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2021 Selection Sunday - CBS, 5 PM

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4 minutes ago, Enchubben said:

so our first game is at 850 CST on TruTV?  WTF is a TruTV?

Is this your first ever NCAA tournament?  This is like the 11th year (bc sad banana for 2020) that TruTV has been airing games.

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It's a tremendous network.  A lot of people are saying Texas is gonna beat ACU, but there's fine people on both teaams.

Yeah, TruTV is usually bundled around FX, AMC, A&E, et. al.  I think it was started as a courtroom channel, and then TBS bought 'em out and use them for sports overflow.  We had a game on there back 5+ years ago.  But yes, if you had told me a year ago that I'd be spending a Saturday night in late March not on Spring Break, not at SXSW, not at a sports bar, but rather at home glued to TruTV...I would have thought, "Uh, no..." 

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3 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Is this your first ever NCAA tournament?  This is like the 11th year (bc sad banana for 2020) that TruTV has been airing games.

Yep first time watcher. You get two points when it goes through the hoop right?

I have always watched from bars, sportsbooks or through the app/websites.  I guess this might be the first time I have had to watch from home.

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I think trutv started as Court TV which became a big thing during the OJ trial. It's just part of the TBS family that helps play games during the first round. Been that way for a while. I usually only watch whats OTA on CBS when my team isn't part of the tournament, which has been a lot lately.

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2 minutes ago, 'stache said:

I think trutv started as Court TV which became a big thing during the OJ trial. It's just part of the TBS family that helps play games during the first round. Been that way for a while. I usually only watch whats OTA on CBS when my team isn't part of the tournament, which has been a lot lately.

TruTV airs the First Four games and first and second round games.  

After that, it switches to CBS and TBS for the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight.  Then the Final Four and champ game go to TBS or CBS, depending on if its an even or odd numbered year.  CBS gets it this year. 

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20 minutes ago, Lobo said:

It's a tremendous network.  A lot of people are saying Texas is gonna beat ACU, but there's fine people on both teams.

Yeah, TruTV is usually bundled around FX, AMC, A&E, et. al.  I think it was started as a courtroom channel, and then TBS bought 'em out and use them for sports overflow.  We had a game on there back 5+ years ago.  But yes, if you had told me a year ago that I'd be spending a Saturday night in late March not on Spring Break, not at SXSW, not at a sports bar, but rather at home glued to TruTV...I would have thought, "Uh, no..." 

this makes sense. And actually I see now that AT&T tv carries the network, i guess I just never searched for it. 

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1 hour ago, 6th Street said:

Has anyone actually seen Michigan State play? They beat Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio State but still got assigned the play in

MSU alum. We suck, do not worry about us. We can play great D when locked in but are severely challenged offensively. Not a vintage Izzo team. Also lacking some of the mental/intestinal fortitude. Whole team minus 2 guys went through Covid and 2-3 guys in the rotations are still not fully recovered. Izzo has not been able to put them through the trials and tribulations that typically harden his teams come March. In my opinion our ceiling would be to reach the Horns game. If UT gets upset then who knows. 

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22 hours ago, Baboontyme said:

MSU alum. We suck, do not worry about us. We can play great D when locked in but are severely challenged offensively. Not a vintage Izzo team. Also lacking some of the mental/intestinal fortitude. Whole team minus 2 guys went through Covid and 2-3 guys in the rotations are still not fully recovered. Izzo has not been able to put them through the trials and tribulations that typically harden his teams come March. In my opinion our ceiling would be to reach the Horns game. If UT gets upset then who knows. 

We just lost 4 straight games with big 2nd half leads.  Please.  We have the market cornered in lack of mental/intestinal fortitude.

That said, you're going down, bitchass.

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1 hour ago, Enchubben said:

Yep first time watcher. You get two points when it goes through the hoop right?

No, you don't get any points.  But the team does.

 

1 hour ago, Enchubben said:

so our first game is at 850 CST CDT on TruTV?  

I know...this

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1 hour ago, Baboontyme said:

MSU alum. We suck, do not worry about us. We can play great D when locked in but are severely challenged offensively. Not a vintage Izzo team. Also lacking some of the mental/intestinal fortitude. Whole team minus 2 guys went through Covid and 2-3 guys in the rotations are still not fully recovered. Izzo has not been able to put them through the trials and tribulations that typically harden his teams come March. In my opinion our ceiling would be to reach the Horns game. If UT gets upset then who knows. 

