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Week of 3/11/24 Games (Conference Tournaments)

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aceboon said:
Impressive win by St Mary's considering how Gonzaga has been playing
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I don't want to see St Marys as an 8/9 seed in our region
 
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UChusky916 said:
I don't want to see St Marys as an 8/9 seed in our region
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I think St. Mary's is going to be seeded somewhere between 4-6 just like last year when they were seeded #5-they won't be seeded #8 or #9. They went 15-1 in the WCC and beat Gonzaga 2 out of 3 times. They have wins over Colorado St., New Mexico, and UNLV. They lost to Xavier, however. Interestingly enough, even though they are West Coast Conference team, they played against 5 Mountain West teams this year going 3-2.
 
If I'm not mistaken Quinnipiac, Fairfield and Yale still have a shot at an auto so there is a small chance of CT getting three teams in. Hope at least 2. Sadly CCSU got upset.
 
Wouldn’t mind avoiding BYU. They can get hot in a hurry from three and Khalifa is a fun player to watch - but probably not fun to play against.
 
YearoftheHusky said:
Wouldn’t mind avoiding BYU. They can get hot in a hurry from three and Khalifa is a fun player to watch - but probably not fun to play against.
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Yeah, those three-point heavy teams scare me. Not a great shot to go all the way, but if they’re hot, they can stay in any game.
 
UChusky916 said:
I don't want to see St Marys as an 8/9 seed in our region
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I put a futures bet on them at +10000 under the premise that they were arguably our toughest game in the tournament last year and might’ve been tougher without the injury—and they returned a bunch of good players.
 
Travelman32 said:
If I'm not mistaken Quinnipiac, Fairfield and Yale still have a shot at an auto so there is a small chance of CT getting three teams in. Hope at least 2. Sadly CCSU got upset.
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Yeah I am lamenting CCSU's blown chance of making the NCAAT. :(
Hopefully, 2 will get in the NCAAT like you said. It would be nice if Quinnipiac and Fairfield met in the finals of the MAAC tournament which would ensure at least some other Connecticut team would get in besides UConn.
 
BGesus4 said:
I put a futures bet on them at +10000 under the premise that they were arguably our toughest game in the tournament last year and might’ve been tougher without the injury—and they returned a bunch of good players.
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Interesting bet. I was confident in UConn beating St. Mary's even though the beginning of that game wasn't great. UConn was only down 1 when Dukas had to leave and Dukas for the last 10 minutes of game time he played did nothing.

I think UConn's toughest match was the finals against SDSU. I will admit I got really nervous when SDSU cut the lead to 5 points with 5 minutes left in the second half. The game was legitimately in doubt where as the other 5 games were not. Thank the Basketball Gods that Hawkins made that 3 pointer to push the lead to 8. That 3 pointer was one of the biggest in UConn's history along with Rashad Anderson's 3 pointer in 2004 against Duke which cut the 8 point deficit to 5 (75-67 to 75-70) with under 3 minutes left.
 
auror said:
Honestly bad job by Larranaga this year. Tried to play the same style with worse players and Pack had a down year.

They had no PG so turned it over a bit, didn't get ORebs since they played small aside from Omier with a stretch 4 who didn't crash, and played a lot of 1v1 ISO with pull up jumpers so didn't draw a ton of fouls.

They had good shooters and shot well generally, but If you're not generating an advantage on 3 of the 4 factors, then you're not schemed well. Plus defense is still bad, which is both scheme and personnel.
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It's so interesting observing the trajectory of the 4 Final Four teams, who all overachieved in the Tournament last year. My hypothesis was that those teams are usually overrated the following year. Results:

UConn: even better this year and exceeded expectations
SDSU: about the same as last year (5 seed) and in line with expectations
FAU: about the same as last year (9 seed), below expectations
Miami: fell off a cliff and well below expectations
 
Tex-Lager93 said:
Well, we know who our first round opponent is now…because the committee loves those types of storylines.
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I was so annoyed last year when they did the incredibly predictable thing and manipulated seed lines to stick us with Iona/Pitino in Albany.
 
Tenspro2002 said:
I was so annoyed last year when they did the incredibly predictable thing and manipulated seed lines to stick us with Iona/Pitino in Albany.
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I thought manipulation occurred when Providence was matched up against Kentucky, Brice Hopkins' former team. I have a hard time believing that match up organically happened.
 
Kansas is a 2.5 dog to a NIT team.
Just shows that they are nothing w/o their top 2 players.
 
Mister P said:
Kansas is a 2.5 dog to a NIT team.
Just shows that they are nothing w/o their top 2 players.
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I think Vegas knows they aren’t really trying to win. But certainly a team with no depth isn’t very good down it’s two best players.
 
Georgetown's Epps has 25 points right now with 13 minutes left. MVP!!!

Poor rutgers getting beaten like a black knight.
 
HuskyHawk said:
I think Vegas knows they aren’t really trying to win. But certainly a team with no depth isn’t very good down it’s two best players.
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'splain, please?
 
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