*OFFICIAL* March Madness Game Discussion Thread

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Boston Vol said:
That’s what everyone said about the Texas Tech game as well, but that was probably the most most well officiated game that I’ve seen all season.
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VN goes overboard with the cynicism. There is nothing to indicate the refs are unfairly favoring Duke in this tournament.
 
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ZZ13 said:
Surprise. The losing team in a tough game was 1-18 from three. Make that 1-20.
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5% from the 3-pt line, and 43% from inside the arc. You lose by 6, and 1/3 of your shots are 3s. You would think that they would have liked their chances a little more by driving, rather than firing 3s.
 
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I just can't go for Villanova. I just don't like Jay Wright. I used to like the guy but unless I'm misremembering he seemed to have made a condescending remark about our game earlier in the year.
 
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ZZ13 said:
Made every FT and the other guys missed a lot. Houston might very well have won had they chosen to take no threes the entire game and gone for a good two those 20 possessions.
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It didn't make a whole lot of sense why they kept jacking 3 pointers down 4 with plenty of time left.
 
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Wright just keeps on getting it done. Some guys are just tournament coaches. Looks like Musselman may be turning into one. I hate being stuck in a position of having to hope they win. I just can't take K winning any more. He's as slimy as they come regarding NCAA rules and they have never even dared sniff around him, no matter how many cars, jobs for families of recruits, houses for player familes, and how much money they were paying for player.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
VN goes overboard with the cynicism. There is nothing to indicate the refs are unfairly favoring Duke in this tournament.
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Maybe if you only look at refs CALLS. There is also HOW the refs chose to call the games and how the committee chooses to create easy paths. It is naive to think that Duke, UNC, and Kansas don’t get treated differently. Usually those Carolina teams end up with de facto home games not far from their campuses. Sometimes never having to rave their home areas until the Final Four.

The NCAA doesn’t care as much about which team wins. They care about the ratings and the money. Michigan got in because they have a huge following. They did not earn it on the court.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
Maybe if you only look at refs CALLS. There is also HOW the refs chose to call the games and how the committee chooses to create easy paths. It is naive to think that Duke, UNC, and Kansas don’t get treated differently. Usually those Carolina teams end up with de facto home games not far from their campuses. Sometimes never having to rave their home areas until the Final Four.

The NCAA doesn’t care as much about which team wins. They care about the ratings and the money. Michigan got in because they have a huge following. They did not earn it on the court.
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The NCAA's Selection Committee is a different story. I'm just talking about the officiating that I've seen in this tournament.

Texas Tech got a fair shake Thursday night. They had their chances. Duke simply outplayed them in the 2nd half.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
The NCAA's Selection Committee is a different story. I'm just talking about the officiating that I've seen in this tournament.

Texas Tech got a fair shake Thursday night. They had their chances. Duke simply outplayed them in the 2nd half.
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They are under a microscope and everybody is watching in high definition. They can’t blatantly miss calls. But when they do, there will not be replays from multiple angles to highlight the chosen benefiting from crappy calls.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
They are under a microscope and everybody is watching in high definition. They can’t blatantly miss calls. But when they do, there will not be replays from multiple angles to highlight the chosen benefiting from crappy calls.
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I call BS. If the NCAA cooks March Madness, the ratings will suffer in the end because nobody wants to watch WWE-style basketball.

Will star players/programs get calls like the NBA and NFL? Yep, that's just a fact of sports.
Will they hand it to Coach K obviously? Not at all.

Some folks just scream "it's all rigged" at every game and every turn. That's a very lazy take.
 
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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
I call BS. If the NCAA cooks March Madness, the ratings will suffer in the end because nobody wants to watch WWE-style basketball.

Will star players/programs get calls like the NBA and NFL? Yep, that's just a fact of sports.
Will they hand it to Coach K obviously? Not at all.

Some folks just scream "it's all rigged" at every game and every turn. That's a very lazy take.
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Naive.
 
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