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2007 NCAA Tourney
The Final Four
Gators repeat with ease
Florida 84, Ohio State 75 Stats
Other takes- Cleveland Plain Dealer, Indy Star, Newsday, and New York Times
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Championship Game Fun Facts |
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Were 3-pointers the difference, Florida was 10-of-18 attempts, while Ohio State made just 4-of-23 or were points in the paint the key factor- Gators 48, Buckeyes 22. Or perhaps it was second chance points- Florida 18, Ohio State 7. |
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Taurean Green (16) and Corey Brewer (13) combined to score 22 of the 40 (55%) first-half Florida points, but had only 7-of-44 (16%) in the second half and wound up with 29 of 84 (35%) |
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Freshmen Greg Oden (25 points) and Mike Conley (20) combined to go 17-of-28 from the field and score 45 points |
| Oden and Conley appeared in their fourth consecutive championship game Monday. The pair led Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis to three consecutive Indiana state championship games |
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"Quick Quotes" |
| UF's Joakim Noah (8 points and 3 rebounds in 2007 title game and 16 and 9 in 2006) said, "We made history. We've just been through so much. I love these guys. People can say a lot of things about this team, but they can't say we didn't do it back-to-back." |
| OSU's Mike Conley said this about trailing by 11 at half, "We got down early and it was in guys' heads that to come back we had to shoot the 3. We could have gotten the ball inside a lot more. Greg was the hot man tonight and we had to get him the ball." |
Ohio State 67, Georgetown 60 Stats
Florida 76, UCLA 66 Stats
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Final Four Fun Facts |
| Florida’s Lee Humphrey made 4-of-8 3-pointers. In 12 career NCAA Tourney games Humphrey has made 43-90 (48%) 3-pointers including 41-85 (48%) in his last 11 games in the 2006 and 2007 tourney. The 43 breaks Bobby Hurley's NCAA Tourney record. |
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UCLA’s Collison and Afflalo were a combined 8-for-28 (29%) from the field, for the season the two shot a combined 47% |
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UCLA had the only offensive rebound in the first half and it came with 4:29 to play by Luc Richard Mbah a Moute. In the second half Florida had 8 offensive rebounds and UCLA 4. |
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Oden vs. Hibbert- minutes played- Hibbert 24, Oden 20, points- Hibbert 19, Oden 13, rebounds- Oden 9, Hibbert 6. They both blocked one shot and committed 4 fouls |
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Free Throws- Ohio State was 13-19 (68%) while Georgetown was only 3-8 (38%). The Hoyas were averaging 18 free throw attempts per game this season. |
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In 39 minutes Georgetown’s bench contributed 0 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists, 1 steal with 4 turnovers. In 58 minutes Ohio State’s bench scored 11 points, collected 10 rebounds, had two blocks and made only 1 turnover |
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"Quick Quotes" |
| Florida coach Billy Donovan, now 21-7 in NCAA Tourney games (11 straight Tourney wins), on his Gators, “They're a different team. They're no longer a young basketball team. They're a veteran team right now.” |
| UCLA's Darren Collison, who had 9 points on 3-14 FG shooting (his 7th single-digit game of the season and his first in the NCAA Tourney this season), said, "You have to give Florida credit. They have a great inside presence and the fact they have a great inside presence makes them have a great outside presence. They kicked it out when they had to, and those shooters, they shot phenomenal." |
| Ohio State's Mike Conley (averaging 18 points in his last 4 NCAA Tourney games- 7 above his season average), who had 15 points on 7-12 FG shooting against GT, said, "We knew if we played a half-court game, we were playing into their hands. They have a big frontcourt. They can block a lot of shots. We didn't want to have to deal with that the whole game. Our style of play is to get up and down (the floor). Once we got our style established, I think that really helped us out." |
| Georgetown's Jeff Green, who had a run of 8 straight double-digit games stopped by scoring 9 points against Ohio State, said, "I didn't want to force anything, so I just took what they gave me. They played great help-side defense with the other guy helping on the weak side. It made it hard for my teammates to throw it down or try to find me. Like I say, you've got to credit their defense." |
