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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 5, 2024 14:50:37 GMT
Purdue v. Illinois tonight. A game that means little to Purdue (they win the regular season B10 unless they choke to Wisconsin Saturday) but everything to Illinois. The Illini offense has scored more than 90 in their last four games.
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Post by Tim05 on Mar 6, 2024 13:36:56 GMT
Purdue v. Illinois tonight. A game that means little to Purdue (they win the regular season B10 unless they choke to Wisconsin Saturday) but everything to Illinois. The Illini offense has scored more than 90 in their last four games. Really entertaining game. Braden Smith with the clutch deep 3 to ice the game at the end, man, that one gives me so much hope for this Boiler team compared to last year. Edey is still Edey, not a lot different from last year - a bit quicker and more agile, but still basically the same player. Smith has taken such a leap, I'm really excited to see what he becomes without Edey next year
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Mar 7, 2024 4:15:34 GMT
Marquette smells.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 7, 2024 11:27:30 GMT
UConn doesn't. They look better now than the team than waltzed through the tournament last year and barely broke a sweat
Tennessee chokeslammed South Carolina last night to win the SEC Regular season. They haven't lost since Feb. 10th.
Right now, the top four, Houston, Purdue, UConn and Tennessee are miles ahead of the field
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Post by Tim05 on Mar 7, 2024 13:57:55 GMT
UConn doesn't. They look better now than the team than waltzed through the tournament last year and barely broke a sweat
Tennessee chokeslammed South Carolina last night to win the SEC Regular season. They haven't lost since Feb. 10th.
Right now, the top four, Houston, Purdue, UConn and Tennessee are miles ahead of the field
Arizona is still Lunadri's last 1-seed and Tennessee is the top 2 seed. If Tennessee wins out and wins the SEC tournament I think you would have to flip them. Houston/UConn/Purdue could all lose out at this point and still get a 1-seed which is pretty crazy
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 7, 2024 14:26:26 GMT
UConn doesn't. They look better now than the team than waltzed through the tournament last year and barely broke a sweat
Tennessee chokeslammed South Carolina last night to win the SEC Regular season. They haven't lost since Feb. 10th.
Right now, the top four, Houston, Purdue, UConn and Tennessee are miles ahead of the field
Arizona is still Lunadri's last 1-seed and Tennessee is the top 2 seed. If Tennessee wins out and wins the SEC tournament I think you would have to flip them. Houston/UConn/Purdue could all lose out at this point and still get a 1-seed which is pretty crazy I don't understand Arizona over Tennessee. All three of the big ratings sites, NCAA NET, KenPom and BartTorvik have Arizona over Tennessee. Both have identical records (Zona has one more win). Going by NET, which the selection committee heavily relies on, Arizona is 7-3 in Quad one, Vols 7-5. Zona is 6-2 in quad 2, Tennessee is 5-1. But Arizona has one Quad 3 loss (Oregon State, I assume) and Tennessee has none. Arizona has two games left, neither of which will help (USC and UCLA) and Tennessee has one left, Kentucky. Arizona should waltz through the PAC tournament, but they have lost both games to Washington State. If both win out, the the Vols have to be the 4th #1. I might even have Arizona as the 2nd #2 seed if the Duke-UNC winner also wins the ACC. Lunardi had five ACC teams going and only two PAC teams
Six Mountain West teams, wow
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Post by Tim05 on Mar 8, 2024 14:31:14 GMT
Arizona is still Lunadri's last 1-seed and Tennessee is the top 2 seed. If Tennessee wins out and wins the SEC tournament I think you would have to flip them. Houston/UConn/Purdue could all lose out at this point and still get a 1-seed which is pretty crazy I don't understand Arizona over Tennessee. All three of the big ratings sites, NCAA NET, KenPom and BartTorvik have Arizona over Tennessee. Both have identical records (Zona has one more win). Going by NET, which the selection committee heavily relies on, Arizona is 7-3 in Quad one, Vols 7-5. Zona is 6-2 in quad 2, Tennessee is 5-1. But Arizona has one Quad 3 loss (Oregon State, I assume) and Tennessee has none. Arizona has two games left, neither of which will help (USC and UCLA) and Tennessee has one left, Kentucky. Arizona should waltz through the PAC tournament, but they have lost both games to Washington State. If both win out, the the Vols have to be the 4th #1. I might even have Arizona as the 2nd #2 seed if the Duke-UNC winner also wins the ACC. Lunardi had five ACC teams going and only two PAC teams
Six Mountain West teams, wow
Yeah, Lunardi is not super accurate either, I do think if the season ended right now though, Arizona would probably be the last #1 seed. Their resumes are super similar, but Arizona has the edge in quad 1 games and has fewer quad 4 wins. If Tennessee beats Kentucky, it will narrow the gap. Tennessee definitely controls their own destiny, if they win the SEC tournament, they will get the last 1 seed. At this point, if Arizona wins the PAC-12 tournament, I don't think either Duke or UNC move ahead of them. It might be a big year too for being the "top" 2 seed, to avoid Houston/Purdue/UConn, although the tournament is wild and a lot of times we don't even get the 1 vs 2 matchup.
