NCAA Hoops 2013

[crazy canuck]

Adios Michigan

Michigan losing was sad.  Losing to Kentucky was salt in the wound.

[grumbler]

Michigan losing was sad.  Losing to Kentucky was salt in the wound.

Michigan had the right game plan and executed it well.  Kentucky, the roughly-#250 three-point-shooting team beyond the arc, just had a magic day and hit 7 out of 11 threes (almost every one contested). That was a great game; it was like watching two old-style bare-knuckle fighters just whale on each other, each refusing to go down.

Thanks largely to Stauskas, this Michigan team was the most efficient offensive team of the KenPom era.  Gonna miss that guy.  Also going to miss senior Jordan Morgan, who finished the year with the highest-percentage hit rate for FG for a season (70% this year) and career (69%).  Not bad for a guy who will not see the pros (though, having two Michigan chemical engineering degrees, he probably didn't want to take the pay cut anyway).

[derspiess]

Wow, even though they're not traditional 7 or 8 seeds, I don't think many people saw this coming!

Save for nearly an entire state of obnoxious, entitled fans.

[crazy canuck]

Michigan losing was sad.  Losing to Kentucky was salt in the wound.

Michigan had the right game plan and executed it well.  Kentucky, the roughly-#250 three-point-shooting team beyond the arc, just had a magic day and hit 7 out of 11 threes (almost every one contested). That was a great game; it was like watching two old-style bare-knuckle fighters just whale on each other, each refusing to go down.

Thanks largely to Stauskas, this Michigan team was the most efficient offensive team of the KenPom era.  Gonna miss that guy.  Also going to miss senior Jordan Morgan, who finished the year with the highest-percentage hit rate for FG for a season (70% this year) and career (69%).  Not bad for a guy who will not see the pros (though, having two Michigan chemical engineering degrees, he probably didn't want to take the pay cut anyway).

I agree with everything.

The second and third fouls Morgan picked up at the end of the first half and then the beginning of the second really hurt.  If he had been able to play more of the second half I think that would have made the difference.

[Ed Anger]

Wow, even though they're not traditional 7 or 8 seeds, I don't think many people saw this coming!

Save for nearly an entire state of obnoxious, entitled fans.

YOO KAY!

[grumbler]

Local Florida station doesn't have game film rights to the UF-Dayton game, but doesn't let that stop their coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvBYYp3BrLo

[MadBurgerMaker]

Soo UCONNs guards are fast as hell. 

[derspiess]

Hope that holds.  UK must be stopped. 

[Ed Anger]

YEW KAY

[crazy canuck]

Great game so far.  Hopefully UConn can up the tempo in the second half and blow Kentucky out of the gym.

[Valmy]

UConn doesn't do up tempo.  Though I guess that is not fair, Jim Calhoun isn't there anymore.

[crazy canuck]

UConn doesn't do up tempo. 

Thats how they got the big lead in the first half 

[Valmy]

UConn doesn't do up tempo. 

Thats how they got the big lead in the first half 

Oh well I just turned it on and saw it was 35-31 and thought to myself 'typical UConn game'  which is certainly better than a typical Kentucky game.  I was not aware their 35 points was due to a torrid pace.

[sbr]

Hope that holds.  UK must be stopped.

Here's hoping they don't give up the easy 30 foot left wing jumper to Harrison in the closing seconds.

[Valmy]

Here's hoping they don't give up the easy 30 foot left wing jumper to Harrison in the closing seconds.

You should have seen me at the end of the Wisconsin game

'ok just don't let Harrison get it...not Harrison please...come on....NOOOOOOOO GOD SDLI#$@(*W$P(TYADOFHQErh'