The Official 2013 NCAA Tournament Thread

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I'll be interested to see who out of the Cousins, Davis, Wall, Bledsoe, Lamb, Knight, Liggins, Jones, Teague, MGK, Kanter group becomes a big time player... To this day Cal's got Camby and D-Rose. I guess the jury is still out on Tyreke but :ehh: Wagner, Carney, Williams, Washington.. nothing of note there.
 

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"You know, I don't think this [team] is going to be who's who in the lottery draft, but that's not why we play the game," Pitino said. "We don't play the game for the lottery draft. We play the game for Louisville and then our guys move on and they're very successful people in and out of basketball."

Slick Rick swaggin' on Cal and Kentucky in their own arena after the game. :wow:
Rick is just mad that he can't recruit lottery picks anymore. The only championship he won had 9 NBA players on it, he better win it this year or the beating he's going to take next year will be all the worse.
 

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What great big men are there in college? you dont even have good ones in the pros anymore

The 5 situation isnt ideal but nobodies is

i understand that guard play is more important in college, but they need to have someone who is at least serviceable in the post, and the youngest plumlee isn't close to there yet and josh hairston is garbage at the 4. i know they won with zoubek a few years ago and those perimeter players, but those perimeter players were more experienced then this current crop.
 

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Jabari will probably play the 4..Do agree they need to find a Center soon though.

I don't get why people are sleeping on Zona in 2013..If they land Gordon they will be a legit threat.

yup, zona is gonna be dangerous as fukk w/ or w/o gordon...they lose lyons, hill, and parrom, but tj mcconnell will be eligible and actually run the team rather than lyons' shoot-first mentality...nick johnson just needs more consistency and alpha in him rather than being passive and just seemingly going with the flow. the 3 headed young bigs will have a years experience. they've got rondae jefferson coming in and if they do get gordon, that would be some serious athleticism at the 3/4 positions. I think the biggest sleeper and potential x-factor for the team is gabe york, if he can get a bit stronger over the summer, he'll surprise folks playing combo guard. i personally think sean miller wasted his freshman year with alot of situations where i think he could've been used.
 

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Goddamn, Jamie Dixon had a first round exit this year & gets a 10yr extension because they were scared he was gonna go to USC?? Wow.
 

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"You know, I don't think this [team] is going to be who's who in the lottery draft, but that's not why we play the game," Pitino said. "We don't play the game for the lottery draft. We play the game for Louisville and then our guys move on and they're very successful people in and out of basketball."

Slick Rick swaggin' on Cal and Kentucky in their own arena after the game. :wow:
I remember when he and Cal were friends :heh:
 

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Goddamn, Jamie Dixon had a first round exit this year & gets a 10yr extension because they were scared he was gonna go to USC?? Wow.

say what you want but jamie dixon is a great coach, pitt players rarely if ever make it to the nba, doesnt get top tier recruits, yet always puts out great defensive minded teams that are top 25.

very hard to replace.
 

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K vs. Izzo to set up a possible K vs Pitino showdown, :whoa::lawd:

I think the foul trouble last night may be a good thing in the long run, Jefferson showed he can give Duke some solid minutes off the bench, hope K sticks with him I think his impact could be major.


amile done showed he could play earlier this year when kelly went down and he contributed in ACC play, but for some reason K decided to cut his minutes and play hairston who offers little outside of a handful of boards and 5 fouls per game. K always has his scrappy, favorite player who is a benchwarmer at best yet plays major minutes and is the first player off the bench and hairston/thornton are this season's. I hope amile's play last night showed Mike that he absolutely has to play amile more cause for the last month and a half there's been alotta "amile is gone/amile is transferring" talk and i couldn't even blame him since he's had to endure hairston do nothing yet play major minutes.

let amile hit the weights hard this summer, play a combo of cook/sheed/hood/parker and amile and we are all set next year as long as murphy stays and marshall can be a garbage rebounder and decent post defender...we'll just run nikkas outta the gym all game long with that line-up, add in jones, murphy, semi and dawkins if he actually returns and we are daring teams to try and outscore us, add in our defense and it's over. kentucky will the only team that can fukk with us.

now, back to michigan state, kelly and curry need to at least play to their usual average and cook needs to play with confidence or else we gon be :dead:
 

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Jabari will probably play the 4..Do agree they need to find a Center soon though.

I don't get why people are sleeping on Zona in 2013..If they land Gordon they will be a legit threat.

Because we are on the west coast, same hate as always. I'm not worried about next year right now though. Got tickets to this game, premier seats brehs.

:whoo:
 

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Because we are on the west coast, same hate as always. I'm not worried about next year right now though. Got tickets to this game, premier seats brehs.

:whoo:

What up, breh?!!!

Just sayin hello to a Zona fan. Thought there'd be more of yall on here.

Buckeye Nation is here, tho, and we deep on here:smugdraper:
 
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