NCAA, plus other tournaments- NIT, CBI, and CIT

[Da Coach]

NCAA Tournament- There are 16 teams left- The next games are Thursday and Friday (Mar. 28-29)-
8 winners from Saturday- http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas.../date/20190323
8 winners from Sunday- http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas.../date/20190324
Sweet 16 bracket- http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas...nament/bracket
Scores/Schedule- http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas.../date/20190328

In the East and West Regionals, the top 4 seeds remain. In the South, the top 3 seeds remain, plus #12 seed Oregon, and in the Midwest, the top 3 seeds remain, plus the #5 seed Auburn.

NIT Tournament- 7 of the Final 8 teams are determined, with the final member of the Final 8 to be determined with a game tonight (Mon. 3/25) between Colorado and Norfolk State. Then quarterfinal games are Tuesday and Wednesday.
NIT Bracket- https://www.ncaa.com/sites/default/f...e-scores_1.jpg
Scores- http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas.../date/20190325

CBI- Final 8 teams play tonight (Monday, March 25) in 4 quarterfinal games-

http://www.gazellegroup.com/main/cbi/schedule-2/

Scores/Schedule- http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas.../date/20190325

CIT- There are 2 second round games tonight (Mon., 3/25). Then on Tuesday (3/26) there are 2 more second round games, plus one quarterfinal game
Schedule- http://www.collegeinsider.com/colleg...le-results.php
Scores/Schedule- http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas.../date/20190325

[tornado]

DePaul makes it to the Final Four of the CBI
After scoring 33 on 10-17 and 7-13 from the arc in their first CBI game
Max Strus then went for 38 on 15-21 from the floor and 5-11 from 3 pt.

..so he's averaging 35.5 ppg and hitting 66% for the tourney

[egib52]

DePaul makes it to the Final Four of the CBI
After scoring 33 on 10-17 and 7-13 from the arc in their first CBI game
Max Strus then went for 38 on 15-21 from the floor and 5-11 from 3 pt.

..so he's averaging 35.5 ppg and hitting 66% for the tourney

Man he would have played well in Peoria.

[tornado]

had he come to Bradley - he'd have gotten 1000 time the national exposure by helping Bradley to the NCAA- likely both of the past two years...
and maybe even deep into the NCAA tourney. Instead - he scores 30 in an obscure post-season game that nobody even knows was being played
and unfortunately gets zero media attention outside of DePaul's official sports page.

[tornado]

The Sweet Sixteen

LSU - currently embroiled in the pay-for-play scandal that is on the front pages - LINK

Michigan State - currently embroiled in one of the worst athletic scandals in all of college sports - LINK

Auburn - Head coach Bruce Pearl has a long, long history of serious NCAA violations - LINK

North Carolina - their Athletic & Basketball departments were embroiled in one of the worst cheating scandals ever- LINK - LINK

Virginia Tech - just got off the phone for reporting a bunch of NCAA VIOLATIONS - LINK

Duke - Duke always get a pass but many of players from Chris Duhon to Zion Williamson are alleged to have gotten payoffs - LINK

Houston - omg- where to start - Head Coach Kelvin Sampson is one of the most prolific cheaters of all time - LINK

Kentucky - everybody knows Calipari cheated to get Derrick Rose and yet he gets away with it - LINK

Oregon (eliminated) - Dana Altman has three current scandals going plus a few in the past- LINK - LINK - LINK

Virginia - the only scandal going on in Virginia is the Governor and his staff wearing blackface

Gonzaga - Gonzaga is clean

Florida State (eliminated) - lots of football scandals & violations but only a few in basketball -

Purdue - some violations over a decade ago but appear to be clean now

Tennessee (eliminated) - they hired Bruce Pearl when he cheated & broke all the rules there

Texas Tech - lots of history of cheating in football and in basketball a few years ago but current staff appears clean - LINK

Michigan (eliminated) - long ago history of paying for the Fab Five but pretty clean recently - LINK


so cheating does appear to PAY - as only 5 or 6 of the Sweet Sixteen are really CLEAN

[Da Coach]

4 NCAA games tonight (Friday 3/29)-
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas.../date/20190329

The next NIT games are the 2 semifinal games Tuesday, April 2- Lipscomb vs Wichita State and Texas vs. TCU.
The 2 winners will play for the NIT championship Thursday, April 4.
https://i.turner.ncaa.com/sites/defa..._-_3.27.19.pdf

CBI- 2 finalists determined- DePaul & South Florida. They will play a best 2 out of 3 series on April 1, 3, and 5 (if needed)-
http://www.gazellegroup.com/main/cbi...Bracket-F1.pdf

