Dammit, Lobos had plenty of chances in this one but when they had finally tied it up they went scoreless for about 7 minutes. Their 3-point shooting has been dreadful. Either team could've taken control in this game if they had stepped up
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NCAA tournament Day 2
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cubuffs85
Active Member
Think ND St will beat SD St?
cubuffs85
Active Member
I don't really hate Coach K, but I dislike Duke, easier for me, growing up rooting for the Terps. To me if you're Duke fan, you're also the same type who likes the Yankees, Cowboys, and Lakers.
cubuffs85
Active Member
Not sure how to explain this to you, I take it you don't root against bandwagon teams?
Junction
Club Member
:yeahthat:
I first started watching Duke right after Kryzewski was hired, when they had Dawkins, Amaker, Bilas, Gminiski, etc. Having developed a normal, healthy hatred for the Carolina scumbags, rooting for Duke was kind of a natural thing. Since then I've just never developed the hatred for them that everybody else on Earth (except you Alfred, and Dookie V) seems to have.
For the stereotypical Duke fan that jumped on the bandwagon after the first or second national championship the comparison to Yankme (and Red Sox) and Cowboys (and Patriots) and Lakers (and Celtics) fans is probably a decent one, though.
SECOBuffsFan
Active Member
I have a long dislike for Chrisitan Laettner and Bobby Hurley so now that they are mostly gone (Hurley coaches Buffalo) from basketball vision....Duke is left to bear that hatred
Darian3Hagan
'89 Player of the Year
First off **** all of you that picked Pitt.
cubuffs85
Active Member
It's probably the closest thing to ND football -- private school that has a national following. Games were widely televised before every game got atleast on ESPN3.
aik
Well-Known Member
I'm with you on that but any team that stays in the title picture for consecutive decades and gets a lot of t-shirt fans is going to get that Goliath image from those refusing to be bandwagoners. I don't mind Duke in the regular season but come tournament time if I don't have a dog in the fight I am all over the mid-majors.
I don't hate Duke and like to see them do well, mainly to piss off the tar hole fans. If there's a trendy, sense of entitlement fanbase that people should be hating it's UNC. Throw in crybaby Roy and it's a no-brainer.
L Buff
Commissar of the Albuffs Collective Left
Alfred 91:
1) Duke is ESPN's favorite team ... they're featured on those networks more than anyone else, even when undeserved.
2) They are consistently overrated, by ESPN, the AP, and the coaches.
3) They consistently get to start the tournament within a stone's throw of their campus, even when they are not a #1 seed (witness this year ... what other #4 seed got to play its first game(s) 25 miles from home?)
4) As obnoxious as ****heel (UNC) fans can be, at least most of them appear to have some connection to the university. Most Duke fans are, as has been pointed out by others here, bandwagoners and frontrunners in the same "class" as Yankee, Cowboys, and Notre Dame football fans, who never got closer to Durham NC than watching Duke games from Cameron on TV.
5) Duke sucks (that's a Fark.com thing ... the founder and chief admin of that site is a Kentucky grad). :lol:
1) Duke is ESPN's favorite team ... they're featured on those networks more than anyone else, even when undeserved.
2) They are consistently overrated, by ESPN, the AP, and the coaches.
3) They consistently get to start the tournament within a stone's throw of their campus, even when they are not a #1 seed (witness this year ... what other #4 seed got to play its first game(s) 25 miles from home?)
4) As obnoxious as ****heel (UNC) fans can be, at least most of them appear to have some connection to the university. Most Duke fans are, as has been pointed out by others here, bandwagoners and frontrunners in the same "class" as Yankee, Cowboys, and Notre Dame football fans, who never got closer to Durham NC than watching Duke games from Cameron on TV.
5) Duke sucks (that's a Fark.com thing ... the founder and chief admin of that site is a Kentucky grad). :lol:
I guess. Duke has been successful over a long period of time. That's going to breed a large fan base. Put it this way - if CU had a run of success in football or basketball like Duke has, would you really give **** how many 'bandwagon' fans we had?
To me, the reason I dislike teams like U$C, the Patriots and the Yankees is because I disagree with the way they got things done. If they did things the way Duke has, I wouldn't really care.
One caveat I suppose is if CU actually competed with Duke in anything. Maybe that would change my opinion.
To me, the reason I dislike teams like U$C, the Patriots and the Yankees is because I disagree with the way they got things done. If they did things the way Duke has, I wouldn't really care.
One caveat I suppose is if CU actually competed with Duke in anything. Maybe that would change my opinion.
No, most of them don't have a connection to the university.
Regarding playing close to home, 8 of the top-4 seeds got placed somewhat close to home, it just so happens that one of this year's pods happened to be in Raleigh instead of Charlotte or Greensboro (which are both still close, but 1 or 2 hours away). There are many times when UNC also has played in Raleigh or KU has played in Kansas City.
L Buff
Commissar of the Albuffs Collective Left
Okay ... I stand corrected. But that being said, I did say that it was my impression that far more Heel fans have a connection to UNC than Duke fans have to Duke.
First of all ... I incorrectly called Duke a 4 seed ... they were in fact a 3. My bad.
The #3 seeds this year:
1) Creighton ... opened in San Antonio
2) ISU ... opening in San Antonio
3) Syracuse ... opened in Buffalo (closest other than Duke, but still 150 miles away)
Again ... maybe it's just my perception ... but I can't recall many times in the past several years when Duke has had to open up anywhere other than the state of North Carolina or New York (which is Duke Country North) regardless of their seeding.
CVilleBuff
Well-Known Member
Yeah, Heel fans are largely Walmart tshirt fans. Mullets are not an uncommon sight [FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif] [/FONT]
SuperiorBuff
Well-Known Member
Absolutely, one of the worst fan bases I have ever been around.
buffsyko
Club Member
You mean getting things done like having your own network (YES) and george having money? I guess he should have distributed his wealth to teams like Tampa bay who get 15 people in the stands each game unless they make the playoffs. Sounds like some cooky Obama plan to me.
16 people left standing.
Go Colonels!!!!!!!
wyobuff
Well-Known Member
Isnt it eastern?
What does it take for the refs to make a charge call? I've seen a few calls today that sure as hell looked like a charge and they were all called blocks