NCAA Tournament Friday Game Thread

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My stepdad is a Miss St alumnus so I've watched many MSU games with him. Save Dak Prescott, you can absolutely count on this school to come up small in the basketball tourney or bowl games, yeesh.

So yes I chose Liberty in all my brackets...
 

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This center on UCF is insane. Who the hell is this kid? He just took on a triple team like it was nothing!
 

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Hokies are putting a beatdown on St. Louis......an absolute clinic of total domination on both ends. The Billikens can't even get into their offensive set without a deflection leading to a turnover.
 

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Hokies are putting a beatdown on St. Louis......an absolute clinic of total domination on both ends. The Billikens can't even get into their offensive set without a deflection leading to a turnover.
Do you see them as a potential problem for a Duke team with Zion?
 

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Officials blow two blatant calls resulting in one layup for Ohio State and the other two free throws rather than a layup the other way.....a combined 6-point swing. The first was whistled Cyclone players foot was out of bounds.....it wasn't, and the second they ruled a kick at top of the key when the ball clearly was deflected by the players hand. Really awful job here.
 

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Officials blow two blatant calls resulting in one layup for Ohio State and the other two free throws rather than a layup the other way.....a combined 6-point swing. The first was whistled Cyclone players foot was out of bounds.....it wasn't, and the second they ruled a kick at top of the key when the ball clearly was deflected by the players hand. Really awful job here.
That was beyond terrible. They deserve a couple make up calls here and it looks like none are coming.
 

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St. Louis looks so overmatched but they are also their own worst enemy. Missed layups, sloppy passing, missed front ends of one-and-ones......now just find another way to get this inside of 10. ;)
 

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Could also use STL to get within 10.

On a side note, I know parlays are sucker bets, but really tempted to throw money at Wofford/Nova/Murray tomorrow
 

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Could also use STL to get within 10.

On a side note, I know parlays are sucker bets, but really tempted to throw money at Wofford/Nova/Murray tomorrow
I think there is decent value in money line parlays during this tournament. You get a couple 4-point underdogs in a 2-team money line parlay it should be around 5-1.

On another note love that the Billikens coaching staff is trying to cover with the timeout and the foul.
 

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I remember hearing about Fall when he was a 7'5" High School junior; kind of neat to see him having a relevant basketball moment after being kind of presented as this teenage curiosity. He's apparently extremely intelligent, came to the US and learned perfect English in eight months, graduated high school with a 4.0 GPA and wants to be a software engineer. Pretty cool story. Here are some funny Tacko photos from tonight, Tracy Wolfson certainly had her work cut out for her tonight in that postgame interview:



 

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No idea where to put this but discussing a fictitious end of game scenario that almost occurred tonight with two buddies and wanted opinions.

Team down 3 with ball as player sets for a catch-and-shoot 3 in front of opposing bench. On catch a player from opponents bench steps on the floor and makes contact with shooter who loses the ball from the illegal contact as clock expires.

One part the three of us agree on is a 2-shot technical foul. The problem is that the clock is a factor here but don’t know of a rule where time is put back on the clock for a technical foul. One of us say it’s a 2-shot T with possession and it’s tough luck that there is no time on the clock so game over or fraction of second put back on clock with possession. Another said they have to be able to put time on the clock and give them possession following the FT’s but again I don’t know of a rule such as this. The third said a regular T followed by a second unsportsmanlike T resulting in total of 4 shots.

Fire away anyone.
 

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No idea where to put this but discussing a fictitious end of game scenario that almost occurred tonight with two buddies and wanted opinions.

Team down 3 with ball as player sets for a catch-and-shoot 3 in front of opposing bench. On catch a player from opponents bench steps on the floor and makes contact with shooter who loses the ball from the illegal contact as clock expires.

One part the three of us agree on is a 2-shot technical foul. The problem is that the clock is a factor here but don’t know of a rule where time is put back on the clock for a technical foul. One of us say it’s a 2-shot T with possession and it’s tough luck that there is no time on the clock so game over or fraction of second put back on clock with possession. Another said they have to be able to put time on the clock and give them possession following the FT’s but again I don’t know of a rule such as this. The third said a regular T followed by a second unsportsmanlike T resulting in total of 4 shots.

Fire away anyone.
Football has the "god rule" for scenarios like this, which means the referee can impose whatever penalty he feels like including awarding scores.