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Hilarious thread from our friends in Syracuse

If you have a couple of minutes, read this thread from Syracusefan that ran during our Miami game. It starts off with venom, mudslinging and pure disparagement toward Villanova, Jay Wright and Arch and ends with total capitulation that Villanova is the real deal. It's amazing how much Syracuse fans dislike Arch. Why? This is the school that produced Devendorf!

We beat two ACC teams tonight: Miami and Syracuse.

http://syracusefan.com/threads/miami-vs-villanova.102559/

8:49 tip on Saturday

Amazingly, there were only 44 total rebounds up for grabs tonight, as the two teams shot a combined 59.8%. Over the course of the season, our games had an average of 75 rebounds collected.

As Jim Larranaga said in his postame presser, the type of shooting that was on display tonight was an anomaly. There was nothing that the defense can do, about some of the shots that were going in, from Jenkins and Arch in particular. That's over 55% shooting from the Cats in 5 straight halves. Just amazing offensive efficiency. Two-pointers, three-pointers, foul shots. They're playing their best ball at the right time.

We're going to need to shoot at a +40% clip from deep again on Saturday, to take down the Jayhawks. GO CATS
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quote from Larranaga

Miami coach Jim Larranaga on Villanova shooting 62% from the floor and 10-15 from 3-point range:

"They're such an incredible offensive team we had no way of stopping them."

Think about that for a moment. A very good/great head coach with a great team, and very good athletic players in the sweet 16 couldn't stop us. This reminds me of the quote that Ricky Pitino said years ago "Villanova made a mockery of whatever we tried to do on defense."

Mikey and the Duke boys

Get to eat some crow. His press conference , albeit and answer to a stupid question was vulgar an non Catholic. I understand Duke has unprecedented success , just not when they have been seeded out west , question was asked he acted like a petulant 20 year old and then got his ass kicked. His point very valid is how does the failures of a Duke team seeded in the west bracket have anything to do with this Duke squad? Legitimate question just don't act like a stroke and then get run

Maryland v. Kansas

Both teams are very long. But it is a sloppy game. Guard play doesn't seem to be a strength on either end.

If KU wins, who defends Perry Ellis? Do we match up better with either team?

Kansas is a good team, but doesn't seem to be the same type of dominant squad they were in 2008 when we lost to them in the NCAA's.

They've never played better

Miami just had no answers once we busted them out of their pack line defense. Ochefu silenced all critics who said he can't go against other big men his size. Our zone....OUR ZONE!....my god who'd have thought we would shut down anyone with our zone? Amazing.

The game was over as soon as Arch dropped 13 in the first 8. Talk about focused!
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Came across this, and first of all, as much as I love to win, I hate to see good players and good coaches lose and end their season/career like this. Second, what kind of questions are these guys asking? I mean, you have two seniors who have had great careers, and you choose to just ask them questions that basically come out to "you guys got the crap beat out of you, how does that feel?" I feel for the kids. Two great players who played great games, if they had beaten us I would have rooted for them all the way.

Top 5

Season ticket holder since 1972...all things considered. ..such as
...quality of opponent. ...importance of game...without question..not debatable.
One of the top 5 performances in VUHistory.....
In no particular order. .GtOWN 1985...PITT 2009...WESTERN KENTUCKY 1971...
UCONN W/FOYE...RAY ...KYLE...BEATING UCONN IN NYC...BIGEAST..1995
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Elite Eight Omen?

My wife and I are fortunate enough to own a condo on Grand Cayman Island. We don't get down there too often, especially during the college BB season. In fact, the only Game I ever watched while we were down there was the Pitt Elite Eight game in 2009. Guess where we're going Saturday morning?

We should arrive at least an hour before the first game Sat night.

Go Cats!
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