***Official 2014 NCAA Basketball Tournment Discussion Thread***

[Excel]

With the victory over Arizona the Badgers have now beaten 3/4 #1 seeds in the tournament this season (Florida, Virginia and Arizona). If Michigan State and Michigan advance today they will have had victories over every other Final Four opponent.

 

 

Come on, jump on the bandwagon as they make a run for their fifth National Championship.

[Mavric]

With the victory over Arizona the Badgers have now beaten 3/4 #1 seeds in the tournament this season (Florida, Virginia and Arizona). If Michigan State and Michigan advance today they will have had victories over every other Final Four opponent.

 

Come on, jump on the bandwagon as they make a run for their fifth National Championship.

Kind of surprised this is Wiscy's first Final Four under Ryan. He's been pretty successful.

[Mavric]

After falling behind 12-2, Michigan State closes the half on a 23-9 run.

 

Napier is crazy good but I don't think UConn has much of a chance unless he goes for 40.

[Mavric]

Broadcast rules stipulate that non-CBS stations can't show March Madness highlights until the day after the game, so ABC affiliate WCJB in Gainesville recapped the Gators' win over Dayton with its own recreated footage. It does not disappoint.

 

Anchor Zach Aldridge, meteorologist Mike Gismondi, and a couple of other station members represented Florida and Dayton in their Elite Eight matchup. Aldridge does the commentary over footage of himself so you don't get lost. They even have a replay of that booming dunk by "Casey Prather."

 

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[Mavric]

TERRIBLE foul by Appling. That probably seals it.

[Mavric]

Can someone explain to Michigan that they actually have to rebound the ball when Kentucky misses a shot???

[EbylHusker]

This game is nuts. Very exciting ending.

[StPaulHusker]

Just want to thank Kentucky and UConn for costing me $$$

[Mavric]

Not Shawn Eichorst ‏@NotADEichorst 9h

The key for UConn to beat Kentucky tonight: pic.twitter.com/FthKQHqThv

 

[Notre Dame Joe]

Y'all rooting for future conference mate UCONN Huskies?

[Mavric]

A four minute scoring drought in the first half and a six minute FG drought in the second half. Yet UConn still leads.

[Mavric]

HOLY S#!^!!!!!!!

 

That was a dunk.

[Mavric]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cLg4LLJmKs

[Mavric]

Matt Schick ‏@ESPN_Schick 37m

Gotta be one of the best moments in the history of the American Athletic Conference. #Huskies

[Mavric]

You're looking at a chart from Stephen Pettigrew's look at 11 million brackets yesterday. Pay special attention to the spike at 680 points, though. It's the strangest damn thing you'll see today.

 

That spike represents about 156,000 people who decided to submit a bracket with nothing but favorites advancing, all the way through the tournament. Since only one 1-seed made it through to the Final Four (Florida) and it lost, this meant that an enormous amount of brackets ended up with the same score, among a field that was otherwise almost perfectly distributed. It's not even that picking all chalk is that bad an idea—in ESPN, it took you into the 77.6th percentile—but more the fact that it goes against the fundamental idea of picking a bracket being a thing you do for fun.

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