2024 NCAA Men's basketball tournament

Is there a "run rule" in basketball?

 

Yikes...what a freaking bloodbath!

 

Yikes, Illinois has flat-lined!
The Illini has scored only two points in the 2nd half.

"By golly, I think she's dead Jim!"

 

No one will defeat UConn. It's like playing an NBA team.

 

30-0 run.

 

If only we'd had a better seed.....

 

Illinois finally woke up from the dead to make it a close ball game, 52-77.
The Illini only lost by 25 points to UConn! Jeesh!

 

Oates is an incredible coach
Transfers leading team from:

Ohio U
Hofstra
N. Dakota State.

 

a team we beat twice and should have beat 3 times is going to the Final Four

 

I'm so mad at that too. It's all about the path

 

We had a much easier path than Bama…

We just choked. Gave up 102

 

Congrats to Alabama to make their first ever Final Four!

Looking forward to their game with the Huskies!

 

They are hot now. Sometimes a team catches fire and Bama has caught fire.

 

Path huh? I'm looking at my bracket and I see #1 seed UNC losing to Bama. We couldn't even beat a play-in team (tho that had to do with no Micah).

 

You know what happened the last time Bama was in the Elite Eight? They lost to Providence who had a guard named Billy Donovan and a coach named Rick Pitino.

They had some great teams coached by Wimp Sanderson.

Good on them for finally getting to the FF.

 

We were just a really bad match up for Bama. They are a really good team but we were their kryptonite.

 

Disagree with this, our path was tougher than Bama's. They played 2 top 25 KenPom teams this tournament, we would've played 3 top 25 KenPom teams if we would've made it this far.

 

Have to have guys that can be at them off the bounce. It's why they allowed almost 100 ppg vs UK and UF. They couldn't guard us or them, of even Tennessee. Fortunately for them, they haven't faced a team with multiple guys who can beat them this way until their next game.

 

Yup. We did the same thing in the SEC tournament. And probably would have been one of the top 5 hottest teams in the tourney if it wasn't for Micah. That was a double douse of water. Hurt depth and forced us to reconfigure our lineup right before the NCAAs and just gut punched the players. The team on the court after the Micah injury was a completely different team energy wise vs Auburn than the team that got 3 SEC tourney wins.

 

A lot us have said over the last couple of months that the Gators were good enough to make the Final Four and bad enough to lose in the first round. Our offense could be scary good but our defense was always iffy.