Brief Basketball Diversion

[SledDawg]

Syracuse has taken UCONN to overtime on ESPN. Great game if you can get away from what you're doing for a minute.

[grebnet]

Great game SYR beats CONN

That was a great finish

From syracusan

[mrmarket]

That was a great finish

From syracusan

Sorry to throw cold water on all this, but these highly ranked teams in the power conferences seem to conveniently lose these first round games of their conference tournaments.

You get lots of rest and you still get a high seed in the big dance.

[grebnet]

Even if as you say they lost on purpose.....

It got us into NCAA tourn. Lots of surprises happen there.

[skiracer]

It got us into NCAA tourn. Lots of surprises happen there.

Syracuse is one of the best at being an unheralded unranked team that comes out of nowhere to win the big games. They are always prepared and ready for the upset in these big games. It couldn't happen to a better team for me than U Conn right now. Boheime gets them up for these types of games. Park, there goes U Conn.

[ninner]

wakeforest

is dominating NC state.....can another upset be in the works...the great demon deacons!!!

[ninner]

as Dickie V would say....oh yah BABY!!!!!

[mrmarket]

new rule...if you get bounced in the first round of your conference tournament, you don't get to go the big dance..

That will wake up some teams I think.

[ParkTwain]

Park, there goes U Conn.

I don't think so. I think that the NCAA tourney selection committee knows that UConn didn't have nearly as much to play for as SU did. A few days ago, 'cuse just lost by over 40 points to Seton Hall, was it? This is the problem with these end of season league tournaments. They only help underdogs who win the tourney, but don't hurt a losing top seed that much.

[skiracer]

I don't think so. I think that the NCAA tourney selection committee knows that UConn didn't have nearly as much to play for as SU did. A few days ago, 'cuse just lost by over 40 points to Seton Hall, was it? This is the problem with these end of season league tournaments. They only help underdogs who win the tourney, but don't hurt a losing top seed that much.

Here are my #1 seeds: U Conn / Villanova / Duke / Memphis
Could they give Gonzaga a top seed? Park do you really believe that U Conn didn't want or care if they won the Big East tournament championship and thus didn't have as much to play for as Syracuse. I think that championship banner means a whole lot of prestige to whoever wins it. That loss has to sting a whole lot.