First half of the regionals completed with 4 of the final 8 teams decided,A couple upsets with Duke and Memphis getting beat and a very tough game for Pittsburgh!


East Region

#4 Xavier 55

# 1 Pittsburgh 60

Final
#3 Villanova 77
# 2 Duke 54


Final
West Region

#5 Purdue 60
# 1 Connecticut 72
#3 Missouri 102
# 2 Memphis 91

Final

With Missouri already into the final 8, we have still got a chance to get 2 more Big 12 teams into the final 8...OU plays Syracuse and Kansas play Michigan State...An all Big 12 final would do wonders for Big 12 basketball..

Boomer Sooner

Stoneman

It has certainly been an entertaining tournament, and I'm happy to see some new teams with a shot at the brass ring. I don't have a favorite. Just enjoy watching the tournament process.

Tilokarat wrote:Good thing the Boomer Sooners do not have to play the Florida Gators or the L.S.U. Tigers.

That being said, it would be nice to see Mizzou or Oklahoma win the championship.

Yes our football team seems to be having a problem winning post season bowl games..1 win in last 6 tries...and 2 were for the National Championship..As they say at OU, the football coach only needs to win 2 games a year to keep his job...Texas and Okla State...and maybe we should add Texas Tech and if they get their program straightened out ..Nebraska...Remember many great Thanksgiving Day Nebraska-OU games....

A Missouri - OU Championship would be great..

Stoneman

Final Eight:

Favorites:
Louisville vs. Michigan State

Connecticutt vs. Missouri

Pittsburgh vs. Villanova

North Carolina vs. Oklahoma

Tilokarat wrote:Oh...the Tarheels are in it. Forget what I wrote above about the Tigers and the Sooners, let's go North Carolina.

And Stoneman, I do believe that Oklahoma lost a national championship to the U.S.C. Trojans in addition to their losses to Florida and the Bayou Bengals(I am sure they would beat the Buckeyes!). The Big Eight, or whatever they are called now, must learn to play some defence. The S.E.C. rules in real football.

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Yes OU fans have had many discussions about our lack of attention to the defense...Stoops is an "offensive" coach and his theory is that the guy that scores the most points..Wins...So make sure you score 1 more TD or FG than your opponent.....And if you look back at the games we have lost, it is when the opponent scores twice and we fall behind and without a decent defensive there is no way of catching up...Except for the Tech game in 2007 at Lubbock..just bad officiating...

But Stoops is loved in my home state and alma mater and they pay him $2.8 million a year in salary plus bonuses and endorsements...

Stoneman

Favorite U. Connecticutt knocks out Missouri and upstart Villanova upsets Pittsburgh with 2 seconds left in the game!

Still to come N.C. vs. Oklahoma and Louisville vs. Mich State!

Go Spartans!

Mich State for the uninformed.

BKKSTAN wrote:Louisville vs. Mich State!

Two good coaches who are excellent at scheming. Part of me wants to see Rick Petino win another one, but getting through the Spartans will be tough.

Tilokarat wrote:Bud Wilkinson used to have Oklahoma playing defence many years ago. Of course, that was a different era (early fifties-late sixties) with two-way players, all-white teams and so on.

I think one of the first Bowl games I saw was way back in 1954 when the Sooners defeated the Maryland Terrapins.

Wilkinson coached the Sooners to an obscene number of consecutive victories before some team, perhaps Notre Dame, beat Oklahoma.

And Barry Switzer won a few games as Oklahoma's head coach too.

Yes, many of those Oklahoma-Nebraska games were classics, but the big game seemed to be the Oklahoma-Texas match-up.

Coach Wilkinson was a good analyst on tv after he retired.

Bud Wilkinson was definitely a defensive coach and a very conservative offensive coach..One of his best quotes(anyway it is attributed to him) is that if you throw the football, 3 things can happen and 2 of them are bad...

I was in the Boy Scouts in the mid-50's and we were the official ushers for all the OU home games...We stood at each entrance and guided people to the correct seats...As soon as the game started, we were finished and sat in the aisles and watched to games...

Barry Switzer was also a great coach and a real down to earth guy..After his stint with the Cowboys, he moved back to Norman and opened several restaurants(all now closed)..One was a family style chicken cafe...And every night he was there and he would go around and talk to everyone and sign autographs...He would ask you where you were from and then tell you the football coach's name and any good players at the school...He has now built a new home right across the street from the campus...My nephew's fraternity house is less than a block away...When he moved in they all went down to welcome him to the neighborhood...

I also remember the one season we had Schnellenberger(?)...What a disaster...

I graduated in 1969..

Stoneman

Stoneman

Well,goodbye to the final Big 12 team,Oklahoma!Sorry stoneman but N.C was to much for them 72-60!

Congrats to to polehawk and his Michigan State team that upset #1 ranked Louisville 64-52.This is their 5 th trip to the final four in 11 years and 30 years since Magic Johnson led them to a National championship!