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I said it when the whole NIL thing first came about. These are donors that aren't wealthy enough to buy a pro team (few people are) but the next best thing is trying to buy a championship for their favorite college team. Basketball is so easily manipulated compared to other sports this way...

Wow. That seems surprising. I think they used to co-op with SSM for some sports until SSM basically left the high school league altogether.

You could make a legitimate case for not having divisions at all for individual sports. If someone is the best in the country at the 100 meters, who cares if they run for USC or Upper Iowa?

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This has nothing to do with benefitting business. It has to do with buying success for someone's favorite team.

Only one of the highest paid NCAA athletes of the NIL era. You want to discuss the topic, come prepared.

Could be. I have friends who live in Owatonna and send their kids to Medford. Plus Faribault has BA and to a lesser extent, SSM.

People who brag about their frugality are about as annoying as vegans and cross-fit junkies.

It is, but Faribault has always had a pretty big first gen immigrant population. It used to be Hispanic. Now its more African.

Yeah, the Big East is absolutely a power conference as far as basketball is concerned. Xavier is a major upgrade from UNM. Not that UNM is a bad job by any means - they're generally a good mid major program.

Shocked at how much smaller Faribault's adjusted enrollment is than neighboring schools.

I question why the Big East would choose UST over say, Bradley, Drake, Dayton, Valpo or any number of longer established D1 hoops programs. I'm honestly surprised they took Creighton considering what a geographic outlier they are.

I was going with total enrollment. Undergrad is almost the same for the two schools. Denver has twice the post grad students though. (which honestly surprises me since UST has so many grad programs.)

Denver - ~14,000 UST - ~ 9500

Had they been eligible, they were one game away from going to the dance this season. How far are the Gophers?

Only Denver has a larger endowment in the Summit League.

They're a wealthy private school whose fan base is primarily local and who donate to and support their alma mater. They won't out draw the Gophers, but they'll draw a lot. And you can't compare basketball and hockey. I've said it many times, college hockey is a niche sport. People here don't...

Beat me to it. There's a legit chance they make an NCAA tourney before the Gophers next do.

Comes around during football season. That's true of a number of posters. They just aren't very active in the off-season.

WAY more walking with the ball in this Arizona-Oregon game. They're letting everything go in this one.