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Post by NJtoTX on Mar 9, 2024 2:12:12 GMT
Temple University reviewing reports of potential match-fixing of men's basketball game. The betting odds in favor of Alabama-Birmingham saw an unusual surge from 2 1/2 to 8 in the hours prior to Thursday's tip-off. UAB went on to win 100-72. Notably, UAB had 22 more rebounds than Temple, 39 to 17 — the Owls' worst rebounding performance since 2019. They had 1 offensive board. www.sports-reference.com/cbb/boxscores/2024-03-07-00-temple.html
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 9, 2024 20:27:48 GMT
Last weekend of the regular season. Playing to get in, playing to get on the bubble, playing for a higher seed. And the first autobid comes down, the OVC title game between Morehead state and Little Rock
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 9, 2024 23:33:16 GMT
Kentucky beats Tennessee 85-81, despite Dalton Knecht's 40 points. If I was a #1 seed, I would not want to see Kentucky in my bracket
Houston strangles Kansas by 30. Scary
Iowa State loses to K State, might cost them a #2 seed
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Mar 10, 2024 10:51:45 GMT
Arizona loses to USC? 😲
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 10, 2024 13:40:42 GMT
Even though Tennessee lost, I think that takes Arizona off the #1 seed
One week from today is Selection Sunday
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 10, 2024 14:51:22 GMT
Three autobids today.
Big South, Longwood (heh heh, long heh heh wood) v. UNC Asheville. Missouri Valley, Indiana State v. Drake. "Arch Madness" (it's in St. Louis, get it). I wouldn't want the winner as my first NCAA game ASun Conference, Austin Peay v. Stetson. Best CBB chant ("Go Pee, go Pee) v. the Hatters, who have never been to the NCAA. Go Hatters
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Post by NJtoTX on Mar 10, 2024 21:40:52 GMT
Mini brawl for the women, South Carolina vs LSU. Player's brother jumped the scorer's table and got led out. All but 5 players on each team ejected. Mostly for leaving the bench.
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Post by Tim05 on Mar 11, 2024 12:43:30 GMT
Three autobids today. Big South, Longwood (heh heh, long heh heh wood) v. UNC Asheville. Missouri Valley, Indiana State v. Drake. "Arch Madness" (it's in St. Louis, get it). I wouldn't want the winner as my first NCAA game ASun Conference, Austin Peay v. Stetson. Best CBB chant ("Go Pee, go Pee) v. the Hatters, who have never been to the NCAA. Go Hatters Interesting that Drake beat Indiana State - personally, I don't think Indiana State gets in, but they were ranked this year so could potentially be a bid stolen here Stetson getting their first ever tournament appearance is really cool Really looking forward to this week and seeing if anyone can steal a bid from one of the multi bid conferences
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Post by NJtoTX on Mar 11, 2024 13:16:13 GMT
The buzz about 72 teams and 76 teams doesn't say how they would do it.
