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**OFFICIAL** NCAA Tournament thread 2013 and pick'em

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Usually Ghiradelli.

Ohio St is going to fck my bracket like Kansas last night unless they pick it up.

LOL, I never bet on the basketball Buckeyes.

I did not even pick them to get to the elite 8, but I certainly thought they had a chance against the Shockers. Oh well. 🙁
 
I am confused on how that last WS foul was a foul. The dude was standing there with his arms straight up. the OSU guy leans into him and they call a foul on WS. WTF? He didn't do anything.
 
I am confused on how that last WS foul was a foul. The dude was standing there with his arms straight up. the OSU guy leans into him and they call a foul on WS. WTF? He didn't do anything.

They've been calling it like that all night. I agree with you as I don't think it's a foul either. But at least they're being consistently bad (and on both side of the ball).
 
I was all pissed off that I was going to be out of the country with Ohio State being in Atlanta for the Final Four. It now seems I can enjoy my vacation and not have to watch basketball.
 
I'm in the south and am surrounded by tons of annoying Ohio State fans. Ha. Not as bad as Alabama or Florida fans though.

I was going to say Georgia fans are the worst. They have a college sports program that really hasn't done much, but the fans act as if they rank up there with Alabama or Florida.
 
Feeling better now. Bet the BW3 near me has a bunch of backwards hat wearing Buckeye fans leaving right now.
 
Yeah it's probably just because I've grown up here in Cincy and been exposed to them more than any other fanbase.

I grew up in Cincinnati also, but OSU basketball was mostly irrevelant when I was young, so the fanbase was mostly UK, UC or XU back then.
 
Yeah, almost as bad as getting beat in the first round of the NIT.

You win some...you lose some. Still 2012 champs until next week. I'll take an Elite 8, Final 4 and Championship followed by an NIT over a 4 year period and repeat it as long as I'm alive and I'm sure that almost any other team would too.

This KY team didn't have any heart and certainly didn't care about being in the NIT. Thought that their poop didn't stink from the time they walked on campus. Throw in the fact that they had a super short bench and you've got a recipe for disaster. We will see if Coach Cal gets caught like this again....I doubt it.

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"The List" aka: "Why Kentucky is the #1 Program of All Time"

Kentucky Basketball Cumulative All Time Statistics (aka: "The List")

All Time Wins: 2111 (NCAA rank #1)
All Time Winning Percentage .762 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Championships: 8 (NCAA rank #2)
NCAA Championship Game Appearances: 11 (NCAA rank #2)
Final Four Appearances: 15 (NCAA rank #3)
Final Four Games Played: 26 (NCAA rank #4)
Final Four Wins: 19 (NCAA rank #2)
Elite-8 Appearances: 34 (NCAA rank #1)
Sweet-16 Appearances: 39 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Appearances: 52 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Wins: 111 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Games Played: 157 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Winning Percentage: .707 (NCAA rank #5)
Total Postseason Tournament Appearances (NCAA and NIT): 61 (NCAA rank #1)
NBA Draft Picks: 106 (NCAA rank #1)
All-Americans: 55 (NCAA rank #1)
All-American Total Selections: 85 (NCAA rank #1)
First Team Consensus All-Americans: 19 (NCAA rank #2)
First Team Consensus All-American Total Selections: 24 (NCAA rank #4)
AP Poll Top-20/25 Weeks Ranked All Time: 788 (NCAA rank #2)
AP Poll Top-10 Weeks Ranked All Time: 628 (NCAA rank #1)
AP Poll Top-5 Weeks Ranked All Time: 417 (NCAA rank #1)
AP Poll #1 Weeks Ranked All Time: 99 (NCAA rank #4)
Final AP Poll Top-25 Finishes: 48 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-20 Finishes: 48 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-15 Finishes: 43 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-10 Finishes: 40 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-5 Finishes: 28 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll #1 Finishes: 9 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-25 Finishes: 46 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-20 Finishes: 45 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-15 Finishes: 42 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-10 Finishes: 38 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-5 Finishes: 29 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll #1 Finishes: 8 (NCAA rank #1)
Total 20-Win Seasons: 57 (NCAA rank #1)
Total 25-Win Seasons: 31 (NCAA rank #2)
Total 30-Win Seasons: 13 (NCAA rank #1)
Total 35-Win Seasons: 5 (NCAA Rank #1)
Average Victories Per Season Played: 19.190909 (NCAA rank #3)
Average Losses Per Season Played: 6.0090909 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Winning Seasons: 93 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Non-Losing Seasons (.500 or better): 96 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Coaches With a NCAA Championship Game Appearance: 5 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Coaches With Multiple NCAA Championship Game Appearances: 3 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Coaches with a Final Four Appearance: 5 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Coaches With Multiple Final Four Appearances: 4 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Decades With a NCAA Championship Game Appearance: 6 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Decades With Multiple NCAA Championship Game Appearances: 4 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades With a Final Four Appearance: 7 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades With Multiple Final Four Appearances: 5 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Coaches With A NCAA Championship: 5 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Coaches With Multiple NCAA Championships 1 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Decades With a NCAA Championship: 5 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades With Multiple NCAA Championships: 3 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades #1 in Total Wins (since 1930): 1 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Decades Top-5 in Total Wins (since 1930): 4 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades Top-10 in Total Wins (since 1930: 7 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades #1 in Winning Percentage (since 1930): 2 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades Top-5 in Winning Percentage (since 1930): 6 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades Top-10 in Winning Percentage (since 1930) 7 (NCAA rank #1)
Conference Regular Season Championships: 47 (NCAA rank #2)
Conference Tournament Championships: 28 (NCAA rank #1)
National Attendance Titles: 25 (NCAA rank #1)

