College BBall Imperialism Map

Have they put up a new map today? If so can someone post a link, because I can't seem to find it.

EDIT: Thanks Jack, you posted it before I finished typing my request
 
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Undefeated teams playing tonight:

Arizona State (5-0) vs Nebraska-Omaha - (ASU -18.5)

UVA (6-0) @ Maryland (6-0) - (MD +4)

Michigan (6-0) vs UNC - (MICH -3.5)

Houston (4-0) vs UT-Rio Grande Valley - (HOU -21)

Ohio State (6-0) vs Syracuse - (OHST -4.5)
 
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[quote="Jack Williams" post=305182]Undefeated teams playing tonight:

Arizona State (5-0) vs Nebraska-Omaha - (ASU -18.5)

UVA (6-0) @ Maryland (6-0) - (MD +4)

Michigan (6-0) vs UNC - (MICH -3.5)

Houston (4-0) vs UT-Rio Grande Valley - (HOU -21)

Ohio State (6-0) vs Syracuse - (OHST -4.5)[/quote]

Maryland and Ohio State lost.
 
[quote="stjohnnie75" post=305324][quote="Jack Williams" post=305182]Undefeated teams playing tonight:

Arizona State (5-0) vs Nebraska-Omaha - (ASU -18.5)

UVA (6-0) @ Maryland (6-0) - (MD +4)

Michigan (6-0) vs UNC - (MICH -3.5)

Houston (4-0) vs UT-Rio Grande Valley - (HOU -21)

Ohio State (6-0) vs Syracuse - (OHST -4.5)[/quote]

Maryland and Ohio State lost.[/quote] I expect someone to put up a new map tomorrow morning. I love that map :)
 
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I really want to see us take over whole northeast, but Buffalo likely won't be challenged until Dec. 18.
 
Down to 18 undefeated teams. Several of those teams have big games Saturday including SJU, Houston, Kansas State, Sacramento State, Nevada & Gonzaga.
 
Buffalo is really annoying...they play in a joke conference. They should only have the F5 plus Big East and American (feeling kind today) teams listed. Who cares about Furman and Buffalo?
 
Mike Zaun wrote: Buffalo is really annoying...they play in a joke conference. They should only have the F5 plus Big East and American (feeling kind today) teams listed. Who cares about Furman and Buffalo?

Mike not all the good teams/programs play in the power conferences. Buffalo knocked off Arizona in the first round of the NCAA last year, were picked as a top 25-30 team in many pre-season polls this year, have already beaten West Virginia and play both Syracuse and Marquette on the road in December. They are a good program with an excellent coach.
 
[quote="NCJohnnie" post=305336]Mike Zaun wrote: Buffalo is really annoying...they play in a joke conference. They should only have the F5 plus Big East and American (feeling kind today) teams listed. Who cares about Furman and Buffalo?

Mike not all the good teams/programs play in the power conferences. Buffalo knocked off Arizona in the first round of the NCAA last year, were picked as a top 25-30 team in many pre-season polls this year, have already beaten West Virginia and play both Syracuse and Marquette on the road in December. They are a good program with an excellent coach.[/quote]

Nate Oats was a great hire for Hurley at Buffalo. Lavin’s former assistant at St. John's, Jim Whitesell, is the assistant at Buffalo. Oats also has used the St. John's transfer formula to get mature players with 8 thus season but Nick Perkins, a 6'8, 250 pound senior he recruited out of Michigan is his best recruit. Perkins would dominate Clark playing inside.
 
[quote="Mike Zaun" post=305334]Buffalo is really annoying...they play in a joke conference. They should only have the F5 plus Big East and American (feeling kind today) teams listed. Who cares about Furman and Buffalo?[/quote]

Do we have a win this year as good as @Villanova like Furman does? Did we demolish a team with the #1 overall pick in the draft last year? Or do we have a win as good as @West Virginia this season?

Hate to say it, but Furman and Buffalo are more deserving to be on this map than us lol.. its a fun map that includes all D1 undefeated teams, no need to discriminate teams based on conference stature
 
[quote="Mike Zaun" post=305334]Buffalo is really annoying...they play in a joke conference. They should only have the F5 plus Big East and American (feeling kind today) teams listed. Who cares about Furman and Buffalo?[/quote]

Please don’t let a fun interactive map ruin your day. I’m sure they are many other things you can focus on. But if it really bothers you then why don’t you create your own map and exclude whoever you want.
 
