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Marat said:
Very dry tourny so far, missing monumental upsets and buzzer beaters.
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Really is - super chalky and no great moments. At this point not even sure what a great moment was. Lots of blowouts. Best moment may have been that 16 seed play in and it was meaningless. Question becomes is this going to be a thing?
 
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BugsyCT said:
I can hardly remember a world without Kalkbrenner in a Creighton uniform. Gonna be strange from here on out.
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This is the first time I have rooted for Creighton ever.

So frustrating.,,,

They lost this game - what horrendous play 2nd half.

Ashworth terrible in 2nd half.

Kalbrenner launching 3s when they were down by 9.

Urgghhhh….
 
RuffRuff said:
Really is - super chalky and no great moments. At this point not even sure what a great moment was. Lots of blowouts. Best moment may have been that 16 seed play in and it was meaningless. Question becomes is this going to be a thing?
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Can you imagine how crappy this tournament would be if expanded to 78?
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
We may be watching the end of college sports as we have known it for the last 30-40 years.
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I'm old enough to remember when every conference was limited to one bid and when the decision was made to expand, a lot of schools that had previously gone reasonably far in the tournament complained that the additional bids for bigger conferences was unfair to them. This was briefly magnified when in the first tournament that allowed a second bid to a conference, the title game had two Big Ten schools (Indiana beat Michigan).

What we are seeing has been building for half a century, anyone who hasn't seen it has been wilfully obtuse or less than fully interested in what has been transpiring.

You go out of your way to dismiss any mention of UConn having aspirations to join a conference that will be more than an afterthought once the big boys complete the marginalization of conferences like the BE, but sadly, if we don't get out, in a decade or so you will be one of the leading voices complaining about how we got left behind.
 
cellocgg said:
unfortunately it is 2025 and not 2016, 2018, 2023, or 2024
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You're not going to win championships every year. This really shouldn't be so difficult for you.

Auburn lost to Yale in the first round last season while we beat the tar out of everyone for the second tournament in a row.
 
Kitaman said:
I'm torn. I want Cherington to win, but we have a better chance beating Auburn.

Creighton is the only other team (UConn 1st) I immediately look for bracket placement, especially the last 2 Tournaments. Just saying they are the only team in the Nation, I fear.
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We do? How do you conclude that?
 
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storrsroars said:
Can you imagine how crappy this tournament would be if expanded to 78?
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We would have games like the UConn Women this afternoon. They won by almost 100 and totally dominated.

BTW, I wish that the UConn Men could play like piranhas on D the way the women do. Blood in the water.
 
superjohn said:
You're not going to win championships every year. This really shouldn't be so difficult for you.

Auburn lost to Yale in the first round last season while we beat the tar out of everyone for the second tournament in a row.
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we aren't going to be champions every year but having more than one team left before week 2 is a pretty low bar

we keep jumping on the ACC for having solely Duke yet we're in the same boat
 
My god the hyperboles and doom and gloom. A lot of piling on, March madness is called March madness because what people expect to see doesn’t happen. When people expect to be some Cinderella to go to the sweet 16 that teams ends up losing their first game by 25. Upsets are called upsets because no one sees them coming. When you expect March to be exciting it ends up boring.

Still have tomorrow I’m hoping a certain somebody makes it more exciting tomorrow by 2.
 
cellocgg said:
we aren't going to be champions every year but having more than one team left before week 2 isn't a high bar

we keep jumping on the ACC for having solely Duke
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The tides are moving away from the BE. We should maintain perch but I’m not expecting this conference to get stronger going forward. It’s not hard to see where the top portal and HS recruits are going.
 
superjohn said:
Totally. Won 4 of the last 8 national championships.
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While it is great to reflect on such lofty accomplishments from the recent past, we also need to be concerned with what the environment will be in the not too distant future. A dozen years from now the BE may be a two bid league while every conference below where we currently are will be one bid leagues.

As every day passes it requires more and more resources to complete and the big conferences are continuing to widen the resource gap. In the mid 2030's we will see the floor of power conference schools in the sweet sixteen at twelve or so with many years where maybe only one school outside of those conferences break through. At that point I'll be in my mid 70's so it may not bother me all that much, but I'm pretty confident that you are a good amount younger than I am and I believe it will bother you quite a bit.
 
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Jaker said:
Creighton not athletic enough
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I saw today the negative side of Kalkbrenner never fouling out.

He needed to assert himself and challenge shots when someone blew by one of the guards.

He just stepped back and started boxing out when he should have been trying to block shots.

And Ashworth played very poorly 2nd half… the turnovers and bad shots - you just can’t do that against a team like Auburn.
 
Ironically, with all the fanfare this season for St. John’s, Creighton and Marquette, we are the lone team still playing in the NCAA Tourney from the Big East conference.

Some of the BE officiating that made some teams appear better than they were (St. John’s) in the regular season , made others look worse as well. I think we’re one of those teams.

As Jim Croce once sang “meaner than a junkyard dog” - that‘s us.

I don’t think Florida see’s it coming and that’s why we have a chance tomorrow.
 
superjohn said:
They lost because they played horrendously bad. They missed something like 20 layups
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Wait, a talented college team missed 20 layups? A middle school team will not miss 20 layups.

May I suggest that sometimes when you are being "manhandled", physically, not literally, and not getting the call, a team may play horrendously and maybe even miss 20 layups?

I could be wrong.
 
superjohn said:
You're not going to win championships every year. This really shouldn't be so difficult for you.

Auburn lost to Yale in the first round last season while we beat the tar out of everyone for the second tournament in a row.
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How many titles has the SEC won in the last 20 years again??? Is it 1/4 or 1/2 the number that UConn has won?? Hard to keep up with how many we have won
 
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