Pio, have you found the Vermont message board yet?

You know that guy has found it and already has double digit posts.

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Is he posing as a Kansas fan who hates Arkansas there, too?

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Probably

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Hard Pass on Arkansas, btw. Don't really want an SEC school and JD Notae is a problem.

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And it's # 4 seed Arkansas in Buffalo.

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Go get them Catamounts

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Clearing my calendar for Thursday

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Flight options to Buffalo from BOS suck...

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For sure, thinking about the 6 hour drive

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Don't hate the matchup. They aren't huge and don't seem like an elite shooting team. Any draw is going to look bad because we are a (deserved) 13 seed. We have to play a top 15 team no matter what.

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Split it half. When we played the Bonnies in Rochester, I booked a room at the Turning Stone Casino in Verona NY. The drive to the casino is a little over half way to Buffalo. Who knows, you could get on a heater playing Craps and pay for the gas bill out & back !

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Out of UCLA, Providence, Illinois, and Arkansas we probably got the most favorable 4 seed match-up.

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Arkansas has only one rotation player over 6-6 (he's 6-10), and they only shoot 44 percent from the floor and 30 percent from three. Given that, they've undoubtedly had some impressive wins this year. Nevertheless, they seem to be ideally constructed for the Cats to be able to match up against.

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Glad I booked my Buffalo contingencies a while back (I was planning on going somewhere for the tourney this year, regardless of how UVM faired).

Anybody have any hot travel tips for Buffalo? Weather looks like it'll be decent at least and the 65 minute flight time for me from BWI beats the cross country trip to Portland...

Line I saw on twitter was Ark -5.5 which seems decent enough as far as a puncher's chance is concerned (lol at Providence being a 1 point favorite over SDSU).

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Best of luck! Hopefully Vermont puts this one to bed early because most of us have work in the morning.
Since the game's closer than Arkansas, Vermont fans should give their guys a home court advantage. 2005 part 2?

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UCLA, Illinois, Providence and Arkansas are the #4 seeds (Wisconsin is a #3). I don’t know enough about Illinois vs Arkansas, but a lot of the talking heads (including Jay Bilas) like our chances against Arkansas.

For some reason, Bryant is getting a lot of love on CBS and the CBSSN. Just listened to 5 minutes of Grasso - what a punk. I really hope they don’t join the AE.

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Thanks, I'm having a tough time with the 4 seeds for some reason.

But, Illinois vs Arkansas is easy: we don't want anything to do with Kofi Cockburn. Arkansas a much more preferred opponent.

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I watched the first half of the 2/22 Arkansas vs Florida game on ESPN replay, but I can't stay awake much longer.

Arkansas is certainly athletic, and other athletic teams have given UVM problems, but so far I haven't seen anything that indicates UVM is in trouble with this matchup. UVM has been moving the ball much better than Florida did and if UVM stays within their game and keeps the turnovers low being able to jump out of the building really won't help Arkansas much. I'm kind of puzzled by how much open space Arkansas gives to open shooters. Their defense almost looks like a match-up zone kind of thing. Florida hasn't shown many cuts or inside out passing so who knows how Arkansas defends those things.

If UVM can stay loose and play their game I like their chances.

One more thing. If Arkansas comes out overconfident and UVM runs up an early lead, flop sweat will kill the Arkansas shooting game. Starting strong with plenty of tried and true plays should be UVM's goal.

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Historically, 13-seeds have a 21% winning rate against 4-seeds. But espn.com shows UVM with a 40% chance of beating Arkansas. BTW, over the 36 years that there have been 16 seeds per region, at least one 13-seed has won in 26 of those years. In five of those years, two 13-seeds won.

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Pretty detailed writeup from the Arkansas perspective I found on Reddit Matchup Analysis: 4 Arkansas vs. 13 Vermont - Fayette Villains

Agree with the author, if they can get to the tin at will, it might be a long night for UVM. At the same time, if UVM doesn't get frazzled turnover wise and hits their 3s I think they should be competitive into the 2nd half. Plus being the last game of the night you just know any UConn fans sticking around will side with their NE brethren if they smell an upset brewing.

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We should go zone

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Cats can't let them get into their speed game. They like to force turnovers to generate offense and like the dribble/drive off the perimeter but their drive habits are very predictably one directional.
If UVM can shut off the drives and force them back to reset, they can make a game of it. Considering that the committee sent them away to Buff rather than close to home in Indy and gave them the toughest 13, they probably weren't impressed with the Razorbacks.

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They seem pretty reasonable actually. We play crisp and high effort basketball and we will win this one. While we have had a lot of bad games this team has shown up when a challenge was in front of them. One of the good parts about having a lot of upperclassmen is that they don't seem to get the yips and take all teams seriously.

I don’t disagree. Most we ever tried to Colgate by was 14, but still - the point remains.

I'm sure they will, take them out of that comfort zone. They run a slower paced offense for a reason.

Arkansas Razorbacks scouting thread