NCAA Sunday 2nd round game thread

hawaiirsn

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As a Nova alum I watch a lot of Big East hoops. Macura is pretty much universally hated (he’s a good player who plays with an edge)
Yeah two of my best friends are a Nova alum and Creighton med student (who doesn't really watch much basketball) and both hate Macura. I believe the long sleeve under the jersey look he was wearing last season was a frequent target of vitriol.

Perhaps my Macura hate is hypocritical-- as Duke grad student who started 2 years ago who enjoys basketball quite a bit, I was anti-Allen when I showed up. One unprompted good morning from him in front of my office in October and I'm team Grayson!
 

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These are the seeds that have lost today: 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 10, 16

These are the seeds that won today: 2, 7, 7, 11, 9, 9, 5

Left to be decided: Presumably a 5 over a 13.

That's fucking bonkers for the 4th day of the tournament.
 

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Am I crazy or should the refs have called a tech when Walker ran on the court to celebrate with 2 seconds left? He was clearly the 6th FSU player on the court.
 

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Ha I was just going to make a similar comment. 25% of the Sweet 16-- not the expected teams but seems pretty deep to me nonetheless.

Queue up the Gonzaga has an easy path to the Final Four haters
Xavier as a 1 was a bit ridiculous, but I don't see many making this argument (at least with any credibility) when they look at Kentucky... and Villanova's easy path for that matter (although I'm hoping for a WV upset-- I don't think they see much real defense in the Big East).
 

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This is becoming unwatchable. I turned it off last night when early in the UMBC Fame a UMBC player drove in, was obviously hacked on each arm by different KSU players and turned the ball over with no foul call. The officiating in college hoops is horrendous and at an all time low. I watched quite a few games over 4 days and not one was even decently officiated.
 

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This is becoming unwatchable. I turned it off last night when early in the UMBC Fame a UMBC player drove in, was obviously hacked on each arm by different KSU players and turned the ball over with no foul call. The officiating in college hoops is horrendous and at an all time low. I watched quite a few games over 4 days and not one was even decently officiated.
Touch fouls are the order of the day on the perimeter, but you can bang all day down low and hack up a storm on people driving to the hoop. Aggravating as hell to watch. Can't even imagine how frustrating it must be to play/coach.
 

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Queue up the Gonzaga has an easy path to the Final Four haters
No one cares about Gonzaga after last years pathetic championship game display. They finally get there after 20 years of attention and trying and lay an egg
 

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Touch fouls are the order of the day on the perimeter, but you can bang all day down low and hack up a storm on people driving to the hoop. Aggravating as hell to watch. Can't even imagine how frustrating it must be to play/coach.
The thing that really bothers me with college officiating is the complete lack of consistency from game to game and quite often from half to half. Drives me nuts to see the refs let them play in the first half only to whistle about 10 fouls by the under 16:00 timeout in the 2nd half.
 

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Officiating high level basketball is incredibly hard. The speed, the constant contact.... when I was getting my certification for high school reffing years ago I heard that the average MLB home plate ump has to make ~300 decisions in a game. The average NBA ref has to make ~40,000. (Every dribble - is it a carry? Every contact - is it a foul? Etc.)

They're gonna get a lot wrong. It's just how it is. Some of those decisions are going to be easy. But many are going to be incredibly hard. and with that many decisions to be made, it's nearly impossible to get them all right or even be consistent.

I don't know if that 40,000 number is completely accurate but having umped baseball and reffed basketball, I can say that officiating basketball is way way way harder. Orders of magnitude harder.
 

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No one cares about Gonzaga after last years pathetic championship game display. They finally get there after 20 years of attention and trying and lay an egg
The pathetic display in which Gonzaga was down 1 with less than a minute to go and had the ball with a chance to tie under 30 seconds? I could see calling the result frustrating since Gonzaga missed chances to take over the game. However, nothing about Gonzaga's effort in that game was pathetic.
 

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The pathetic display in which Gonzaga was down 1 with less than a minute to go and had the ball with a chance to tie under 30 seconds? I could see calling the result frustrating since Gonzaga missed chances to take over the game. However, nothing about Gonzaga's effort in that game was pathetic.
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