2010-2011 NCAA Basketball Thread
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Brad Stevens is the man
Ace Bandage
The one and only.
Gotta love Butler. Good old fashioned Indiana basketball. They're not flashy, but they're smart on the offensive side of the ball, and they play great defense. I don't have any Big Ten teams left to root for, so I'll cheer on the hometown guys.
Go Bulldogs!
Go Bulldogs!
Let's everyone root for the mid-major, Butler, to pull off the Cinderella story on Monday. :hybrid:
Fuck UConn. They win everything in women's anyway. Come'oooooon Butler. :hybrid:
I am rooting for Butler as well. I'm an American so I always root for the underdog.
If past history means anything in the tournament, Butler is most likely to lose the championship game monday. I found a listing of all the teams in NCAA history that reached the national championship game and were runner-up the previous season. There appears to be a loss-win trend. The last team to reach the championship game after being the runner up the previous year, Kentucky won.
2011 Butler ?
1998 Kentucky Won
1993 Michigan Loss
1991 Duke Won
1984 Houston Loss
1982 North Carolina Won
1962 Ohio State Loss
2011 Butler ?
1998 Kentucky Won
1993 Michigan Loss
1991 Duke Won
1984 Houston Loss
1982 North Carolina Won
1962 Ohio State Loss
There is a longstanding theory in college basketball, backed by years and years of evidence, that you can do a lot of nice things from a school like Butler and a league like the Horizon, but you cannot win it all. Reach the Sweet 16? Sure. Make the Final Four? That can clearly happen, too.
But no school like Butler or one from a league like the Horizon has won a championship in the modern era, and it's been more than two decades since a program operating without the advantages provided by the Power-Six conferences has cut nets on a Monday night in April. Consequently, most of us decided at some point that it's simply not possible anymore, that the gap between the haves and have-nots is too wide, that magical runs are fun to watch but they will always come up short, and yet for the second straight year, a private school based in Indianapolis with a little more than 4,000 students has an opportunity to smash that theory to pieces and take it off the table, forever and always.
What's interesting is that the Bulldogs represent something much larger than themselves. Similar to how Tiger Woods showed young African-Americans that anything is possible on a golf course, and how Anthony Robles showed handicap men that anything is possible on a wrestling mat, Butler is 40 minutes away from showing small schools with small budgets that anything is possible in college athletics, and it doesn't matter if that's not really the goal.
It's a game that could reshape the way people view college athletics and remove the word "can't" from our vocabulary forever.
But no school like Butler or one from a league like the Horizon has won a championship in the modern era, and it's been more than two decades since a program operating without the advantages provided by the Power-Six conferences has cut nets on a Monday night in April. Consequently, most of us decided at some point that it's simply not possible anymore, that the gap between the haves and have-nots is too wide, that magical runs are fun to watch but they will always come up short, and yet for the second straight year, a private school based in Indianapolis with a little more than 4,000 students has an opportunity to smash that theory to pieces and take it off the table, forever and always.
What's interesting is that the Bulldogs represent something much larger than themselves. Similar to how Tiger Woods showed young African-Americans that anything is possible on a golf course, and how Anthony Robles showed handicap men that anything is possible on a wrestling mat, Butler is 40 minutes away from showing small schools with small budgets that anything is possible in college athletics, and it doesn't matter if that's not really the goal.
It's a game that could reshape the way people view college athletics and remove the word "can't" from our vocabulary forever.
Anyone watching women?
Notre Dame putting up a hell of a show against UConn....
Notre Dame putting up a hell of a show against UConn....
Ace Bandage
The one and only.
I tried to watch women's basketball once... ended up stapling my head to the floor. Jesus shish kebabin' Christ, it was fucking boring.
i never watch women ncaa basketball because i assume the uconn team will win. I just tune in to the notre dame-uconn game and it is very surprising to see uconn down. The question is for how long?
:yesyes: 3 minutes left. Can Notre Dame dare to dream? They better not relax.
I tried to watch women's basketball once... ended up stapling my head to the floor. Jesus shish kebabin' Christ, it was fucking boring.
I'd pay good money to see that...
notre shocks connecticut. two number 1s (stanford earlier and now connecticut) knocked out.
wOOt.