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Post by beaverstever on Mar 30, 2024 13:34:55 GMT -8
Pretty disappointing from Colorado. I expected Iowa to still be able to score, but thought CU would score as well. Keep in mind they are getting blown out by a team that lost to Indiana, Ohio State, Kansas State, and Nebraska. CU should have been able to make it a game at least.
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Post by beaverwbb fan on Mar 30, 2024 13:40:03 GMT -8
Colorado has been really undisciplined - on both ends.
Regardless, still really impressed with what JR Payne has done these past two seasons. IIRC, no McDonald’s All-American’s, very few top-100 recruits.
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Post by nwhoopfan on Mar 30, 2024 13:42:56 GMT -8
No kidding. Colorado played them tough in the Tourney last year. Had seen them before and knew exactly what to expect. Collectively the conference is crapping the bed in Round 3.
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Post by Werebeaver on Mar 30, 2024 13:58:03 GMT -8
No kidding. Colorado played them tough in the Tourney last year. Had seen them before and knew exactly what to expect. Collectively the conference is crapping the bed in Round 3. Glad we're not in that bed.
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Post by nwhoopfan on Mar 30, 2024 15:08:53 GMT -8
USC was up 11 or 12 approaching halftime. Lead got cut to 6 at the break. Now Baylor is up 1 late in Q3. Would be the final nail in the coffin in a crappy 24 hours or so.
I mean freakin' Baylor, they weren't even particularly good this year.
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Post by rgeorge on Mar 30, 2024 15:10:10 GMT -8
USC was up 11 or 12 approaching halftime. Lead got cut to 6 at the break. Now Baylor is up 1 late in Q3. Would be the final nail in the coffin in a crappy 24 hours or so. I mean freakin' Baylor, they weren't even particularly good this year. SC was getting anything they wanted in drive & dish. Then settled for jumpers.
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Post by finleybandbeav on Mar 30, 2024 15:21:41 GMT -8
Could be the last team standing. We'll know in a few minutes.
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Post by nwhoopfan on Mar 30, 2024 15:55:44 GMT -8
Okay, USC might pull this out, that's better.
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Mar 30, 2024 17:33:15 GMT -8
And I would add that it's called the Sweet 16 for a reason. It's meaningful to get that far. For all practical purposes, those are the top 16 teams in the country. And the Pac-12 had five teams make it that far. Hmm. Stanford outscored by 20 in the 2nd half and looked awful.
UCLA outscored 14-2 down the stretch in what was otherwise a close game.
Colorado getting blown out, and that's with Iowa not even hitting 3s like they normally do.
Outside of Oregon St., the performance of Pac 12 teams in the 3rd Round has been poor. For a conference that had a bunch of teams ranked in the Top 10 (and even Top 5) all year, I don't see how this can be seen as anything other than disappointing.
We are now 2-for-5 and have 25% of the remaining field. I think that's a pretty solid performance. Going 2-3 and having two teams lose to last year's championship-game participants, both of whom have the top player in the country at their respective positions, is not "crapping the bed." Yes, we had teams ranked in the top 10, and the top 5, at some point of the season. And our teams have been eliminated by ESPN No. 6 LSU (defending national champ), by ESPN No. 2 Iowa (defending national runnerup, No. 1 regional seed) and NC State, which is a bit of a surprise but was still ranked 11th in the final AP and ESPN polls. NCSU may have been a sleeper, but it's pretty darned good. UCLA was ranked 8th in the final ESPN poll, two spots below LSU. Colorado was No. 17, 15 spots below Iowa. Stanford was No. 5, but No. 11 beating No. 5 on a neutral floor could hardly be called a huge surprise. Were you really surprised that Mulkey outcoached Close? When you reach the Sweet 16, you're almost always going to play an excellent opponent. You are not losing to chopped liver. Two of our three teams were eliminated by better teams, the third in a tossup game.
