Odyssey Voyager Posted April 1, 2010 Author Share Posted April 1, 2010 I think Butler and West Virginia will be on the final, and... Butler will win! Butler winning it all would be a great story! Gatoulis, i thought you were a Spartan fan??!! and from the movie "300": "...The world will know that...few stood against many..." ~ King Leonidas speaking of his vastly outnumbered Spartans battling the Persians ~ Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Oups!! Yes! I forgot!!! Go go go... Michigan State!!! Of course.... the Spartans can not say This is SPARTA!!!! the other teams will probably answer... Wrong direction pal... This is Indianapolis!!!! All 4 teams are very good! I am afraid if Michigan, after the winning with Tennessee, will not play so well! But they are fighters!!! I like that a lot!!! Butler is very good too! they are strong and fight well! I like butler because it has a name... well... Butler is a servant right? So they will fight to show that they are not servants but they are the boss!!! west Virginia is a very good team!!! they have very good players and they know how to play and how to help eachother!!! Duke is very strong too but... to tell you the truth... they looked so tide!!! Even the moves of their cheepleaders (some were beautiful!!!!) were small and tide... like they were in a military school!!! I was searching in the net and saw that Dukes.... have something to do with Greeks??? I saw it in wikipedia!!! Then... a final between Spartans and Dukes will have Greek color??? Ok... I am stuck now! Link to comment
Odyssey Voyager Posted April 3, 2010 Author Share Posted April 3, 2010 (edited) 12 hours to game time! good luck to all those still standing! i hope both games are exciting and close battles! Edited April 3, 2010 by Odyssey Voyager Link to comment
+Vegas Gamblers Posted April 3, 2010 Share Posted April 3, 2010 12 hours to game time! good luck to all those still standing! i hope both games are exciting and close battles! I think that these games will be fantastic today. Link to comment
Odyssey Voyager Posted April 3, 2010 Author Share Posted April 3, 2010 (edited) semi-finals, day 9 update: Edited April 4, 2010 by Odyssey Voyager Link to comment
Odyssey Voyager Posted April 4, 2010 Author Share Posted April 4, 2010 (edited) Butler 47 Michigan State 43 with 3:17 left to play! Butler 47 Michigan State 44 with 2:36 left to play! Butler 48 Michigan State 44 with 2:23 left to play! Butler 50 Michigan State 49 with 0:15 left to play! Butler 52 Michigan State 49 with 0:05 left to play! Butler 52 Michigan State 50 FINAL SCORE! congrats to "acadiahiker" you are into the FINALS! Edited April 4, 2010 by Odyssey Voyager Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 BUTLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! as I said!!! They are fighters!!! Spartans is a very good team but today Butler's defense was like the Thermopyles! So strong and good!!!! WOW!!! In both teams there are some very very good players!!! How old are the players in NCAA??? Link to comment
Odyssey Voyager Posted April 4, 2010 Author Share Posted April 4, 2010 In both teams there are some very very good players!!! How old are the players in NCAA??? most of the players are between 17 years old and 22 years old. all very young men, playing with a lot of pressure on them. the pressure will be increased even more on monday when the FINALS are played! Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 In both teams there are some very very good players!!! How old are the players in NCAA??? most of the players are between 17 years old and 22 years old. all very young men, playing with a lot of pressure on them. the pressure will be increased even more on monday when the FINALS are played! WOW... they are young!!! Link to comment
Odyssey Voyager Posted April 4, 2010 Author Share Posted April 4, 2010 (edited) West Virginia 31 Duke 39 at half time West Virginia 48 Duke 63 with 8:59 left to play. West Virginia 52 Duke 67 with 7:07 left to play. West Virginia 55 Duke 69 with 3:55 left to play. West Virginia 57 Duke 72 with 2:53 left to play. West Virginia 57 Duke 75 with 1:08 left to play. West Virginia 57 Duke 78 FINAL SCORE! congrats to "gorillagal" you are into the FINALS! Edited April 4, 2010 by Odyssey Voyager Link to comment
Odyssey Voyager Posted April 4, 2010 Author Share Posted April 4, 2010 and then there were two... "gorillagal" vs. "acadiahiker"...who will win?! now, its for all the marbles! Link to comment
+ngrrfan Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 and then there were two... "gorillagal" vs. "acadiahiker"...who will win?! now, its for all the marbles! Why gorillagal will. I know her! Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 Happy Easter to all! WOW! Duke was very good! The time I watched from the net, (the first half ended close to 5 in the morning and I couldn't stay awake any longer!), they were very good!!! This guy Singler.... WOW!!! amazing player!!! I have a strong feeling that we will soon see him in NBA! He just needs a little muscles more! Congrats to the finalists! Link to comment
Odyssey Voyager Posted April 5, 2010 Author Share Posted April 5, 2010 ...and so...it all comes down to David vs. Goliath...the little school of Butler vs. the mighty mighty powerhouse of Duke. now less than 4 hours to game time! so good luck to "acadiahiker" and to "gorillagal". may the best team win! Link to comment
Odyssey Voyager Posted April 5, 2010 Author Share Posted April 5, 2010 (edited) MARCH MADNESS TOURNAMENT FINALS, day 10 update: Edited April 6, 2010 by Odyssey Voyager Link to comment
