortuitous fluke of scheduling.

    Only one other team that wasn't a top seed has ever had an easier road to the Final Four than Kentucky's potential path. That came in 1990 when Arkansas defeated the Nos. 13, 12, 8 and 10 seeds en route to the Final Four in Denver - and even then Arkansas still had to play Dean Smith's North Carolina team (the No. 8 seed) along the way. If Kentucky were to play Loyola in the regional final, they'd be attempting to become the first non-No.1 seed in history to ever make the Final Four while not facing any team seeded in the top half of its bracket.

    And to think, John Calipari spent Selection Sunday whining about Kentucky's draw.

    9. Even if Kentucky doesn't make the Final Four, the South is guaranteed to send a No. 5 or higher into the Final Four, something that's not nearly as rare as you'd think.


    At least one Final Four team has been seeded fifth or higher in eight of the last nine NCAA tournaments (2012 was the exception). Before 2010, a No. 5 seed or higher had made eight of the previous 23 Final Fours. Cinderellas might be on life support, but the mediocre are thriving just fine.

    10. Little-used Marshall senior Ot Elmore was put on the floor late in the Thundering Herd's 23-point loss to West Virginia and made the most of it.

    In a span of 58 seconds, Elmore, the older brother to Marshall star Jon Elmore, hit a 3-pointer and picked up four fouls (including a technical), inspiring the kind of Twitter love usually reserved for sassy tweets from UMBC and Jennifer Garner memes.

    11. Prior to 2013, a No. 7 seed had never made the Final Four in the history of the 64-team bracket.

    But after appearances by Connecticut (2014), Michigan State (2015) and South Carolina (2017), Nevada will try and become the fourth No. 7 seed in the past five years to win its region.

    12. According to Elias, Texas A&M is the first team ever to make the Sweet 16 after starting 0-5 in conference play.

    13. Even with its historic upset win over Virginia, UMBC finished the season ranked No. 166 on KenPom, worse than all but three teams in the tournament's main draw.

    14. Duke is now favored to win the tournament (+325), with Villanova (+450), Kentucky (+700), Gonzaga (+700) and Michigan (+850) rounding out the top-five.

    Kansas is getting +850 despite being one of two No. 1 seeds remaining. Meanwhile, Loyola is 50/1 to win it all (only Syracuse is a longer shot) but is a reasonable 5/1 underdog to make it to the Final Four.

    15. Nine of the 16 coaches remaining have been to the Final Four and five have won it all (John Calipari, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Boeheim, Bill Self and Jay Wright).

    16. Other than a No.1 seed losing a first-round game (something we all knew was coming one day but were totally unprepared for when it did) and some other upsets in the South, this tournament has been just as crazy as many Marches before it.

    The first round didn't have an inordinate amount of Cinderellas, two No. 1 seeds have fallen on the first weekend before, the amount of double-digit seeds through to the Sweet 16 is about normal and while the South's bracket is historic in one way (no top-four seeds left) it's not in another (other regions have had higher combined seeds make it to the regionals). The lesson: March is always mad.
    Last edited by ilan; 03-21-2018 at 12:06 PM.
    Beginner's Guide for Rocket, NFPS and IKS66...
    http://iptvtalk.net/showthread.php?2...-you-should-do

    Kodi Options for Rocket, NFPS and IKS66...
    http://iptvtalk.net/forumdisplay.php?71-Kodi

    Check the Announcement Section...
    http://iptvtalk.net/forumdisplay.php...-Announcements

  7. #17
    Moderator at Work ilan's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Location
    Celestial Fields
    Posts
    8,641
    Rep Power
    293
    National Title Odds from Vegas Insider

    Villanova: 4/1
    Duke: 6/1
    Michigan: 8/1
    Kentucky: 8/1
    Kansas: 10/1
    Gonzaga: 12/1
    Purdue: 15/1
    West Virginia: 22/1
    Texas Tech: 25/1
    Nevada: 100/1
    Texas A&M: 100/1
    Loyola Chicago: 100/1
    Clemson: 125/1
    Kansas State: 125/1
    Syracuse: 125/1
    Florida State: 150/1

    ------------
    See first post for tournament schedule
    Beginner's Guide for Rocket, NFPS and IKS66...
    http://iptvtalk.net/showthread.php?2...-you-should-do

    Kodi Options for Rocket, NFPS and IKS66...
    http://iptvtalk.net/forumdisplay.php?71-Kodi

    Check the Announcement Section...
    http://iptvtalk.net/forumdisplay.php...-Announcements

  8. #18
    Moderator at Work ilan's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Location
    Celestial Fields
    Posts
    8,641
    Rep Power
    293
    Loyola-Chicago and Michigan will be going to the Elite Eight. LC defies the odds once again!
    Beginner's Guide for Rocket, NFPS and IKS66...
    http://iptvtalk.net/showthread.php?2...-you-should-do

    Kodi Options for Rocket, NFPS and IKS66...
    http://iptvtalk.net/forumdisplay.php?71-Kodi

    Check the Announcement Section...
    http://iptvtalk.net/forumdisplay.php...-Announcements

  9. #19

    Fire From Within

    dara's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2014
    Location
    yes i do
    Posts
    10,910
    Rep Power
    393
    Crazy tournament. Only favorite winning tonight was Michigan. I think it will be 'chalk' tomorrow... 1 and 2 seeds winning.

  10. #20
    Moderator at Work ilan's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Location
    Celestial Fields
    Posts
    8,641
    Rep Power
    293
    I agree. It is nearly impossible to envision Villanova or Duke going down. I would think Texas Tech has the best shot of upsetting the upper seed (Purdue).
    Beginner's Guide for Rocket, NFPS and IKS66...
    http://iptvtalk.net/showthread.php?2...-you-should-do

    Kodi Options for Rocket, NFPS and IKS66...
    http://iptvtalk.net/forumdisplay.php?71-Kodi

    Check the Announcement Section...
    http://iptvtalk.net/forumdisplay.php...-Announcements

 

 
Page 2 of 5 FirstFirst 1234 ... LastLast

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •