March Madness 2019

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  1. Andrew Jackson

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    Any favorite teams?

    I like Michigan and Michigan State.

    Discuss March Madness here.
     
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    I'm going with Gonzaga. I'm a BYU fan which team sucked this year. But, Gonzaga is the real deal. They have several first round NBA picks on that team and they have a very deep bench. I don't know where and why Coach Few gets these players but he runs the WCC. Also, the WCC is a much improved league this year as well.
     
  3. Andrew Jackson

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    Solidly ranked #1 in both polls.

    #1 Seed in the West.

    As usually is the case, it will most likely come down to the Elite 8 Game.
     
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    I can't stand Carolina but I think UNC is going to top it this year.
     
  5. Andrew Jackson

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    I am still holding out hope for a Mich. St. Upset of Duke in the Elite 8.
     
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    Mich state will need to play a lot better than they did today
     
  7. Andrew Jackson

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    Yeah.

    And, if Duke is on their A-Game they are unbeatable.
     
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    Thanks for opening this thread, AJ. :beer:

    I'm going to separate who I like from who I think will win.

    Who will win:

    I've got Duke beating UNC in the Final and Gonzaga and (somebody shoot me) Virginia rounding out the Final Four. The other four I have in the Elite Eight are Michigan St., Michigan, Tennessee and Kentucky.

    Who I like:

    My alma mater, VCU, the Cinderella of the 2011 tournament, who will be lucky to get past UCF and its 7'6" center tonight to face an ass-kicking at the hands of Duke. This VCU squad isn't anywhere near as talented as the one that made it to the Final Four eight years ago, but if leading scorer Marcus Evans' knee holds up, they play the top-notch defense they're capable of playing and then score off that defense they can beat UCF, which will have a huge size advantage inside. The question for UCF is how good are their guards and can they handle VCU's press.

    I'll also be rooting for the two ACC teams from Virginia - UVA and Virginia Tech. I also like UNC and their up-tempo style. I think they're the only team that can take down Duke.

    Another team I really like is Murray State - Ja Morant is unbelievable! Yesterday he became the first guard to get a triple-double in the tournament since Dwayne Wade did it in 2003 for Marquette. Morant is phenomenal but his team is in a tough bracket.

    I'm not seeing any Cinderellas in this year's group and while there will be a few sleepers Florida State is the only one that has caught my eye so far. I think the South has the weakest 1 and 2 seeds so we might see one emerge from there.

    Good luck on your brackets, and GO RAMS!
     
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  9. Andrew Jackson

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    Thanks brother.:beer:

    I knew their had to be a few of us at PF that liked this NCAA Tourney Biz.

    VCU game is gonna be fun.

    Vegas is seesawing between -1/pk/+1.
     
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    Mich and MSU both into Sweet 16.
     
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    Duke almost got beat, but UCF let them escape.
     
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    UVA v Auburn

    Texas Tech v MSU/Duke Winner
     
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    Michigan State beat Duke!
     
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    Muffet McGraw makes sexist statement about college basketball hirings:


    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/sports/womens-final-four-muffet-mcgraw.html


    Notre Dame Coach Muffet McGraw has been on the Final Four stage nine times in her career. She has answered hundreds of questions about her team, about her rivalry with Connecticut’s Geno Auriemma, about the state of women’s basketball. But her news conference on Thursday was different. It was passionate, and it was personal.

    Muffet McGraw has had enough.

    Enough of the declining percentage of women coaching women’s basketball teams. Enough of the limited female representation in Congress. Enough of confining gender roles. Enough of the gender pay gap.

    “Men run the world. Men have the power. Men make the decisions. It’s always the man that is the stronger one,” McGraw said, her voice rising in response to a question about saying in a recent ThinkProgress article that she would not hire another man for her coaching staff.


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    In 1972, when the gender equity law known as Title IX was enacted, women were head coaches of more than 90 percent of the women’s college teams across two dozen sports. The percentage has decreased to about 40 now. The numbers are slightly better for women’s basketball, the most visible collegiate sport for women; about 59 percent of women’s college basketball teams were coached by women last year compared with 79 percent in 1977.





    Though the issue is not new, it has been especially prominent on the sport’s biggest stage this week. Tennessee has not been to a Final Four since 2008, but the program’s coaching vacancy has been widely discussed.

