(lack of) momentum is huge.

3/12/2006 9:12:38 PM

it also bothered me that herb didn't even seem upset at the fact that our basketball team looked like a bunch of retards by losing in the first round on the acc tourney to a fucking 12th seed. you would think that that would royally piss off a coach but it didn't. makes me worry about our chances of turning it around when herb dosen't even seem that bothered by our teams recent shitty play.

3/12/2006 9:20:09 PM

I'm fucking torn because I put a lot of pride in my brackets. I've won my last two pools, and my NC State bias almost gets me killed every year (it got me killed the first two times we made the tourney).

I really want to say we can beat Cal and upset Texas. But the smart predictor in me says we go down to Cal, and at the most get beat by Texas.

I hate this dilemma. I remember watching a sports gambling special one day with this guy who is one of the biggest gamblers in the US, and he started off the interview by saying that he never develops favorites...favorite teams, coaches, or players...he never has favorites because it fucks up your betting.

3/12/2006 9:37:14 PM

Quote :

"...he never has favorites because it fucks up your betting."

its a paradox because the teams/players that earn you the most money become your favorites.

3/12/2006 9:38:42 PM

Dont worry Herb supporters....I see us upsetting two good teams and making it to the sweet 16 again so Herb saves his ass again. Then its another year of this bullshit.


I'm not pulling against us, but at least this time I wont be furious if we lose.

3/12/2006 9:48:37 PM

^^^ i'm having this exact problem filling out my bracket.

3/12/2006 9:49:18 PM

^^Nah...there's a difference.

I loved Nate Robinson at Washington. I always thought he could will his team to win. But he tried to become this pass-first point guard during his senior year and didn't play as well as I thought he could (although it probably helped his draft status). I finally figured this out by tourney time, but if I had let my bias sway me, I could have had Washington in the Final Four.

I look at "favorites" as teams and players I like to see play and I want to win regardless of whether or not I'm betting on them.null

[Edited on March 12, 2006 at 9:52 PM. Reason : .]

3/12/2006 9:51:46 PM

i always enter 2 brackets in whatever pool i enter

the ncsu goes all the way bracket

and my real bracket

3/12/2006 9:52:33 PM

I've seen this one before, and I don't like how it ended last time.

Of course, last time I had WAY more confidence in our team.

3/12/2006 9:53:13 PM

i hope that little British fuck, Midgley, has graduated

[Edited on March 12, 2006 at 9:57 PM. Reason : ,]

3/12/2006 9:57:21 PM

^^^^^

Ha...I wouldn't worry about it. Last time I was in a bracket with a girl, she beat the shit out of everyone...and she probably watched two college basketball games all year. Ridiculous.

I love watching the first two rounds at a bar and hearing everyone bitching about how "my bracket is fucked!!" after like the first two games because one of their "surprise Final 4" picks got ousted in the first round.

God I love the NCAA tournament.

[Edited on March 12, 2006 at 10:01 PM. Reason : .]

3/12/2006 10:00:14 PM

Quote :

"i always enter 2 brackets in whatever pool i enter the ncsu goes all the way bracket and my real bracket "

3/12/2006 10:09:24 PM

midgley is still there

and i still hate his guts

i still remember the call after scoot hit the three - "RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES!!!" and then midgley nails the three at the other end and thus ripped out our souls

3/12/2006 10:11:08 PM

i was at Playmaker's for that game

that place went from 1000 customers to 0 customers in a split-second when that bastard hit the three

3/12/2006 10:14:00 PM

I'm really confused as to why we ended up in the same regional as Duke...when there's an entire region with no ACC teams. Would it have really been so horrible to switch our place with Alabama?

I'd rather be in any other region than the one we got.

3/12/2006 10:28:29 PM

appareantally :x

3/12/2006 10:36:49 PM

10 seed

wow

3/12/2006 11:26:51 PM

wow, what?

3/12/2006 11:36:08 PM

i would put my money on california

we play like we want to lose

3/12/2006 11:45:36 PM

NC State exits with an 8 point loss.


To Duke.


In the Elite 8

3/12/2006 11:46:15 PM

all the haters have to quit sports talk if we win

3/12/2006 11:50:17 PM

not duke^^

3/12/2006 11:51:47 PM

OFFICIAL GAMETIME:

Fri. 3/17, 7:20 PM Eastern Standard Time

The Texas/Penn game follows ours on the same court; *should we miraculously win*, we play in the second round on 3/19, time TBD.


[Edited on March 13, 2006 at 12:51 AM. Reason : at least I hope it's EST!]

3/13/2006 12:40:21 AM

LMFAO

the "pod" is in Dallas, Texas.

This is like two home games for the longhorns.

werf ucked.

3/13/2006 12:42:26 AM

^^ est ?

[Edited on March 13, 2006 at 12:46 AM. Reason : source?]

3/13/2006 12:46:16 AM

doesn't say timezone...that's a good Q

source is here: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/clubhouse?event=tourney&teamId=152

and here: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/ncaatourney06/bracket

May be local, but I got this straight from Cal's ESPN page:

Quote :

"03/17 vs #22 NC State 7:20 PM All times ET"

[Edited on March 13, 2006 at 12:52 AM. Reason : /]

3/13/2006 12:47:57 AM

i think all times are local

3/13/2006 12:48:44 AM

HOORRRAYYYY!!! First time in 5 year our first round game wasnt at 12/2!!!

