Thursday Sweet 16 Thread

Jakarii

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Missing shots
Good defense does that. They didn’t really struggle missing shots before but when you face a team with size, good coaching and players that aren’t giving up any room on defense, this is what you get. It’s reallt
Common sense
 
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I hate Duke as much as the next UK fan but Duke is a damn good basketball team. Saying otherwise is just being biased and silly

Duke is just example 1 of 1000 ..............you can play in a weak conference and yet still be very good yourself.

Heck we did that a TON of times in our history when the SEC wasn't very good lol.
 
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There were multiple teams who could’ve been the best in an average season that year.

Duke, Wisconsin, and Arizona were fantastic. Virginia was nipping at UK’s heal in kenpom before Anderson’s injury.
yeah, I'm sure it's no longer true (especially after this year), but at one point I think 4 of the top 10 "best" teams at kenpom were from 2015. We picked a really really bad year to try to go undefeated.
 

CrimsonCats_rivals

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Arkansas deserves some credit for defense, but Tech is also just plain having a clunker at the worst possible time. They were 35th in the country by shooting 37% as a team from 3 during the season, but they’ve missed a ton of fairly open looks tonight.
 
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Yeah, Duke looks really good, at times invincible. But I'm old enough to have seen several teams run through the tournament and look unbeatable.....until they were beaten. Ricky did that a couple of times in the 90s.
 
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LadyCaytIL

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How is Arkansas getting matched up with just teams that cant shoot? LoL. oh well if they make it 1 game further than us its ok. But I for sure now think Cal was sandbagging the past 4 years,
 
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CBS just stepped in on that last hook and hold on Duke and told the refs NOT to Cal a Tech on Duke.

Even the announcer said it should have been the SAME call!!! He won't get to announce another game the rest of this tournament.🤪🤪🤪

RIDICULOUS!!!!
 

fatguy87

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Barring a meltdown by Arkansas, at least half of the teams in the Elite 8 will be SEC teams.