Semi-Saturday Open Thread
by CardsFan922 on Mar 13, 2010 11:52 AM EST
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PrintOne of the most exciting days of the college basketball season. Championships and semi-finals starting now (get your DC fix on CBS! with Gus Johnson announcing!) and culminating with the Big East Championship in what should be a good game. In between, you've got:
11:30 - Conference USA Championship - Houston v. UTEP (CBS - GUS JOHNSON)
Will the committee create a story-line with DC (re)United with his classmates Jerry Smith and Edgar Sosa against the Coach/Father Figure who cast him away?
12:00 - America East Championship - Vermont v. Boston U (ESPN2)
Vermont could be a sexy 12 over 5 pick with a win today. Boston U could be a easily-forgotten 15 seed.
1:00 - SEC Semifinal - UK v. Tennessee (ABC) (really? ABC? Weird)
Nothing much to say about this one. Except that I can't wait until UK plays a good team this season.
1:00 - A-10 Semifinal - Temple v. Rhode Island (Not Televised?)
Nothing much to say about this one, for real this time.
1:30 - ACC Semifinal - Duke v. Miami (ESPN)
Miami somehow stealing an at-large spot is the only thing that may, maybe like 1% keep us out. So, gulp, let's go Duke.
1:40 - Big 10 Semifinal - Illinois v. OSU (CBS)
National Player of the Year Evan Turner tries to chase the Kuric feeling against Illinois, who should be in regardless but could solidify things with a strong showing or win. OSU has an outside chance at a #1 seed but regardless should end up in Syracuse's bracket, I randomly predict. Regardless.
3:00 - SEC Semifinal - Vandy v. MSU (ABC)
Not quite Marquette/Georgetown or even Rhode Island/Temple really.
3:30 - ACC Semifinal - NC State v. GaTech (ESPN)
Not quite Vandy/MSU.
4:00 - Big 10 Semifinal - Minnesota v. Purdue (CBS)
Tubby has his team poised to be literally the least sexy sexy 12-5 upset pick ever.
6:00 - Big 12 CHAMPIONSHIP - Kansas v. K-State (ESPN)
Probably the best game of the day. Kansas has a chance to lock up the overall #1 seed with a win. K-State is a team that for some reason people think is good even though I don't believe it. When they knock us out next Saturday in the 2 v. 10 match-up, I will feel bad for having written this blurb.
6:00 - Pac 10 CHAMPIONSHIP - Cal v. Washington (CBS)
Washington making the Championship may be enough to prevent the Pac-10 from embarrassingly becoming a 1-bid league this year. Winning it would assure that, although we can all still point and laugh.
7:00 - Mountain West CHAMPIONSHIP - UNLV v. San Diego State (Maybe VS or something)
San Diego State is listed as a 12 on the Bracket Matrix, which makes me think they are one of the last at-large teams in. UNLV safely on the 9 line. Should be a battle either way, but both of these teams present a scary first round match-up for whomever they end up facing the first weekend.
9:00 - BIG EAST CHAMPIONSHIP - Georgetown v. WVU (ESPN obv)
The great-uncle of them all. Since both teams got at least one bye, there should be some reasonably fresh legs. WVU still has a very outside chance at a #1 seed and a beatdown tonight would give them a boost (along with Duke and OSU losing by like 50) but Georgetown has a chance to really improve their seed. Seriously, where do they seed the Big East teams this year? Georgetown could be anywhere from a 3 to a 7, ND could be a 5-10, we could be a 8-12, Marquette in the same 7-11 range.
So, lots of good basketball. Even if we aren't playing.
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I really don't want to play UTEP and DC
Caracter will either play horrible or go off for 30 and 15 if he plays us. And there can be absolutely no middle ground.
Dykes just said...
…Calipari has more patience for guys like Cousins than any coach in the country.
He was trying to compliment him.
by CardsFan922 on Mar 13, 2010 1:33 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Heard that...guess that's one way of putting it.
These guys are stretching to compliment the Classy Cats. When Cousins got called for a questionable foul, Nessler said, “And Cousins didn’t even complain about it.”
I might be wrong...
But I think they are trying to tell us something in this game. Cousins…is…a…man? They need to say it about 12 more times for me to be sure though.
by CardinalDude on Mar 13, 2010 2:58 PM EST up reply actions
UTEP
just went down. Uh oh. Who gets shafted and left out now that Houston AND UTEP are in? Somebody on the bubble is chewing fingernails now.
Ugh...
Ashley Judd is a fair weather fan. I don’t seem to recall her on the side lines at any UK game last season.
The way...
…Announcers talk about UK you’d think they beat teams by 30 every game. I will give them credit for winning a lot of close games, but at some point you have to wonder about all the close games they’ve played against bad teams.
Who knows. Tourney will be great.
by CardsFan922 on Mar 13, 2010 1:46 PM EST via mobile reply actions
The A-10 games are on CBS College if anyone cares
Also, Kentucky might be hard to beat in the Big Dance. And what’s up with Miami? Are they pulling a Georgia where they suck all year and get hot in the tournament?
In case you missed Jimmy Dykes calling the UK game today...
