2010 NCAA Tournament Thread......

[Fletch]

Robert Morris gave a scare, but not enough bodies left!

[righteous knowledge]

phuccin Notre Dame already jacked my bracket up

[travy]

What a game.Florida vs. BYU Double overtime

booooo!

[dj-chefron]

Robert Morris has a pulse.Down by one with 35 sec left

[Bill B.]

phuccin Notre Dame already jacked my bracket up

Yup...

[Bill B.]

And Vandy...

[DaBownca]

And Vandy...

ND screwed me up and so did Fla but I had Murray St...
Am I the only one who wanted to smack that kid on Fla for pulling up and trying a reset with 15 secs left, a clear path to the hoop and a chance to take the lead? If I was on Fla he'd be getting a Full Metal Jacket type soap party yo...

[travy]

And Vandy...

fucking jefferson airplane mopes messin up muh bracket!

[chldfknungrnd764]

GT having trouble with Ohio!
Kentucky dominating so far!

[chldfknungrnd764]

Georgetown is killing someone's brackets on Day #1!

[Bill B.]

Wow.

[DaBownca]

Georgetown is killing someone's brackets on Day #1!

yeah me....fortunately I was mistaken on BYU I aactually did pick them

[Fletch]

I ain't f'in with this Tournament!

[chldfknungrnd764]

yeah me....fortunately I was mistaken on BYU I aactually did pick them

I got burned with those Utah teams in my brackets last year!

[DaBownca]

Thankyou Washington...now if I can only get out with only two losses... GT hurt because I had them winning another game.

[chldfknungrnd764]

I had Georgetown and Marquette in the Sweet 16

[AK]

Kansas' Sherron
Collins has big fan
in education
secretary Duncan

By Erik Brady, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — Arne Duncan hasn't had time to fill
out a bracket, but the secretary of education knows
whom he is rooting for — Kansas.

It's not because the Jayhawks are tops among the
No. 1 seeds in the men's NCAA basketball
tournament, but because he is such a fan of senior
point guard Sherron Collins.

"He's a kid I've played with since he was a freshman
in high school," Duncan says. "He's a winner. I
watched him mature, and I've seen what he's
accomplished."

Duncan is an avid basketball player who often plays
with younger athletes. These pickup games came at
Crane High School, where Collins went to school,
back when Duncan still lived in his beloved
Chicago.

"He comes from a very, very tough neighborhood
and has done the right thing, stayed in school,"
Duncan says. "He's a tough kid from Chicago. I'm
biased, but he's got a lot of heart.

"He's obviously got one championship (in 2008),
and I'd love to see him get another. He's the kind of
kid where the right experiences changed his life f
orever. Having watched him since he was 14, it's
nice to see him have the opportunity he's having
now. That's sort of what it's all about."

Collins remembers Duncan.

"He's got game," Collins says. "We played a lot of
pickup when I was in high school. He gave me a lot
of advice about how to act on and off the court,
about choosing a college and stuff like that."

Duncan stops short of saying he knew how good
Collins was going to be.


"I remember saying this kid — well, I couldn't say I
could see him doing this, but he was something
special and you could see it very early on," Duncan
says. "We would go at it, and he would want to win
every single game.

"We'd have the older guys playing the younger guys,
and we'd win some and he didn't like that. You want
that competitiveness, that toughness."

What set Collins apart, Duncan says, was a high
hoops IQ.

"Sometimes you see a kid who can make one great
pass and three terrible ones," Duncan says. "I
remember when he was a freshman and he played
varsity, it was amazing to see this 14-year-old kid
and his decision-making ability.

"And he wasn't as strong, and he didn't shoot the
way he shoots now, but I got to see the way he
distributes the ball. I just remember it was so far
ahead of where I was as a freshman in high school."

[bigshawn]

I had Georgetown and Marquette in the Sweet 16

Opps...

[DaBownca]

DAMMIT....Tennessee just screwed me...them and georgetown in the same bracket...

[Fletch]

Prediction: Morgan State will give West Virginia a game!

[DaveR]

already another legendary tourney

[chldfknungrnd764]

already another legendary tourney

Recognize game!!

[DaveR]

looks like Louisville did not get the "represent the Big East" memo either ... but it's still early

[DaveR]

looks like Louisville did not get the "represent the Big East" memo either ... but it's still early

OK, seems they finally read it

[Fletch]

OK, seems they finally read it

Big Least on Thursday, Big East today!