NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Thread

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Zoo_View said:
I haven’t.

They’re still d00k.

They’ll always be d00k. I miss the “Beat d00k” parades.

They’re still the school that tolerated signs reading, “J.R. Can’t Read.”
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It was fine. He couldn't read the signs

😂 That was too easy.
 
Bigs23 said:
Most of the time yes, but that one was uniquely brutal, of course you had 2022 as well.
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2022 wasn't as bad as I feared. Honestly nothing will surpass 99 for me because we were the best team by far that season (I think we were the best this year, but it was always going to be tough in the final 4) AND as a student I knew many of those players.
04 was second because it felt stolen by awful refs.

As I've gotten older I still get nervous but it doesn't linger for more than a couple of days. I just would rather enjoy watching as long as a season can go. Of course with recent teams like 21 still in fresh memory,, it's easy to compare to REAL seasons to forget
 
Zoo_View said:
Final Four vs. double digit losses and a bitch-slapping in the R64? Sign me up for losing in the Final Four.

I still look back at ‘72, ‘75, ‘76, ‘77, ‘81, ‘84, ‘91, ‘95, ‘97, ‘98, ‘07, ‘08, ‘12, ‘16, ‘24, and other seasons and smile.

Even Jordan, Perkins, Daugherty, Smith, Doherty, Hale, and crew didn’t win it all in 1984. They didn’t make the Elite 8.

Great team and good memories.
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Would never want to be dook.
 
Bigs23 said:
Would never want to be dook.
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Cause you wanna be Duke :P

You know what's funny about the hate thing - the student bodies get along pretty well. I remember going to parties at UNC (especially Halloween!) and UNC folks on campus for parties and stuff as well. It always felt like a fun hate. The nasty stuff was always more from folks far from the schools...
 
In other news - it will be nice for college sports to not have senior citizens all dominating teams in the 25-26 seasons.
 
I find it hard to hate Duke anymore. Scheyer is actually likeable (gross), the students are actually academically gifted and Duke and UNC collaborate on quite a few things. There is a mutual respect between both programs as the rivalry is better when we're both good.

I actually hate State much more than Duke. Massive athletic and academic inferiority complex, history of unhinged and racist behavior towards UNC, constantly screaming for attention when they do something interesting once every few decades....there's no respect there. They are just lunatics.
 
ZZLPHeels said:
I find it hard to hate Duke anymore. Scheyer is actually likeable (gross), the students are actually academically gifted and Duke and UNC collaborate on quite a few things. There is a mutual respect between both programs as the rivalry is better when we're both good.

I actually hate State much more than Duke. Massive athletic and academic inferiority complex, history of unhinged and racist behavior towards UNC, constantly screaming for attention when they do something interesting once every few decades....there's no respect there. They are just lunatics.
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Now that we are playing them regularly in football again, I realized I had forgotten how absolutely awful their fanbase is. In 23 when we beat their ass at home, their fans were just nasty...soooo many drunk people.
 
Zoo_View said:
He’s not the worst pick ever.

He is a BAD pick.

You do everything you can do to trade an early pick in that draft.

By 2007, an ACL tear was NO LONGER a career-ending or career-worsening injury. With surgical advances and improvements in physical therapy, ACL tears were not what they used to be.

The Adam Morrison pick likely gets mocked and denigrated more than many crappy high picks because it’s one in a long list of shitty Michael Jordan picks.

If the Bobcats had passed on Morrison and taken another mediocre player at #3, Morrison would likely be forgotten.
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Morrison really wasn’t a bad pick at the time. Obviously no one can predict the future. People were excited about the pick at the time and there really wasn’t another player who people really thought should have been picked over him at the time. He may have ended up ended up being a bust, but that didn’t make him a poor choice to draft at the time. I also do think his injury was a contributing factor to his career never taking off.
 
aGDevil2k said:
Cause you wanna be Duke :P

You know what's funny about the hate thing - the student bodies get along pretty well. I remember going to parties at UNC (especially Halloween!) and UNC folks on campus for parties and stuff as well. It always felt like a fun hate. The nasty stuff was always more from folks far from the schools...
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Alright dookie, that's about enough of your stank.
 
Rating were up 22% for the final and 3% overall.

The portal and NIL stuff hasn’t turned off viewers yet it seems.
 
UNCatTech said:
I used to hate dook that much.

Between getting older, beating them in the final 4, and dook posters here being sort of OK :cool:, I've really softened up on the hate.
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katan being gone is a huge bonus, scheyer is just much more palatable and makes the whole program much more palatable.

i'll tease and talk a little smack but i probably never hated dook as much as a lot of other tar heels. my grandmother along with several other family members and one of my best friends are alums. just don't have it in me to have deep, bitter hatred for them.

i dislike state much more even though i have plenty of state alum family/friends, too. just a nasty, trashy fanbase who literally tried to destroy our AD. not nearly as worthy a rival/foil as dook, imo.
 
It doesn’t matter who their coach is, or who their players are (even though I found this group of players as unlikable as most dook teams). It’s what they represent, or desperately want to represent — a privileged elitism and otherism that I will always wish failure and embarrassment on.

I watched the semifinal games in a bar in Brooklyn with a few friends, and there happened to be a group of dook fans (I assume alums), and they looked and acted exactly how I expected them to. Watching their faces during the meltdown was even more fun than watching the actual meltdown.

We left that place and I was floating, and bought rounds for my friends at the next spot… it was joyous.

I’ve been fairly successful working the word “hate” out of my vocab and thoughts… but I will never not hate dook. And to give that up would be giving up another of the last vestiges of my love for college hoops and for sports in general.
 
Zoo_View said:
I don’t want to be d00k.

I’d trade their ‘24-‘25 season for ours in a heartbeat.
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yeah, dook still swept the ACC trophies and was clearly one of the top 4 teams in the country while we had a throwaway season.

2016 was horrific and an all-time gut punch heartbreaker but i wouldn't have traded our season for anyone else's (except nova obviously, lol).
 
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