Elite Eight Without UCLA Tournament Thread
Bumped. -BN
I figure most of us have lost our stomach for the tournament. For me, it's because we are not playing anymore.
For others, it seems that many of your "brackets" have blown up.
Yet, I'll watch some of the games. And, "threads" are like watching games with seat mates and friends. So, I'll throw this up. Mod's feel free to pull it if you think it inappropriate.
One starting thought. Florida v. Butler: Florida starts 3 seniors, a junior and sophmore -- no freshmen. Butler starts two seniors, a junior, and two sophmores -- no freshmen. Somehow Donovan keeps his kids long enough to field a "mature" team.
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All I care about is
getting Kentucky out of the final four. I’m ambivalent about AZ.
Probably favor Butler over Fla, and would like to see VCU in final 4.
sjh
It is interesting that 3 of the last 8 are teams we played.
VCU, Kansas, and Zona. Makes our schedule look a bit killer. Team that gave us the most trouble, VCU. Makes me feel prouder of our guys for their improvement this year.
Go Bruins!
Don't forget Florida
That’s makes half the Elite 8.
The Road to Indy goes through Westwood. ugh.
greg in denver, UCLA guy for life - BruinsNation.com
I want some shooters like Butler has.
On the other hand, I’m glad we have bigs that can handle bigs like Macklin (sp?).
Go Bruins!
Butler down 1 at halftime
"The true athlete should have character, not be a character."- John Wooden
I enjoy watching teams playing all out all of the time
I actually enjoyed our two tournament games because I think our effort and intensity were there.
sjh
So who do we root for in the next game?
And, is it true that we didn’t recruit Derrick Williams? Was there a reason?
sjh
"The long national nightmare known as the Big East is over tonight" Charles Barcley
He’s right, that’s the reason to root for AZ.
sjh
Ambivalent
It’s an “avoidance:avoidance” conflict.
I wish neither program were there. Or, playing other teams so that I could root against each.
sjh
I liked what he said. He almost made me change my mind.
But I don’t consider UConn part of that nightmare. I like UCONN. While I pulled for Zona in the sweet-16 to get the pac some respect. At this point I don’t think I want any more positive energy going towards arizona. We compete for too many of the same recruits. I must say though, when he’s not acting, I do really enjoy watching “The whole enchilada from La Mirada”. But I want them to look bad tonight. Hoping UCONN plays like we did at Pauley.
Go Bruins!
NCAA violation by Jordan and UNC?
I was reading an article about the Lakers and at the end was a bit about Michael Jordan telling the UNC players that they better not be wearing Kobe’s shoe. Then it went on and instead of laughing, well I got bothered. How much is Jordan involved with this team. Is he giving them stuff he shouldn’t? How can we get more of our alumns connected to our team, in a legal way? Anyway, I wondered what others thought about this?
Jordan appeared to be joking when he recently ran into the Tar Heels as they were entering the Bobcats’ home arena before an NCAA tournament game.
“Next time I see you in them Kobe Bryants, man, I’m cutting you right off,” Jordan said. “I don’t care if your feet kill you; you’re going to wear them Jordans.”
He was smiling when he said it, but — ouch.
Jordan then offered to give the Tar Heels players pairs of his latest shoes, the Jordan XIs.
“Get to the Final Four and you can have anything you want,” Jordan added.
Here’s the link (warning it’s to the times): http://www.latimes.com/sports/basketball/nba/lakers/la-sp-lakers-fyi-20110326,0,4768119.story
Go Bruins!
UNC is a Jordan school
He can just direct the brand to get them the shoes they SHOULD be wearing during a certain game for promotion, as long as it’s Nike or Jordan branded.
Had to look up "FAIL" in the urban dictionary as it seemed the gators were not failing.
Some of us are a bit old! LOL.
Go Bruins!
Those Subaru commercials kill me
for those of you whose kids are growing up, you’ll feel it too soon
sjh
Bands.
I’m so glad our band doesn’t go out of the way to make themselves look like idiots! Not that they could ever look like idiots, but still I’m glad.
