Friday’s Games
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@BeddieKU23 for sure had the ball up 2 points 27 seconds left. Bricked a front end of a one and one. Let Northwestern get a wide open layup then settled for a 30 foot shoot triple covered at the end of regulation.
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Had to work today for goodness sakes. Tired, last night was a very late night. Mostly have avoided the talk about the blown call last night.
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Auburn vs Yale is very close, could be a nail biter
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Is college basketball going the way of the NBA with all of these high scoring games?
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Both games right now coming down to the wire. Colorado/Florida and Yale/Auburn with both lower seeded teams currently up.
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Florida’s comeback attempt comes up just short and they lose 102-100 to Colorado.
Yale’s on the verge of knocking out Auburn up 3 with 14 seconds left shooting 2 FT’s.
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That was a very weak foul call against Yale.
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Last 7 seconds of Yale-Auburn is one of the craziest sequences you’ll ever see. Auburn missed and And 1 FT, got possession on a held ball, got fouled on the inbound, missed both FT’s down 2, got the offensive rebound off the second miss and a crazy scramble the last seconds of Auburn trying to get a shot up.
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Wow the big loser so far is the SEC, 5 of 6 teams lost most better seeds out and Nebraska is beating A&M early.
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Yale has a 7’, 250lb Sophomore center. 13 & 6, today (14 & 10 avg). Ivy League doesn’t have NIL does it? Portal possibility?
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@Gorilla72 said in Friday’s Games:
Yale has a 7’, 250lb Sophomore center. 13 & 6, today (14 & 10 avg). Ivy League doesn’t have NIL does it? Portal possibility?
I’d be shocked if the Ivy League didn’t allow NIL. Dartmouth players are currently leading the charge for unionization in college athletics. Obviously, Ivy League players aren’t making the same in NIL deals as Big 12 or other P5 programs, but they have NIL deal.
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Auburn was #4 KenPom, #5 Net, yet only 3 quad 1 wins. I knew they were a little fraudulent and glad to see them go.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 From a Dartmouth independent student newspaper in Jan:
“For Ivy League athletes, NIL deals look mostly like ambassadorships, where we receive discounts for high-end athletic apparel or a humble “Barstool Athlete” in our Instagram bios in exchange for a free t-shirt.”
No athletic scholarships, no NIL consortiums. But they point out in that article that they really aren’t recruiting against P5.
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@wissox the net to me this season was very confusing
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So maybe Wolf goes Portal?
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Wisconsin needs to regroup. Looks too familiar.
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Ok. Refs are trash in the Wisc JM game.
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About half of the games today have been supremely entertaining and competitive. The stinkers have been blowouts, but they are important to note because the teams that win in a blowout are often the teams that go deep.
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JMU looks ready to kick Duke’s ass
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JMU should have 4 guys fouled out by now.
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How about Grand Canyon with former Jayhawk, TGF
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@DanR I stopped watching at the half. I’ve never seen so many reach ins and push downs not being called. Badgers never adjusted of course, but I was not thrilled.
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One of the biggest surprises is both the Pac-12 and A-10 going undefeated thus far at 5-0 and 2-0 respectively.
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Officiating has been suspect. That Grand Canyon game was exceedingly one-sided. Then there’s the seeding and matchups. The optics make it hard not to believe the NCAA has some agenda.
I mean, can anyone explain why they schedule the early game to start in the western-most site? Today’s games start in Salt Lake City. Makes no sense at all.
They did it years ago when the games were in San Jose. I remember grabbing breakfast and running out the house to get to the games. There was still morning rush hour traffic. I live 12 min from the Shark Tank and I missed opening tip. Arena was empty.
Utter incompetence? Or by design?
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@bskeet Yes start times seem worse than ever before this year. There is definitely someone that pulls some strings from time to time.
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Thinking about this a bit more… there might be another explanation for the giving the western sites the early games. Maybe all the staff and operations people are based on the eastern time zone and they know they lose two or three hours flying back, so the NCAA does this so they can get home at a more convenient time or to reduce/avoid overtime pay and lodging costs.
If that’s the case, it’s a financial reason. I don’t like it because it seems selfish and prioritizes the organization over the players and the game. Actually that would be very consistent with the NCAA principles.
