NCAAT Saturday Round of 32 Open Thread (Geaux Tigers!)

Great games late last night – in terms of excitement. Not so great for the ACC, as Wake and BC got demolished and Florida State (much like Clemson) played half asleep for most of the game, and paid the price. 3-4 in the First Round for the “mighty” ACC – with 2 of the 3 wins against Radford and Binghamton. Gruesome stuff.

Your stat of the day is zero – the number of teams that NC State beat whose seasons are still alive today.

Back to ACC suckage – Miami got blown out at Florida last night, and Baylor demolished the Hokies in Blacksburg today. Even in the NIT, the league couldn’t do squat.

Challenge for the SFN community – come up with some bed shitting collapses to rival that of Wake Forest, who spent most of the year in the Top Ten, but got spanked in the first round of both the ACCT and NCAAT. The best I could come up with NC State in 1989 losing to a 1-13 Maryland team in the ACCT quarters. But that team rebounded to make the Sweet Sixteen before getting screwed on a bogus travelling call against Georgetown. So, I think Wake still wins.

About BJD95

1995 NC State graduate, sufferer of Les and MOC during my entire student tenure. An equal-opportunity objective critic and analyst of Wolfpack sports.

08-09 Basketball Stat of the Day

133 Responses to NCAAT Saturday Round of 32 Open Thread (Geaux Tigers!)

  1. BladenWolf 03/21/2009 at 3:17 PM #

    It looks like UConn is on thier way to meet Memphis…

  2. NJpack 03/21/2009 at 3:22 PM #

    The other thing that is painfully obvious watching the NCAA games is how slow our players are compared to the teams in the tournament, not just to the top seeds, which is obvious, but any of the teams.

    As much as I think that Brandon Costner is the Harrison Beck of the basketball team, we probably are better off with him playing next year. Now we just need Lorenzo Brown to be the next MJ.

  3. Noah 03/21/2009 at 3:25 PM #

    You know what the hilarious thing is? Lorenzo Brown isn’t qualified.

  4. Ed89 03/21/2009 at 3:25 PM #

    UConn vs. Memphis….how do you decide….which is the lesser of TWO EVILS???

  5. BJD95 03/21/2009 at 3:26 PM #

    No pressure or anything, Lorenzo. 🙂

  6. Wulfpack 03/21/2009 at 3:26 PM #

    I will take Calhoun over Calipari any day of the week.

  7. BJD95 03/21/2009 at 3:28 PM #

    I think the UConn/Memphis winner takes the whole thing.

    FYI, “Band of Brothers” is on the History Channel. Good alternative for the next hour or so until competitive basketball returns.

  8. Ed89 03/21/2009 at 3:29 PM #

    There are alot of players that aren’t “officially” qualified until they get scores back or until they actually graduate high school. I don’t think he’ll have any issues. And if you are a State fan, Lo Brown NOT qualifying would not be “hilarious.”

  9. BladenWolf 03/21/2009 at 3:31 PM #

    I’d have to ditto that Wulfpack…
    UConn over Memphis simply because of the coaches…

  10. BJD95 03/21/2009 at 3:32 PM #

    I freaking hate Calhoun. Biggest asshole in coaching, hands down. Leitao was his protege, remember.

    UConn basketball equals Notre Dame football. The only teams I ever pull for the blues to beat.

  11. Ed89 03/21/2009 at 3:35 PM #

    I really hate everything about Memphis and their cupcake conference schedule. I don’t like most of their players, who would not qualify at an ACC school, and I really don’t like their coach, who played us like a fiddle. UConn it is. But I do wholeheartedly agree with BJD’s assessment of Calhoun.

  12. BJD95 03/21/2009 at 3:36 PM #

    I still remember the post-game after we lost to UConn in the Round of 32. Hodge gets called for a touch foul on a 3, the Evtimov gets clobbered with no call – both in the last minute.

