So sad.

This may be because Syracuse is my hometown team, but I'll never understand the logic that states that even though Syracuse wins their NCAA tournament games, that doesn't change the fact that they don't deserve to be in.  If anything, when a team wins NCAA tournament games, it shows that the committee probably did make the right decision and the ACC was better than people thought.  Especially this season, who were you going to put in their place?  Louisville or Colorado State?  I could see St. Louis, but they had some bad losses.  I think its easy to hate on Syracuse, because if you aren't from upstate New York and get Jim Boehiem, he is totally hateable.  However, I think when you look at these Syracuse bubble teams, its hard to identify team you would replace them with who are legitimately better.

I saw the Georgetown blowout coming.  Making a conference tournament run take a lot out of a team.  It's hard to keep that adrenaline going for another.  It reminds me of the year Syracuse made that Big East tournament run where Gerry McNamara put the team on their back, then just got smoked in the first round because they were out of gas.

VCU out for COVAD. That's sad...they didn't even get a chance to play.

Might as well just cancel the whole tourney. I'm sure other teams have the virus too. If they were in a supposed "bubble"  how did they get COVID.   Very strange. Bookies will be pissed. 

Welp there goes any extra cash for the conference. 

In all seriousness hope everyone stays safe and whomever is infected on VCU recovers fully.

It’s almost like it was a bad idea  having the kids play a tournament so other people could profit.

Take this for what it's worth, but a VCU grad on twitter(@RamboRowdy) is blaming VCU's positive tests on the A-10 for having the conference tournament at Dayton. He claims that Dayton's arena was not sanitized, they did not have the proper protocols and that a ref contracted COVID. He said VCU never had a COVID issue until they went to Dayton for the A-10 tournament. Can GW Rising or anyone close with the team confirm the conditions in Dayton? I posted his tweet down below

None of the games in the A-10 tournament games were cancelled, so there did not appear to be any COVID problems while the tournament was going on. The ACC and Big 12 are the only conferences that experienced COVID issues during their tournaments. 

https://twitter.com/RamboRowdy/status/1373441288830382087  

BC, you're probably right. Now that I think about it, that may be the ramblings of an angry VCU fanatic!! LOL  I guess  all the VCU fans are going to blame the A-10 for this. He did mention that VCU assistant coach, J.D. Beyers, complained about the conditions in Dayton, that COULD have some credibility

Texas loses. I guess the 23 turnovers were not important. May cost Smart his job losing to Abilene Christian.  Slop ball. 

This Illinois-Loyola Chicago game is playing out like the NCAA wanted where the big-name state school is in a knock-down, drag-out brawl with the lesser-known local school. Illinois was held to a season-low 24 first half points today. I mentioned how a similar scenario happened like this a few years ago where 7th or 10th seeded Wichita State had their with Kansas in the 2nd round. I'll go back a little further to when Maryland made its first Final 4 appearance in school history in the early 2000's, in the 1st round they were a 3 seed and barely beat 14th seeded George Mason, George Mason may have been the closest game they played on their way to the Final 4. I wonder how these BCS coaches feel when they get matched up with local schools that they are afraid to play in the regular season!!