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WindyCityGopher said:
Remember when Micah Shrewsberry was a hot coaching candidate and we longed for him to take us out of the Pitino years? I’m watching the Duke-ND game and see the Irish are 12-15 (soon to be 12-16 since Duke’s already up by 20 with 8 minutes left in the first half) this season, and his career record is 77-84 (40-53 at ND). Can’t believe he’s got much longer in South Bend and may be one of those guys who has to take a step down to a small D1 or go back to being an assistant.
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I also remember posters being in love with Jerome Tang when he took over at Kansas State. Mostly because he brought a number of good transfers with him and had a good year one. See! It CAN be done!!!
 







The 7 seed has to potentially play three more games than the 1 and 2 seed. This is why these extreme “step ladder” brackets are so dumb.

 


GophersInIowa said:
The 7 seed has to potentially play three more games than the 1 and 2 seed. This is why these extreme “step ladder” brackets are so dumb.

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I actually like the ladder I think. But it does make a lot more sense when the best teams are a few games better than the others.
 



skiumah1 said:
I actually like the ladder I think. But it does make a lot more sense when the best teams are a few games better than the others.
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Yeah in a perfect world it works well but rarely is that the case. I think some of these conference tournament set-ups are a bit extreme.
 

WindyCityGopher said:
Remember when Micah Shrewsberry was a hot coaching candidate and we longed for him to take us out of the Pitino years? I’m watching the Duke-ND game and see the Irish are 12-15 (soon to be 12-16 since Duke’s already up by 20 with 8 minutes left in the first half) this season, and his career record is 77-84 (40-53 at ND). Can’t believe he’s got much longer in South Bend and may be one of those guys who has to take a step down to a small D1 or go back to being an assistant.
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He's also a complete buffoon as a person. Makes an ass of himself in front of the media, melts down on the refs with temper tantrums. Won't be in South Bend much longer
 


GophersInIowa said:
Yeah in a perfect world it works well but rarely is that the case. I think some of these conference tournament set-ups are a bit extreme.
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Including ours. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday? Really?
 






That Sun Belt bracket is Wild haha

However, in those 1 bid conference leagues, I think the ladder makes even more sense because it puts a lot more meaning on regular season conference games.
Makes very little sense to me if you just play the whole season and then just run a standard bracket on a neutral court. Makes the regular season mean nothing.
 


skiumah1 said:
I hear ya. I just like the idea that if you finish low low low in the conference, you should have to freakin' BATTLE to get an NCAA bid.
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The Wizard of Oz: "...one small task." :LOL:
 

How/when/why did UMass end up in the MAC?

I feel we were screwed out of those lou roe Devin Davis battles.
 


WindyCityGopher said:
Remember when Micah Shrewsberry was a hot coaching candidate and we longed for him to take us out of the Pitino years? I’m watching the Duke-ND game and see the Irish are 12-15 (soon to be 12-16 since Duke’s already up by 20 with 8 minutes left in the first half) this season, and his career record is 77-84 (40-53 at ND). Can’t believe he’s got much longer in South Bend and may be one of those guys who has to take a step down to a small D1 or go back to being an assistant.
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You would think Notre Dame would be good in the NIL era but they have been at a Gopher level of bad for the last decade now.
 


GophersInIowa said:
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Actually, I kind of like this. The best teams in the conference should be rewarded with less games for having done so well over the conference season. Other teams should get worn out before they play the top two teams. Too often the conference winners are not rewarded and then they lose the tournament and are out of the dance. This gives them a distinct advantage and reward for their efforts over the season.
 

FinnGopher said:
Actually, I kind of like this. The best teams in the conference should be rewarded with less games for having done so well over the conference season. Other teams should get worn out before they play the top two teams. Too often the conference winners are not rewarded and then they lose the tournament and are out of the dance. This gives them a distinct advantage and reward for their efforts over the season.
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The problem here is the #2-#7 teams had the same record. Arkansas St has to win 5 games to win the conference tourney where Marshall has to only win 2 even though they finished with the same conference record. In a set-up like the Big Ten has, that difference is only 1 extra game. You can live with that. 3 more is ridiculous.
 



Hawkeyes need a Blake Hoffarbar to beat Penn State and don’t get a shot off. Nits take down Iowa. Playing teams with nothing to lose is high risk in late February and early March.
 

FinnGopher said:
Actually, I kind of like this. The best teams in the conference should be rewarded with less games for having done so well over the conference season. Other teams should get worn out before they play the top two teams. Too often the conference winners are not rewarded and then they lose the tournament and are out of the dance. This gives them a distinct advantage and reward for their efforts over the season.
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This set up is stupid. It's the equivalent of a 128 team bracket over 7 days. I can see giving the top seeds some advantage like the BIG does, but a tournament should not go past 5 days max. Even the new BIG is a one day too many.
 


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