2014 NCAA Tournament

[magicman]

This is probably not the right place for this, but the bracket challenge bombed on me and wouldnt let me finish and I cannot edit them either...what gives? I was down to the final 4 too...

I had the same problem. I did send a letter to the Boss. Magically a few minutes later it allowed me to finish the process. Some real strange things happening though, while trying to do the brackets. I barely got mine in on time.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Hm. Maybe the CUNYAC got the right team in the tournament after all.

Seriously, nice win by York.

I've had York on my super sleeper list all year (it really is them and Johns Hopkins - it was nice to see both winning their tournaments and getting in).  I would have had York in the Sweet Sixteen against a lot of teams.  Not Amherst, though.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Not sure if I'll get back on here this afternoon or not, but I'll be tweeting from Cabrini tonight.  Pat usually retweets anything good I have to say, but I'm @ryanalanscott if you want snarky comments and occasional score updates.

[John Gleich]

Not sure if I'll get back on here this afternoon or not, but I'll be tweeting from Cabrini tonight.  Pat usually retweets anything good I have to say, but I'm @ryanalanscott if you want snarky comments and occasional score updates.

Oo, snarky comments? Sign me up!!

[NYHOOPS8]

Hm. Maybe the CUNYAC got the right team in the tournament after all.

Seriously, nice win by York.

It almost gives Staten Island a little more respect after the fact. York going up to RIC and taking it to them is a bit shocking.

[lildave678]

Hm. Maybe the CUNYAC got the right team in the tournament after all.

Seriously, nice win by York.

It almost gives Staten Island a little more respect after the fact. York going up to RIC and taking it to them is a bit shocking.

This is what 7express said in the Little East topic (below) and makes sense. Can't really compare York to CSI in that regard because York didn't get "picked" over CSI, they simply won the tournament. And York beat a team that would have been on the outside of the bubble had they not won their tournament as well. I guess you can say CSI lost to a team that might be better than perceived but in reality, you have to see how the late Pool C's do in order to truly see if CSI belonged or not...

7express

Can't have this game to compare too though since RIC won the conference tournament.  You gotta see how teams like Springfield (vs. Mary Washington), Ohio Wesleyan (vs. St. Norbert), Dickinson (vs. Geneseo), and Bowdoin (vs. Richard Stockton) do.  Those were some of the last teams with pool C selections.  If any one of those teams completely flops like RIC did tonight (and their all capable too) then you could easily make that case.

EDIT: Read gordonmann's original post wrong and thought it says they got the WRONG team in and was therefore in favor of CSI. I don't know why I read that, probably because it's all people talked about after the brackets were released  But what I and 7 wrote still stands in general 

[NYHOOPS8]

Hm. Maybe the CUNYAC got the right team in the tournament after all.

Seriously, nice win by York.

It almost gives Staten Island a little more respect after the fact. York going up to RIC and taking it to them is a bit shocking.

This is what 7express said in the Little East topic (below) and makes sense. Can't really compare York to CSI in that regard because York didn't get "picked" over CSI, they simply won the tournament. And York beat a team that would have been on the outside of the bubble had they not won their tournament as well. I guess you can say CSI lost to a team that might be better than perceived but in reality, you have to see how the late Pool C's do in order to truly see if CSI belonged or not...

7express

Can't have this game to compare too though since RIC won the conference tournament.  You gotta see how teams like Springfield (vs. Mary Washington), Ohio Wesleyan (vs. St. Norbert), Dickinson (vs. Geneseo), and Bowdoin (vs. Richard Stockton) do.  Those were some of the last teams with pool C selections.  If any one of those teams completely flops like RIC did tonight (and their all capable too) then you could easily make that case.

I was trying to allude to the idea that CSI didn't get picked because of their SOS or didn't have any good wins. Makes you think beating York twice during the regular season is nothing to sneeze at.  York going on the road to beat RIC (even if they may be a little down) should give the CUNYAC a little respect  which, in turn, gives CSI a bump up in that regard.

[7express]

Not to take anything away from York because that was a beatdown, but having watched this RIC team for most of the year, the team wasn't very good.  Definitely subpar from the tournament teams Bob Walsh usually has.  The only thing surprising was the margin of victory York won by, not really surprised that they won.  I mean, this is the same team that lost to Lasell & Johnson & Wales.

[Greek Tragedy]

Who's winning the Scranton game. Live Stats says Hobart 89-79 with a minute to go and d3hoops scoreboard says Scranton 89-79!

[Greek Tragedy]

Who's winning the Scranton game. Live Stats says Hobart 89-79 with a minute to go and d3hoops scoreboard says Scranton 89-79!

D3hoops switched it now....

[gordonmann]

Maybe that was us, but it might have been the schools. Sometimes schools get it reversed in neutral court games when they aren't really home or away.

[GnacBballFan]

Upset alert possibility. Marian trailing by 2 with 6 left to the #1 team in the country

[Greek Tragedy]

Marian is even with 3 to go. Tillema with 4 fouls. 

[David Collinge]

Webster leads IWU by 1 with 26 seconds left, IWU ball in a timeout.

UPDATE: IWU wins 71-70 while my connection buffers. 

[Mr. Ypsi]

Webster leads IWU by 1 with 26 seconds left, IWU ball in a timeout.

UPDATE: IWU wins 71-70 while my connection buffers. 

That was a VERY scary game that IWU should have won by 20+.  My hat is off to Webster.