OFFICIAL 2011 NCAA TOURNAMENT THREAD

[LiveCoug]

25/32 for me.. Not bad, not bad.

[SteelBlue]

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It's been a great year. Here's to hoping it doesn't end tonight. Go Cougars!

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

I'm exactly the reverse. Dead last in both my brackets.

I...er...have a deposition now.

If my picks don't get better I might have a deposition this afternoon.

(Can anyone tell me what a deposition is or what I should do during it? Thanks!)

[BoylenOver]

Man, the Mountaineers closed out that half really well.

[Donuthole]

Man, the Mountaineers closed out that half really well.

The 2 straight blown calls that went WVU's way to end the half equaled 6 points.

[EuropeanFootballMale]

Wow. It's a shame the Big East didn't get 13 teams in this year. They really deserve it.

Now that I think about it they should have sent 15 to the dance.

[Donuthole]

Why is there only one game going right now? We have 8 games to get through today, yet the first two games get exclusive time slots. Not surprisingly, those games both include SEC teams. It's almost as if CBS has an unrelated yet not-entirely-unrelated TV deal with the SEC.

[TripletDaddy]

Now that I think about it they should have sent 15 to the dance.

You guys are going to look foolish when the Big East winds up sending, at best, one team to the Final Four.

[SeattleUte]

The best part about it is they are losing to a team that did not belong in the tournament. They had by far the worst resume of the at large teams. I can't wait to hear SU tell us how those are the most dangerous teams because they have nothing to lose. Also something about how the Big East is so tough its hard to have anything left for hte NCAA tournament, then follow that up with a comment about how good VCU actually is and how they are streaking right now. (Even though they lost 5 of 8 games coming in to the tourney).

If you think they play better ball in the Colonial conference than the Big East you are in the Lunatic fringe. GU and Villanova are, like BYU, troubled teams who got to where they were in the post-season based on a body of work. Georgetown never recovered fro Chris Wright's injury; there is also something going on that no one (including apparently JTIII) knows about. St. John's suffered from an injury to its best player. Big East teams destroy one another in the regular season.

Nevetheless, I predict the Big East will have more schools remaining after Sunday than any other conference even though some of them are playing each other this weekend.

[TripletDaddy]

If you think they play better ball in the Colonial conference than the Big East you are in the Lunatic fringe. GU and Villanova are, like BYU, troubled teams who got to where they were in the post-season based on a body of work. Georgetown never recovered fro Chris Wright's injury; there is also something going on that no one (including apparently JTIII) knows about. St. John's suffered from an injury to its best player. Big East teams destroy one another in the regular season.

Nevetheless, I predict the Big East will have more schools remaining after Sunday than any other conference even though some of them are playing each other this weekend.

You conveniently omitted Louisville but no matter. I guess what you are saying is that the Big East has been overrated all season and that team rankings and tournament seedings incompetently failed to take into account all of the deficiencies you outlined above. I think we are all on the same page.

[BoylenOver]

Why is there only one game going right now? We have 8 games to get through today, yet the first two games get exclusive time slots. Not surprisingly, those games both include SEC teams. It's almost as if CBS has an unrelated yet not-entirely-unrelated TV deal with the SEC.

Seems like it wouldn't be too much to ask to start every game an hour after the previous. Maybe even 45 minutes. But I like that they're staggering the start times.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Why is there only one game going right now? We have 8 games to get through today, yet the first two games get exclusive time slots. Not surprisingly, those games both include SEC teams. It's almost as if CBS has an unrelated yet not-entirely-unrelated TV deal with the SEC.

The Saturday morning game is always a stand alone game. Although it is usually Duke.

[EuropeanFootballMale]

Nevetheless, I predict the Big East will have more schools remaining after Sunday than any other conference even though some of them are playing each other this weekend.

You're right. The BE should have received 17 tourney invites.

[TripletDaddy]

lol. west virginia going out. Another Big Least team bites the dust.

[Donuthole]

lol. west virginia going out. Another Big Least team bites the dust.

I'm feeling pretty good about betting the under on Big East wins (O/U was 15.5).