"Survivors" by conference (bolded conferences remain undefeated)

ACC: 6 bids - 6 remaining (ND, UNC, Duke, NCSt, L'Ville, UVA)[/B]
Big Ten: 7 bids - 4 remain (MD, Iowa, Mich St, Wisc)
Big East: 6 - 1 (Xavier)
Pac-12: 4 - 4 (Ore, Az, UCLA, Utah)
Big 12: 7 - 3 (WVU, KU, OK)
SEC: 5 - 1 (KY)
MVC: 2 - 2 (Wich St, N. Iowa)
A-10: 3 - 1 (Day)
Mt West: 3 - 1 (SDSU)
American: 2 - 0
WCC: 2 - 1 (Zags)
Other: 21 - 0
This post was edited on 3/22 12:26 AM by ericw

Down only two at half

This was not Wichita State Kentucky last year where haymakers were being exchanged and WSU just came up short. That team just ran into a buzz saw.

NC State did not play out of its mind. Solid, sure. But we simply didn't step into the ring. For the second straight year, we got punked. Tired of hearing about size. It is as much about attitude.

Five minutes into the game and all it took was a couple missed bunnies to make us play completely out of character.

As some mentioned on the board, Jay seemed in a haze in the halftime interview. Very strange how he has struggled in March as his first few teams at Nova in the tourney really played well. He has shown he can do it.

I have no problem losing playing our game. But that simply has not been the case.

This post was edited on 3/21 11:09 PM by Kittles93-tc

Now, don't get me wrong - I'm having a great time with March Madness. Last night I was at Gramercy Ale House and did plenty of celebrating after.

But I saw some stats which basically confirms that the NBA is just as good if not better than ever (IMO) and wanted to get some feedback. See the link:

Basically, if you look at Offensive Rating (points scored per 100 posessions) league wide over the years, defense is actually tougher now than it was in the 90s. The early 2000s were actually the peak of defensive play. I bring this up because of the constant claims that Jordan had it harder and would somehow score more points today even though the numbers strongly disagree with that. Just because guys were more physical doesn't mean they were superior defenders. You can be much more effective on defense by knowing which shoulder a post player prefers to turn towards than being a goon who just bruises you.

Another interesting state is the changes in FG% vs. eFG%. eFG% basically takes into account that 3 pointers are worth 50% more and assigns them the proper value in terms of cost/benefit. FG% has decreased over the past 20 years but eFG% has been generally higher over the past 7-8 years (when the NBA started to become good again imo).

3 Point Attempts per game by team increased from 2.3 in 1982, to 9.9 in 1994, and then made a huge jump to 15.5 in 1995, and then essentially leveled out until (once again 7-8 years ago when NBA started to become good again) 2007-08 when it rose to 18.1 and has increased since to 22.4 this year. Basically, teams are playing better defense than they have in 35 years, but players who are able to get open looks (through impressive ball movement typically) are more efficient than ever before and doing it from the spots on the court that capitalize upon these opportunities the most.


You can definitely see that Nova has drawn inspiration from Golden State. I know Barkley said Atlanta, but I think he was saying that as a reflection of the lack of household names. Barkley also watches more highlights than games it seems. We are definitely more GSW. Constant ball motion, stifling D, and a coach who brings out the best in his guys.


http://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_stats.html

when you choke year in and year out in the tournament.

no more "one and Dunphy" jokes when you're coached by Jay Wright,Mr. Tight

Doug Gottleib was 100% right!

The seniors did not disappoint and should hold their heads up.

The Junior class could not have sh*t the bed any more.

Onto to baseball

Dropped 30 in his team's State Championship win

The big east will he bashed and trashed all next year with nobody watching and we have done everything we can to help the mid major label. Really gets me discouraged.

To be the big fish in a little pond has amounted to two early exits, and when butler goes down to ND in about two hrs, that will leave X.....who was gifted by a lower then mid major pulling an upset in the first round, less they would be gone as well........
The NBE is the little pond......

Anyone who watched us tonight knew it, the guys played tight for 40 minutes. They were playing not to lose.

I've been thinking about this second tourney game game all season long, and how we just needed to get over the hump. My question is, how do you avoid that frame of mind? The tightness? Is it preparation? Is it on the coaches? Is it on the individual players?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eBYLTnI1po



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eBYLTnI1po

did this just drop us from some kids lists?...or is it the reverse,them thinking they could have finished at the rim?or made that three ball (which will haunt me for a long time,why not DH ?)

