NCAA Tournament Friday Game Thread
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I can't wait for the team that beats Dayton by 30. This has been the least enjoyable NCAA Tournament game I've ever seen.
Stick a fork in it. Even if Dayton doesn't score again, I think they have more points already than PC will finish with.
One more swing to a wide open Lindsey was the play there. This is such a painful night. Dayton's defense has been fantastic this half.....the whole game really. Our defensive approach was that of a December game against Maine.NickEsasky said:
Henton has come up small in a lot of big games this year. And when he comes up small, he REALLY comes up small. 5/20 from the field, 2/10 from three. He's almost hurting them more than he's helping.
Are you fucking kidding me? Cooley gets a fucking technical foul because he knocks a chair over?
I'm never this guy, but I think this one is over boys. Henton should just stop shooting. I'm not sure what he should do, but he really shouldn't take another shot tonight.
Dayton deserves a shit ton of credit. They defended their asses off and knocked down threes whenever we made runs to tie it up. Archie Miller has done an amazing job with this shorthanded team. They play like he did at NC State....scrappy as hell and fight for 40 minutes.
16-53 shooting. What can you say? Teams have nights like that sometimes. You hope it's in December instead of March, but sometimes it happens.
Dumb luck?moondog80 said:
Play-in is always in Dayton and for travel reasons that means they advance into the Columbus 2nd round. Dayton just snuck in.
Honestly being close to home probably isn't as big an advantage as having to play an extra game against a pretty good Boise team is a disadvantage.
Was there any doubt how this would turn out when the other 15 higher seeds won their games today?
This one was over 3 minutes in. It turned the game into an ugly, sloppy mess with no rhythm, which is pretty much Dayton's game plan for every game. Keep it close, bury some threes and pull out the win. PC certainly didn't do themselves any favors, but this one is on Henton. You can't just disappear when you are the top scorer in your conference and expect your team to win.
This one was over 3 minutes in. It turned the game into an ugly, sloppy mess with no rhythm, which is pretty much Dayton's game plan for every game. Keep it close, bury some threes and pull out the win. PC certainly didn't do themselves any favors, but this one is on Henton. You can't just disappear when you are the top scorer in your conference and expect your team to win.
Nope this is PC in just about every big game since 1997. Can't handle the spotlight.DennyDoyle'sBoil said:
They had 7 choices. They can put the pod anywhere. Oklahoma, Providence and Albany are the other teams. None was entitled to or received regional preference, so they could have put this pod elsewhere (though that might displace another pod).scottyno said:
scottyno said:
Dayton did have to play in the A-10 finals on Sunday. I think the Committee wanted them in the Wednesday game for fairness.
I don't think the home crowd had any affect on this game, but it most certainly did against Boise. There is no way Dayton comes back in that game on the road. The other big advantage isn't just the crowd during the game, it's the fact that they don't have to travel. They are a very shallow team, with only 6-7 guys, playing 5 games in a week. Sleeping at home in your own bed, not having to get on a plane, go to the airport, etc. is an advantage for them. There is no way around it.
Wouldn't have changed anything tonight, but if I'm Boise, I'm pretty pissed about it.
Wouldn't have changed anything tonight, but if I'm Boise, I'm pretty pissed about it.
I don't know how anyone can say it just happened though. Dayton's defense was suffocating and contesting everything. They out-toughed us in the paint all night. That didn't just happen.DennyDoyle'sBoil said:
No, it's contracted there.moondog80 said:
Dayton has a contract with the NCAA to host the First Four and before that the single Play-in game. They've had it since 2001.
Edit- amusingly this is the last year on the deal because the NCAA wants to cycle it. (ie they want more $$$ by having it bid for year by year)
People will look at the scorer's sheet and see Henton finished with 18 points and 11 rebounds, and miss the fact he went 7/26 from the field, 4/14 from three point line. Uggh, this one was depressing from start to finish.
Where the hell was Desrosiers all night? Dude has half a foot in everyone and he was non existent. I know he got doubled a lot in the post but the dude was a ghost out there.
Dayton's defense was really good and denied entry all night forcing tough shots, no doubt. But until the end PC was defending too. Dayton was still in the 40s very deep into the game. They just needed to make a couple more shots to make it close and keep it in hand, but they just couldn't knock down shots even on good looks. Dayton deserved to win, but Providence made it easier with their shooting.HomeRunBaker said:
Desrosiers finished with ZERO shots from the floor, or the free throw line. None. Not one. He's obviously not a scoring threat, but that's just abysmal. They couldn't get him one look all night? It's hard to score when you have basically 2 guys that the defense doesn't even need to look at.
There was no Columbus bracket before selection Sunday. Any of the 16 pods can be put anywhere. They were free to put the play in winner's pod anywhere.moondog80 said:
They aren't going to make teams fly out on their one day between games just because there is a chance that an 11 seed will get a game 70 miles from home. It would be an enormous pain in the ass.
Dayton always gets paired with Columbus so that the 8 play-in teams and their fans can get one hotel room, one flight. Having those teams have to up and move in one day would be a logistical nightmare.
The NCAA didn't miss it, they just didn't think it was worth the problems it would cause to avoid it.
Edit- Actually looks like they did that to Ole Miss, flying them to JAX.
I guess they could have flipped it to make each team play farther away from home.
Dayton always gets paired with Columbus so that the 8 play-in teams and their fans can get one hotel room, one flight. Having those teams have to up and move in one day would be a logistical nightmare.
The NCAA didn't miss it, they just didn't think it was worth the problems it would cause to avoid it.
Edit- Actually looks like they did that to Ole Miss, flying them to JAX.
I guess they could have flipped it to make each team play farther away from home.
Oh, gotcha. Committe doesn't care, I guess, because six seeds get no protection -- and to admit it's a problem causes people to start asking why Duke and North Carolina get to play in NC so often. They just won't intentionally protect a 6 seed.moondog80 said:
It's most unfair to Oklahoma, which was entitled to regional protection, but the NCAA has the silly rule still, I think, that the first four seeds are only protected in the first round -- the committee will not speculate who will win in the opening round in order to protect a team in the round of 32.
Ole Miss went from Dayton to Jacksonville.
Hampton went from Dayton to Louisville.
Robert Morris went from Dayton to Charlotte.
Hampton went from Dayton to Louisville.
Robert Morris went from Dayton to Charlotte.