Harmonious NCAA Sweet 16

[Daws1089]

jml, do you believe everything you read? lol

[JohnnyMapleLeaf]

"I do see this as an up-and-down game," Izzo said Monday at his regular weekly news conference. "I hope it is an up-and-down game because I think we have enough depth and we can run, and they are going to run.”

Going to add the over....memphis can score, and I think Mich St will too...74-70 type game...

Gl tonight!

[CuseFan10]

Gl Cuse!

Great game between Xavier & WV, eh?

And how bout them Cards? (lol...sorry)
Tenn is so sloppy, IMO. And don't you just want to smack that headband of Jism's head? lol

Hope you kill tonight...

What do you think about the Mich St/Memphis over? I read somewhere that Izzo plans on running with the Tigers...

I will probably add that play I think. Kalin Lucas is becoming a star in this tournament. Quickest guy on the floor. I'm not sure they will attempt to run with them but I don't think they'll shy away from running when they can either. I also think it's going to be a foulfest and the clock will be stopped early and often.

As for TENN, they are a bunch of punks and so is Bruce Pearl. How does a team force 10 turnovers in the first ten minutes and be losing 24-8? WTF? That's mind boggling. Word is Indiana wants him? Are they serious? After Sampson just embarrassed them they are going to go with another cheater in Pearl? I've heard there's pictures circulating with him holding red solo cups and lying on college girls laps at frat parties and ****??? Not sure if it's true but my buddy just told me that that headache is about to pop up for TENN (and he graduated from TENN).

[JohnnyMapleLeaf]

Gl Cuse!

Great game between Xavier & WV, eh?

And how bout them Cards? (lol...sorry)
Tenn is so sloppy, IMO. And don't you just want to smack that headband of Jism's head? lol

Hope you kill tonight...

What do you think about the Mich St/Memphis over? I read somewhere that Izzo plans on running with the Tigers...

[CuseFan10]

Friday Sweet 16 Matchups

About even yesterday, small profit. Here's today's BOL everyone!!!!

2 UNITS
Villanova/Kansas OVER 144. Jay Wright knows the only shot they have is to play fast and loose and chuck up the 3's because they simply can't match up with Kansas height and skill inside. I wouldn't be surprised if Nova take nearly 30 3's tonight.

1 UNIT
Michigan State (+4.5). Plenty of big bodies to give plenty of fouls and make Memphis earn points from the foul line.
Stanford (+3.5). If they can control the pace of the game and urn their boring sets this one should go down to the wire.
Stanford/Texas UNDER 134. I think the tempo is slow, only problem is both teams shoot free throws well.
Davidson/Wisconsin OVER 126.5. Go against the grain here probably, but Wisky has been shooting it well.

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Have a couple ML parlays pending too that I won't bore anyone with. Nail'em tonight guys, hope your brackets are still in contention.

[RahStahMan]

GL Cuse!
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[homedawg]

GL CF :beerbang:

[CuseFan10]

GL tonight, Cuse. Hope X cashes for you. Should be a very hard fought game. I'm hoping X has a chip on its shoulder for being an underdog in a 3/7 matchup...plus, Huggs and WVU have been getting all the press this week...fine with me, I like X flying under the radar. Hoping this one comes down to free throws. WVU is #222 in D1 in fouls per game. They do that against X, who has been shooting free throws at an 80% clip during the tourney, X could make them pay. Derrick Brown on Joe Alexander should be a great matchup. Brown is athletic and long with a 7'4" wingspan. Hopefully he can stay in front of him and make him work really hard for all his points. Think Duncan and Love could make a difference in the paint tonight for X.

Well, tipoff in about an hour. Excuse me while I go throw up. I am one nervous MFer.

GO X!!

