Will Gonzaga finally win it this year? (school, bill)

[rantiquity]

Originally Posted by the_crossen

Naw they won't. Go Buckeyes!!

Yea..the buckeyes will be going but not any further in the NCAA tournament.


Little old Oral Roberts took them behind the wood shed and spanked them good.

[wolfdog]

I thought NSU would give the Zags more of a game.
Impressed with the Zags. Everyone shoots...and scores. But I'd like to see them against a good zone.

PAC12 is perfect.

[pnwguy2]

Except Oregon. Cancelled game due to covid. Not sure how this will work in the tournament. How do you handle this in a win or go home situation?

Edit: Ducks move on as the covid situation was with opposing team. Hmm, didn’t the OR football team win the Pac 12 championship for the same reason? WA actually won it but couldn’t suit enough players. I just want this thing to go away. Get vaccinated everyone!

[wolfdog]

Originally Posted by pnwguy2

Except Oregon. Cancelled game due to covid. Not sure how this will work in the tournament. How do you handle this in a win or go home situation?

Edit: Ducks move on as the covid situation was with opposing team. Hmm, didn’t the OR football team win the Pac 12 championship for the same reason? WA actually won it but couldn’t suit enough players. I just want this thing to go away. Get vaccinated everyone!

More Duck luck. They also won the PAC12 football title, by Udub's default.

[elkotronics]

Opportunistic Ducks, eh? I watched the Zags destroy Norfolk State last night and that was my first look at Gonzaga this season. I'd call them well-coached, disciplined and aggressive on the boards, especially on offense. They shoot well and release their shots quickly.

Fine, fine team. Watching the Final 64's gonna be fun in '21!

Go Zags!

[rantiquity]

It was of no fault of the Oregon Ducks that Virginia Commonwealth couldn't control their players getting the Wuhan virus.
The NCAA tournament rules stated that any team that contacted the virus would forfeit.
I doubt even if VCU played the Ducks the outcome would have been any different. Oregon would have moved on to the second round.

[rantiquity]

Originally Posted by elkotronics

Opportunistic Ducks, eh? I watched the Zags destroy Norfolk State last night and that was my first look at Gonzaga this season. I'd call them well-coached, disciplined and aggressive on the boards, especially on offense. They shoot well and release their shots quickly.

Fine, fine team. Watching the Final 64's gonna be fun in '21!

Go Zags!

After watching the Zags literal destroy Norfolk State 98-55 and watching Gonzaga all season I was not surprised by this outcome.
Even with a slow start in the game which was kind of expected considering the eleven day layoff Gonzaga turned a close start into romp by half time leading by 20.

On to play #8 Oklahoma in the second round on Monday.

[wolfdog]

Originally Posted by rantiquity

It was of no fault of the Oregon Ducks that Virginia Commonwealth couldn't control their players getting the Wuhan virus.
The NCAA tournament rules stated that any team that contacted the virus would forfeit.
I doubt even if VCU played the Ducks the outcome would have been any different. Oregon would have moved on to the second round.

Oh, I agree. No fault of the Ducks. Just covid-lucky...again. But they were only a 5.5 point favorite over 10-seeded VCU. Not a comfortable spread, from what we've seen so far in this tourney.
As an aside, UNC-CHeat did not once have to cancel a game this year, because of their own covid issues. There're even articles about their players attending parties, everyone un-masked. Different kind of luck.
Anyway, we'll see if this further layoff hurts OR, against an Iowa team that had a fairly easy warm-up win.

[rantiquity]

Just watched Loyola of Chicago beat the #1 seed Illinois.

I have never seen so many upset wins in this tournament.
Abilene Christian beating Texas, Ohio beating Virginia, Oral Roberts beating Ohio St.....A tournament of upsets for sure.
All the PAC 12 team advance and the ACC, SEC and especially BIG10 lost teams.

[pnwguy2]

I heard some announcers relating the upsets to covid, as in everyone basically had to adjust to a new normal, something some can do better than others. I tend to agree.