Archive for March 14th, 2010

NCAA Tournament Bracket Reaction: Duke Got Hooked Up, Kansas Has a Rough Road

Posted March 14, 2010, 6:30 pm by Jason McIntyre (373 Comments)

Duke got hooked up. No way around it. The Blue Devils (the third No. 1 seed – laughable) are in the South with the weakest No. 2 seed (Villanova), and the weakest No. 4 seed (Purdue). Pat Forde’s taking Baylor here to reach the Final Four … we might have follow that. As Chad Ford [...]

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Projecting the NCAA Tournament Bracket: Consensus is Virginia Tech, Florida and Mississippi State Are Out

Posted March 14, 2010, 4:44 pm by Jason McIntyre (226 Comments)

Here’s our projections of the field of 65, with the last few teams remaining unchanged from this morning. (no S-curve; in order) 1 Kansas, Kentucky, Syracuse, West Virginia 2 Duke, Ohio State, Kansas State, Georgetown 3 Villanova, Baylor, Tennessee, Temple 4 New Mexico, Michigan State, Pittsburgh, Wisconsin Last five in: California, Utah State, UTEP, Minnesota [...]

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DeMarcus Cousins Beats Buzzer to Force Overtime, and Mississippi State’s NCAA Dreams Vanish

Posted March 14, 2010, 2:26 pm by Jason McIntyre (70 Comments)

John Wall came up short twice at the end of regulation, but DeMarcus Cousins bailed him out with a put-back right before the buzzer to force overtime, where Mississippi State lost by one. In all likelihood, the Bulldogs will not reach the NCAA tournament. Painful. [vid via; evidence of Cousins beating buzzer after jump]

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