March Madnes 2021 NCAA Tournament

ericd7633 said:
The best chance was the 2007 and 2011 Ohio State teams, given the combination of talent, experience, coach. You're right the 07 team ran into a buzzsaw in that Florida team, I don't know many people that thought OSU was going to win against them. The 2011 OSU team was by a pretty wide margin the best team in the country that year. It's still surprising it ended in the S16. All the MSU and Michigan teams that made the FF would have been a pretty big surprise had they won the whole thing.

I'd probably rate the following teams as the best chance:

2011 OSU
2005 Illinois
2007 OSU
2015 Wisconsin
2010 Purdue - really under the radar, but they were a top 4 team when Hummel tore his ACL.
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Only loss worse than this one was 2011 UK. That team was stacked and had a bracket going their way.

The tourney is just random sometimes. 07 osu got lucky against xavier had a big comeback versus the Vols then handled G Town and blasted Memphis. These kids are weird.
 
stakesarehigh said:
Anyone with a grip on who these teams were should be able to see it was a wide open field past Gonzaga and maybe Baylor. I made the comment I didn't think OSU was a 2 seed in any other tournament in any other year.

As for BIG teams historically...you have a few that ran into buzzsaws (OSU against a loaded Florida in 07, Illinois against loaded UNC in 05, Wisky against two of the best recruiting classes ever in 15) and a few that shit the bed or played above their talent level to get there. The three teams above probably/possibly would've been the best team in a lot of years but ran into another all time team. Or even OSU 12 that even though they lost to Kansas would not have had shit on AD in 12.


TLDR I know but as I said a lot of factors to the why.
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i'm not being serious with the whole "good enough to make it, not good enough to win it"

Big Ten teams have had plenty of opportunities to win a natty since 2000, and it just hasn't happened. It's more bad luck than anything else.
 
ericd7633 said:
I do. While I respect the program, I do hope they lose basically every game. Mostly because of Davison. Before that, they were fine. The 2014/2015 teams were at least fun to watch.
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those Wisconsin teams were super annoying

the media branded those teams, "the most socially aware team in college basketball", because wouldn't shut up about how they should be getting paid.

the only thing i liked about that team is that when they were in NYC for the Sweet 16/Elite 8, one of their players called New York a total dump. Lmao.

and after Duke beat them in the natty, Bo Ryan was a little bitter bitch. He wouldn't shut up about the officiating Shut the hell up, Bo. You were the head coach of Wisconsin, you weren't winning a natty.
 
Hitman Hart said:
those Wisconsin teams were super annoying

the media branded those teams, "the most socially aware team in college basketball", because wouldn't shut up about how they should be getting paid.

the only thing i liked about that team is that when they were in NYC for the Sweet 16/Elite 8, one of their players called New York a total dump. Lmao.

and after Duke beat them in the natty, Bo Ryan was a little bitter bitch. He wouldn't shut up about the officiating Shut the hell up, Bo. You were the head coach of Wisconsin, you weren't winning a natty.
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Yeah, I've never liked Bo either. I was basically just speaking in how they played those years and their style of play. It was un-Wisconsin like, which made them fun to watch. Those fucking 40/50 point wins before Kaminsky and Dekker arrived were brutal to watch.
 
The Bruins making it to the Sweet 16....

Cronin was an amazing hire.
 
ericd7633 said:
Yeah, I've never liked Bo either. I was basically just speaking in how they played those years and their style of play. It was un-Wisconsin like, which made them fun to watch. Those fucking 40/50 point wins before Kaminsky and Dekker arrived were brutal to watch.
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I thought Dekker would have a longer pro career. But did enjoy that squad quite a bit.
 
Oregon-Iowa off to a good start
 
Lil' dive by Toussaint there
 
The Oregon fighting Ducks? :facepalm:
 
Very entertaining Iowa-Oregon game so far.
 
First to 100 it looks like. Both teams basically getting whatever they want on offense.
 
just sitting down to watch the game

lmao, holy shit

its 36-36 already

#asexpected
 
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