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NCAA, plus other tournaments- NIT, CBI, and CIT

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NCAA Tournament- There are 16 teams left- The next games are Thursday and Friday (Mar. 28-29)-
8 winners from Saturday- http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/date/20190323
8 winners from Sunday- http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/date/20190324
Sweet 16 bracket- http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/tournament/bracket
Scores/Schedule- http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/group/100/date/20190328

In the East and West Regionals, the top 4 seeds remain. In the South, the top 3 seeds remain, plus #12 seed Oregon, and in the Midwest, the top 3 seeds remain, plus the #5 seed Auburn.

NIT Tournament- 7 of the Final 8 teams are determined, with the final member of the Final 8 to be determined with a game tonight (Mon. 3/25) between Colorado and Norfolk State. Then quarterfinal games are Tuesday and Wednesday.
NIT Bracket- https://www.ncaa.com/sites/default/...-03-25/2019-nit-bracket-schedule-scores_1.jpg
Scores- http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/group/98/date/20190325

CBI- Final 8 teams play tonight (Monday, March 25) in 4 quarterfinal games-
http://www.gazellegroup.com/main/cbi/schedule-2/
Scores/Schedule- http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/group/55/date/20190325

CIT- There are 2 second round games tonight (Mon., 3/25). Then on Tuesday (3/26) there are 2 more second round games, plus one quarterfinal game
Schedule- http://www.collegeinsider.com/college-basketball-tournament/schedule-results.php
Scores/Schedule- http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/group/56/date/20190325
 
DePaul makes it to the Final Four of the CBI
After scoring 33 on 10-17 and 7-13 from the arc in their first CBI game
Max Strus then went for 38 on 15-21 from the floor and 5-11 from 3 pt.

..so he's averaging 35.5 ppg and hitting 66% for the tourney
 
tornado said:
DePaul makes it to the Final Four of the CBI
After scoring 33 on 10-17 and 7-13 from the arc in their first CBI game
Max Strus then went for 38 on 15-21 from the floor and 5-11 from 3 pt.

..so he's averaging 35.5 ppg and hitting 66% for the tourney
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Man he would have played well in Peoria.
 
had he come to Bradley - he'd have gotten 1000 time the national exposure by helping Bradley to the NCAA- likely both of the past two years...
and maybe even deep into the NCAA tourney. Instead - he scores 30 in an obscure post-season game that nobody even knows was being played
and unfortunately gets zero media attention outside of DePaul's official sports page.
 
The Sweet Sixteen

LSU - currently embroiled in the pay-for-play scandal that is on the front pages - LINK

Michigan State - currently embroiled in one of the worst athletic scandals in all of college sports - LINK

Auburn - Head coach Bruce Pearl has a long, long history of serious NCAA violations - LINK

North Carolina - their Athletic & Basketball departments were embroiled in one of the worst cheating scandals ever- LINK - LINK

Virginia Tech - just got off the phone for reporting a bunch of NCAA VIOLATIONS - LINK

Duke - Duke always get a pass but many of players from Chris Duhon to Zion Williamson are alleged to have gotten payoffs - LINK

Houston - omg- where to start - Head Coach Kelvin Sampson is one of the most prolific cheaters of all time - LINK

Kentucky - everybody knows Calipari cheated to get Derrick Rose and yet he gets away with it - LINK

Oregon (eliminated) - Dana Altman has three current scandals going plus a few in the past- LINK - LINK - LINK

Virginia - the only scandal going on in Virginia is the Governor and his staff wearing blackface

Gonzaga - Gonzaga is clean

Florida State (eliminated) - lots of football scandals & violations but only a few in basketball -

Purdue - some violations over a decade ago but appear to be clean now

Tennessee (eliminated) - they hired Bruce Pearl when he cheated & broke all the rules there

Texas Tech - lots of history of cheating in football and in basketball a few years ago but current staff appears clean - LINK

Michigan (eliminated) - long ago history of paying for the Fab Five but pretty clean recently - LINK


so cheating does appear to PAY - as only 5 or 6 of the Sweet Sixteen are really CLEAN
 
4 NCAA games tonight (Friday 3/29)-
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas.../date/20190329

The next NIT games are the 2 semifinal games Tuesday, April 2- Lipscomb vs Wichita State and Texas vs. TCU.
The 2 winners will play for the NIT championship Thursday, April 4.
https://i.turner.ncaa.com/sites/defa..._-_3.27.19.pdf

CBI- 2 finalists determined- DePaul & South Florida. They will play a best 2 out of 3 series on April 1, 3, and 5 (if needed)-
http://www.gazellegroup.com/main/cbi...Bracket-F1.pdf

CIT-
One semifinal game will feature Hampton vs. Marshall on Tuesday, 4/2
The other semifinal will also be Tuesday 4/2 featuring Texas Southern vs. the winner of tonight's (Fri. 3/29) game between CSU Bakersfield and Green Bay-
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas...date/201903/29
http://www.collegeinsider.com/colleg...le-results.php
 
NCAA Tournament-
#3 seed Texas Tech and #1 seed Virginia advanced to the Final Four with wins Saturday-
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/date/20190330

And #5 seed Auburn just advanced with an overtime win over #2 seed Kentucky-
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=401123390

The other semifinalist will be the winner of the second game today between #2 seed Michigan State and #1 Duke.
The semifinal games will be Saturday, April 6, and the Championship game will be Monday, April 8.

NIT Tournament-
The next NIT games are the 2 semifinal games Tuesday, April 2- Lipscomb vs Wichita State and Texas vs. TCU.
The 2 winners will play for the NIT championship Thursday, April 4.

