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Murray St beats Colorado St 58-41 to advance.

Kansas St is about to advance. They are leading Southern Miss 68-61 with 0.14 to go.

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Louisville on top of Davidson by 6 with 19.07 to go.

Wisconsin is up on Montana by 9 with 1;09 to go in 1st half.

All higher seeds are winning so far.

Kansas St game is final. They beat Southern Miss 70-64 to advance.

Marquette and BYU just getting started. Marquette leads 12-4.

Louisville advances.

No. 1 Seed Syracuse leading # 16 UNC Ashville 22-21. They are not the same team without their big guy out.

Wisconsin and Marquette winning easily.

UNC Ashville up on Syracuse 25-22 with 6:00 to go in 1st half.

I got my first miss with So Miss losing. Those 8/9 games  >:(  !

UNC Asheville has the halftime lead over Syracuse 34-30.  :o

I don't think a #16 seed has ever beaten a #1.

Marquette in control of BYU 76-66 with 3:47 left. Vandy and Harvard have a case of the jitters so far 4-4 early.

Syracuse still having trouble with UNC Asheville. Cuse leads 58-54 with 5:00 to play.

New Mexico and Long Beach State are in a good game NM is winning 33-29 at the half. I would not be surprised if LBS pulls the # 12 vs #5 upset.

Vandy leads Harvard 16-15 with 7:20 to go in the 1st half.

Syracuse is finally starting to put Asheville away. They lead 62-54 with 2:10 to play.

Harvard giving Vandy a good game. They are tied 20-20 with 5:00 to go in the half.

Vandy on a run 28-20 late in 1st half. UNCA closed gap on Syracuse trailing 64-61 with less than a minute.

Tinsley hits a 3 for Vandy at the buzzer to put them up 33-23 at the half. Syracuse up 68-65 with 22 seconds left.

The Cuse survives a big scare from UNC Asheville 72-65.

New Mexico and Long Beach St in a good game. NM leading 43-40 with 14:00 to go.

Vandy advances 79-70.

My HS played in a tri-state tourney (WV, KY, IN) in L'Ville. Supposedly the entire starting five had signed LOIs or gave verbals to Murray St. They were the best HS team I've ever seen-- we drew them and lost by around 50. BAMAWV got a boatload of points but no "W". I never heard from Murray St.  >:( but almost went to Fairmont St. to play for kind of a legend coach, by the name of Joe Retton. It wasn't like getting a call from Rupp but in WV, --maybe the next best thing.

Baylor finishes off a stubborn South Dakota State team 68-60. Iowa State is ripping UCONN 38-20 in the first half.

Baylor needs to be kicked out of the tournament for wearing those ugly uniforms.

No kidding. I've seen duller kaleidoscopes compared to those.

Austin High School had a white boy that was a very good three point shooter. He went to Murray State and started for 4 years. His name is Tyler Holloway. He graduated in 2009. He averaged about 10 points a game for the Racers. He was a good player and a good kid. I followed Murray State while he was there. He is an assistance coach at Belmont University now.

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My wife walked in and asked if Oregon was playing.   :)

Cinn # 11 has jumped out to a fast start on # 6 Texas. Cinn leads 13-2 with 11:35 to play in the half.

Cinn has been hot lately.  I picked them over Texas.

Cincy is the #6 seed and Texas is the # 11. My bad.

Cincy is up 16-2 now with 7:40 to go.

Crap...I picked TX.

Roll Tide!  Here we go!

I like the hustle.

Tide had a short drought but seems to have recovered. Watch Nick Jacobs go to work after CAG gets a chancew here to talk to them.

There is going to be a lot of sad media folks if Alabama wins this game and that kid doesn't get to face off against his old HS team mate in the next round.

Were they close--I mean really close?

Right now Alabama looks sluggish to me although Creighton has always been a good BB Program. RTR!

Tide shooting 37% 2-6 in 3s--good enough to pull this off. Those 5,6,,7 minute slumps is what kills 'em--any team.

Lacy is hot today.

