Final Four and NCAA Title Game Thread

Yeah, seeing him in the stands in a game on a Monday night 1,000 miles away from Storrs will really help Jim Calhoun's attempt to fend off the buzzards.

 

Sending a beer in your direction, m'lady ...

As you can probably figure out, I'm not exactly doing backflips here, either ...

 

He didn't give a sh_t about them, either.

 

I know it's tough to win the national championship. I'm not taking away from the accomplishment. But this ain't exactly a great coaching job. This is about like Doc Rivers being called a great NBA coach for winning the title last year with Boston. If UNC would've been beaten by anyone other than maybe UConn, this whole season would have been greatly disappointing for the Tar Heels.

 

Beat Radford 101-58 in the first round.
Beat the SEC champs 84-70 in the second round.
Beat a peaking Gonzaga 98-77 in the Sweet 16.
Beat Blake Griffin's Sooners 72-60 in the Elite Eight.
Beat the Big East's Villanova 83-69 in the Final Four.
Beat the Big 10 champs 89-72 for the championship.

For any team to play six tournament games and have the closest margin of victory be 12 points, that's the mark of a driven team following its coach.

And if you're going to knock Roy down a peg because of his recruits, well, one thing an elite coach must do well is recruit great players. The fact that Roy does something with those players -- as opposed to, say, Matt Doherty -- is what make him an elite coach. Doherty could recruit at North Carolina. Guthridge could recruit at North Carolina.

Whether you can win a national championship at North Carolina, that's a much more difficult task.

 

I hear ya, but it also can be the sign of a team twice as talented as everyone it played. Just sayin'.

 

It was with 1 second left in overtime in the Ohio State-Siena game.

 

Matt Doherty could have assembled that same class at North Carolina. Do you think he would have beaten Michigan State to win a national championship tonight?

 

No. Hell no.

 

No, but could Calipari, Calhoun, Pitino, Howland, Self, Krzyzewski, Boeheim, or Izzo do it?

Yeah.

 

This was the correct result.

Carolina was the best team all year.

It got bored and got smacked by BC in the regular season.

Was without its point guard against a peaking FSU team in the ACC tournament.

If Carolina would have lost tonight, it would have been a failure of a season.

 

Agree completely. Well put.