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This first game between Prairie view A&M and Fairleigh Dickenson is entertaining.
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And do it begins. Plan on watching every game. My butt is gonna be sore. PV can’t stop FDU’S guard.
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Nice to see Belmont get a win. Tough to see the Temple coach retire with a loss but better to have that in the Tourney then end the regular season
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ASSu really taking it to St Johns right now.
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Damn. I was rooting for St. Johns. They've pooped the bed so far.
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The Johnnies look like total shit.
Of the 12 coaches, Rush picked the one whose fans have the deepest passion, the longest memories, the greatest lung capacity and … did I mention deep passion?
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Chicat wrote:The Johnnies look like total shit.
It's crazy they're shooting 30% and 16% and somehow only down 10.

Edit: Now 13. Furk.
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St. John's sucks bronto
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Anyone notice that no player or ref is paying attention to Chris Mullins?

Guess you have to be a total out of control lunatic like Hurley to get any attention.
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St. John's blew me away all year with how badly they seemed to underperform. People complain about Miller's coaching, but I'm not 100% Mullin actually has a game plan. It's like watching a pickup game with 5 dudes who just met each other.
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Watching ASSU my only question is, how did we lose to these guys at home?
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azcat49 wrote:Watching ASSU my only question is, how did we lose to these guys at home?
They looked good in the first half. They took the air out of the ball and lost all momentum. Fortunate for them that St John's is so bad.
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That ASU/SJU matchup was one heck of a CBI game.
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Chicat wrote:Anyone notice that no player or ref is paying attention to Chris Mullins?

Guess you have to be a total out of control lunatic like Hurley to get any attention.
There's nothing out of control or crazy about what Hurley does on the sidelines. It's all designed and calculated to work the refs.

He learned it from the best. And it clearly works. Bravo to Hurley's performance art advancing ASU past the play-in game.

Chris Mullin...he just rolls the ball out. Aspects of in-game coaching like strategy are not his things.
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Murray St is really good, really smart and extremely unselfish.

Oh and Ja Morant is the complete package. He completely dominated this game and he took... 8 shots. I love it.

I'm rooting for them to go far.
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First upset of the tournament. Murray State demolishes Marquette.
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That didn't look like an upset
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U.P. Zona Fan wrote:That didn't look like an upset
No, but seeding wise it is.
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If the Bulls get Morant, Lauri becomes a 30+ pt/gm player.
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How can the suns pass on Morant? They desperately need a PG
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azcat49 wrote:How can the suns pass on Morant? They desperately need a PG
Because Zion
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Yea I guess but man Morant with Booker, Ayton and Jackson could almost make you forget you didn’t draft Zion.
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Catintheheat wrote:First upset of the tournament. Murray State demolishes Marquette.
Minnesota was the first upset of the day.
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azcat49 wrote:Yea I guess but man Morant with Booker, Aston and Jackson could almost make you forget you didn’t draft Zion.
Only would a Sarver Suns team play some guy named Aston and keep Ayton on the bench.
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Haha no kidding. Must be the other thread where we are talking about Dodge Caravans so I had Aston Martins on my mind (or at least in my auto correct)
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I like Wofford. I just hope they don't become fatigued down the stretch.
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Wofford can shoot the 3!

It doesn't make sense how they can have so many good 3 pt shooters and a certain blue blood team in Tucson doesn't have a single decent sharp-shooter.
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Alieberman wrote:Wofford can shoot the 3!

It doesn't make sense how they can have so many good 3 pt shooters and a certain blue blood team in Tucson doesn't have a single decent sharp-shooter.

We have one in practice.
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You gotta admit, today was a pretty disappointing as far as the first round goes. No upsets in the real sense. The only last-second shot to win the game was NMSU's airball, following their bonehead play and 1-for-3 from the line.
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Morrant is ridiculous. Would love if the Suns got him
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Morant looks like a mini-Magic back in his green and white phase.
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Hey Virginia (in my best American Pie geeky voice), “not again man”
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Congratulations to the UC Irvine Anteaters for their first NCAA tourney win over 4th seeded Kansas State.
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Well, at least this year I can root for Buffalo.
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Spaceman Spiff wrote:Well, at least this year I can root for Buffalo.

This year we are all fans of a certain team from New York know as, DA BULLS!
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Spaceman Spiff wrote:Well, at least this year I can root for Buffalo.
Yes, enjoying this game 100%
Catintheheat wrote:Congratulations to the UC Irvine Anteaters for their first NCAA tourney win over 4th seeded Kansas State.
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Wow. ASU really stinking it up. Go Hurley! Way to coach.
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MountainCat wrote:Wow. ASU really stinking it up. Go Hurley! Way to coach.
Maybe he helped Buffalo scout ASU.
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Lol ASU
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Annoying how Phx media will pretend this game never happened while running UA L's on their front page....
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This is the same team we lost to last year, this year they are an underseeded 6 last year they were a horribly underseeded 12 or 13

We should not have lost that game, but they are legit. Makes me hope Hurley stays at asu for a while, he might hire a superior assistant and then leave and they will get really good after he leaves.
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MountainCat wrote:Wow. ASU really stinking it up. Go Hurley! Way to coach.
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Oregon putting Wisconsin away.
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Oregon is looking really good. They play like this and they have a shot at the FF. They've been playing great though for the last month. Peaking at the right time.
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Oregon is blowing out Wisconsin too.
i was going to put the ua/asu records here...but i forgot what they were.

i'll just go with fuck asu.
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Nice job Huskies.
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azgreg wrote:Nice job Huskies.
UNC needed a sacrificial lamb in the second round. So UW is playing on house money now.
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Kind of hard to cheer for Mississippi State or Liberty. I dislike both schools, although Mississippi State deals more with location.
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