That was a great move by McDermott to go to the junk D. It gave them a chance.

They've reached the floor, folks. All gravy from here out!

Lots of talk that SV isn?t playing tonight.

Sorry, droner, but I gotta be a Clemson fan on Saturday. ☹️

ACC 10-1 in the NCAAT so far. 😳

Doggone onions! That never gets old.

That?s a good read. Thanks.

FTs are important.

I'm a case study....I don't get nervous hardly ever watching us play football. In basketball I'm a wreck from the opening tip.

I?m usually a wreck watching both.

Rick  apparently asked him if he wanted to come out for a blow
Response was a look that lowered the arena temp about 30 degrees

That doesn?t surprise me at all. That kid is 100% Warrior!

the worst rule in college basketball. If you are going to review it, it needs you be an immediate review. A team can block it out of bounds or you could get the rebound and you lose two points and possession. It?s totally idiotic! Why did the coaches ever agree to that rule?

He is a warrior. Without him, it is difficult to imagine what type of season this team would have had.

Creighton has a big boy who is a rim protector, but he?s not ac really physical player. He?s much more of a finesse player.

We should be able to defeat either of them, tbh.

It will take a better effort than tonight, though.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kuwThyR3cDDqq15VtRQUAqcapaKJ0xbO/view?usp=drivesdk

You could easily argue that he took five steps after ending that dribble.

Then a few plays later they call a travel on MSU. It was a travel, but they are so arbitrary about calling it.

IMO, AU was the only team that could've challenged UConn in that region. So they just got a free pass to the Final Four.

Of course, I'm only ahead of one guy in the pick'em, and he forgot to fill out a bracket. So what do I know?

Hang in there, BDV. You will be ahead of me soon enough.

You meant DK, right?

No. DJ Burns.

That?s a decent synopsis. UK plays lot of AAU style D.

Sec is really puking it up. Are we going to be the only ones left in the tourney?

I would be perfectly fine with that!

How many times last night did JJJ get an offensive rebound within 5 feet of the basket, against a team that was having a very difficult time defending us at the rim, and he turns and throws the ball back out to a player on the perimeter?

No 2 seconds in the lane!

So much of it is arbitrary now. I hate it.

The charge call has now become another to add to the list. DJ literally forcibly backs folks up 2 or 3 feet at a time by knocking them off their spot, yet a defender cannot even make glancing contact on an offensive player. The game has become completely about offense.

As a former coach, I also hate the replay rule inside of 2 minutes of each half. You teach kids that every play matters, yet with this rule it seems that the plays at the end matter much more. If they miss a call with 2:01 left in the half, it isn?t important enough to review. I would much prefer that they give a coach 2 replay reviews per half than to keep what they now use.

I could go on, but I will get off my soapbox now. Sorry for the rant.

Very unusual
We were not worried about their bigs at all and used our bigs to stop their guards on the perimeter
Once our guard recovered off the screen then the big would find his man in the lane
Did it time after time, with all 3 bigs
Very, very effective, especialy against Washington and frustrated the hell out of Reid (who let his big mouth write checks that his limited ability couldn't cash and ended up with two (2) Ts and the resulting ejection -  then was one of the 2 players that met with the media post game)

Bottom line is they had never faced a physical defense like we suffocated them with last night

Yes. It was pretty obvious to me that we were not really too concerned about their offensive ability very much.

I saw a St P player make Jordan look like he was perfectly compliant to the rule tonight

Hahahaha. The game definitely isn?t called like it was when I was playing.

It is an arbitrary call a lot of times any more. Players consistently catch the ball and take two steps on the perimeter. It is like carrying the basketball - crossover moves are much easier in the current game.

I personally hope that they keep Cal. 😜

Just to play devils advocate, Iowa State is 10-6 in quad 1 games and they are 6-1 in quad 2. They play in a conference that will likely have 9 teams in the NCAAT.