And of course to ALL of us losers that made it all possible.   

  "You keep on knocking but you can't come in"

Seeing final 4 results coming...

  "there's no shortcut home"

Congrats Baylor Bears !....Congrats Dr.BoB ! 

Zombo said:

Congratulations to Karlis Missed, and all those who are going to finish in the Top 2 6.

FIFY...

And congrats to the Baylor Bears... one helluva team.

Houston  has been to the  Final Four  5 times previously and never won the title.   That is more than any other team in history....tied with Illinois.  If they don't win, they will hold that record alone. 

Baylor is leading the other game at halftime.   If they hold on to win it will be the first time in history that  two teams from Texas will have made the Final Four in the same year. 

FYI,  here are the years in which  2 teams from the same state made the Final Four:

1954  LaSalle and Penn St 

1960  Ohio State and Cincinnati

1961 Ohio St. and Cincinnati

1962  Ohio St. and Cincinnati

1975  Kentucky and Louisville

1977  North Carolina and UNC  Charlotte

2012  Kentucky and Louisville

And maybe this year....a half to go for Texas to do it .   And technically  tomorrow,  2 teams from a 2d  same state/same city could make it if UCLA and USC both pull upsets. 

Edit:  Done deal,    Baylor and Houston both make  Final Four. 

It is also the first time Baylor has made the Final  Four in 71 years:    since 1950. 

Will he go to the NBA? 

A.  West Coast basketball may have been seriously underrated.  5 of the 16 teams are from West coast states:    Oregon St.,  Oregon, USC, UCLA, Gonzaga  (located in Spokane Wash)   

B. Oregon St.   Oral Roberts,  Syracuse, UCLA   are all  10+  seeds to make it.    And that does not include Loyola  Ill.....which is an 8th seed. 

C.  Conference breakdown for Sweet 16:   Pac 12 :   4 teams.  SEC  2 teams,  ACC  2 teams,  Big East  2 teams,  Big 10  1 team,  Big 12  1 team,    and American ,  West Coast, Summit, Missouri Valley each with 1 team. 

D.  The following  Sweet 16 teams have previously won NCAA Basketball Championships:   UCLA,  Michigan, Syracuse, Arkansas, Villanova...and, yes, Loyola Illinois who won the championship in 1963.....and Oregon...who won the very first NCAA Basketball Championship back in like 1936 (beating Ohio St.).

E.  Two teams are tied with having made the most Final Fours without having  won the Championship:  one is Illinois (a #1 seed this year who was beaten)  and...Houston, a #2 seed this year....who seemingly has the "easiest" road to make it to the Final Four in that the remaining teams in their bracket are the  #8, 11, and 12 seeds. Houston's last trip to the Final Four was with the Phi Slamma Jamma group with  Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler. 

F.  Alabama could pull of the rare feat of winning both the National Championship in College Football and Basketball in the same school year.    Only Florida in the 2006/07 school year has accomplished this feat.   A  commonality between the two:  Florida beat Ohio State in both title games, and Alabama beat OSU in this years football title game

Zombo said:

I had BY Sue in the Final Four ...

I'd bet B.Y. Sue is finer than this holy nag..  

Sister (fine) Jean's ? Chicago Loyola takes down her whole State, while leaving Gumby's small lead down to... how far can Baylor go ? 

Stay tuned and good luck everybody !  

#11 Syracuse  and   #15 Oral Roberts continues their Cinderella run, beating Florida.

#10 Rutgers was  thisclose to making it,  but they choked a lead away with  like 30 seconds to go. 

Tomorrow at least a 3rd  10+ seed will make it with either  UCLA or Abilene Christian going. 

Hopefully #13 Ohio U  will also make it through. 

(of course....calling  11 seeds  UCLA and Syracuse "Cinderellas"  doesn't really seem right....but that is the way it is this year. 

Zombo said:

I had BY Sue in the Final Four ...

@tour2ma said:

... UCLA has two stars and a bunch of good role players. They are gonna give BYU all they want on Saturday.

... of course I had BYU as well... 

UCLA at #11 and #14 Abileen Christian have to be two of the lowest seeds to ever meet in the 2nd round.

@gumby73 said:

  (convenient quick pick options (to mess-up with later) & your in &  out in under 3 minutes  

Ah Chit! ? I lied ?... I'd like to change 2 picks..But ya can't ... Live & Let die ?.. here we come...?

Five (5)  double digit seeds of  10 or higher  won today over higher seeded team.   That is a lot. 

@londonbrown said:

Thought they’d made that 3pt right at the end. What happens if it’s still a tie after OT?

Keep going.  Longest OT game in history:

On Dec. 21, 1981, the Cincinnati Bearcats defeated the Bradley Braves 75-73 in seven overtime periods at Robertson Memorial Field House in Peoria, Illinois. It took 75 minutes of game time (35 of which came after regulation) to determine a winner.

@londonbrown said:

Holy shit I watched the game in the bar just here, that’s a huge upset right? 
 

Id like to know the pre match odds if anyone knows 

-3000 ?

@londonbrown said:

Thought they’d made that 3pt right at the end. What happens if it’s still a tie after OT?

You play on until there's a winner.

Oh something from ncaa.com.  https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2021-02-25/what-march-madness-looked-year-you-were-born

1950 - CCNY (24-5)

Oh well, I get to join tour's losers bracket.  Hey maybe I'll join ESPN'S Sweet 16 bracket later.

@londonbrown said:

Holy shit I watched the game in the bar just here, that’s a huge upset right? 
 

Id like to know the pre match odds if anyone knows 

Yes big upset. A 15 seed over a 2. 
 

We need another 15 over 2 upset with the Cleveland State Vikings over Houston 

Id like to know the pre match odds if anyone knows