NCAA Tournament: Day 4

[J.Jennings]

Goodbye Duke, get over it CBS crew, they lost

[bluerunner]

Don't have to look at G. Allen anymore. Well,... except if he gets in fights in the NBA.

[Jload]

Not Ks finest moment. Very talented players who didn’t play well. Had the most talented player in Tournament (Bagley) and couldn’t win it. Allen missed critical shots all season and he never got his guys to play any real defense hence the zone ( which was not very effective) This Duke team kind of reminded me of UK last year, great talent spotty performance

[KCKUKFan]

Goodbye Duke.

[Lighthouse]

I'm glad Duke lost, but it's bitter sweet because Kansas is moving on. I'll pull for Loyola and Nova.

[Catsrock]

Hallelujah. K doesn't need anymore help recruiting. Go Fighting Nuns!

[BobS]

No shame losing to that good Kansas team. The "failure" for K was having 8 losses with Bagley and not having the top seed so they wouldn't have to play Kansas.

But K is getting a title every 7 years which is still a good ratio. We would take it here.

[KevinHall]

The only regional final I didn't watch was the Loyola game. I'm glad they won but they will get blasted in the Final Foul. Especially if the Michigan team that showed up against A&M comes to play. If not then Loyola has a punchers chance in that game. Kansas State just proved they were a very mediocre team that was lucky to be in the tournament. UK should be even more embarrassed that they lost to them.

Villanova is just terrific to watch. They didn't play as well yesterday but still overcame that for a solid win. I have watched them a lot this year. Everyone can shoot the three ball well and they have enough size to compete with anyone. When they have lost its when they have shot very poorly. They are what I would love to see what UK could be. But its never happening with Cal here. BTW I am not advocating Cal leaving. He just has different philosophy that I don't 100% agree with about keeping or retaining players.

Like everyone else it was anybody but Duke in the regional finals. Happy that Kansas won despite playing and coaching very dumb. Duke gave them a gaping hole in the middle of that zone but refused to take advantage of it. They needed Goose Givens flashing to the middle of that zone to put in 40 for them. Also Duke was very weak defensively inside and didn't take too much advantage of that either. They kept hoisting up three's and made enough of them to finally pull it out. Did anyone else think Grayson Allen missing that shot at the end of regulation was due to bad karma over his career? Better karma and that shot may have gone down. He got his just desserts on that miss alone.
Also I don't mind Kansas. I don't why all the hate for them but whatever. Anyone can hate anyone else for no apparent reason.

Kansas/Villanova should be a good one. Kansas has the athletes to give Villanova a lot of problems. Kansas size could give them a big problem but the Kansas bigs aren't all that good IMO. I expect Villanova to drive the ball right at them and do a lot of kick outs for three's. If Nova hits a good percentage it could be a rout.

I'm predicting a Villanova/Michigan final. If both teams are hitting their three's it could be one of the all time great games. I think Villanova will win it all and Jay Wright can retire to be a GQ model.

[KCKUKFan]

No shame losing to that good Kansas team. The "failure" for K was having 8 losses with Bagley and not having the top seed so they wouldn't have to play Kansas.

But K is getting a title every 7 years which is still a good ratio. We would take it here.

He's also losing to Mercer and Lehigh in the first round, something that for all of Cal's faults, he isn't doing.

[Joneslab]

It was pretty surreal, after everybody handed the national championship to Duke following Bagley's commitment, to see them fall in a game where they had a massive height advance. Svi was guarding Bagley for most of that game. SVI! And I didn't see hardly any touches in the offensive sets for Bagley. Couldn't believe what I was watching.

[TrueblueCATfan]

WOW..Duke loses...all that talent of ones and dones and Coach K does not make the FF.....He is ruining college basketball

On the bright side...no more of the tripper

[KCKUKFan]

It was pretty surreal, after everybody handed the national championship to Duke following Bagley's commitment, to see them fall in a game where they had a massive height advance. Svi was guarding Bagley for most of that game. SVI! And I didn't see hardly any touches in the offensive sets for Bagley. Couldn't believe what I was watching.

Yet nobody is criticizing K this morning. Or if they are, it's not very loud.

[BobS]

He's also losing to Mercer and Lehigh in the first round, something that for all of Cal's faults, he isn't doing.

True. But I would take those losses for another title or 2. Easily.

[BobS]

I'm a big Beilein fan so I will be rooting for Michigan. Although Chris Weber makes me want to cheer against them.

The KU/Nova game should be awesome.

[Dwight Schrute]

Yeah, I'm rooting for Meeeeeechigan this weekend. All in all, this Final Four worked out about as well as you could hope for if you're a Kentucky fan. No UNC, no Duke, U of L was completely out of the tournament. I'm not a Kansas fan but I prefer them to Duke.