CBFan Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Middle Tennessee blowing away Michigan State! No worries MSU coming back down 3 now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moytoy12 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Heckuva game between MTSU and MSU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billikenfan05 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 This will suck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmith19 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Lehigh Duke all over again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billikenfan05 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 It would be poetic for MSU to lose in STL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slu72 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 About 26 seconds from having bracket and national champ busted. Tx Izzo. Hey the MTU coach did something even the great Rick couldn't do, beat Izzo! Damn, I'm po'd! Way to go Sparty, you laid a farty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmith19 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Utah's chances of another Final Four just improved a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slu72 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Utah's chances of another Final Four just improved a lot. Wide upen door for UVA. They must feel like the luckiest SOBs on the planet. Jees, but this why the Dance is so great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Well Michigan state out. So I have no reason to watch the tourney (my champion pick) as my bracket is done. Guess I'll catch up on "the voice". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheChosenOne Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Can we all agree that there is a direct correlation between basketball knowledge and brackets? I am at 99% and that obviously shows that I know the game better than all of you (unless you are somehow above that). No need to ask how my bracket is doing from here on out... I guess I jinxed myself..... Back to being an idiot I suppose, a role I am much more comfortable in (still at 99%, but that is because very few picked that one). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouthBilliken Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Bracket busted. Thanks MSU (champion team) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Bracket busted. Thanks MSU (champion team) Big mouth our only chance is middle Tennessee wins the tourney. Guess that's my team from here out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slu72 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Hire the MTSU coach. I want his players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouthBilliken Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Big mouth our only chance is middle Tennessee wins the tourney. Guess that's my team from here out. How does that work points wise? Doesn't the champion team get like 100-200 points? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheChosenOne Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 The stats are unbelievable in this one. Middle Tennessee State is rated #198 in adjusted offensive efficiency per Pomeroy. Michigan State is rated #20 in adjusted defensive efficiency. Middle Tennessee State averaged 72.7 points per game on the season, good for 9th out of 14 teams in C-USA. They put up 90 points. Shot 55.9% from the field and 57.9% from 3 with just 10 TOs and was only out rebounded by 4 (although 9 offensive rebounds to 8 for Michigan State). I am at work, but tracking the game it just seemed like any time Michigan State cut into the lead Middle Tennessee State had a big answer, so they never had to deal with being down and Michigan State was fighting from behind the entire game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 How does that work points wise? Doesn't the champion team get like 100-200 points? But no one else would get points for any of those games if MT keeps winning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basketbill Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 MTSU was impressive, poised, good shot selection and solid on D. They answered every time MSU cut the lead to one possession. They were getting favorable officiating, not that the fouls called we're not fouls, just that from a Billiken fan perspective, our players would never get those calls. A few traveling calls that were questionable, but overall just a team that played well. MSU spotted them 13 points and never caught up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouthBilliken Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 But no one else would get points for any of those games if MT keeps winning.Duh. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 The fighting Underwoods just taking it to West Virginia right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soderball Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Anyone else see that wisconsin vs pitt "game"? Was Crews coaching UW and Platt coaching Pitt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrjoelabs Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Chris May better get underwood on speed dial. And Bob Thuggins, hahaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billikenfan05 Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Xavier has Ron Baker adjace and Kenny Frease adjace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almaman Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Great thursday and friday so far. all these upsets can mean blowouts for the weekend but can't wait to see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 4 games still to go on Friday but here is how it looks for the mid-major (i.e. non power 5) vs. power conferences. I'm going to look at games in 5 through 12 seeds as those are the only ones involving at-large caliber mid-majors. Mid-major winners: Wichita St. over Vandy Wichita St. over Arizona Gonzaga over Seton Hall Yale over Baylor VCU over Oregon St. Little Rock over Purdue Power 5 winners: Maryland over SD State Iowa over Temple in OT Indiana over Chatanooga Michigan over Tulsa Syracuse over Dayton 6-5 in total for the mid-majors with UNI looking like they could make it 7-5. But here's the rub; in 8 of the 9 games (only Dayton is the exception) the power 5 school was the higher seed. Sure does call into question how biased the seeding is in favor of the power 5 schools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwayne's_World Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Michigan up big. This year's tournament is beyond ridiculous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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