Browns Board Madness 2021
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Add Oregon State as another 10+ seed to make it to Sweet 16
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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 !
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Sweet 16 is set. Some interesting notes:
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
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I thought that Abmas attempt was going in on the buzzer. Would have been a great story
Will he go to the NBA?
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Houston makes the Final Four. They have been there 5 times previously: 1967/68 with Elvin Hayes 1982/83/84 with Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler. They lost the title game in 83/84. In 1983 it was the big upset of them by Jim Valvano and NC St. In 1984 they lost to the favored Georgetown Hoyas in perhaps the greatest Big Man matchup ever in the title game: Patrick Ewing vs. Akeem.
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.
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