***Official Play-in Games Thread***

[carvers4math]

Hard to hear these analysts, with the ACC's d*ck in their mouths.

When they were talking about what Weber said it even seemed like they were making fun of his voice a bit.

 

[Doc]

I wish we had Collins. He's a stud

They have a guy on their bench I would love to have in Doral Moore. Probably not going to amount to anything but absurd potential.

 

[carvers4math]

These fouls calls must seem odd to K-State since their last game was West Virginia.

 

[madguy30]

Looks like K-State should be able to keep getting inside.

Weber will probably attempt to install a new offense at halftime or something to counter his own counter plan.

As long of a day as Thursday will be, I'm glad to get a few games out of the way to get a 'feel' for the tourney. Also any early upsets help for some perspective as opposed to 2015 when the first day began with perhaps the worst game of the Hoiball era.

 

[Gunnerclone]

Anyone else not getting DIRECTV in HD?

 

[bosco]

Purple kitties not getting much love from talking heads. Spent about 30 seconds on them after blabbering on and on about Wake.

ACC bias. Get use to it. They are going to lay it on thick this tournament.

 

[DSM4Cy]

It sucks. Let at-large teams fight their way into the tournament.

Yep. Each league's designated champion needs a full bid in the tourney. Doesn't matter if they're 8-22, each league should get 1 of the 64 "real bids." 32 league champs, 32 at-larges, sounds fine to me.

 

[DSM4Cy]

Anyone else not getting DIRECTV in HD?

My system went crazy earlier today, couldn't get the guide or any HD. When I went to change the channels it seemed like it was going randomly - would be like 240, then 603, then 320, stuff like that. Turned it off and back on, waited a couple hours, now it's fine. Never had it happen before.

 

[bosco]

Not really.

If you actually look at most of the autoqualifiers that end up in play in games most years, theyre not just there because theyre from small conferences. Theyre usually there because despite winning their tournament, they also have a poor resume, including plenty of bad losses.

For example, Mount Saint Marys, they might not be a 16 seed if they had not gone 0-8 against the top 100, and 1-2 against the 100-200 range. Even then, you might be able to excuse the top 100 losses because they had to play most of those on the road. However, they also lost 5 games to sub-200 teams, including one sub 300 level loss.

By the principles of seeding, the worst seeds should have the hardest path. MSM earned one of the worst seeds through having no good wins and having a slew of extremely bad losses.

You'll find similar if you look at most of the other 15 and 16 seeds. Almost always they earned those poor seeds. By normal seeding principles all the first four should be the worst seeded teams. The only reason theyre not is that nobody would watch those games if it were all 16 seeds. And yes, they won a conference tournament, but lets be honest, any of the at larges, and honestly most that are relegated to the NIT, would run the table in those tournaments too. If they want better? Even if they can't help the schedule, perform better against what they had. Largely 16 seeds did not do that.

Get what you are saying but they are automatic qualifiers they shouldn't have to PIG. Make the at large schools with the mediocre resumes fight it out in the PIG.

 

[awd4cy]

Danny Manning must not coach defense.

 

[bosco]

The fighting Surly's looking like the better team. Wake is getting the FT life line keeping them in the game. They just need to clean up the silly mistakes.

 

[GTO]

Free throws are the ONLY reason WF is in this game. KSU is owning them in the paint and killing them on the offensive glass.

 

[FinalFourCy]

Wake is getting the FT life line keeping them in the game.

Danny learned that at KU

 

[Die4Cy]

We're reaching a new level of...Something...with the household appliances coming out now.


Knock on your fridge door twice to see what's inside? Really?

 

[stormchaser2014]

We're reaching a new level of...Something...with the household appliances coming out now.


Knock on your fridge door twice to see what's inside? Really?

Pretty soon there will be fridges that automatically order groceries when running low.

 

[bosco]

We're reaching a new level of...Something...with the household appliances coming out now.


Knock on your fridge door twice to see what's inside? Really?

How did we survive before this technology?

 

[stormchaser2014]

Wow, 15 fouls for the cats.

 

[FinalFourCy]

Wow, 15 fouls for the cats.

BS. They're more physical than Wake, but a lot of weak calls.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Pretty soon there will be fridges that automatically order groceries when running low.

Shut up and take my money.

 

[Doc]

Wow, 15 fouls for the cats.

Yeah, I have to give credit to Weber to going with DJ Johnson with 2 fouls.

I am a little concerned about Solomon picking up fouls Thursday.