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March General CBB Discussion Thread

superjohn said:
What a ridiculous decision by the league. It's the best basketball league but this makes them look like a clown show.
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Need to get a floor sander out there and rough it up a little. Doesn't need to look answer act like ice.
 
Wild that Darrion Williams was preseason ACC POY, were freshmen not eligible to be voted or something? How could anyone think that Boozer wasn't going to put up monster numbers. Williams was disappointing considering his price tag coming out of the portal.
 
aceboon said:
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UConnJim said:
Down goes Miami.
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They're toast. I will be shocked if they make it.

The weak schedule + the committee's well known bias in favor of P2/P4 dooms them.

Hello NIT!
 
they used glass cleaner during timeouts. are they actually changing the lighting during play? that would be horrible

 
Kolumbo said:
they used glass cleaner during timeouts. are they actually changing the lighting during play? that would be horrible

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To complete the clown show distractions, they should have had a striped basketball like the wnba does
 
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Watching Tennessee - Auburn. Volunteers missing everything and Auburn hitting shots unfortunately.
 
Tenspro2002 said:
Are you knuckleheads going to force me to invoke calculus on a UConn basketball message board?

The limit of 2 divided by X, as X approaches zero, is infinity.

Anything divided by zero is undefined.

Those are not the same thing.
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I was told there would be no math
 
superjohn said:
How did Frank Martin go from coaching K State and making a final 4 at South Carolina to coaching UMass in the MAC?

Also, why didn't UMass parlay any of their success with Calipari and those Camby teams into more success? If you're going to cheat go all in. It's like they dabbled in it and then decided to fold up their basketball program.
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As far as Martin goes - he has made 1 NCAA Tourney in the last 13 seasons between SC and UMass which was that Final Four season. He hasn't been that good of a coach.

UMass with Calipari was truly lightning in a bottle. They were great for 5 seasons - 1991-96. I think they won the reg season and post season A10 in each of those years. I went to a ton of those games back then and they were a top 10 program but we know what Cal was up to. As soon as he left they began to descend back to where they were for years prior to him arriving. Bruiser just lived on a couple years of those recruits, couldn't sustain it and that was it. Travis Ford and Derek Kellogg did bring it back for a few years but nothing close to the early/mid 90s teams. The Mullins Center is obsolete for basketball now - they get 1K to 3K fans for MAC basketball and there is no interest locally. They are stuck in conference of Ohio and Michigan MAC programs - very sad to see.
 
That is a TRAGIC (but hilarious) way for Miami to take their first L

Now we wait and see. If they don’t get a bid, what’s the point of playing the games?
 
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Vuce said:
As far as Martin goes - he has made 1 NCAA Tourney in the last 13 seasons between SC and UMass which was that Final Four season. He hasn't been that good of a coach.

UMass with Calipari was truly lightning in a bottle. They were great for 5 seasons - 1991-96. I think they won the reg season and post season A10 in each of those years. I went to a ton of those games back then and they were a top 10 program but we know what Cal was up to. As soon as he left they began to descend back to where they were for years prior to him arriving. Bruiser just lived on a couple years of those recruits, couldn't sustain it and that was it. Travis Ford and Derek Kellogg did bring it back for a few years but nothing close to the early/mid 90s teams. The Mullins Center is obsolete for basketball now - they get 1K to 3K fans for MAC basketball and there is no interest locally. They are stuck in conference of Ohio and Michigan MAC programs - very sad to see.
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He took K State to an elite 8 and South Carolina to a final 4, the last time outside of the final 4 South Carolina made it out of the first round was 1973.
 
Tennessee getting absolutely screwed by the refs. Auburn looking like a Big East team just wailing on people with no calls.
 
superjohn said:
He took K State to an elite 8 and South Carolina to a final 4, the last time outside of the final 4 South Carolina made it out of the first round was 1973.
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yeah whatever mojo he had at K State and that one FF season at SC, he's lost it. 234-209 over the last 13 seasons and 1 NCAA tourney appearance. SC fans wanted him out the last couple seasons there and UMass fans want him out now.
 
Vuce said:
yeah whatever mojo he had at K State and that one FF season at SC, he's lost it. 234-209 over the last 13 seasons and 1 NCAA tourney appearance. SC fans wanted him out the last couple seasons there and UMass fans want him out now.
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The point is he did better at South Carolina than anyone ever, their fans are delusional if they expected better. UMass was dumpster long before he got there, I don't know why he ended up there.
 
shizzle787 said:
Another bubble just burst. No way a 28-1 Miami team gets left out (yes, I’m not counting their three non-D1 wins as the committee won’t either.
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Agreed. One of the things I came here to say is that Miami is really 28-1.
 
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superjohn said:
The point is he did better at South Carolina than anyone ever, their fans are delusional if they expected better. UMass was dumpster long before he got there, I don't know why he ended up there.
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He’s a UMass alum.
 
HooperScooper said:
Lots of people predicted Miami would lose in their tournament. Saw it coming. I'm guessing they still get into the NCAA Tournament. But 2 teams from the MAC? Some bubble teams just had heart palpitations!
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Yes, but I don't think anyone thought they would end up losing in the opening round to a quad 4 team as the conference's #1 seed. I'd say 99% of people expected them to lose to a better Akron team.
 
DRBackup said:
GMac has (literally) infinitely more coaching experience than Autry, who was not a college head coach before getting hired at Syracuse.
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putting aside the math, both GMac and Autry have many years as assistants and 2 or 3 years of head coaching experience. I suppose you mean that Autry had no HC experience when he was hired to coach Syracuse. But he was an assistant at cuse since 2011. GMac was an assistant at cuse from 2099-2024 and then HC at Siena for 2 years. I'd say their experiences are very similar.
 
Can't see Tony Skinn upgrading after the way George Mason collapsed down the stretch of the season. He seemed like a shoe-in to get a bigger job a month ago when Mason looked like they might be able to get an at-large if they didn't win the automatic bid outright but they completely folded down the stretch.
 
DRBackup said:
Yes, but I don't think anyone thought they would end up losing in the opening round to a quad 4 team as the conference's #1 seed. I'd say 99% of people expected them to lose to a better Akron team.
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Lotta pressure on Akron to win the tourney now. If they get upset, I'd think that ensures it's a one bid conference.
 
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DRBackup said:
GMac has (literally) infinitely more coaching experience than Autry, who was not a college head coach before getting hired at Syracuse.
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plus GMac was an associate HC under Autry for a year

I wonder how far apart infinite and negative infinite are
 
Here's how I've always viewed conference tournaments in relation to the NCAA tournament...

The whole idea of an "ideal" bracket is to have the best games possible. Yeah, it kinda stinks for a team in a one bid conference to finish first in the regular season and then lose in the conference tournament. But if the automatic bid from the league is going to be a 13 seed, for instance, you want that team to be playing as well as anyone going into the tournament with a proven chance to be competitive with the 4 seed - well, the team that wins 3 games in 3 days is that team, not the one that spits the bit in the conference tournament.

See, also, Kemba Walker's 11 game winning streak.

That's why seeds move up or down based on conference tournament results, etc.

I mean, there are people on X now clamoring for Belmont to get in instead of teams like Indiana, Auburn, etc. They did the exact opposite getting blown out in the first round as the #1 seed to a 13-20 Drake team. Why on earth would you think Belmont can win or compete in a game in the big tournament after that ?
 
How bad does the MAC have to be for an undefeated team who lost in its conference tourney to now be on the bubble?
 
Kasean Pryor would have been a perfect fit at UConn watching him inbound that ball directly to Miami down 3
 
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