Expectations for the NCAA Basketball Tournament
My number one seeds, pre-conference tourneys, are UConn, Pitt, UNC, and......the hard pick...Louisville.
Dark horses are: Siena for a possible Sweet Sixteen bid, Wake Forest as a potential Elite Eight nod.
First weekend flameouts could be Duke (bunch of perimeter players with no rebounding, shotblocking, or inside scoring), Oklahoma (over reliance on one great player), Syracuse, and the Pac Ten (no team worthy of a Sweet Sixteen bid).
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The first weekend of the NCAA's is my favorite sports weekend of the year, in that Thursday and Friday, when the games run from noon to 6pm, then 7:30 until after midnight are awesome, and the weekend is terrific, too, with eight games each day. Great fun, though I still remember with fondness the way ESPN, back in the 80s, would switch from game to game. Today, we have the benefit of being able to watch each game at NCAA.com in realtime.
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My predicted champion is........
The University of North Carolina...
though as a Big East fan I will be rooting for a repeat of the 1985 Final Four when three BE teams reached Rupp Arena and Villanova won the whole enchilada.
Dark horses are: Siena for a possible Sweet Sixteen bid, Wake Forest as a potential Elite Eight nod.
First weekend flameouts could be Duke (bunch of perimeter players with no rebounding, shotblocking, or inside scoring), Oklahoma (over reliance on one great player), Syracuse, and the Pac Ten (no team worthy of a Sweet Sixteen bid).
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The first weekend of the NCAA's is my favorite sports weekend of the year, in that Thursday and Friday, when the games run from noon to 6pm, then 7:30 until after midnight are awesome, and the weekend is terrific, too, with eight games each day. Great fun, though I still remember with fondness the way ESPN, back in the 80s, would switch from game to game. Today, we have the benefit of being able to watch each game at NCAA.com in realtime.
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My predicted champion is........
The University of North Carolina...
though as a Big East fan I will be rooting for a repeat of the 1985 Final Four when three BE teams reached Rupp Arena and Villanova won the whole enchilada.
posted by joe sweeney at 7:12 AM
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