March Madness Discussion Thread (Canadian Focus)

Leolovinliberal · Post #1 » by **Leolovinliberal** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:26 am

Brackets are out, times to follow:

Tuesday March 15:

Arkansas Little Rock vs North Carolina Asheville

UALR
Tramar Sutherland (Toronto, Ont,)

Eric Kibi (Ottawa, Ont.)

Thursday 3/17/11

Richmond vs Vanderbilt

Richmond
Francis-Cedric Martel (Montreal, PQ)

Kansas State vs Utah State

Kansas State
Juevol Myles (Ajax, Ont.)

Bucknell vs UConn

Bucknell
Bryson Johnson (Pictou, NS)

Gonzaga vs St. Johns

Gonzaga
Rob Sacre (N. Vancouver, BC)
Kelly Olynyk (Kamloops, BC)
Manny Arop (Edmonton, AB)

Fri. 3/18/11
Marquette vs Xavier

Marquette
Junior Cadougan (Toronto, ON)

Long Island vs North Carolina

Long Island
Kyle Johnson (Ajax, Ont.)
Arnold Mayorga (London, ON)
Robinson Odoch Opong (Montreal, PQ)

Syracuse vs Indiana State

Syracuse
Kris Joseph (Montreal, PQ)

Texas vs Oakland

Texas
Tristan Thompson (Brampton, Ont.)
Corey Joseph (Pickering, Ont.)

Belmont vs Wisconsin

Belmont
Jon House (Guelph, Ont.)

Post #2 » by **LittleOzzy** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:39 am

Thanks for the thread!

I can't wait for the tournament to start.

Kaizen · Post #3 » by **Kaizen** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:50 am

Players participating in the NIT.

McNeese State
Diego Kapelan (Vancouver, BC)

Harvard
Laurent Rivard (St. Bruno, PQ)

Leolovinliberal · Post #4 » by **Leolovinliberal** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:53 am

CZAR85 wrote:Players participating in the NIT.

McNeese State
Diego Kapelan (Vancouver, BC)

Harvard
Laurent Rivard (St. Bruno, PQ)

Both really good long range bombers

Kaizen · Post #5 » by **Kaizen** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:32 pm

Big Country To The North

So you like making fun of Canada? Well, cut it out. Our quirky neighbors have contributed quite a few key players to this Big Dance.

From Ontario (58), we have Tristan Thompson and Cory Joseph of Texas. Thompson, from Brampton, is one of the best freshmen in the nation, averaging 13.3 points, 7.8 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game. Classmate Joseph, from Toronto, is not far behind at 10.5 points, 3.7 rebounds and 3 assists per game.

Arkansas-Little Rock (59) has a couple of guys from Ontario as well in Eric Kibi and Tramar Sutherland. Kibi, from Ottawa, chips in 4.6 points and 4.4 rebounds per game. Sutherland, from Toronto, is averaging 2.3 points. (The Trojans have shown the ability to go both north and south in recruiting. They also have Alex Garcia-Mendoza of El Fuerte, Mexico, who contributes 8.6 points per game, and Marlon Louzeiro of San Luis, Brazil.)

Belmont (60) has Jon House of Guelph, Ontario, who averages 5.4 points and 3.4 rebounds for the champions of the Atlantic Sun.

From British Columbia (61): Robert Sacre and Kelly Olynyk of Gonzaga. Sacre, mentioned above, is from North Vancouver. Olynyk, who averages 5.8 points, is from Kamloops.

From Alberta (62): Another Zag, Mangisto Arop. The Edmonton product averages.4.7 points and 3 rebounds.

And from Nova Scotia (63): Bryson Johnson of Bucknell. He's from renowned basketball hotbed Pictou, where they think Maine winters are soft. Johnson is the second-leading scorer for the Bison at 11.7 points and is one of the deadliest 3-point shooters in the Dance.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/tournamen ... id=6212544

AlvinWilliams_fan · Post #6 » by **AlvinWilliams_fan** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:37 pm

cant wait for the tourney, will be rooting for texas forsure

MonkeyBallZJr · Post #7 » by **MonkeyBallZJr** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:03 pm

I can't believe Texas got a #4 seed, the committee really screwed that one up. Though it does provide a good potential second round match up with our boy TT and Derrick Williams. They will have to potentially get through Arizona, Duke and UCONN/San Diego State to the get to the Final Four, ridiculously difficult.

andrew2good4u · Post #8 » by **andrew2good4u** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 2:44 pm

Sorry for the noob post everyone but where can I find the Canadian TV Schedule for March Madness? My google skills don't seem to be up to par right now.

mattk · Post #9 » by **mattk** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:22 pm

Well its not exclusively CBS anymore so that will change things up. Channels showing the tournament here will be TSN, TSN2, The Score, and CBS.

JN · Post #10 » by JN » Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:27 pm

Games tonight are on HDNET - Channel 537 on Rogers Digital Package. I never even knew that channel existed.

JN · Post #11 » by JN » Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:32 pm

mattk wrote:Well its not exclusively CBS anymore so that will change things up. Channels showing the tournament here will be TSN, TSN2, The Score, and CBS.

Are you sure the Score will be showing games?

Given that tonight's games or on HDNET I assume they may be showing some games as well.

reez87 · Post #12 » by **reez87** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:41 pm

wtf is HDNET?

is it a sports channel? :S

JN · Post #13 » by JN » Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:04 pm

I have no clue what HDNET is and had never heard of it until yesterday, but it seems to be part of the regular HD digital package on Rogers.

I was scanning the channels in my program guide trying to see if I could catch the games today, and it showed up on HDNET.

JN · Post #14 » by JN » Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:08 pm

Texas was the last number 2 on my bracket (I used to contribute to the bracket matrix) after Florida lost (it looks like the committee decided to ignore that game). They should have been no worse then a three.

JN · Post #15 » by JN » Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:10 pm

I read on an A-10 board that St. Bonaventure plays tommorow night on HDNET in the illustrious "CBI" Tournament against Central Florida.

Assuming that is the same HDNET that I found on Rogers channel 537 yesterday (where tonight's game are being played), it will give a chance to see Andrew Nicholson play.

arbsn · Post #16 » by **arbsn** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:32 pm

Mark Cuban's channel

arbsn · Post #17 » by **arbsn** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:50 pm

texas is sooo dope i fear they might lose to oakland though. Oaks been killing it recently and texas has been losing a lot of games they should win...

smh @ tristan and corey not being on the Canada National team.

Post #18 » by **LittleOzzy** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:54 pm

TSN is only showing today's games online, so already they are screwing up the coverage of the tournament.

Please if you have the time send an Email to TSN complaining that they shouldn't buy programming that they have no desire to show.

Post #19 » by **TheDoctor** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:56 pm

HDNET is a channel that shows concerts, other live performances - and now NCAA basketball play-in games. I used to have it with a package, but don't anymore.

JN · Post #20 » by JN » Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:59 pm

arbsn wrote:texas is sooo dope i fear they might lose to oakland though. Oaks been killing it recently and texas has been losing a lot of games they should win...

smh @ tristan and corey not being on the Canada National team.

Oakland is 18-1 their last 19 games, but there best opponents have been South Dakota St, Oral Roberts, and IUPUI.

They lose all their games against good teams OOC (usually handily). They have done the same thing the last two years, except the margins were closer this year,

Texas is fine.