National Championship Game thread
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Not a conspiracy to control a winner or exact score because that's impossible. But general flow and direction of the game is manipulated. Calls made when runs start to slow the game. Whistles let go to speed up the game. 1 team's best players get into foul trouble so the other teams players pick up ticky tacky fouls to level the playing field. Past due on a TV timeout, you can bet on a phantom foul. If you can't see that you're blind. You think it's coincidence why when one team reaches the bonus there can be 3-4 quick fouls that get the other team into the bonus as well?
Dude, just add UNC to your laundry list of frontrunner teams you already pull for. Problem solved.
Few was terrible and Goss played hero ball.
Refs suck, Zags suck, The UNC fans in Indy at the NCAA headquarters suck.
Refs suck, Zags suck, The UNC fans in Indy at the NCAA headquarters suck.
You didn't watch the way the second half started, by chance? Incompetence doesn't come close to explaining the way games have been called in the tournament. Especially when UNC was playing.
If it's one game then sure maybe, two games and it's awfully suspicious. When it's 4 out of 5 then what the hell do you call it?
The refs bookended the game not noticing the 280 lb man out of bounds.
Never seen a championship team miss so many free throws to end game after game and still keep winning. Lots fishy
With the way these games were called, I do not believe the 2012 or 2015 cats would have won today. We'd have had our star players on the bench all game.
I'm not really hung up on the fact that this team should have been ineligible due to probation for something that happened before they arrived on campus. That's a weird argument for causation.
I'm pissed about Ole Roy's other two titles when the players should have been ineligible due to systematic academic fraud. The NCAA hasn't exonerated them, so they better not drop the ball.
I'm pissed about Ole Roy's other two titles when the players should have been ineligible due to systematic academic fraud. The NCAA hasn't exonerated them, so they better not drop the ball.
Well, I'm a little sore at the fact that UNC's $18million defense to prove innocence in this case bought them an extension before NCAA sanctions could be levied, allowing what we saw tonight to transpire. I mean, there is that.
past transgressions are punished with current sanctions, that's the way they've always done it, UNC should be no different
That's fair. Kentucky was the only team to match them in will to win. Of course, that's what Cal specializes in.....
I never get that phrase to begin with that one team just wanted it more. How can you measure that? I guarantee you if you asked the Zags if UNC wanted it more, they would disagree with you. Do you think NKU wanted it more than UK? Maybe but maybe not. Sometimes its just best to say one team had the better outcome. I think it is a slap in the face to say one team wanted it more than another.
Res ipsa. Proof is in the pudding. Four games in a row the contest came down to the wire, the victory was there for the taking, and in each case Carolina made the plays necessary to win the game. Will to win. Mental toughness. A hard out, a tough out. Whatever you want to call it. Oregon battled for 39:55, but not the last 5 seconds. Kentucky fans should know about the phenomenon instinctively by now - its Calipari's calling card. It's what he installs in the team every year, or tries to.
So would you say that the UK team that lost to Laetner wanted it less than Duke did? I would say no! The phrase is just a bad phrase and wrong to say.
No, wouldn't say that about that game. Not every game falls that way, where you can say the winner "wanted it more." It's fairly rare.
Hate to say it, but it's possible.
UNC's players have been there for 3 or 4 years and had a title in the bag last year before Jenkins ripped their hearts out.
Fox is just a freshman with a huge NBA career ahead of him that is a bigger deal than a college game.
Plus, UK had 7 or 8 other players beyond Fox that are young and might not fully understand the moment.
I think UK, given their youth, did a phenomenal job in the tournament though, winning on that stage with a young team is ridiculously hard simply because it's all new to them.
Hate to say it, but it's possible.
UNC's players have been there for 3 or 4 years and had a title in the bag last year before Jenkins ripped their hearts out.
Fox is just a freshman with a huge NBA career ahead of him that is a bigger deal than a college game.
Plus, UK had 7 or 8 other players beyond Fox that are young and might not fully understand the moment.
I think UK, given their youth, did a phenomenal job in the tournament though, winning on that stage with a young team is ridiculously hard simply because it's all new to them.
Hate to say it, but it's possible.
UNC's players have been there for 3 or 4 years and had a title in the bag last year before Jenkins ripped their hearts out.
Fox is just a freshman with a huge NBA career ahead of him that is a bigger deal than a college game.
Plus, UK had 7 or 8 other players beyond Fox that are young and might not fully understand the moment.
I think UK, given their youth, did a phenomenal job in the tournament though, winning on that stage with a young team is ridiculously hard simply because it's all new to them.
Hate to say it, but it's possible.
UNC's players have been there for 3 or 4 years and had a title in the bag last year before Jenkins ripped their hearts out.
Fox is just a freshman with a huge NBA career ahead of him that is a bigger deal than a college game.
Plus, UK had 7 or 8 other players beyond Fox that are young and might not fully understand the moment.
I think UK, given their youth, did a phenomenal job in the tournament though, winning on that stage with a young team is ridiculously hard simply because it's all new to them.
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