2023 March Madness Thread

rass · Post by **rass** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 6:10 pm

If we were in person I could make a similar joke for the other game that just got interesting

rass · Post by **rass** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 6:45 pm

No coach no!

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 6:47 pm

Yeah, man. Sorry he stopped there.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:08 pm

rass · Post by **rass** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:18 pm

rass wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 8:09 pm
rass wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 5:19 pmJersey strong!

Post by **brian** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:21 pm

Kinda sad Grant Wahl isn’t around to see this.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:27 pm

My sister and nephew were at the Arkansas upset. She's a Mizzou grad, so they were quite happy with the result.

rass · Post by **rass** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:33 pm

For how long?

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 8:52 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:08 pm tweet shown above

sc noooooo these are never real

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 9:07 pm

He’s too busy watching proposal and kiss cam fail videos to see this.

rass · Post by **rass** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 9:38 pm

Brontoburglar wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 8:52 pm
sancarlos wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:08 pm tweet shown above
sc noooooo these are never real

You calling jlo a liar?

(even searching the archives Shirley provided I can only find one good reference to this event and it wasn’t the original and was in a pretty ugly thread so no link)

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 9:56 pm

I destroyed a tv when Uk lost it Wisconsin in final four.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:17 pm

I once ripped a hat and was annoyed enough about my lost $20.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:54 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:08 pm

Didn't they win last year?

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:57 pm

Are there like a ton of posts missing from this thread from the last few hours because it's all extremely confusing.

But yes, Rass, that looks exactly like the TV I busted throwing a tiny stuffed animal at it and didn't realize it had a porcelain bottom. It wasn't even a Steelers game.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:13 pm

According to the FB post, it was because I thought Wes Welker who was on my fantasy team caught a TD, and then it ended up being the Patriots other white wide receiver.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 7:33 am

rass wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 9:38 pm
Brontoburglar wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 8:52 pm
sancarlos wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:08 pm tweet shown above
sc noooooo these are never real
You calling jlo a liar?

(even searching the archives Shirley provided I can only find one good reference to this event and it wasn’t the original and was in a pretty ugly thread so no link)

jlo was just a trendsetter and everyone now pretends to copy him for internet clout

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:48 am

The basketball remains terrible but if you’re gonna give me poor man’s Chet Holmgren except there’s two of them and they’re from the Canary Islands, I’ll hang in there

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:57 am

Oh look, another blowout when there is no other game on for some dumb reason!

phxgators · Post by **phxgators** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 12:47 pm

Giff wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:57 am Oh look, another blowout when there is no other game on for some dumb reason!

A tradition unlike any other

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 1:49 pm

phxgators wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 12:47 pm
Giff wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:57 am Oh look, another blowout when there is no other game on for some dumb reason!
A tradition unlike any other

There was a time, say, 20 years ago (?) when the Sweet 16 games wrapped up by 7p EST on Sunday, which meant you had overlap on game starts/endings. That’s where a lot of the madness came in. When every game has its own exclusive stage, it’s not so high on the madness factor.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:33 pm

every game doesn't have its own exclusive time. just four games over the entire weekend are on in their own windows. the other 12 all overlap in various capacities

eta: that's not a defense of the way it's set up. ideally they'd all be staggered an hourish apart after tipping off at Noon ET. but CBS gets to call the shots with this TV deal and it wants the first three games

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:49 pm

I’m not just saying this entirely because my wife and I are both top 3 in a 135 person pool but there should be periodic payouts. It shouldn’t just be about choosing the eventual winner. Unless that eventual winner is UCLA or Houston.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:50 pm

Brontoburglar wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:33 pm every game doesn't have its own exclusive time. just four games over the entire weekend are on in their own windows. the other 12 all overlap in various capacities

eta: that's not a defense of the way it's set up. ideally they'd all be staggered an hourish apart after tipping off at Noon ET. but CBS gets to call the shots with this TV deal and it wants the first three games

45 minutes(?) or whatever is the standard length of a first half?

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 3:43 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:49 pm I’m not just saying this entirely because my wife and I are both top 3 in a 135 person pool but there should be periodic payouts. It shouldn’t just be about choosing the eventual winner. Unless that eventual winner is UCLA or Houston.

