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March General CBB Discussion Thread

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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He doesn’t have infinitely more coaching experience. He has 2 years more head coaching experience. That also doesn’t really contradict my point that he has a really small amount of experience to get a high major job and is a pretty big risk for a program that can’t really afford that risk right now IMO.
 
DRBackup said:
And at some point you have to acknowledge how bad the other team really is. They got Ohio by 2 in OT and that team is awful.
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It simply looks like another sport these days. A watered down MM is going to have zero chance against teams with multiple first rounders on them.

There isn't one single MM mocked in the first two rounds.
 
DRBackup said:
I'm sorry, did UConn NOT beat St Johns ?
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If what Florida is doing now should be discredited for “feasting on a weak league”, shouldn’t the questions be why we didn’t feast on an even weaker league? Multiple weak SEC teams beat up on the 2nd place team in the Big East this year.
 
Kids sitting out conference tourney's kind of tells you how much anyone cares about these things.



I think it's important for Uconn given we have a bone to pick with Pitino, but generally not overly concerned with it. I remain optimistic Hurley has this group ready to go for the big dance, StJ part 2 style, but hedging with some of the realities of the roster.
 
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WhereistheDove? said:
Even in a vacuum I think it’s a bad idea. He might be a good coach, but what a huge risk for any high major program to take right now. One good year in a bad conference where his program outspends everyone else. He could easily be Kim English at the high major level if he got a job right now.
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I get going away from the Cuse family especially after hiring Autry blew up in their face but I would go for a serious proven high major winner if that's the case, not an inexperienced head coach in Bryan Hodgson.

I don't know their financial situation but it should be good, Cuse is one of the major names in the sport. I'm of the opinion that Boeheim stayed on too long and handled his exit terribly. I don't believe any of the talk I see here that Syracuse is a bad job or is now a dead program. It's one of the best fanbases in the country and a really good coach would quickly get things rocking up there again.
 
RuffRuff said:
Kids sitting out conference tourney's kind of tells you how much anyone cares about these things.



I think it's important for Uconn given we have a bone to pick with Pitino, but generally not overly concerned with it. I remain optimistic Hurley has this group ready to go for the big dance, StJ part 2 style, but hedging with some of the realities of the roster.
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He's out because he's injured.
 
RuffRuff said:
Seems like the kind of injury he'd play through if the ACC tourney mattered.
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Maybe, maybe not. He missed 8 games with it earlier in the season that included probably their 2 biggest home games (and they lost both).
 
RuffRuff said:
Follow the money. It's not going to get better. It's going to become less variable.

I'd like to know how cinderellas have any chance when all the money/talent is going to consolidate in the top 20 teams or so. There are only so many programs out there with enough $$ committed to hoops. P4 will only grow stronger. This isn't 2005. This is a professional sport, like baseball. The difference is that in baseball, a small market team can see lightning strike occasionally through their farm system.

I'd expect May & Scheyer to be top 5 every season.

Crazy they'll get as many bids as the BE.
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Purdue had Edey and Ivey plus a few years back which granted was before NIL but high talent as if, lost to cinderella St Peters who had no one making the NBA. Pure Cinderella.

Not sure if NIL and portal change this as the talent was there on many teams Cinderella beat.
 
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Lafayette said:
Purdue had Edey and Ivey plus a few years back which granted was before NIL but high talent as if, lost to cinderella St Peters who had no one making the NBA. Pure Cinderella.

Not sure if NIL and portal change this as the talent was there on many teams Cinderella beat.
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That was as cinderella as it gets.

I can't recall that St Pete's roster. Not about NBA as much as it's whether they had any good players that would have portaled out prior to the year.


All B10 team is wild. Yaxel and 4 PGS.

 
RitzLuce1 said:
If what Florida is doing now should be discredited for “feasting on a weak league”, shouldn’t the questions be why we didn’t feast on an even weaker league? Multiple weak SEC teams beat up on the 2nd place team in the Big East this year.
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1st place, 2nd best team.

Disgusting that we let St. John’s win the conference. Completely discredits the conference even more when this team did not beat a single opponent of importance
 
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FightOnCT said:
1st place, 2nd best team.

Disgusting that we let St. John’s win the conference. Completely discredits the conference even more when this team did not beat a single opponent of importance
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It really does, and they lost to a number of teams OOC that aren't even that bood. Kentucky, Bama, Auburn. They had zero, count it, zero, halfway decent OOC wins.

Watching how it plays out in the tourney will be fascinating.
 
FightOnCT said:
1st place, 2nd best team.

Disgusting that we let St. John’s win the conference. Completely discredits the conference even more when this team did not beat a single opponent of importance
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This UConn team still has everything in front of them and can achieve great things. They are 27-4 with a 17-3 Big East record. The starters are very good and the bench has potential, but the bench has to show consistent performance.

However, your post has a lot of validity if not 100% validity. For all the talk about the Big East being weak due to the lack of OOC wins, St. John's was the team that let the Big East down the most. It makes the whole Big East look bad that St. John's won it. UConn had a chance to stop that, but had two terrible losses, one each to Creighton and Marquette.

I remember after UConn destroyed St. John's by 30+ points, which I enjoyed with every fiber of my being, some people here stated it wiped away the Creighton loss. Nope, that stinker of a loss is here to stay. Finishing with a 17-3 record in the Big East is very good, but UConn should've finished with a 19-1 record in the Big East and if I had to bet I believe the players probably have the same sentiment. Here's hoping the sting of the Marquette loss gets UConn on a 9-game heater.
 
RuffRuff said:
Seems like the kind of injury he'd play through if the ACC tourney mattered.
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Are you trying to start a narrative that kids are sitting out conference tourneys? Do you have any examples of this happening that are not injury related? I don’t pay attention to chatgpt responses but if you have legit examples I’d love to see them.
 
FightOnCT said:
1st place, 2nd best team.

Disgusting that we let St. John’s win the conference. Completely discredits the conference even more when this team did not beat a single opponent of importance
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So you're saying UConn isn't very good? 😀
 
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JakeTheDog said:
Are you trying to start a narrative that kids are sitting out conference tourneys? Do you have any examples of this happening that are not injury related? I don’t pay attention to chatgpt responses but if you have legit examples I’d love to see them.
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I'm saying there may be a bit of load management prior to the real tourney, especially for some of these kids that are first round draft picks. Obviously some small injury in there.
 
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