Saturday's Men's Elite 8 Thread

[Tom McAndrew]

please use this thread to discuss the Elite 8 MBB games played on 3/26.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

Nova - Houston are really going at it early in the contest.

 

[WVilleLion]

Don’t care who wins first game, however would enjoy seeing Arkansas end Duke.

 

[BobPSU92]

Halftime: Villanova 27, Houston 20

 

[BobPSU92]

Villanova by 10, early in the 2nd half.

 

[BobPSU92]

Nova by six at the under-eight TV timeout.

 

[BobPSU92]

Nova takes a timeout up by just two with 5:15 to go.

 

[VaDave4PSU]

Free throw shooting is going to be the difference with all the missed 3s.

 

[Fox Chapel Lion II]

I'm dying here.

 

[BobPSU92]

Nova by six with 59 seconds to go.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

50-44, Nova, with 25.7 sec left.

Houston takes a TO with 25.1 sec left.

 

[LionJim]

Free throw shooting is going to be the difference with all the missed 3s.

This year’s Villanova team has the highest team FTP in history.

 

[Got GSPs]

Did Chambers win a natty as an assistant coach at Nova?

 

[LionJim]

Villanova never trailed. Their third final four in the last seven years.

 

[BobPSU92]

Villanova never trailed. Their third final four in the last seven years.

This is what we’re up against.

 

[Fox Chapel Lion II]

Back in December we came off back-to-back 20-point blowout losses vs Baylor and Creighton. If you told me Villanova was going to the Final Four I'd have said you were nuts.

I appreciate everyone's patience with me rooting for my team on a PSU board, by the way.

 

[Fox Chapel Lion II]

Villanova never trailed. Their third final four in the last seven years.

Did Chambers win a natty as an assistant coach at Nova?

No. He was on the staff when we made Jay's first Final Four, lost to North Carolina in the semis. Blasted UCLA in the Phila Regional then went to the East finals in Boston, hammered the living hell out of Duke then beat Pitt on the Scottie Reynolds drive. Pat got the head job at Northeastern University afterwards.

 

[delcoLion]

Back in December we came off back-to-back 20-point blowout losses vs Baylor and Creighton. If you told me Villanova was going to the Final Four I'd have said you were nuts.

I appreciate everyone's patience with me rooting for my team on a PSU board, by the way.

Congrats Fox Chapel. I didn’t think this was a great Villanova team but here they are. Winning with defense and free throw %.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

Villanova never trailed. Their third final four in the last seven years.

my only frustration is not with the outcome. It's that for years (more than a decade), in one of my brackets in the BWI March Madness competition, I pick any Big 5 teams in the competition to make it to the Final Four. It's served me very well in the competition the prior two times in recent years when Nova made the Final Four. Alas, this year I didn't have a lot of confidence in Nova's team, and decided to have a different focus in my "fun" bracket. smh

 

[Got GSPs]

Villanova never trailed. Their third final four in the last seven years.

This is what we’re up against.

Imagine if Penn State hired Jay Wright back int he day. The timing just wasn't right, I guess. Wright was at Hofstra 1994-2001 and Penn State promted Jerry Dunn to replace Bruce Parkhill in 1995. Penn State replaced Jerry Dunn with Ed Dechelis in 2003. What could have been...

 

[Liontown]

 

[BobPSU92]

Halftime: DOOK. 45, Arkansas 33

DOOK. ends the first half on an 8-0 run.

 

[Relayer]

 

[OUIrPSU]

Halftime: DOOK. 45, Arkansas 33

DOOK. ends the first half on an 8-0 run.

Let’s Go Dook!

 

[Tom McAndrew]

51-43, Duke, with 14:30 left in the game.

The way Duke is playing, it's likely to be a real challenge for Arkansas to get back in this game.

 

[BobPSU92]

Coach S just has better players. I don’t see DOOK. losing this game.

 

[WVilleLion]

Screw Duke, Screw Kansas, Screw UNC!

 

[Nohow]

Devils 18 over Hogs.

 

[BobPSU92]

A$$. BEATING.

 

[Fox Chapel Lion II]

I was hoping Arky would give Duke a better game. Very good run by them but came up small tonight.

 

[Fox Chapel Lion II]

X-Rays negative but it didn't look good at all. If it is an Achilles (which I ruptured in 2018), Moore is toast till next year. Longino had surgery on his meniscus so he's out. The starters are going to have to go 38 minutes apiece. Big opportunity for guys like Antoine and Patterson to step up, although that is a heavy lift.

 

[OUIrPSU]

You’d think this board would be happy that Duke did to Arkansas what Penn State couldn’t. Oh well…now I need to decide whether I want Duke to play the Peacocks or Tar Heels again. I’m thinking Tar Heels. Would be nice to beat Carolina in the Final 4 (but really suck to lose to them).

 

[BobPSU92]

You’d think this board would be happy that Duke did to Arkansas what Penn State couldn’t. Oh well…now I need to decide whether I want Duke to play the Peacocks or Tar Heels again. I’m thinking Tar Heels. Would be nice to beat Carolina in the Final 4 (but really suck to lose to them).

Nobody here likes DOOK. . Remember, we didn’t go to college. We went to State.

 

[OUIrPSU]

Nobody here likes DOOK. . Remember, we didn’t go to college. We went to State.

 

[Liontown]

 

[MacNit]

Damn shame. I think Wright is currently the best coach in CBB. But that will be a tough order to overcome.