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  • thetrim
    thetrim Posts: 11,387
    I always heard that AUBURN stood for Alabama usually beats us Rednecks.  
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  • thetrim
    thetrim Posts: 11,387
    I started the day with all elite eight alive and kicking.  As of now I have 6 of the eight still alive and only two of my final four still in it.   That’s Duke and Villanova.  
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  • YukonRon
    YukonRon Posts: 17,261
    edited March 2018
    Legume said:
    Conference fandom make sense when your football team plays like, well, like Kentucky.
    We might be small, but we are slow. 
    Our coach said he would bring a national champion to Lexington, he was almost there, we did play Georgia at home.
    "Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber

    XL and MM
    Louisville, Kentucky
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  • YukonRon
    YukonRon Posts: 17,261
    I had no idea the NIT played their games in Quarters. Watching Louisville today, looking impressive against MTSU.
    "Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber

    XL and MM
    Louisville, Kentucky
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  • YukonRon
    YukonRon Posts: 17,261
    thetrim said:
    I started the day with all elite eight alive and kicking.  As of now I have 6 of the eight still alive and only two of my final four still in it.   That’s Duke and Villanova.  
    Thinking the '16 is where it gets real. If anything, this tournament has shown it could be anyone, left standing tall, at the end of this thing.
    "Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber

    XL and MM
    Louisville, Kentucky
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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,878
    @YukonRon - NIT is playing the lab for the NCAA.  Quarters and the 3 point line is back where the international b'ball one resides.  I believe the deal with fouls and how that works with the bonus is also different in this year's NIT.  FWIW-
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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  • bucky925
    bucky925 Posts: 2,054
    YukonRon said:
    I had no idea the NIT played their games in Quarters. Watching Louisville today, looking impressive against MTSU.
    @YukonRon - NIT is playing the lab for the NCAA.  Quarters and the 3 point line is back where the international b'ball one resides.  I believe the deal with fouls and how that works with the bonus is also different in this year's NIT.  FWIW-  

    Exactly right.  I don't like the 4 quarters, but I do like the expanded lane and longer 3 point line.  I would also like to see the 5 second closely gaurded foul be reinstated.  One other is the international rule when the ball hits the rim it's free to rebound or dunk, that would be fun!

    The best things in life are not things.  

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  • YukonRon
    YukonRon Posts: 17,261
    lousubcap said:
    @YukonRon - NIT is playing the lab for the NCAA.  Quarters and the 3 point line is back where the international b'ball one resides.  I believe the deal with fouls and how that works with the bonus is also different in this year's NIT.  FWIW-
    Thank you @lousubcap. I had some fun watching the game and getting caught up on the changes. Years ago men's NCAA basketball was quarters, if memory serves me correctly, which it rarely does these days.

    Anyway, My Beautiful Wife has forbid me to goof on the ACC anymore, since she is, ahem, a Louisville grad. (Obnoxious? Me?)

    It was all meant in good fun. I know so little about college basketball, as my bracket at work has painfully reminded me. So anyone offended, consider the source.
    "Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber

    XL and MM
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  • jabam
    jabam Posts: 1,829
    UMBC!!!!
    Central Valley CA     One large egg One chocolate lab "Halle" two chiuahuas "Skittles and PeeWee"
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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,878
    @YukonRon - I have accumulated so many laps of the sun that I remember "LISTENING" to the NCAA college B'ball finals on the radio.  Clearly I am old.  This year is about as filled with upsets as I can recall.  Going in we all knew it would be a crap-shoot but the survivors are exceeding even those predictions.  Game on!
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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  • bucky925
    bucky925 Posts: 2,054
    YukonRon said:
    lousubcap said:
    @YukonRon - NIT is playing the lab for the NCAA.  Quarters and the 3 point line is back where the international b'ball one resides.  I believe the deal with fouls and how that works with the bonus is also different in this year's NIT.  FWIW-
    Thank you @lousubcap. I had some fun watching the game and getting caught up on the changes. Years ago men's NCAA basketball was quarters, if memory serves me correctly, which it rarely does these days.

    Anyway, My Beautiful Wife has forbid me to goof on the ACC anymore, since she is, ahem, a Louisville grad. (Obnoxious? Me?)

    It was all meant in good fun. I know so little about college basketball, as my bracket at work has painfully reminded me. So anyone offended, consider the source.
    Taken in good fun....I can dish it out so I better be able to take it.  That's why I love this time of year!

    The best things in life are not things.  

