NCAA Tournament Round 1
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Hopefully Duke and Gonzaga can avoid the upset bids of George Washington and Indiana today and make it to the sweet 16... Indiana's gonna be a tough matchup for Gonzaga.. hopefully Morrison can have another 40 pt performance!
Duke moves on against a good GW team. I got so sick of the one announcer constantly reminding everyone that GW "can put points on the board quickly." Yeah, whatever. Bye G dub. McRoberts had a monster double-double so did Williams although he disappeared a little in the second half.
I got tired of hearing that too Poacher. Williams and Redick had good games and McRoberts looked sensational at times. It was all that was needed to beat GW. No nailbiter here like it seems all of the Zags games are. Here's hoping for at least a 10 point victory for the Zags tonight. Of course, I'll settle for just a victory!
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So, besides West Virginia, Duke, and Gonzaga, who all else are we pulling for?
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Wichita played 3 whites most of the game that I saw, though I don't know how many started. They would be a good one to pull for though.
Bucknell plays some whites, Colonel Reb and are you guys forgetting North Carolina. Pittsburgh starts two whites, Gray and Kendall. Washington has three whites getting a fair amount of time including Jon Brockman (McDonald's All-American).
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I was thinking about NC. It will be interesting to see how these teams do over the next week. Hopefully we will have at least 5 teams out of the 16 to pull for after tomorrow.
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Gonzaga and Duke to the Sweet 16... Now all we need is North Carolina and West Virginia to win tomorrow to keep up to get some majorite white starting lineups into the final 4... Bucknell and Wichita State are also 2 teams I'll be pulling for as they too are majority white.. but I don't see either as a legitimate threat.. but you never know. Big game by Sean Mallon of Gonzaga tonight.
Wichita State will be playing North Carolina in the next round if the Tar Heels win today. Watching them play yesterday, I think they are a threat. They have so many shooters, and they have two solid centers that are tough to guard. Most cinderellas don't have the depth they do.
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NC State and Pitt are 2 other teams playing today that I like. Aaron Gray is gonna be a big time player, and NC State has 2 or 3 whites that start and 4 in the rotation total I believe. Pitt's down 12 right now, but it's early..
I'm satisfied.The Zags made it to the Sweet 16 and if they get any further it's gravy.Great to see six Zags in double-figures.Everyone contributed like Mallon and Pargo who is the brother of Gennaro of the Bulls and Pendergraft who is the son of Danny Bonaduce,actually I made that last one up.The problem once again is defending the 3-pointers.What are they going to do against guys like Jordan Farmar,who by the way was heavily recruited by Gonzaga.Should they play man, 1-3-1, I don't know.Good-luck Mark Few.Maybe they should forget the "D" and be like Loyola Marymount of the early 90's and go all offence and win games 100-95.
Pendergraft does look like he could be Danny Bonaduce's son. I took you seriously on that one, speedster! I think Gonzaga is too balanced for UCLA and Morrison will not have two bad games in a row. It was nice to get such a big contribution from Mallon and if not for the prescence of Morrison, I wonder how good Sean Mallon could have been in his college career. Erroll Knight and Ravio had good games too and proved the Zags are not a two man operation, Morrison and Batista. They will make it to the final four, write it in ink (scratch that)pencil!
North Carolina has 4 Whites on the floor right now and they are up by 11. I tuned in about 3 minutes into the game and UNC had 3 Whites on the floor. Is that how many they started? If so, that puts them up there with Duke and West Virginia.
Oh, Bucknell and Wichita St. also. With these teams and Gonzaga, so far so good.Edited by: KG2422
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They have FOUR on the floor? Wow. the most I've seen them play this year is three but if they put 4 in I'm impressed. They start 3 (Hansbrough, Miller, Frasor)
West Virginia looks very good right now as they take it to Northwestern St. It would be nice if Bucknell or Kentucky could pull off an upset over Memphis or Connecticut, but it doesn't look likely so far. I hope you all have been using march madness on demand to watch the games out of your market. It's made these first two rounds much funner to watch.
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I can't believe UNC got beat! What a crock!
George freaking Mason. Unbelievable! North Carolina lived with the freshman all season and they died with them. Wichita State and George Mason, that destryed alot of people's brackets. I had Wichita State in the sweet 16 but not George Mason. Let's hope Kentucky knocks off UConn. They are two points down with three minutes left. Patrick Sparks has lit it up in the 2nd half.