The NCAA Final Four is set for tonight at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, Texas, with the first game between Wake Forest and North Carolina already under way (on ESPN2). St. John's and Maryland face off tonight (8:30pm, ESPNU) in the second match.
If you will be watching the matches, please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play in the comments section below.
Enjoy the action.
M-A-R-Y-L-A-N-D Maryland we’ll win! fear the turtle
Ives,
Any word on the attendance? It looked like the stadium was empty.
St. Johns played a very defensive and boring game. They had one player up top and tried to play it long to him every time, but Maryland’s 6’5″ center back won every header. St. John’s goalie played well, but other than that it was kick and chase.
St. Johns played a very defensive and boring game. They had one player up top and tried to play it long to him every time, but Maryland’s 6’5″ center back won every header. St. John’s goalie played well, but other than that it was kick and chase.
Maryland UNC in the final.
heartbreaking! Poor Kitson, poor SJU!
what a freekick! wow!
Anyone know what is happening in the Maryland game? I don’t get that channel. Thanks!
Azeredo
Please, its not the Premier League, but it’s far from “horribly disappointing”. They are 18-22 year old kids who would run you off the pitch.
This was the first college match I’ve watched at this level, and was horribly disappointed at the level of play. UNC seemed to go with two capable players, one of them the keeper, and the other that Schuler guy, and nine stiffs whose sense of the game was a lifelong sup at the table of League Two. Ugly, awful, and desperate play. As for much vaunted Wake Forest, although they were as a whole clearly the superior side, I would have, and did, expect much more from such a “storied” side. If UNC was Accrington&Stanley then Wake Forest was Dag&Red. They were not quite as awful, quite as ugly, but in the end even more, and vainly, desperate.
Sanford Mibut can keep this mess.
It looked like a possible handball in the box with 10 sec left by UNC. Don’t know if it was or not. It would’ve been nice if ESPN had showed a replay of it!
Go Gauchos Next Year!
andrew wiedeman on CAL reminds me of shriver.. anyone else?
And that, kids, is why you play the game, no matter what the odds
87th – Wake with a header off the bar! Carolina starting to dream of hanging on… they are getting battered but not breaking…
So close! Wake is really pressing. They play so well as a team, I wish we could promote them to MLS…
70th – Wake #17 nearly recreates Feilhaber’s Gold Cup goal, just over. Wake is starting to get it’s groove, I bet they get one.
Timeouts. Sigh. Get with the program, NCAA!
I really hope they put in a spring league with FIFA rules, that’s the coolest rumor I’ve heard – dare to dream.
60th min, still 1-0 UNC. Great quality of play, better than many MLS matches I’ve seen. Players are good on the ball, Wake is now trying to get their 1 touch game going.
Nice strike by Lewis. This is a quality match so far. I just wish more would have come to see it.
Man UNC is playing pretty solid. Hopefully Wake Forest got the jitters out and are ready to play…
It’s all about the CounterAttack so far. UNC are crowding the back and releasing the wings early creating unbelievable space on the counter. I look for a little more patience and alot more control from Wake in the 2nd half making this a V for Wake.
NC really taking it to Wake the first half. Wake will have to change it up here in the second half. The pitch looks good but the crowd looks a bit sparse.
I thought Texas was a soccer state?
Overall, decent quality college game.
Almost half time and Carolina has the surprise 1-0 lead. They’ve deserved it and look like the better team so far.
Disappointing crowd, too bad this year’s College Cup isn’t in Cary, NC, the 3 ACC teams would have drawn very well.