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Bill Russell, Walt Frazier, Mike Gminski, Ernie D. I had the Frazier poster on my wall as a child.

This is how I think it goes but 80 feels absurdly high. Why would the 30 value programs subsidize 50 second tier? I can’t count on much but Greed sure feels universal. It’s going to wind up 64 or 48 I think. A true B league. I think they’ll need to get tight enough they keep the money right and...

There’s going to be a time when this program is exited from the party. Along with a lot of others. One of the things that made this years run special to me is what it means. There will be a short period, historically, when everybody had a chance to win this thing. 64 teams. Neutral sites. No...

I think the theme I saw, and it's one I love, is they let them play. Way lower incidences of ticky tack crap and referees taking a large role in the game. Mistakes? Sure, but directionally I didn't hate their philosophy this tournament.

Did somebody drop their Bai?

I agree. There's no way to put "tongue in cheek" in the text box. Sarcasm and nuance are hard to pull off on a board. I swung and missed.

By clear I meant it's clear he's going to ASU. I agree with you. Its in discussion or agreed to already.

It's pretty clear that UConn's best is much better than everybody else's but that doesn't mean the 3 opponents left can't win. It's a one game tourney and we have shocked the world before ourselves. It is odd being on this side of the pendulum though. I am talking myself down more often then...

Seems pretty clear.

Maybe the players were on the way but the same travel team from last night booked their bus to the arena?

I thought they would have to ride horseback to Eloy and skydive in to Phoenix. The stagecoach probably safer.

Me too. Purdue in the finals feels too much like 1999 and we are Duke.

I love reading these. Thank you for pulling them together.

They changed their name and had a public competition. We submitted the "Vaussages". It didn't win, but the Siena Vaussages Merch and NIL would be killer now.

I love that I know longer care about this argument. The results are almost preposterous these last 25- 30 years. A couple championships ago I might have felt defensive and gotten riled up. At this point I feel like anyone who raises the question is like one of those reporters from Croatia...

I had to Amazon to get something I wanted to drink.

How come the first ones empty? I must be doing this wrong…

Amazon just delivered. I am good to go! Literally and figuratively.

Do you live in Georgia? I had to change a tire on the side of the freeway and there were dozens of those tea bottles thrown aside. I had to just about log roll across those things to get the tire done.

My Dad and I were secondary market all week. 20 a game until finals. Lower level. We got on TV for that shot. Other than final game we had 2-3 empty seats around us. Town felt dead too. I hated the AAC.

I would absolutely vote for Cuse losing over NIT. The answer might have been different in 1990 but not now. I may be a bad person.

People are allowed to fail, back up, hopefully revise themselves, and succeed again. I can be disappointed by his end here but can still be happy for him there.

I’d like this too but the capability of the lowest SEC/Big 10 team now and the lowest when there are 48 or so pro college teams will be dramatic. All talent, advertising, coaching, and resources will be flowing in. It will be like a current NFL team against a great college team. Or NBA against...

He needs to play and there are too many guys in the rotation ahead of him. It looked better early when NO had guys hurt. He needs minutes not DNP’s at this point. This ain’t so bad.

Maybe. It's out of our control either way. Sports landscape is moving on without the mid tier football guys. It's done. It's been done for years. As far as march madness, my bet is they will still be pulling 32 teams or so at large for hoops. Who knows though.

Maybe. the sooner the "Super conference" comes together, the better. The teams not in those two top level conferences can re-engineer B league college football and start playing regionally again. UConn won't be in that club but I think there is potential for a pretty robust B league over...

After B1G and SEC, there won’t be anything else. The carousel stops spinning at 32. Or therabouts.

I love how this becomes a Maine travelogue. I would have bet around page 25 but I can see this board has hit the gym hard this off-season. Page 13.

He looks like he plays for Pitt in the 90’s. Those dudes looked like they were about 5 years from collecting social security.

Funny I saw George Gervin. I remember telling my father that Kevin Durant was an improved George Gervin. And Portland should take him no matter what. I was wicked smaht.

I am glad I can now stop clicking this forum for 11 more months. Give the boys a rest from the kicking.

I said 10 years ago this was the plan. I still believe it today. I think we'll have regionally focused tier 2 football for nearly everybody else. Most people will cheer for their alma mater in tier 2 but since they aren't in the same league as the super teams they will likely have a favorite...

Me too. I am settled into this being about regional wants and desires and the current Big12 leadership/presidents wanted Western expansion and a competitive disruption to a rival. When in that prism Connecticut is ranked about 150th. As long as west coast expansion is the goal, teams like...

Colorado of the early 90's made their bones on talent from California if I remember right. I think that was one of the reasons the PAC was enticing to them. That pipeline dried up I would assume based on results the last 20 years.

I lived in Oregon 25 years. Worked in Corvallis area for 10 of them. Oregon State has nowhere near the cache of Oregon but there is support. They used to have a decent basketball tradition 70's-80's with Gary Payton I think the big standout. It felt like a Mets/Yankees kind of rivalry where...