NCAA Tournament Game Thread-Day 4, Sunday
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Jacobson is a really good coach but man they looked unprepared when the normal inbounds passer went out.
It's the biggest, most emotional moments of these players careers and in many cases their entire life. Let the tears flow baby!
LSU blowing a 31-point second half lead to UK back in the 90's comes to mind but nothing this fast in an intense and emotional elimination game.
I think there was some baseball team that was up 3-0 with a lead in the clinching game but the teams names don't come to mind.
Not to be a dick or anything but the referee could have followed the letter of the law, called a travel on the inbounds passer prior to the Koenig game winner......and he wouldn't have been wrong.
Houston Oilers blowing a 35-3 lead in a playoff game at Buffalo was a big choke on a bigger stage. (This game will be forgotten a couple years from now if TAMU doesn't make the Final Four.)
Yeah, obviously the Yankees are and forever will be the greatest chokers in sports history, given the sustained nature and purity of their gagjob, but in terms of a single game, this takes the cake for me. Even the Bills comeback is something that seems possible when you think of it. Twelve points in 42 seconds just doesn't even seem possible.
It doesn't really seem like it deserves all time choke status because they are Northern Iowa after all. It would have been an upset if they won in part because the top 20 team that played neck and neck with Kentucky all year in a major conference is supposed to have more composure. Yeah it was worse than anyone could expect but the reason it's cool when Northern Iowa keeps its cool down the stretch is because you worry they won't.
The flu or blackou or NCAA violations, etc.
Gun to head I guess aggy. Represent Texas or whatever. OU doesn't impress me at all, I have aggy in my F4.
At one point NIU had a 99.99% win probability. They held Texas A&M to 22 points in the first half, then allowed them to score 14 points in the last 40 seconds of the second half, thanks to 4 consecutive turnovers. When you do that in an NCAA tournament game, that's an all time choke job no matter how you slice it.
Feel terrible for Coach Jacobson, such a great coach and even better person. Terrific mentor to young coaches. His defense is his creation. Based on many that have come before of course, but his tweaks like closed stances (rather than pistols) off the ball but in gap and on the rim line are his invention. It wasn't his defense that let him down but the turnovers that led to quick points, instead. Incredible.
Eaelier in the hald he broke down a switching situation in a clear/concise way that I've never heard done better. He's easy to dislike but he knows the 64 teams in the tournament and their players better than anyone in the business.
I don't know what kind of coach Gottlieb would ultimately be however as a player he was his teams leader and floor general with as high a BBIQ as I've seen on the college level. I'm not sure why some others feel he'd be an awful coach as he has all the qualities of a highly successful one.
He sure could find the right pass, that's for sure. He is often insightful, including with end of game management thoughts, but his unshakable certainty also seems to encompass all of this opinions, even the much more debatable ones. Heck, I don't know him -- maybe that's broadcaster shtick and in real life he would have the flexibility to actually coach.
The letter of the law says traveling rules do not apply to an inbounder. So he would have been quite wrong.
It's close. You can move three feet when the ref hands you the ball on an inbound after a timeout. Think it was a good no call.
This is absolutely positively incorrect.
After seeing the replay it was NOT a travel however there are absolutely restrictions placed on the inbounder on what he can and cannot do.