Go Bruins!
I want them to do the NCAA championship game.
"The true athlete should have character, not be a character."- John Wooden
Lol at Florida shooting 13-14 on FTs. Get them off the roids Donovan
Then get yourself off of estrogen shots.
almost time for Butler to hack-a-Macklin
he’s a season 44% FT shooter
"The true athlete should have character, not be a character."- John Wooden
I want Butler to win this on a 3pter at the buzzer from halfcourt
Reach in and rip Donovan’s heart out. Uh, scratch that, he doesn’t have any.
OT^
Butler up 1 shooting 2 FTs
"The true athlete should have character, not be a character."- John Wooden
I'm torn on this next game
I like supporting the Pac-10 (minus U$C) outside of conference play but… it still hurts to see Arizona being so successful.
Oh well, for now go Bulldogs.
Why can't we play with that intensity for an entire game?
I loved this game but it makes me wistful
sjh
Yeah...
even if we had beaten Florida and BYU, I’m certain Butler would’ve found a way to beat us.
Wish VCU and Butler weren't on the same side of the bracket.
It would be cool to see them both in the championship game.
Go Bruins!
In hindsight
It was dumb of me to bet my mortgage on UCLA winning the national championship. Oh well.
Um I'm in Orange County
There’s like… a small portion of the sky that has sunshine. The rest is covered in clouds. They must have just focused on that one really small part of the sky.
This has been a crappy 24 hours for Ohio State.
First their men’s team gets upset, and now their women’s team went down to Tennessee in the Sweet 16 as well.
And the Gonzaga women are going to face off against Louisville, still in Spokane, in a few hours. Guess who’ll win that one.
i still feel
that my girlfriend cheated on me, and watching the tourney progress without the Bruins is like watching her flirt with other guys and rubbing it in.
by socali177 on Mar 26, 2011 4:19 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
1 pt game...
pulling for the fighting Kembas today
"The true athlete should have character, not be a character."- John Wooden
Wow...
people calling out Reggie for debating Len Elmore?
I really have to disagree with their gripe because on #’s 1 & 2, if people actually WATCHED the game, Reggie got them right.
"The true athlete should have character, not be a character."- John Wooden
And #3, his call for the 3 ft's was a joke
The guy who wrote that obviously didn’t get it.
greg in denver, UCLA guy for life - BruinsNation.com
There are 3 Lamb freshman
UK, UCONN, and UCLA each have a freshman named Lamb…
No idea on any relation between any of them
"The true athlete should have character, not be a character."- John Wooden
Pretty sweet spin move in the post by Williams
Think Josh could learn that?
greg in denver, UCLA guy for life - BruinsNation.com
I really admire how AZ finishes near the rim
wow…
greg in denver, UCLA guy for life - BruinsNation.com
just thinking the same thing
"The true athlete should have character, not be a character."- John Wooden
Amazing the difference announcers make.
This one was exciting, but not nearly as exciting sounding as the Butler game. Of course, I also cared more about that one.
Go Bruins!
Gonzaga's women team...
blew a huge lead against Louisville, but held on to advance. Even ESPN said it was due to “home cooking”. Now they’re the lowest seed in NCAA women’s HISTORY to make the Elite Eight. Well, yeah, you had them freakin’ playing at home!
Well, Stanford doesn’t care, and is going to put the hurt on them in two days.
Almost makes one hope the Zags win
just to highlight the sham the NCAA scheduling is.
greg in denver, UCLA guy for life - BruinsNation.com
Gonzaga is good...
…But its still ridiculous that they have basically been able to play at home for the first 4 games of the Tourney, especially as an 11 seed! I still hope Stanford wins and then gives the Zags a beat down. I want Stanford to go all the way and win a championship for Pac-10’s sake.
I'm sure Rye will post a recap soon... but WOW
What an absolute GEM by Trevor Bauer to beat the Trogans 4-0
9 complete innings
14 Ks
1 hit (a bloop single in the middle of the 8th)
2 walks
ONLY 3 trogies reached 1st base
Had a perfect game going until mid-7th BB

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