One of the greatest college basketball games I've ever seen!

[luns101]

For those of you outside of the U.S., you probably won't understand how crazy we get over NCAA basketball this time of year. This week the different conferences are playing their championship tournaments to get automatic bids to the March Madness tourney. So teams are scrapping and battling with a little extra incentive.

Which brings us to one of the greatest games I think I've ever witnessed.

Syracuse versus Connecticut. The box score doesn't do this justice. I'm sure the game ended so late that it may not even have the complete story in the sports section tomorrow for the print newspapers. Johnny Flynn was awesome. If you get a chance to watch this game replayed on ESPN, take the opportunity.

6 Overtimes! Both teams battled and it was a privilege to watch. I hope the 2009 tourney lives up to this standard. Syracuse has to get ready to play their next game in just 20 hours. I'm sure Iz Man probably had a heart attack several times watching this one.

[the.killing.44]

Watched the whole thing. Incredible. I have the utmost respect for Jonny Flynn over almost any player in the NCAA right now (can't top my Heels though). Replays will live on forever -the bombed tre as time expired that was reversed rivaled the W. Kentucky shot in the tourney last year for greatest I've seen. This was just unlike nothing else.

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[strike wolf]

Did Pitt beat WVU?

[spurgistan]

I "just" saw everything from the 4th OT on. While obviously I give mad props to Syracuse for gutting that one out, I have a hard time seeing that as anything but a tie, really. It was clear at the end that both team's starters were totally dead, it was basically a showdown between players who will not play the rest of the tournament. Overall, I would be very surprised if the powers-that-be penalize UConn anything, if at all. Then again, the seeders for the NCAAs have continually lowered my expectations of them.

[oVo]

Let the Madness that is March commence... of course Pitt, Connecticut and Oklahoma are still in
but the Big East was looking at three #1 seeds in the NCAA Tourney.

Big East
Syracuse 127 Conneticut 117 (6 OTs) I didn't get to see that shit go down
West Virginia 74 Pitt 60
Louisville 73 Providence 55
Villanova 76 Marquette 75

Big 12
Oklahoma State 71 Oklahoma 70 I did catch this one
Baylor 71 Kansas 64
Texas 61 Kansas State 58
Missouri 81 Texas Tech 60

ACC
Georgia Tech 86 Clemson81
Maryland 74 NC State69
Boston College 76 Virginia 63
Virginaia Tech 65 Miami 47

SEC
Kentucky 71 Ole Miss 58
Florida 73 Arkansas 58
Mississippi State 79 Georgia 60
Alabama 82 Vanderbilt 75

PAC 10
Washington 85 Stanford 73
UCLA 64 Washington State 53
Arizona State 68 Arizona 56
USC 79 Cal 75

Big Ten
Penn State 66 Indiana 51
Michigan 73 Iowa 45
Minnesota 66 Northwestern 53

[luns101]

Bah! Flynn played so well I decided to give him an extra "h" in his name.

Anyway, I think a lot of people are going to be watching Syracuse take on West Virginia tonight. It should be interesting to see if the Orange can get some energy back after last night's contest.

If anyone gets the ESPN Classic channel, my uncle just called me and said they're going to be replaying it on there soon.

[Iz Man]

I think the stress made me miss this thread, which is my reason for posting in the March Madness thread...

I'm spent after that game.....almost called in today.

Of course this thread wouldn't even exist if the correct call was upheld at the end of regulation...

A second championship for Jimmy B. coming soon?.......

[luns101]

Haha! Can you believe it...they needed another overtime tonight to defeat West Virginia. This is one gutsy team.

Well, it's down to them against Louisville

Unfortunately for the entire nation, Puke University won tonight by 1 point over Boston College over in the ACC.

[oVo]

Heh.. beware of the Big OT Orange! These last two games should improve their seeding for the Big Dance but can they handle Louisville to win the Big East? Duke and UNC both sqeezed one out tonight and are one win away from facing each other again in the ACC final.