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kansas' offense has been comically bad so far

i kinda want NC st to win cuz i think it would be hilarious if they beat UNC minus marshall to make the final four -- that would be some all-time butthurt by UNC fans

oh gross, the harbaughs

^verbatim quote what i thought

how can anyone not love nc state? THEIR SHIRTS SAY 'STATE'

they've been the destitute shitstain on tobacco road for almost 20 years and have wrecked good coaches like herb sendek (and heroes like sidney lowe). go pack

eh sendek wasn't that great a coach

herb wasn't much of a recruiter, but i think he did pretty well with what he had -- better than his predecessors anyway

if you're coaching basketball in north carolina and aren't much of a recruiter you prob shouldn't have a job

otm

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i'm still butthurt about him yelling at me at a kentucky basketball camp 20 yrs ago

haha ok

i went to five star but no one bothered yelling at me

i'm sure i deserved it

kidd gilchrist is a fucking beast

i think dude is gonna be a stud in the nba

the only reason i ever scored in camp was because this guy on my team (who was on an opposing team in actual high school) was an incredible passer. dude could play.

unfortunately i was with him when a scout asked him what his sat score was. he said 740, and the scout asked math or verbal. oops

look at these ppl

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wau wolfpack

tyshawn has been godawful here

why would you run a play w/ a pass like that involved

yeah, just asking for it to go out of bounds

Withey with 10 blocks, the most blocks in a tournament game since Shaq.

UK plays like tonight, no one is going to beat them. They got everything: inside game, shooting, defense and tonight they just lit up the charity stripe. IU played a pretty good game for the most part, but once the fouls piled up and Oladipo had to go to the bench, they just couldn't hang.

Glad they called those fouls early on Zeller to reign him in. Dude plays dirty and doesn't have to. Can't see anyone beating Kentucky, either.

Props to Stillman White. I told my wife he's the Tar Heels' Matt Seracen.

Any team is beatable, but Kentucky looks like the best team still in the running. I don't have a beef against the UK players. Lamb looked especially underrated as an efficient role player against Indiana. But fuck Calipari with a nightstick.

who'd of thunk boynton & walker would both miss 3s w/ the season on the line? good comeback by l'ville

amazing comeback

erv walker sucks

good call on the traveling at the end, i thought for sure there was a foul

this reminds me when i predicted erv walker's stat line in the elite 8 last year, i need to find that

yea that was classic

it's gonna be hilarious when UF loses next weekend during a game where erving walker shoots 1/7 from 3

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Harrison Barnes cannot make a basket. wtf?

And I don't understand how North Carolina is getting out rebounded.

i don't understand why the #2 seed gets the home game

jayhawks were really lucky that withey didn't get his 5th foul w/ about 2 minutes left. they totally had the momentum after that.

Barnes soooo not ready for pros.

UNC shot 11% from 3 point range.

I hate KU with the fire of 1000 suns. They can go eat a bag of dicks.

poor heels

This put me in the uncomfortable position of rooting for Ohio State. Bill Self's smirk needs to be permanently wiped off his face.

Kentucky/Louisville should be kinda fun. Not that I care for either team or coach, but the stands should be filled with all sorts of hate.

Really wanted Stilman White to rise to some mythical place in Tar Heel history. At least it wasn't his fault that they last. No turnovers in two games from a third-string point guard is nothing to be ashamed of.

Thankfully White didn't step on his dick, but he was a liability the whole game because his vision of the court is pretty narrow and KU guards ran all over UNC--the Tar Heels looked like they were learning an offense the last 10 minutes. Who the hell draws up an offensive set that has the #4 and #5 men up on the three point line for much of the shifting. DUMB.

Three of my least favorite coaches in the sports world are now left (Calipari the Cheater, Facelift Pitino, and Self) so needless to say, I'm not looking forward to the Final Four.

^^dw's last sentence otm

cal is awesome

he's pretty awesome at bailing out just before the NCAA police arrive with the sanctions, fwiw

hope the announcers talk about how this is calipari's second trip to the final four, since he's had two others vacated

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7737280/harrison-barnes-two-years-north-carolina-tar-heels

@blazersedge
Blazers must be 1st team in history w/ Acting GM, Interim Coach & unofficial "support" assistant. Mascot will be on 10-day contract by April

Oops, wrong thread!

i liked that barnes story -- he has a pretty interesting decision... he can cut bait and STILL probably get picked in the bottom of the top 10 or maybe he comes back to carolina and becomes actually great and goes top 3 in a weaker 2013 draft

the question is more if he comes back and plays himself out of the first round, a la josh mcroberts . . .