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2008 Final Four fast-breaking thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by 2muchcoffeeman, Mar 30, 2008.

  1. Blitz

    Blitz Active Member

    http://www.memphis.edu/magazine/v21i2/feat2.html

    Good story revisited, on UCLA v. Memphis
     
  2. Angola!

    Angola! Guest

    UCLA-UNC.

    Though Memphis has played very well in the tournament, so I could see the Tigers beating UCLA. (Note: I was going to put upsetting UCLA, but there won't really be any upsets this weekend, will there?)
     
  3. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    UCLA-UNC, with UCLA winning, wins me two Benjamins in my pool. Always happy to have rooting interests through the final weekend (since I'm an Indiana grad, insertjokehere).
     
  4. kingcreole

    kingcreole Active Member

    Gee, I wonder who Dick Vitale will pick?
     
  5. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    I win our pool ($550) with a Memphis-Kansas final with Kansas winning it.
    I'm a UCLA fan, so if I can't get the above final, I want the Bruins to win it.
    I think it will be a UNC-Memphis final with UNC winning.
     
  6. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Well, we all already know how badly KU's gonna choke. They practically had to be handed the Midwest Regional, and the Hawks still tried to spit the bit. Heels by 20. Too bad, too, because CBS thinks that's the marquee game. Tis not.

    The other game? Hmm....Memphis hasn't played a good defensive team yet (don't give me Michigan State or Texas, either) so we'll see how well it fares against pressure and frontcourt suffocation. That said - UCLA's mojo seems off, and, save Kevin Love, has since the first game. I like the Tigers, slightly.

    Which will make for one hell of a national title game.
     
  7. Pancamo

    Pancamo Active Member

    UCLA opened as a 1 point favorite. Most casinos have it at 1 some at 1 1/2.

    UNC opened as a 2.5 pt favorite and most have it 3.5.
     
  8. ServeItUp

    ServeItUp Active Member

    I work with a raging Illini fan/Self hater, so part of me would like to see Kansas win it, thus annoying the piss out of much of central Illinois.

    The Tar Heel/Bruin sense of entitlement (anything less than a title is failure/they couldn't hold the tournament without us!) gets on my nerves. Is it me or has Roy's Carolina accent gotten thicker since he left Lawrence?

    Tigers have looked like a pro team the past two games (insert probation joke here). Seriously, they looked awesome. Too bad none of it's above board. Parallel of the week: Memphis' only other Final Four appearance was wiped off the books... as was Calipari's. Two peas in a pod.
     
  9. Oggiedoggie

    Oggiedoggie Well-Known Member

    I think that Self will keep his team fired up to ensure that he doesn't end up in basketball hell.
     
  10. Oz

    Oz Well-Known Member

    They choke so bad they made the Final Four. UCLA needed a great non-call to survive Texas A&M, then got all it could handle from Western Kentucky, which isn't near the team KU just beat in Davidson (though yes, I do know UCLA beat Davidson in non-conference play, rallying from 18 down at home).

    Truth be told, KU probably would have had an easier time beating Georgetown or Wisconsin, in part because they prefer a slower pace, but also because they're name programs. The pressure to beat a team that you're supposed to beat -- especially for Self in that situation -- must have been something else.

    Against North Carolina, KU will be seen as the underdog, which will allow them to play loose. KU historically has a tendency to play up and down to opponents in the tournament. If that holds true, they ought to give Roy's boys all they can handle Saturday.
     
  11. kingcreole

    kingcreole Active Member

    I like how people talk crap about the road Kansas took to the Final Four, as if Davidson was some pushover that simply got hot. Davidson battled North Carolina to a four-point game, Dook to a six-point game, and led UCLA by 18 (eight-fucking-teen) points in L.A. Davidson was in the regional final not by accident.

    All the pressure this week is on Roy. I understand from the Tar Heel message boards that they are already getting a little annoyed with Roy talking about how much Kansas means to him. If Carolina loses, people will start to doubt if Roy can win with his own players. And rest assured, Carolina hasn't seen defense like what they'll see Saturday. Not saying Kansas is going to win, but Carolina has a lot of pressure on it this week, and the Heels don't see defense like this often.

    And can someone please tell me where Kansas' reputation as a choker came from? Not from Bill Self, rest assured, but from the coach that lost in the second round as a 2 seed in 1990, in the second round as a 1 seed in 1992, in the Sweet 16 at Kemper Arena as a 1 seed, in the Sweet 16 in 1997 with one of the best teams of the past 25 years, and in the second round as a 1 seed in 1998.
     
  12. Chef

    Chef Active Member

    UNC-Memphis
     
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