3 undefeated teams play tonight:

Belmont (5-0) plays on the road against a 7-1 Samford team, although Belmont still 8 point favorites

Sacramento State (3-0) is undefeated but also an underdog tonight, they travel to play a 5-1 UC Santa Barbara team who are 8.5 point favorites

Buffalo plays in Belfast, at 5:30 AM tomorrow morning, they play Milwaukee and should win. Very interesting that college hoops is in Europe now. I didn't know this was happening but heres an ESPN article on it if you are interested:

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...est-college-hoops-tourney-other-side-atlantic
 
Personally I feel like one of the great things about college basketball are the mid majors and small schools that put together great teams sporadically or even just great games, and knockoff major powers. Just a few teams that have made college basketball infinitely more interesting are: Richmond, Davidson, Florida Gulf Coast, Buffalo, Furman, George Mason, Morehead St., Weber St., Mercer, Bucknell, Cleveland St, Lehigh, Hampton, Princeton, Ohio U, Coppin St, Loyola Mmt. . Even Gonzaga. Today we think of them as a great team but 15-20 back they were underdog from "joke conference" (not my words) Heck you could even say Villanova in a sense. Smaller, Catholic school, privately funded. way back... Texas Western
 
Paul Massell wrote: Personally I feel like one of the great things about college basketball are the mid majors and small schools that put together great teams sporadically or even just great games, and knockoff major powers. Just a few teams that have made college basketball infinitely more interesting are: Richmond, Davidson, Florida Gulf Coast, Buffalo, Furman, George Mason, Morehead St., Weber St., Mercer, Bucknell, Cleveland St, Lehigh, Hampton, Princeton, Ohio U, Coppin St, Loyola Mmt. . Even Gonzaga. Today we think of them as a great team but 15-20 back they were underdog from "joke conference" (not my words) Heck you could even say Villanova in a sense. Smaller, Catholic school, privately funded. way back... Texas Western

Paul, I couldn't agree more. I'd add Loyola of Chicago, Western Kentucky and the Murray State racers (two NCAA first round upsets in 2010 and 2012) to that list.
 
[quote="Paul Massell" post=305360]Personally I feel like one of the great things about college basketball are the mid majors and small schools that put together great teams sporadically or even just great games, and knockoff major powers. Just a few teams that have made college basketball infinitely more interesting are: Richmond, Davidson, Florida Gulf Coast, Buffalo, Furman, George Mason, Morehead St., Weber St., Mercer, Bucknell, Cleveland St, Lehigh, Hampton, Princeton, Ohio U, Coppin St, Loyola Mmt. . Even Gonzaga. Today we think of them as a great team but 15-20 back they were underdog from "joke conference" (not my words) Heck you could even say Villanova in a sense. Smaller, Catholic school, privately funded. way back... Texas Western[/quote]

It is the unique quality that I think sets college basketball apart from every other sport. Look at college football, UCF about to go undefeated for the second straight year but they once again won't even get a chance at the College Football Playoff. Sure, they'd probably lose to Bama by 50 but what makes college basketball so awesome is that it doesn't matter. Teams like Duke with millions of dollars behind it as an entity and a brand, goes on the same court as a Lehigh or a Mercer, they play the same game, and for 40 minutes if they aren't better, they are going home.

That is what makes it so engaging to be a fan of any team. For us its SJU, We haven't done anything of note for so long, but if you can just do enough to get into the 68 team field, and then get hot once in the tournament, all of the sudden, a program can be revived.

That's why when i heard rumblings and rumors a couple years ago that P5 conferences were going to break off and have their ow tournament, i was shocked. Thankfully, i don't think anything has come of those talks, but wow that would completely take away what makes March Madness special.

I can't even remember who Nova beat in the sweet 16 or elite eight last year, but I do remember UMBC shocked a 1 seed and a 16 won for the first time ever.
 
[quote="Paul Massell" post=305360]Personally I feel like one of the great things about college basketball are the mid majors and small schools that put together great teams sporadically or even just great games, and knockoff major powers. Just a few teams that have made college basketball infinitely more interesting are: Richmond, Davidson, Florida Gulf Coast, Buffalo, Furman, George Mason, Morehead St., Weber St., Mercer, Bucknell, Cleveland St, Lehigh, Hampton, Princeton, Ohio U, Coppin St, Loyola Mmt. . Even Gonzaga. Today we think of them as a great team but 15-20 back they were underdog from "joke conference" (not my words) Heck you could even say Villanova in a sense. Smaller, Catholic school, privately funded. way back... Texas Western[/quote]
Great, sensible post
 
Didn't mean to imply that mid majors are useless or uninteresting...but conference affiliation does matter. Furman beat a down Villanova team that lost almost everyone and would lose 70% of the time if they played Villanova all season. That's my point. Sure any mid major can knock off any power team any given day, but if they played 10 games against power teams they'd lost most in the long run. We beat Duke last year but probably lose 9/10 times to them otherwise if we played them that much last year. But our saving grace is we are in a legitimate conference so we have that going for us. Being an undefeated Siena team is not the same as being an undefeated Duke team (I know they aren't undefeated just making an example). That's my point.

That being said, mid majors are definitely what makes March so fun. Literally anything can happen. College football is completely boring because it's the polar opposite. The same team wins almost every year and it's rarely even close. If Bama played Siena in basketball, Siena has a chance at least. If Bama played Siena in football if they had a team, they would win by 80. There is zero parity in college football. Ohio State, Michigan, Bama...yawn. Every year.
 
[quote="Paultzman" post=304697]As an aside, it is nice to see Charles Minlend Jr. doing well for San Fran;

San Francisco Dons 2019 Record: 6-0
PPG 14.0, 4.5 rebounds per game[/quote]

I met his Dad I believe in Charlotte, where he travelled with a group of former players for the regionals there 5 years ago. Class act.
 
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