NCAA basketball: who are you rooting for?

[Greg Bernhardt]

Games start today. I've got my Milwaukee Panthers and Wisconsin Badgers in the tournament. Feeling pretty excited. I love this time of year! Anyone else watching and rooting?

 

[leroyjenkens]

I'm rooting for whoever I picked in the bracket thing for me to win 500 million dollars. I don't watch sports, so if I get them right, it'll be pure luck.

 

[jtbell]

I'm pulling for Michigan, as usual. Go Blue! Tonight they're playing the same small college (Wofford) that gave Wisconsin a bit of a scare a few years ago.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I'm pulling for Michigan, as usual. Go Blue! Tonight they're playing the same small college (Wofford) that gave Wisconsin a bit of a scare a few years ago.

Outside of conference play, I always root for Big Ten! :)

 

[dlgoff]

Well there are 10 team in the Big Twelve. Rock Chalk, Jayhawk go KU.

I'm waiting to hear this in the tournament:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4TyQTJIa3Y

 

[jtbell]

Outside of conference play, I always root for Big Ten! :)

After Michigan, I go with Ohio State, then any other Big Ten schools that are still standing.

Well there are 10 team in the Big Twelve.

And 12 teams in the Big Ten.

Unfortunately that pleasing symmetry will end this fall when Rutgers and Maryland join the Big Ten.

 

[edward]

Living in Tucson I go with the University of Arizona Wildcats. These guys are capable of winning it all. That doesn't mean that they will. For some reason they have hot and cold streaks that they should not be having at this point.

The team has a great defense, but a lousy record on free throws.

The kid, Sean Miller, in the video below is now the AZ coach.

 

[jtbell]

Wow, Ohio State got knocked out already! At least it was by another team from Ohio (Dayton).

 

[dlgoff]

No. 2 seed Kansas turns aside pesky No. 15 Eastern Kentucky. Next up; Stanford University.

 

[Borg]

Not that there ever was any doubt but Buffett will hang on to his billion dollars. There are already no perfect brackets remaining in his contest.

 

[dlgoff]

WTF. I'm watching Stanford showing Kansas how it's done. Come on Hawks.

 

[dlgoff]

WTF. I'm watching Stanford showing Kansas how it's done. Come on Hawks.

"Rock Chalk" Cardinals.

Stanford 60, Kansas 57

There's always next year. Beer time.

 

[AlephZero]

My favorite (UK-centric) description of basketball: It's like water polo, but without the water.

 

[strangerep]

Anyone else watching and rooting?

You realize that's a very American expression, right?
(It means something rather different in certain other cultures.)

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Yes yes it means sex :) You must be from "stralia" :)

 

[strangerep]

You must be from "stralia" :)

Huh? No, that's in a different fibre of the multiverse -- a mythical(?) place where (apparently) women blow and men chunder.
Best avoided.

 

[edward]

Beware the PAC 12 and possibly Dayton.

 

[dlgoff]

Not that there ever was any doubt but Buffett will hang on to his billion dollars. There are already no perfect brackets remaining in his contest.

For some reason, I missed your post Borg. The Buffett prize, which I knew nothing of, came up among guest at a little basketball game viewing get-to-gether. Luckily there's Sensory Memory (must be longer than just a few seconds IMO) and knew just where too look.

Sensory memory holds sensory information for a few seconds or less after an item is perceived. The ability to look at an item, and remember what it looked like with just a second of observation, or memorisation, is an example of sensory memory. It is out of cognitive control and is an automatic response. With very short presentations, participants often report that they seem to "see" more than they can actually report.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

WI is in the final four baby! yeeeeeeehawwwwww!

 

[Tobias Funke]

I've seen enough unlikely upsets to never rule anyone out, so I'm still rooting for Duke.

 

[dlgoff]

I've seen enough unlikely upsets to never rule anyone out, so I'm still rooting for Duke.

Arizona takes their basketball seriously.

http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/660/371/Arizona%20Loss%20Unrest_Cham640.jpg?ve=1&tl=1

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/03/30/university-arizona-students-riot-after-ncaa-tournament-loss/

 

[jtbell]

I'm still rooting for Duke.

That would be a resuscitation from the dead, unless you've got a time machine handy...

 

[Tobias Funke]

That would be a resuscitation from the dead, unless you've got a time machine handy...

Well that's the joke (if you're generous and call it that). I don't think they're actually dead though; that would be an exciting tournament!

I do know the sure way to win is to root for the team that passes the ball around the perimeter for 30 seconds and then shoots a three because the line is too close to make twos worthwhile. Unfortunately that description applies to more and more NBA teams each year.

 

[AlephZero]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/03/30/university-arizona-students-riot-after-ncaa-tournament-loss/

Fifteen people were arrested for offenses such as resisting arrest,

I guess some people are just doomed to be failures

 

[leroyjenkens]

Arrested for resisting arrest? That reminds me of my grandmother spanking me, me crying, and then her spanking me again to "give you something to cry about."

 

[edward]

Arrested for resisting arrest? That reminds me of my grandmother spanking me, me crying, and then her spanking me again to "give you something to cry about."

Luckily for most of the country that type of thing only happens in Tucson. When Arizona won the championship back in the 90's we had full blown riots yet most of the arrests were for resisting arrest.

 

[edward]

WI is in the final four baby! yeeeeeeehawwwwww!

By a squeaker, in overtime and with 2.7 seconds to go, AZ missed it's last shot.

Wisconsin 25 29 10 64
Arizona 28 26 9 63

It was nice to see Bo Ryan make his first final four though.

 

[dlgoff]

Looks like UCONN is doing a little UK butt kicking. However things could change.

 

[dlgoff]

Excellent game. UCONN ... +1

 

[richardhale]

UConn always plays tough in the post season.

 

[edward]

How did I miss this? , UCON won the NAACP championship. More at 11:00, or perhaps not.