Tourney Talk

[Jeff ROCKober]

Lines today:
West Virginia favored by 2.5 vs Notre Dame
Villanova -5.5 over Wisconsin
Florida -1.5 vs Virginia
Florida State -7.5 vs X
Butler -2.5 vs Middle Tenn State
Purdue -1 vs Iowa State
Gonzaga -10.5 vs Northwestern
Arizona -4.5 vs St. Mary's

Kentucky favored by 4.5 vs Wichita State
UNC -10.5 vs Arkansas
Duke -7.5 vs South Carolina
Louisville -3 vs Michigan
Baylor -7 vs USC
Kansas -8 vs Michigan State
Oregon -5 vs Rhode Island
UCLA -3.5 vs Cincinnati

[Katmendo]

Watching Villanova switch on screens is a thing of beauty. Both the screener and the ball handler get bumped during separation.

[Joneslab]

This Wisconsin/Villanova game is interesting because Villanova has no post presence. Wisconsin will get it into Happ most every time down. 'Nova will have to hit a bunch of threes to win IMO.

[Jeff ROCKober]

West Virginia is playing well. Villanova vs Wisconsin will be interesting. I think Villanova will win at the end on the freethrow line but this may end up being a good one.

[BJD]

West Virginia is playing well. Villanova vs Wisconsin will be interesting. I think Villanova will win at the end on the freethrow line but this may end up being a good one.

Villanova is a paper number 1. Wisc is not all that but it wouldn't surprise me at all for Wisc to beat them.

[Joneslab]

That's one way to negate Ethan Happ: get him to the bench with foul trouble.

[Katmendo]

That was a ludicrous no call. That was a foul.

[Joneslab]

It's weird how fat Kris Jenkins got after last year.

[Katmendo]

Be nice to see Monk do that.

[Katmendo]

Get fat?

No. Jump a passing lane on defense and create a turnover breakaway.

[George]

No. Jump a passing lane on defense and create a turnover breakaway.

Why is this specific to Monk? It'd be nice to see any player do that.

[Katmendo]

Some things that have stood out to me in this tourney:

1: Pretty clear the officials are calling a boatload of travels on the perimeter.
1A: You can still take as many as four steps in the paint or to dunk.

2: Noticing several players getting player control fouls for running through guys after they pass it. Just seems like it's about every gamew, and it looks like some kind of general fundamental flaw.

[BJD]

No. Jump a passing lane on defense and create a turnover breakaway.

Like he did against UGA in the SEC tourney?

[Joneslab]

The good news for Wisconsin here is that you're up by 4 with Happ spending most of the half on the bench.

Bad news is that you're only up 4 and you've outplayed Villanova by several degrees.

[Katmendo]

Why is this specific to Monk? It'd be nice to see any player do that.

Yes, but Monk has cat quickness and incredible ups. Defense to generate offense. Get himself going.