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Mar 30, 2024 17:39:35 GMT -8
"Texas is the largest state in the Union." "No, Alaska is." "Duh, even though I said something completely different I meant the continental US, anyone could easily decipher that." Well, if you cut Alaska in half, then TX is the 3rd largest State in the Union. What does that have to do with your intelligence, or lack there of? And if grandma had balls, she'd be grampa. The guy wrote the Pac-12 didn't have a team advance to round 4. At the time we had one, now we have two. Any way you care to slice it, he was wrong.
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Post by nwhoopfan on Mar 30, 2024 18:01:09 GMT -8
It's not just that they lost, it's how they lost. Mulkey outcoaching Close at the end of a game, sure no surprise. The Stanford game in particular was really bad. They got annihilated after halftime.
Last year Colorado was within 6 of Iowa w/ 1:15 to play. Buffs lost 1 starter from last year, Hawkeyes lost 2. Was there any reason to think Colorado would never be in this game after the opening couple of minutes?
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Post by nwhoopfan on Mar 30, 2024 18:29:01 GMT -8
Off topic, but Duke and Kennedy Brown lost to UConn in the final game of the day. Tried to set the game of basketball back about 100 years. Score was 23-13 at halftime. Yuck. 53-45 final. Must've been exciting.
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Post by jones on Mar 30, 2024 18:42:12 GMT -8
Yep. Two...maybe. Would be kind of crazy if OSU was the last one left. But no matter what happens, the Pac-12 was clearly the strongest conference top to bottom in its final season. We are the best conference...but can't get anybody past the 3rd Round just isn't very convincing. Dude clearly wrote "strongest conference top to bottom" not best conference. A quick perusal of other conferences yields abysmal records after top 2 or 3. The implication being that the top teams in those conferences have a cake walk to the party, whereas PAC-12 teams do not.
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Post by rgeorge on Mar 30, 2024 19:43:42 GMT -8
Off topic, but Duke and Kennedy Brown lost to UConn in the final game of the day. Tried to set the game of basketball back about 100 years. Score was 23-13 at halftime. Yuck. 53-45 final. Must've been exciting. It was not.
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Post by bvrbooster on Mar 30, 2024 20:39:49 GMT -8
Stanford outscored by 20 in the 2nd half and looked awful.
UCLA outscored 14-2 down the stretch in what was otherwise a close game.
Colorado getting blown out, and that's with Iowa not even hitting 3s like they normally do.
Outside of Oregon St., the performance of Pac 12 teams in the 3rd Round has been poor. For a conference that had a bunch of teams ranked in the Top 10 (and even Top 5) all year, I don't see how this can be seen as anything other than disappointing.
We are now 2-for-5 and have 25% of the remaining field. I think that's a pretty solid performance. Going 2-3 and having two teams lose to last year's championship-game participants, both of whom have the top player in the country at their respective positions, is not "crapping the bed." Yes, we had teams ranked in the top 10, and the top 5, at some point of the season. And our teams have been eliminated by ESPN No. 6 LSU (defending national champ), by ESPN No. 2 Iowa (defending national runnerup, No. 1 regional seed) and NC State, which is a bit of a surprise but was still ranked 11th in the final AP and ESPN polls. NCSU may have been a sleeper, but it's pretty darned good. UCLA was ranked 8th in the final ESPN poll, two spots below LSU. Colorado was No. 17, 15 spots below Iowa. Stanford was No. 5, but No. 11 beating No. 5 on a neutral floor could hardly be called a huge surprise. Were you really surprised that Mulkey outcoached Close? When you reach the Sweet 16, you're almost always going to play an excellent opponent. You are not losing to chopped liver. Two of our three teams were eliminated by better teams, the third in a tossup game. I agree with what you wrote, Hank, except for the use of 'we' and 'our.' UCLA, Stanford, and Colorado are all destroyers of 'our' conference, and competed for the last time against the PAC 12 in Las Vegas. I don't think it's going to happen, but, if OUR Oregon State basketball team gets ripped asunder in the portal, it won't be because of anything WE did. It will because of what THEY (UCLA, Stanford, Colorado and the other not so magnificent seven) did. Old habits die hard. In years past, I would have been delighted to see the PAC 12 have a really good tournament. Now, I think there's only been one PAC 12 school playing in it - but WE are doing just great!
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