Elite 8
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College Fun Facts |
| Florida's Lee Humphrey made 7-13 3-pointers in win over Oregon. In the three prior NCAA Tourney games he had made only 8 3-balls. This is the second time this season Humphrey has made 7 3's in a game. He hit 7-of-8 in a 27 point game against South Carolina. In 12 career NCAA Tourney games Humphrey has made 39-82 (48%) 3-pointers including 37-77 (48%) in his last 10 games in the 2006 and 2007 tourney. |
| In a 15-minute span in the second half and overtime, North Carolina made just 1-of-23 of its field goal attempts. |
| Memphis Tigers center Joey Dorsey said he was going to score 15 with 20 rebounds and hold OSU's Greg Oden to 9 points and 5 rebounds. Reality check Joey- you had 0 and 3 and Oden had 17 and 9. Both players committed 4 fouls and were in foul trouble. |
| Ohio State made 26-28 FT's in the second half, Memphis was 14-20 for the whole game |
| There were 46 turnovers and 32 steals in the UCLA vs. Kansas game, UCLA had 25 turnovers and 15 steals and Kansas had 21 and 17 |
| KU's Mario Chalmers didn't shoot it well, 1-8 FG and 0-2 3-pointers, but he did have 7 assists and 6 steals |
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"Quick Quotes" |
| Memphis coach John Calipari on Joey Dorsey's statement about Greg Oden, "Joey did not try to fire this kid up. What he was saying was, he's one of the best in the country and I want to see what I can do against him, and it was blown up ... I feel bad that he played that poorly." |
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Oden said he wasn’t motivated by Dorsey’s comment, “I just wanted to play and not let a comment get to my head. When it was coming to the end of the game, we all just wanted to play hard and get to Atlanta." |
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UCLA held Kansas to 55 points on 41% FG shooting. That 55 for the Jayhawks was the lowest ina NCAA Tourney game since 1957. UCLA’s Arron Afflalo, who scored 24 on 10-15 shooting, said, "Considering the talent level they have, considering how good they are, I think we did a pretty good job holding down some pretty good players today. Any individual offensive performance doesn't even come close." |
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Bill Self is now 0-4 in Elite 8 games, “Just wasn’t out day. I’m not going to look and say, ‘Poor pitiful me. It’s not about that. It’s about getting your team there. I feel bad for our guys, everyone sacrificed for the good of the team and put away individual agendas. This isn’t about me. It’s about them.” |
NCAA Sweet 16 Games
Friday Games
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College Fun Facts |
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Prior to fouling out, Georgetown’s Roy Hibbert had his fourth straight double-double- 12 points and 10 rebounds in 27 minutes. It only seems like Hibbert is always in foul trouble, he committed five total fouls in the first two games of the tourney and he has averaged 2.7 for the season. |
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Florida won its 15th straight post season game by outshooting Butler at the free throw line. The Gators made 23-28 (82%) compared to the Bulldogs 10-13 (77%). |
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After making 10-20 (50%) 3-pointers in win over Wisconsin, UNLV cooled considerably hitting only 9-33 (27%) in loss to Oregon. Kruger and Winks hit 7-15 vs. the Badgers, but only made 3-17 against the Ducks. |
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UNC emphasized inside game vs. USC, the Tar Heels only took 2 3-points shots in the second half and they out rebounded the Trojans offensively 20-10 and hammered them on second chance points 30-6. |
Thursday Games
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College Fun Facts |
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Kansas shot a season-high 59.5% (Jayhawks were just 1-6 on 3-pointers) from the field in winning its 14th game of the season, the longest streak in the Bill Self era |
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Ohio State’s 2nd half- 53 points, 14-24 (58%) FG, 5-12 (42%) 3-pointers and 20-29 (69%) free throws |
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Josh Shipp (4-10 FG) was the only Bruin to make more than 3 field goals. UCLA made 23-26 (89%) FT’s, Pitt hit just 8-14 and the Panthers shot only 36% FG |
