i'm calling it now

i may eat crow

but i'm calling it

3/6/2006 3:16:30 PM

yeah, me and a friend of mine called that too back in December...

3/6/2006 3:19:29 PM

i think we will too. we definitely have a much better chance than most people are giving us right now.

[Edited on March 6, 2006 at 3:22 PM. Reason : ]

3/6/2006 3:21:42 PM

i think our chances are diminishing bc we have shown no intensity over the past few weeks plus the fact that gavin grant is WOLFies new favorite guy bc he finally played hard. id say sweet16.

3/6/2006 3:23:35 PM

when did i ever say he was my favorite guy? i said he showed me something i hadn't seen from him before, and because of that i won't criticize him anymore for awhile.

stop trolling

3/6/2006 3:24:49 PM

I had a dream back in november that we won it all. I still have that feeling that we can do it. I believe in this team, and I know that if given a FAIR chance and good health they can win it all.

GO WOLFPACK!!!!

3/6/2006 3:25:32 PM

how am i trolling just bc i give my opinion on us not making it to the elite 8? quit ur bitchin

3/6/2006 3:27:28 PM

the key is how BIG Cam and Tony go off in the NCAA tourney..without them havin huge games...we are gonna be out early

3/6/2006 3:27:55 PM

Yeah Bethel CANNOT play like he did Saturday. That was pathetic. 32 minutes 0 points. Cam is gonna have to be the man this year. I say Sweet 16 before we lose to an Iowa, Illinois, someone who plays tough D.

3/6/2006 3:30:05 PM

absolutely

we need cam bad, and everyone else to be healthy

3/6/2006 3:30:51 PM

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"may eat crow"

3/6/2006 4:10:01 PM

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"Yeah Bethel CANNOT play like he did Saturday. That was pathetic. 32 minutes 0 points. Cam is gonna have to be the man this year. I say Sweet 16 before we lose to an Iowa, Illinois, someone who plays tough D."

IOWA?!?!?!? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

...yes i know that they beat us, but that was in the worst game of NCAA history

3/6/2006 4:26:52 PM

There was some dipshit near me at the UNC game kept yelling "you suck Gavin!!" and then one time gavin looked and he flipped him off

yeah, thats really gonna make him feel better

3/6/2006 5:07:13 PM

we will not make the elite 8...we will meet up with a slow white team that shoots well and features a player that has the game of his fucking life and we will lose 50-45

something like that...it's something dumb every year

3/7/2006 2:02:37 AM

by 'we' do you mean nc state? because if so, ill lay some money down with you. i love the pack and will pull for us all the way with everything I have, but I just dont see it happening

3/7/2006 2:36:47 AM

what will you do if we dont

3/7/2006 3:07:20 AM

i called it several weeks ago.

3/7/2006 3:07:37 AM

... of the acc tournament

3/7/2006 3:33:52 AM

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"by 'we' do you mean nc state? because if so, ill lay some money down with you. i love the pack and will pull for us all the way with everything I have, but I just dont see it happening"

it's cause you're blind stevie

3/7/2006 9:47:24 AM

analyst disclosure:

i don't ever bet on State games--my shame in light of an non-elite 8 appearance is punishment enough

i never lose bets on individual games--i also never win brackets (come in 2nd all the time)

3/7/2006 10:00:17 AM

Best Joke I've heard in days! Can't even break our acc conf. losing streak but will run through the ncaa tourney! Idiot computer geeks and their computers shouldn't even be allowed to type the word sports.

3/7/2006 10:05:39 AM

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"I believe in this team,"

and I.....feel sorry for you

3/7/2006 10:12:28 AM

ha ha

3/7/2006 10:16:03 AM

Assuming that Cam and Ilian get healthy, and Grant continues to play with the fury he did on Saturday, this team is (on paper) capable of hitting the Elite 8.

However, to do so, we have to actually play well, which we haven't done in over a month now.

Earlier in the season I had great expectations, but at this point I'm not sure we'll win another game this season. I really, really hope the team starts to pull together on Friday.

3/7/2006 10:27:43 AM

I think a win over FSU is just what the Dr. ordered.

3/7/2006 10:31:06 AM

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"at this point I'm not sure we'll win another game this season"

The same dreadful thought I've had since the BC game. Can you imagine these seniors going out losing their last 5 games. They need to call Hodge in to motivate these fuckers with some "When we hongry, we eat" type quotes

3/7/2006 10:38:29 AM

What would help, is if we could hit a 3 pointer now and then. I dont give a damn what our percentage is in games, or if we live and die by the 3. Its not a fluke that we made it through 80 percent of the season shooting over 40% as a team. We're gonna have our bad games, but there's no excuse for the way we played these last 3 games.

Point is that we should be able to hit ENOUGH 3's a game.

3/7/2006 10:43:17 AM

we will be a 5 seed and lose to a 12 seed in the first round...
j/k elite 8 all the way

3/7/2006 10:58:33 AM

^ I Actually am thinking that.


I'd rather be a 6 than a 5. The 5/12 matchup is ALWAYS an upset... it's just a cursed seed.