The pool I’m in does that. Those at #1 after each round wins a %.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 3:48 pm

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 3:50 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:50 pm
Brontoburglar wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:33 pm every game doesn't have its own exclusive time. just four games over the entire weekend are on in their own windows. the other 12 all overlap in various capacities

eta: that's not a defense of the way it's set up. ideally they'd all be staggered an hourish apart after tipping off at Noon ET. but CBS gets to call the shots with this TV deal and it wants the first three games
45 minutes(?) or whatever is the standard length of a first half?

first game officially starts at 12:10 p.m. ET and it's eight games at four sites where one ticket at each site gains you entry to both games (AKA the games at each site aren't spaced out by more than a half hour or so)

basically that's the long way of saying hourish is +/- 20 each way if you did a true stagger start and there have been more than a few games already this weekend that have gone 2:20 or so because of all the damn commercials and reviews

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 4:13 pm

Gotcha. I was thinking it’s no better for most if Game 2 goes off as halftime of Game 1 is just ending.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 4:43 pm

Really thought we had that one.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 8:17 pm

A_B wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 4:43 pm Really thought we had that one.

Today is stupid tbh.

Post by **Shirley** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:35 pm

I really need Miami to hold on in this one. Not only is Miami the only ACC team left, but my bil and sil both picked Indiana to win it all in the family pool.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:48 pm

Short of a collapse the size of Maryland v Duke 20-ish years ago? Miami has this one in the bag.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:16 pm

Did Drew Timme just drop an F-Bomb on national TV?

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:04 am

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:16 pm Did Drew Timme just drop an F-Bomb on national TV?

Yes...yes, he did.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:19 pm

Jerloma wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 10:02 pm PC didn't even play that poorly tonight. Kentucky dudes are just bigger, faster, and stronger. They don't look like any team I've seen in the Big East this year. I guess the fact that our superstar player transferred from Kentucky due to lack of PT should have clued me in.

Losing to Kentucky isn't humiliating, but losing your coach (who was born in Providence!) to the basement of your own conference? Yikes.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:58 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:19 pm
Jerloma wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 10:02 pm PC didn't even play that poorly tonight. Kentucky dudes are just bigger, faster, and stronger. They don't look like any team I've seen in the Big East this year. I guess the fact that our superstar player transferred from Kentucky due to lack of PT should have clued me in.
Losing to Kentucky isn't humiliating, but losing your coach (who was born in Providence!) to the basement of your own conference? Yikes.

Georgetown has been a sleeping giant for the past few decades. In all honesty, they have a national brand on relatively the same level as the blue bloods.

It only takes the right coach to awaken the beast.

Post by **Shirley** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 1:47 pm

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:58 pm
mister d wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:19 pm
Jerloma wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 10:02 pm PC didn't even play that poorly tonight. Kentucky dudes are just bigger, faster, and stronger. They don't look like any team I've seen in the Big East this year. I guess the fact that our superstar player transferred from Kentucky due to lack of PT should have clued me in.
Losing to Kentucky isn't humiliating, but losing your coach (who was born in Providence!) to the basement of your own conference? Yikes.
Georgetown has been a sleeping giant for the past few decades. In all honesty, they have a national brand on relatively the same level as the blue bloods.

It only takes the right coach to awaken the beast.

It does with us old dudes. Does anyone under the age of 30 care about Georgetown? Their last significant players retired from the NBA years ago.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 1:54 pm

Shirley wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 1:47 pm
EnochRoot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:58 pm
mister d wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:19 pm
Jerloma wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 10:02 pm PC didn't even play that poorly tonight. Kentucky dudes are just bigger, faster, and stronger. They don't look like any team I've seen in the Big East this year. I guess the fact that our superstar player transferred from Kentucky due to lack of PT should have clued me in.
Losing to Kentucky isn't humiliating, but losing your coach (who was born in Providence!) to the basement of your own conference? Yikes.
Georgetown has been a sleeping giant for the past few decades. In all honesty, they have a national brand on relatively the same level as the blue bloods.

It only takes the right coach to awaken the beast.
It does with us old dudes. Does anyone under the age of 30 care about Georgetown? Their last significant players retired from the NBA years ago.

It’s even more complicated than that. They have an endowment, but it’s pretty modest compared to its peers (top 20-25 academic institution in the USA), because of some rather limited-in-scope Jesuit direction long ago. They’ve been playing catch-up for the 21st century.

So long as they’re an attractive option for NIL, they should remain that sleeping giant.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 1:59 pm

I'd love for Georgetown (and St. John's) to return to mattering, but from Providence's standpoint given all the factors, that seems pretty awful.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:54 pm

In the general vicinity of this Big East discussion, Rick Pitino is now the HC at St. Johns.