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QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Mar 16, 2008 -> 07:35 PM) Finally, the topic of Indiana has been brought up with Knight. I wanted to see what would happen with that. Dicky V was campaigning for him to be the coach here again next year; Knight was just glaring "WTF?" the whole time. Quality stuff. That was fantastic.

Western Kentucky in the sweet 16(I think their game against Drake will be fantastic, winner to the s16 imo) Butler and WVU in the s16 ORU over Pitt Those are the major ones for me.

SIU got snubbed.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Mar 16, 2008 -> 06:03 PM) I can't decide if they do that because they want to see at least some mid majors in the 2nd round with a shot at the Sweet 16, or if they want mid majors gone as quickly as possible. I personally hate it, it's much more fun to have the mid majors play the big boys. That's why imo you didn't have as many upsets last season in the first round.

What does everyone have? Me: Louisville GTown Memphis UCLA UCLA GTown UCLA

BTW, the committee absolutely loves pairing mid majors together the last 2 years.

Georgia is dancing. Wow.

QUOTE(joesaiditstrue @ Mar 16, 2008 -> 04:31 PM) what's up with all the f-bombs in this thread, why can't we have a civilized arguement about this kid without people getting all hot and bothered. i'm sorry if it bothers you that much, but there are legitimate arguements on both sides. tossing f'ing this and f***ing that all over the place doesn't do anything for your arguement if seeing discussions about how bad gavin floyd looks to people, do yourself a favor and restrain yourself from hitting the reply button It's very frustrating to rehash the same arguments over and over again over one ST start.

QUOTE(Brian @ Mar 16, 2008 -> 04:22 PM) Gotta be over .500 to make NIT. Nope.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Mar 16, 2008 -> 04:26 PM) I agree. Failing in the NL means much more. Just how long or short of a leash is Gavin going to get from you people? I give him a minimum of 4 ML starts if he comes North in a few weeks. He's twenty f***in five. He's got a lot to prove but giving up on him this f'n early in his career especially when he's pitched about 2 months here is ridiculous. And I'm done.

QUOTE(joesaiditstrue @ Mar 16, 2008 -> 04:23 PM) just curious, what about all the previous years of gavin floyds career, the ones where everyone questioned his mental approach, and his first season in teh MLB where he garnered a, i believe, 7+ ERA? but yeah, he's good, this is just spring training/dead arm Every 23 year old pitcher absolutely dominates right away. And once you reach the ripe old age of 25, you have absolutely no chance of success in the Majors.

And the Gavin Floyd arguments are back. As all of us who support him have said he's got a ton to prove but don't throw him under the bus yet, give him a freakin chance. He sucked in Philly but he was young as hell, no matter what, he pitched very nicely down the stretch. Give the guy a chance, one spring training start doesn't mean he's going to suck this year.

QUOTE(Greg The Bull Luzinski @ Mar 16, 2008 -> 04:16 PM) Yes. A few good outings does not make you not suck. Although he can now join Brian Anderson in the STHOF. But one spring training start makes you worthless.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Mar 16, 2008 -> 04:10 PM) Jesus, you all are pathetic. He's had a great spring entering this start and had a bad outing. Big freaking deal. Whaaa...whaaa.whaaaaa. Wake me up when the season starts. Yeup. Hence the haha.

Haha.

PIG = Mt St. Mary's vs. Coppin State.

That first half was quite fun.

QUOTE(Palehosefan @ Mar 16, 2008 -> 01:00 PM) Honestly, this year more than normal I feel there are only about 7-8 teams that really have a shot at winning it all. Memphis UCLA UNC Kansas Tennessee Texas(slight stretch) Georgetown(slight stretch) Teams like Duke and Butler can't shoot their way through the entire tourney. Stanford just doesn't have enough from guardplay. Wisconsin's defense will at least get them to the Sweet 16, but not much further. Teams like Connecticut, Clemson, Pittsburgh, Arkansas etc could suprise some people and make a run at the Sweet 16, but not much further to me. Louisville could be somewhat of a suprise as a 3-4 seed to end up challenging for the Final Four. Pretty much completely agree though I think Tenn winning it all is more of a stretch than GTown. Honestly, if I were forced to pick a team to win it all that you didn't mention, it'd be USC and that's obviously quite a stretch.

QUOTE(ChWRoCk2 @ Mar 16, 2008 -> 11:00 AM) So to answer everyones question about who was the last team to make the tourney with a sub .500 record...... Coppin St. Thats for this year but still counts. It's happened at the mid major level before, I really can't recall it happening with one of the bcs conferences though. If it's happened, it was a while ago.

This crap needs to stop.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Mar 16, 2008 -> 02:30 AM) Oh and if anyone gives me....oh they stormed the court, what a joke bulls***...well all I got to say is...twice in 60 years...twice in 60 years...f*** YES!!!!! I'm pretty much as anti storm the court as you can get, but when you win your conference tourny in a 1 bid league, it's acceptable.

Not who I think should get in but who I think will get in if I'm taking 9 of those 15: Arizona ASU Ill State(ya, I said they'd be out earlier this week but too many other bubble teams have faltered) KState Kentucky Miss South Alabama St. Joes Nova

Memphis, UCLA and UNC are good. With GTown and Tenn losing today, the Texas-KU winner has the other one.

The Fighting Gages are in the tourny.

I really didn't want that game to end.