2025 March Madness

azgreg · 2025-03-20T14:24:08+00:00

The real tournament starts today but that was a great game last night between Xavier and Texas. Go Cats.

garyt1957

rsvman2 I blame Duke's coach. He never changed the inbounds play. You see your team struggling to inbound the ball and you do nothing? Same thing happened in the Florida game. Florida struggled to inbound the ball twice, had to call timeout. Next time, they change the play to the "line of scrimmage" play and easily inbound the ball twice. What's the definition of insanity?

rsvman2

garyt1957 Agree. Not to mention that the guy rebounding the ball clearly suffered a concussion earlier in the game. He was never the same after that. Why have a guy who can't think straight throwing the ball in against aggressive pressure?

garyt1957

rsvman2 Agree. Not to mention that the guy rebounding the ball clearly suffered a concussion earlier in the game. He was never the same after that. Why have a guy who can't think straight throwing the ball in against aggressive pressure?

Yes, I was a little surprised when he didn't at least go back to the locker room to be tested. I assumed that was protocol like the NFL has. Why not have Flagg or Mallaouch (sp) come back for the ball and throw it high like a lot of teams do?

ode

Easy call to go long when they are over playing the inbounds!

professor

rsvman2 Duke's chances of victory were 97% by computer calculation.

Don’t you just love analytics?!

Bravopilot

Not many close games in the women's tourney, even among the 1 seeds.

professor

garyt1957

Hahaha, obviously a concussion and protocol neglected…
I doubt that!

rsvman2

professor Did you see his fall? People in the crowd could hear his head slamming against the floor. There is absolutely no way he wasn't concussed.

Not saying that is the reason Duke lost the game, but the coach should absolutely have had somebody else inbounding the ball.

professor

rsvman2

Honestly, don’t recall seeing/hearing that one. Thought the reference was to the elbow to the ear. Regardless, am surprised the protocol wasn’t invoked - your saying the impact was audible over the crowd.

rsvman2

professor Yes. It was on a drive to the basket. He got slammed into (no call), and fell onto his backside, with his head then slamming into the hardwood. A friend of mine who was there said that the loud sound was audible well up into the stands.

professor

I'll go with the Defense tonight and pick Houston.

MidwayJ

professor Texas Tech's physical style of play bothered Florida a lot in the regional final, so I think the Gators really have their hands full in this one.

darpar

Houston's D is relentless!

MidwayJ

darpar Houston's D is relentless!

So is their rebounding.

azgreg

I think Florida is learning that you can't bully Houston.

azgreg

Here comes Florida.

professor

azgreg Here comes Florida.

And that was the name of the game - and not just this time! Damn, their "no quit" was impressive.

azgreg Is Houston allergic to the ball all of a sudden?

Or, did Florida just crank up their own play another 'half a notch'? Sure did.

MidwayJ

Houston's offensive rebounding bails them out of some bad offense on some possessions.

azgreg

Is Houston allergic to the ball all of a sudden?

azgreg

Ted Cruz strikes again.

MidwayJ

Geez, they should have just thrown something up there and gone for the rebound. Not even getting a shot off. Wow.

I thought the game might be over when Houston was up by 12. I guess Florida was more battle tested in the SEC than Duke.

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