    Pat Summitt coached Tennessee for decades, building the program into a perennial powerhouse and making herself a leading figure in the sport. Holly Warlick, Summitt’s longtime assistant, took over when Summit left in 2012 because of early onset dementia. Warlick was fired last week, and Tennessee is conducting its first search for a women’s basketball coach in 45 years.

    When Louisville Coach Jeff Walz was mentioned as a candidate, a loud debate about the ramifications of that decision ensued. Would Tennessee hire a man to run the House that Pat Built? And should it matter if the coach is a man or a woman, as long as they’re qualified?


    McGraw said — loudly, pointedly — that it definitely matters.

    “When you look at men’s basketball, 99 percent of the jobs go to men, why shouldn’t 100 or 99 percent of the jobs in women’s basketball go to women?” she said. “Maybe it’s because we only have 10 percent women athletic directors in Division I. People hire people who look like them. That’s the problem.”


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    McGraw’s comments also addressed topics like the failed Equal Rights Amendment and female representation in politics.

    “I’m getting tired of the novelty of the first female governor of this state, the first female African-American mayor of this city. When is it going to become the norm instead of the exception?” she said, adding: “We don’t have enough female role models. We don’t have enough visible women leaders. We don’t have enough women in power.”

    Notre Dame, the defending national champion, will meet UConn in a national semifinal on Friday night, the latest chapter in an intense rivalry that has played out on the court and in the news media for more than a decade. The assistants for both teams are all women.

    Aware of McGraw’s vow not to hire another man, Auriemma pulled no punches when he responded this week.

    “I hope she sends a thank you to all those guys that used to be on her staff that got her all those good players that won a championship,” he said.




    Auriemma’s leading recruiter for 34 seasons has been the associate head coach, Chris Dailey. While building teams that won 11 N.C.A.A. titles at Connecticut, Dailey has been offered countless head coaching jobs, but she stayed to sustain the Huskies’ success.

    “Women can be empowered by a lot of people, men included,” Dailey said after McGraw spoke on Thursday. “Opportunity for women is important, and it’s being brought to the forefront, which is amazing. But I do think you want good people in the game without excluding anyone.”

    Auriemma has long been an advocate for women in the sport, but he disagreed with the idea of limiting opportunities for men.

    “I just come at it from a different standpoint,” he said Thursday. “I just like to think that there’s probably a way to do one without the expense of another.”

    He pointed to Oregon Coach Kelly Graves, the other man coaching in the Final Four this weekend. “So they weren’t trying to advance women’s basketball or women by hiring Kelly? That was a bad move? They should have just found the best available woman?”










    It is a shame that she made these sexist remarks. She says there are few opportunities for women but she overlooks the fact that it was men who put her into her job. Notre Dame where she works and St Joe's where she attended in her youth were founded by men as were the financiers, sponsors, fans, and alumni who paid for the program where she works. Like coach Auriemma I have been a long standing supporter of women's sports. I support equal rights and equal access. But under no condition am I ever going to allow exclusionism of the type McGraw is demanding. Imagine if someone said we must exclude blacks or Jews from a job ~ such a statement would be immediately condemned and the bigoted loud mouth banned from sports for life. It is time to apply the same standard to McGraw just as would be done to anyone else.
     
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    They should offer Candace Parker the Lady VOLS head coaching position.
     
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    Hopefully, Auburn’s coach, Bruce Pearl, has learned to recruit some White players now.......if not, he’s a slow learner.......
     
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    Virginia takes the NC......and Kyle Guy wins Most Outstanding Player......congrats❗️
     
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    Into over time! Texas Tech and Baylor sure represented the Great State's basketball reputation.
     
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    One of the most boring starts to a national championship but boy did it pick up! About 6 minutes in both teams started rocking the long shots.
     
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    Kudos to to coach Tony Bennett & the Cavaliers!
     
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    The ACC has now won the football and men's basketball national championships this year. Kudos! And they almost won in women's basketball...
     
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    Ok, looks like the thread went from great sports talk to people trying to troll political agendas.

    Whoda thunk?

    Congrats UVA. You should have lost in the first week again but you pulled off the natty championship.
     

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