March Madness Discussion Thread (Canadian Focus)

Winggfly · Post #101 » by **Winggfly** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:56 am

Come on Gonzaga. Might think I m crazy but I have them going into the sweet 16....

Nocturne · Post #102 » by **Nocturne** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:57 am

Kc17 wrote:TSN does deserve credit for their coverage, very good so far.

I'm not sure if this was mentioned yet, but you can stream all the games legitimately off of the ncaa official site: http://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/2010-12-19/ncaa-march-madness-demand

Also, if anyone here has the iPhone/iPod touch, you can get the NCAA app at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ncaa-march-madness-on-demand/id423246594?mt=8 in the App store which lets you stream the game to your iPhone.

I'm really impressed by this free coverage!

Post #103 » by **Geddy** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:57 am

Sacre almost ended up on a poster. Would have been a sweet dunk if that dude was able to finish it (kind of looks like Vince too).

Mr.Raptorsingh · Post #104 » by **Mr.Raptorsingh** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:00 am

My bracket got murdered tonight with the late games.

Everything was going good (even with Morehead St. beating Louisville) up until Mich St. lost to UCLA, Missouri lost to Cincinatti, Gonzaga beating St. Johns, and Utah St. looking like it's going to lose to Kansas St. LOL.

Yeezus_ · Post #105 » by **Yeezus_** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:20 am

Mr.Raptorsingh wrote:My bracket got murdered tonight with the late games.

Everything was going good (even with Morehead St. beating Louisville) up until Mich St. lost to UCLA, Missouri lost to Cincinatti, Gonzaga beating St. Johns, and Utah St. looking like it's going to lose to Kansas St. LOL.

Thats not too bad if you dont have any of those teams advancing past the next round.

Mattd97 · Post #106 » by **Mattd97** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 5:01 am

That region is screw anyways. Pitt a 1, Florida a 2? An easy 4 and an easy 5. It's a huge crapping shoot. I thought belmont and Utah state could've easily won.

2 interesting tidbits from today, Utah state and k-state was the only game between 2 ranked teams (yet Utah was still a 12 somehow), and the big east is way overrated

Mattd97 · Post #107 » by **Mattd97** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 5:07 am

Also Kentucky was ranked 11th (ap) and Florida was 15th and yet the ncaa gave florida the 5th overall seeding and kentucky the 16th. Even espn/yea today has uk 16 and florida 12. That's what osu gets for being way better than pitt

Kevin Willis · Post #108 » by **Kevin Willis** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 5:43 am

Freakin' Gonzaga beat SJU. Not surprising since SJU was without their best player. But still...

Kashy_Tigray · Post #109 » by **Kashy_Tigray** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 5:47 am

Princeton lost a close one. It would be cool if one of the Ivy leagues made it far.

bboyskinnylegs · Post #110 » by **bboyskinnylegs** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 1:49 pm

Kyrie at 3pm today!

Kaizen · Post #111 » by **Kaizen** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 2:16 pm

#12 Richmond 69 #5 Vanderbilt 66

Richmond

Francis-Cedric Martel (Montreal, PQ)
12 points, 5 rebs, 2 blocks.

#3 UCONN 81 #14 Bucknell 52

Bucknell

Bryson Johnson (Pictou, NS)
11 points, 1 reb, 2 assists, 1 steal.

#4 Wisconsin 72 #13 Belmont 58

Belmont

Jon House (Guelph, Ont.)
4 points, 1 reb, 2 assists.

#11 Gonzaga 86 #6 St. Johns 71

Gonzaga

Rob Sacre (N. Vancouver, BC)
9 points, 9 rebs.

Kelly Olynyk (Kamloops, BC)
6 points, 4 rebs, 1 steal.

Manny Arop (Edmonton, AB)
DNP.

#5 Kansas State 73 #12 Utah State 68

Kansas State

Juevol Myles (Ajax, Ont.)
DNP.

Kaizen · Post #112 » by **Kaizen** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 2:22 pm

Canadians playing today:

12:15 PM #13 Oakland versus #4 Texas on CBS

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

7:15 PM #15 Long Island versus #2 North Carolina on CBS

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

7:27 PM #11 Marquette versus #6 Xavier

Marquette
Junior Cadougan (Toronto, ON)

9:57 PM #14 Indiana State versus #3 Syracuse

Syracuse
Kris Joseph (Montreal, PQ)

Mattd97 · Post #113 » by **Mattd97** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 2:56 pm

Probably not a good sign that gonzaga is playing so much better with carter getting manny's minutes. But hopefully they like play like yesterday all season. Other than harris they're finally playing to their preseason expectations.

Kaizen · Post #114 » by **Kaizen** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:06 pm

Manny played really well on the AAU circuit the summer before he went to Gonzaga. Very disappointing to see that things have not worked out for him.

Kaizen · Post #115 » by **Kaizen** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:11 pm

There are a fair number of people picking Oakland to win so hopefully the good Texas teams shows up so they can go on a long run. That should be a good game so I recommend people try and watch it if they can.

Yeezus_ · Post #116 » by **Yeezus_** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:12 pm

Damn Louisville...kinda screwed of portion of my bracket now.

wtcantfw · Post #117 » by **wtcantfw** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:28 pm

Michigan St screwed up my Southeast bracket. It's really too bad their comeback bid came up just short.

turner10 · Post #118 » by **turner10** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:48 pm

pumped to watch kyrie play at 3 and tristan thompson and texas in about 30 min!

Yeezus_ · Post #119 » by **Yeezus_** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:09 pm

tarheel06 wrote:Michigan St screwed up my Southeast bracket. It's really too bad their comeback bid came up just short.

That was a beautiful comeback, to bad they were a bit short.

Yeezus_ · Post #120 » by **Yeezus_** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:23 pm

TT with some nice moves in the post