Excellent game for the Johnnies - much better shooting of all three types (2FG, 3FG, and FT), with the usual intensity on defense and the boards. They can beat anybody if they play like that.
Stanford beat California last night in Charlotte, NC, in the pre-quarterfinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament they have ruined college basketball
St. John's completes the undefeated season at home. They have to be a #2 seed in the tourney, especially given today's losses by Alabama and Michigan State; could they actually pass Auburn for a #1? (I don't think so.)
UNC finishes 1-12 in quad 1 games and gets a tournament bid. They go to the selection committee chair for an explanation: oh it’s UNC’s athletic director! just a joke
Ugly start for St. John’s yesterday but they composed themselves. I’m not sure how far that teams going to go without better shooting.
It was the most boring 1st round I’ve seen in my life. No last second shots, no upsets, no real likeable players, Just football schools just blowing people out with teams of transfers they bought with the football money — oh we got McNeese State? How exciting to watch a coach fired from LSU for paying for players before it was allowed, “upset” an embarrassingly overseeded Clemson team that scored 13 points in a half
I really thought Yale was going to beat A&M. Top 20 scoring offense and a legit center. Felt bad for Norfolk State yesterday. Beyond a 7-8 minute stretch in the first half they played Florida pretty competitively. They just got fucking avalanched in the that 7-8 minute run by Florida.
Yale with James Jones is one of the very few teams I was rooting for. A&M was a tough matchup. Yale was better than a 13, A+M was better than a 4
1 quick fix for next year - “you must have a winning record in conference play to make the ncaa tournament as an at large” they put like 6-8 of those losers in and almost all of them lost, some of them blown out of the gym. The post season is for teams that are playing winning basketball. A rule like that is sorely needed as they build these insanely bloated mega conferences