CIT-
One semifinal game will feature Hampton vs. Marshall on Tuesday, 4/2
The other semifinal will also be Tuesday 4/2 featuring Texas Southern vs. the winner of tonight's (Fri. 3/29) game between CSU Bakersfield and Green Bay-
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas...date/201903/29
http://www.collegeinsider.com/colleg...le-results.php

[Da Coach]

NCAA Tournament-
#3 seed Texas Tech and #1 seed Virginia advanced to the Final Four with wins Saturday-

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/date/20190330

And #5 seed Auburn just advanced with an overtime win over #2 seed Kentucky-

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=401123390

The other semifinalist will be the winner of the second game today between #2 seed Michigan State and #1 Duke.
The semifinal games will be Saturday, April 6, and the Championship game will be Monday, April 8.

NIT Tournament-
The next NIT games are the 2 semifinal games Tuesday, April 2- Lipscomb vs Wichita State and Texas vs. TCU.
The 2 winners will play for the NIT championship Thursday, April 4.

CBI Tournament-
The two CBI finalists are DePaul & South Florida. They will play a best 2 out of 3 series on April 1, 3, and 5 (if needed)-
http://www.gazellegroup.com/main/cbi...Bracket-F1.pdf

CIT Tournament-
The Final Four will play two semifinal game on Tuesday, April 2-
Hampton at Marshall and Texas Southern at UW-Green Bay-
http://www.collegeinsider.com/colleg...le-results.php

The championship game will be played Thursday, April 4.

[Da Coach]

Michigan State advances to the Final Four by beating Duke in a great game 68-67-
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas...meId=401123387

Michigan State will play Texas Tech next Saturday. The other semifinal game will be Virginia vs. Auburn.

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/date/20190406

Bracket-

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/tournament/bracket

[Da Coach]

One game tonight- the first game of the best-of-three final series in the CBI between DePaul and South Florida-

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/group/55/date/20190401

USF is a 1.5 point betting favorite, but ESPN Gamecast gives USF a 65.5% chance of winning-

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/game?gameId=401125414

The game is on ESPNU at 6:00 pm Central. Games 2 and 3 (if necessary) are at DePaul.

[MacabreMob]

Depaul tied the game with a 3 with 11 seconds left but then South Florida hit floating jumper with 2 seconds left to win 63-61

[Da Coach]

A tremendous game with an exciting finish. DePaul looks like a much better team than they have been for the last 12 years, since their last winning conference season in 2006-07. Tough loss for DePaul, but the next 2 games of the final series are in Chicago on Wed & Fri (if needed).

[Da Coach]

The only games tonight (Tues. 4/2)-

NIT Tournament-
2 semifinal games Tuesday, April 2 in Madison Square Garden, NYC- Lipscomb vs Wichita State and Texas vs. TCU-

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/group/98/date/20190402

The 2 winners will play for the NIT championship Thursday, April 4. All semifinal and final games are on ESPN.

CIT Tournament-
2 semifinal games Tuesday, April 2:
Hampton at Marshall - Marshall is a 6½ point favorite
Texas Southern at Green Bay - GB is a 6 point favorite

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/group/56/date/20190402

The two winners will play in the CIT Championship game Thursday, April 4.

[Da Coach]

In the first NIT semifinal, Wichita State lead by 11 points with a little over 6 minutes left, and still had a 64-57 lead with a little over 3 minutes left. But then then Wichita completely fell apart and Lipscomb scored the final 14 points of the game to pull ahead with 2 minutes left and go on for the 71-64 win-
Lipscomb 71 Wichita State 64
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas...meId=401123693

Lipscomb will play in the championship game Thursday against the winner of the other semifinal between Texas and TCU.

[Da Coach]

In the 2 semifinal CIT games tonight-
Marshall won at home against Hampton 80-78
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=401125413

And in an even more exciting game, Green Bay scored with 1 second left in overtime to win 87-86 over Texas Southern-

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=401125493

Marshall will play Green Bay on Thursday night for the CIT Championship.

[Da Coach]

In the first NIT semifinal, Wichita State lead by 11 points with a little over 6 minutes left, and still had a 64-57 lead with a little over 3 minutes left. But then then Wichita completely fell apart and Lipscomb scored the final 14 points of the game to pull ahead with 2 minutes left and go on for the 71-64 win-
Lipscomb 71 Wichita State 64
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas...meId=401123693

Lipscomb will play in the championship game Thursday against the winner of the other semifinal between Texas and TCU.

Texas beats TCU 58-44-

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=401123694

It'll be Lipscomb vs. Texas for the NIT Championship on Thursday.