Go back to the NBA sir.

Keep holding on to these seedings it's not about matchups in the tourney...never

It's just about people who think conference X is really strong when in realit it's really mediocre. I certainly don't get why you'd root for "your conference" i.e. I was fistpumphappy when UT lost but I enjoy being a hater especially against the supposed "elite" be it conference lolBigEast or single teams lolDuke.

I guess conferences do get money and if one of their teams does well others profit but why on earth would I ever root for UT. I have a pretty hard time seeing a tOSU fan root for Michigan and vice versa. The entire "SEC, SEC" chant is a mystery wrapped in bacon for me but I just credit it to the fact that SEC students aren't the brightest.

rooting for your conference is smart from a monetary perspective. every game unc wins is more money for duke and vice versa.

But not so much that you can stomach having your biggest rival win.

Plus those are generally the teams you're fighting with recruits and other stuff for. Conference loyalty is so lol

meh. im down with unc winning two more games this tourney. for one we can lol at the big east if they win in the sweet 16. then they can clear osu out for us which is much more important to me than unc not making the final 4. also, beating unc in the final 4 would be so sould crushing to them that it would be amazing. especially if we get to see roy and the falcon cry.

tears of joy imo.

and i don't think anybody it sitting on their couch wearing unc gear cheering for duke or visa versa (and this goes for any conference). as a unc fan, i've said i didn't mind fsu winning last night for the lol big east factor but if unc had lost to washington, i'm 100% cheering for ND (i was already cheering for michigan ldo). i don't think the excessive amount of people being lumped into "liking a conference" are anything but haters of all other conferences. most sports fans root against everybody else, no? but in a match up of two teams, somebody has to win.

the only way i can see "liking a conference" is if u have 2+ degrees from different schools, your wife is the same, and your dad played at another and your son is getting recruited by another. AND you are a super nice person.

I can't explain conference allegiance and I usually never get into the discussion of which conference is better because I really don't care, but I always find myself rooting for the Big12 teams. I felt bad for Pullen, I wanted him to win more than K-State as a team, but whatever. I was rooting for Texas to win, but lolTexas. I never want Missouri to win, ever.

It's not like UNC beat Duke's ass one time this year. You guys beat us in the ACCT which you guys really love and Roy hates........I love that you guys think it's a lock although the odds of beating us are probably better than beating tOSU. It would be great if we could beat your ass too.

well if kentucky was a lock to beat osu I will probably be rooting for marquette. they arent tho so I will be rooting for the team with the best chance to beat them. also, we didnt have kyrie and now we do.

Theres nothing wrong with liking some of the other teams in your conference... its not always you and 11 rivals. Teams like duke, unc, and vt I wont cheer for or a dbag player like vazquez, but overall Ive got no problem with fsu, maryland, bc, clemson in basketball

There is somewhat of an "I'm the only one who gets to pick on my brother" vibe to conference pride. It's not at all universal though.

Kyrie.......was awesome yesterday in your 2 point victory. I love how Kyrie is put on some monster pedestal. He beat up on a horrible 16 seed and then struggled with an average michigan squad e/c getting to the line. He's good but I don't think he is nearly the difference you guys are making him out to be at this point coming off injury and not playing for the last 3 months. If he was 100% healthy and playing all season, I would be very scared. At this point.......WHATEVER DUKIES.

uhhh he had a huge bucket and went 9/10 from the line, that made him a big factor for duke

the Kyrie myth continues........can't wait till we have the "what if we had Kyrie all season undefeated talk" after the tourney.

The only Pac 10 team I will never root for is UCLA. Outside of that I'll probably almost always root for a Pac team against someone else. For instance AZ against Texas and UW against UNC.

so youre saying we're gonna win the tourney?

i half facepalmed this comment from capone. he clearly meant your delusions after the arizona/sdsu/carolina loss will lead you to spew nonsensical statements such as the one above

I'm saying there are going to be many "what ifs with respect to Kyrie." If you guys lose it'll be b/c we didn't have Kyrie all year. If you did win it's b/c Kyrie came back and was instrumental and then it'll be "what if Kyrie was healthy all year situations." Whatever the situation is, it'll be mad annoying as a UNC fan. You guys didn't like our excuse when Lawson was out.................but lets be serious now, with lawson you guys never beat us if he was healthy.

what excuse did I not like when lawson was out?

kyrie looks fully recovered. if we lose its unrelated to his injury. if we had him in regular season its possible we have no losses right now, but thats not changing things going forward.

i dont think anyone really cares much about conference loyalty, its only that everyone was deepthroatin the big east so they were an easy target to hate. this in turn brings out conference loyalty when we can say big beast got less teams in teh s16 than the lolacc and the only teams they got in the s16 beat other big beast teams to get there. plus you have chuck openly trolling pitino which made it even more fun

not you in particular I read Devils Den.......you guys on this board e/c whats his name are nowhere near their level of annoyance. they are LOL funny some times though. I like to see their hater opinions of UNC and other teams.

lol why would you read that? read about 5 min of duke boards in my life. theyre insufferable and have no one willing to look at things objectively.

probably the worst thing about duke students, even worse than complaining about refs, is that they know next to nothing about any other teams. most couldnt name 5 non-duke and non-unc players in a given year. The ones you see on tv aren't basketball fans and they aren't a good or accurate representation of those of us that like the sport more than yelling for an espn camera.

I got a lot of free time at work and I like to laugh. I read Catspause too sometimes which is even better.

cdl, in defense (not sure why i'm even doing this) of those duke students, the "fans" screaming for espn cameras at most colleges often have very little knowledge of the general basketball/football/etc landscape