DID YOU GUYS SEE THAT PLAY?? THE ONE WHERE THE SENIOR GUARD DRIBBLED TWO STEPS INTO THE LANE AND THEN HANDED IT OFF TO ANOTHER GUARD WHO PULLED IT BACK OUT TO SET UP AGAIN? HOLY SHIT ANOTHER DRIBBLE HANDOFF IM CUMMIN
I thought for sure Marquette lost it when they blew the in-bound pass with 3 seconds left. I gotta go check my blood pressure.
Florida Gulf Coast just crushed their 500th dunk of the tournament. Most of their players did not even have Rivals or Scout pages in high school. Tune in.
For a team that has made three straight Sweet 16s, they sure do play on thin fucking ice, don't they?
Buzz Williams is a hell of a fucking coach. All 3 of those teams were vastly different as well. Last year's team with Jae Crowder and Darius Johnson-Odom was a better team, and more consistent, but this year's team just has a grit to it and a knack for pulling games out of their ass. This was supposed to be a bubble team year of sorts, but Buzz cobbled together a team that won a BE title. Next year, they don't lose anyone of note (They lose Cadougan, their PG, but he's been up and down) but gain a top 10 class. Should finally be a year in which they beat up people, but this year has been tremendously fun and stressful. The best thing about the double digit seeds in the Sweet 16 so far are that they are fun to watch. FGCU and LaSalle both are great to watch. No methodical grind it out teams, just entertaining basketball.
Who's excited for the new Big East? Butler Creighton Depaul Georgetown Marquette Providence St. John's Seton Hall Villanova Xavier
My sister goes to FGCU and is finding it very amusing that a school most people haven't even heard of is in the sweet 16. My other sister recently graduated Florida, and they're the team of pretty much everyone I know in my area. This Friday's game will be interesting to say the least. In all likelihood FGCU is going to get killed, but if a school like VCU can make the final four anything is possible.
One can only dream. Even the coach is pulling down good ass, as he's married to former model Amanda Marcum.
Isn't it law in the States that if you are approached by a D1 athlete you are required to offer him your girlfriend as a sex slave and then crawl away backwards on your hands and knees, never making eye contact?
I had this discussion with a coworker during the last few minutes of the game, and after the game...the best team in the tournament won, simple enough. Louisville was the best team in the country the last month, starting with the BE tourney, and when they turned it on, they were unbeatable. Duke slowed them down for awhile, and Wichita State had a fantastic game plan which kept them completely out of sorts, but the cream rose to the top. It was interesting, both Michigan and Cuse were 4 seeds, but were 1 or 2 seeds most of the year, but both had MISERABLE stretches in February/March, but both turned it on in the tournament. As for the actual game, the stretch at the end of the first half where Hancock hit 3 consecutive 3s and then Siva tossed that oop? Absolutely insanity. I was in a bar and was losing my mind. I had no dog in the fight but enjoyed the hell out of entertaining basketball. And for all the talk of the tourney Mcgary had Luke Hancock played the last 2 games like a grown ass man. I can remember during the Marquette-Louisville game in Feb where he was just a role player and hit a couple threes and I cursed him out with a ridiculous variety of profanities, but he was my favorite player to watch down the stretch. Not flashy, but just getting it fucking done and shooting daggers. Congrats to Pitino and Louisville, sucks that you are part of the BE defection, but you have an entertaining team. Except Russ Smith, that dude is an idiot.