CBI Tournament-
The two CBI finalists are DePaul & South Florida. They will play a best 2 out of 3 series on April 1, 3, and 5 (if needed)-
http://www.gazellegroup.com/main/cbi...Bracket-F1.pdf

CIT Tournament-
The Final Four will play two semifinal game on Tuesday, April 2-
Hampton at Marshall and Texas Southern at UW-Green Bay-
http://www.collegeinsider.com/colleg...le-results.php

The championship game will be played Thursday, April 4.
 
Depaul tied the game with a 3 with 11 seconds left but then South Florida hit floating jumper with 2 seconds left to win 63-61
 
A tremendous game with an exciting finish. DePaul looks like a much better team than they have been for the last 12 years, since their last winning conference season in 2006-07. Tough loss for DePaul, but the next 2 games of the final series are in Chicago on Wed & Fri (if needed).
 
The only games tonight (Tues. 4/2)-

NIT Tournament-
2 semifinal games Tuesday, April 2 in Madison Square Garden, NYC- Lipscomb vs Wichita State and Texas vs. TCU-
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/group/98/date/20190402
The 2 winners will play for the NIT championship Thursday, April 4. All semifinal and final games are on ESPN.

CIT Tournament-
2 semifinal games Tuesday, April 2:
Hampton at Marshall - Marshall is a 6½ point favorite
Texas Southern at Green Bay - GB is a 6 point favorite
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/group/56/date/20190402
The two winners will play in the CIT Championship game Thursday, April 4.
 
In the first NIT semifinal, Wichita State lead by 11 points with a little over 6 minutes left, and still had a 64-57 lead with a little over 3 minutes left. But then then Wichita completely fell apart and Lipscomb scored the final 14 points of the game to pull ahead with 2 minutes left and go on for the 71-64 win-
Lipscomb 71 Wichita State 64
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas...meId=401123693

Lipscomb will play in the championship game Thursday against the winner of the other semifinal between Texas and TCU.
 
Da Coach said:
In the first NIT semifinal, Wichita State lead by 11 points with a little over 6 minutes left, and still had a 64-57 lead with a little over 3 minutes left. But then then Wichita completely fell apart and Lipscomb scored the final 14 points of the game to pull ahead with 2 minutes left and go on for the 71-64 win-
Lipscomb 71 Wichita State 64
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas...meId=401123693

Lipscomb will play in the championship game Thursday against the winner of the other semifinal between Texas and TCU.
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Texas beats TCU 58-44-
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=401123694

It'll be Lipscomb vs. Texas for the NIT Championship on Thursday.
 
Wichita had a nice run late in the season - McDuffie finally showing what they've been telling us for four years about him..
..now Gregg Marshall loses his top two players again plus someone else will be leaving since he's oversigned - but he brings back a fair
amount of talent.
 
The only game Wednesday, April 3 is the 2nd game of the best-of-three seasies between DePaul and South Florida in the CBI.
The game is in Chicago, and DePaul is a 6 point favorite.
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/group/55/date/20190403

South Florida leads the series 1 game to 0. The game is on ESPNU.

This final series really isn't helping the prestige of the CBI much with 2 perennial bottom dwellers fighting for the championship.
DePaul finished the 2018-19 season tied for LAST PLACE in the Big East, and South Florida finished tied for 7th in the American Athletic Conference.
DePaul has finished either dead last or tied for last in the Big East in 10 of the last 11 seasons, and since joining the Big East in 2005, they have had a ,500 or better record only once (9-7 in 2006-07).
South Florida, has had a winning conference record in only one of their last 17 seasons and only twice in the last 27 seasons spanning the AAC, Big East, CUSA, and Metro conferences!
 
maybe so but they were much better this year - their 7-11 record in the Big East was just two games out of 3rd place
 
Maybe a little, but the Big East was a far weaker conference this year, and DePaul still finished tied for last place with the worst RPI and NET by far of any team in the Big East. I doubt there are many DePaul fans encouraged by that.
And they lose their top 3 scorers, so the future doesn't look much better.

The Big East was gifted with 4 NCAA bids. But they probably deserved 2. Here is how the 4 Big East teams did in the NCAA Tournament.
Did any conference do worse?-
Villanova, the best team in the Big East, and which deserved to be in the NCAA, though they were barely in the top 25. They only got a #5 seed and lost in the 2nd round.
Marquette, the 2nd place team, finished the regular season with 4 straight losses and fell completely out of the top 25. Then they were knocked out of the Big East tournament and got a #5 seed, but lost in the first round to a #12 seed.
Seton Hall, finished 9-9 in the conference, had a NET of 57. They received a #10 seed, and were clobbered by a #7 seed Wofford in their first NCAA Tournament game and quickly eliminated.
​​​​​​St. John's, which finished in 7th place in the Big East with a losing record (8-10) and had a NET of 73. Why they got a bid is a mystery to everyone. Their seed was #11 and they played in the First Four and were quickly eliminated.
 
Da Coach said:
The only game Wednesday, April 3 is the 2nd game of the best-of-three seasies between DePaul and South Florida in the CBI.
The game is in Chicago, and DePaul is a 6 point favorite.
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/group/55/date/20190403

South Florida leads the series 1 game to 0. The game is on ESPNU.
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The CBI games at DePaul are being played at their small on-campus arena (McGrath-Phillips Arena) instead of the nice new Wintrust Arena that the city of Chicago built for them on the south side of Chicago. The Wintrust Arena has a capacity of 10,400, but the announced average attendance was only 3,998 per game. But the actual attendance was way lower than that. So even though they have free use of Wintrust, they prefer to play the 2 home CBI games on campus. Tonight will be the first game played there since they began playing their home games at the Wintrust Arena. Oddly, the McGrath-Phillips Arena holds fewer than 3,000, and students get in free. So apparently they are not expecting to sell many tickets.
 
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