Odyssey Voyager Posted April 6, 2010 Author Share Posted April 6, 2010 (edited) ...and so...it all comes down to David vs. Goliath...the little school of Butler vs. the mighty mighty powerhouse of Duke. now less than 4 hours to game time! so good luck to "acadiahiker" and to "gorillagal". may the best team win! Butler reminds me of a little known team from my home town in West Texas 44 years ago. in those days the school was called "Texas Western College". in the 1966 final championship game, this little school of unknown players, was matched up against the mighty "Kentucky" team filled with All-Americans, and were led by the Hall of Fame Coach Adolph Rupp. "Texas Western College" was coached by a new and inexperienced man who learned the game as a player of the Hall of Fame Coach, Henry Iba. that young man was named Don "The Bear" Haskins, and he also went on to be inducted as a coach into the Hall of Fame. that classic 1966 match-up of "David vs. Goliath" gave "Texas Western College" a fairy tale victory for the ages, as seen in the movie "Glory Road". it also gave the Great State of Texas, its ONLY college basketball National Championship ever! don't you just love it when the little guy wins?! as you can tell, i am quite partial to the underdog, and i love my college basketball, having been a fan of "Texas Western College" and "UTEP" and the late great Don "The Bear" Haskins for many many years. Go Butler! and long live all the "David's" of the world! "Glory Road" Wikipedia Edited April 6, 2010 by Odyssey Voyager Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 Huh! The game will start now but it is way to late for me! In 1 or 2 hours the Sun will be up again!!! I need some sleep! Good luck to both teams! Good luck to both players! I was readin in a greek sport site about Da'Sean Butler of WV! According to the site.... after the big injury he had in the game with Duke..... he will probably end his career! And he was surelly in the first 10 of the NBA drafts!!! HUH!!! At least I hope he will be ok and recover soon! Link to comment
Odyssey Voyager Posted April 6, 2010 Author Share Posted April 6, 2010 (edited) Butler 32 Duke 33 at the half. good game! Butler 47 Duke 51 with 10:00 left to play! Butler 49 Duke 53 with 07:58 left to play! Butler 51 Duke 56 with 05:42 left to play! Butler 55 Duke 56 with 05:02 left to play! Butler 55 Duke 58 with 03:16 left to play! Butler 57 Duke 60 with 01:42 left to play! Butler 59 Duke 60 with 00:49 left to play! Butler 59 Duke 60 with 00:13 left to play! Butler 59 Duke 61 FINAL SCORE! DUKE WINS! GREAT GAME! congrats to "gorillagal" for winning all the marbles! condolences to "acadiahiker" as the runner-up, your team played well! i will contact you both for shipping information soon. Edited April 6, 2010 by Odyssey Voyager Link to comment
Odyssey Voyager Posted April 6, 2010 Author Share Posted April 6, 2010 i'd like to thank all 32 forum members who participated in this cointest. congrats to the final four teams too. great tournament, with fantastic games and lots of excitement. congratulations again to "gorillagal" and to "Duke" for winning the championship! i hope you all had fun playing and watching the events unfold. i know i sure enjoyed it! i would like to wish you all happy geocaching and merry geocoin collecting. take care. ~odyssey voyager~ Link to comment
+goosefraba1 Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 Congrats to the winners! It was a great tournament... who knows... maybe next year there will be 48 participants. Craziness.... I am so glad that I didn't get in on an office pool this year! That would have been money down the drain Thanks for the cointest! Link to comment
Odyssey Voyager Posted April 6, 2010 Author Share Posted April 6, 2010 (edited) Edited April 6, 2010 by Odyssey Voyager Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 Congrats to the winner!!! So Duke won! Well.. I really wanted Butler to win! I was out of my guess by 2 points! Of course this (wanting Butler to win), had nothing to do with my geocaching friends who were playing here, ok? Duke took finals, took championships... Butler as I saw is a small school! So... Maybe next year! Thank you David for this great cointest! With that, I managed to see some games too, in the net! As you probably understoon... the last NCAA games I had seen where when UCLA was in and was the best team! So.... I really really hope to see some of these young players in NBA soon!!! If not... Europe is always waiting! Link to comment
+kini_ont Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 Thanks Odyssey Voyager for making this years March Madness interesting, it's been a few years since I took an interest in college basketball and boy this was the year to watch Congrat's to gorrilagal and arcadianhiker and all those who won a coin Link to comment
acadiahiker Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 Congratulations to DUKE and Gorillagal and the other contestants in the final four! It was fun watching our teams progress through the rounds. A special Thanks to Odyssey Voyager for hosting, with much enthusiasm, this cointest! Link to comment
ELTADA Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 Just checked back in here as I was out early on. Congrats to the winners! And thanks to OV for hosting a fun cointest for everyone (regardless of their basketball knowledge!). Link to comment
Odyssey Voyager Posted April 6, 2010 Author Share Posted April 6, 2010 (edited) i'm glad you all enjoyed the festivities. all winning geocoins will be mailed today. woohoo! by the way, the most amazing thing about this whole tournament was that a Kansas State alum actually rooted for Duke! Edited April 6, 2010 by Odyssey Voyager Link to comment
+isjustus4 Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 thanx for the cointest OV. Link to comment
+Eartha Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 Cointest ended, thread closed now. Thank you for playing. Link to comment
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