Which teams would you most/least like to play in the tournament?

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Irish Angel

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Top 5 teams you dont want to face in the tourney.(talented)
Top 5 you do want to face in the tourney.(slim chance of winning). Where do we sit?

I am not smart on college Bball but I am trying to learn, so I will sit back and watch the responses.
 
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Q question for Hat or whoever can tell me. How is ND and are they goin to make the tourney? I have also heard ND has a great player on it, who? Sorry girlfriend is a ND fan. Dont blast me VN we are family.LOL
 
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Notre Dame is 21-7 and they beat Bama by 20 early in the season when Bama wasa top 10 team. They've got a senior named Colin Falls who can hit a lot of threes.
 
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Teams that I don't want to face:
Memphis
Texas
Oklahoma State (if they make it)

Teams that I do want to face:
Butler (kick their @$$ like we should have the first time)
Ohio State (avenge loss)
North Carolina (try to avenge loss)
Kentucky (love to be the team to eliminate them)
Louisville (we owe them for the last 2 meetings)
Duke (easy win)
 
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If Duke wasn't an easy win against UNC, what makes you think they would be for us? You're forgetting that they are the best coached team in the country.
 
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johnnybravo said:
Teams that I don't want to face:
Memphis
Texas
Oklahoma State (if they make it)

Teams that I do want to face:
Butler (kick their @$$ like we should have the first time)
Ohio State (avenge loss)
North Carolina (try to avenge loss)
Kentucky (love to be the team to eliminate them)
Louisville (we owe them for the last 2 meetings)
Duke (easy win)
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I guess you're concerned with this 'payback' idea, but memphis and ok state shouldn't really concern you that much. Especially the latter given their weak play as of late and their reliance on basically 2 players.

Actually, after reading your whole post you seem entirely obsessed with the notion of 'payback', and as a good gambler knows: more money is lost on betting against streaks than anything else.

That kinda motivation only extends so far.
 
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UTLCA said:
If Duke wasn't an easy win against UNC, what makes you think they would be for us? You're forgetting that they are the best coached team in the country.
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Duke isn't the best coached team in the country. Duke isn't even the best coached team in North Carolina.
 
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That explains how a team with a serious talent and player deficit managed to contain the most explosive team in the country for 39 minutes. I think it is fair to say coach K is doing a better job coaching than Roy. This coming from a diehard UNC fan until I got into UT.
 
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Look at both teams' talent, and both teams' depth. How many people thought UNC was going to blow Duke out? Pretty much everyone. Did they? No.
 
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volfanbill said:
do you want to give reasoning or do you just want to say not fair and untrue?
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Not fair...not true.

What evidence do we have that Coach K is outcoaching Roy Williams?

Duke is ranked more than 10 spots behind UNC...Duke lost as many games in a row (4) as UNC has lost all year...Duke lost the head-to-head battle with UNC on its home floor...and Duke has the more experienced ball club.
 
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Jaytrain5 said:
Not fair...not true.

What evidence do we have that Coach K is outcoaching Roy Williams?

Duke is ranked more than 10 spots behind UNC...Duke lost as many games in a row (4) as UNC has lost all year...Duke lost the head-to-head battle with UNC on its home floor...and Duke has the more experienced ball club.
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You're ignoring what I've been saying, Coach K is doing more with less than Roy. UNC has a supremely more talented team than Duke and yet Duke still was in position to win the game. UNC should be ranked 1st or 2nd with the talent they have.

Also, Duke's team is not more experienced than UNC. It's actually the opposite. Of the 7 players Duke rotates regularly, they have 1 Jr., 3 Sophs, and 3 Freshmen.
Of ELEVEN players UNC rotates, they have 2 Sr., 1 Jr., 4 Sophs, and 4 Freshmen
 
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UTLCA said:
That explains how a team with a serious talent and player deficit managed to contain the most explosive team in the country for 39 minutes.
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Are we really supposed to buy the argument that Duke has a talent deficit? If so, I'd say Coach K has a serious scouting deficiency...Duke has the privilege of selecting which high school all-americans they award scholarships to. Duke reeled in the nation's #1 recruiting class in '05, and the '06 class was #5 according to CSTV. How can a team with back-to-back top 5 classes lack talent?
 
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UTLCA said:
You're ignoring what I've been saying, Coach K is doing more with less than Roy.
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I'm not ignoring it...I'm just not buying it.

I do agree that UNC has better basketball players than Duke does...I just don't agree that Coach K is outcoaching Roy Williams this year.
 
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They play 7 players to UNC's 11. Look at their players. I can't tell you why they have worse players but they do. Anyone can see that UNC has an incredible talent advantage.
 
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UTLCA said:
They play 7 players to UNC's 11. Look at their players. I can't tell you why they have worse players but they do. Anyone can see that UNC has an incredible talent advantage.
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That should be a credit to Roy Williams for getting his young players ready to compete and provide depth.
If you're playing 8 freshmen and sophomores, and you're winning the ACC, I'd say you've done a remarkable job of coaching.
 
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But if you look at the level of talent, I'd say Coach K sitting near the top of ACC is more of a remarkable job considering he plays 6 Sophs and Fresh that are just not that great. Roy has one of the best Freshman classes ever, those guys have more talent as Fr than a lot of seniors in the ACC, I'm not belittling Roy, I'm saying coach K has maybe his worst team at Duke in 15 years and they are still going to be ranked in the top 15.

I guess its the same debate surrounding the SEC coach of the yeark. Billy D. or AK.
 
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good job jaytrain. i'm not agreeing or disagreeing with anybody, i just can't stand it when someone only says "that's not true". give reasons why you think it's untrue.
 
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UTLCA said:
You're forgetting that they (Duke) are the best coached team in the country.
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Really? Besides BC and G-Town, who have they beaten this year? And how many McDonald's All-Americans did their coach have to work with?
 
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Recruiting is a part of coaching. If Coach K is facing a talent deficit right now, and Roy Williams is swimming in talent, I'd give the coaching edge to Williams. Besides, people on this board love to bash Fulmer for winning 9 games with top 5 recruiting classes. Why does Coach K get a pass when the McDonald's AA players he picks don't perform as well as the ones that Williams picks? And I don't want to hear about 7 in rotation vs 11 in rotation. If Coach K can't bring in more than 7 players capable of getting on the court, it's no one's fault but his own. If he was really out-coaching Williams, his 8-10 men would be like what Pearl does with Bradshaw and Childress. You take your less talented players and get them to contribute somehow.
 
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First&Tenn said:
Recruiting is a part of coaching. If Coach K is facing a talent deficit right now, and Roy Williams is swimming in talent, I'd give the coaching edge to Williams. Besides, people on this board love to bash Fulmer for winning 9 games with top 5 recruiting classes. Why does Coach K get a pass when the McDonald's AA players he picks don't perform as well as the ones that Williams picks? And I don't want to hear about 7 in rotation vs 11 in rotation. If Coach K can't bring in more than 7 players capable of getting on the court, it's no one's fault but his own. If he was really out-coaching Williams, his 8-10 men would be like what Pearl does with Bradshaw and Childress. You take your less talented players and get them to contribute somehow.
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boooya
 
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