Interesting on the offensive challenges at MSU since I'm more worried about their defense. From our perspective we've seen how zone confuse the f out of Shaka's teams. Izzo vs Shaka is enough to offset that talent gap between the two teams

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4 hours ago, Restinmybones said:

Oh look it's a tough guy. There are some clowns here but I guess there are a few in every crowd. You might be an aggy.

All right!  You know it’s Serious Sports Time around here when newbs come in hard.  Welcome and please enjoy the cloak room

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25 minutes ago, Homercles said:

All right!  You know it’s Serious Sports Time around here when newbs come in hard.  Welcome and please enjoy the cloak room

Hahaha. Well, thanks. I appreciate that. However, my days of "coming in hard", at least while playing a sport, were limited to football and ended when I was 18. Thanks for the invitation to the Cloak Room but I'll decline, as politics only raises my blood pressure and generally darkens my outlook. I've never been a politician or a member of any political party but, during a 38 year career, I had my fill of politicians of every variety. I've never been big on joining things, either. I guess I'm just an old stray dog. 

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3 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

We just lost 4 straight games with big 2nd half leads.  Please.  We have the market cornered in lack of mental/intestinal fortitude.

That seed, you're going down, bitchass.

Good luck SB. May the least worst team win! 

Not thrilled about the late start time on Thursday. 

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I'm having a bitch of a time with the bottom half of the West bracket. I'm not really sold on Iowa or Kansas, but I'm not sure who else there is worthy of putting in the E8 against Gonzaga. Right now I've got Oregon sort of defaulting into it but I hate it.

Some similar struggles in the East that I don't really like any of the teams in that whole region that much.

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2 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

I'm having a bitch of a time with the bottom half of the West bracket. I'm not really sold on Iowa or Kansas, but I'm not sure who else there is worthy of putting in the E8. Right now I've got Oregon sort of defaulting into it but I hate it.

I have Iowa over USC.

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UH is going to do the city of Houston a solid after the worst 2 years in Houston sports by winning the whole damn thing. They have a pretty easy bracket until the Elite 8. I think they can beat the Illini to get to the Final Four. Cougar High fans will be annoying as fuck if it happens.

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10 hours ago, TexArcher said:

I sure hope we get some visiting posters from Abilene Christian and BYU this week.  

I just drove to Abilene to get my covid shot a week ago and I cannot believe that little run down town has a university big enough to be in March Madness. I have no idea how they recruit anyone out there. I was there about an hour and was itching to get out. 

If you lose to whatever school comes from that place I'll spam the board with cry laughing gifs for weeks

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meatchicken are down on their prospects

may have been posted but possibly overlooked.....

they lost their "best player" before the semi, believe this was the difference in their loss to jort, and are thinking only 2-3 wins

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/31057077/foot-injury-sidelines-michigan-wolverines-senior-isaiah-livers-ahead-big-ten-semifinal

potential bracket shakeup

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I'm having a bitch of a time with the bottom half of the West bracket. I'm not really sold on Iowa or Kansas, but I'm not sure who else there is worthy of putting in the E8 against Gonzaga. Right now I've got Oregon sort of defaulting into it but I hate it.
Some similar struggles in the East that I don't really like any of the teams in that whole region that much.

Gonzaga, to me, is a paper tiger. Every year. I also think this is a really weird year, the 2 seeds look no different than a 3 or 4 seed...6 loss Illinois as a 1 seed?

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5 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:


Gonzaga, to me, is a paper tiger. Every year. I also think this is a really weird year, the 2 seeds look no different than a 3 or 4 seed...6 loss Illinois as a 1 seed?

There are no right or wrong answers

I wish we had gotten to see that Zags/Baylor game early on. They played such good entertaining games against Kansas, WV and Iowa.  And they blew out UVA. 

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6 hours ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:


Gonzaga, to me, is a paper tiger. Every year. I also think this is a really weird year, the 2 seeds look no different than a 3 or 4 seed...6 loss Illinois as a 1 seed?

There are no right or wrong answers

The past 5 tourneys Gonzaga has gone Elite Eight, Sweet Sixteen, title game, Sweet Sixteen, Elite Eight. 

They have lost to:

National champ 

Final four team 

National champ (duh)

Elite Eight team (as a #4 seed) 

National runner up

 

Not much of a paper tiger. 

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