Okay, here’s a link to another place that is streaming the game.
I have to help work the liveblog of all NCAA action over at FanHouse. Feel free to stop on by.
Speaking of Dixon, where is Jermaine? Doing nothing.
Hail to PITT!
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Kudos to ETSU, but we better get our head out of our ass. I’d like to get some revenge on OSU for 2004.
WVU losing to Dayton.
Pitt shot well from free throw line–that was key.
West Virginia blew it. Dayton is always tough but the ‘Neers just messed up the Big East’s perfect record. Shame on me for thinking WVU would get hot and win a few games.
OKST is going to be a tough game. I have no clue what Pitt team will show up on Sunday.
In the first half we couldn’t pull away because of an abundance of dumb turnovers (something we’re actually known for doing the extreme opposite of).
In the 2nd half we couldn’t pull away because we were inexplicably outrebounded (once again, something we’re known for doing the extreme opposite of).
Also, the three point shooting hasn’t been so hot the last two games and there was some sloppy shots and shot selection.
They looked kind of normal again in the last couple of minutes I guess. So maybe they just needed to get their heads out of their asses.
But if Fields is hurting bad, and that’s why we were off today and not just a flukey “bad day” (which I also blamed the WVU loss on), then I really don’t see us doing much from here on out.
Ontario, my screen say that Sam got 13 rebounds, went 4 for 4 behind the arc and scored 14 points. I couldn’t watch the game so I can’t form a judgment on how well he played. In your opinion, would Sam’s replacement have made a greater contribution?
Typical Pitt NCAA performance. Everyone completely craps their pants and looks like they never played basketball before. Luckily, DeJuan Blair is on the team and someone finally stepped up for Pitt in an NCAA game – granted it was not the Sweet 16, it was an opening round against a 16 seed that shot about 10% from the field.
Maybe a team that looks like it has played basketball will play the next round because if this same team shows up they might as well call it at halftime.
At least Dixon, Wanamaker & Biggs will be fresh next game.
Didn’t Ohio State come back from being way behind against a rinky dink team early on in the tournament before advancing to the championship game against Forida a few years ago?
At least not shooting wise.
They couldn’t hit shots, and they couldn’t hit free throws.
We didn’t even get their best shot (pun kind of intended).
Watch out when we play an actual GOOD team that presses.
I wouldn’t call them totally rinky dink, but I believe they were losing by a lot to Xavier I think and wound up having to beat them on something crazy like a 3 pointer by Greg Oden (that can’t be right… but that’s who I swear I remember making it)!!!!
That Ohio State team, however, did NOT win a championship, but they didn’t wind up being too bad.
We at least learned one thing: Blair can beat an entire, lower-level D1 team by himself.
It was 1 Ohio State vs 9 Xavier in the 2nd round of the 07 tourney. Some jobber named Ron Lewis hit a 3 at the end of regulation to send it to overtime. I have no idea why for some reason I remembered Greg Oden making a miracle three in that game, I need to lay off the booze.
Anyways, OSU wound up winning it in overtime by like 7 or 8.
Ohio State wound up losing to Florida in the finals that year.
People in Columbus must really hate Gainesville.
I forgot about that one.
They really lived on the edge that year.
Sam Young’s facial expressions didn’t impact the other division 1 basketball players on his team’s ability to rebound and take care of the ball. This kind of psycho-babble nonsense is what women and people who have never played basketball and/or don’t understand what’s going on want to talk about because they don’t know any better.
If you had to quantify it, how many points did the faces Sam Young was making cost them this game? And who did his body language most impact?
Are there players who are more likely to play poorly when Young doesn’t cheer for them? If so, who is most impacted and how much worse does his lack of overt cheering make them?
Also, how is a player whose own performance this dependent on Sam Young’s cheerleading capable of playing in enviroments with hostile crowds?