Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz, Krysten Peek and NCAA champion Danny Green discuss the biggest second round storylines of the 2024 NCAA Tournament.
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It’s time to put a PO on all the action and wrap up what we saw on Saturday in the NCAA tournament Kristen Peak Danny Green on Jason Fitz for Yahoo sports Danny what stood out to you I mean of course I love seeing my Carolina boys
Win so that’s the first thing that stood out but a player we spoke about earlier in the week teren Shannon Jr another monster night 30 points tonight uh Illinois rolled they they played a great game um but he’s averaging 32 and a half points over his last four games and he’s
Been the player of the tournament for me so far so if he continues this um you know he could be MVP of the the they’re going to be in the final four I think and he’ll be MVP of the tournament that is interesting to me because so much of
What we saw today were teams coming in and taking away what happened in the first round nobody was able to take him away in this match up no he’s been playing extremely well getting downhill getting to the free throw line but get his teammates involved he does a little
Bit of everything uh not just scoring and shooting he actually started off slow tonight had about 12 points in the first half but finished off strong they were up big early um and they were able to get some rest as well but they all played a really good game tonight all
Right dominance for them KP what stands out to you I mean it was nothing that happened on the court it was what happened off the court after the game and that was after Gonzaga beat Kansas to roll to the Sweet 16 and you know Bill self came out and said for the last
Month I’ve been thinking about next season to be honest and mind you was taken a little bit out of context he went on to explain that they’ve been dealing with injuries all season long and they have they were missing Kevin mcculler Jr their number one scorer who
Averages 20 a game and Hunter Dickinson has just been a shell of himself with the dislocation in the shoulder uh but to say that that in a press conference after your season just ended no matter which way you’re going with that comment was just really shocking to see from a
Season coach and you know a bad look for him yeah I don’t like to tell people especially coaches what to say uh but there’s certain things you can think and not say out loud I’m glad he backtracked and spoke on it cuz if you’re a player that’s playing for him you hear that
It’s like you kind of feel like your coach might have given up on you in the last month or so but said I’m glad he cleared it up um they’ve been dealing with a lot a lot of teams have but in this time tournament time there’s no
Excuses you got to come out and play but I do give them credit they were down a man and a half um because Hunter Dickinson did not have his full shoulder but um you know said things like that you have to kind of just keep to
Yourself and that brings me to my big takeaway from what we saw and it’s that sort of everybody belongs right as we were watching all of the games over the course of today it felt like it feels like every round we’re seeing more of the fat trimmed and what we’re getting
At the best of the best from the coaches from the players the teams that are able to figure out how to strategize against each other as I mentioned earlier we’ve seen strengths taken away the teams that are surviving this doesn’t feel like a year of a wild lucky buzzer beater where
You’re sitting there saying how the hell did that team get to this spot this feels like the teams that are surviving are actually the best teams and I think that’s good for the sport for sure um but it makes it kind of boring for the fan the drama people want to see more
Upsets not as many upsets this year but we’re getting a good brand a good brand of basketball taking care of business yeah and at the end of the day as much as we love to see Drama We also love to see great basketball and the sweet 16 is shaping up to be exactly
That
