Marching to Madness: '14-'15 The College Basketball Thread

[Lantern Venom]

The road to the Final Four started last night with most of the top 25 in action. There weren't any surprises, but key clashes are on the horizon. Talk about college hoops here.

 

[mkilban2]

Wooooo! I don't really have a favorite college ball team, but college basketball is up there as my favorite of sports to watch!

My team I root for is Cincinnati idk why though I have no affiliation with the school, I just like their uniforms when I was like 10 so I've rooted for em since then. They're not gunna be anything special this season though haha.

 

[Lantern Venom]

Wooooo! I don't really have a favorite college ball team, but college basketball is up there as my favorite of sports to watch!

My team I root for is Cincinnati idk why though I have no affiliation with the school, I just like their uniforms when I was like 10 so I've rooted for em since then. They're not gunna be anything special this season though haha.

There are plenty of good pairings in the next couple of weeks: Duke vs. Wisconsin, Kentucky vs. Kansas, and Texas vs. UConn.

 

[Lantern Venom]

Duke holds Michigan State at arm's length:

http://www.mlive.com/spartans/index.ssf/2014/11/michigan_state_duke_basketball.html

Kentucky obliterates Kansas

http://www.kentucky.com/2014/11/18/3546239/kentucky-vs-kansas.html

 

[Lantern Venom]

Kentucky 86
Montana State 28

Wow.

[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feh_fIJjPN8[/YT]

 

[Lantern Venom]

Duke makes a statement vs Wisconsin:

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=400587822

 

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1#UK 63, #6 Texas 51

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=400585723

 

[Lantern Venom]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Georgetown Hoyas became the latest athletes -- and the first in college basketball -- to don "I Can't Breathe" T-shirts before Wednesday night's 75-70 loss to No. 10 Kansas.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas...012164/georgetown-hoyas-wear-breathe-t-shirts

 

[Lantern Venom]

Kentucky loses Alex Poythress to a torn ACL, but still thumps North Carolina:

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas...-ap-men-basketball-poll?ex_cid=espnapi_public


9-0 Virginia climbs to #6 in the AP Top 25:

Virginia: The Cavaliers have held opponents under 70 points for 15 consecutive games, the longest such streak in the country.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas...U/anderson-leads-no-7-virginia-past-vcu-74-57

 

[Lantern Venom]

Kentucky wins the Battle of the Bluegrass:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME1F8KhnULs

In a huge upset, Washington suffers its first loss at the hands of Stony Brook:

http://http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=400593234

 

[Lantern Venom]

Duke hammers Boston College; ACC has 5 ranked teams right now:

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=400587897

 

[Lantern Venom]

Upset special weekend:

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebask...08/life-is-tough-as-a-top-10-team-on-the-road

 

[runawayboulder]

Greg Anthony

It really sucks too because I love him as a broadcaster and he won't be around for the tournament now.

 

[Mister J]

The Canes have been playing well lately. Followed up that big road victory at Duke the other week with a W at Syracuse today.

 

[Lantern Venom]

It's been a wild couple of weeks in college hoops. Mike Krzyzewski gets his 1,000th win after Duke drops back-to-back games. UVA loses to Duke at home, then beats UNC on the road. Kansas and Gonzaga have gotten hot lately.

The Madness is just around the corner. t:

 

[Lantern Venom]

UNC coaching legend Dean Smith passes away:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/s...arolina-basketball-coach-dies-at-83.html?_r=0

 

[Lantern Venom]

I aged two years in the span of 2 hrs via the UK-LSU game.

 

[Duke]

Jerry Tarkanian has passed away.



http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas...ollege-hoops-coach-jerry-tarkanian-dies-at-84

 

[Lantern Venom]

Jerry Tarkanian has passed away.


http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas...ollege-hoops-coach-jerry-tarkanian-dies-at-84

Tark and Dean in the same week. It's a somber time for fans of hoops.

 

[Lantern Venom]

Welcome back, Trey Lyles. Welcome back blowing out the opposition instead of squeaker wins.

 

[Lantern Venom]

The calendar says "March". It's almost time!

 

[Lantern Venom]

Virginia wins ACC title:

http://www.rantsports.com/ncaa-bask...-reinforces-acc-dominance-in-win-vs-syracuse/

 

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'Zona secures PAC-12 regular season title:

http://pac-12.com/article/2015/03/05/arizona-mens-basketball-claims-14th-conference-title-win-over-cal

 

[Lantern Venom]

ESPN mock bracket. Arizona should be a 1 seed, but some of these seedings are quite possible:

http://espn.go.com/ncb/bracketology

 

[enterthemadness]

ESPN mock bracket. Arizona should be a 1 seed, but some of these seedings are quite possible:

http://espn.go.com/ncb/bracketology

I really like Coastal Carolina...15th seed, 16th seed, it don't matter, they cna upset. And now they have Duke vs Coastal Carolina...this is the same team that was up by 5 at the half against 1 seed Virginia last year in 2nd round....it was tied up with 8 to go...before losing 70-59 to them. They are one of the best teams in the nation in rebounding overall on both sides of the ball. And no one should be afraid of Duke, having lost to a 15th in 2012 and 14th last year in 2014, in 2nd round games.


I also like North Florida being a sleeper 16th team. Both teams may lose, but I see them putting up a fight and making historic upsets. Also, I was ready to pick FGCU as a 16th seed upset bracket breaker, but they lost to SC Upstate, who lost to North Florida in A-Sun tourny.


FGCU got a CIT big btw (Florida Gulf Coast)