Game thread: Florida -- Second Round

[Ron Mexico]

Damn, Illinois looks like they're going to go home. Not a good tourney so far for the Big ten.

[kaygee]

I'm praying that Jeter gets his hands on an athletic 6'9, 6'10 BIG MAN!!

[kaygee]

I'm in the Weisse fan club now!!!

[aknowsense]

Great year way to go UWM it was great to watch. Tough way to lose didn't play well at all, but dems the brakes, Florida is very good. Noah is a killer I was really impressed with him and he didn't seem c***y to me he just seemed passionate. Congrats to Florida good luck.

[joakimnoah]

We nearly blew a 12 point lead to Arkansas in the SEC tournament in under i think 3 minutes. I do not blame Billy Donovan for keeping the starters in as any team can comeback(Northwestern State came back by 15 against Iowa). Anyway it was a good game and you guys were a scary team. I was definetly worried about this game and only expected us to win by 5-10 points at the most.

[dylanrocks]

For those saddened for the outcome of yesterday's game, pop in a tape of any of our postseason games from the last two years. It's a great elixir that will give you tremendous perspective on all that the seven seniors have accomplished whether they were here two, three or four years. The graphic revealing the program's records over the last four years was one of the few good things that CBS (other than Seth Davis) has done or said over the last week. A little research, for example, reveals that A.T. started 122 games during his four-year career and in those games the team went 84-38.

[milwsport]

dylanrocks said:

For those saddened for the outcome of yesterday's game, pop in a tape of any of our postseason games from the last two years. It's a great elixir that will give you tremendous perspective on all that the seven seniors have accomplished whether they were here two, three or four years. The graphic revealing the program's records over the last four years was one of the few good things that CBS (other than Seth Davis) has done or said over the last week. A little research, for example, reveals that A.T. started 122 games during his four-year career and in those games the team went 84-38.

Worst comment of the game "This is what happens when a mid major meets a BCS team. They might dominate their conference but they can't compete" (or words to that effect).

Boston College, Alabama, Oklahoma aren't BCS teams?

[mwu]

sec325row1 said:

bball30 said:

Come on Hack, you follow enough basketball to know you don't do that in this situation. You don't do that in the tourney for one, especially when he didn't nothing but hustle his ass off all day

What does the tournament game have to do with it? So you're telling me UWM fans wouldn't do the same thing in a tournament game if an opposing player, who was hustling his ass off all day, fouled out?

It's all about perspective.

we did that cheer to oklahoma when bennet fouled out.

[teddyp00]

Just read some of this post and need to say I was down in J-ville for the game yesterday (wow what a long ride back) and the Flordia fans I thought were great. Friendly and knowledgable. I did not meet one that really said or did anything stupid before or after the game. Great fans and really, really put the Illini fans to shame.

[ob1wisc]

I watched the game yesterday and have been a Panther fan for years...I just read through all the posts for the game and am really disappointed in the Panter faithful....blaming Avery for anything is ludacris...he brought great energy and at times was the only one driving to the basket which we despeartly needed...I blame no one for this game and want to say the Gators are an outstanding team...they shut down Joah and Boo, not that either one played bad but were not tall enough and were just shut down physically...We need to realize what a good year the Panthers had an the great accomplishment in winning a tournament game....Be good fans and realize we just ran into a much better team....GO PANTHERS

[milwsport]

I agree with you. It's not so much what we did or didn't do, it's more what Florida did and didn't do. They are a much better team than their #3 seed indicated.