72 teams
Increase play-ins to 8 (likely), or
18 teams per region, Top 2 seeds in each bracket get byes, 3 plays 18, 10-11, 6-15, 7-14, 4-17, 9-12, 5-16, 8-13 Wouldn't have top seeds playing, or having a possibility of a 16-1 upset
They could have done the above with 17 teams with 1 seeds getting byes but didn't. Would have been insane deciding who gets a 1 and a bye.
76 teams
Increase play-ins to 12 (likely), or
The 18 team regions above with 4 play-ins, or
19 teams per region, Top 3 seeds in each bracket get byes, 3 plays 19, etc.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 11, 2024 14:49:15 GMT
The buzz about 72 teams and 76 teams doesn't say how they would do it. 72 teams Increase play-ins to 8 (likely), or 18 teams per region, Top 2 seeds in each bracket get byes, 3 plays 18, 10-11, 6-15, 7-14, 4-17, 9-12, 5-16, 8-13 Wouldn't have top seeds playing, or having a possibility of a 16-1 upset They could have done the above with 17 teams with 1 seeds getting byes but didn't. Would have been insane deciding who gets a 1 and a bye. 76 teams Increase play-ins to 12 (likely), or The 18 team regions above with 4 play-ins, or 19 teams per region, Top 3 seeds in each bracket get byes, 3 plays 19, etc. Personally, I don't like the play-ins and wish it would go back to 64. But the NCAA will expand soon,maybe to 80. It's the Power Conferences. They want more at-large bids for more .500 teams to get in. They already forced the NIT to abandon the rule that any mid-major that won the regular season would get an auto NIT bid. Eastern Kentucky, winners of the ASun regular season but upset in the 1st round would get an NIT bid. Not now. The Power Conferences are threatening to scrap the NCAA and make their own postseason tournament so a 15-16 Arkansas would get in and Stetson,winner of their minnow conference, goes home. I think it's incredibly short sighted. The upsets make March Madness. Most remember the Northern Iowa, the Florida Gulf Coast, the St. Peter upsets. Making a bottom feeder like Stanford a 16 seed and seeing them knock off a #1 is not UMBC taking out Virginia
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 11, 2024 14:57:56 GMT
Three autobids today. Big South, Longwood (heh heh, long heh heh wood) v. UNC Asheville. Missouri Valley, Indiana State v. Drake. "Arch Madness" (it's in St. Louis, get it). I wouldn't want the winner as my first NCAA game ASun Conference, Austin Peay v. Stetson. Best CBB chant ("Go Pee, go Pee) v. the Hatters, who have never been to the NCAA. Go Hatters Interesting that Drake beat Indiana State - personally, I don't think Indiana State gets in, but they were ranked this year so could potentially be a bid stolen here Stetson getting their first ever tournament appearance is really cool Really looking forward to this week and seeing if anyone can steal a bid from one of the multi bid conferences Two of those conference championship games were really good. Stetson and Austin Peay ("Let's go Pee") scored almost 200 combined and went to the last seconds. Same with "Arch Madness" and Drake taking out Indiana State. I love watching the mid-major title games, often as competition as a Final Four game. Like Appalachian State. They won the Sun Belt with a 26-5 record, a win over Auburn. But lose in the semis on a last second shot. They won't get an an at-large bid. These conference tournaments mean everything. Going to The NCAA is just playing with house money
As far as bid stealers, I think Indiana State is one. Princeton is another. 24-3 is impressive, no matter the conference. It helps that they were a Sweet 16 last year. But they have played no one. Biggest win, Rutgers. It'll be interesting if Yale or Cornell upset them. Can the Ivy get two bids?
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Mar 11, 2024 20:34:42 GMT
Conference tourney time.
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Post by tristramshandy on Mar 12, 2024 1:03:49 GMT
James Madison gets in - - most wins in the NCAA this year. We could lose both our football and basketball coach in the same school year.
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