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This is Gonzaga's year

you be you Kentucky fans

Looks like Lord Crow's Marquette gambit went up in flames...

Saint wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 5:54 pm This is Gonzaga's year

Based on your other picks, that's the kiss of death for Gonzaga...

Mick & X are still in it. I'm interested. Fuck Lonnie.

word leaking out that Sahvir Wheeler, the starting PG who pretty much lost the game for us against St. Peters last year, when losing his starting spot to Wallace, shut it down in January, claimed an injury had no intention of playing again for UK

That's a pretty serious allegation however its Matt Jones saying it, not just some twitter yahoo. Technically he saying that Wheeler had an injury in January and word was he was done for the year, but it was clear that Wheeler's injury was healed by mid February, so he just kept getting more injuries.

He told Cal he would not return if he was recruited over, so Cal promised him the #1, then it was obvious Wallace was a better option, Cal cut his minutes, then reduced his minutes to relief. This went on for 2 games, then he got "injured' and we beat UT without him. After that, he was never 100% according to Cal

Cals done

innocentbystander wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 8:41 pm Arizona's loss to Princeton looks..... not too bad now.

No. It’s fucking awful regardless of what Princeton did against a team that was ranked much lower than Zona. Like you, Zona is a fucking embarrassment.

Tree wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:54 am TN looked good yesterday. Good chance to win a few more games with their size and strength down low. Especially if the 45 year old Russian doesn’t get cheap calls.

You have shown how little you know. Rick Barnes is the coach. They’re fucked next weekend.

Cal will announce that he is leaving / retiring / retiring at the end of next season within fifteen days.

DooKSucks wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 10:56 pm

innocentbystander wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 8:41 pm Arizona's loss to Princeton looks..... not too bad now.

No. It’s fucking awful regardless of what Princeton did against a team that was ranked much lower than Zona. Like you, Zona is a fucking embarrassment.

Ok counsellor.

At least Arizona made the tourney though?

DooKSucks wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:01 pm Cal will announce that he is leaving / retiring / retiring at the end of next season within fifteen days.

most suspect next year is his last, his swan song, but the class he is built really isn't as good as everyone thinks.

Nothing will change and he'll be universally despised by the fans at the end of next season.

I think he should leave for the good of the program now, and take whatever players will follow him to his next gig

innocentbystander wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:06 pm

DooKSucks wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 10:56 pm

innocentbystander wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 8:41 pm Arizona's loss to Princeton looks..... not too bad now.

No. It’s fucking awful regardless of what Princeton did against a team that was ranked much lower than Zona. Like you, Zona is a fucking embarrassment.

Ok counsellor.

At least Arizona made the tourney though?

Congrats on making your bandwagon team making the tournament and continuing to latch on like a fool despite Zona being the first program to ever lose to a fifteen seed twice.

eCat wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:12 pm

DooKSucks wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:01 pm Cal will announce that he is leaving / retiring / retiring at the end of next season within fifteen days.

most suspect next year is his last, his swan song, but the class he is built really isn't as good as everyone thinks.

Nothing will change and he'll be universally despised by the fans at the end of next season.

I think he should leave for the good of the program now, and take whatever players will follow him to his next gig

Do you think he rides off into the sunset with family and makes his coin commentating and giving speeches or do you think he wants to coach another program and show he can still do it for the sake of ego?

DooKSucks wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:15 pm Congrats on making your bandwagon team making the tournament and continuing to latch on like a fool despite Zona being the first program to ever lose to a fifteen seed twice.

Look, I'll be kind.

I know your ass is still sore for UNC not getting into the tourney this year, I get it. But piling all over me or Arizona is not going to make you feel any better counsellor. I know you don't give a shit about me or Arizona.

For the record, we really do not know how good Princeton really is. I had an uneasy feeling showing up in the court on Thursday to watch that game. And as I watched Princeton (and the way they played hoop, very different than pretty much every other team left in the tourney) I got more and more uneasy. At the very end, one of two things was undoubtably true: either Arizona played like shit and deserved to lose OR Princeton is just a better team. Not knowing then what I know now, I assumed Arizona just played like shit.

Then I watched the Mizzou game and watched Princeton do it again. And this time, they did what they were doing to Arizona and did it even better. Arizona was breathing. Mizzou was never in the game. Now I'm thinking, maybe Princeton is just.... good? Like real fucking good?

Lets see how they do against Creighton on Friday and then, maybe you and I can trade notes on our evaluation of this Princeton team? If they are just lucky (and not really good) their luck will run out. If you are good, you remain good. But one thing is for certain, with all these upstart teams taking down the majors, taking down the heavies, its a hell of a March Madness. Even without UNC, very interesting to watch. Now you can take pleasure in that or you can choose to be a bitter asshole. Up to you.

"Congrats on making your bandwagon team making the tournament and continuing to latch on like a fool despite Zona being the first program to ever lose to a fifteen seed twice."

For some reason I LOL at "continuing to latch on like a fool"...

The Timme guy from Gonzaga just straight up said in his post game interview "we cannot be the team that fucks this one up"...

They got by TCU in a hard fought game. UCLA is an entirely different match up.

"UCLA is an entirely different match up."

I'd like to put a match up to the kindling around your feet while you were tied to a stake...

hedge wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:13 am The Timme guy from Gonzaga just straight up said in his post game interview "we cannot be the team that fucks this one up"...

A Florida Atlantic player also dropped a “shit” in his postgame interview. Is there not a delay on these during the tournament? I thought it was funny, but still surprised.