(Of the 64 major categories listed above, Kentucky is #1 in 44 of them, #2 in 14 of them, #3 in 2 of them, #4 in 3 of them, and #5 in 1 of them.)

Kentucky can also lay claim to several individual achievements for both players and coaches:

13 players winning NBA Championships a total of 18 times
10 players named NBA All-Star a total of 17 times
12 Olympic Gold Medal winners
8 Naismith Hall-of-Fame members
5 players named National Player-of-the-Year
6 head coaches named National Coach-of-the-Year a total of 12 times
7 head coaches named Conference Coach-of-the-Year a total of 21 times
132 players named All-Conference a total of 225 times
77 players named All-Conference Tournament a total of 113 times
12 players named Conference Player-of-the-Year a total of 14 times
18 players named All-NCAA Final Four a total of 24 times
48 players named All-NCAA Regional a total of 62 times
11 players named NCAA Regional Most Outstanding Player a total of 12 times
5 players named NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player a total of 6 times
72 players who played in the NBA at least one season
60 1000 point scorers
47 players named McDonald's All-American
11 times a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament

Kentucky also holds several other NCAA records and various additional accomplishments:

Kentucky has 2 NIT Titles (1946, 1976), 2 Helms Titles (1933, 1954), 2 undefeated seasons (1912, 1954), 5 Sugar Tournament Championships (1937, 1939, 1949, 1956, 1963), a league best all time SEC regular season record of 915-255 (.782), and a league best all time SEC Tournament record of 119-24 (.832).

Kentucky holds the NCAA record for Consecutive Non-Losing Seasons (60), for Consecutive Home Court Victories (129), and for Total Victories in a Season (38).

Kentucky plays in the nation's largest basketball arena (Rupp Arena, capacity: 23,500), and has both the nation's largest radio and television affiliate networks.

Kentucky has made a 3-point basket in 861 consecutive games (3rd-most all time), has won 17 of the last 18 National Attendance Titles (including the last 8 in a row and 25 overall), is the only school to win multiple NCAA (8) and NIT (2) Championships, is the only school to have 5 different NCAA Championship coaches, is the only school to win NCAA Championships in 5 different decades, and is the only school to win multiple NCAA Championships in 3 different decades.

Kentucky has played before both the largest regulation basketball game crowd in history (78,129), and the largest Final Four Crowd in history (75,421).

Kentucky was the first school (in 2010) to have 5 players selected in the 1st-Round of the NBA draft, is the only school to have both the #1 and #2 picks in the NBA draft during the same year (in 2012), is the only school to have 6 players drafted in the first two rounds of the NBA draft in one year (in 2012), is the only school to have two different coaches win a NCAA Championship within the same decade (the 1990's), and also was the first school to reach both the 1000-win and 2000-win victory plateaus.
 
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You win some...you lose some. Still 2012 champs until next week. I'll take an Elite 8, Final 4 and Championship followed by an NIT over a 4 year period and repeat it as long as I'm alive and I'm sure that almost any other team would too.

This KY team didn't have any heart and certainly didn't care about being in the NIT. Thought that their poop didn't stink from the time they walked on campus. Throw in the fact that they had a super short bench and you've got a recipe for disaster. We will see if Coach Cal gets caught like this again....I doubt it.

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Eh, I'm 32, and they've won 3 championships since I've been alive. Couldn't care less about 70's and prior.

That team is all the entire state has though, so they have to root for something. Except Kentucky Reds fans who don't root for UC basketball, annoying.
 
That post reminds me of Steeler/Yankee fans though going off about how many championships their teams have won. Like I care what they did in the 1920's, 70's....lol.
 
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