2018 NCAA Tournament

[AllStar]

One more game to go...will be interesting!  Great runs for Ramapo and Springfield.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Well it will be the title game I expected all week, but that second semi was NOT what I expected!  For much of the game Neb Wes couldn't have put up 130 points on the Little Sisters of the Poor, much less on the (then) #1 team in D3!  (Springfield no doubt had something to do with that, but it sure looked to me more like bad offense than good defense.)  But the last four minutes of OT - THAT is what I was expecting!

Tomorrow night should be a great game.  Alas, I have a long-standing prior engagement (who schedules a D3 title game for St. Patrick's Day?!), and will miss most if not all of it.  (Our group is getting damned old; even on St. Patrick's Day I'll probably be home by 9!  At least I'll miss the WORST of the drunken driving crowd - though back when I was teaching, a totally soused student for a noon class was not unusual!)

[4samuy]

Imho, no surprise that the teams who beat Whitman and Augustana in the elite 8 advance to the finals.

I typically root for the midwestern teams in the Final Four, so I was pleased to see this happen. Still, I have a lot of respect for Springfield and Ramapo.

It's funny because when I don't have a particular horse in the race, I tend to root for the perceived underdogs.  Do I think Augustana and Whitman are two of the top teams in the country?  Yes I do.

[Greek Tragedy]

Well it will be the title game I expected all week, but that second semi was NOT what I expected!  For much of the game Neb Wes couldn't have put up 130 points on the Little Sisters of the Poor, much less on the (then) #1 team in D3!  (Springfield no doubt had something to do with that, but it sure looked to me more like bad offense than good defense.)  But the last four minutes of OT - THAT is what I was expecting!

Tomorrow night should be a great game.  Alas, I have a long-standing prior engagement (who schedules a D3 title game for St. Patrick's Day?!), and will miss most if not all of it.  (Our group is getting damned old; even on St. Patrick's Day I'll probably be home by 9!  At least I'll miss the WORST of the drunken driving crowd - though back when I was teaching, a totally soused student for a noon class was not unusual!)

At least you aren't going on a bike ride.

[Gregory Sager]

LOL! Good one, Tom!

[Ralph Turner]

Well it will be the title game I expected all week, but that second semi was NOT what I expected!  For much of the game Neb Wes couldn't have put up 130 points on the Little Sisters of the Poor, much less on the (then) #1 team in D3!  (Springfield no doubt had something to do with that, but it sure looked to me more like bad offense than good defense.)  But the last four minutes of OT - THAT is what I was expecting!

Tomorrow night should be a great game.  Alas, I have a long-standing prior engagement (who schedules a D3 title game for St. Patrick's Day?!), and will miss most if not all of it.  (Our group is getting damned old; even on St. Patrick's Day I'll probably be home by 9!  At least I'll miss the WORST of the drunken driving crowd - though back when I was teaching, a totally soused student for a noon class was not unusual!)

Have a bonny old time!   

[Mr. Ypsi]

Well it will be the title game I expected all week, but that second semi was NOT what I expected!  For much of the game Neb Wes couldn't have put up 130 points on the Little Sisters of the Poor, much less on the (then) #1 team in D3!  (Springfield no doubt had something to do with that, but it sure looked to me more like bad offense than good defense.)  But the last four minutes of OT - THAT is what I was expecting!

Tomorrow night should be a great game.  Alas, I have a long-standing prior engagement (who schedules a D3 title game for St. Patrick's Day?!), and will miss most if not all of it.  (Our group is getting damned old; even on St. Patrick's Day I'll probably be home by 9!  At least I'll miss the WORST of the drunken driving crowd - though back when I was teaching, a totally soused student for a noon class was not unusual!)

At least you aren't going on a bike ride.

Now, now.  It had been a nasty winter, it was a glorious day, and Mrs. Y is MUCH more of a bike fan than a bball fan - she deserved it for even coming to Salem.  Still, I did miss a helluva game!

[Mr. Ypsi]

Well it will be the title game I expected all week, but that second semi was NOT what I expected!  For much of the game Neb Wes couldn't have put up 130 points on the Little Sisters of the Poor, much less on the (then) #1 team in D3!  (Springfield no doubt had something to do with that, but it sure looked to me more like bad offense than good defense.)  But the last four minutes of OT - THAT is what I was expecting!

Tomorrow night should be a great game.  Alas, I have a long-standing prior engagement (who schedules a D3 title game for St. Patrick's Day?!), and will miss most if not all of it.  (Our group is getting damned old; even on St. Patrick's Day I'll probably be home by 9!  At least I'll miss the WORST of the drunken driving crowd - though back when I was teaching, a totally soused student for a noon class was not unusual!)

Have a bonny old time!   

Thanks, Ralph.  The game starts an hour earlier than I had remembered.  Unless it goes multiple OTs , I'll probably miss the whole thing.

I had a bully of a PE instructor in high school from whom I had to put up with "Bonnie Prince Charlie" taunts.  Having positive wishes by a variant on my name is a welcome thing!   +k

[Mr. Ypsi]

Perhaps parity is not just a D3 thing.  D1 had the first 16 over 1 game ever tonight, even more remarkable since UVA was the overall #! seed.  UM-Baltimore County destroyed them by 20!

Three cheers for the 'little guys'!!

[Ralph Turner]

Perhaps parity is not just a D3 thing.  D1 had the first 16 over 1 game ever tonight, even more remarkable since UVA was the overall #! seed.  UM-Baltimore County destroyed them by 20!

Three cheers for the 'little guys'!!

Don't you know that the ACC-haters of the world and especially those who live in ACC country had fun with that game!

[Mr. Ypsi]

Perhaps parity is not just a D3 thing.  D1 had the first 16 over 1 game ever tonight, even more remarkable since UVA was the overall #! seed.  UM-Baltimore County destroyed them by 20!

Three cheers for the 'little guys'!!

Don't you know that the ACC-haters of the world and especially those who live in ACC country had fun with that game!

Interesting that the debate over greatest upset of all time will now probably involve Virginia as the loser both times!  Is it UMBC over Virginia or Chaminade over Virginia?

Are there any other plausible candidates?

[Titan Q]

Whether UW-Oshkosh or Nebraska Wesleyan, this will be the 30th national title won by a school in the "midwest" states in 44 years of the Division III MBB tournament. Titles have come from:

- Wisconsin 12
- Illinois 6
- Ohio 4
- Michigan 2
- Missouri 2
- Minnesota 2
- Indiana 1

After tonight, 9 of the last 11 titles will have come from this part of the country.

[rlgyank]

Does anyone know if there is somewhere that has the video of the press conference's that happened after the semi final games? Thanks in advance.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Does anyone know if there is somewhere that has the video of the press conference's that happened after the semi final games? Thanks in advance.

I assume ncaa.com has them somewhere, but I'm not exactly sure where to look.

[Greek Tragedy]

Maybe go to YouTube?