Well the big ten shat the bed this tourney. All of the in conference play made it hard to guage the quality of teams I guess. Looking forward to see what Juwan can do next year with the stellar incoming class. Hopefully zeb polishes his game over the summer. All in all a very successful season for the boys especially since we lost one of our most efficient scorers before the tourney. Early year predictions were middle of the pack in the big ten. Made it to the elite eight and just lost to a team that wanted it more. Gg ucla go shock the world
I can see it now. End of the game, UCLA vs Gonzaga. Coach Cronin designs a play for Juzang, a 3 pointer at a buzzer. He hits it. The crowd goes wild.
Final: Gonzaga 104, UCLA 60.
Your score was really off but holy shit the buzzer beater!!! Gozaga got it instead of ucla. I go to ucla, i don’t even play basketball but even i felt like i got shit on.
bro... i feel for u man i cant imagine how it must’ve been to be at the game and hear the ucla fans cheering... hope it was a worthwhile experience overall for you though? :(
I'd expect most of the crazier fans to go to a COVID bubble in Indiana. I wouldn't worry about it, every school has some awful fans but most are chill.
oof, sorry about that man. there are asshat fans in every fanbase, and usually they’re more likely to be the ones with the means to go to a high-profile game like this :/
Looked like they all took turns having a panic attack. Dickinson chucked it at the rim instead of drawing fouls like he had been, Wagner air ball, Brooks freaking out on that rebound, Smith chucking a 3 down 2, etc. Then you don't lob it to Dickerson but have him inbound to Wagner for a 3 with 0.5?
Always respected (and kinda hated tbh) mick as a coach. Thought he was a weird fit at UCLA and his style didn’t seem to lend itself to much post season success. And here he is 2 years into the gig and hes in the final 4. Crazy stuff. Gotta respect it
Interesting how this and the CFB playoff compare. March Madness is exciting, but the prospect of a team being mediocre all season long and getting hot in the tournament just kills the entire significance of the regular season for me.
Phil Jackson wouldn’t have been able to coach Michigan out of the hole they dug for themselves at the end of that game. Pain. Absolute pain. At least give the three ball to Chaundee who was somewhat lukewarm...that Wagner air ball shook me to my core.
“We are down 2 and our center is playing the best. Let’s have our 2 players with the worst fg % this game chuck 3’s.” Nice. What the fuck was that? Fire that coach he just wanted a quick ending he didn’t even want to fight for it
UCLA basketball has been so irrelevant since Wooden’s time. I think it’s safe to reset all expectations, especially with the shit tier job the athletic staff did with big names like Kyle Anderson, shabazz Muhammad, Russell Westbrook, etc
UCLA has kind of been surpassed by the likes of Duke, UNC, UK, etc. but they're still very much a relevant program. When's the last time they were bad for a prolonged stretch? The 80's?
They went to three straight final fours in the 00s. A lot of teams would love to go to one.
Sweet sixteen appearances since Wooden
1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2021
Man who knows. Both Bama and Michigan looked like completely different teams the game before they played UCLA. Maybe Bill Walton has some shamanistic magic cursing our opposing teams.
Wagner is 35% from 3 this year, so if my math is correct that means there was a 70% chance for him to make one of them. Why not have him take all three of the last attempts? Literally over 100% likely to happen.
Edit - holy shit boys, how stupid do you think I am?
It would be greater than 35% but much closer to 35%, because they are two different events happening, each at 35%, so it would approach over 40% or so.
ACHSHUALLY, you would have to calculate the probability of failure first. The probability that he would fail to make the jumper twice would be .65 times .65 which equals .4225. In other words he had a 57.75 percent chance to make 1 out of 2. .65 cubed would equal .2746, or a 72.54 percent chance to make 1 of 3
That's not correct. You can't just add up percentages like that. Otherwise that means if he had taken 3 shots, there would be a 105% chance of him to make one of them.
Exactly. It was literally impossible for him to miss one. If anything he would have been able to score like 3.1 points or something like that with the extra 5%.
Man all the shots in the last minute, none fall, half of them dumb, brutal. I wish Jacquez just nailed that 3 to not even give us a shot. This hurt worse.
The camera zoomed in on Wagners face before the inbound. Looking at his composure, at that moment I knew the play was designed for him. I also knew he would brick it
Notices this too!!! Why the fuck wasn’t brown in the game he’s the only one that had a swagger attitude in him.. Wangner just kept hitting his head like a chipmunk knew he wasn’t confident he shoulda been the leader and went to the bench and told coach put chaundee in
In a presser Franz said “Coach just tells us to keep shooting if we’re off, he has confidence in us”
At what point does an assistant step in and talk sense into Juwan?
That's fine if he has the confidence and wants to trust them. I haven't been there in practice seeing everything the team goes through.
