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Welp time for BYU to start. - - Let’s go big 12, pulling for everyone now prove the strength and toughness of this conference
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Go BYU
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Well BYU didn’t represent the league to well starting off. They never led for majority of the game, I think they led for like maybe a minute. - -not a good start
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I didn’t see BYU run any of the screens they used at AFH where they would get one 3 point shooter open to draw the defense, then a second shooter took the open shot. It always seems like Big 12 coaches and teams play much harder and game plan better against KU than in the tournament.
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@stoptheflop said in Other bball games:
I didn’t see BYU run any of the screens they used at AFH where they would get one 3 point shooter open to draw the defense, then a second shooter took the open shot. It always seems like Big 12 coaches and teams play much harder and game plan better against KU than in the tournament.
They really looked out of sync all day today. They for the longest time was having to scramble on defense — you would find 2-3 BYU players all cluttered up trying to run their offense for quite awhile just out of sync
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WOW – Texas leading Colorado St- - -39-32 with 7 :30 to go in the game - - those baskets must be sealed shut
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Is the Texas team mostly seniors? That weaver kid is a hustler.
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@jayballer67 Score was 27-11 at half! Tex/COLST. Colorado state made a pretty good comeback after that disaster.
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I hate to even bring up the OAK-UK game. Grizzlies are angry tonight
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UK struggling tonight. Trailing Oakland by 3 at 11:55 of 2nd half.
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@DanR said in Other bball games:
@jayballer67 Score was 27-11 at half! Tex/COLST. Colorado state made a pretty good comeback after that disaster.
ya I watch some of it till others started , but they won , – umm think they play Tennessee next – uh oh
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@jayballer67 said in Other bball games:
@DanR said in Other bball games:
@jayballer67 Score was 27-11 at half! Tex/COLST. Colorado state made a pretty good comeback after that disaster.
ya I watch some of it till others started , but they won , – umm think they play Tennessee next – uh oh
if Tennessee wins, LOL
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@DanR said in Other bball games:
@jayballer67 said in Other bball games:
@DanR said in Other bball games:
@jayballer67 Score was 27-11 at half! Tex/COLST. Colorado state made a pretty good comeback after that disaster.
ya I watch some of it till others started , but they won , – umm think they play Tennessee next – uh oh
if Tennessee wins, LOL
TRUE - – Actually the lower seeds haven’t done to bad for at least awhile today. -Hope ours isn’t like that. Actually I do have in one of my many brackets lol - --I actually got U Conn & Tennessee --I know I know- -but Tennessee not bad
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Talking heads thought zags would get upset, lol!
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@Crimsonorblue22 said in Other bball games:
Talking heads thought zags would get upset, lol!
Not gonna lie , I thought it would be closer then this
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Looking like Iowa State gonna cruise
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Wow. Kentucky.
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Can you imagine the Kentucky Fan base
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@jayballer67 - I tried to look at the Rupp Rafters site last night. It was sloooowww. So many fans complaining, I guess.
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@Gorilla72 said in Other bball games:
@jayballer67 - I tried to look at the Rupp Rafters site last night. It was sloooowww. So many fans complaining, I guess.
OH they absolutely Roasting Cal and saying they are though supporting UK till he is gone.
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@jayballer67 one of my favorites from Rupp Rafters: “No other coach in the history of NCAA BB has wasted this much talent”
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@HoraceZontal said in Other bball games:
@jayballer67 one of my favorites from Rupp Rafters: “No other coach in the history of NCAA BB has wasted this much talent”
Like I posted in a thread here - -Matt Norlander thinks he has Coached his last game, Matt saying what he is hearing in the Basketball industry Cal is through at UK
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geez , Is Calvin Sampson ever happy ? lol
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Scott Drew to UK would not surprise me.
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Wisconsin in big trouble. JMU had pedal to the metal for 20 and i think can maintain it.
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@bskeet said in Other bball games:
Scott Drew to UK would not surprise me.
Not a chance in hell. Dan Hurley at UConn would likely be at the top of their list.
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Tyon Grant-Foater having a nice night for GCU. 16 pts midway through 2nd half.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 is that realistic? Would he want that job over UConn? Something makes me think he is cemented in Stores.
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@bskeet said in Other bball games:
@Texas-Hawk-10 is that realistic? Would he want that job over UConn? Something makes me think he is cemented in Stores.