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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,878
    And another # one bites the dust...
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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  • bgebrent
    bgebrent Posts: 19,636
    Incredible.  Xavier well in control until disintegrating in the last 4 minutes.  Go Cats and go Boilers.
    Sandy Springs & Dawsonville Ga
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  • bgebrent
    bgebrent Posts: 19,636
    Can we all reset our brackets now?  Predictably crazy tournament.  
    Sandy Springs & Dawsonville Ga
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  • Foghorn
    Foghorn Posts: 10,228
    Foghorn said:
    I just looked at my bracket.  I'm worried that I'm going to regret picking Xavier over Florida State.
    ... and the regret sets in ...

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  • saluki2007
    saluki2007 Posts: 6,354
    Well it looks like I won't be getting to keep the rub for winning this year.  Good luck to those who someone managed to predict the chaos.

    I only got 5 picks correct in the entire west region.  0 made it to the sweet 16.  OUCH!
    Large and Small BGE
    Central, IL

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  • Killit_and_Grillit
    Killit_and_Grillit Posts: 4,326
    saluki2007 said:
    Well it looks like I won't be getting to keep the rub for winning this year.  Good luck to those who someone managed to predict the chaos.

    I only got 5 picks correct in the entire west region.  0 made it to the sweet 16.  OUCH!
    @saluki2007 times are tough this year. Friday night I was looking good. 

    This morning I have 1 team left in my whole bracket.

    "Brought to you by bourbon, bacon, and a series of questionable life decisions."

    South of Nashville, TN

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  • JohnEggGio
    JohnEggGio Posts: 1,430
    I’m in a big pool - 210 entries at $10
    each.  About 5:00 pm yesterday I was sitting pretty in 2nd place.  Then the carnage began...  ugh!
    Maryland, 1 LBGE
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  • Foghorn
    Foghorn Posts: 10,228
    What’s crazy about this tourney is that the biggest upsets have been blowouts. 

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  • YukonRon
    YukonRon Posts: 17,261
    Foghorn said:
    What’s crazy about this tourney is that the biggest upsets have been blowouts. 
    Totally agree, though the UNC game may have not been an upset in reality, but the margin was crazy. TAMU is a scary team when they are playing in sync. Those guys looked unbeatable.
    No matter who you have left in your bracket, Thursday and Friday could be the end, just seems to be the way it is going.
    "Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber

    XL and MM
    Louisville, Kentucky
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  • Foghorn
    Foghorn Posts: 10,228
    "TAMU is a scary team when they are playing in sync. Those guys looked unbeatable."

    As the father of a TAMU grad I'm happy to agree with that statement... except one can say the same about Clemson...

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  • YukonRon
    YukonRon Posts: 17,261
    Foghorn said:
    "TAMU is a scary team when they are playing in sync. Those guys looked unbeatable."

    As the father of a TAMU grad I'm happy to agree with that statement... except one can say the same about Clemson...
    Very true.
    "Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber

    XL and MM
    Louisville, Kentucky
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  • milesvdustin
    milesvdustin Posts: 2,882
    My bracket got destroyed. Half of my final four is up in smoke. Duke better win this thing. 

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    Egging in Southern Illinois (Marion)

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  • Foghorn
    Foghorn Posts: 10,228
    Bump.

    Cause the Sweet 16 games have started.

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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,878
    Given the sphincter tightening going on now, I will give mine a look Sat AM.  I still have pulse in a few but given my track record I will flat line by the end of the weekend.  However, you can't beat the win or go home tournament.  Who can string six in the NCAA.  See UConn in 2014 for an out-lier.  FWIW-
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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  • bgebrent
    bgebrent Posts: 19,636
    Wild first game.  Just hope whoever wins is gassed.
    Sandy Springs & Dawsonville Ga
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  • Foghorn
    Foghorn Posts: 10,228
    bgebrent said:
    Wild first game.  Just hope whoever wins is gassed.
    They will be.  That's how this tournament is going for Kentucky.

    Plus, the pace of this game is high.

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  • GrillSgt
    GrillSgt Posts: 2,507
    I’m sorry to inform you but according to the snowflakes we can’t have this thread.
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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,878
    But we just cruised into Spring in the Northern Hemisphere so snowflakes need to migrate south for the next several months.  
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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  • Foghorn
    Foghorn Posts: 10,228
    lousubcap said:
    But we just cruised into Spring in the Northern Hemisphere so snowflakes need to migrate south for the next several months.  
    I don't think that's how it works.

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