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If Drake doesn’t come back, McCollum will probably have his choose of Iowa, West Virginia and Villanova jobs as soon as tonight.
 






mkAz said:
If Drake doesn’t come back, McCollum will probably have his choose of Iowa, West Virginia and Villanova jobs as soon as tonight.
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I don't think so re: Villanova.
 




Would be so much better if no timeouts allowed last 4 minutes of the game.
The best part of BB is the game, not enduring timeout after timeout. See hockey.
 

Donaldson with another incredible play.....just as Michigan was looking like they were going to give the game away.
 







We’re barely through the beginning of round of 32 and there is already as many B1G teams in Sweet 16 as I thought would make it. Could be five. Certainly need Wisconsin to go down though.
 




mkAz said:
If Drake doesn’t come back, McCollum will probably have his choose of Iowa, West Virginia and Villanova jobs as soon as tonight.
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If McCollum takes the Iowa which I assume is the front runner the conference just got tougher.
 


Holy Man said:
Can you say, “Overrated!”! 😂
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Don't blame the SEC for that. Blame the selection committee. This is what happens when you abandon common sense measures like conference records and just pick teams based on an index. If a team plays in a conference with a lot of good teams, that team will have a good rating on an index but playing lots of good teams doesn't mean that team is a particularly good team.

The Big Ten went 8-0 on the first round. The SEC went 8-6. But, on closer inspection, you see that the top 8 teams in the SEC went 7-1 with the lone loss being one of the teams tied at the bottom of that group. The other six SEC teams went 1-5. Why did the selection committee take 14 teams from that conference including two with 6-12 conference records? That's a rhetorical question. It shouldn't have been done. Almost every time they overload on one conference, the results make their choices look stupid.

What if they took 14 Big Ten teams? I suspect those additional 6 wouldn't have done that well either.
 

USAF said:
If last year should have told us anything, it's that Ben Johnson is a ****** coach.
He had sweet 16 talent. Couldn't even get to .500 in conference.
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While there certainly was talent, let's also remember that Payne was dealing with a bad back much of last year. We didn't see this player last year.
 


golf said:
How about this.

Small and mid majors go into top half of bracket. Power conf schools go into bottom half.

Play until there are 8 schools left - 4 from each half of the bracket. Then for the final eight pair a small/mid school against a big school and finish the tourney from there.

My preference would be to play the games on campus of the higher seed. The excitement in those arenas would be next level. Imagine a tourney game at the Barn. What would tickets for that sell for on the secondary markets? A whole lot.
Once get to the final 8 though, play the games at a neutral site.

This format would level the playing field regarding the haves and have nots as well. Mid and small schools would love it.
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I have a better idea. Put 64 team names in a hat and draw randomized pairs. This way it ends the obvious bias towards the strong playing the weak. This way a strong could knock off the strong and the weak could knock off the weak or anything in between. That would be more interesting on every level. Your method is replacing one biased approach with another for the same ludicrous reasons. Your way holds two paths. The easy path and the hard path. You might as well call it the "will never be watched path" and the "culling path."
 

Really liking how Wisconsin playing right now 😁😁😁
 





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