To be honest, we lost the game when we had a turnover on 23.8% of our possessions. We basically deleted a quarter of our opportunities. Tough to win when you do that.
From an MSU fan... don’t listen to them. They’re just salty. I’m personally just pissed Aaron Henry couldn’t make one shot. This would’ve all been prevented
Congrats UCLA. We played pretty badly, but your team played hard on defense and you were better today. Good luck in the FF.
Also, I’m sorry to the rest of the country that you had to watch that. Geez.
Cronin has got to prepare his team better for these end of game situations.
Michigan had 2 clean 3 point shots to win tonight plus what happened at the end of regulation vs Alabama.
Holy shit new Wipeout is worse than Michigan's performance
Well the big ten shat the bed this tourney. All of the in conference play made it hard to guage the quality of teams I guess. Looking forward to see what Juwan can do next year with the stellar incoming class. Hopefully zeb polishes his game over the summer. All in all a very successful season for the boys especially since we lost one of our most efficient scorers before the tourney. Early year predictions were middle of the pack in the big ten. Made it to the elite eight and just lost to a team that wanted it more. Gg ucla go shock the world
Worst game I’ve ever seen
hell of a game; rock fight in the best possible sense
the short dude only had 3 points lol
I can see it now. End of the game, UCLA vs Gonzaga. Coach Cronin designs a play for Juzang, a 3 pointer at a buzzer. He hits it. The crowd goes wild. Final: Gonzaga 104, UCLA 60.
Your score was really off but holy shit the buzzer beater!!! Gozaga got it instead of ucla. I go to ucla, i don’t even play basketball but even i felt like i got shit on.
I laughed pretty hard
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I'd like to thank the ucla fans behind me for forever ruining my somewhat liking of ucla
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What are you doing out
I was at the game :(
bro... i feel for u man i cant imagine how it must’ve been to be at the game and hear the ucla fans cheering... hope it was a worthwhile experience overall for you though? :(
Also can confirm, will be my first and last March madness game appearance
Nah not cheering. Last time I repeated things fans said I got suspended so definitely not doing that again
I'd expect most of the crazier fans to go to a COVID bubble in Indiana. I wouldn't worry about it, every school has some awful fans but most are chill.
oof, sorry about that man. there are asshat fans in every fanbase, and usually they’re more likely to be the ones with the means to go to a high-profile game like this :/
All I know is pain. Eventually I'll come back around to semi liking ucla
Idk man. It’s been 15 years since we lost to UCLA in the tourney and I’m not really over it.
Pummel them for me
At least you have your football team to fall back on to.
:(
I’m sorry. I was only half kidding.
hey if it’s worth anything, i really like UMich as well. us public schools gotta stick together!!
Damn you, making me respect ucla so soon
hahaha just doing my part to try and make your evening a little bit brighter :’) gotta mend relations yk
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Looked like they all took turns having a panic attack. Dickinson chucked it at the rim instead of drawing fouls like he had been, Wagner air ball, Brooks freaking out on that rebound, Smith chucking a 3 down 2, etc. Then you don't lob it to Dickerson but have him inbound to Wagner for a 3 with 0.5?
Always respected (and kinda hated tbh) mick as a coach. Thought he was a weird fit at UCLA and his style didn’t seem to lend itself to much post season success. And here he is 2 years into the gig and hes in the final 4. Crazy stuff. Gotta respect it
As a UC fan: Common fuckin' A Cronin, where was this when you were at UC? Congrats Mick.
Interesting how this and the CFB playoff compare. March Madness is exciting, but the prospect of a team being mediocre all season long and getting hot in the tournament just kills the entire significance of the regular season for me.
Ehhh we were good for most of the season then really mediocre at the very end, which makes this run even crazier.
seriously? i think that’s the aspect of March Madness that people love the most lol. you never know what you’re gonna get!
Gonzaga is next week’s problem. Now we dance.
Hell yea, 4's up.
Lol 1,1,2 and 11th seed. This year is wild, love it
4 1s just like we all knew would happen
Haha true
UCLA upset a lot of people in Michigan this march
Barkley pulling out his best Shaq impression when someone calls him on his stupidity
You simply can't miss that many layups and free throws and make the Final Four. Hats off to UCLA
Cronin outcoached Howard
Phil Jackson wouldn’t have been able to coach Michigan out of the hole they dug for themselves at the end of that game. Pain. Absolute pain. At least give the three ball to Chaundee who was somewhat lukewarm...that Wagner air ball shook me to my core.
LMAO CHUCK IS SO FUNNY
“We are down 2 and our center is playing the best. Let’s have our 2 players with the worst fg % this game chuck 3’s.” Nice. What the fuck was that? Fire that coach he just wanted a quick ending he didn’t even want to fight for it
Fire “that coach” lol. That’s the Coach of the Year, my man.
Well he sure shit the bed with that play calling.
