*****Official 2023 NCAA tournament games thread*****
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I can see both of those guys moving on fairly soon. They are at a point where they have to be aggressive with their careers. Jump to a mid major, then hope for a P5 shot.
Wisconsin doing Wisconsin things with the oopsie bank shot.
PITT did that in the 1st half, but only had 35 points at the half and a 1pt lead.
You'd normally expect a team that went 8/13 on 3PA would be cruising at the break.
You'd normally expect a team that went 8/13 on 3PA would be cruising at the break.
Yeah he's probably going to have a pretty big coaching tree by the time he retires. Of course his biggest success so far is Shrewsberry at Penn State. Shrewsberry worked for Painter twice, sandwiched around Shrewsberry's tenure under former Butler coach Brad Stevens when he coached the Celtics. Steven's of course took Butler to back-to-back NC games against Duke and UConn.
Going back to Korn, he also was an assistant for Bruce Weber at Kansas State after Weber left Illinois. Weber never got his proper due, IMO, as he took Illinois to the National Championship game, with Bill Self's recruits. Bruce's problem was that he didn't want to "play the (recruiting) game" at Illinois, so he kind of faded out of view before going to KSU. In my opinion, Weber may have been the best coach I have mentioned here as he was an assistant under Gene Keady at Purdue for quite a while, I want to say 18 years, before he took the head coaching job at Southern Illinois. He was Keady's X's and O's man as I think Keady was more of the motivator (Play Hard!) than the basketball savant. Weber hired Matt Painter as his assistant coach at SIU from Purdue and then he went to Illinois when that job opened after Self left and Painter moved into the HC position at SIU.
Thanks. I love seeing how the coaches started and moved into their current coaching jobs. I believe Painter has had Purdue in the big tournament championship game 4 times in the last 7 years. Impressive.
During the conference tournament they were talking about Painter's career on the BTN wrap up show, and I was mildly surprised to learn that he has already crossed the 400 win mark at Purdue. He joined a really select group of coaches including Knight, Keady, Izzo, and Henson with 400+ wins at a B10 school. Weird that he's been there for 17 years already.
Wisconsin already has 64 points, and still 6 minutes away from needing OT to be able to garbage scrounge some more points.
I wouldn't say no to an extra - or more - 5 minutes to this PITT/MissSt game.
Holy crap!
Pitt's Hinson just literally 'threw the ball' on that last 3 heave and swished it.
Pitt's Hinson just literally 'threw the ball' on that last 3 heave and swished it.
Miss St jumping on every shot fake. If Pitt shot fakes and drives, they'd be in business.
MissSt got a game-winner in 'em?
I mean, the way this game has gone, it would not surprise me in the slightest if they do.
I mean, the way this game has gone, it would not surprise me in the slightest if they do.
Feel like Pitt should have easily won this. The tourney is crazy.
Yep got complacent under 2 minutes.
MissSt got 2.7 seconds left.
Plenty of time for an in-bounds pass catch, collect self, and shoot.
Plenty of time for an in-bounds pass catch, collect self, and shoot.
Damn MSU had time to tip it in too. Great opening night!
Why would you camp out behind the line when you only need a 2 to win?? There was more than enough room there to have space to get the ball in without having to hoist a 3 for the winner.
If I’m an ISU fan, I’m extremely excited to face Pitt. Should be an easy 10 point win, they did not look good.
Gonna root for AZ St tomorrow night.
Maybe Nevada can build a couple 20+ pt leads, during the same game, and still lose on a buzzer-beating shot that needed lots of luck to go in. Vintage Alford.
Maybe Nevada can build a couple 20+ pt leads, during the same game, and still lose on a buzzer-beating shot that needed lots of luck to go in. Vintage Alford.
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No problem. I'm somewhat of a basketball junkie having grown up in Indiana. Where I grew up, around Crawfordsville in Montgomery County, it is generally considered the cradle of high school basketball in Indiana as in the 1910's, the first 8 state champions came from my county and 2 adjacent counties. Those 3 counties also produced 3 runners up in the state tournament during those 8 years. Of course the format was a little different back then, as teams weren't routed through regional competitions as they are today where they would have eliminated each other before the finals.
On another note, Crawfordsville is also the home of Wabash College who produced Ward "Piggy"Lambert as a player who went on to become Purdue's all time winningest coach until Gene Keady came along. Lambert also coached John Wooden at Purdue in the early 1930's.
I did some historical research just last night on one of the more famed HS coaches, Everett Case, from the state who won 4 state titles at Frankfort, IN in the 1920's and 1930's. The only thing I could find disturbing about him is that he was a University of Wisconsin grad, I think in 1923. He briefly coached at my small township HS, about 40-50 students, before he went to Frankfort where he had his HS success. He enlisted in the Navy in WWII and afterwards returned to coaching at the college level at Wake Forest University. He basically introduced basketball to Tobacco Road in North Carolina where Duke and North Carolina thrive today. He coached at WF until the early 1960's where he slowly succumbed to cancer and was replaced during his last coaching season by one of his assistants by the name of Press Maravich, who of course fathered Pete Maravich. I never knew that until last night. It's a small world, as they say.
I just find it fascinating what you can sometimes discover when you start digging.
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These First Four games are officially part of the full tournament, as seen by the rules.
But they'll always be "play in" games to me. And I won't apologize for feeling that way.
Teams participating in Dayton have to win that game to be part of the full 64-team field, that starts on Thursday. How is that not the textbook definition of 'playing in'??
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