The Road to Indy

tough day------but we showed the critics that Purdue can do it!!

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CORNELL

WASH

BUTLER -Surprisingly this will be CUSE toughest game. BUTLER presents a lot of match-up problems here...

XAV

MICH ST

TENN

BAY

PURDUE

I agreed with the butler game as being a matchup problem for cuse.  Butler inside game will create problems more so than the perimeters.

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I'll tell ya what. Butler better hope that their perimeter game causes problems for Syracuse. Because if you're under the impression that Butlers interior even remotely resembles Gonzagas trees, which I might add are very athletic for big men, then you are sadly mistaken. SU just dismantled the inside out game of the Zags. If they aren't droppin some from outside the arc they'll never loosen up that two three zone. The key is the perimeter. And that aint easy with the three the cuse rotate in and out. 

The interior has nothing to do with the match-ups I am talking about.

Quote Originally Posted by sinnet11:

please explain??

I'm kinda curious myself. Not that their isn't a good argument for the matchup problem but I just don't see it. Then again I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer so there probably is a valid argument for UNC's statement. We shall see !

I don't see that happening...Butler better be red hot from outside or they are trouble...in my opinion, Butler is at a huge disadvantage on the inside against Cuse  

Syracuse 88 Butler 70

Kansas St 81 Xavier 67

West Virgina 73 Washington 70

Duke 79 Purdue 60

Ohio St 67 Tenn 62

Quote Originally Posted by mikie531:

 unc like anything tonite?

I was going to play UCONN, MARSHALL, and CRE but trying my best to stay away from these tourneys....

This Butler game will not be close...people you are comparing Apples and brown Banana's here.....this game will not be close I promise you.

Either will the Duke/Purdue game......

Even though I have Baylor in my final 4 they are a lazy lazy team who better bring it if they are going to beat a St. Mary's team who will show up to play the biggest game in their schools history. Momentum is on their side and they remind me a whole lot of the George Mason team that made the final four a few years ago.....

Kentucky/Cornell will be an interesting matchup..personally I don't see Cornell within 15 points of them in the end...too much NBA talent wearing blue and white....take nothing from any regular season game..this group knew all along this is nothing more then a 5 game season before going pro......

Kansas St is also for real...too much depth too much experience...that Xavier/Pitt game was one of the worst played games I watched this season...clang clang clang and then Xavier hits a circus shot and its back to clang clang clang...I had Xavier in my sweet 16 but don't get sucker'd into thinking they can play with the 3rd best team left in this tournament.

West Virgina/Washington....Beyond Baylor getting beat this is your best chance at an upset...5 points is way too much to give up for a team that stuggles to score 70 points on any given night against a team that can score 85 on just about anyone. Washington much like Kentucky knew that the Pac 10 was a joke and it was all about a 5 game season for them. They are much more talented then the lazy regular season efforts show...the only thing that stops them from covering or winning this game is where it is being played...WV knows the building and will be comfortable...

once again, going against UK will be the popular "i'm going to outsmart the book" play

saw how that worked last week. UK destroys Cornell.

Cornell will put up a much better fight then Wake Forest...when I saw that Kentucky/Wake Line under 10 last weekend I walked bearfoot accross the country and through the desert to hammer the hell out of the Wildcats...big joke in history.......Wake Forst shoots about 39% 2/3rds of the time and they were going to hang against a team with 4 first round picks on the floor....oh boy oh boy....

But yes Cornell is in a very bad spot...but are better then that Wake Forest team....I'll argue that at the start of the tournament Wake and Texas were the two worst major conference schools in the tournament...had they not been playing each other they each would have lost by 20 in round one.

Are you trying to make yourself look like a genious because I dont cap games that way...

Sorry UNC this one has me worked up...I cringed on Saturday watching you play Wake Forest and people following suit on something that was so apparent...

You gotta explain this one to me...How do you have Butler having a chance in this Syracuse game....You were all abord the UTEP train on Thursday...I'm guessing you figured size would beat speed? I was curious about the outcome myself...in the end I took Butler against a team who gave up their conference tournament title by blowing a DD leaf in the last 10 mins....then were off to round two...you took Murray St...so did I...great play...that games gets replayed 9 more times on the same stage under the same circumstances and Murray St hits a couple more of those wide open jump shots they bricked and with 7 of the 9 times.

Now Butler plays against a Syracuse team with NBA talent(so we know they are going to consistently hit 48-50% of their jumpshots) and your thinking about betting against them. You played against them in two straight games against lesser teams and watched them look bad doing it...

Have a look at the tournament teams Syracuse played from outside their conference this year...I think their avg winning margin was 12 against those teams...they beat Cornell by 15.

One glaring difference between these two clubs is their turnover efficiency on the defensive end of the floor. Kansas St. ranks 7th best in the country in causing turnovers while Xavier ranks 7th worst in that category. Believe in the power of the turnover ! When you have it more than the other guy your chances of winning go way up. Xavier is in a tough spot here !