r/CollegeBasketball • u/cbbBot /r/CollegeBasketball • NCAA • Mar 21 '25
Post Game Thread [Post Game Thread] #9 Texas Tech defeats UNC Wilmington, 82-72
| Team | 1H | 2H | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNC Wilmington | 34 | 38 | 72 |
| Texas Tech | 38 | 44 | 82 |
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u/LubbockCottonKings Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
If we would have made all of our three pointers, we would have scored 181 points and set an NCAA tournament record.
But we didn’t.
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u/loyalsons4evertrue Iowa State Cyclones Mar 21 '25
Tech took "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take" literally
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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers Mar 21 '25
Well…at least you (three-point) shot for the stars, but still managed to land on the (second round) clouds?
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u/jdprager Tulane Green Wave Mar 21 '25
13-46 from 3 is a fuckin affront to the gods
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u/jdprager Tulane Green Wave Mar 21 '25
And Walton had 27 points without a single make from inside the arc. Insane
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u/Rushderp West Texas A&M Buffs • Texas Tech Red… Mar 21 '25
Camper in the corner.
So happy he’s got hot at the right time.
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u/TangerineChicken Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
Hey now, free throws are technically inside the arc
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u/VanillaPillowTalk Texas Tech Red Raiders • UNLV Rebels Mar 21 '25
Walton is one of the most pure spot up shooters I've ever seen, dude just stands there & hits 3s
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u/AggressiveRow4000 Mar 21 '25
He’s going to play in the nba for like 10 years merely off his ability to make threes.
These guys play in the nba forever.
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u/PersonnelFowl Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
Dude knows what he’s good at and sticks with it. Respect.
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u/LubbockCottonKings Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
I felt like we were Peter Griffin shouting “corner three!” all game with no buckets landing
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u/tclark8995 Tennessee Volunteers Mar 21 '25
Its Phillip Seymour Hoffman from Along Came Polly
Let it Rain!
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u/PersonnelFowl Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
My thought exactly with Christian Anderson. He’ll be better next game, but was off last night.
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u/BenderIsNotGreat Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
I think about that every game and nobody gets my reference. Thank you
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u/hiswayout Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
I have this love hate relationship with the tournament because I love upsets. I love rooting for the underdog… until my team has to play.
I knew this would be a stressful game for some reason. Hell of a fight from UNCW.
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u/Relevant_Ad_1225 Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
I think we’ve gotta buckle in bc the Drake game will be this same way and if we both advance so will St Johns
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u/TheRobberBar0n UNC Wilmington Seahawks • North… Mar 21 '25
I came in expecting nothing and I’m still heartbroken. It’s the hope that kills you.
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u/TrustTh3Pr0cess UNC Wilmington Seahawks Mar 21 '25
I still expected nothing until they took that 1 point lead. Whyd they have to go and do that 🙁
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u/Edgerocks2 Mar 21 '25
Dude I yelled so loud when they took the lead just for them to go and lose by 10 anyways
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u/TheRobberBar0n UNC Wilmington Seahawks • North… Mar 21 '25
Until then, even at half, it was just waiting for the shoe to drop. Then we came out with fire and belief and grabbed the lead.
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u/ActualRiot Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
You gave us a fuckin' fight, you've got nothing to hang your head about, Seahawk bro.
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u/Meanteenbirder Vermont Catamounts • Sickos Mar 21 '25
Yeah, I think one thing the tournament can show even with losses is that your programs can play with the big boys. Ditto for UC San Diego, they are LEGIT and nobody can take that away.
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u/TheRobberBar0n UNC Wilmington Seahawks • North… Mar 21 '25
Yeah I had to sleep on it because when we took the lead in the second half last night I truly believed we were going to do it. We just ran out of gas at the end. I hope y'all make a run, make us look good for being able to hang.
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u/GettingBetterDaily94 Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
You guys played awesome. Love your team and will root for you in years to come. Super gritty.
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u/HoovesCarveCraters Texas A&M Aggies • UNC Wilmington Sea… Mar 21 '25
I knew they’d put up a fight. Coach Siddle always has the boys fired up and they can hold their heads high.