No idea if Hurley would be interested, but if he’s not, he’d absolutely leverage it for a raise at UConn. Other names that would likely be contacted are Jay Wright, Bruce Pearl, Billy Donovan, or Tommy Lloyd. Basically, Kentucky could contact just about any coach and they would listen because it’s Kentucky which is a top 3 job in college basketball.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Other bball games:
@bskeet said in Other bball games:
Scott Drew to UK would not surprise me.
Not a chance in hell. Dan Hurley at UConn would likely be at the top of their list.
Hurley is only leaving for the NBA
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KU Women playing against Michigan, 39-46 trailing by 7 with 2:40 in 3rd, back and forth.
Hopefully they can pull it off.
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KU Women came from behind and won in OT.
Big Win for KU Women.
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HEELS HEELS HEELS
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@FarmerJayhawk if only I could down vote lol, definitely don’t want UNC getting another title.
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@AsadZ said in Other bball games:
KU Women came from behind and won in OT.
Big Win for KU Women.
The board now shifts to focus on a Lady Jayhawks’ dream run… They will have to be the giant-killers on Monday.
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@bskeet said in Other bball games:
@AsadZ said in Other bball games:
KU Women came from behind and won in OT.
Big Win for KU Women.
The board now shifts to focus on a Lady Jayhawks’ dream run… They will have to be the giant-killers on Monday.
Ya USC on their home floor- - -with what’s her name
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@bskeet that USC team is really good but they are super young compared to us. Hopefully that’s a good thing
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@jayballer67 Ju Ju
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Might be some good viewing tonight to see Indiana St and Cream Abdul Jabbar take on Cincy in the NIT. 8 central on ESPN.
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@wissox lol i had to bite https://deadspin.com/robbie-avila-kareem-abdul-jabbar-ncaa-tournament-1851298896
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@approxinfinity You hadn’t heard of him? He’s a really dynamic player. Defense is pretty poor which I think keeps him in mid major territory. Chicago kid too which makes me proud but like why Terra Haute? Why not more local here?
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Smartest thing Joe Lunardi has said this year, maybe:
Speaking of “middling” majors, power conference at-large teams that didn’t crack .500 in their respective leagues have gone 3-5 in the NCAA tournament and 12-13 in the NIT, with the latter playing almost entirely at home. Meanwhile, the true mid-majors that received or would have received the most at-large consideration had they needed it – Grand Canyon, James Madison, McNeese and Indiana State – posted an aggregate 4-3 record across both tournaments (including two massive NCAA wins). I point this out not to pile on the likes of Greg Sankey – after all, one of his SEC teams had the gross injustice of being paired with one of the seven natural wonders of the world – but to remind everyone that we consistently overrate one class of team (“middling” majors) at the expense of their true mid-major counterparts.
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I have a hard time finding injustice in leaving out teams that don’t have a chance to win it all. I’d be fine with a 32 team field. Actually I think I’d prefer a 32 team field - the tournament would be higher quality games across the board, even when upsets happen you would still end up with a decent matchup. Also the regular season would be much more important, winning the conference becomes very valuable.
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@dylans we very much differ on that opinion. i love the cinderellas.
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@dylans you would rather Purdue get knocked off by Memphis than Farleigh Dickenson last year? Not I!
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I can still remember when it was a thirty two team field and they played a 3rd place game in the NCAA tourney
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I get @dylans point. Most sports don’t have very “pure” champions anymore. In professional sports wildcards means lesser baseball teams can get hot and ride a couple of hot arms deep into October. NBA almost crowned a Miami team that was a minute away from losing in the playin tournament last year. NFL sees wildcards advance far it seems many years. But college football always had it right. They always had 4 great teams with some debates some year of a team that should have been invited instead, but the team hoisting the plaque was always one of the very best teams. Now they’re watering it down and some year a team that squeaks in with 3 losses will get hot or healthy and win a Natty. I documented several months ago how UConn has seemingly been lucky each of their 5 championships by defeating a watered down final 4 each time, with maybe an exception the first time they won.
The big argument against limiting the field is our 88 team doesn’t qualify for the dance, nor does Villanova the year before, but there really are few teams winning the NCAA that wouldn’t have been invited if the field was limited to 32 teams.
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“Best team” award is like Brucie’s “We tried harder” argument.
It is bizarre to be worrying that “dilution” is caused by a tournament being expanded and that this threatens the meaningfulness of a champ without an elite record.
If you are so interested in protecting the best teams, don’t have any tournament at all. Better yet, bow to reality and accept that the champ is the one that wins the tournament and don’t cry about it.