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Memphis, a 61% free throw shooting team, was 14-21 (67%) at the line, meanwhile, Texas A&M, a 72% shooting squad, was just 5-10 |
Second Round Games- Day 2
Second Round Games- Day 1
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College Fun Facts |
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Vandy’s Derrick Byers scored 19 of his 27 points in the final 30 minutes of win over Wash. State |
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Indiana missed its first 10 3-pointers before making 5-of-6 including 3 in a row that allowed the Hosiers to tie UCLA. IU made just 5-28 (18%) FG 1st and 0-8 3-pointers |
| Ohio State's Ron Lewis scored 27 points with 8 rebounds in win over Xavier, his season high in points is 30 vs. North Carolina and rebounds 11 vs. Loyola-Chicago |
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Dudley, Rice and Marshall took 43 of BC’s 55 shots and made 19 of the Eagles’ 21 FG’s |
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Georgetown’s Jeff Green blocked 5 Boston College shots, he had not blocked one in his previous 3 games. His season high is 8 blocks versus Villanova. |
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Texas A&M’s Acie Law scored 26 points, but he had only 1 assist. It was only the 17th time in 120 career games that Law has had 1 or less assists. |
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Pittsburgh had 5 double-digit scorers but no double-digit rebounders in win over VCU as three Panthers had 8 rebounds each |
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UNC’s Tyler Hansbrough scored 33 points on 17 shots, meanwhile MSU’s Drew Neitzel scored 26 on 27 shots. This was just the second time this season that Neitzel has taken 20 or more shots, the other time he attempted 20 in a loss to Ohio State. |
First Round Games- Day 2
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Winthrop 74, Notre Dame 64 Stats
UNLV 67, Georgia Tech 63 Stats
Memphis 73, North Texas 58 Stats
Tennessee 121, Long Beach State 86 Stats
Kansas 107, Niagara 67 Stats
Texas 79, New Mexico State 67 Stats
Virginia Tech 54, Illinois 52 Stats
Kentucky 67, Villanova 58 Stats |
Virginia 84, Albany 57 Stats
Nevada 77, Creighton 71 OT Stats
Oregon 58, Miami, Ohio 56 Stats
Wisconsin 76, Texas A&M-CC 63 Stats
Purdue 72, Arizona 63 Stats
Southern Illinois 61, Holy Cross 51 Stats
USC 77, Arkansas 60 Stats
Florida 112, Jackson State 69 Stat |
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College Fun Facts |
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Kansas made 13 3-point field goals - breaking the school's previous NCAA record of 12 versus Kentucky in 1999. The Jayhawks shot 59% (13-22) on 3-pointers and 52% (27-52) on 2-pointers. |
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Kevin Durants first NCAA Tourney game- 27 points, 6-13 FG, 0-4 3-pointers, 15-16 FT’s 8 rebounds, 5 tunrovers, 1 block and 3 steals |
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Virginia Tech made 4 fewer field goals than Illinois and shot 36% compared to the Illini’s 42%. But the Hokies won because they made 18-28 FT’s compared to 8-15 by the Illini. |
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Kentucky’s Randolph Morris scored 19 points with 11 rebounds in win over Villanova, he has had 3 straight double-doubles (Alabama, Miss State and Nova) and has averaged 22 points and 12 rebounds. This is the second time he has had 3 straight double-double games- in December and early January against Eastern Kentucky, Houston and Ole Miss he had 3 straight and averaged 20 and 10. |
| Nevada’s starting five was 7-20 (35%) shooting 3-pointers, meanwhile losing Creighton’s starting 5 was 1-14 (7%) |
| There were only 7 total offensive rebounds in the Oregon/ Miami, Ohio game and the Ducks had 4 of them |
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Wisconsin hit just 3 of its first 24 shots (13%) and trailed Texas A&M 24-3, but the Badger were 19-31 (61%) the rest of the game |
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Purdue’s Carl Landry scored 21 and had 13 rebounds in win over Arizona, he has had double-doubles in 4 out of his last 5 games |
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Florida scored 71 points in the second half of rout of Jackson State and the Gators were 29-42 (69%) FG and 9-15 (60%) 3-pointers |
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Notre Dame’s 3-guard attach was just 4-20 on 3-pointers in loss to Winthrop |
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UNLV and Georgia Tech had a combined 45 offensive rebounds, the winning Rebels had 24 of them |
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Memphis’s bench outscored North Texas’s bench 31-4 |
