Sports: 2007 NCAA College Basketball Pool

[Quincy]

I got $10 on Florida tonight

Gotta give some props to Pat Summitt and Parker

Soulstation wins some RVG money!

I may have won the pool, but I feel like the C student who aced the final. Edward's pickin' was way more impressive.

[alocispepraluger102]

I got $10 on Florida tonight

Gotta give some props to Pat Summitt and Parker

losing to florida on title shots in the same year while mich and state are changing coaches.

donovan for sure to ky for untold millions.

Edited April 3, 2007 by alocispepraluger102

[Man with the Golden Arm]

[Soulstation1]

i love when ohio state takes a beatdown......

GO BLUE!

[Edward]

I got $10 on Florida tonight

Gotta give some props to Pat Summitt and Parker

Soulstation wins some RVG money!

I may have won the pool, but I feel like the C student who aced the final. Edward's pickin' was way more impressive.

Thanks, Quincy, but one could easily argue that it is an extremely difficult task to pick the finalists and the winner. Still, I would never lay any serious money on a NCAA pool utilizing Yahoo! because the later rounds, IMHO, are too heavily weighted.

[Edward]

There were too many bad calls on the Bruins and ignored calls against the Gators to remember them all, but the one that stands out to me was Noah throwing Mata to the ground from behind and getting a rebound dunk. Just a blatant, obvious foul. No whistle.

Aside from the correct observation that there appears to be a history of the foul calling being just a little biased in favor of the higher seeded teams, I think that the PAC-10 and the BIG-10 are at a bit of a disadvantage come tournament time because their teams are used to playing more physical games within their conferences. How many three-point plays did the Gators make during that second half against UCLA?

As for Florida beating the Bruins, I cannot say too much when Affalo pulls his disappearing act once again. Yes, there were some bogus foul calls made against him early, but he can NOT disappear during big games. This is not to take anything away from Brewer, who had a great all around game. However, Shipp did not seem to have much trouble scoring on him in the first half (I am afraid that he exerted so much effort carrying the team that he was exhausted for the second half).

Afflalo needs to take out an insurance policy and stay in school for his senior year. If I were an NBA scout, I would have far too many reservations about this All-American.

Noah is an extremely over-rated player, and he would have done well to bolt for the NBA after last season. I don't see a slender, 6-11 forward type being all that effective in the NBA, especially without the courtesy of the officials' whistles. (And, please, do not forgot how often the referees swallowed their whistles last season when he was setting a dubious record for most blocked shots in a championship game. It might have been the difference if the Bruins had actually decided to show up.)

Billy Packer is an idiot and a cheerleader, and he should be relegated to providing commentary only for ACC and SEC conference games. I remember the Bruins' last championship win against Arkansas when Packer kept crying throughout the game, "Oh, the Bruins are getting tired. Arkansas is coming on strong now." What a joke!

I scoff at any notion that this Florida team (and I will give credit where credit is due - it is a very good team) is the best championship team of all time. Puh-lease! There are a number of teams in the modern era (let alone the Bruin dynasty era) that could have more than held its own against Florida.

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