March Madness 2018 (College Basketball)

[xskarma]

SELECTION SUNDAY! Show with the bracket reveal should start somewhere soon, I think.

Bracket should be here once it's all revealed: https://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bra...etball-men/d1/


Rooting for Michigan, they worked out their offensive troubles as the season progressed and were getting hot in the Big 10 tournament. Hopefully that resulted in a 3 seed in Detroit, but we will see.

Who are you rooting for and who do you think wins? (link your bracket if you have one!)

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Michigan did get it's 3 seed, but get put out in the West bracket, means they start play in Kansas. Also have North Carolina and Houston looming, going to be interesting.

[eschatological]

Two WNY teams made it, UBuffalo at 13 seed, Saint Bonaventure's as one of the First Four. Guess I know who I'm rooting for.

What I don't understand is why there are First Four winners who would then be the 11th seed. I thought the idea behind the First Four were that they were the "worst" teams in the tournament?

[The Cheat]

OU in while Oklahoma St sits at home is a complete joke. The committee never fails to yield a few disappointing choices.

[Crissi]

Texas is in, and we play Nevada first.

This is for you, Andrew Jones!

Also TCU got in for the 1st time since 1998 o.O

[xskarma]

Results from the play-in games:




Action will start for real tomorrow!

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Rhode Island advances over the Trae Young lead Oklahoma. Trae Young was impressive for the most part, but the better TEAM play won.

[sibut]

Hoping Penn can knock off Kansas, but all the calls seem to be going Kansas' way. That call at the end that awarded Kansas with 3 foul shots was complete bullshit. Also cheering for Bona, Buffalo (my hometown), and Syracuse although 99% they'll both be bounced in their next games.

[Crissi]

oklahoma has been pretyt terrible..

and now Syracuse advances to TCU. Purple power time

[sibut]

and now Syracuse advances to TCU. Purple power time

Yeah, I don't think Syracuse is going to be able to keep that game close; Carmelo ain't walking through that door.

[xskarma]

Didn't realize till now but Michigan doesn't START their game till 6 am my time. Don't think I'm staying up that long tbh. Hopefully they'll just crush this first game and their second game is at a more reasonable hour for me.

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Houston NEARLY lost it on the last shot of the game, but they hung on in a surprisingly tough game for them.

On the whole though, not many upsets so far. Only Loyola Chicago over Miami so far basically.

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Well somehwo Michigan game is on already. Maybe the time I saw was in ET and not in pacific as I assumed?

Either way, Michigan looks off to start, fouls, turnovers and just bad play. Kinda worried they might be off their game too much to make anything happen.

[Crissi]

Been pretty exciting so far, with all the close finishes and an upset.

[xskarma]

Ugly ugly game by Michigan, but they win fairly easily in the end. Hopefully they'll actually be ready to start and play better against Houston in the next round.

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Butler just beat Arkansas in an impressive win. With Purdue having a major injury to one of their star players, I like the upset potential of Butler over Purdue.

[Crissi]

Coleman and Roach are exploding o.o

Nevada had a plan for Bamba, but clearly didnt expect the other 2 to turn hot lol

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Well, Im throwing a chair anyways because we blew a 14 point lead and ended up in OT

*throws chair*

[Buckeyenut88]

#1Virginia goes down to #16UMBC! Greatest college basketball upset ever?

[draynay]

#1Virginia goes down to #16UMBC! Greatest college basketball upset ever?

Hard to argue against it, first #16 to beat a #1, and it was the 31-2 unanimous #1 team in the nation, a 20 point favorite that lost by 20.

[Ningjinq]

It has to be near the top in greatest upsets of all time in sports. And certainly most shocking results of all time. 0-135 in 16 seeds vs 1 seeds. Before now.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

#1Virginia goes down to #16UMBC! Greatest college basketball upset ever?

For sure the best totally unhinged, possibly drunk, twitter night.

https://twitter.com/UMBCAthletics

[Buckeyenut88]

Game was 21-21 at half. I was watching and just waiting for Virgina to go on a run in the 2nd half but it never happened. Happy I got to witness what is the greatest upset in my eyes.

[Crissi]

That goes down as the biggest upset in basketball, and one of the biggest in sports period

[eschatological]

How does UVA only score 54 points in a game? WTF.

[sibut]

#1Virginia goes down to #16UMBC! Greatest college basketball upset ever?

What an incredible game.