Tourney Talk

[Lighthouse]

Michigan wins, and I picked them to beat UL too. Pitino outcoached the Michigan coach in their last meeting, hope he reverses that Sunday.

[Lighthouse]

Arkansas probably wins but the announcers again show their ignorance about officiating. There was an intentional foul by SH where the Ark. player fell. IF the official called it a flagrant 1, like the announcers said, he called it wrong. The penalty is the same for either, 2 shots and the ball, so it really didn't matter which it was, but the announcers made it sound as awful as they could.

[TrueblueCATfan]

I picked Seton Hall in that game...oh well the Hogs are moving on

[Joneslab]

Arkansas probably wins but the announcers again show their ignorance about officiating. There was an intentional foul by SH where the Ark. player fell. IF the official called it a flagrant 1, like the announcers said, he called it wrong. The penalty is the same for either, 2 shots and the ball, so it really didn't matter which it was, but the announcers made it sound as awful as they could.

I thought "intentional foul" had been taken out of the game and it has to be either a Flagrant 1 or 2?

To me it didn't look like a bad call on its face...but relative to all the other basketball games that've ever been played and given that guys "intentionally foul" all the time in those situations, it was a weird time to call it.

Had it happened against Kentucky I might be in the mental asylum at this point. Refs let that go 99% of the time because guys are literally intentionally trying to foul.

[George]

Bald Mike Davis is freaking me out.

[George]

SMU needs to get it going. I can stomach the Vandy and Seton Hall losses, but SMU would screw me up bad.

[Lighthouse]

I thought "intentional foul" had been taken out of the game and it has to be either a Flagrant 1 or 2?

To me it didn't look like a bad call on its face...but relative to all the other basketball games that've ever been played and given that guys "intentionally foul" all the time in those situations, it was a weird time to call it.

Had it happened against Kentucky I might be in the mental asylum at this point. Refs let that go 99% of the time because guys are literally intentionally trying to foul.

It has been included in the flagrant foul description, so they were right in calling it that. And, you're right, they allow that to be a simple common foul all the time when the rule plainly states, there must be a play on the ball. When I do an evaluation, I mention this all the time but it falls on deaf ears. It's going to get worse unless the powers that be instruct the officials to call it by the book. IMO on that play, the push was the foul, and the kid fell because of incidental contact which was when they got their feet tangled.

[George]

Justin Jackson's shooting the frickin' lights out. Ugh.

[justford]

SMU losing messed my bracket up.

[George]

SMU losing messed my bracket up.

Yep. I had them going to the Elite Eight.

[Lighthouse]

I only had SMU winning that game and losing to Baylor.

[Owllycat]

I would love to see Cats win it again. As for my bracket my final four are VIllanova, Arizona, Kansas and Kentucky. Final would be Villanova and Kansas with Villanova winning it all.

[Joneslab]

Kansas begins their journey with their gang of criminals.

[justford]

Wichita State fans chanting we want Kentucky.

[TrueblueCATfan]

Kansas moves on after a blow out.......and Duke advances too