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Tennessee broke a NCAA record for points in the first round with a 121 versus Long Beach State |
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Albany's five free throws made equaled the season low against Virginia and the seven FT attempts was a season low. The previous lows were 5 for 10 by Maryland Eastern Shore. |
First Round Games- Day 1
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Maryland 82, Davidson 70 Stats
Boston College Texas Tech 75 Stats
Louisville 78, Stanford 58 Stats
Washington State 70, Oral Roberts 54 Stats
Butler 57, Old Dominion 46 Stats
Georgetown 80, Belmont 55 Stats
Texas A&M 68, Penn 52 Stats
Vanderbilt 77, George Washington 44 Stats |
VCU 79, Duke 77 Stats
Ohio State 78, Central Conn. State 57 Stats
Michigan State 61, Marquette 49 Stats
UCLA 70, Weber State 42 Stats
North Carolina 86, Eastern Kentucky 65 Stats
Xavier 79, BYU 77 Stats
Indiana 70, Gonzaga 57 Stats
Pittsburgh 79, Wright State 58 Stats |
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College Fun Facts |
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Maryland’s starting five all hit double-figures, while Davidson’s Stephen Curry scored 30, but he made only 5-of-14 3-pointers |
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Boston College and Texas Tech combined for only 14 turnovers and BC had 8 of them |
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Louisville led Stanford by the following scores- 12-2, 27-10, 41-13 and by the largest margin of 58-25 |
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Washington State’s win over Oral Roberts was the Cougars’ first in the tourney since 1983 and the fourth in school history. The Huskies have also beaten Creighton and Arizona in 1941 and Weber State in 1983. |
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Indiana hit 9-of-25 3-pointers and the Hosiers are 12-1 in games in which they make 9 or more 3-balls |
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In Butler’s decisive 17-0 2nd half run, The Bulldogs made 5 3-pointers and a layup |
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Georgetown’s Jessie Sapp had made only 1-of-23 3-pointers prior to hitting 4-of-6 against Belmont in a 20-point game |
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Texas A&M had 8 turnovers in win over Penn, but only one was made in the 2nd half |
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George Washington, which was shooting 46% FG, shot only 27% in loss to Vandy and scored a season-low 44 points- previous low was 52 in a loss to Air Force |
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VCU trailed Duke by 13 in the 1st half and 11 in the 2nd, but the Rams made 4-7 3-pointers in the second half while Duke hit only 2-9 |
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Ohio State made 11-20 3-pointers against Central Conn. State including 7-12 in the 1st half |
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In win over Marquette, Michigan State was beaten on the offensive glass by a margin of 12-4 |
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In 28 point loss to UCLA, Weber State had 8 assists and 17 turnovers |
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Roy Williams set an NCAA record- he has won at least one game in the NCAA Tourney for 18 straight seasons |
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Pitt is one of 12 teams nationally to advance to NCAA Tournament play in each of the last six seasons. The other schools include Arizona, Duke, Florida, Gonzaga, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan State, Pitt, Southern Illinois, Texas and Wisconsin |
Other College Champions
Division II Championsip Game
Barton 77, Winona State 75 Stats
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"Quick Quotes" |
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Barton‘s Anthony Atkinson on his game winning layup that just beat the buzzer, “Bobby Buffaloe read it, he got the steal, and when he passed it to me, my eyes just zoned in to the clock, and I saw it was about 2.1 seconds. I let it go just in time, and it went in." |
NCAA Division III Championship
Amherst 80, Virginia Union 67 Stats
NAIA Division 1 Championship Game
Oklahoma City 79, Concordia 71 Stats
NAIA Division 2 Championship Game
MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) 78, Maryville State (N.D.) 60
JUCO Division 1 Championship Game
Midland 91, Chipola 75
JUCO Division 2 Championship Game
Mott 75, Monroe 61
JUCO Division 3 Championship Game
Sullivan 74, Northland 68
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