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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers Mar 21 '25
It was another good effort from an UNC Wilmington team that has shown plenty of it throughout the month!
Shame it has to end so soon...but at least the journey to get here was commendable all the same!
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u/Peanut_Gaming Georgia Bulldogs Mar 21 '25
Hey man just have your team play so bad the hope is crushed within the first 8-10 minutes
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u/LBoss9001 Texas Tech Red Raiders • Big 12 Mar 21 '25
DOUGH GOES IN
NAILBITER WINS COME OUT
CAN'T EXPLAIN THAT
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u/EveryManAViKing Texas Tech Red Raiders • Drake Bulldogs Mar 21 '25
13-46 is absolutely disgusting work.
Well, I guess whatever happens Saturday I’m happy.
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u/BrianOverBrawn2 Baylor Bears Mar 21 '25
Going to be an interesting day for you, huh
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u/EveryManAViKing Texas Tech Red Raiders • Drake Bulldogs Mar 21 '25
Stressful tbh. I’ll be a lightning rod for banter here in Des Moines if Drake wins.
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u/Peanut_Gaming Georgia Bulldogs Mar 21 '25
As a team earlier today we went 21-60
Yall almost shot as many 3’s as we had FG
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Mar 21 '25
GG Tech bros. Proud of how we played tonight
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u/KellenLy12 Mississippi State Bulldogs • Tex… Mar 21 '25
Obiaho gave Toppin the work the first 3/4 of the game and legitimately scared us out of the paint offensively. Plus Hodge couldn’t miss. Excellent showing from y’all!
GGs Seahawks.
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u/ophthurator19 Gonzaga Bulldogs Mar 21 '25
Blue basketballed tonight.
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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers Mar 21 '25
Though honestly, experiencing a day where no upsets happened is honestly better than experiencing a day where no upsets happened except the ones that happened to your team 🙃
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u/ChonkyWumpus March Madness • Appalachian S… Mar 21 '25
Gonna need a lot more games to come down to the wire tomorrow I’m fiending
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Mar 21 '25
I really wanna see Texas Tech play Illinois and watch them jack up 125 combined three point attempts
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u/Zorak9379 Illinois Fighting Illini • Stanford Cardi… Mar 21 '25
I want to be offended but honestly yeah
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u/Rcy4122 Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
Tech shot poorly enough on open threes to keep UNCW in it, but not quite poorly enough for them to win it.
They basically doubled Toppin on every post entry and over-helped on every high PnR, which led to roughly 30 open threes in the HC. Tech made like eight of those, with four of the other five coming on second chance opportunities and in transition.
It looks rough, but a 10 point win shooting like that is encouraging. Granted- I doubt anyone defends the line as poorly as UNCW does going forward, but process-wise the offense was phenomenal and easily could’ve dropped 100
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u/phamousj Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
This was my take away too. We've seen it all year where they double on toppin and he'll kick it out to the perimeter for the open 3. A lot of the shots weren't bad they just weren't hitting them. I still trust those guys to shoot the ball because we have seen them knock them down over and over again.
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u/Terrible_Test8776 Mar 21 '25
Yeah totally agree also the games totally different if one of Elijah Hawkins or Christian Anderson make like two or three more 3's because then UNCW can't just clog the paint and over rotate. Game changed when Hawkins hit the pull up three where they went under the screen with about 7 minutes left, I really think we lose if he misses that.
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u/Matadoroftheskies Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
It was odd. As a process that totally worked, but you can't account for an elite shooting team to go 30% on open 3s for a whole game. It was baffling.
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u/EnTyme53 Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
Can we not play North Carolinian teams in first round anymore, please?
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u/jonboski Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
And no more 7ft 280lb dudes
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u/jmos_81 ECU Pirates • NC State Wolfpack Mar 21 '25
If you’re talking about burns, we were all sure he was like 6’8 maybe 6’9 315 lol
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u/chearn34 Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
We just got confused. It’s just the whole ACC mantra. Just saw the UNC name.
