2019 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game Puns

FINAL GAME DAY OF THE SEASON. LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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#Road to the Championship Game

#Quick Facts

• This is the first ever meeting between the two teams.

• Massachusetts is appearing in its first ever title game, coming off of a season featuring their first ever league regular season title and first ever Hobey Baker winner in Cale Makar.

• Duluth is appearing in their third straight national title game, and is attempting to become the first team to win back to back titles since Denver in 04-05.

• A Duluth win would be their third title overall. UMD is 2-2 all time in the championship game, with their other title coming in 2011 over Michigan.

• A UMass victory would be the fifth first time champion this decade, following 2011 UMD, 2013 Yale, 2014 Union, and 2015 Providence. This would also result in a second consecutive national champion from Hockey East winning the NCAA title for the first time.

• UMass is without F Bobby Trivigno following a suspension for a blindside hit to the head during the National Semifinal game vs Denver that went initially uncalled.

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1. UVA — 0.9 miles
2. Georgetown — 112 miles
3. Duke — 168 miles
4. Penn — 245 miles
5. NYU — 336 miles
6. Columbia — 341 miles
7. Cornell — 377 miles
8. Yale — 411 miles
9. Michigan — 502 miles
10. Harvard — 545 miles
11. Chicago — 649 miles
12. Northwestern — 658 miles
13. Berkeley — 2769 miles
14. Stanford — 2780 miles

Shout-out to u/Nelly_24 and u/Ruvio00 for ensuring I’ll have the best moderator bracket for the second year in a row.

IN THIS CORNER: THE TEAM WHICH SQUEAKED INTO THE FINAL AT LARGE BERTH BY 1 TEN THOUSDANTH OF A PERCENTAGE POINT, AND HAS MADE THE MOST OF THAT OPPORTUNITY. AND IN THIS CORNER: A TEAM WHICH HAS MADE A STATEMENT IN THEIR FIRST SEASON IN THEIR NEW CONFERENCE, AND IS LOOKING TO FINALLY BRING HOME THE NATTY. TWO TEAMS ENTER, ONE TEAM LEAVES THE CHAMPION. LET’S GO COLLEGE HOCKEY!

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#Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs Duluth Bulldogs

Xcel Energy Center, St Paul MN
7:30 ET/6:30 CT/5:30 MT/4:30 PT

NCAA.com Gamecenter

Game Previews:

• NCAA.com
• und.com
• One Foot Down

#TV:

• US: ESPN (WatchESPN)
• CAN: TSN2 (TSNGo)
• UK and Ireland: BTSport ESPN
• Oceania: ESPN2 (Australia) (On Same Day Delay at 15:00 AEST Sunday 4/8)
• Other Regions: ESPN Player

#Radio:

• Westwood One Sports (check local listings)
• Duluth
• Notre Dame

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As Kaggle has just released the datasets for this year's March Madness, I have published a Github repository that has the process for submission. Each file has step-by-step comments to describe the process being completed. It is not intended to be a submission sample for another participant, but rather provide an intuitive example for how a predictive model can be generated, and hopefully will aid others in creating their own predictors.

The repository can be found here.

Best of luck to all participants!

Loyola-Chicago's defense held Michigan to 22 points in the first half, but then gave up 47 in the second half.

##2016 NCAA Men's Division I National Championship Game: #2 Wake Forest vs. #5 Stanford

###Information

Kickoff: 2:00 PM EDT / 11:00 AM PDT

Venue: BBVA Compass Stadium; Houston, TX

Weather: Cloudy 70°F (21°C) | Humidity: 85% | Winds: 10 mph | Chance of precipitation: 30%

Television: ESPNU

###Lineups

Wake Forest

Substitutes

Stanford

Substitutes

###Events

1' Kickoff! The 58th NCAA national championship is underway! The Stanford Cardinal are going left-to-right and are in white kits with red stripes. Wake Forest is going right-to-left with light gold shirts and shorts and black shorts.

3' Early shot by Stanford's Corey Baird is easily saved WF's Andreu Cases Mundet. Still scoreless in Houston.

7' Stanford has an early corner, where Bryce Marion's inswinger results in a header from Thomas Hillard-Arce. Header aims too high.

10' Most of the possession of this match h

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###Events via /r/MLS

1' We are underway!

5' Yes, Stanford's Logan Panchot and Indiana's Austin Panchot are borthers

7' Austin Panchot's tricky back heel isn't far from Indiana's first goal

10' Indiana's Muse lays out to deny Stanford's Marion after he made a great run toward goal

18' A spell of sustained pressure from Stanford, but Indiana's defense shuts them down

19' Langsdorf tries a long-distance shot for Stanford, but is far off the mark

27' Indiana puts on Justin Rennicks for Mason Toye, Derek Waldrek replaces Brian Marion for Stanford

34' Swartz for Indiana disrupts a Stanford chance

35' Langsdorf gets a shot off for Stanford, but easily stopped by the goalkeeper

37' Two corners for Stanford, easily dealt with by Indiana

39' Swartz off for Indiana, Rashad Hyacenth on

44' Short corner for Stanford, nothing there

45' First half ends, Stanford with more possession but no good chances for either team

45' We are back for the second half!

48' A corner kick for Indiana, but Stanford easily clears

54' Free kick for Stanford, but once again Indiana's defense doesn't give up an inch

60' A missed pass by Indiana ends their chance on the counterattack

60' On a counter of their own, Baird flies in, but can't get the shot on target for Stanford

62' Charlie Wehan goes on for Marion and Stanford

64' Muse stuns Stanford's Baird with a clutch safe to keep this thing level!

67' Again Muse gets a save for Indiana, this time vs Gilby

69' Cortie has his biggest moment in goal for Stanford, snatching a header from Swartz

70' Rennicks gets a long run for Indiana, but the Stanford defense regroups in time

The wait is over. Four teams enter, one team leaves with a shiny trophy. Though looking at these matchups, is it just me or is there some strange deja vu going on here?

Eh, it's probably just me.

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National Semifinals - KeyBank Center, Buffalo NY

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