2012 ncaa tournament / march madness / anthony davis appreciation thread / RIP gus johnson / shaka smart for ambassador to the UN

They were like, 'Go Lehigh, beat Duke!' They were screaming. It was nice to have fans here that weren't Duke. I've never seen two schools that hate each other so much.

Tickets for UNC - Duke are always scalped for $500 - $1000. And that's twice a season. I can't think of another college rivalry so intense.

Also, things like this intensify the hatred. Fuck the refs who shamelessly allowed it all season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi9fMxwglqU

^^ that vid shows numerous instances of horrible, obvious, unforgiveable traveling. The refs must never once have looked down to figure it out, or else they were gambling on the games. The ACC should be burning red in the face with shame for those refs' incompetance.

i don't have much of a problem with the walks off the catch, but the shuffling is terrible and blatant and is further evidence that no one ever taught rivers how to play basketball

makes me think of my old, slightly cranky coach at bball camp when i was like 10 exhorting us to catch the pass and "stop on a dime"

Syracuse looked pretty strong today but I think KSU was a #10 seed at best.

They were like, 'Go Lehigh, beat Duke!' They were screaming. It was nice to have fans here that weren't Duke. I've never seen two schools that hate each other so much.

yeah this is the drawback of the pod system for duke -- they don't have to travel far for the first round, but there are always more carolina fans

Favorite pic from that game: Lehigh dude holding huge sign that said "DUKE WAS MY SAFETY SCHOOL."

niiice

ive got the steven tchiengang over

jae crowder is awesome

looks exactly like faried pt 2

haha yeah i was thinking that too

ha me too

this wiltjer kid looks like he's 12 years old

guh college basketball swinging the ball around the perimeter pointlessly for 30secs every possession, they need a shorter shot clock so bad

smh at the end of that vandy game

try doing one of four things:

- getting a rebound after you force a team to jack an nba three with 2 seconds left on the clock
- making the front end of a one and one
- calling a time out and not letting clueless players orchestrate an end of game sequence on the fly
- not launching a miracle three after coming back thanks to pounding the ball inside

rip shaka

at least shaka called a time out at the end of the game and didn't have his team just senselessly launch a three pointer from two ft behind the line

dude had a wide open look, RIP

Yeah if you can't make a wide open three, that's just how it goes.

Wide open threes are still only a 50% opportunity for most college players.

Always interesting to see which commercial will annoy me most. Buick's Peter Frampton ad is my one seed.

its funny because peter frampton prob does play bars these days

Wait, where'd this Exxon Keystone Pipeline ad come from? Could pull an upset.

the toyota coach is making me start to miss n-n-n-napa knowhow a little

usf is getting bailed out by some highly questionable foul calls imo

hey guys lets be cool peter frampton never bothered anyone

man lehigh really gave this thing a run

zip em up, that's our motto

oh, hey, it's bill self! it's march!

after the usf/ohio game i saw a usf player go ovr 2 a booster in the stands and get handed a wad of ca$h

lol whut

that program is gonna get slammed for recruiting violations soon btw

wow, hair on my neck was on its feet for last few mins of that kansas game

some historic end of game execution from purdue there

blake griffin in that subway commercial is really making me hate blake griffin

srsly these commercials are garbage - that one, the buick ad. are these online only? they're like student- created ads

I don't know how many times with the clock going down this weekend clubs just needing a basket settling for some at best 35% long range bomb instead of pushing it inside to go for the shot and see what happens. Driving it down to shoot - it might go in, you might get fouled, it might be like in the IU game and get knocked out to your own guy...either way, I bet it is a better chance of success (either scoring or going to the line combined) than just launching one up half cocked from the 3 line.

The 3 line is crack for some college teams and I think it leads to some bad shots.

move the 3pt line out shorten the shot clock go more pro game would be better

20-17 at half. Butler vs Penn. CBI classic.

The 3 line is crack for some college teams

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some of these coaches need to be straight up fined for this shit

how do you watch your PG dribble in no man's land three feet from the half court like with 8 seconds left and just swallow your whistle

my mind is numb right now

swallow your time out, i mean

vern setting raft up is the best thing

"how do you describe that call"
"ennnh a little nickle dimer"
"i thought thats what u might say"

looool

it's a travesty that nantz/kellogg call the big games over them

osu/cincy is a surprisingly hot game