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u/needsumMoore777 Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25 edited Mar 21 '25
GET OUT OF HERE ALL YOU UPSET SCAVENGERS
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u/dont_ask_my_cab Maryland Terrapins Mar 21 '25
Yay 'tilla bros! You ended up putting the perfect bracket count to end Day 1 almost exactly 1% of what the day started with
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u/hard2think2347 Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
Not gonna lie didn’t expect to win the way we started the 2nd half but I’m glad that we did. If we shoot 13-46 from three on Saturday we getting our ass kicked by Drake.
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u/ESM_juddy96 Mar 21 '25
46 is more than the number of total shots Missouri had all game against Drake (Drake is the slowest paced team in the country)
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u/rvadarocket Maryland Terrapins • Texas Longhorns Mar 21 '25
Great effort by UNCW, just didn’t have the bodies or energy they were completely gassed by the end of the game
Tough way for Newby to go out but I figured his lack of size would be what held back UNCW from an upset and I hate that I was right :(
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u/TechnoToyz Texas Tech Red Raiders • Creighton Blue… Mar 21 '25
I can finally breathe. Shooting almost 50 threes is kinda fucking ridiculous, especially so in a single elimination tournament game. Kerwin was awesome tonight though.
Hopefully we can emulate Kendrick Lamar on Saturday.
Dough goes in.
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u/No_Argument_Here Houston Cougars Mar 21 '25
Good game, B12 homies. I have y'all winning your region, hopefully McMillan can play next game.
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u/chearn34 Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
0 chance we beat Florida. Too much length and depth.
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u/Esteblade Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
We need Chance healthy but if we can beat Houston we can definitely beat Florida
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u/bluediamondsm North Texas Mean Green • Houston Cougars Mar 21 '25
That was kinda scary for some time but I’m happy Tech got it done today! UNCW is tough especially Hodge he was playing so good today.
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u/KellenLy12 Mississippi State Bulldogs • Tex… Mar 21 '25
10,000,000 threes attempted… If you don’t like that, you don’t like west Texas basketball!
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u/Gabe_owners12 Michigan Wolverines Mar 21 '25
Thank you Tech very cool. I have you guys going quite far this tourney
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u/AirRaid2010 Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
Hope we meet in the Final Four.
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u/Gabe_owners12 Michigan Wolverines Mar 21 '25
Welll uhhhhh don’t think Michigan will be doing that but I have the utmost faith in you all
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u/AirRaid2010 Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 22 '25
Our chance is also slim as our best shooter Chance MacMillan is still questionable to play
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u/TheRealNathNath West Virginia Mountaineers Mar 21 '25
Did #3 try to get that 10th rebound as time expired except his shot attempt hung on the rim too long for it to count
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u/skiboysteve Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
Yeah I saw that. Took me a moment to figure out what he was doing and it was exactly this
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u/TheRealNathNath West Virginia Mountaineers Mar 21 '25
There was a rebound a big basically stole out his lap with 1 or 2 minutes to go i felt so bad for him lol
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u/chuters Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
Kerwin is clearly the MVP this game, but D5 really helped with getting us out of our slump in the 2nd half. Started driving to the basket and either scoring or getting the foul. He really stepped up with them doubling Toppin all night.
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u/Fantasykyle99 St. Thomas Tommies Mar 21 '25
Bracket 100% after day 1. Don’t think I’ve ever made it this far tbh
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u/WrreckEmTech Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
Tech took 4 more threes in the time it took me to type this out.
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u/OrderTime Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
Holy fuck. A win is a win but uh I hope we have better game plan on Saturday
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u/based_barber Creighton Bluejays Mar 21 '25
Heard siddle was a really good coach but honestly I’m underwhelmed with his coaching here… seemed like he had enough talent for the upset but the execution was just a little flat.
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u/rvadarocket Maryland Terrapins • Texas Longhorns Mar 21 '25
Newby was just too small to be lead guard and scorer vs an elite P5 team
Good player but overmatched athletically and that shutdown a lot of what they wanted to do
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u/TheRobberBar0n UNC Wilmington Seahawks • North… Mar 21 '25
He doesn’t have the ball handling to find himself space. He was just getting clamped and accepting it by turning his back. Hodge was so much more effective.
