NC State, Marquette, Creighton, San Diego State, Gonzaga, Clemson - those teams have no chance of winning it all, IMO.
I agree.NC State, Marquette, Creighton, San Diego State, Gonzaga, Clemson - those teams have no chance of winning it all, IMO.
Alas, it was not to be. But if you're checking out the campus as part of a college visit or something, it'll still be a great atmosphere.I'm going to be at JMU on Thursday. Hoping they can pull this out somehow, some way.
They made "Fightin' Texas Aggies" in extremely small lettering, like they were embarrassed to have it on their jersies.This one is done
Now wtf are these unis, aggy.
I would have enjoyed watching a healthy Northwestern team play UConn. UConn still wins, and they are probably still a 10 point favorite, but NU's starting center, Matthew Nicholson, is incredibly strong and physical and would have been a good matchup defensively on Clingan. NU's 2nd and 3rd centers are finesse players who Clingan abused on both ends. NU really missed Ty Berry on offense. He's an athletic wing, their best or 2nd best 3 point shooter and can get his own shot, which NU desperately needed. UConn is so well coached and were smart to double Bouie on just about every possession in the first half, and completely bamboozled them. Berry might have helped there. Again, UConn still likely wins going away, but it would have been a much better game.Clingan already has a double-double.
Given my daughter's a JMU alum and I like what they've accomplished down there, I'm hoping Chesney does well; even though it's Dad's alma mater they got him from.Alas, it was not to be. But if you're checking out the campus as part of a college visit or something, it'll still be a great atmosphere.
This has been a watershed year for JMU sports. When I arrived as a freshman in 1995, the closest thing we had to a draw was that Lefty Driesell was the basketball coach. The football team was I-AA and not particularly good at that level. This year we played in our first bowl game, saw more time nationally ranked in football than the one week at 25 we got last year, saw the basketball team spend time on the national polls, had the most wins of any team in DI entering last night's game, and won our first NCAA tournament game in 41 years. It's not quite as dramatic a turnaround from the Victor Kiam years to the Patriots dynasty, but it is pronounced and it is exciting for us in the alumni community.
"Look how they did in the tournment" is always kind of stupid but it's a fun game to play. It's a really small sample size. We have so many good metrics these days to judge teams. And now you have all these great pre-conference season tournaments that you get an awful lot of information. Coaches are just trying to be ambassadors and make their case for future years when they may be on the bubble.Big East coaches are crowing about how the committee made a mistake because the conference is 6-0. But, didn't the committee also say those three teams were very likely to make the second weekend by giving all of them top 3 seeds? Shouldn't you try to show that the committee made a mistake (by overperforming your expectations)?
Let's not forget that both Marquette and Creighton both got everything they wanted from double-digit seeds this weekend. If they lose their next game all of a sudden the conference is 7-2 heading into the Elite 8 and has underperformed relative to seeding.
I don't really think any conference has major bragging rights, though some might want to hide (SEC, B12). The ACC is closest if you forget that Virginia finished 3rd in the league.
Poor NC State gets to get their asses kicked twiceHouston over Duke
Marquette over NC State
Houston over NC State