The NCAA Tournament Thread

logen said:
You were the one who said the PAC-12 teams were good but inconsistent, so if they played “good” those games are nice wins, hence the question which you didn’t answer.
And frankly, I have little, really no respect, for “Hoop World savants” whatever and whoever they are. The gauntlet has already been thrown down against the BE, results have NOTHING to do with what happened and what will happen in the future. It is strictly and utterly about the greed and politics associated with the $. Interpretation of results will just be means to a predetermined end, just like the “follow the bouncing ball“ multiple criteria employed by the NCAA team by team justifying the non-selections.
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I should've said decent but inconsistent teams.
The point I'm trying to make is that misperceptions are easily reinforced these days of football-heavy conferences dominating college sports.
The Big East is one of the two to three best basketball conferences in college sports, but hoops-only conferences are swimming against the tide.
At this point, I'm rooting for the Big East 3 to win out to the Final Four.
Otherwise, the football-biased sports media will bury us in the post mortem, and next year, only UCONN would get a bid.
 
sjc88 said:
I have to be at a Memorial Mass for my wife’s Grandfather at 12:15. No Marquette game for me. I don’t think my wife would appreciate the ear piece.

Then again the Mass is in Spanish. Been married 32 years, took Spanish in HS and College, and I don’t have a clue. Should be an interesting Mass. Years ago I was an Alter Boy and served Mass in Polish on occasion. Luckily Mass has been about the same for a couple thousand years or so regardless of language. You’d think I have it down by now.😏
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Sorry for your loss
 
Eric2 said:
Creighton got lucky last night. By the 2nd overtime they started doubling Couisnard and the commentators were saying it was a great move by McDermott. Would’ve been a great move if he started it with like 15 minutes left in the 2nd half. He was the only guy creating his own shot. You have a 7’1 center who can guard the other center. Take the ball out of Couisnards hands. Those two accounted for just about all of their points in the game, especially the second half. The rest of the team looked scared to take a shot. Creighton extremely lucky the supporting cast for those two were nonexistent.
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They started doubling him late in regulation. As with most in game strategy changes that work, the question always in why it wasn’t done sooner?
 
Wolfie said:
The BEC got mighty lucky, beating two good-but-inconsistent PAC 12 teams. Oregon should have beaten Creighton (who woke in the last 2 1/2 minutes of the 2nd OT) and Marquette squeaked by Colorado.
Marquette and Creighton had best improve markedly the next two weeks, or the Hoop World's view of the Big East as UCONN and a gaggle of meh teams will be reinforced.
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Having 3 teams in the sweet 16 is pretty impressive, considering its the only 3 teams in the tournament. Think the Hoop's World gets that
 
Wolfie said:
I should've said decent but inconsistent teams.
The point I'm trying to make is that misperceptions are easily reinforced these days of football-heavy conferences dominating college sports.
The Big East is one of the two to three best basketball conferences in college sports, but hoops-only conferences are swimming against the tide.
At this point, I'm rooting for the Big East 3 to win out to the Final Four.
Otherwise, the football-biased sports media will bury us in the post mortem, and next year, only UCONN would get a bid.
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I understand, where we differ is I don’t think the P5 conferences need any reasons to do what they are going to do, obviously they didn’t give a rats behind where the BE stood in the rankings of conferences, they did just what they wanted.
 
Money said:
Having 3 teams in the sweet 16 is pretty impressive, considering its the only 3 teams in the tournament. Think the Hoop's World gets that
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Agree, great getting this far unscathed, but we get no slack being a hoops-only conference.
I'm rooting hard for the BEC to win out to the Final Four.
 
NCJohnnie said:
If Big East gets 1 to final four, 2 to Elite 8 and 3 to Sweet 16, it will have met expectations based on final pre-dance rankings. I'll be surprised if that doesn't happen and can see it doing a bit better.
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And frankly SJU rejected and not taking an NIT bid makes it look better for our league than a quick uninspired loss int rhe NIT etc.
 
Mean Gene said:
Purdue playing in Indianapolis is ridiculous. No team should be able to play in their home state for an NCAA Tournament game unless it’s the Final Four and it just happens to be there.
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To be fair, I believe this was a conscious decision to allow ones to play early round games in their region. I believe North Carolina was playing in Charlotte, Purdue in Indianapolis, UCONN in Brooklyn ( very close to home) and Houston in Tennessee. Don’t love it but it wasn’t just Purdue.
 
sjc88 said:
To be fair, I believe this was a conscious decision to allow ones to play early round games in their region. I believe North Carolina was playing in Charlotte, Purdue in Indianapolis, UCONN in Brooklyn ( very close to home) and Houston in Tennessee. Don’t love it but it wasn’t just Purdue.
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Harkens back to 1980. We got a first round bye in the tourney only to face Purdue AT PURDUE.
 
sjc88 said:
To be fair, I believe this was a conscious decision to allow ones to play early round games in their region. I believe North Carolina was playing in Charlotte, Purdue in Indianapolis, UCONN in Brooklyn ( very close to home) and Houston in Tennessee. Don’t love it but it wasn’t just Purdue.
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In their Region is one thing , playing what basically amounts to a home game is another thing. UConn is 2 hrs and 45 minutes from Brooklyn and not in the same State. Purdue’s campus is an hour from Indianapolis and it’s in the same State. Raleigh is even 20 miles closer to Charlotte than Storrs is to Brooklyn and it’s in the same state.
 
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