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u/rvadarocket Maryland Terrapins • Texas Longhorns Mar 21 '25
Yeah he’s a great off ball player and secondary playmaker imo but the problem is y’all don’t have have another PG to use, Hodge is a good shot creator but he can’t playmake like Newby can
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u/TheRobberBar0n UNC Wilmington Seahawks • North… Mar 21 '25
Totally agreed. When he started playing on ball we abandoned the paint and we had gotten them in foul trouble early in the second.
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u/Texxx81 Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
I mean.. he's bigger than Elijah Hawkins...
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u/rvadarocket Maryland Terrapins • Texas Longhorns Mar 21 '25
And Hawkins has better handles and a WAY better supporting cast lol
Also Hawkins went 3/14 just like Newby went 2/10 so I don’t see how this disproved my point at all? All it shows is Newby’s supporting cast wasn’t quite good enough lmao
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u/CptFrostyMug Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
This recap show is a fucking mess
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u/hard2think2347 Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
Showing our game then showing Arkansas Kansas instead of the team we’re gonna play🤦♂️
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u/BigVel81 Michigan State Spartans Mar 21 '25
Tech has got to work on the free throws. I dont see them winning games against better competitions, missing half their free throws. I thought Tech was supposed to have a solid defense as well???
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u/Meals12 Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
We havent been great defensively. Our FT’s bein off was weird, we shot them at about a 70-80% clip all year
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u/TomDoretto Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
Tech is gonna need Steph Curry if they keep that shit up
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u/Chardoggy1 North Carolina Tar Heels • UNC … Mar 21 '25
When life gives you tortillas, make them into Islands
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u/tony_countertenor Mar 21 '25
Well todays been a pretty boring day overall, only a couple kind of expected upsets and not many close games. At least the last two games of the day were more traditional upset teases, that at least led to good games
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u/b98g NC State Wolfpack • UNC Wilmington Se… Mar 21 '25
I thought we were toast down 16 early on. Fought hard, briefly took the lead, just ran out of gas. Super proud of this team, heck of a season
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u/SwordsAndTurt Houston Cougars Mar 21 '25
Would’ve been funny as hell to see Tech lose to another NC school in the first round, but glad they didn’t lose!
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u/AirRaid2010 Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
If CM can't play against Drake, we are in big trouble
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u/NorthernForrest Mar 21 '25
Anyone else annoyed at how the announcers were constantly bringing how Tech was setting a school record for most threes ATTEMPTED? Not made, just attempted. I didn’t find it worthy of being brought up 5 times in the final minutes, especially when they were only making ~30% of them.
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u/LovesYankeesAndObama Kentucky Wildcats Mar 21 '25
Florida is going to buttfuck this entire region
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u/Esteblade Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
SEC fans are so fucking weird
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u/LovesYankeesAndObama Kentucky Wildcats Mar 21 '25
I’m just saying. Nobody out of this region showcased being a potential threat to the one seed.
I would have said the same if it was Auburn, Duke, or Houston’s region
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u/Esteblade Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 21 '25
What? Half of the west bracket hasn’t even played yet. Not sure how you come to that conclusion based off Florida not even playing yet and basing it off one game.
St. John’s won by 30
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u/LovesYankeesAndObama Kentucky Wildcats Mar 21 '25
You should beat St Johns and I wasn’t impressed by your team very much. This Florida team and the other 1 seeds are on a completely different level
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u/BrilliantAd8265 Mar 29 '25
everyone got mad at you for being a know it all, tell em to check their brackets lmfao
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u/szboy422 Florida Gators • Maryland Terrapins Mar 21 '25
You say we’re going to buttfuck this entire region, I’m convinced we are going to lose tmrw. That’s CBB baby
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u/LovesYankeesAndObama Kentucky Wildcats Mar 21 '25
All you gotta do is play like you did in the SEC tournament and you’ll beat all of these teams by 20+
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u/memyselfandi12358 Mar 21 '25
Couldn't Texas save their 3pt game when...you know... their best 3pt shooter is playing
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u/yakovgolyadkin Houston Cougars • Big 12 Mar 21 '25
FADED: UNC Wilmington
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