NCAA Tourney-Your Thoughts

[Jewbull]

After looking over the bracket, some interesting matchups.

Marquette draws a tough first round opponent in Michigan St, it could either way.

Va Tech and Greenie have Illinois in the 1st round, I feel bad for Greenie, since when is Illinois an 11 seed, probably only this yr.

If everything goes accordingly Memphis will play the Ville in the sweet 16, a matchup for old time sake. & UCLA will play PITT in the sweet 16, Ben Howland coaching his old boys.

What are your 5-12 upset of the bracket? Is there a George Mason of this yrs tourney?

[Joe]

OD over Butler.

[Guest]

My Upset picks:

ODU over Butler

Winthrop over ND

Gonzaga over Indiana

Ga Tech over UNLV

VCU over Duke

Holy Cross over Southern Illinois

I also picked all four #9 seeds to win this weekend

there will be some REALLY REALLY good games this week

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[JoeB]

ND falling to a 6 and getting Winthrop is a tough matchup.  If they are lucky enough to survive that one, Oregon awaits with a huge home court advantage.

Also Pitt getting Wright St. wasn't good for the Big East either.  Tough opening round game and then the Dookies in round two if they survive VCU.

Should be a great tourney though.

[HarveyGlass]

I've actually got ND losing in the Elite Eight against UF.  Nobody in that half really impresses me.

I don't think Pitt has the guardplay to go deep.  I have them losing to UCLA in the Sweet Sixteen, but I could see them losing to Wright State, VCU, or Duke.

Georgetown is in my title game, losing to UF.

I think Marquette will get beat by MSU in the first round.

'Nova should be too physical for Kentucky.  All bias aside( ), a UK team that has lacked toughness all year will get blown out by a truly tough team.

Louisville will probably scrape by Stanford, then lose to a very good Texas A&M.