Creighton
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No they didn’t. Got hacked all game no calls. Kalk goes straight up on D and gets called. Then Refs call a touch foul on Farabello. Refs also reversed that out of bounds call and got it wrong.
Cant let 18-0 runs in 2nd half happen and they were too casual in engaging the offense when trailing with 10 min remaining
Was rooting/betting for a BIG EAST sweep but still think conference did well
Rooting for Creighton but they are not physical enough to beat top teams.Kalkbrenner and Alexander are very soft.
Happy for Rick Barnes, but that’s about it. Creighton is tough to root for, but I wanted our conference to do well and show the rest of the country that we deserved to be included just as much as any conference.
And now we are going to hear about the greatness of the ACC, with 3 schools. Impressed with Clemson 's run but thevother two caught nice breaks. If Kentucky doesn't gets knocked out and Snead doesn't get hurt for Houston, neither NC State and Duke are still alive today.
Tennessee was just too good defensively and physical with them. They looked clearly like the better team.
Duke got a BIG break when Houston's best player went down in the first half with an ankle sprain .
That missed call on the deflection on ashfords ridiculously bad pass was brutal. Tennessee is good.
This goes on every year with the conference stuff and results justifying a season’s worth of work.
The bigger story is this insane run NC State is on more than their conference affiliation.
How? Marquette beat Western Kentucky, a play in team and lost to an #11 seed. Creighton beat a 14 and an 11 seed before losing. I'll give you UCONN, who seems like only the Celtics could stop them. However, neither Marquette nor Creighton did well considering they were a 2 and a 3 seed.
I did not see the game but I did see the boxscore and if anyone told me Creighton would shoot 44.8% from the floor, 47.8% from the arc and 92.3% from the line I would have said absolutely no way they would have lost the game.
McDs junk d was a great and impactful idea
Disappointed conference did not get another team in elite 8. I was setup nicely to have one more make it. Need UConn to win today and hopefully win it all. Marquette losing was worse in my opinion. Played horribly.
I think Tennessee was 1-7 in the sweet 16 before last night. Barnes including with Texas was probably worse. I went against UT last night but even without an 18-0 run they were just too physical for CU.
Under admittedly a slightly tortured interpretation of the selection committee’s thinking, Houston should get a pass and the W because they lost best player
NC state played the opening day of ACC tourney having lost 10 of prior 14 games and trailed Louisville at half by a point.
Against Virginia, they trailed by 3 with 54 seconds remaining. Virginia went on to miss 3 FT and well we know what happened at the buzzer. Almost reminiscent of Hazell vs WVU in the closest moments of regulation when Raftery says on the broadcast, i wouldn't give him the chance.
Kalk was way too soft under the basket and they took away Alexander. McDermott coached his ass off with those defensive changes that got them back in the game. They just couldn’t get over the hump. The depth issue may have finally caught up to them. Not having a center to spell Kalk for a few minutes a half takes away his aggressiveness. Oh well they gave it all they had.
As much as Tennessee's game plan involved stopping Alexander, I thought he had an overall awful game until making some meaningless three-pointers at the end of the game. And what happened to Fredrick King? He seemed decent as a freshman last year. His playing time dropped this year as they relied heavily on the starters.
This. Refs let them play which benefited Creighton and they were able to control Alexander and the PG. Tenn also had guys besides their star make shots despite being without a very solid starting guard. Impressive performance.
And Lappas called him out for failing to stay on Knecht in the Triangle-and-2 defense McDermott was trying, and they switched him out for Scheierman.
Very efficient stats in a loss. Will move up 20 spots in the NET.
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