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@FLPACKER posted:

I thought UW's bigs played with more toughness. One thing that really stood out with UNC to me was that in today's game if you have 2 players on the floor that are not a threat from the 3 pt. line it is a struggle to score in the half court. UNC's only offense was transition and second shots

UNC had 4 5-star rated recruits play last night. Three of them were freshman.

https://247sports.com/college/...-Basketball/Targets/

Sharpe is projected to go in the first round of the upcoming draft. Caleb Love was projected as a lottery pick but has played himself out of the draft this year.

Carolina played with the intensity of a team full of guys that were at a summer AAU tournament. I wonder if Roy Williams has ever outcoached anyone from an Xs and Os standpoint or as a motivator?

He's coached 46 guys that went on to the NBA. Very few of them got much better in college (especially at UNC) and only Paul Pierce was an NBA star. He gets 5-star recruits that are just physically more talented than his opponents and doesn't develop them and the sum is always less than the parts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Williams_(basketball_coach)

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@Music City posted:

The last time they looked/shot like this was around Christmas. Can they duplicate it???

Not coincidentally, it's the first time they've played outside the Big 10 since then.

If you match the Badgers' intensity, they aren't talented enough to match up with athletic teams. If you half-ass it on defense and don't actually run any offensive sets, the Badgers will beat you.

For as much as we harp on the Badgers lack of elite talent, they never get beat because they don't put out a high level of effort. They get beat because when teams bear down on defense in close games, their players struggle to create offense. UNC never bothered to bear down.

Baylor has no 5-star recruits and they have just optimized their 3-star guys. They are basically what a typical Bo Ryan Wisconsin team was. They'll come to play and not expect to win just by showing up and half-assing their way through games (which is what UNC seemed to do).

Badgers 6 pt underdog....

After knocking off 8-seed North Carolina 85-62 in convincing fashion, 9-seed Wisconsin (18-12) will take on 1-seed Baylor (23-3) on Sunday at 1:40 p.m. at Hinke Fieldhouse, the home of the Butler Bulldogs. The Badgers also opened as six-point underdogs, according to William Hill Sportsbook.

The Bears are coming off a 79-55 win over 16-seed Hartford in the round of 64. Baylor and Wisconsin haven't met since the 2017 NABC Hall of Fame Classic in Kansas City, a 70-65 victory for the Bears. The two schools also met in the 2014 Sweet 16, with UW advancing to the Elite Eight via a 69-52 victory in Anaheim.

Ohio State forward E.J. Liddell has posted screenshots of vulgar messages and threats he has received following Friday's first-round NCAA Tournament loss to Oral Roberts.  In the 75-72 overtime loss, Liddell scored a team-high 23 points and pulled down a game-high 14 rebounds. Hours later, he tweeted a series of screenshots showing abusive and vulgar comments directed at him.

Along with screenshots of the threats and insults, Liddell wrote "Honestly, what did I do to deserve this? I'm human." And "Comments don't get to me but I just wanna know why. I've never done anything to anyone in my life to be approached like this."

In a statement posted to Twitter on Saturday, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said the authorities will be involved.

Damn I hate to hear this......it's a gawd damn basketball game.  Just damn.   

@Goldie posted:

Ohio State forward E.J. Liddell has posted screenshots of vulgar messages and threats he has received following Friday's first-round NCAA Tournament loss to Oral Roberts.  In the 75-72 overtime loss, Liddell scored a team-high 23 points and pulled down a game-high 14 rebounds. Hours later, he tweeted a series of screenshots showing abusive and vulgar comments directed at him.



I could show you things in my private messages ON THIS MESSAGE BOARD that would have you saying the same thing. Things about my wife, about my children... it’s just the way things are in the anonymous world of the innnerwebs.

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