OFFICIAL 2011 NCAA TOURNAMENT THREAD

[MarkGrace]

VCU has this thing. Wow.

[DrumNFeather]

Alright Mark, let's start working on the movie script for this one...

[MarkGrace]

Alright Mark, let's start working on the movie script for this one...

Pretty wild. Also crazy that Butler is beating an 11th seed away from playing in back-to-back national championships.

[BoylenOver]

Awesome game. Kansas was something like 2 for 20 from the arc.

Jeez, how will Butler handle their role as the established favorite against VCU?

[BoylenOver]

VCU won four of their 5 tournament games by double digits. Holy shit.

[BoylenOver]

Last one: 194 of 6 million brackets had Butler and VCU in the Final Four.

[LiveCoug]

Last one: 194 of 6 million brackets had Butler and VCU in the Final Four.

That many? Or do you mean 194 had Butler OR VCU in their final four? No way that many had BOTH.

[falafel]

That many? Or do you mean 194 had Butler OR VCU in their final four? No way that many had BOTH.

You think that number is high?

[LiveCoug]

You think that number is high?

Yes.

[falafel]

Yes.

Those brackets were probably filled out by people who do 20 brackets a year with all sorts of crazy scenarios. They probably missed almost everything else in those brackets.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

The Colonial now has more Final Four teams since 2006 than the Big 12.

It only has one fewer than the PAC 10 and Big 10. The same can also be said for the Horizon.

Apparently, it's a good thing that some mid-major conferences are getting more than one team in.

[BoylenOver]

That many? Or do you mean 194 had Butler OR VCU in their final four? No way that many had BOTH.

You don't think it's plausible that .000025% of ESPN participants had both VCU and Butler?

That's a microscopic number.

edit: here's a link: http://twitter.com/ESPN_Fantasy/stat...08977730883584

@ESPNfantasy: Just 5,791 brackets out of 5.9 million in Tournament Challenge had VCU in Final Four. 192 brackets had Butler and VCU in the Final Four.

[BoylenOver]

Here's one of the two brackets that was perfect picking the Final Four (and leads all of ESPN):

[ame="http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/en/entry?entryID=1079446"]ESPN - Tournament Challenge - jspearlman 1[/ame]

Incredible.

And the other one (which is ranked 6,403):

[ame="http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/en/entry?entryID=2627535"]ESPN - Tournament Challenge - vinquach 3[/ame]

[scottie]

I wonder how long until Calipari has to vacate these wins.

Whatever it is he's doing, he's doing it really, really well. These are the college choices of the 2011 McD's AA team (# of commits):

Kentucky 4
Duke 3
Louisville 2
North Carolina 2
Ohio State 2
Syracuse 2
Florida 1
Georgia 1
Indiana 1
LSU 1
Memphis 1
Michigan State 1
Oklahoma State 1
Pittsburgh 1
Texas 1

2010 team:
Kentucky 3
North Carolina 3
Memphis 2
Ohio State 2
Texas 2
Baylor 1
Detroit 1
Duke 1
Florida 1
Illinois 1
Kansas 1
Michigan State 1
NC State 1
Syracuse 1
Tennessee 1
UCLA 1
Villanova 1

[BoylenOver]

Butler is getting sucked into VCU's pace. They need to turn this into a halfcourt game and use their defense and ball movement to break down VCU.