NCAA Tournament Day 1 Game Thread

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Announcers talking about how Seton Hall hasnt made a basket in a few minutes completely ignoring the fact that Gonzaga is shooting almost as shitty.
 

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No effort by PC it seems. Easy dunks against D and the O is settling for jumpers. Don't like what I see
 

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Seton Hall is having conditioning issues already and we havent even finished the first half
 

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Arizona trying to crawl back in it, but is likely going to run out of time. Only down 9, but only a minute and a half to go.
 

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This is the 4th game I've seen today that teams are just letting way too much time run off the clock before fouling. Do they not coach that any more?
 

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Nice win for you Providence fans. USC is regretting not making free throws at the end of that game
 

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Seton Hall looks exhausted and we are less than 5 minutes into the 2nd half
 

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I'm penciling in Dunn for 35 right now. Fuck me I did not want to have Carolina play that guy.
 

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Bryan Alberts for Gonzaga is really painful to watch play. He shouldnt even be in the rotation this year if it wasnt for the injury to Karnowski that took him out in December
 

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Seton Hall's coach just lost it and got a technical called on him.

Gonzaga's shooting has gone cold as they havent had a FG in nearly 4 minutes. Thankfully Seton Hall is still shooting like shit
 

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Eight teams have won more than two national championships. Six of them made this year's tournament. All six play on Saturday. All four playing in Des Moines are on the list -- a combined 20 national championships on one floor over two games.
 

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Great win for Gonzaga given how they didnt play a great game. They shoot 48.6% on the season while averaging 79.7. Tonight they shot 42.9% while only getting 68 points. They also turned the ball over more times tonight than they have all season. Great defense to keep Whitehead from getting many clean looks.

The Saturday matchup between Gonzaga and Utah will be a great matchup of teams with great big men
 

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I'm penciling in Dunn for 35 right now. Fuck me I did not want to have Carolina play that guy.
First off, thank you for the congrats guys. Our first tournament win in a long long time. Don't even know how I feel......we played like shit, got bailed out by USC missing a ton of FT's, made some big shots, get royally screwed by some horrific officiating (nobody defends officials more than I but this was brutal), then somehow end up with a layup for the win.

Secondly, it's been pretty clear all season how to minimize Dunn's effect on the offensive end to take the pick-n-roll out of our repertoire where he is unstoppable. Simply play a 2-3 with the double shadow on Kris whether he has the ball at the top or is playing off the ball to find a seam. The only coach since December who failed to play predominantly zone was Thompson at Georgetown which not so coincidentally were our only 2 wins during the stretch when we lost 6 out of 8.

So what will Roy do? He's a notorious hater of the zone defense however even he has recognized that with the reduction to 30 seconds in the shot clock it is advantageous to play it and he has played more zone this year than I have ever seen him do (correct me if I'm wrong UNC guys you've seen more of his games than I have this year I'm sure). Will Stubborn Roy return so Kris can slice apart a college defense with a pick-n-roll for 40 minutes or will he humble himself to identify the best and most obvious way to slow down our offense? The result and/or score of this game lays in the answer to this question.
 

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I have PC beating UNC in my bracket so last night's game was great!