NCAA Hoops 2011-2012

[Admiral Yi]

Georgetown out.  Oh well.

[jimmy olsen]

Lehigh up 33-18 over Xavier!

[MadBurgerMaker]

Damn, Tim.  It's only 37 - 33 Lehigh now at the half.   

[sbr]

The taint is strong with that one.

[jimmy olsen]

Wow, and in only 3 minutes too! 

[Berkut]

Zags are leading Ohio St. at the half.  Another 2 seed in danger. 

Hey Throbby, if you read this I could use an explanation of the five second rule please.

This is the closely guarded count.

Once a defender is between an offensive player and the basket, and withing 6 feet playing defense, the covering official starts a 5 second count.

When the offensive player:

Starts to dribble
Pick up his dribble

The count is re-started. This means you could have up to 15 seconds closely guarded - 5 seconds on getting a pass, start dribble, 5 seconds there, pick up dribble, 5 more seconds.

If the offensive player passes the ball, gets by the defender, or the defender is more than 6ft away, the count stops altogether.

If the count ever gets to 5, it is a turnover.

Basically it is a way of keeping the offensive player from just standing there and refusing to move/dribble/pass (and hence place the ball at risk).

[Admiral Yi]

Obrigado.

Seems kind of a gyp to get a five count if you're dribbling.

Jayhawks just squeaked past Purdue.  My final four are all still alive!

[CountDeMoney]

My South and Midwest brackets look like Atlanta 1865, but my East and West have only 1 and 2 losses respectively.

Stoopid Hoyas. 

[Admiral Yi]

Cuse beats The Cheese by one to advance to the round of eight.

4 Big East teams and 3 Big 10 teams left.

4 teams from Ohio left.

[Admiral Yi]

Louisville past Sparty with room to spare.

There's my dark horse.

[sbr]

I missed both games tonight, though I guess I had Wisconsin beating S Miss not Syracuse.  I am happy to see Sparty lose, normally I like MSU hoops but a Spartan fan annoyed my on another forum so I was a huge Louisville fan tonight.

[Ed Anger]

Spartan fans being annoying? There is a shocka.

[jimmy olsen]

Louisville past Sparty with room to spare.

There's my dark horse.

Damn! I've backed them for years to go deep, and the one year I don't they do this to me!

[crazy canuck]

The play in this tourney has not been great.  Some close games to at least make it interesting but that is about it.

[derspiess]

The play in this tourney has not been great.  Some close games to at least make it interesting but that is about it.

Syracuse & Wisconsin was a well-played game.  As was Norfolk State-Mizzou, surprisingly.  UK-Indiana should be a good one tonight.

But hell, any tourney where Duke gets knocked out in its first game is a great one in my book.