    Rather than be gracious in victory, Calhoun says that he would have played the game under protest if the foul against Hodge isn’t called.

    What a prick.

  13. BladenWolf 03/21/2009 at 3:38 PM #

    I don’t like Memphis because they hide in a weak-ass USA conference

  14. Wulfpack 03/21/2009 at 3:42 PM #

    I can understand disliking Memphis, hell I hate those sleazebags. But it isn’t because they hide in a weak conference. Everyone knows they are good and that Calipari can coach, and they do load up in the non-conference. They’ve proven they can compete on the big stage. A lot like the unlv teams of old actually.

  15. Noah 03/21/2009 at 3:55 PM #

    There are alot of players that aren’t “officially” qualified until they get scores back or until they actually graduate high school. I don’t think he’ll have any issues.

    I’m not talking about Brown not having gotten his scores back or some other technical issue.

    Brown has not taken the SAT and gotten a qualifying score. Yet.

  16. redfred2 03/21/2009 at 4:26 PM #

    X

  17. redfred2 03/21/2009 at 4:38 PM #

    X

  18. BJD95 03/21/2009 at 4:43 PM #

    I haven’t deleted anything today. Calm the hell down.

  19. redfred2 03/21/2009 at 4:47 PM #

    X

  20. 61Packer 03/21/2009 at 4:55 PM #

    “The ACC has quickly become a crap conference in basketball.”

    I don’t think we’re that bad yet, but we’ve on our way. I blame the large number of mediocre coaches in this league now as compared to a few decades ago. It’s no surprise that we’re getting mediocre results. Duke, UNC, Maryland, and Wake Forest, up until Skip Prosser’s death, have had quality leadership on the sidelines since the late 1980s, but not the rest of the schools. Since Terry Holland left UVA, they’ve had little to cheer about in basketball. Clemson had good coaching until Rick Barnes left, ditto for FSU with Pat Kennedy. Talk about the great year Leonard Hamilton had all you want, but he’s been mediocre his other seasons and his success this season was mainly due to Toney Douglas, the ACC’s best player this year, Lawson or no Lawson. Georgia Tech hasn’t been the same since Bobby Cremins departed. Without doubt we’re weaker now, and when you add BC, Va Tech and Miami, the watering-down process is complete.

    Wulfpack goes on to say that the ACC has always been bad in football and is not getting any better. He’s absolutely right, and in spite of that, I think our league’s head football coaches, as a whole, are better than our basketball coaches. That historically has not been the case, but it is now. And I believe this is why we’re losing ground in basketball, especially to the Big East. The Big East, love ’em or hate ’em (and I don’t like ’em), has become superior to our league, and it’s mainly because they have far better coaches.

    And despite the comment I read above that the Duke-UNC rivalry is killing ACC basketball, I think it’s actually keeping the conference alive on the national stage. The only other ACC league basketball rivalry over the years that even comes close to this one, State-Carolina, is dead in the water and wouldn’t attract a national audience even if the Westminister Kennel Dog Show was its only competition.

  21. VaWolf82 03/21/2009 at 4:55 PM #

    Redfred, I deleted your comment and addressed it above.

  22. redfred2 03/21/2009 at 4:58 PM #

    X

  23. wolfonthehill 03/21/2009 at 4:59 PM #

    My GOD, it’s amazing to watch a game where officials don’t give Psycho T the benefit of every call. I’m so conditioned by what’s normally called that I almost feel like the refs are being hard on him… but then I realize that any other player would get the same treatment he’s getting.

    It just goes to show how absurd the treatment he gets is during ACC play. It’s criminal…

  24. BJD95 03/21/2009 at 5:00 PM #

    Purdue might be better than I thought.

    Surprise of the day – Hansblow gets whistled for going over the back.

  25. wolfonthehill 03/21/2009 at 5:01 PM #

    Incidentally, LSU looks OK, but I don’t think they have a chance in hell of winning today.

Leave a Reply