NCAA First Four Game Thread for Mar 17-18

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[Forza Azzurri]

HMMM...Barkley and Dickie V...I could probably watch that game with no picture...just the commentary alone could be worth the price of admission...Good Luck Brian, you'll need it,

 

[Blanko97]

Did they used to do both the 11/12 play in games the same night and the 16s the same night a few years ago or did they always split them up?

 

[phreddie]

HMMM...Barkley and Dickie V...I could probably watch that game with no picture...just the commentary alone could be worth the price of admission...Good Luck Brian, you'll need it,

I'd be more likely to do the opposite.

 

[Doc5120]

Did they used to do both the 11/12 play in games the same night and the 16s the same night a few years ago or did they always split them up?

I believe they've always split them up.

 

[cuseattle]

Cope and NC State about to start on Tru tv

 

[bpo57]

God bless Dicky V in terms of all of the money he's raised for cancer research and his own health struggles but I'd be good if he rode off into the sunset. Tough listen and he frequently wanders off the rez instead of paying attention to the game.

 

[MikeSU02]

First game was really good. UMBC almost made the come back.

 

[bpo57]

Weaver (#2 on Texas) makes more hustle plays than any guy I've watched for a long time. Limited offensive skills but can leap out of the building and never stops hustling, grabbing rebounds and creating TOs.

 

[rocfan44]

This is brutal listening to Barkley and Vitale. Do they know a game is on?

 

[phreddie]

HMMM...Barkley and Dickie V...I could probably watch that game with no picture...just the commentary alone could be worth the price of admission...Good Luck Brian, you'll need it,

If you actually did this, would you know a game was being played?

 

[Ghost]

This is brutal listening to Barkley and Vitale. Do they know a game is on?

It's like they're doing a podcast and TruTV is just randomly showing a game in the background.

 

[cuseattle]

Cope trying to keep NC State close. Nice high layup there.
Texas by 5 at the 8 min timeout.

 

[cuseattle]

NC State ball
Down 1
20 seconds

 

[cuseattle]

Cope to the line, misses the first then ties it
18 seconds

 

[cuseattle]

Oh my! Texas with the dagger

 

[sufan59]

Great game

 

[kirbivore]

Miami, OH story was cute and everything but I hope SMU layeth the smacketh down tonight.

 

[MSOrange]

This is brutal listening to Barkley and Vitale. Do they know a game is on?

Agree. I had to mute it. They really need a competent analyst to carry Vitale and Barkley isn't that.

 

[MSOrange]

It's like they're doing a podcast and TruTV is just randomly showing a game in the background.

That's a perfect description! I love Dickie V the person, but that was awful to listen to.

 

[Eric15]

Every year in the tourney there is that one guard on a low-seeded team who goes nuts and becomes a media darling for a couple weeks. In 2021 it was Buddy Buckets. I could definitely see Boopie Miller filling that role this year.

 

[wiseman3]

Miami, OH story was cute and everything but I hope SMU layeth the smacketh down tonight.

I hope Miami beats them by 20. Who wants to see SMU? Cinderella's are what makes this tournament special

 

[rocfan44]

Agree. I had to mute it. They really need a competent analyst to carry Vitale and Barkley isn't that.

If they were going to do that they should have had it like a manningcast alternate broadcast.

 

[Melancer46]

When you get so close, there's always a lot of small reasons to add up to you losing, but man Copeland missed so many bunnies trying to turn simple layups into highlight plays and it bit them in the ass