The NCAA Tournament Thread

johnsliva said:
Lets talk about the real culprits here, the networks. They chose who they wanted and the committee followed. Espn would like nothing more than the dissolution of the BE. They tried back when they encouraged the split of the BE football schools and continue trying today. CBS would like nothing more than the success of their schools, particularly the big 10 and fox schools being driven down. The NCAA is ballless now that the football schools run everything, it is where the money is.
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Doesn’t the Big East also have a contract with CBS? It’s not their main contract but they did have Big East games on CBS this season.
 
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logen said:
So the Duke NC wins and there 13 wins are to be praised but Seton Halls UConn and Marquette wins and 13 wins in a better conference are to be belittled by NCAA criteria application….okay
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Uggghhh...you do you know you're not typing at the selection committee but instead a loyal St. Johns fan, right? I'm not an idiot and know, like the world, the Big East and SJ's got slighted by the Ncaa. I know Puke plays in the Acc and all about the rivalry, the abhorrent Laetner, Hurley and K, Billy Singleton and how they stole our football teams leaving us in the lurch and had an appropriate level of disdain for the conference. Still don't know how but have 2 kids that go to Pitt so I started watching every game and saw they had a REAL good team both this year and last. The question was asked how Virginia got 13 wins and since I'm knowledgeable about that...I answered.
 
lawmanfan said:
Virginia on the other hand, if added to the BE would have finished 10th in the league.
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That is just not so. They were 8 and 2 at home this season and riding the Nation's longest home winning streak. They would win Many BE home games. P.S. not a Virginia lover even though it's the state motto and not a fan of their selection.
 
carmineabbatiello said:
That is just not so. They were 8 and 2 at home this season and riding the Nation's longest home winning streak. They would win Many BE home games. P.S. not a Virginia lover even though it's the state motto and not a fan of their selection.
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Agree to disagree. Duke and UNC are good. Clemson is Ok. Pitt is ok. The rest of the ACC is absolute garbage. Virginia would struggle to finish ahead of Butler and Xavier in the BE
 
lawmanfan said:
Agree to disagree. Duke and UNC are good. Clemson is Ok. Pitt is ok. The rest of the ACC is absolute garbage. Virginia would struggle to finish ahead of Butler and Xavier in the BE
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Same. No way behind our historically bad bottom 2 and you wrote 10th. I'll agree Pitt is ok if you also characterize us as "ok". The only thing we have resembling evidence in all this is that Virginia beat Bc on the road and on a neutral court And St. Johns lost to Bc on a neutral. So there's that.
 
Shelf life should clearly have been longer and others will certainly say it still is, but I actually think Bennett is starting to grow stale at Virginia. He should apply for the Stanford job.
 
carmineabbatiello said:
Same. No way behind our historically bad bottom 2 and you wrote 10th. I'll agree Pitt is ok if you also characterize us as "ok". The only thing we have resembling evidence in all this is that Virginia beat Bc on the road and on a neutral court And St. Johns lost to Bc on a neutral. So there's that.
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If you added Va to the BE it would be a 12 team league and thus they would finish ahead of Georgetown and DePaul, which would be 10th.

If you'd like data then consider that Virginia was 300 something in offense this season and got blown out by 20+ six times - while playing in the fifth best conference in the country. Name a BE team other than DePaul that was that bad.
 
L J S A said:
Shelf life should clearly have been longer and others will certainly say it still is, but I actually think Bennett is starting to grow stale at Virginia. He should apply for the Stanford job.
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Seems like the greater chance is retirement
 
mm52 said:
the problem I see is that, the committee publicly says one thing--that it is going to "get into the weeds..."--and then didn't really do that, just superficially so. Had they, the BE teams that were ignored for schools with legacy reputations--like Mich. St. and UVA, and more recent "darlings" like Dayton and FAU--would have been picked instead. I'm still seething over this.
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Will be angry until we make the Final Four next year
 
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