March other NCAA games

[RuffRuff]

Delaware v UNCW has turned into a fun one. Hens hanging within one possession.

Quality of this game is light years better than the central game. CC game didn’t look D1.

 

[WrenchFan69]

That was some bad basketball. Watching that game only verifies the complaint of major basketball programs that automatic qualification of conference tounament champions of this type of conferenc needs to stop. Any good bubble team, like Xavier, would pummel both of them 10 times out of 10. Seton Hall would pummel them for that matter. Tournament berth should be based on metrics that are often discussed here. Neither of these schools would qualify for the NCAA tournament based on metrics. No wonder power schools want to form their own tournament.

Even worse when the NEC only qualified to retain their autobid because they invited arguably the worst program in D1 history Chicago St to join this year

 

[superjohn]

Quality of this game is light years better than the central game. CC game didn’t look D1.

The Rick Mickens, John Tice, Corsley Edwards Central team Howie coached back in the day would destroy this Central team.

 

[storrsroars]

Delaware just ran out of legs in final 3 minutes. Missed a couple bunnies, bad TO. Helluva run though and still had a chance with under 10 secs on clock.

 

[WrenchFan69]

The Rick Mickens, John Tice, Corsley Edwards Central team Howie coached back in the day would destroy this Central team.

Kyle Vinales would have scored 40 tonight

 

[superjohn]

Kyle Vinales would have scored 40 tonight

That game got me thinking about past Central players.

Keith the boss Closs. Dude got clowned on a lot for the viral beat down he took and because he was goofy looking but he seems like a great guy. He was an alcoholic during his playing career and worked for basketball without borders in China and Costa Rica. Now works with recovering addicts in LA.

Closs gets his life in order after drinking sabotaged NBA career

You remember Keith Closs? Maybe you don't. He was one of those cult figures the NBA seems to have a singular knack for producing. A backup center for the Los

www.si.com

 

[UCfor3]

Vermont said hold my beer to CCSU. Got boatraced on home court by Maine. I didn't think they would crawl out of the 30's. Scored 42 points. One game snapshot but they were the #2 seed and beat Maine twice durimg season. Think they lost by 15 on home court. Just bad basketball to watch.

 

[gsmooth]

That was some bad basketball. Watching that game only verifies the complaint of major basketball programs that automatic qualification of conference tounament champions of this type of conferenc needs to stop. Any good bubble team, like Xavier, would pummel both of them 10 times out of 10. Seton Hall would pummel them for that matter. Tournament berth should be based on metrics that are often discussed here. Neither of these schools would qualify for the NCAA tournament based on metrics. No wonder power schools want to form their own tournament.

No, no, no, no, no. The best rounds of the NCAAT are the first two rounds. That's the magic of the tournament is when there are schools that are much smaller in terms of athletic budget, size, and stature of their players, and play their home games in rinky dink gyms but yet they are competing and possibly defeating their bigger, better funded (at least 10x) counterparts.

Besides, if the Power conferences get more slots in the NCAAT, the regular season games get devalued even more.

 

[White Dwarf]

I'm picking UNCW for an upset in my bracket

 

[RuffRuff]

I'm picking UNCW for an upset in my bracket

They did look really solid - had legit size.

 

[UCFan1513]

We want Gonzaga to lose here right? Better for them to be firmly off the 7 line than the good a win would do for our resume

 

[RuffRuff]

We want Gonzaga to lose here right? Better for them to be firmly off the 7 line than the good a win would do for our resume

Likely right. I must say these two teams are really underwhelming, feels like there is a lid on the basket. I see StM going down to a 12 seed, neither look long in March.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

We want Gonzaga to lose here right? Better for them to be firmly off the 7 line than the good a win would do for our resume

At this point, I just want it to end. This game is heinous. 1/29 combined from 3, Gaels closing in on 20 TOs….

 

[buddy]

No, no, no, no, no. The best rounds of the NCAAT are the first two rounds. That's the magic of the tournament is when there are schools that are much smaller in terms of athletic budget, size, and stature of their players, and play their home games in rinky dink gyms but yet they are competing and possibly defeating their bigger, better funded (at least 10x) counterparts.

