2011 March Madness Thread

[Ivytalk]

Go, Zags! Give Jimmer a hummer!

[TwinTownBisonFan]

San Diego in overtime with Temple... I've got the Aztecs winning - but so many people have SDSU going further... GO TEMPLE!

double overtime...

[Silenoz]

Wow, Temple coaching fail in these overtimes...

[TwinTownBisonFan]

temple choked...

smh

[Silenoz]

Man, all the momentum in the world several minutes into the first OT and they shit the bed

[Silenoz]

Wow, Pitt getting screwed by some vagina flopping. This isn't soccer

[TwinTownBisonFan]

Wow, Pitt getting screwed by some vagina flopping. This isn't soccer

no - the referees just aren't letting pitt get away with thugging...

the shit they got away with in the big east doesn't fly in the rest of the country... they knew that going in (in fact i said that either earlier in this thread or in another)

[Silenoz]

Wow, Pitt getting screwed by some vagina flopping. This isn't soccer

no - the referees just aren't letting pitt get away with thugging...

the shit they got away with in the big east doesn't fly in the rest of the country... they knew that going in (in fact i said that either earlier in this thread or in another)

I said it first

But that doesn't mean teams don't try to exploit it

[Silenoz]

Oh. My. God.

Nominee for craziest ending ever taking place

[Mvemjsunpx]

Oh. My. God.

Nominee for craziest ending ever taking place

Can't argue with either call. Both were clearly fouls.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

knew pitt wouldn't make it to monday... got the 8/9 game wrong - but i knew pitt wouldn't survive...

[Silenoz]

FML

Well at least baseball season is starting to take my mind off that epic fail

[griz37]

I'd hate to be one of those Jackasses that picked Pitt to win it all.

[Mvemjsunpx]

I'd hate to be one of those Jackasses that picked Pitt to win it all.

I picked Pitt to the Final 4, but I wasn't too confident about it because I knew they were the weakest 1 seed. I had Butler going down to ODU in the first round.

[93henfan]

I'd hate to be one of those Jackasses that picked Pitt to win it all.

I think it's hilarious that the Big lEast is epic failing though.

[CoachL]

Butler to the Sweet Sixteen for the fourth time since 2003 (2003, 2007, 2010, 2011).

GO DAWGS!

[Ivytalk]

knew pitt wouldn't make it to monday... got the 8/9 game wrong - but i knew pitt wouldn't survive...

I have Florida coming out of that region. I didn't have Pitt losing so soon, however.

[Screamin_Eagle174]

Butler to the Sweet Sixteen for the fourth time since 2003 (2003, 2007, 2010, 2011).

GO DAWGS!

[Screamin_Eagle174]

Thanks Marquette. My bracket is now officially busted.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

Notre Dame with one of the most SHAMEFUL performances in tournament history

also - i had vcu beating georgetown - but really couldn't see them getting by Purdue... whoops.

[Shellin]

I certainly hope this year's performance by the Big East convinces the committee to never allow 11 teams from the same conference ever again. 11 teams in the tournament and only 2 (or 3 if Notre Dame can stage a miraculous comeback) will make it to the second weekend? What a joke.

[dbackjon]

I certainly hope this year's performance by the Big East convinces the committee to never allow 11 teams from the same conference ever again. 11 teams in the tournament and only 2 (or 3 if Notre Dame can stage a miraculous comeback) will make it to the second weekend? What a joke.

And those two teams that made it beat fellow Big East teams. WAFJ.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

I certainly hope this year's performance by the Big East convinces the committee to never allow 11 teams from the same conference ever again. 11 teams in the tournament and only 2 (or 3 if Notre Dame can stage a miraculous comeback) will make it to the second weekend? What a joke.

meh - every one of those teams belonged.

the last team in from the big east was Marquette - and they made the sweet 16... in two cases BE teams eliminate another BE team (UConn over Cincy and Marquette over Syracuse)

the problem for the BE is that 1) their conference season and tournament is a grind unlike any other and 2) the officiating is very different between the BE and the NCAA - the hard, physical style of the conference doesn't fly in the tournament (just ask Pitt)

[dbackjon]

I certainly hope this year's performance by the Big East convinces the committee to never allow 11 teams from the same conference ever again. 11 teams in the tournament and only 2 (or 3 if Notre Dame can stage a miraculous comeback) will make it to the second weekend? What a joke.

meh - every one of those teams belonged.

the last team in from the big east was Marquette - and they made the sweet 16... in two cases BE teams eliminate another BE team (UConn over Cincy and Marquette over Syracuse)

the problem for the BE is that 1) their conference season and tournament is a grind unlike any other and 2) the officiating is very different between the BE and the NCAA - the hard, physical style of the conference doesn't fly in the tournament (just ask Pitt)

Villanova for one had no business being in the tourney.

[Thundering Herd]

The Big East is still the best conference hands down. There's no doubt about it. Like TwinTown said, the last BE team in was Marquette and they are in the Sweet 16. Any of the top 11 teams in that conference could've made it this far. That is how deep that conference was this year.