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Legalboxer
Member

11-17-2003

Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 5:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
although the real tournament doesnt start til next week and we wont know the final 64 (65) until Sunday, I just wanted to start this thread so people have a place to sound off- on teams you love
(adore, worship etc)


teams you hate
(despise, loathe etc

and any team in between

There have already been some cool upsets and nailbiters as conference tournaments take shape this week and teams try to stay on the good side of that bubble so join in on the fray - if you have any opinions at all (on NCAA basketball that is :-))

Melfie1222
Member

07-29-2002

Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 7:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
gozags

Go Zags!!

Legalboxer
Member

11-17-2003

Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 8:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Melfie - think they have any chance of a #1 seed??

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 10:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I always seem to root for the Zags, and teams like Weber St. I love to see the little guys win a couple

Melfie1222
Member

07-29-2002

Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 10:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yay Ladytex! Legal, I don't know, but it seems so from what I hear. I root for them as my hometown favorite.

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 5:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Is Texas Tech going to make it in this year? If so, I'll root for them. IU probably won't even get an NIT nod (let's put it this way - they SHOULDN'T).

Mware
Member

09-14-2001

Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 7:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm gonna be cheering for the

uconnbanner

I just hope Okafor's back can hold up for another 9 games. (3 in the Big East tournament, 6 more to win the NCAA championship.)

And, GAL, as of Monday, projections had Texas Tech as an 8 seed in the west region according to ESPN.com.

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 8:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kewl, Mware. Go UConn, too. I got Michigan in the Big Ten pool, I hope this is good. Colossus got Iowa. I have paid ZERO attention to college basketball this year, except I certainly heard about IU losing multiple times by 30 points or more, and of course Patrick Ewing showing up to watch his baby boy (not) get it done on occasion. Basketball mania seems to be losing its grip on the state of Indiana - it's just not as fun as it used to be when Bob Knight, Gene Keady and Digger Phelps were going at it full time, and high school basketball had no divisions. We will never have another "Hoosiers" here. Maybe good for the players, who need the state championship opportunities to get scholarships, but division play (as opposed to winner take all championship) really deflated the state hard-on for March madness. Hell, the Big Ten Championships are here this weekend and no one's even really talking about it.

Legalboxer
Member

11-17-2003

Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 8:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ahh GAL - dont ruin my illusions of Indiana basketball like that

(walks away determined to keep that Hooisers mentality)

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 9:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hey, GAL, let's switch to the women for a moment. How 'bout those Purdue women? I used to watch Shereka Wright every Tuesday and Friday night for 4 years when she was in high school. She's good as gold, a personality and demeanor to match her skills. She's an icon to my daughter, she was one of her summer camp coaches.

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 11:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sports Illustrated 64 Things We Love about March Madness



Legalboxer
Member

11-17-2003

Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 12:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
thanks ladytex that was hilarious!

Legalboxer
Member

11-17-2003

Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 3:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
first real upset - if you can call it that :-)

Playing for the first time as the top-ranked team in the nation, Saint Joseph's took a tumble Thursday in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic 10 tournament. The Hawks were drubbed by Xavier 87-67, losing for the first time this season and ending a 27-game winning streak

Mware
Member

09-14-2001

Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 4:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow! I wonder whether that'll cost them a #1 seed.

Purplecow
Member

12-08-2003

Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 5:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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Legalboxer
Member

11-17-2003

Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 2:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
only a few hours til selections are announced for the tournament!!! Maryland beat Duke in the ACC tournament :-) but i am not sure that will keep duke from having a #1 seed. - Guess its wait and see time now.

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 5:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
GO TERPS GO TERPS GO TERPS

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 5:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kentucky, Duke, Stanford and St. Joe's got the #1 seeds this year. Congrats to them and their fans!

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 5:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
If you have acrobat reader on your computer, you will be able to look at and print out the mens bracket here:

Printable Mens Bracket in PDF format



Legalboxer
Member

11-17-2003

Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 6:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
thanks ladytex

here is a link to the brackets on ESPN in gif form
http://espn-att.starwave.com/i/ncaa/04mens_bracket.gif

So I am happy Maryland got the #4 seed even if in the midwest and looks like Carolina could be playing Duke in their regional final if all goes that way.. the Zags got a #2 seed - not bad and they definitely deserved a good ranking.

Doubt anyone will upset a #1 in the first round, or a 2 or 3 but those 5 vs 12 games can always be tricky - any thoughts on an upset??

Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 6:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't know what's wrong with me. I seem to ruin basketball programs. I have attended three universities--one for my bachelor's degree, one for my masters, and another for my Ph.D.--and NONE of them is even in the NCAA tourney. My current school, UCLA, has arguably the most storied basketball history in the country (maybe Duke or UNC, but they are both in NC, so they don't really count), and, except for a few years ago, they have been miserable since I have been here. Not even firing Steve Lavin helped.

Of Course I went to Indiana, too, but I'm not sad to see the Hoosiers shut out. I'm just glad the taxpayers of that state paid me to attend that school for two years.

Legalboxer
Member

11-17-2003

Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 6:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
lol Tishala - for the record i would agree UCLA WAS one of the great basketball programs in history, along with carolina and maybe indiana and Kentucky (i too block out Duke even with them being in NC) - its really bad luck - they had some decent players but just not that edge - but I do hope they get better because i am hardcore into tradition and i respect UCLA even if it is the left coast :-)

i on the other hand seem to have luck - the first year i became a diehard Carolina fan, not knowing how good they were, they won the national championship, then my college (UNCG) made the tournament for the first time (in decades or ever?) while i am there, then i am at wake forest one year when Duncan had his super year -then my home state of Maryland wins in 2002 and finally right as i graduate from law school, Syracuse wins last year :-) still doubt it was my presence but then again you never know--- that theory of a butterfly in a forest in south america causing a torando in asia might not be that off in the basketball world :-)

Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 6:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
No boxer, I agree with you: you are responsible for the successes of those teams just as I am responsible for the destruction of those I attend. Those will be our legacies.

Lancecrossfire
Moderator

07-13-2000

Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 6:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Tishala, in the case of UCLA, I think it's an issue of timing. If you were in school the same time John Wooden was coaching the basketball program, you'd be in the middle of a dynasty.

Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 7:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yeah Lance and if if and buts were candies and nuts we'd all have a merry christmas! LOL.

Anyhow, I'm not too disappointed cause I don't love college basketball that much anyhow (*gasp*). I plan to root for St. Joe's because they are the best representative from Philadelphia. And I remember Martelli on the sports radio station in Philly and he was a funny guy.