3/7/2006 11:15:24 AM

There's always a 5/12 upset. Still three others that could win.

No one is safe, except for the 1/16--I think there's never been an upset there (although some have come close).

We pulled off the 7/10 upset last year.

3/7/2006 11:18:16 AM

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"No one is safe, except for the 1/16--I think there's never been an upset there (although some have come close). "

Never has.


I think UNC was the closest... dont remember the year, but they rallied from like 10 down with 3:00~4:00 left to win by about 2 or 3 (If my memory serves me correctly..?).

Damn, that's gonna bother me. I'll try to find it later (I'm at work all day)

3/7/2006 11:22:23 AM

i'm def adding this thread to my topics

3/7/2006 11:32:33 AM

^^ Princeton-Georgetown

3/7/2006 11:33:25 AM

championship

3/7/2006 12:06:03 PM

but the cause of a lot of these "upsets" is that some non big 6 school wins their conference or does well playing the crappy teams they play and they end up with a reasonably good seed. Then some big 6 school gets a lower seed because they got beat up on playing a tougher schedule. So the "better team" is often the lower seed. Granted this isn't always the case.

3/7/2006 12:11:04 PM

(16) Murray State took (1) Michigan State to overtime, around 1990.

3/7/2006 12:29:42 PM

^ Interesting... didn't know that

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"^^ Princeton-Georgetown"

What do you mean by that? Did they have a closer one or something?

3/7/2006 1:30:36 PM

No. 5: Georgetown 50, Princeton 49 (1989 first round)
A No. 1 seed has never lost to a No. 16 seed in the history of the tourney, but the Princeton Tigers came this close 15 years ago as a 23-point underdog to the awesome Hoyas.

The Tigers’ underdog status was compounded because the last four Ivy League teams to reach the NCAA Tournament were blown out by an average of 35 points in the first round. These blatant mismatches had led some to propose that the Ivy champion's bid to automatically play in the tournament be revoked.

Georgetown was led by 6-foot-10 Alonzo Mourning and 7-2 Dikembe Mutmbo, both future first-round NBA draft picks. The Tigers countered with Kit Mueller, a 6-6 center, who responded with eight points and nine assists against one the great shot blockers in NCAA history. Princeton led by eight at the half and never trailed by more than two points the entire game. Mourning was held in check for most of the game, but scored seven points in the final minute, including a go-ahead free throw with 10 seconds remaining.

With six seconds left, Princeton had two chances to win, but two long-range attempts were blocked by Mourning, although the Princeton bench felt Mueller was slapped on the hand and wrist by Mourning on the final shot.

When asked about the questionable non-foul on the last shot, Princeton coach Pete Carril took the high road, literally.

"We'll have to take that up with God, when we get there."

3/7/2006 1:37:46 PM

That's fine that a number 16 still hasn't beatin a 1... I want to see duke or carolina steal that record

3/7/2006 1:42:10 PM

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"1997 East Regional First Round (North Carolina 82, Fairfield 74) Fairfield (11-18), had a nine-point lead early in the second half, but the 28-point underdog eventually failed to become the first No. 16 seed to win. Carolina scored on 26 of 30 second-half possessions, committed only two turnovers and barely won."

Shit, i remember pulling so damn hard for Fairfield....

then Vasco and the other fags took over.



Say hello to Illian's big brother.

3/7/2006 1:54:32 PM

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"...yes i know that they beat us, but that was in the worst game of NCAA history"

Ever thought it was a bad game because both teams play good defense?

The Big 10 usually does well in the NCAAs and I would not be surprised to see Iowa make it far.

3/7/2006 2:18:42 PM

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"I think UNC was the closest... dont remember the year, but they rallied from like 10 down with 3:00~4:00 left to win by about 2 or 3 (If my memory serves me correctly..?). "

Purdue 73
Western Carolina 71

Oklahoma 72
East Tennessee State 71

Georgetown 50
Princeton49

3/7/2006 2:50:27 PM

Damn, you guys are good. Ignore my previous statement

3/7/2006 3:43:40 PM

WEBER STATE

that is all.

3/7/2006 3:55:50 PM

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"Ever thought it was a bad game because both teams play good defense? The Big 10 usually does well in the NCAAs and I would not be surprised to see Iowa make it far."

good defense had very little to do with that game

3/7/2006 4:10:10 PM

i hear crow is good with hot sauce

but i'm still sticking to my story

3/10/2006 4:59:02 PM

hey, we made it to the elite 8... of the ACC tournament

3/10/2006 5:56:29 PM

hahahaha

its been so hard to be nice this afternoon

but that one made me laff

3/10/2006 6:24:57 PM

FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS! ...

3/10/2006 6:33:17 PM

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"Purdue 73 Western Carolina 71"

Awesome game... Purdue had Glenn Robinson and Martin. Western Carolina had some guy named Sessoms that dropped like 30 on them and almost pulled it off. If i rememebr correctly there was a cheap foul at the end that hurt WCU, but i might be wrong seeing as how i was like 12 and watching on a black & white tv in my room at like midnight.

3/11/2006 12:05:56 AM