3/13/2006 12:50:12 AM

L

3/13/2006 12:50:40 AM

Quote :

"Friday, March 17, 2006 - 7:20 PM ET"

nm

3/13/2006 12:50:43 AM

ok so if we really get to play Texas I swear I'll go to the game and make a bunch of these posters:



and that will really put them on tilt.

and make them lose.

and reach an all-time low for our fans.

and make me reign supreme.



[Edited on March 13, 2006 at 12:52 AM. Reason : k]

[Edited on March 13, 2006 at 12:53 AM. Reason : k]

3/13/2006 12:52:21 AM

Quote :

"31 Jul 1966 Stabs his mother to death, leaving a note: "To Whom It May Concern: I have just taken my mother's life. I am very upset over having done it. However, I feel that if there is a heaven she is definitely there now... I am truly sorry... Let there be no doubt in your mind that I loved this woman with all my heart." Returns home, stabs his wife to death in her sleep, leaving another note: "I imagine it appears that I brutally killed both of my loved ones. I was only trying to do a quick thorough job... If my life insurance policy is valid please pay off my debts... donate the rest anonymously to a mental health foundation. Maybe research can prevent further tragedies of this type." 1 Aug 1966 Enters the Bell Tower at University of Texas. Over the span of 96 minutes, kills 16 and wounds 30. The shooting ends when Officer Ramiro Martinez and Houston McCoy storm the tower, shooting Whitman twice in the head with a 12ga shotgun at 1:24 pm. Whitman is buried at Hillcrest Memorial Park, Cloud Lake FL. "

CHARLES WHITMAN

CLAP CLAP
CLAP CLAP CLAP



[Edited on March 13, 2006 at 12:58 AM. Reason : k]

3/13/2006 12:55:27 AM

Game is at 7:20 ET on Friday

Saw it on the Cal website

[Edited on March 13, 2006 at 1:07 AM. Reason : ~]

3/13/2006 1:06:59 AM

Quote :

"NC State exits with an 8 point loss. To Duke. In the Elite 8"

nah, i say we lose to Syracuse

3/13/2006 1:09:57 AM

you mean i'm going to have to waste my god damned st. patrick's day on watching this bullshit game?

3/13/2006 1:35:12 AM

Quote :

"NC State exits with an 8 point loss. To Duke. In the Elite 8"

3/13/2006 1:36:15 AM

we'll beat Cal, they're not playin so hot lately either

if we light it up with 3's the big men won't matter

3/13/2006 2:33:23 AM

we can't even light it up with 2s or 1s, how the fuck are we going to light up 3s?

3/13/2006 4:08:44 AM

Quote :

"in 2002 UCONN knocked us out of the tournament in the 2nd round. 3 years later in 2005 we returned the favor. in 2003, california knocked us out in the 1st round..."

3/13/2006 4:11:02 AM

...and then they beat the ever-loving shit out of us in 2006

3/13/2006 4:27:11 AM

Quote :

"1 Aug 1966 Enters the Bell Tower at University of Texas. Over the span of 96 minutes, kills 16 and wounds 30. The shooting ends when Officer Ramiro Martinez and Houston McCoy storm the tower, shooting Whitman twice in the head with a 12ga shotgun at 1:24 pm. Whitman is buried at Hillcrest Memorial Park, Cloud Lake FL."

Didn't some students use D.H. Hill to make a movie about this?

3/13/2006 4:35:27 AM

we can make the sweet 16 again..hopefully, but we dont have hodge to bail us out this time

3/13/2006 8:22:58 AM

i'll be there

3/13/2006 8:27:07 AM

According to ESPN's Tourney Challenge we're favored to win by most of the country

3/13/2006 11:03:19 AM

Depends...

If we show up (i.e., play like we did against GW or the first BC game), we would blow past Cal and have a good chance at beating Texas (they have better talent but I really think they've underperformed all year).

However, considering that we haven't really shown up since before Seton Hall, that's just not very likely.

3/13/2006 11:04:58 AM

if we end up beating California and playing Texas

there wont be any Texas fans in DALLAS TEXAS where we would play

3/13/2006 11:08:52 AM

haha

we had some good road wins this year though. if we get our shooting back, who knows what we could do.

3/13/2006 11:09:50 AM

^It's not so much that shots aren't falling--our percentages have fallen because we've been taking a lot of bad shots.

If Ced steps up (which should be a little easier since these teams haven't played against him and thus don't know his weaknesses as well) and we can get a decent inside-out game going, we could heat up.

The serious problems:
Evtimov. Guy hasn't practiced in weeks and yet we know he'll play most of the game. His lack of speed can turn into a serious liability against a talented forward.
Brack. PLEASE step up.

And even more importantly, our backcourt has to stop just passing back and forth at the top of the key (Atsur, Bethel, Ev) for 30 seconds. Cam and Grant are going to have to step up and force things to happen.

3/13/2006 11:14:06 AM

Oh, and also:

We've completely stopped running cuts, I think because of the backlash against the term "Princeton offense." But if you watch, every athletic team in the country uses cuts for easy baskets--UNC, Villanova, Pitt, Georgetown, etc., etc., etc.

We NEED to be able to run some cuts just to get inside buckets when we can't depend on Ced and Brack in the paint.

3/13/2006 11:16:57 AM

BYE

I'd settle for not getting crushed to the point of embarrassment but even that may be asking too much these days.

3/13/2006 11:19:01 AM