My daughter's team won the Connecticut Class M Girls Basketball State Championship today at Mohegan Sun. They caught on fire the five games in the tournament and won some games they easily could have lost. Nova wins 16 straight including the BET.

Life isn't that good - came down crashing today.

Sun will come up tomorrow. Coaching my little one in the finals of the Connecticut Hoopfest and the madness starts again. Life goes on and we all do our things tomorrow - pain is severe, but we won the BET and have two studs fueling the next generation of our program in Jalen and Spellman...

Don't listen to the pundits - all three on CBS picked Nova - Kellogg, Barkley and Kenny - tonight and all were wrong. They know as much as we do - or less. We blew layups early. They played very tough. We got knocked off our horse a bit. It happens.

This team entertained us for four amazing months. It all came crashing down today. Jalen joins the party in 2 months and the beat goes on!

Highlights:


Villanova: "......They looked timid and tentative, a team more afraid to lose than one searching for a win. "

"This wasn't really that complicated for N.C. State. A team with guards every bit as quick and just as good as shooters as the Wildcats have matched Nova toe to toe in the backcourt and exposed Villanova's major weakness -- its frontcourt. Mixing Lennard Freeman and BeeJay Anya, the Wolfpack ate up Villanova's interior game to the tune of 34 points in the paint to just 14 for the Wildcats. Abu was the real star, finishing with 13 points and 12 rebounds."

"Ball don't lie? Numbers don't either. Villanova's were horrendous everywhere. One of the best 3-point shooting teams in the country finished 5 of 16 from behind the arc."



http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/105528/five-observations-nc-state-upsets-villanova


http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/105528/five-observations-nc-state-upsets-villanova

Lousy as we feel,I can't imagine what the kids are going through.

Hilliard was lost for much of the second half but damn did he try to put us on his back. Really going to miss this guy. I honestly did not expect him to turn out to be as great of a player that he did. Good luck to him and Pinky with their futures.

So tired of hearing about how great he is... Doesn't belong on the same court as guys like Foye or Lowry and he gets torched against those kind of athletic guards. Granted this is a reaction post but man is he overrated...

BET championship for Sweet 16?

I think an underachieving regular season as a dangerous six seed is what is in order. I feel tonight pretty much erases doubt that we struggle as the hunted. All past disappointments have had a caveat. The Reynolds senior year team played no D. The team last year looked bad in BET and first round vs UW Milwaukee.

This team was firing on all cylinders. BET title and a beautiful first round performance. Then we come out tonight and within five minutes we are playing out of sorts.

Seeing those ND fans everywhere while we lost makes me want Butler to win even more.
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What was our effort tonite?

Think this is 1st game under 10 in a long
time

Even though Nova got killed on the boards........got destroyed inside on offense and defense.........shot terrible from the arc.......only had 5 TO's. So, you can say N C State didn't win the game, Nova lost it in grand fashion. As poorly as they played, with 30 secs left, they had a decent shot to win or tie the game.
The most obvious malfunction was the play of Daniel Ochefu.......he missed at least 4 layups/dunks, and was invisible on defense. Jay got him out as much as possible, but, getting hammered on the boards (they had 18 offensive boards), he had to put him on the court. And giving some credit to NC State, they took Arch, Hart & Ennis out of the game. Such an abrupt end to the most promising season is hard to swallow; the 33 wins won't be remembered nearly as much as the 2nd round loss to an 8 seed.

This post was edited on 3/21 10:31 PM by Mainliner II

Did Jay forget he was going offense defense? Loss not on Jay as I felt the players did not perform. But this was his one odd move.

This post was edited on 3/21 9:50 PM by Kittles93-tc

Start game now !

As it turns out, we would have been much better off losing the BET final and getting a 2 seed instead of a 1. We couldn't handle the pressure of being a one seed. We managed to fulfill all of the predictions of the "experts" out there who said we would be the first #1 out of the tournament. Very embarrassing for our program and the conference. When the conference's best team, by a pretty wide margin, loses to the seventh best team in the ACC, that speaks volumes.

Thanks to Jay and the players for a great year of basketball, I will see you all at the BB banquet, Tough loss tonight but life and times go on, Breathe, Be proud of all the joy you gave us and all you accomlished,