Bama shooting 45% and 4-9 in 3s. RTR

Tide up by 2.

Oops.  FIFM

What was this nonsense about 80 points per game?  I guess they play in a conference that doesn't play defense.  Reminds me a lot of the way those high powered offenses in football wither away when the play against a real defense.

30-23 Bama at half time.

Bama by 7 at the half. 30-23

Nice turnover forced by Bama on the 3.4 sec inbounds. Roll Tide!

CAG must be letting the shooters go until they start slowing down, but Jacobs can beat his men underneath and that may keep things ROLLING if they hit a cold patch.

45.8% and 4-10 on 3s.

Bama's "D" is completely disrupting Creighton's style of play. Their shooting %s are way down because of it.

UF beating UVA by 4 with 3:00 left in 1st

Great first half for Tide. Solid defense, ball handling, very few fouls, and excellent outside shooting. Just what any good team must have to win. I don't think we will see Creighton running up and down the court throwing up 3's like it's a high school game. I wonder how they will try to respond to our defense in hte 2nd half? They must know they can't play run and gun againsgt us.


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Well, I don't see any obvious adjustments by Creighton to our defense, unless they plan to foul us every time we get the ball.


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37-30 Tide. TV timeout. Tide looking good on D, Creighton looks to be guarding Lacey a lot closer. We need Cooper, Steele, & Releford to hit some 3's to really confuse the Blue Jays.

Well, it looks like we have reverted back to our old, stale offense. Throw in to Greene, he gets double or triple teamed and then he tries to score anyway and misses the shot which the other team rebounds.



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Didn't they use to call that ball hog? RTR!

Once again, our inability to block out and/or rebound has bit us in the rear. No way we should have lost the rebound on a foul shot. Don't they teach these BB basics at Bama. This was taught when I was 12 years old.


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We made them play our game. We shot over our heads. Still got beat.   >:(

Someone needs to sit down and figure out a half court in-bounds play (for next year).  :(

What is wrong with Grant and this team? When we get to the end of a game, the coach and the team has a brain freeze. First, Grant doesn't call a time out with 4.7 seconds left, then calls one with 2.4 seconds left, whcih means we have to rush the shot. Then, we have Releford (5'11") guarded by a guy 6'7" and Releford attempts a half ass shot from beyond 3 point range which the taller guy partially blocks. Plus, we want to go to Greene under the basket but he's double teamed under the basket. That's the best Grant can come up with?!! Greene under the basket???? Wow, that was creative.



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I thought the purpose, or part of the purpose, for suspending Green was for him to play his position and quit chasing point guards down for the ball. Here we are in the middle of March and he still does it. We had the opportunity to beat this team in halfcourt ball by playing down low. No sense in them outrebounding us except our big guys were out of position.

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I've been listening for an hour on CBS on how to pronounce Missouri. But none of them can pronounce Norfolk.

I think everyone is being too rough on Green.

I don't think his supension had anything to do with his play on the court. Remember, CAG said he sent the players home from Baton Rouge because he learned something that happened back in Tuscaloosa. This leads me to believe it was not basketball related.

We kept passing the ball into Green and he kept getting double teamed, etc. I think CAG told the team he wanted the offense to go through Green. I may be wrong but passing it around the perimeter was not working.

It was a close game. We should have won. I'm bummed out about. No moral victories here. But if you have to place blame there is plenty to go around. Randolph was 2-6 from the line. He missed two critical free throws. How can we let McDerment do that simple backdoor cut all day long for a layup. We left that big tall ugly fellow with a beard wide open for 3 or 4 three pointers.

It was fun while it lasted. Nobody wanted to be one and done but better days are ahead for our basketball program.

Hmmm, just  a bummer.  :(

It's the way we lost that has everyone upset. The confusion at the end of the game and poor play calling were inexcusable. Plus, we were 4/11 from 3 point range, so why weren't we shooting more of them?

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Well it is 'rubber meets road' time in Tuscaloosa.  CAG has been given the time necessary to put his own product on the floor. They'll be young but seasoned. If there is not a dramatic improvement next year, with or without Mitchell, then it is time to reevauate CAG's relationship with The University of Alabama. 

