2015 ncaa

finish was very o_O

http://www.values.com/inspirational-stories-tv-spots/106-basketball

wow has Duke ever won b4

yes, but not with tyus stones

tyus was amazing

glad Okafor got some in before the bell as well

where does big frank go in the draft? 4 or 5?

(should prob put that in the NBA draft thread oh wells)

latest mocks I've seen have him going late in the lottery

yeah I never properly call how that shit plays out - I assumed james young would be a top 10 pick solely on the basis of him dunking on the entirety of uconn in the last NCAA championship game

So many bad calls that game is my takeaway. Fun first half.

I hate to be the one griping about refs because his team lost but the officiating seemed particularly bad these last two games. Not just the usual where they're calling ticky tacky fouls on one end and "letting them play" on the other, but egregious missed calls, even after lengthy reviews. In the last game vs. UK this shit at least went both ways, but in the last five minutes of this one Winslow was basically untouchable, clearly steps out of bounds w/ the ball at one point and of course had the ball go off his fingertips in a really critical spot but somehow retained possession. Like Wisconsin didn't seem to be playing any different than they usually do but somehow Duke winds up in the double bonus with 9 minutes to play, as soon as Wisco got up by nine it seemed like they were whistling on every single Duke possession. Oh well. Great run Badgers anyway, its kinda been a historic year for college basketball and its been awesome watching what might have been the greatest Wisconsin team ever.

like how many times could Duke get the foul call by just putting their head down and driving into guys. ok I'm done.

the fingertips one is rough, but that is about the system in place -- the only way to tell definitively was that one camera angle in slomo & that is not what the refs were seeing. from every other angle it was p impossible to tell

duke got very aggressive when they went down 9, I did not think the foul calls were bad really either way

I can't see how, the ball stopped spinning when he touched it. Like I get that he barely touched it but I thought when you slow it down it's pretty clear. As for Winslow stepping out of bounds I understand that it's a hard call to make in real time but there's a ref like 2 feet away so it's kind of inexcusable.

Everything else is so subjective but in general I kinda think that elbowing a player in the face ought to be a charge (and not a defensive foul, as it was called) especially when Wisconsin was constantly getting hacked in the lane, as though they were going in slow motion as soon as they started driving. Duke got so many And-1s they were pretty much encouraged to just throw their arm out against the defender, that's almost never called an offensive foul but you do get block calls sometimes, IMO this is one of the worst things about basketball in general

i'm not going to claim the officiating was *good* (nor was it good in the wisconsin-kentucky game, at least the part i saw) but i don't think it was particularly slanted, either. duke's two best players* were in foul trouble the entire game, after all.

Duke also made shots and that had little to do with the refs. But those two missed calls def deflated what would have been a more interesting end.

xp that's true but they wouldn't whistle a 5th on either and thus I think they both got away with some things. though I do concede that Okafor's 3rd was real sketchy. for the record I kinda suspect that Duke is better with him off the floor anyway.

But those two missed calls def deflated what would have been a more interesting end.

that's basically it isn't it? seemed all game like it was gonna come down to the last shot.

well you knocked off Kentucky, and that was great.

i love him, but it seemed like cbs told raftery 'you have to do all catch-phrases all the time in the final four'

also he isn't a priest or marquis or former president or something, and he hasn't been a coach since 1981. 42yo men don't need to refer to him as 'coach' all the damn time

even nantz seemed a little overamped -- hope he can ratchet it down to a respectful whisper for the tradition unlike any other

my (g)listening wife was loling hard at raftery last night

not sure I heard "nyA leeetle Kyuussssss" last night though?

I don't think it's likely but patritos > duke > tiger winning the masters is the unholy trifecta that nantz has been dreaming abt his whole life prob

I was making dinner, so I missed about a third of the game, but I thought the officiating was very mediocre. The refs seemed like they got caught up in making a bad call on a close play, realizing it, then making another bad call the other way to make up for it, then feeling bad about that make-up call and shading the next call the other way, ad infinitum, so that close foul calls began to function like the possession arrow.

nor '2-3 zone . . . withman-to-manprinciples!'

nah, nantz is from charlotte, u know he's a carolina fan

I miss Gus

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

xps to crunch: lol, those three + a lakers NBA championship + a yankees world series would effectively guarantee evil's dominion over all bc all of the coaches/front offices involved have clearly sacrificed human lives on the altar of baal in the past & will again

(i don't follow the EPL but i'm guessing man united or arsenal would be the appropriate analogue for that league?)

Tiger winning the Masters would be amazing right about now

Amazing due to its enormous improbability. Whatever drove Tiger's run to greatness, it seems totally broken and scattered to the winds now. He's a lost soul.

I mostly agree with Joe Posnanski's theory on the matter, which is....he turned 35. not a lot of golfers having consistent success after that age. The fall from "he will definitely break Jack Nicklaus's record" to "he will probably never win another major again" is pretty crazy though

Someone on twitter said Grayson Allen kinda looks like Joffrey and that's something I can't shake

https://i.imgur.com/uELj11V.png

lol UF

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CD228BCXIAElWA5.jpg