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I can copy and past stuff from the main page and game previews too.

Brutal

Lu,

No concern that this line might be a bit low based on last week's upset?

Sorry Guys,

He made a point of bringing up Miss St earlier in the week and discussed fading them this week. That is the only reason I brought it up

Ludawg,

I know you had some insight on this Miss St team a few days back. Any thoughts on tonights game?

UNC, I look forward to your response at 9'30EST when Butler has officially lost by DD's....Mid major size and skill please....this team beat the University of Detroit in a last second thriller this year...Cuse is a long way from the Horizon league brother.....and Butler knows how to get it done? Since when...all they do is win the Horizon league year after year and then get it handed to them in mid March.

You said it an 18-19 year old freshman PG turns it over...a senior PG doesn't especially one with the pose of Clemente....the statistics tell the tail.

Pitt shot 39% and still had to chances to tie the game in the dying seconds....thats all I need to see.

Sorry UNC this one has me worked up...I cringed on Saturday watching you play Wake Forest and people following suit on something that was so apparent...

You gotta explain this one to me...How do you have Butler having a chance in this Syracuse game....You were all abord the UTEP train on Thursday...I'm guessing you figured size would beat speed? I was curious about the outcome myself...in the end I took Butler against a team who gave up their conference tournament title by blowing a DD leaf in the last 10 mins....then were off to round two...you took Murray St...so did I...great play...that games gets replayed 9 more times on the same stage under the same circumstances and Murray St hits a couple more of those wide open jump shots they bricked and with 7 of the 9 times.

Now Butler plays against a Syracuse team with NBA talent(so we know they are going to consistently hit 48-50% of their jumpshots) and your thinking about betting against them. You played against them in two straight games against lesser teams and watched them look bad doing it...

Have a look at the tournament teams Syracuse played from outside their conference this year...I think their avg winning margin was 12 against those teams...they beat Cornell by 15.

Cornell will put up a much better fight then Wake Forest...when I saw that Kentucky/Wake Line under 10 last weekend I walked bearfoot accross the country and through the desert to hammer the hell out of the Wildcats...big joke in history.......Wake Forst shoots about 39% 2/3rds of the time and they were going to hang against a team with 4 first round picks on the floor....oh boy oh boy....

But yes Cornell is in a very bad spot...but are better then that Wake Forest team....I'll argue that at the start of the tournament Wake and Texas were the two worst major conference schools in the tournament...had they not been playing each other they each would have lost by 20 in round one.

This Butler game will not be close...people you are comparing Apples and brown Banana's here.....this game will not be close I promise you.

Either will the Duke/Purdue game......

Even though I have Baylor in my final 4 they are a lazy lazy team who better bring it if they are going to beat a St. Mary's team who will show up to play the biggest game in their schools history. Momentum is on their side and they remind me a whole lot of the George Mason team that made the final four a few years ago.....

Kentucky/Cornell will be an interesting matchup..personally I don't see Cornell within 15 points of them in the end...too much NBA talent wearing blue and white....take nothing from any regular season game..this group knew all along this is nothing more then a 5 game season before going pro......

Kansas St is also for real...too much depth too much experience...that Xavier/Pitt game was one of the worst played games I watched this season...clang clang clang and then Xavier hits a circus shot and its back to clang clang clang...I had Xavier in my sweet 16 but don't get sucker'd into thinking they can play with the 3rd best team left in this tournament.

West Virgina/Washington....Beyond Baylor getting beat this is your best chance at an upset...5 points is way too much to give up for a team that stuggles to score 70 points on any given night against a team that can score 85 on just about anyone. Washington much like Kentucky knew that the Pac 10 was a joke and it was all about a 5 game season for them. They are much more talented then the lazy regular season efforts show...the only thing that stops them from covering or winning this game is where it is being played...WV knows the building and will be comfortable...

Syracuse 88 Butler 70

Kansas St 81 Xavier 67

West Virgina 73 Washington 70

Duke 79 Purdue 60

Ohio St 67 Tenn 62

UNC got to ask brother...Are you picking this one with your brain or with your heart? I know you had Texas advancing here...your obviously anti Wildcat.....I don't think Wake Forest shoots a high enough % to stay in this game.

Texas all the way to the Elite 8? Texas will win one game in this tourny brother....they are down to there 3rd and 4th option at guard. I am loving all the Kentucky is too young talk right now.... Talent is talent and Kentucky has it......ride Cousins and his medication all the way to the final where they will lose to Kansas.

Michigan is a winner tonight.......trust it

Oklahoma 80 Texas 71

Second Half

Texas 41 Oklahoma 32

Kentucky 81 LSU 55

UNLV 88 BYU 74

Pitt -4

South Carolina +9.5

Texas -7.5 Second Half