2008 ncaa tournament – Rush The Court

The RTC Podblast: Billion Dollar Predictions Edition

rtmsf — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 02:15:41 +0000

We know you’ve been anxiously awaiting it, so here goes. The RTC Podblast is back, just in time for you to fill out your final bracket — the one that you’ve been secretly stashing away all week for the cool billion — with predictions about which teams are heading to the Elite Eight and beyond. Go ahead and pick your own upsets in the first three rounds — the real points are earned in the latter stages of the Tournament, and we’ve got you covered there. This season’s theme — believe in the teams you’ve always believed in, reject those [...]

Rushed Reaction: #3 Baylor 75, #10 Xavier 70

KDoyle — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:28:48 +0000

Three Key Takeaways.

Baylor’s Defense Was Tough. Yes, you read that correctly. After being scrutinized and maligned for much of the season, especially during Big 12 play, Baylor’s stout defense made life difficult for Tu Holloway and Mark Lyons all night. Although the two scored in bunches in the final minutes — when the bulk of the scoring was done — that would prove to be too little, too late. Scott Drew elected to play man-to-man defense for much of the game, and threw in the zone defense sparingly. More than anything though, it was the sheer length, athleticism, and speed [...]

Second Round Wrap

rtmsf — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:29:55 +0000

Saturday 3/22 – Round 2

Day three of the Tourney continued on the same track as the second day, with two upsets by the numbers as well as two classics involving Pac-10 teams. Our new favorite player is West Virginia’s Joe Alexander, in part for these comments:

When Joe Alexander, the Mountaineers’ star forward, was informed that Duke had eight McDonald’s All-Americans, his response was “Who?” When reserve Cam Thoroughman was informed that Duke point guard Greg Paulus was one of them, he said, “Oh my God. Are you kidding?”

West Virginia 73, Duke 67. It irritates [...]

It’s finally here!

nvr1983 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:44:36 +0000

After spending the last couple of days creating previews for the regions, we’re ready for the big day. We’ll be watching basketball pretty much all day (with the small exception of a short rehab trip so we can move our knee since we have to run the Boston Marathon in about a month). We are going to try to post updates as often as possible and eventually try to get a chatroom setup if possible. We’ll leave you with some interesting links and predictions that we have seen over the past couple of days, but were too busy to post.

Before we [...]

First Round Schedule

nvr1983 — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:54:45 +0000

I’m working on putting together a first-round analysis along with regional previews, but you might want to take a look at the schedule for the games on Thursday and Friday. All times are EST.

Thursday 12:20 PM #14 Georgia vs. #3 Xavier (West – Washington, DC) 12:25 PM #16 Portland State vs. #1 Kansas (Midwest – Omaha, NE) 12:30 PM #12 Temple vs. #5 Michigan State (South – Denver, CO)

2:30 PM #11 Kentucky vs. #6 Marquette (South – Anaheim, CA) 2:50 PM #11 Baylor vs.#6 Purdue (West – Washington, DC) 2:55 PM #9 Kent State vs. #8 UNLV (Midwest – Omaha, NE) 3:00 PM #13 Oral Roberts vs. #4 Pittsburgh (South [...]

NCAA Selection Show: Live blog

nvr1983 — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:06:17 +0000

The show is here on CBS. I have never tried a live blog before (rtmsf did once), but I might try it for some of the games this year so I’m going to try this as a test run to try to work the kinks out.

6:57 PM: Both CBS guys go with UCLA to win it all. Kellogg goes with 3 #5s and a #7 as his sleeper. Davis goes with a 6 (USC), 10, 11, and 12. I didn’t catch all the names because I was trying to process it and type this at the same time. Hard to imagine [...]