*****Official 2023 NCAA tournament games thread*****

[longliveCS40]

Auburn seems to be running out of gas. (I'm hoping this reverse jinxes them)

 

[uihawk82]

Picked Houston to lose in 2nd round! It was actually a 1 seed I didn't think would do much. But I did pick Kansas in elite 8

Well I think you would have been correct except the officials let houston mug and attack the auburn players in the 2nd half, not over but sure turned it around.

Now auburn knows what they did to the hawks

 

[Steamboat529529]

Houston beats iowa by 20.

 

[QChawks]

Houston beats iowa by 20.

Easily

 

[Scott559]

Auburn vs Iowa 17-22 from the line, Today 16-31, 😂😂

 

[longliveCS40]

Been mentioned here but they don't call 3 seconds in the lane anymore at all. If I was a big, I'd just camp.

The Auburn player was literally in the lane for 10 seconds. Nothing called.

 

[HawkLogic]

Princeton is proof that you can win with academically minded players.

I don't think Princeton plays uptempo and is last in their conference in Defense. There is a recipe for
winning with less athletic players, but it doesn't include pushing the ball up the court.

 

[TheCainer]

Lutz is off to Western Kentucky.

That's where Gene Keady was before he came to Purdue. WK is a great opportunity for Lutz

 

[QChawks]

Oh my Penn St

 

[CookyMonster]

Pedo st is a machine. Fun to watch

 

[skydog0784]

Alright PSU! Surging right now...

 

[denmar81]

The way I heard it explained is that the committee seeds all the teams and then the top X seed plays close to home. So if Iowa would have been the top 8 seed, they'd have played in DesMoines but they weren't. Auburn must have been the top 9 seed.

If that’s true, it’s stupid and needs to change

 

[QChawks]

Alright PSU! Surging right now...

Texas taking over now

 

[skydog0784]

NIT (but didn't want to start a new thread): Liberty up at the 12 minute mark in the second half.

Go Liberty!!!

 

[hawkjt]

Liberty is hanging in very tough vs badgers up 2 with 6 minutes to go.

 

[Chishawk1425]

Congrats to Nunge!

 

[hawkjt]

Wis hangs on to oust liberty.
Way to go Jack Nunge!

 

[Hawksfor3]

Congrats to Nunge!

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Really happy for Jack to experience a Sweet 16. Good luck going forward.

 

[Mitch122]

Kansas state getting screwed, can’t get a call against Kentucky. Just forced two obvious jump balls in the same possession, but nope, called for two fouls

 

[Mitch122]

9 fouls K State, 3 fouls Kentucky. 1 foul for Oscar “bull in a china shop” Tshibwe. Life as a blue blood must be nice

 

[HawkLogic]

Kansas state getting screwed, can’t get a call against Kentucky. Just forced two obvious jump balls in the same possession, but nope, called for two fouls

Both teams loaded with physical freaks. Don't care for either team but I think I picked Kentucky so whistle looks fine to me.

CJ Fredrick has played some....he's like th short Fat kid that no one will pass the ball to on pickup games.. CJ complete non factor...can't get his shot off.

 

[Mitch122]

Both teams loaded with physical freaks. Don't care for either team but I think I picked Kentucky so whistle looks fine to me.

CJ Fredrick has played some....he's like th short Fat kid that no one will pass the ball to on pickup games.. CJ complete non factor...can't get his shot off.

I’ve got money on K state if you can’t tell lol. Feel like K state should have been to the foul line 4 or 5 more times this half but refs are swallowing the whistle more on one end than the other

 

[Mitch122]

Nowell is one of my favorite players in this tournament. I’d kill for Iowa to have a point guard like him

 

[hawkjt]

Nowell is one of my favorite players in this tournament. I’d kill for Iowa to have a point guard like him

He was incredible. Best player on the court.

 

[hawkjt]

MSU playing fearless ball so far.
If MSU & IU could somehow win, it would avoid disaster for BIG.

 

[Hawktagonapus]

MSU getting hosed by the stripes

 

[GeorgePeeples]

MSU getting hosed by the stripes

This just in:
Temperature in hell just dropped below 32 degrees F.

 

[QChawks]

MSU built for the physical NCAA tourney games

 

[kwik44]

Goal tend. Izzo slithers by again.

 

[longliveCS40]

Michigan State is always good in March.

 

[QChawks]

Well at least the B1G won’t be a sweet 16 snub

 

[RocknRollface]

MSU built for the physical NCAA tourney games

They're not the most talented team in the conference anymore but there's a reason they are still one of the most consistent at advancing.

They show up ready to dish out contact and take contact.

College basketball comes down to who can be the most physical and who can let the physicality of the other team effect them the least.

 

[Moral]

They're not the most talented team in the conference anymore but there's a reason they are still one of the most consistent at advancing.

They show up ready to dish out contact and take contact.

College basketball comes down to who can be the most physical and who can let the physicality of the other team effect them the least.

90s NBA is alive and well in the NCAA.

 

[Underscore2]

Baylor.

The mighty Big 12.

 

[skydog0784]

Love to see Baylor get beat, not so much the B12 per se but I think Drew is a total scumbag. Totally dirty although I'm not sure there is such a thing anymore.

Congrats to Greg McDermott - one of Cascade, Iowa's finest! A lot of good people from Cascade...

 

[skydog0784]

Truro, IA, I-35 High School, and IA Wesleyan getting some national love

 

[lucas80]

FDU/FAU is a very entertaining game.

 

[CookyMonster]

Hoosiers hanging around

 

[Steamboat529529]

Truro, IA, I-35 High School, and IA Wesleyan getting some national love

He went to Wesleyan. Not Iowa Wesleyan.

 

[TheTruthTheWholeTruth]

I don't think Princeton plays uptempo and is last in their conference in Defense. There is a recipe for
winning with less athletic players, but it doesn't include pushing the ball up the court.

Princeton isn’t last in their conference in defense. They are 3rd behind Yale and Harvard.