Conquer Club

Stupid Badgers...

Kentucky played great, after Ohio State hit a 3 pointer to tie the game,
the Wildcats scored with 4.5 or so seconds left and held on to win it.

All the #1 seeds are dominant so far in the Women's Tournament,
the #11 Zags beat #3 UCLA and face #7 Louisville next,
who eliminated #2 seed Xavier to advance.

bedub1 wrote:Some would argue she's the best guard in NCAA history. She's got the stats to prove it. Either way, Gonzaga women play Saturday at 6:00pm PST on ESPN.

Stats schmats...best guard, possibly. Best point guard? Diana Taurasi, hands down.

maasman wrote:Stupid Badgers...

Badgerbadgerbadgerbadger.

Woodruff wrote:

maasman wrote:Stupid Badgers...

Badgerbadgerbadgerbadger.

Mushroom Mushroom

oVo wrote:the #11 Zags beat #3 UCLA and face #7 Louisville next,
who eliminated #2 seed Xavier to advance.

Zags just beat #7 Louisville.....they are now the lowest ranked team to reach the elite 8.
Another record.

Victor Sullivan wrote:

Woodruff wrote:

maasman wrote:Stupid Badgers...

Badgerbadgerbadgerbadger.

Mushroom Mushroom

Thank God...I was concerned that I would be the only one humored by that comment.

I was humored, I just didn't feel like commenting.

#11Lady Zags face #1Stanford next.
other Elite 8's
#1Tennessee vs #2Notre Dame
#1UConn vs #2Duke
#1Baylor vs #2Texas A&M the 4th time these teams have met this year

Men's Final Four Bracket No #1s or #2s remain
#8Butler vs #11VCU
#4Kentucky vs #3UConn

Biggest Upset of this tourney so far
VCU 71 Kansas 61
actually it's one of the biggest upsets ever in the NCAA Men's Tournament

Elite Eight
with Final Week Rankings
West Region: #2Stanford 83(33-2) #20Gonzaga 60 (31-5)
Midwest Region: #10Notre Dame 73(30-7) #4Tennessee 59 (34-3)

East Region: #1UConn (35-1) vs #6Duke (32-3)
Soutwest Region: #3Baylor (34-2) vs #8 Texas A&M (30-5)

Final Four: April 3rd
Stanford vs UConn/Duke winner
Notre Dame vs Baylor/Tex A&M winner

Danit...gonzaga lost. sigh

Go Cougs! (NIT tournament)

Griner is fucking huge.

Women's Finals:
#1UConn's only loss was @ Stanford 71-59 Dec.30
24 game win streak UConn 75 Duke 40
#2Stanford lost @ Depaul 91-71 Dec.16 and @ Tennessee 82-72 in OT Dec.19
27 game win streak
#3Baylor lost @ UConn 65-64 Nov.16 and @ Texas Tech 56-45 Feb.19
10 game win streak [/e]
[s] #6Duke lost @ UConn 87-51 Jan.31
9 game win streak
#8Texas A&M lost 3 to Baylor this year, last one was 61-58 Mar.12
4 game win streak Texas A&M 58 Baylor 46
#10Notre Dame lost 3 to UConn this year, last one was 73-64 Mar.12
4 game win streak

Women's Final Four:
Stanford vs Texas A&M
UConn vs Notre Dame

Men's Final Four:
#9UConn (30-9)
9 game win streak
#11Kentucky (29-8) worst lost was to UConn 84-67Nov.24
10 game win streak
URButler (27-9)
13 game win streak
URVCU (28-11)
5 game win streak

NIT
Wichita State 75(28-8) vs Washington State 44(22-13)
Alabama 62(25-11) vs Colorado 61(24-14)

After their coach was on the show PTI on ESPN, I'm rooting for Butler to win the men's.

With Butler playing this year's Cinderella in the semi finals they certainly have a good shot at returning to the Championship Game and Kentucky has a chance to avenge their only lopsided loss of the year against the Huskies. Both games should be great.

Then again... nobody thought VCU had any chance against Kansas.

Butler returns to the Championship Game
to face UConn Monday night.

oVo wrote:Butler returns to the Championship Game
to face UConn Monday night.

Hopefully the game will be good....

It should be another good one, Butler is no Cinderella,
even with UConn on a roll.

I did think UK had 'em today after erasing
a 10 point UConn lead in the second half.

Tonight's the night...
Butler(28-9) vs UConn(31-9) in the Men's Final

In the Women's Bracket both #1 seeds fell yesterday
and the #2 seeds advance to tomorrow's Final.
Texas A&M(32-5) vs Notre Dame(31-7)

Texas A&M 63 Stanford 62
Notre Dame 72 UConn 63

NIT Championship:
Wichita State 66
Alabama 57

oVo wrote:Tonight's the night...
Butler(28-9) vs UConn(31-9) in the Men's Final

In the Women's Bracket both #1 seeds fell yesterday
and the #2 seeds advance to tomorrow's Final.
Texas A&M(32-5) vs Notre Dame(31-7)

Texas A&M 63 Stanford 62
Notre Dame 72 UConn 63

NIT Championship:
Wichita State 66
Alabama 57

At least WSU went on to win the championship after beating my WSU...

Butler decided right away in the 2nd half that they couldn't win the game. You could see it in their eyes and by the way they shot the ball. It was like a deer looking in the headlights before being run over.

The first half of the game was intense, heavily contested with lots of impressive
DEFENSE and Butler squeezed out a 3 point lead at the half with a buzzer beater
from behind the arc, but both teams were shooting miserably.

Butler missed a stoopid number of lay ups and shots in the paint,
as well as free throw attempts. UConn took advantage of all
their easy shots... when they got the opportunities.

I suppose you have to credit the UConn defense for rattling Butler,
because they were uncharacteristically off in all facets of their
game... except for transition defense.

Butler had managed to win all their "ugly" games and this one sure qualified as that,
but the wheels really came off the cart in the second half. I think they set a record
for poorest shooting percentage in the tourney and a final.

Congrats on an fabulous season for UConn, who went 32-9 with all nine loses
coming from teams in the Big East Conference. The win streak that carried them
through the Big East Tourney and NCAA Tourney is an amazing accomplishment.

I'm almost glad it's over.....

It's over now...
Texas A&M won their first National Championship beating Notre Dame 76-70
in a contest with all the nail biting drama the men's game lacked. It was tied
with three minutes to play and tight all the way to the end with the Aggies
icing the game at the foul line.

Both teams had beaten two #1 seeds to reach the final, including wins over
conference rivals who had already beaten them three times this year.