I agree with commentary, that second half was horrible, there was no flow to the game because of all the calls. I didn't care who won, just wish the refs would have backed off a bit.


Peace

the refs were a bit much picky picky. Should've let them play and only called really glaring fouls.
However, Heels were victors. Yay team!

Some ya win, some ya lose, some are rained out....

And not for the better.

And the announcers totally missed the flagarant 1 call. I like Bill Raftery generally, but he had a bad game as the announcer.

I wanted the Zags to win. I have always liked them, and this was their first championship game.

I always seem to be for the underdog.....cept when it was the Obama-era. Damn...I miss those days!

it's not the schools that end up shortchanged."

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/north-carolina-scandal-continues-to-show-how-ncaa-incentivizes-eligibility-over-education

Why do these schools not invest in tutors, or hold summer camps for these athletes? Even if the best athletes are not the best students why not work to bring them up to college level? I realize that some of these athletes spend a large amount of time practicing for their sports, but why not give the academic help during their free time?

often pressured to do the assignments for the athletes.

Also, the athletes are signed up for easy-pass courses, usually with non tenure-track instructors who have no job security, who can easily be pressured into giving easy grades.

Many of the best athletes come into college with virtually no academic preparation--reading, writing, and doing math at a 6th-grade level (if that!). And all of their time and energy (and interest) is devoted to their sport, not to academics. They usually have no particular interest in being in college, but since our colleges are running the developmental farm league for professional basketball and football teams, most athletes who want to go pro have to spend a year or so on a college team to have any chance at a contract.

Then, of course, there is that ridiculous NBA rule that says an NBA team cannot hire a talented athlete right out of high school, so the kid figures he might as well to go to college for a year to get extra training, build a history of success to improve his chances at a high dollar pro contract, and also get to be idolized on campus while he is there. Thus you get the "one and done" athletes who enter the draft right after their first year of college.

But of course most of these kids never do get a pro contract. Instead, they use up their eligibility and then leave without a contract or a degree. Most of the few who complete their degrees end up with empty pieces of paper that do not mean much of anything because they were passed through without actually being trained educated, or because they were set up to major in some piddlydunk subject that equates to majoring in eligibility. Thus they have little chance of landing a decent job.

Meanwhile, the universities and the NCAA rake in billions of dollars exploiting the kids while pretending that they are providing them with an education as compensation for their unpaid work. The lionized coaches rake in millions, earning far more than the best paid professors or even the presidents or chancellors of the colleges. Even assistant coaches tend to be paid better than professors.

It is a scam, and it is shameful. There is no good reason why a university should be fielding semiprofessional sports teams, and no good reason why universities should function as the developmental league for the NBA or the NFL.

The whole setup drastically undermines the academic mission of a university, and it harms the young athletes who are exploited to make a lot of other people rich.

Even God is a Tarheels fan -- why else did she make the sky Carolina Blue?

It's baseball season anyway

NORTH Carolina brought home the men's title last night!

Just sayin'.