You made this old Tar Heel very very happy.......looks like all those 5 stars could not get past the second round!!!!! Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you Vols...
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If Dook were the only ACC team in post season to be eliminated so far, it would be really great. But as of now, the big picture is one showing that ACC basketball is absolute crap. SEC basketball is much better, and so are the Big Ten and Big 12.
And as the league has been heading down, Big Time brands like UNC, Dook, Louisville, and Syracuse hire alums with no HC experience, none off whom has been pursued as HC by any other big time program.
And as the league has been heading down, Big Time brands like UNC, Dook, Louisville, and Syracuse hire alums with no HC experience, none off whom has been pursued as HC by any other big time program.
Another case where a experienced team with seasoned upper class men easily took down an over confident Mickey D talented FRESHMEN team…
Holy crap the ACC is trash. A conference that was for 40 years, the preeminent, undisputed king of basketball. How the mighty have fallen. Sad.
Oh, but good for UT of course.
Oh, but good for UT of course.
Correction, it’s really great no matter what. dook lost, none of that other stuff you said matters!
Now that dook is eliminated, I resume my hatred for Rick Barnes
Dook shot 6 - 22 from 3. As we should know, it is very tough to win a game with that 3ball production.
I dislike Barnes a little less today.
He's still an a-hole though.
He's still an a-hole though.
I still remember Ademola Okulaja blowing Rick kisses when he was the coach at Clemson and playing against UNC. I don’t remember the circumstances behind it and I had the video on an old VHS tape, but Barnes was jawing at Okulaja for whatever reason and Okulaja just blew kisses back at Barnes, which set him off even more.
Ademola was an underrated talent and the consummate teammate and a leader. RIP.
Thanks vols .. now I can watch the ncaa tournament now that dook is gone
Barnes genuinely regrets his actions with UNC and DES. See Adam Lucas and Jones Angel's 2016 podcast.
I changed my mind about him when I originally saw this. And he is an NC boy.
And Kentucky has not bitten the dust! Other than us not being in it, i am enjoying the heck out of March Madness.
Number of Sweet 16's WITHOUT: North Carolina, Kentucky, Duke and Kansas
1980-2019 - 0
2021-2023 - 2
1980-2019 - 0
2021-2023 - 2
It has been a really good 1st two rounds of the tournament. If you like the game, been good hard-fought action.
Princeton has really been a surprise of the tourney, along with Florida Atlantic would not be out of the question for one of them to make it to the elite eight, and maybe a shot at a final four. This is March madness and anything is possible.
Oh sweet 16s at first I thought final fours. That would be interesting to see too.
Agreed, these games have been very entertaining. At times more like hockey but still fun to watch. I’m surprised at the physicality which gets greater it seems every year. Also surprising that there have not been many injuries thank goodness as the game is played so much above the rim these days.
I apologize if this has been discussed elsewhere, but my computer newsfeed had a story about the dookies complaining about rough and even dirty play. My heart went out to them. Barnes said he saw nothing dirty from either side, just two teams going at it hard.
But there was a clip of a Tenn. player blocking Filipowski into the stands, and it wasn't a flop. No call, har har. I got so much satisfaction out of that. See it at about 0:30 below, but also see Filipowski push his guy out of bounds before that. The more they whine, the more I love it.
this isn't the whole game, but based on what I see here, the wrong team was complaining...with a few exceptions.
I should add that I opined that how far dook went into the tourney depended on what they let Filipowski get away with. As it turns out, not that much.
But there was a clip of a Tenn. player blocking Filipowski into the stands, and it wasn't a flop. No call, har har. I got so much satisfaction out of that. See it at about 0:30 below, but also see Filipowski push his guy out of bounds before that. The more they whine, the more I love it.
this isn't the whole game, but based on what I see here, the wrong team was complaining...with a few exceptions.
I should add that I opined that how far dook went into the tourney depended on what they let Filipowski get away with. As it turns out, not that much.
Barnes got the perfect storm. Duke isn’t very deep, and a starter had to sit due to injury. UT had a guy that got hit from three, and that helped UT greatly as their offense has sometimes struggled, especially after losing their point guard. But most importantly Barnes for the right set of officials. Everybody knows that Barnes like to turns games into a street fight and UT has a more veteran team that lives in the weight room. Duke has a lot of talented freshmen, but not the thickest, most physical of teams. And the refs, for the most part, let it go. UT got just what Barnes wanted and UT just beat the crap out of them physically.
I gave you a like and I agree about Barnes style, but it seemed to me that dook was just as physical as Tenn. They are sneaky physical though, and when they complain about physicality, it's because they think theirs is supposed to be less detectable.
At any rate, dook whining over anything is a treat.
The lack of any credence given to those pointing out the the lack of free throws by UNC while playing at Hansbrough Indoor Stadium, leaves their complaints falling on deaf ears from me.
