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Good lord, that was Shaun Livingston 2.0....
Of course ing Dook lucks out....
Looked all normal then bam, shin bone was a coat hanger
Good lord, that was Shaun Livingston 2.0....
Of course ing Dook lucks out....
That was the most gruesome bball injury I've ever seen.
Duke can't handle that full-court pressure. Pitino should keep it up
His leg snapped in two.
I like how the announcer said it was a "dislocation". His leg snapped like a twig... Is he blind?
Saw that ish live....wow! The bench reaction was as real as it gets.
Yeah, I think tha bench reaction was what really got me, too.
Evidently, some of the bench players actually vomited. Christ.
Dookie refs springing into action....
I thought the refs would hand this game to Louisville after that injury but they're doing the exact opposite
Dieng is beasting.
Louisville with 9 blocks.
Better team is just winning
yeah. Duke. At least all 4 teams left are somewhat likeable now that OSU and Duke (hopefully) are out of the picture.
They were starting to get a few of their usual calls at the time.... now they're just getting their asses raped
I don't think the Zebras have done too badly. Maybe should have swallowed the whistle a bit more in the first half.
Smith, Dieng, and Siva are just too much... Add in Behanon and UL is clearly the best team in the country. Can't imagine them losing going forward. Duke is better than the other 3 FF teams
Looks like it's gonna be a Big East NCG...I'm ok with any of the teams, but order of preference would be: 1) Wichita St cause of the underdog factor, 2) Louisville, 3) Syracuse, 4) Meeeechigan
I don't remember an underdog I found less appealing than Wichita State. Them making the final four is more a reflection on how much of a joke Gonzaga was as a 1 seed and the poor state of college basketball in general that there could be an entire bracket filled with total from top to bottom.
I wish Wichita State loses in the Final 4. Let's go Wolverines
barring a freak injury to a key player, like someone's leg snapping in half, I don't think Louisville will lose the rest of the way
Defensively i think Wichita State is pretty impressive. Hall is a beast down low. On offense it seems like they've been getting a ton of points on flukey stuff and hustle points. That will go away, probably against Louisville.
Other big underdogs in recent years (VCU, George Mason, Davidson, Florida Gulf Coast, etc.) had an element of excitement during their run where you could tell they were playing out of their minds and happened to catch lighting in a bottle at the right time. I don't see that at all with Wichita State, it seems more like they emerged from a pool of mediocrity by default. They're obviously a good team, I just think them in the final four has a lot less to do with how well they've played and more to do with how ty their bracket/college basketball has been in general this year.
IMO, their defense looks good largely because of how bad offenses have gotten in college basketball. If you can defend the 3 point line and defend against AAU hero ball, you've got a shot since that's all most teams do these days. That's not just Wichita State, it's also why Syracuse and Michigan are in the final four. In years past, Syracuse runs into a team that passes well and can pick its zone apart, while Michigan would have run into a team that was well coached enough to attack its weak defense. Kansas was that team but for whatever reason they would start jacking up 3s after they built a lead by exploiting Michigan's interior defense.
Basically I'm not really trying to talk about Wichita State in particular, but more about how bad the quality of college basketball in general has gotten as a whole.
Twenty years ago Gonzaga would have been a 4/5 seed. I remember a comparable one-loss LaSalle team w/Lionel Simmons getting a #4 seed (1990.)
It's funny to me whenever the Zags get beat as a higher seed because nobody es more about their seeding/lack of respect on a yearly basis than those guys. They're the worst when it comes to that. And they haven't even gotten past the Sweet 16 but that one time back in '99.
Yeah I know several people from Seattle and they all share a common hatred for Gonzaga because of the sense of en lement Gonzaga fans have (and the fact Gonzaga is located in a horrible city).
Next year should be a much better year, but the combo AAU and the one year rule has basically destroyed college basketball. Coaches who actually want to get 4-5 star talent have no choice but to let players jack up 30 foot shots and go 1 on 5 whenever they want or else they'll earn the reputation of a hardass who'll hurt your draft stock. The NBA should also rethink the one year rule since it hasn't done the NBA any favors either. The last few drafts have featured about as many NBA ready players as the 1999-2001 drafts did.
Like this fellow above me said ^ the one and done rule is completely ruining college basketball. I understand that all these scrubs who had no business entering the NBA draft is the reason this all got started, but that's their own fault. It doesn't do college bball any good to have some potential top draft pick turn his only college b-ball season into a personal NBA tryout while taking Underwater Basketweaving and Art Appreciation to qualify as a "student athlete" (Rolling On The Floor Laughing!)
When you have a large amount of bums going into the draft straight out of high school, you're also going to have a large amount of bums entering the draft after their freshman year of college. The only way to stop all that is to make them stay for 4 years but that's obviously never gonna happen. They just need to go back to the old rule and let the morons who enter too early figure it out themselves.
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