March Madness Fever
 

Is anyone else ready for the showdown?

Personally, I don't want Louisville to win but they're looking pretty strong in this region.

My fave top teams:

Marquette
I feel really good about them this year. However, I felt good about them last year and they lost.

Indiana University
I go to this school so I have to show spirit. GO HOOSIERS!!!

Texas Tech(hey, I'm a TEXAN)
Hmm, it's a loyalty thing.

U of K
These guys are looking great. . .but you never know how long that is going to last.



Anyone else got some insight? It's time to start gearing up for this.

I would like U of L to go to the final four and then U of K can beat the crap out of them... :)

I would also like to see a small school like Gonzaga- I love that team!

Marquette- I mean White Chocolate, honey, you are so close to me by location but so far away- they aren't very good.

Other than those three above, I am sure that Arizona will make it. Their offense is on fire!

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I'm all about my UK Wildcats!!!!!! GO BIG BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!

ps. I do like Gonzaga ilovemyglo, John Stockton graduated from there.
:)

I love Arizona. I've been a fan since I was about 12 years old, and I'm really excited about them this year. :D

i can't help it
i always root for the underdogs in March Madness

as for Gonzaga, like U of L, they deserve to win but I don't like U of L. Gonzaga was on my mind but I opted for Marquette at the last minute.

And so far away, I drive past U of L every other day. . .Indiana isn't that far.

BEAR DOWN, ARIZONA! :D

It's hard to say.. the Big 12 is not up to what it was last year in my opinion. Ok State is kind of in a slump after losing to Baylor and Cinncinati. Oklahoma is playing very well but has been inconsistant (losing on the road to Baylor and OK State). Kansas has slipped a lot. I'd say Texas is playing the best in the conference at this point.

Big 12 tournement is coming up though. Will be interesting to see how that comes out. My prediction (and it is painful for me to make this prediction) is Texas vs Kansas in a close game at the end with Texas edging Kansas. I hope I'm wrong though.

I'm gonna have to go with KU and OU out of the Big XII. It absolutely kills me to root for Texas and i'm not a big fan of the Red Raiders much either.

That being said, A&M's actually considered a "bubble team" for the first time since i've been in school here. Granted it would take a tremendous turn of events and would require a couple of monumental upsets (@ Tech and @KU, and then a home game with OU) which have all the probability of happening as Sadaam passing a polygraph test, but hey, you can't blame me for hoping.

Kitso
KS 361 games A&M has played since it's last appearance in the NCAA tourney

It's great to have several Big XII teams up in the polls. I am waiting to see how we do against other conferences. Texas has been up and down, but seem to be playing well right now, as is KU and several others. Should be fun!!

Hey thanks, Kitso - I know how hard that must be for you to try and root for my Longhorns.

The postings have Marquette at 11.
I really don't understand how they do the ratings sometimes. Half of the teams all have the same 17-4 game.

Do they just go by whose uniforms look better?
Who has the cutest players?
Sounds like something I would do.

I'm just glad for Maryland's win though.


As for Arizona. . .no comment.

All I can say is 'Whoo-Hoo, Texas!!!!'
It's hard being from a state where everything they do is great, better, faster, bigger, etc. Win or lose. Up or down. So, you're forced to have to cheer for anyone who has something to do with Texas. I guess that's what you call state pride.

Jealousy will get you nowhere.:p

BASKETBALL BABY!!!!!
 

DUKE BLUE DEVILS!!! :D


Okay, I know! They haven't been doing well in the ACC. But I don't EVER - EVER - EVER root against Coach K. My mom raised me right! ;) (Somehow, they pull it out!) Plus, I almost am glad they are showing some faults going into March Madness! Makes the teams not worry as much...

OH...and ANYONE playing University of Kentucky! (I still love the game when Laettner made that last second basket for the win in '92! :p)

I'll chime about Women's Basketball.

Go LSU. The SEC has always been a tough conference. Tenn has always gone undefeated:rolleyes: But this season you guys are giving Pat a run for her money. I can't wait for Sunday. Now all ESPN has to do is televise it and I'll be a happy camper.

My other fav team.....La Tech. I was worried when you guys got a new head coach. I was worried for nothing as you all had gone undefeated once again in the WAC. Now if don't choke in the first round of the NCAA tourney like last year, all will be right in the world

GEAUX TIGERS!:D GO LADY TECHSTERS!:D

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ZTABullwinkle... I'm holding up a finger right now. Can you guess which one?
:D

By the way I loved the game last year when you guys played at Rupp. Who were you playing again? Oh thats right IU. And they beat you.....hmmm, yea that was a good night.

Until A&M's basketball team rises to prominence(HA) i'm gonna have to go to my old standby, the Duke Blue Devils.

I startin rootin for them when we lived in VA and i noticed that Coach K was my dad's long lost twin brother.

http://www.vladimirarts.com/Coach_K.jpg

I'll have to scan a pic of pops when i'm home this weekend to show y'all.

Kitso
KS 361 championships for Duke under Coach K!

Hey now, everyone knows that this year's IU-UK game was rigged. I mean, they were supposed to win that. Anyone who saw it knows it.
As for IU-U of L, well, I told my friends they were going to lose that one. I even skipped out on babysitting to go to that game. And that's something I never do.

