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What?! Tennessee's back in the Final Four for the first time since 2008?! Oh wait ... wrong final four :oops: :cool:

There is a significant difference between losing a key player midseason and not having a key player available all season long for an injury sustained 12 months ago. If the latter were the case with Paopao, then our friend @maccca3232 would certainly not have bothered to point out the issue...

Irrelevant to the original point. Maybe ease up on the pugilism. Not everything is an attack.

I didn't realize Brown had played this year.

They're a much better team at home than away from home. On paper their best road win was at FGCU, but that game was played (oh so fortuitously) less than 24 hours before Kierstan Bell got her waiver. After that their best win away from Fayetteville was a neutral-court win over bubble team Wake...

Yes, exactly. He's not going to bemoan that one of his best players was unavailable for the game because he knows that it would come across as making excuses and he doesn't want to take away from the opponent's win. But of course it goes without saying Oregon is a lesser team without Paopao.

I pointed this out in the weekly multi-game thread, but I've just realized that LSU, amazingly, has a chance at an at-large bid, thanks to the NCAA's waiving of the usual .500 minimum winning percentage in order to be tournament-eligible (thanks to @Vowelguy for the assist). Creme has LSU...

Ask and ye shall receive :) thanks for the find. And just like that, we have a 9-12 team on the bubble.

I haven't followed Steinberg's work closely, but from what little I've seen, not quite as meticulous as Creme and sometimes neglects to consider bracketing principles. A #9 seed before the win over USF seems highly optimistic to me, considering UCF had not yet beaten anyone in the NET top 50...

I wouldn't consider them safe. The resume still isn't all that good, and a NET of 39 guarantees them nothing except consideration. I think they're likely in, but I wouldn't bet the house on it.

Many interesting games today. My top 2 picks (which I've marked in dark red in the header post) are: Ohio State–Rutgers. Amazingly, this is only Rutgers' second home game vs. a NET top 50 opponent (the first was their loss to Maryland). A great chance for the Knights to bolster their resume...

Ironically, this latest win probably gives them a less desirable NCAA seeding, up from a likely 10/11 seed to the dreaded 8/9 hole. They may need to beat one #1 NCAA seed today (Stanford) to avoid having to face another in the 2nd round.

Meh, par for the course. She's always stumping for whatever loser team she's calling.

What's that you say? Notre Dame lost to CLEMSON ... AGAIN?

I'm fairly certain that YouTube TV and similar streaming services for U.S.-based content are intended to be available only in the States. But you might try your luck with a VPN.