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2023 NCAA Tournament thread

tomahawk chop said:
CUSA should have had 3 teams in the tour; FAU, N.Texas and UAB. Had those teams been looked at better they deserved 3 spots in the tour. The only reason why is because the committee is biased.
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NCAA favors teams. They dont treat teams equally. They put Wisconsin as the home team even though Bradley had the higher seed because they favor the Big Ten. They would rather see a Big Ten team advance than a MVC team. I truly believe had they played the game at Bradley BU would have won. Either way you have to win but they stack the deck against non Power conference schools
 
Jerome Tang, Coach of K-State is a class act. After losing the other day he went into the locker room and told them to hold their heads up. It was said there are alot worse things in life than losing a basketball game. Kept everything in perspective. Good for him
 
bradleyfan124 said:
Jerome Tang, Coach of K-State is a class act. After losing the other day he went into the locker room and told them to hold their heads up. It was said there are alot worse things in life than losing a basketball game. Kept everything in perspective. Good for him
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Agree, a class act in how he handled a tough loss. So much better then Izzo who never gave credit to the team that beat them and only made excuses on why they lost.
 
Totally agree with you Tomahawk!!I said the same thing on Facebook.Basically he said they didn't shoot or rebound but didn't give any credit to KSU.He basically in a round about way KSU got lucky.I think Izzo is an arrogant SOB!!
 
Miami 28 of 32 from the free throw line to beat Texas. I love teams that make free throws.

Agree with the comments on Izzo's behavior following Michigan State's loss. No class. I don't like Michigan because, well, they're Michigan. I don't like Michigan State because of Izzo.

Pulling for FAU for the championship.
 
Classof77 said:
Miami 28 of 32 from the free throw line to beat Texas. I love teams that make free throws.

Agree with the comments on Izzo's behavior following Michigan State's loss. No class. I don't like Michigan because, well, they're Michigan. I don't like Michigan State because of Izzo.

Pulling for FAU for the championship.
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Let me make a point here. Drake ahead of Miami by 8 then losing by just a few points does not look so bad for Drake or the MVC right now.
 
Thought I heard this is the first time since 1970 that there are 3 1st time final four participants and the 1st time since seeding began in 1070 that no team seeded better the Number 4 made the Final Four. Pretty cool. I'm sure Drake's players, especially DeVries and Penn, really regret how bad they played that last 5:00 of the Miami game. But Miami has showed a lot of fortitude and resilience in all of their games and it was another very impressive 2nd half comeback. How impressive was MIami's Jordan Miller in this game as he was perfect in the game, 7-7 from the field and 13-13 from the FT line. He joins Christian Laettner as being the only players since 1960 to go a combined 20-20 combined from the field in a NCAA tournedy game.
 
Just think, Miami vs. FAU for the national championship. It's only about an hour from Coral Gables to Boca Raton.

I wonder how many brackets have been busted by this Final Four and the way the teams got there.
 
Conference USA proved why the at large bids given out are based on bias, FAU is in the finlal 4, N.Texas and UAB are playing for the championship of the NIT and Charlotte just won the CBI.
N.Texas and UAB would have gotten at large bids had they been in one of the BCS type of conferences. Somebody needs to shove this down the committees throats . This is part of the reason why I have felt for a long time that these selections are not fair to the smaller conference teams.
Think about this, had the NCAA gone with NET instead of the RPI back in 2006 Bradley would have never been given the chance to take down both Kansas and Pitt to make the Sweet 16.. These kind of teams now are not given a chance and it stinks.
 
Da Coach said:
Comparison of two Final Four teams- San Diego State and Miami, and how their NIL payments shaped their teams-
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.co...s-miami-final-four-nigel-pack-ncaa-tournament

Miami's team is receiving about $2.2 million in NIL payments, while SDSU's team is receiving about 1/10th of that.
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That was a really good article that I think all mid majors can relate to at this point. I also like that their NIL collective has opened its doors to smaller donors AND tied it to community involvement/service. Kudos to the SDSU program and their NIL collective. I feel like this is exactly where BU and so many others fit in this whole fiasco.
 
How about that! The three officials for the first final four game have a MVC link. John Higgins, Kipp Kissinger and Bert smith.
 
tomahawk chop said:
Conference USA proved why the at large bids given out are based on bias, FAU is in the finlal 4, N.Texas and UAB are playing for the championship of the NIT and Charlotte just won the CBI.
N.Texas and UAB would have gotten at large bids had they been in one of the BCS type of conferences. Somebody needs to shove this down the committees throats . This is part of the reason why I have felt for a long time that these selections are not fair to the smaller conference teams.
Think about this, had the NCAA gone with NET instead of the RPI back in 2006 Bradley would have never been given the chance to take down both Kansas and Pitt to make the Sweet 16.. These kind of teams now are not given a chance and it stinks.
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Although Conference USA does not have an automatic qualifier in the bowl playoff system, they do play big time football and had six teams qualify for bowl games this past season. Conference USA has made significant improvements in football over the past few years. In fact, the teams you mentioned, FAU, North Texas, UAB and Charlotte will be part of a BCS conference next season as they join the American Athletic Conference. Middle Tennessee, Rice and Western Kentucky will be joining the conference as well. It will be interesting to see if they get preferential treatment in the NCAA tournament next year.
 
The AAC is not a “BCS” or “Power” autonomous 5 conference. Though with the College Football Playoff expansion the top 6 conferences get an automatic qualifier. The problem for the AAC is that they are losing their top football brands to the B12. Who gets the 6th spot could rotate between the Sun Belt, AAC, MAC, and Mountain West.
 
Fetz86 said:
The AAC is not a “BCS” or “Power” autonomous 5 conference. Though with the College Football Playoff expansion the top 6 conferences get an automatic qualifier. The problem for the AAC is that they are losing their top football brands to the B12. Who gets the 6th spot could rotate between the Sun Belt, AAC, MAC, and Mountain West.
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Beginning in 2024 the 12-team playoff will take the six highest-ranked conference champions, not the Power 5 champions plus the highest-ranked Group of Five champion. The shifting sands of conference realignment is constant. In my opinion, the Big10 and SEC have separated themselves from the other Power 5 conferences, while the gap has narrowed among the remaining conferences. The PAC 10 suffered a huge loss with Texas and Oklahoma joining the Big 10. The same can be said of the Big 12 losing Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC. As conferences like the Pac 10 and Big 12 look to stabailize their leagues, they will be taking schools from lesser conferences. I would not be surprised if schools like Illinois State, Southern Illinois and Missouri State that play football, leave the MVC to join leagues like Conference USA, American Athletic and the Sun Belt as they try to add teams to compensate for the ones that moved up to better leagues.
 
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