So he's Big10 Bound

Rutgers for Darren

McMillan to Texas A&M

H&R..71 wrote:

He was a starter a few nights ago!!
WAY TO GO Jamison!!

Played 30 more minutes last night, looking likely he's going to have a long NBA career ahead of him
His Toronto team has won 4 of their last 5 

 

Great guy and a Good Coach, way to go JC!

 

16 points 7 boards for Jamison Battle in a road win over the Sixers, 4 for 8 from 3, 4th win in a row for the Raptors 

Playing 25-38 minutes a night the last 10 games.  40% from 3 and  89% from the line for the season for Jamison



 

Mark Sears, what a game

 

DC Native wrote:

Alum '04 wrote:

Why are we arguing about Mark Few?

Because this thread is about March Madness, and GW hasn't been in the NCAA Tourney in almost a decade, lol. Also, I like debating these kinds of things, so I appreciate all of you who responded to my posts, even though none of you seemed to agree with me...

My rooting interests in the NCAA Tourney are first GW (but its been a while), then the A10 (only one game this year), then local teams (except Georgetown, just Maryland and I guess American this year), then any team that is not from a power conference. For the latter, I usually focus on the team with the best chance to win it all, which for about a decade now has been Gonzaga, thus my appreciation for Mark Few. Before Gonzaga, though, there was Butler (2010-2011). Other teams with shorter shelf lives or unexpected runs includes San Diego State (2023), Loyola-Chicao (2018), Wichita State (2013), VCU (2011), Memphis (2008), George Mason (2006), and UMass (1996). Lots of other mid majors have made it to the Elite 8 (St. Joes in 2004 comes to mind). And of course the last team from a non power conference to win it all, UNLV (1990-91). The power conferences are doing everything they can to prevent such teams from making the Final Four, however, so I don't guess I'll have much interest in future years. There are no teams from such conferences in the Sweet 16 this year, the first time I can remember that happening in a long time. According to the article below, only 4 conferences are represented in the Sweet 16 this year. Every previous year had at least 7!

https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/ncaa/march-madness-lack-of-upsets-rcna197838

As a GW fan its been fun as Hell to see what Few  has done for a Quarter of a Century in a sport where far too often its the same old blue bloods deep into the NCAA Tourney. National Title games, Final 4s. Elites 8s, awesome to see.

3 days ago Gonzaga ran all over an SEC school opening a 30-5 lead to start

Well that's for sure

What a buzzer beater for Queen and Maryland! game of the tourney so far

New Mexico upsets Marquette

Another round 1 loss to a double digit seed for Shaka Smart 

Danny Hurley's 2 time defending Champs win again, Hurley now has the 2nd highest win % in history behind John Wooden 

Tremendous Xavier vs Texas game with Xavier and Sean Miller coming out victorious, electric atmosphere.

Sean won 6 NCAA Tourney Games in a 3 year span in the A10, then won 13 more at Arizona, and took Xavier back to the Sweet 16 in his first year back there, picks up another NCAA Tourney win, his 22nd.