All Things 2025 NCAA Tournament Games Thread

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Houston is so good.

I remember reading that all four 1-seeds have KenPom ratings that usually maybe one team in the whole field has. These are super teams.
 
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Tennessee has been called for a total of 4 fouls the entire game.
 

Unregistered User said:
Tennessee has been called for a total of 4 fouls the entire game.
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And still trail by 17. Houston got out to the big lead and just really hasn't had to go into attack mode. They've hit enough 3s to counter Tennessee every time they made a run. Tennessee just dug themselves a hole they couldn't get out of against one of the best teams in the nation.
 





WindyCityGopher said:
The Big Ten won 3 basketball titles between 1981 and 1989. The conference has won one in what’s looking like what will extend to the last 36 years. Amazing.
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We may never see another one in our lifetime it seems. SEC can get anyone in school, B1G still somewhat has academic standards.
 




WindyCityGopher said:
The Big Ten won 3 basketball titles between 1981 and 1989. The conference has won one in what’s looking like what will extend to the last 36 years. Amazing.
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Some of it is bad luck. They've made 7 NCAA title games since MSU won in 2000 and lost them all. The Pac 12, on the other hand, hasn't won an NCAA title since 1997. But even worse, they've only made two NCAA title games in that span. Even if the conference from last year still existed, it would have been eliminated by the Sweet 16.
 

WindyCityGopher said:
The Big Ten won 3 basketball titles between 1981 and 1989. The conference has won one in what’s looking like what will extend to the last 36 years. Amazing.
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It doesn't seem like Big Ten schools, even the "blue bloods" like MSU, pull in the super high end talent like certain other schools (Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, UNC, UConn). Sure....they pull in good classes year after year......but some of these schools sign a couple of five stars every single year.
 





stocker08 said:
It doesn't seem like Big Ten schools, even the "blue bloods" like MSU, pull in the super high end talent like certain other schools (Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, UNC, UConn). Sure....they pull in good classes year after year......but some of these schools sign a couple of five stars every single year.
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Interestingly, the conference has recently flipped the script in football, winning back-to-back titles, getting more of the high end talent to even the field with the SEC. I wonder if that’s a product of NIL? And can Big Ten hoops recapture its magic, too?
 




Fewer Cinderella teams = more competitive games (?)
 


bmb5270 said:
To me Holloman is a better version of Jelly Washington. Makes a ton of plays but alot of them are for the opposing team.
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I think a cogent argument could be made that us taking Jelly instead of Wright culminated with where we ended up now— with the caveat that things hopefully it look better into the future. There’s a good chance Pitino is still here had he made a better choice there and it certainly appears that he’s a better coach now than he was six or seven years ago.
 

Gopherchase said:
I think a cogent argument could be made that us taking Jelly instead of Wright culminated with where we ended up now— with the caveat that things hopefully it look better into the future. There’s a good chance Pitino is still here had he made a better choice there and it certainly appears that he’s a better coach now than he was six or seven years ago.
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I agree and for as much of a tool Brad Davidson was, an argument can be had that taking Jelly and Jamir Harris over Wright and Davidson were program altering decisions for Pitino here.
 


bmb5270 said:
I agree and for as much of a tool Brad Davidson was, an argument can be had that taking Jelly and Jamir Harris over Wright and Davidson were program altering decisions for Pitino here.
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Talent evaluation and roster management matter.
 








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