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2025 NCAA Tournament Games Thread

Hank said:
The other funny thing about survivor pools this year, is the NCAA had opposite sides of the bracket play on the same day. The top two seeds, Duke and Florida, played on Saturday. You had to pick one of them, which means you can't pick them again. And that means if there is a Duke-Florida final, it is impossible to have a pick for the finals, and everyone on both sides will draw. Same conundrum with Houston-Auburn, but fewer people were playing that way.
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Not a great year for pools scoring based on seeding.

Cool way to run a pool is each participant picks a set number of teams, usually 4 or 6. Then as those teams win games they accumulate points with the points earned based on their seeding times the round the win is in. A team winning in the first round would score it's seed, second round it's seed times 2, third round it's seed time 3, etc.

So if someone picked a #1 seed the most points that team could win them going all the way to the title would be 21 points. In contrast pick a 5 seed that makes the final 8 and they give you 30 points.

Normally these pools are fun because they reward picking upsets instead of just picking favorites. This year there weren't many lower seeded teams to make it fun.
 
I still believe this has been the most incredibly dull tournament ever. Very few upsets, no Cinderella team to have fun with and very few close games compared to other years. Even in the sweet 16 and elite 8 with supposedly better teams most of the games were beat downs. Sure there was some good basketball at times, but I don’t watch sports to see some good plays and blowouts. (Unless CU is making all the good plays and winning the blow out), I watch to enjoy the competition, the rivalry, the emotion, the suspense, the drama. Unless the final four is epic beyond imagination this is far and away the worst tournament in my lifetime.
 
The women's tournament is back to being dominated by the same teams that have all the NIL money. No Cinderella team. No major upsets. Players in the portal before they leave the locker room after losing.

Boring

WBIT games yesterday were more competitive than the NCAA games.
 
Buffnik said:
Even more, they went west of I35 so that Waco/Baylor was in the East. In short, the graphic equals "no Pac-12, MWC or WCC team has won a national championship for almost 30 years". Meh.
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Stanford won the women's national championship in 2021. I know because the next season we beat them. Times changed. Tara retired. Stanford players are in the portal right after the coach said she didn't expect any players to transfer.
 
Da Lama said:
Aren't like 75% of all schools located east of that line?
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Hank said:
It's basically saying it'a been a while since UCLA last won.
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Buffnik said:
Even more, they went west of I35 so that Waco/Baylor was in the East. In short, the graphic equals "no Pac-12, MWC or WCC team has won a national championship for almost 30 years". Meh.
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H.E. Pennypacker said:
They conveniently put that dividing line just to the left of Lawrence.
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Can we just pretend I got bamboozled by an April 1st joke?

Apparently this fits in the category of "90% of all shark attacks happen in less than 5 feet of water!"
 
jumped ship said:
Houston seriously outplaying Duke but can’t stop laying bricks
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This,

They have contested every rebound, every pass. Then they keep chucking up bad shots, poor shooting form, off balance, and even when they do get a good form shot it bounces off the rim.
 
Hank said:
I knew that but like UNLV, they have only won once. Beyond those three, no western team has won in modern college basketball.
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Quite a few with Final Four appearances, but the titles aren't there.
 
MtnBuff said:
This,

They have contested every rebound, every pass. Then they keep chucking up bad shots, poor shooting form, off balance, and even when they do get a good form shot it bounces off the rim.
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it’s a bummer, was hoping Houston could pull off the surprise. if they don’t start shooting better it’s inevitable their defensive effort will suffer too
 
Buffnik said:
Duke plays very good defense, so credit where it's due. But Houston swarms, bullies and intimidates in a way that's just different.
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Houston plays defense with an intensity level that is rarely seen, somewhat similar to the Nolan Richardson Arkansas teams with their 40 minutes of Hell strategy. Difference is that Houston doesn't push the pace on offense like those teams did.

Even playing great defense Duke has gotten some buckets simply because they have great talent. They make some offensive plays that you normally don't see in college, only in the NBA game.

Against almost anyone else this Houston defense would be shutting them down. Not many other teams have two lottery picks, maybe three on the floor and other guys who will eventually be playing in the league.
 
Buffnik said:
Duke plays very good defense, so credit where it's due. But Houston swarms, bullies and intimidates in a way that's just different.
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I think what is incredible about Duke is that Alabama couldn’t get a free look at a 3 all game last Sunday, whereas now Houston can get nothing going inside.
 
Duke's talent is elite, but what's really impressive to me tonight is how connected and unselfish they are. I don't know that I have seen better offense from a college team, particularly one that features 3 freshmen. Scheyer is a great young coach and looks like he's another Coach K.
 
I don't know if there's anything you can do but tip your cap. I'm anything but a Duke fan. But any team that can be up double digits on Houston on a night when the Cougs are shooting over 50% from 3? Just wow.
 
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