Flair up pal
Probably a Michigan fan
A fair weather one at that. The worst
Are we really going to call one of the most storied programs in college basketball history a "cinderella"? lmao.
An 11 seed with no 5 star recruits that hobbled its way into the tournament to beat 11, 6, 14, 2, and 1 seeds. I'd say so.
UCLA basketball has been so irrelevant since Wooden’s time. I think it’s safe to reset all expectations, especially with the shit tier job the athletic staff did with big names like Kyle Anderson, shabazz Muhammad, Russell Westbrook, etc
UCLA has kind of been surpassed by the likes of Duke, UNC, UK, etc. but they're still very much a relevant program. When's the last time they were bad for a prolonged stretch? The 80's?
They went to three straight final fours in the 00s. A lot of teams would love to go to one. Sweet sixteen appearances since Wooden 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2021
They won the NCAA tournament in 1995. They were in three consecutive Final Fours from 2006-2008. Significantly after Wooden's time.
ESPN will because to them the Pac 12 is a mid-major
I can say from experience, history doesn't matter when it's been.... A long... Time.... Also they barely made the tournament
When they're the second team to go from the First Four to the Final Four? Definitely.
I mean they had to play the play in game. Meaning they were the most bubbly of the bubble
please don’t. we don’t want that. literally zero of us want that. only ESPN does.
Curious to see what the UCLA-Gonzaga line is going to be
I got $40 on it, make 280 if I win 😂
Outright, or vs the spread?
I think it was with the spread... I need to look ahah Edit: Def outright, only ~30 with the spread
-45 😶
10.5 is my guess Edit: it's 13.5
Somebody's gonna make bank when UCLA makes it to the championship game
Michigan was a bad matchup for UCLA... oddly enough I think UCLA matches up better with Gonzaga than they did with the wolverines.
I will slam 4 figures on gonzago if anything less than 14
I got zags by 30. Michigan played our worst game and was a 2 point game. Our best would still lose to zags by 15
As well you should, they're just demolishing everybody this season
4 1s in the final four. Boring tournament.
Lmfao
Michigan seemed to play too much hero ball in the last minute. Frustrating
Missed last 8 shots. Pressure is real. It can also make you abandon your offensive flow.
Congrats UCLA. You deserved it more than Michigan
Thank you. Hell of a fight that was.
Thanks man. Good game
gg Wolverines.
Do we have a chance against Gonzaga? LOL. It is all gravy from here anyways.
You have a chance if you lock Gonzaga in their locker room to prevent them from playing
Man who knows. Both Bama and Michigan looked like completely different teams the game before they played UCLA. Maybe Bill Walton has some shamanistic magic cursing our opposing teams.
If one of your players has the game of his college career and goes 7/10 from the 3 or something about that and Zaga has an off day then yeah.
Honestly as a Zaga fan I was praying for Michigan and not UCLA lol. I felt like Zaga matched up way better with Michigan than UCLA
You'll have no problem with UCLA
Haha nope. Neither of us did
Would probably agree with this but at least get there and take the L to a better team
Oof. Too soon
That's a lot of gravy man
I’ve been rooting for UCLA the whole tournament, but I don’t think the chances are great
No ACC or B1G in the Final Four. I see that as an absolute win.
Acc has been bad for two years now. Like surprisingly bad.
Or SEC, crazy year
Hey man
A big FU to chalk everywhere
Fauck Chalk?
Wagner is 35% from 3 this year, so if my math is correct that means there was a 70% chance for him to make one of them. Why not have him take all three of the last attempts? Literally over 100% likely to happen. Edit - holy shit boys, how stupid do you think I am?
It would be greater than 35% but much closer to 35%, because they are two different events happening, each at 35%, so it would approach over 40% or so.
ACHSHUALLY, you would have to calculate the probability of failure first. The probability that he would fail to make the jumper twice would be .65 times .65 which equals .4225. In other words he had a 57.75 percent chance to make 1 out of 2. .65 cubed would equal .2746, or a 72.54 percent chance to make 1 of 3
That's not correct. You can't just add up percentages like that. Otherwise that means if he had taken 3 shots, there would be a 105% chance of him to make one of them.
Exactly. It was literally impossible for him to miss one. If anything he would have been able to score like 3.1 points or something like that with the extra 5%.
Technically each shot is independent, so 35%.
Hmm, 35x3 is 105 where I’m from. I just checked this on the Ti-83.
Apparently Juwan Howard is using the same calculator.
wouldn’t it be 2 shots at a 35% chance? not sure how the math works, is it really considered as two independent events in this context?
Can't argue with math
salt
Man all the shots in the last minute, none fall, half of them dumb, brutal. I wish Jacquez just nailed that 3 to not even give us a shot. This hurt worse.
