Champions Classic

[Trudy Gay]

The event is fine. The Duke Kansas game is great. Top 25 teams going at it, what more do you want?? We don’t need to whine just because UConn isn’t in it.

 

[Leebo]

What does this mean

What do you mean, what does it mean? They were excited about Pope.

 

[scotty0330]

I haven't heard any hype for this. This event loses juice every year now. The only school that's even a recent champion is Kansas and they are on the downside since then and Self looks like he won't be coaching much longer. Michigan State never should've been a participant.

This was a big event when it started, the UConn Arizona game the next night is a much bigger game.

They should rotate the participants-
Same crew different year. I know the teams are locked in but hard to get into it when like you said not sure how relevant Kentucky or Michigan State has been recently.

 

[Inyatkin]

Kentucky fans convinced themselves because they got a big turnout for his introduction that they weren't settling for an alum who had no business in this kind of job

 

[HuskyHawk]

The event is fine. The Duke Kansas game is great. Top 25 teams going at it, what more do you want?? We don’t need to whine just because UConn isn’t in it.

Duke and Kansas are fine. I think the four should be Duke, Kansas, Florida, UConn. Keeps four different conferences and omits the one that never wins titles (B1G) and replaces the SEC program with one with more recent championship success. North Carolina has a legit argument to replace Duke as well. Both have 3 titles this century, like Florida. UK has one. Kansas has two. But clearly you can't take two from any one conference.

 

[uh-no]

Kentucky fans convinced themselves because they got a big turnout for his introduction that they weren't settling for an alum who had no business in this kind of job

i just love that the MSU team we beat pre-season just stomped the ever loving out of kentucky.

I mean i love anytime someone stomps the out of kentucky, but that made it just a tad sweeter.

 

[Flipside]

Kentucky fans take over the town for neutral site games, from East Coast to Maui, even when they're not having a good season.

Kids to great grandparents rollin' in with oxygen tanks & such, it's like a retirement party on steroids ... to suggest cutting likely the biggest producer would not be wise ... Duke is the biggest brand draw, Kentucky fans show up in droves.

 

[NewBlood]

The event is fine. The Duke Kansas game is great. Top 25 teams going at it, what more do you want?? We don’t need to whine just because UConn isn’t in it.

Because ESPN and the media make it out to be a bigger tournament than it is. Literally propping up the "champions" of the recent era (yet, KY and MSU total 2 championships in the last 2.5 decades).

Get rid of the label or stop blowing the schools for narratives to sell (which influences younger high school prospects)

 

[Methalius]

I think it would be a fun tournament if they were ever able to organize a true Champions tournament with the 15 schools that have won multiple National Championships. But the selection that they were able to organize is kind of a joke as far as I am concerned. Kentucky, Kansas & Duke are understandable but Michigan State? No UCLA? No UNC? No Indiana? No UCONN? Why didn't they invite San Francisco or Oklahoma State?