I didn't see Loyola play till the tourney. They are a good basketball team man.
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2018 NCAA tournament thread
- Thread starter torero
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I know that the Missouri Valley is down after losing Creighton & Wichita State, but they play good hoops in the MVC and have for a lot of years. Not the surprise people are making it out to be that any team that dominated that league is making a tourney run.
Keep your foot on the gas Loyola.
You're right, I'll admit I don't watch much of that conference. Where do they find all these guys?
The conference is basically a triangle within and surrounding Chicago, St. Louis and Indianapolis. Every community and HS in that region (rural and urban) is obsessed with basketball and the coaching they get at the youth level is incredibly good. It's like Texas is for football.
15 now, K-State making a little run.
With Loyola's win the other night I was looking them up yesterday out of curiosity and they actually won the national championship in 1963. If that's been mentioned in the media I missed it.
EDIT: Just referenced on TV with a team member in the stands literally as I type this
EDIT: Just referenced on TV with a team member in the stands literally as I type this
Princeton style offense is so much fun to watch when you've got 5 unselfish guys who keep moving and are all able to put the biscuit in the basket.
Up to this point they had basically won on 3 last-second shots with the buzzer beater to beat Miami, the crazy bounce to beat Tennessee, and then the 3-pointer with about 2 seconds left against Nevada. Looks like tonight is going to be a much easier win.
This is a big reason for relative parity in this sport: there’s been a huge diaspora of good coaching in basketball. With smaller roster sizes and basketball being an easier sport to support financially, you can have have a really good teams even at smaller schools.
Little known fact, the Big 8 and MVC started out as the same conference, but split in 1928.
Down to 12 ****, need a good possession here, they've been kicking the rock around a bit last couple of trips.
Ball game.
KSU took way too much time on that possession with a little over 3 minutes left down by 12
Damnit don't foul, make them foul you.
You can make the argument the KSU guy was slightly moving but block/charge almost always always seems to be a coin-flip call
**** man, the block-charge rule is a joke to me. They don't call it consistent anyway imho.
Bourbon Buff
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K State guy looked in position to me. Another reffing thing I don't like is that, whenever someone hits the deck, the refs feel like they must call a foul. Sometimes guys just fall down.
Chris Webber has continually said "K-State doesn't know how to play fast" which is beside the point. For this game the comment should have been "K-State doesn't know how to rebound". They've only gotten one shot 95% percent of the time. Combine that with Loyala's deadeye shooting and there's your score. I flew into Chicago on Friday and even the fast talking cynical Sports Jock radio shows were going on and on about Loyola. Tomorrow when I go back through there I'm sure they will be hyperventilating. Too fun.....They were theorizing that they should lift up the Nun's wheelchair on a forklift so she could cut down the regional net. Yikes!!
Jesus Christ man, they did it.
That’s the solution. Stop blowing the whistle every time a guy hits the ground, and flopping stops. Never going to happen though.
4th double-digit seed to reach the Final 4
EDIT: This is not accurate - Syracuse also made it to the Final 4 as a 10-seed in 2016
EDIT: This is not accurate - Syracuse also made it to the Final 4 as a 10-seed in 2016
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I’m looking at the South region. This was a stacked region with a load of really good teams. Loyola of Chicago got it done with miracles and a beat down. Amazing.
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I think I recall that in the first half a K-State player obviously flopped and didn't get the offensive foul call. Maybe if they instituted the NBA rule (?) that penalizes obvious flops, it might prevent that kind of ****. But then I don't watch enough NBA (really, any) to know if the rule is even enforced there.
I actually looked that up.
di·as·po·ra
dīˈaspərə/
noun
noun: diaspora
- the dispersion of the Jews beyond Israel.
- Jews living outside Israel.
- the dispersion of any people from their original homeland.
plural noun: diasporas
"the diaspora of boat people from Asia" - the people so dispersed.
"the Ukrainian diaspora flocked back to Kiev"
Carry on...