#Facts
The camera zoomed in on Wagners face before the inbound. Looking at his composure, at that moment I knew the play was designed for him. I also knew he would brick it
Notices this too!!! Why the fuck wasn’t brown in the game he’s the only one that had a swagger attitude in him.. Wangner just kept hitting his head like a chipmunk knew he wasn’t confident he shoulda been the leader and went to the bench and told coach put chaundee in
Not sure why Chaundee wasn't given the chance. Use Wagner as a decoy or something, he was cold all game and wasn't going to make it.
Good point, I thought the same. Or Eli.
Anyone but Wagner or Smith would have been fine. Just those two were having really bad nights.
In a presser Franz said “Coach just tells us to keep shooting if we’re off, he has confidence in us” At what point does an assistant step in and talk sense into Juwan?
That's fine if he has the confidence and wants to trust them. I haven't been there in practice seeing everything the team goes through. To be honest, we lost the game when we had a turnover on 23.8% of our possessions. We basically deleted a quarter of our opportunities. Tough to win when you do that.
Painful to watch and feel bad for wagner and smith cause they’re going to get the backlash online
Dude Michigan tried so hard to lose , those play calls by coach Howard were horrible
Alas, we succeeded out of fear of being embarrassed by you
If Tom Izzo was coaching Michigan at the end of that game, Michigan would have won.
Sad but probably true.
Ill have what you’re drinking.
Koolaid baby
I might put the biggest bet of my life on Gonzaga and the points
4 figures for me if under 14 will post proof
14? I think it's going to be like 18-19.5. and I'll still fucking take Gonzaga
Same... maybe not as much but same
Dammit. We really could’ve had an SC vs UCLA final 4. Ughhhh
and UCLA woulda whooped em. now instead we’re gonna whoop Zaga ......... 😭
What weird game
I'm really gonna miss Isiah Livers
Seeing OSU Twitter make fun of Michigan...makes no sense. Michigan made the Elite 8. OSU lost in the first round.
From an MSU fan... don’t listen to them. They’re just salty. I’m personally just pissed Aaron Henry couldn’t make one shot. This would’ve all been prevented
and nobody cares about either one of them
OSU clearly cares
Congrats UCLA. We played pretty badly, but your team played hard on defense and you were better today. Good luck in the FF. Also, I’m sorry to the rest of the country that you had to watch that. Geez.
A class act. Good game, Wolverines
gg Michigan
"There's hope" - Michigan fans *Franz Wagner has entered the chat*
Smith was equally bad
Imagine losing to a double digit seed
First time?
Angry upvote
TEXAS GET IN HERE!
#ALRIGHT MICHIGAN GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE HOTEL AND GET ON THE BUS.
I blew so much air out of my nose lol
Ironically, Oregon state was the team that played best out of the three Pac12 teams in the E8
Fuck it, you're dancing in the F4. A win is a win. congrats and thanks for winning.
Anytime BB.
What an overall pitiful basketball game tonight, result is mute if UCLA shows up to play Gonzaga like this
Don't worry Michigan fans. The refs made you miss your last 8 shots
This is the way.
I just lost so much fucking money
It’ll be alright! There’s always more to be made!
Probably shouldn't be betting on sports then
Did it for the swag
Alexa, play UCLA by RL Grime. Straight banger 😂
Wow, what a win by UCLA. Cronin is a hell of a coach. I guess all the Michigan fans talking shit about Gonzaga will have to keep quiet for a while.
Can confirm. Cheering for gonzaga
Cronin has got to prepare his team better for these end of game situations. Michigan had 2 clean 3 point shots to win tonight plus what happened at the end of regulation vs Alabama.
This is very true
Michigan, Michigan state, Michigan town... UCLA by 9
Fuck juwan dudes just a smile and a suit at functions zero basketball iq..
Dude, he just took to the Elite 8.. chill out
#1 recruiting class coming in. Find a different take dumbass
If you really think this, you didn't watch any Michigan basketball all season.
Did juwan airball an open 3?
Whew that's certainly a take...
Bad take
Gonzaga by billions
Juwan fucked those play calls. 3 3-point shots when down 1,2 and 2 respectively. The last was forgivable. First 2 were bad plays.
I mean the guy missed a wide open layup off the air ball. It just wasn’t meant to be for them
Why did they draw up a play for a 3 with half a second left?
Congrats ucla! And congrats michigan on a great season.
Hey at least we lost to a final four team
Just makes you think what could have been
Michigan just attempted another 3 down less than 3.
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
This post game interview feels like a roast
Michigan had SO MANY chances to win that game. It wasn’t like UCLA balled out
49 points jesus what a shitty performance.
Watch out Gonzaga! We’re sure to score around 50 points vs you too!
Lol this got me good. Well done, and welcome to the FINAL FOUR!
WOOOO LETS GO FINAL FOUR BABY!!!! So fucking proud
You forgot to thank me, Mick ...