East Bracket. Piggyback thread
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Duke. They already had their escape game. I think they advance.
That's what I was worried about. They managed to win a game that was 99% lost... now they'll just refocus and stomp everyone on the way to the title.
Long ways away but Duke and MSU are the two teams I most want to avoid in the tourney. Granted, we'd play in the national championship so I wouldn't be too upset with either matchup.
Some interesting contradicting storylines .
Duke has never made it to the final four in a year where they won their second round game by single digits.
Duke has never missed the final four when having 240+ blocks as a team.
Duke has never made it to the final four in a year where they won their second round game by single digits.
Duke has never missed the final four when having 240+ blocks as a team.
I picked Michigan State before the tournament started and don’t see a reason to change that now.
What is a better elite 8 matchup, Duke/Michigan State or UNC/Kentucky?
What is a better elite 8 matchup, Duke/Michigan State or UNC/Kentucky?
I hope this is true. They haven't looked like a dominant team in quite a while, even going back to before the injury. I think everyone agrees that Duke's A game trumps everyone else's. But it has been a while since we've seen it. If Sunday doesn't wake them up, we may be disappointed.
Duke but I wouldn't be surprised if it was Michigan State, felt they had a 1 seed resume except for a few bad losses.
As far as the UCF game goes and ESPN jerking off over the "blueprint" to beat Duke the past few days, not a lot of teams have a 7' 6" guy and another dude that goes nuts and shoots 67% from the field, 71% from 3 (a lot of which were contested). The blueprint has been out for a few months, Duke is not a good 3 point shooting team so pack the lane... and they have still only lost 1 game all season with all starters healthy and even beat UVA without their point guard. IMO the demise of Duke has been greatly exaggerated but anything can happen in a one game lose and go home scenario so we will see.
As far as the UCF game goes and ESPN jerking off over the "blueprint" to beat Duke the past few days, not a lot of teams have a 7' 6" guy and another dude that goes nuts and shoots 67% from the field, 71% from 3 (a lot of which were contested). The blueprint has been out for a few months, Duke is not a good 3 point shooting team so pack the lane... and they have still only lost 1 game all season with all starters healthy and even beat UVA without their point guard. IMO the demise of Duke has been greatly exaggerated but anything can happen in a one game lose and go home scenario so we will see.
Hmmmm. That is interesting. I’ve got another one. Duke has never made the Final Four in the year 2019.
Something has gotta give!
Duke has five titles. 3 in Indianapolis and 2 in Minneapolis. The apolises have been good to Duke. We got that going for us.
Duke has never not won a national championship while one of Debbie Jones' sons played point guard.
But Duke has also never won a title in a year where Texas Tech made the Sweet 16. I truly don’t know what will happen.
You probably should have gone with Miami because you were probably wrong just last week.
I meant to say 30. But my fat finger hit the 4.
* but yeah, probably should have done some research before throwing out fake stats.
Grant Hill is the only player I liked.
my bad, technically he didn't win every year, but point remains. I also like watching Zion Cam. There, I said it.
Last year the opening round was in Milwaukee. I bought two tickets for $198 each. 12 hours later I sold them for $400 each.
This was odd to me too. I was like, "ummm, have you watched ACC games?"
The blueprint has been out there since December. FSU used a nearly identical game plan both times we played Duke. Duke just hit threes in the first game and found another gear in the second half of the second game.
Also, since Coach K has been at Duke, we've never not won a national championship when Minneapolis was the Final Four host city.