As for Arizona Wildcats, where's good old Miles at anyway?

ZTABullwinkle

I see in your future: dissappointment, heartache, anger and disgust, low life scums, ignorant fools, domineering cro-magnons and, wait... what is this?? A pompous, untalented, hasbeen a$$hole, with whom you will be loyally devoted for all your life-

OH WAIT A MINUTE! That's just you watching the next Duke game... my bad!

And as for Laettner, that shot was the only reason he has a career, and even then, only because it was against U of K... no one would have cared if it had been, oh, say St. Louis or something.

I knew I was going to get a lot of ribbing for my choice of teams!! http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/laugh1.gif

I am pretty sure I know which finger it is. Am I getting a one finger salute??? J/K.

As ashmamed as I am to be admitting this, I used to have the biggest crush on Laettner. http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/kiss.gif But he turned out to be a BIG nobody!!! Yeah, he trashed talked his teammates and everything. (I really hate the NBA!!!) Plus, I really even began to believe the rumors that he was gay. I don't think I have ever seen him with a woman!

But it wasn't because of just that game, if you remember he also hit a last minute shot against Connecticuit that March madness!!

Thanks so much!! I knew there was a reason I loved Sigma Nus!!! http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/beerchug.gif
Many of the ones here at ODU have adopted me as there "big sis." Where in Virginia did you live? And why aren't you cheering for UVA, besides the fact that they aren't winning many games??

Meredith http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmili...re/elkgrin.gif

We spent about 6 years, in two different periods in Springfield, right by DC, and then about a year and a half in Richmond (When i was REAL young)

I grew up an A&M fan, cuz my dad went here, so during football season i already had my team. As for BB, i rememeber watching the NCAA's around the time of the Laettner shot and bein like, Dang, Duke's pretty good, and wow, Coach K looks like pops!

That, and i love the Cameron Crazies and from all i've heard Duke is a great school.

EDITED to add: Did ya catch the game last night against Maryland?? Awesome!!

Kitso
KS 361

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Anybody watching basketball tonight? I'm watching my Badgers versus Illinois . . . if we win this game we'll be Big Ten champions! :D Unfortunately I have papers and a test tomorrow and I'm already taking time off to watch "Sorority Life" at nine . . . I can't afford to get this distracted.

It's almost halftime and we're leading 29-24.

How are everybody else's teams doing?

Bah, Milwaukee has to sweep the Horizon League Championships in order to get a shot. Which more than likely means if they win on Saturday and Butler wins as well, they have to play @ Butler again. If that happens and they lose by two points because of a buzzer-beater I will go on a spree, and it won't be shopping.

But, I'll give it up to Butler, that's one hell of a team.

Screw Marquette, Dwayne who? :)

My LSU Lady Tigers finished 2nd in the conference this season. We went 11-3 and are something like 24-3 over all. Now it's on to the SEC tourney. We've got to kick major a$$ to get a number one seed in the big dance.

La Tech went undefeated in the WAC again. Now I'm just hoping that don't choke in the first round of the NCAA tourney like they did last year.

Go Big Blue!!!

Kentucky wins on Senior Night!! Final score was Kentucky 106-Vandy 44. Yes, that's a *62* point win.

It's been a great night of Basketball!! Whoo-hoo! Let's have some Gator Casserole on Saturday!

Christin

OKLAHOMA!!

Boomer Sooner! We're going back to the Final Four this year!

(That is...if we can win games away from home. But at home, we're at 37 and counting!)

GO UCONN

They're not having a great season...but if the cards fall right, they might play the first couple of rounds in Boston, which would be unreal.

Wisconsin over Illinois by 1!

Was anybody else watching this? It was insane! So good . . .

We're sole winners of the Big Ten for the first time since 1947. :D I saw all my friends rush the court.

Go Badgers!

Anyone coming down to NOLA for the Final Four??????

GO BIG BLUE!!!

The Cats just killed Vandy. We're going all the way this year!!!

Haha. Screw UConn :o) :p Was very happy when we beat you on Sunday!

LET'S GO PITT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We beat the crap out of Seton Hall tonight.

I was at the U of K game last night! SENIOR NIGHT! AWESOME! By the end of the game we were on the floor shaking hands with Estill, Boden, Tubby, all of them! Tayshaun Prince even showed up at half time!
Hell of a night!

We are going all the way. It was a massacre!

i can't believe you're not a cardinal fan
you live in red/white land


i'm watching memphis and houston right now

ha...ha....ha....so funny

pitt is sick, i'll give you that....i just don't know what the hell is wrong with my huskies, after losing yesterday too, they're going to have a tough road in the Big East tourney.

I was raised properly by my mama.

someone needs to beat arizona

I don't know about Indiana. I seen them on ESPN a couple of times and right now, they don't look so hot. Mike Davis needs to motivate the team quickly. Louisville has been playing great ( I love to see them beat the hell out of Cincinnati in the C-USA Tournement :mad: ) My Pick for the Final Four this year:

Louisville
Kentucky
Duke
Arizona

i'm so tired of mike davis the cry baby
i think he makes a great recruiter
but his coaching skills are kind of lacking

i'm not an arizona fan
and they look too 'NCAA Champ' this year