Sweet 16

[DancerHall Cat]

Tonight's games

Kansas -9 vs. SIU
A&M -3 vs. Memphis
OSU -5 vs. Tennessee
UCLA - 3 vs. Pitt

Who does everyone like either straight up or against the spread?

I'll take Kansas, Memphis, OSU and Pitt to both win and cover.

[ejacobson]

SIU to win
A&M to win
OSU to win
UCLA to win

[MeOW!]

Kansas, Texas A&M, Ohio State, UCLA

[BCPanther]

SIU
A&M
Tennessee
UCLA

[unigriff]

KU, A&M, UCLA, OSU!

then
KU over UCLA
A&M over OSU!

[SMK4UNI]

Kansas
Texas A&M
Tennessee
UCLA

[jman2004]

SIU to win (I still think Kansas looks vulnerable for some reason)
A&M to win
OSU to win (I think this will be VERY close, Tenn. is better than some may think)
UCLA to win

Then UCLA over SIU and OSU over A&M.

Keep going Bruins. Win me some moola!

[KCPanther22]

Kansas, A & M, OSU, & Pitt

I live in Big 12 country and have watched KU a lot this year, as they are the second team I root for after UNI. 2 months ago I would have picked SIU, but now KU looks strong. A & M and Pitt with both win because of their defense and OSU wins because of Oden this time.

[BCPanther]

SIU looks really strong right now. That D is really bothering them...

[Coachdags]

Final / 61-58 kansas....great effort by the salukis

[ubuntuCAT]

especially when SIU had a blatent goal tend not called and KU got 2 pts off a shot that came after the shot clock.
I know its not the sole reason but it sucks when those 4 pts would have made the game.

[Panthers to the Bone]

The 3 pointer with the foot on the line...that's only one point difference, but add that with the one point from the should have been 'and one', and the should have been negated lay in by KU after the shotclock. That's 4 points...and then there's the shot clock that should have been reset on the Mullins 'apparent' airball.

Those small things add up, and I'm sure there are things that could be said about 'what ifs' regarding SIU, but man, those things stand out to me. That was a fantastic game though. SIU represented the Valley well!

[jman2004]

Okay, this was really bothering me.

The announcers in the Memphis/Texas A&M game were really bothered at how the officials found 1.1 second to take off the clock at the end of the game. Did anyone else see this? They were complaining that it should've been a tenth of a second or two at most.

What they weren't realizing was that the second the ball was swatted to the court, the clock SHOULD'VE started. It landed in bounds, then bounced out of bounds and hit the scorers table. Technically, shouldn't the clock stop when the ball hits the scorers table? That was easily a second later. The announcers were going by when the on-court official blew his whistle which was way too early considering the ball hadn't "landed" out of bounds.

Anyone else see this? It drives me crazy when announcers do things like this when the truth was really obvious. Or . . . maybe I saw things totally wrong.

[JCPanthers]

Okay, this was really bothering me.

The announcers in the Memphis/Texas A&M game were really bothered at how the officials found 1.1 second to take off the clock at the end of the game. Did anyone else see this? They were complaining that it should've been a tenth of a second or two at most.

What they weren't realizing was that the second the ball was swatted to the court, the clock SHOULD'VE started. It landed in bounds, then bounced out of bounds and hit the scorers table. Technically, shouldn't the clock stop when the ball hits the scorers table? That was easily a second later. The announcers were going by when the on-court official blew his whistle which was way too early considering the ball hadn't "landed" out of bounds.

Anyone else see this? It drives me crazy when announcers do things like this when the truth was really obvious. Or . . . maybe I saw things totally wrong.

I totally agree with that Jman...BUT if you listen during the replay, the official blew his whistle BEFORE the ball hit the scorer's table. Techically they would have to go with the whistle, which they didn't do.

Bottom line is that the refs in the first two games tonight have NOT been very good.

[Jonsoup]

Let's go MEMPHIS BEAT FLA.