NaturalHigh
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They gave me a pair of tix for the First Four games tomorrow night. I'm gonna be pulling hard for the Vols down there. Gotta rep my fellow SEC teams. Then its back to the Cats on Friday. The UK variety of Cats.
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bucknuticus
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You SEC peeps are weird.
It's kinda what happens when an entire region is universally derided.
I'm guessing you've never watched a college football game. Or at least not in the last decade.
theprodigy
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Wisconsin does not play in the first round
and it's not just football either
wtf?
bucknuticus
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Wisconsin does not play in the first round
Thursday/Friday is still the first round!!!!
Fuck what the NCAA says, and anyone who agrees with their 1st round is actually 2nd round shit can go play in traffic.
Grover Cleveland
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I know several ACC fans who root for all ACC teams in the tourney. Even Carolina fans that root for Duke and State fans who root for Carolina.
That's so weird to me.
That's so weird to me.
theprodigy
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but it's fun being pedantic about it
(yeah I know)
College Football 2014 |Week 1| You SEC peeps are weird.
Hasphat'sAnts
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Hard to root against this wolf pack team though. Even if Gottfried's a douche.
Ita not really a conference thing or a football thing or a basketball thing. It's a southern thing, a kinship. Like sticking up for family when an outsider is picking on them even though deep down you don't care much for them anyway.
bucknuticus
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I mean, it kinda is....
Grover Cleveland
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In general I'll root for State. They're like the scrappy, under appreciated little brothers who keep getting shit on by the big bullies from Chapel Hill.
UNC though? Hell naw
I haven't developed strong feelings either way about Cuse yet.
I don't dislike Virginia, but that style of basketball (Pacers style fuckball) hurts my eyes. The less of it I see, the better.
So... why don't fans of Georgia Tech, Clemson, Florida St, Louisville, etc etc cheer for SEC teams?
In the case of FSU/GT/Clemson- it might be because Fla/UGA/SCar cockblocked them out of the SEC.
Also, there's the same dislike you see between UNC/State.
Louisville/Kentucky dislike is probably on par with UNC/State, but slightly below Alabama/Auburn.
Really? I wish Sendek nothing but the best , at least his teams never outright sucked like Lowe's.
Meanwhile, we are out classing Xavier right now. No one can question our tourney credentials after this performance. The only thing that kept Xavier in the game was Warren missing shots.
theprodigy
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What's your tag a reference to?
Hasphat'sAnts
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NC State most love that high horse in powder blue.
Fats Thomas was all NC State doing the muck raking.
Fats Thomas was all NC State doing the muck raking.
I still like to call the round of 64 the first round.
The play-in games should be called the 'play-in round'.
Firstly, even if you're in the same conference you don't like the in-state rival. That takes precedence. Georgie Tech doesn't consider itself "southern" but there is some similar conference pride among the old ACC schools, probably for the same reason.
Also, anyone who tells you Louisville is southern is a dirty liar.
It probably also helps that 10 of the 14 current teams were founding members back in 1932, so there is a lot of familiarity there.
theprodigy
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Hey guys, let's place bets on what percentile Obama's bracket is gonna land on!
Unknown Soldier
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Hey guys, let's place bets on what percentile Obama's bracket is gonna land on!
What if Obama wins the $1 billion?
theprodigy
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then prepare for the wildest accusations to be thrown from Fox News
anyway, random point: if Wichita State were to advance to the Elite 8, would you guys pick them to win their next game and make the Final Four?
Creighton and ISU are the only ones I actually feel comfortable with at the moment.
Hopefully McDermott just goes nuts to end his college career. Don't see them winning it all, but I can see him carrying them to the FF.
I have the same thing but with Michigan State. I'm really uncomfortable with the whole bracket this year really.
I had MSU, but then saw like 5 dudes on ESPN pick them while I was working. Figured it was a jinx and switched to to ISU :lol
Both teams are coming off nice conference tourney performances so I dunno. Will probably just stick with ISU.
On gaming side, they would call them casuals
ZQQLANDER
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Hey guys, let's place bets on what percentile Obama's bracket is gonna land on!
Does this bother anyone else? The President showing his bracket on TV every year really grinds my gears.
Edit: I like his final four though. 3/4 coincide with my own.
Yeah
Pulled for Duke on twice in my life of 39years. In the last bowl game and against Kentucky. We were cheering on UVA in the tourney.
Not really. Out of pure curiosity, why does it bother you?
ZQQLANDER
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It just seems like he could be doing something more productive with his time. I mean filling out a bracket, yeah sure whatever. Doing a segment for ESPN....maybe not. I guess its not the action itself its more of the impression it gives to other countries that we aren't taking foreign policy issues involving their country seriously. But hey, I guess if this provides a good break from the presidential grind so be it.
Same.
It's funny how this works - hard to argue against picking top seeds from going deep, but you always know there's going to be some 6-11 seed in the Elite Eight. Teams like Arizona and Florida seem like sure bets for the FF, yet I wouldn't be surprised if neither made it.
Bring on the madness!
Outdoor Miner
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So what was the easiest "upset" call to make on your brackets?
I think for me Nebraska 11 over Baylor 6 was a no brainer.
Edit - Flipped the seedings lol
I think for me Nebraska 11 over Baylor 6 was a no brainer.
Edit - Flipped the seedings lol
If it happens, the game that will wreck a thousand brackets. It's the one I keep flip flopping on.
I feel pretty confident in NC State over SLU and Harvard over Cincy.
I can't wait. I'm so pumped.
theprodigy
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Since apparently nobody answered:
because it seems most are picking them to lose to Louisville.
because it seems most are picking them to lose to Louisville.
Duke/Michigan fans are prohibited from answering this question
Outdoor Miner
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My sleeper pick is UConn. Only have them going to the Elite Eight, but I think they are going to wreck some brackets.
I don't have them facing Louisville...
I don't have them facing Louisville...
ZQQLANDER
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Agreed. Although NC State over St. Louis is up there as well.
Harvard over Cincy, Nebraska over Baylor I feel fairly confident about.
my big ones are WMU over Syracuse, NDSU over Oklahoma, S.F. Austin over VCU, Iowa/Tennessee over UMass.
I'm not quite sure why I chose Cuse getting upset, but I have a feeling.
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