Bracket/Tourney Talk

Alright I had Texas going too deep. Dang. Was off to an awesome start but that’s pretty much a bust.

 

Texas remains winless in March since firing Rick Barnes.

 

Love how Texas fired the second worst tournament coach with a Final Four on his resume to hire the worst tournament coach with a Final Four on his resume

 

Damn - Texas is worse off than we are once again.

 

Bama with a cake walk to the Elite 8. Didn’t expect them to make it but now I’m sure they will.

Im sure they’ll get their first final 4 as well leaving us even fewer in the group in the conference without one.

 

One of two things will happen:

1) the bracket implodes and Gonzaga coasts to CBB’s first undefeated national champion in 45 years

2) Gonzaga also falls to the lunacy and a random 7 seed ends up winning, a la UConn in 2014

 

Maybe Barnes isn't the problem. Maybe Texas rubbed off on Barnes too much and we can't get the stench off of him.

 

Where does John Brady fit

 

Oh good call, maybe i need to just make a Mt Rushmore of “coaches who are terrible in the tournament except for that one time.”

That said, Brady only had like 4 cracks at it, so I think he’s probably behind Barnes and Smart. Brady was kinda just a bad coach all the time except that one time.

 

Go Loyola

 

I’d like to submit Paul Hewitt and Jim Larranaga for consideration for this prestigious honor

 

Oh, and Tony Bennett

 

Calm down. He’s certainly underachieved in March, but he’s still a damn good basketball coach.

 

Mike Davis
Bruce Weber
Tom Crean
Kevin Ollie

 

Well, I’m talking about the guys that are just bad in the tournament, not bad coaches overall

 

I thought about Weber and ultimately left him off because of the Elite 8 at K State and Sweet 16 at Southern Illinois

Ollie only had 2 cracks at it. I doubt he does much if he had more but I’m talking more about guys that busted in a larger sample size in the tourney

 

Loyola would have held us to about 12 points if we’d met in the Sweet 16

 

This nun is an actual witch who puts real hexes on opponents. I can’t think of a credible alternative explanation at this point

 

They might legitimately be the best defensive team in the tourney. And that center is just so damned fundamentally good

 

Ok, being the best defense in the country might explain it. I’m still riding with the she’s a witch hypothesis until evidence to the contrary emerges