You might need to know (1) UK has the best recruiting class in the last 5 10 20 50 years, (2) Cousins is a really nice guy who is just misunderstood, and (3) the ONLY voices you hear in the huddle are Calipari and Wall. This means that UK has first-class seats on the NCAA plane and can only fail to win a national title if Wall and Cousins get arrested they face the Lakers.
by cardsinindy2010 on Mar 13, 2010 3:04 PM EST reply actions
And
Wall can take the ball when he wants to, and where he wants to. Make he should take it out to dinner?
by CardinalDude on Mar 13, 2010 3:10 PM EST up reply actions
Evan Turner is great
I don’t know if they are a final four team, but how can you pick against Turner?
What happened in tOSU game?
I was unable to watch, checked the score and Illinois was up 5 in OT. Then OSU wins by 8 in 2OT?
Also, Purdue has scored 9 points in the first half. There are 7 SECONDS left.
Evan Turner happened.
Had 11 points in the 2 OTs.
by CardinalDude on Mar 13, 2010 5:29 PM EST up reply actions
Mississippi State just beat Vanderbilt.
Am I the only one who is really nervous now thanks to the likes of SDSU, Houston, Mississippi State, etc?
"It's not the South, it's not Chicago, and you don't think of it as you think of New York or L.A. It has some Southern romanticism to it, but also a Northern progressivism, this weird urban island in the middle of the state of Kentucky...For us, Louisville and the surrounding areas are the center of massive creativity and massive weirdness." - Jim James, My Morning Jacket
Yes
With a week to prepare we can beat any first round opponent like that.
Minnesota now scares me, or any Big 10 team just because of our history with them.
SEC / CUSA schools not so much.
Not sure about SDSU – would love New Mexico as a 2nd round opponent but not sure about SDSU as first round opponent.
No.
There are so many teams who didn’t amount to a hill of beans during the season who are suddenly turning it on that I’ve been nervous today too. Not because I’m afraid Louisville would necessarily have a hard time with any of them, but because Lunardi isn’t, after all, the selection committee. The selection committee might choke at giving the Big East so many bids when lowly Mississippi State, Houston, etc. have suddenly become stars in their respective conferences. I THINK the Cards are in, but I admit to a sudden burning desire to see Duke and Ohio State crush people.
Purdue
Is pathetic today. I feel bad for the. They should have just skipped this one.
by REALISTICCARDSFAN on Mar 13, 2010 5:47 PM EST via mobile reply actions
GaTech
Announcer just said they are turnover prone and not a good free throw shooting team.
Sounds like a good match up for us!
Good game so far
Earlier Brent Musburger said a K State player “had a lot of giddy-up”. Someone’s been reading urbandictionary.com.
by UL is my hot hot sex on Mar 13, 2010 6:49 PM EST up reply actions
I fell asleep shortly before halftime
Long day. From what I saw they looked good.
Lots of bubble teams, somehow Seton Hall and Ole Miss are now on the “Last 4 out” which makes me think that there is a 0% chance we are not in it.
It was a great game.
Kansas is awesome, and Kansas State is semi-awesome. I’m one of those people who’s been admiring them all season. Pullin is a hell of a player.
WVU playing great
Georgetown not playing bad either.
I hope neither of these teams have that weird amazing-big-east-tourney-run-first-round-NCAA-exit result. Those are weird.
Great ending....
….coming up in New York.
Georgetown had the ball with a chance to take the lead with 2:40 left. WVU made good stop and got the rebound.
That was a horrible call on vaughn
Great shot by Freeman though
by Chris Redman is my hero on Mar 13, 2010 11:13 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Wow what a finish
Wright may have gotten fouled but wow.
Perfect way to end this year’s Big East season. Great game.
Doug Gottlieb = World's Biggest Louisville Hater.
So Minnesota and Illinois both have RPIs in the low 60s (almost 70), and Gottlieb thinks they should be in ahead of us. Really? What a jackass. Of course, he says nothing about our two wins over Cuse, or the fact that our games against tourney teams were generally against much better tourney teams than those teams played. That is why we have a top 5 SOS. ESPN sucks for keeping a douche like this on its payroll.
by cardsinindy2010 on Mar 14, 2010 12:40 AM EST reply actions
I found this ridiculous as well
I don’t know how Illinois is in. Their resume sucks. They lost to Bradley and Utah. And beat MSU without Lucas. I don’t get it
Agreed. And of course, because Gottlieb is not the Selection Committee, they're probably not in.
He really has zero credibility.
by cardsinindy2010 on Mar 14, 2010 12:58 AM EST up reply actions
If you play a top 5 SOS
and win 20 games, featuring 11 in the Big East & a recent win over the #1 ranked team..hard to fathom the selection committee keeping you out unless you’ve lost 5+ in a row and/or suffer a key injury. Or you’re a Big East hater? Louisville was a lock after the Cards beat Syracuse last Saturday.
by UL is my hot hot sex on Mar 14, 2010 1:04 AM EST up reply actions
Of course
You guys need to stop stressing about us being in or not. No way we’re not in. Lunardi has us as a 9, which I think is accurate. If he had us down as a 12 or lower, I’d worry. The 2 wins over a #1 seed are huge.
WVU should be a 1-seed
over Duke. They won’t, but their resume is better. Flat out better in virtually every category you compare head-to-head. But Duke will get it because they’re Duke. And that’s ridiculous.
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