I can see why Miami (OH) went 31-0. Even if you are a good defensive team, it is tough to guard a team that is going to shoot 41 three-point shots. When they did go inside the three point line, they were extremely efficient – going 13 – 23. That is just tough – you stop the drive and they just kick it out. And they are not afraid of shooting it from deep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Add into it that the fans in Dayton were ready to explode whenever one of the three-pointers went down, and that lead to the Redhawks winning 89-79 over SMU to win their first NCAA Tournament games since 1999. The fans were so crazy, there was even a point where a bunch of them came out in speedos to try to distract the free throw shooter (which he did miss to delight the crowd).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Congratulations to the Redhawks for advancing to the next round!!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I thought I would try to get ahead of my handicapping by getting all the first round games in tonight – but I have run out of steam. Still, the page has all the updates for Thursday’s games that start at noon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just 11 hours until the Round of 64 starts!!!! Make sure you get your picks in before Noon tomorrow!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I can see why Miami (OH) went 31-0. Even if you are a good defensive team, it is tough to guard a team that is going to shoot 41 three-point shots. When they did go inside the three point line, they were extremely efficient – going 13 – 23. That is just tough – you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2026-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3500,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}