I think we will be in good shape next year. We have very good players. They were young this year and another off season in the weight room and summer ball will help them a lot. We only lose J Green. He will be missed. IMO Mitchell is gone. I don't know what we have coming in for recruits but I hope they are as good as the freshmen we had this year.

Nobody likes to lose. We should have won today's game. But don't get down on our team because our basketball program is on the rise. We will only get better.

I'm not down on the team, I'm down on Coach Grant. We can't keep having these kind of close, end-of-the-game losses. I'm still with the team & Grant all the way, but we need major improvement in rebounding, game management, & overall offense. I kinda think Mitchell may be coming back, as strange as that sounds. I'm very excited about the team for next year. Plus, we need to work Gueye/Engstrom into the lineup.


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Great effort by the players. Probably the best I have seen them play, up until that 5 or 6 minute slump when everything fell apart.  Bama should have won this game.  Experience will help next year.

I didn't get the play calling at the end.  Why did CAG call that timeout?  Let the players play.  CAG needs to get some tips from Gottfried about end of game management, at least that guy could draw up a play.

 :wall: :wall: :wall: Just a frustrating end to a frustrating season. So much potential wasted this year, but I give the guys credit for not totaling falling apart in the middle of the conference schedule when they very well could have. Never want to one of the first teams out, but making the tourney was something at least. Hopefully things will work out better next season.

I guess someone has told you cleats are frowned upon for basketball?

Watching the Lehigh/Duke game. Someone forgot to tell Lehigh they were not on everybody's top fifty HS recruits or Mr. Basketball.

Possibly the biggest thing to hit that row of PA little Christmas towns,--ever--save a mine collapse, a buggy getting rear ended by an 18 wheeler, or an untimely barn fire.

Wow, you figure that one out all by yourself?  ;)

Only trying to be supportive, CB. No need to get snippy!

In light of the holiday, ND needs shirts that read, "Kiss me, I'm irrelevant!"

My apologies to all the Michigan fans on our board but I picked Ohio to upset the Wolverines.

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Notre Dame out by Xavier 67-63 That is no way to start St. Pat's Day  :'(  (lol)

I'm no fan of ND, but I had them winning in my brackets.   :(

LF is in mourning; Duke lost!

I have maybe 10-12 brackets around the www and all had Duke to the Elite 8 and one Final 4. I had Notre Dame losing to Duke. >:(

I bet 90% of the brackets on the www have Duke and Missou going deep into the tournament. I think they showed a stat that the # 2 seed had lost 5 times total (before yesterday) in the history of the tournament. Two lost yesterday.

Bracket Busters.  I had Mizzou making it to the final four; Duke losing to Baylor in the Sweet 16.

Man, I'm kinda missing the NIT.  It was fun watching Bama play all the way to the championship game last year. 

But I guess this year was the first step for future success.  Get the young players under the bright lights, so they can see how much work they need to do in the off season.  Let's hope they come back next year with a fire in their eyes; this team is very young and should only get better.

Perhaps so older guys like you can see it better on here I should have put the warning sign KIDDING AHEAD. DO NOT TAKE THIS STATEMENT SERIOUSLY!!!

NC State (CMG) on a little roll after beating San Diego St. --Now beating G'Town by 9, 12 min remaining.

24 secs remain 63-61 NCST

NC State to Sweet 16. Mark Gottfried and Wolfpack by 3.

Gottfried's first season at NCS and they are in the Sweet 16.  The guy can coach. 

I still prefer CAG, better recruiting, more team hustle and better defense.  But I've always maintained that Gottfried was a pretty good coach too -- as a former point guard great he can draw up some offense, and Bama won some of those close games in his coaching days.

CMG's achilles heel was always defense with Bama. As you mentioned, he was a good offensive coach, but boy, did Bama stink on defense, particularly his last couple of years. I wish him well at NC State.

Agreed.  The players were downright lazy on D in Gottfried's last years.