Besides, if the Power conferences get more slots in the NCAAT, the regular season games get devalued even more.

If the purpose of the NCAA tournament is to have the best 68 teams in the nation compete for a national championship, then seeding should be done by metrics and only the top 68 Division I teams should be included. It would certainly make the 1-16 matchup more interesting most of the time as opposed to a rare event.

 

[superjohn]

If the purpose of the NCAA tournament is to have the best 68 teams in the nation compete for a national championship, then seeding should be done by metrics and only the top 68 Division I teams should be included. It would certainly make the 1-16 matchup more interesting most of the time as opposed to a rare event.

Watch The Crown. It was made for you.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

If the purpose of the NCAA tournament is to have the best 68 teams in the nation compete for a national championship, then seeding should be done by metrics and only the top 68 Division I teams should be included. It would certainly make the 1-16 matchup more interesting most of the time as opposed to a rare event.

The purpose of the NCAA tournament is definitively not to have the 68 best teams. And totally disagree, having a low major take a high seed to the wire or win is way more interesting than watching some mediocre P5 team play, even if it happens very infrequently.

 

[RuffRuff]

At this point, I just want it to end. This game is heinous. 1/29 combined from 3, Gaels closing in on 20 TOs….

StM is one of the biggest farces in college hoops. A bunch of slow unathletic goons that glacial pace you into boring basketball. Somehow the computers appreciate it but eyeballs definitely don’t.

Their best OC win is…..Nebraska? And they got beat by AZSt.

 

[storrsroars]

We want Gonzaga to lose here right? Better for them to be firmly off the 7 line than the good a win would do for our resume

I actually think Zags winning probably better for us. St Mary's may drop below us, and even if not, with a couple wins we can pass them, and along the way would probably pass Zags as well.

 

[storrsroars]

If the purpose of the NCAA tournament is to have the best 68 teams in the nation compete for a national championship, then seeding should be done by metrics and only the top 68 Division I teams should be included. It would certainly make the 1-16 matchup more interesting most of the time as opposed to a rare event.

Nobody ever said the purpose of the tourney was to have the best 68 teams, not even the NCAA. If the NCAA wanted only the best teams, the tourney size would be cut in half, if not more.

There are 31 auto qualifiers. Let's say 23 are from one bid leagues. That's 23 more mediocre at best and usually worse teams wasting our time. And you'd never get a Steph Curry.

Why would you want to see another game from Pittsburgh at this point?

 

[UCfor3]

StM is one of the biggest farces in college hoops. A bunch of slow unathletic goons that glacial pace you into boring basketball. Somehow the computers appreciate it but eyeballs definitely don’t.

Their best OC win is…..Nebraska? And they got beat by AZSt.

Their best overall win is probably Gonzaga twice but yeah their OC is brutal. They shouldn't be seeded above us.

 

[auror]

We want Gonzaga to lose here right? Better for them to be firmly off the 7 line than the good a win would do for our resume

This is their last game and they're either a) behind us already or b) way ahead of us, depending on how the committee is going to treat their predictive metrics. I don't think this win is enough for them to surpass us if the committee is dismissing their predictives and focusing on their resume, and we're only moving up if we get a couple wins (and so would then re-pass them). If the committee is taking their predictives at face value in order to avoid putting them up against a high seed, we're not catching them either way.

 

[auror]

How did Virginia Tech win 8 ACC games. I know it's incredibly easy to find an indictment on the ACC this season, but sheesh.

 

[UCfor3]

How did Virginia Tech win 8 ACC games. I know it's incredibly easy to find an indictment on the ACC this season, but sheesh.

They are offensively challenged to put it kindly.

 

[HooperScooper]

They are offensively challenged to put it kindly.

So is Seton Hall and the Huskies some how lost to them.

 

[Hondo 77]

If the purpose of the NCAA tournament is to have the best 68 teams in the nation compete for a national championship, then seeding should be done by metrics and only the top 68 Division I teams should be included. It would certainly make the 1-16 matchup more interesting most of the time as opposed to a rare event.

I'm old enough to remember when its purpose was to see who would have the privilege of losing to UCLA.