I had a whole write-up on the game but I deleted it by accident. Basically, what it comes down to for me is that I think Xavier is more athletic and can get points from far more places than WVU can. WVU has it's three in Alexander, Ruoff, and Nichols but that's about it since I don't expect Butler to be able to handle Duncan on either end of the court. I also like how Xavier grinded out both wins (though I hope they don't go down 10 points in the first 5 minutes again) while WVU could suffer a bit of a 'Duke Hangover' IMHO. Another huge factor for me is that WVU's best line-up is when they go small and I think that plays right into an athletic Xavier's hands. Also like Burrell to shut down either Ruoff or Nichols, whoever Miller puts him on. Basically, if one of the three guys on WVU has a bad shooting night ,I'm not sure WVU can overcome that in this one, while Xavier can manufacture points from about 8 guys if need be.

[Nigel Tufnel]

GL tonight, Cuse. Hope X cashes for you. Should be a very hard fought game. I'm hoping X has a chip on its shoulder for being an underdog in a 3/7 matchup...plus, Huggs and WVU have been getting all the press this week...fine with me, I like X flying under the radar. Hoping this one comes down to free throws. WVU is #222 in D1 in fouls per game. They do that against X, who has been shooting free throws at an 80% clip during the tourney, X could make them pay. Derrick Brown on Joe Alexander should be a great matchup. Brown is athletic and long with a 7'4" wingspan. Hopefully he can stay in front of him and make him work really hard for all his points. Think Duncan and Love could make a difference in the paint tonight for X.

Well, tipoff in about an hour. Excuse me while I go throw up. I am one nervous MFer.

GO X!!

[CuseFan10]

at the same time, tennessee has not been impressive at all in my recent memory. Barely beating south carolina in the conference tourney, and losing to arkansas? Then struggling with american freakin university for 35 minutes doesnt say much. And butler who we all know is an overrated team takes them to OT? I can't back a tennessee team who really doesn't play defense imo. Where are you seeing unc/louisville being touted? I haven't heard that at all.

Maybe it's a local thing here (which wouldn't make sense except that Pitino is a local guy and has ties abound all over this state and new york city), but all on the radio and tv almost every prediction I've seen from the "experts" has Louisville vs North Carolina.

I agree UT is sloppy and doesn't play defense and could easily go down in flames, not denying that at all. I just think they were bored at the end of the year and Pearl will have them chomping at the bit for this one. I really think Louey's players are just as sloppy as UT's too. Sosa, Clark, Caracter, Williams, Smith, and Palacios all have extremely low basketball IQ's if you ask me.

The UNDER got pounded from 147 down to 144 already, so I guess I'm not alone thinking this game will be a turnoverfest of possible epic proportions.

[Daws1089]

at the same time, tennessee has not been impressive at all in my recent memory. Barely beating south carolina in the conference tourney, and losing to arkansas? Then struggling with american freakin university for 35 minutes doesnt say much. And butler who we all know is an overrated team takes them to OT? I can't back a tennessee team who really doesn't play defense imo. Where are you seeing unc/louisville being touted? I haven't heard that at all.

[CuseFan10]

Cash money, IMO. GL Cuse :thumbs:

Love to hear that UDoggie Dogg! :beerbang:

[CuseFan10]

gl cuse. on a lot of the same. I'm on the 'ville, but i do think you are probably on the right side. Something tells me tennessee wins that game. how i have no clue, but i think you are right nontheless.

Thanks Daws. Everyone is proclaiming this Louisville/North Carolina match-up as the best possible game for the tournament, but can they get there first please? I'm not convinced either one of them gets thru to the Elite Eight.

Yea, Louisville looked insanely impressive, but they played freakin Boise State and Oklahoma. One team can't stop anyone and the other can't score to save their lives. I guess all the terrible road losses and awful BE Tourney display they put on just go out the window because the beat Boise State and Oklahoma? Any team in the country would have struggled with Butler in the second round, and if Tennessee loses this game (which there's a very good chance they do), it will be because they beat themselves, not because Louisville outplayed them or played harder. I'm interested to see how Louisville's sloppy players, which includes, well..... every player on Louisville except David Padgett, handles the Tennessee pressure for 40 minutes.

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[Underdog88]

Louisville/Tennessee UNDER - not sure.

Cash money, IMO. GL Cuse :thumbs:

[Daws1089]

gl cuse. on a lot of the same. I'm on the 'ville, but i do think you are probably on the right side. Something tells me tennessee wins that game. how i have no clue, but i think you are right nontheless.