NCAA Tourney Thread

[GiantsFanatic]

Blake Griffin> Anyone in the country.

[realmofotalk]

Coach Tony Bennett bails out on Washington State. Lose-lose deal for both sides. Washington State goes back to being irrelevant, and Virginia is stinking it up in the ACC.

[cjkalt]

Coach Tony Bennett bails out on Washington State. Lose-lose deal for both sides. Washington State goes back to being irrelevant, and Virginia is stinking it up in the ACC.

Its not bailing out when you can go to an ACC school, it will take time but he will turn them into a winner.

[love_that_reefer]

Not when its a bottom tier ACC school. Its like Calipari leaving Memphis to go to UK. Why leave a good thing?

[realmofotalk]

I can understand the coaches leaving small conference schools, where an NCAA tournament berth only comes with a conference tourney win, which is an absurd rule. But the Pac-10 has plenty of at-large bids every year, and Bennett had a good thing going at Washington State.

[Kingdom]

Seems like a horizontal move. It's been awhile since Virginia was anything more than a middle of the pack ACC team. WSU was pretty good for a 2-3 year stretch. Both major conferences..

[nyjunc]

Coach Tony Bennett bails out on Washington State. Lose-lose deal for both sides. Washington State goes back to being irrelevant, and Virginia is stinking it up in the ACC.

UVa is a good job, they have struggled recently but he can win down there. I am happy, the ACC needs more quality coaches and Tony bennett is a rising star.

[cjkalt]

Not when its a bottom tier ACC school. Its like Calipari leaving Memphis to go to UK. Why leave a good thing?

4.2+ mil a year can influence you

[nyjunc]

[nyjunc]

How come all the BE fans went silent after they were eliminated? Great year by the BE BUT they had 3 #1 seeds and "only" got 2 to the FF and didn't get a single team to the title game. And people were comparing this year's BE to 1985

[love_that_reefer]

Yeah only half the Final Four were BE teams. They must really suck UNC had a great win and leave it at that. Only funny thing was you trying to say the ACC was better.

[nyjunc]

Yeah only half the Final Four were BE teams. They must really suck UNC had a great win and leave it at that. Only funny thing was you trying to say the ACC was better.

The ACC had a bad Tourney but has ANOTHER Champ and another year goes by w/o a BE team even making the title game.

Some misguided folks were acting like this was an all-time great year for a conference. Based on seeding the BE underperformed in the Tourney getting 2 #1s instead of 3. The BE had a great year, had a great tourney and clearly had a better Tourney than the ACC(though not a better reg season as the ACC was better in non-conf play and also head to head against the BE). We can agree on that but my question was what happened to the BE fans after the last 2 got eliminated? Why did everyone disaappear?

[Porter]

Its not bailing out when you can go to an ACC school, it will take time but he will turn them into a winner.

He bailed out on WSU. He just signed an extension 2 years ago to be there for 6 years. WSU was a middle of the road Pac-10 team. But where is UVA so much better than you leave for them. Im a Husky fan and this makes NO SENSE.

[Porter]

How come all the BE fans went silent after they were eliminated? Great year by the BE BUT they had 3 #1 seeds and "only" got 2 to the FF and didn't get a single team to the title game. And people were comparing this year's BE to 1985

Outside of UNC, Who did anything for the ACC?

Wake Forest? Lost to Cleveland St in Round 1
Boston College? Lost to USC in round 1
Congrats Maryland, you guys beat Cal who stumbled worse than Arizona into the tourney. Then lost in round 2
Florida State? How the **** do you lose to Wisconsin
Duke? Didn't a BE team blow them out the building in Nova, I think so. One of two teams that survived the 1st weekend.
Clemson? Lost to Michigan in round 1

So really what did the ACC do? UNC was the consensus favorite to win it all. They had the most talented team. But the ACC as a whole waffled and caved in.

[realmofotalk]

If I'm a UNC fan, I should be glad that the other ACC teams blew in the tourney. Arguing about conference superiority is such bull crap when you include hated rivals on your side.