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I am the harbinger of death for LIU basketball. They lost in the opening round of the NEC tourney to Robert Morris and are a perfect 0-4 with me in attendance. How they won 20 games this season is one of life's great mysteries.

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12 hours ago, Oyaji said:

 

One of the best inbound passes I've ever seen. Joe Montana blushed.

They have to be dancing now. What a finish!

Just found out that Welsh-Ryan is undergoing a $110 million renovation, so they will play next year at... the Horizon. -_-

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Damn, I'd completely forgotten the Ivy League added a tournament this season.  It's a 4 team tourney, and the last slot is up for grabs between the good, Christian, saintly Lions from Columbia U in the City of New York, and the wretched, accursed, heathen Quakers of Pennsylvania.  

This weekend, Columbia has to win out (@Brown and @Yale) and Penn has to drop at least 1 at the Palestra (vs Dartmouth and vs Harvard) for the Lions to qualify.    

LET'S GO LIONS!

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To borrow a line from Achewood, last night the Badgers collapsed with a focus and intensity normally only seen in successes.

In the last 3 minutes they pissed away a 9 point lead, missed 3 free throws, turned the ball over 3 times, and Nigel Hayes gave up what should be an easy rebound that set up Iowa's game-winning 3.  

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Can someone with greater knowledge of the selection process please explain why EPSN thinks Syracuse, with an RPI of 80, and TWO road wins all season, are going to be selected for the tournament? No team with only two road wins has ever been given an at-large bid. The RPI of 80 also sticks out as a massive red flag as well, when teams with RPI numbers that are half as high are barely getting considered for at-large bids because of the conferences they call home.

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Monmouth has a much better RPI and ran away with their conference but they are headed to the NIT because stupid conference tourney and ha ha you get to literally play a road game vs Siena fuck you!!! Any conference below the A-10 should not have a neutral site tourney and have games played at a higher seed all the way to the final.

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This is the Syracuse blurb (pre-this weekend)

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Syracuse [17-13 (9-8), RPI: 78, SOS: 55] Syracuse's late-season thrust into the bracket got perhaps its biggest -- and certainly its most dramatic -- boost via last week's buzzer-beating win over Duke. The Orange had a chance to capture something like an honorary lock, or at least a move to Should Be In status, if they had followed that victory with a win at Louisville on Saturday. Instead, the Cardinals' 88-68 win left Syracuse in roughly the same position as before it made the trip: probably in, but not so safe that a loss or two between now and Selection Sunday -- like, say, to Georgia Tech at the Carrier Dome on Saturday -- couldn't shake things up.

And per Lunardi's projections - they would be the 9th ACC team in (since he has 8 teams as locks). Actually technically 10th - since he has Wake Forest ahead of them too

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On 3/6/2017 at 9:56 AM, Dewar said:

Can someone with greater knowledge of the selection process please explain why EPSN thinks Syracuse, with an RPI of 80, and TWO road wins all season, are going to be selected for the tournament? No team with only two road wins has ever been given an at-large bid. The RPI of 80 also sticks out as a massive red flag as well, when teams with RPI numbers that are half as high are barely getting considered for at-large bids because of the conferences they call home.

*clears throat* 

THE ACC IS THE BEST CONFERENCE EVAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRR

 

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My other total bullshit thing is denying lower mid majors because of strength of schedule. Teams don't want to play a Monmouth and if they do it's ALWAYS on the home court of the power conference team. If power conference teams had to play smaller schools on the road they would certainly lose some of those games.

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1 hour ago, sabremike said:

My other total bullshit thing is denying lower mid majors because of strength of schedule. Teams don't want to play a Monmouth and if they do it's ALWAYS on the home court of the power conference team. If power conference teams had to play smaller schools on the road they would certainly lose some of those games.

There's absolutely a glass ceiling for the mids. Not only will power-conference teams not play mid-majors on the road, but they'll purposefully avoid scheduling HOME games against mids that might be able to beat them at home. Last year's Stephen F. Austin team that made the tournament run couldn't finalize its schedule until three weeks before the season because it couldn't pick up non-conference games. 

Also, some of the bigger preseason tournaments, which might give a mid-major a chance at an upset, set up auxiliary brackets to relegate them to. For example, Battle 4 Atlantis has the name programs come to the Bahamas, and the mid-majors play each other in the "same" tournament, but in Florida. 

 

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As I've said before, there lies the rub. Most of the top schools refuse to schedule games against tough mid-majors at all... which proceeds to work against these same schools because "they haven't beaten anyone." And the ones that do schedule the smaller schools? The second they lose, they end the scheduling because "they don't gain anything from playing them." DePaul played Bradley for decades and didn't lose a game from 1954-1993. But as soon as we beat them a couple of times, that was the end of the series.

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UM wearing their warmup unis for today's win over Illinois after their plane skidded off the runway yesterday. They can't access their regular gear (still on the plane) until the NTSB completes their investigation.

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4 hours ago, The Iron Yuppie said:

Illinois State watching the Big 12 Tournament, cursing long and loud, no doubt. If Cal beats Oregon tonight, there might be full-on aneurysms in Normal. 

For the A-10 level here...the aneurysms can start. Rhode Island punches ticket to semifinals, plus Davidson knocks off Dayton to clear up an A-10 final appearance for the Rams II, one of the bubble teams slightly higher on the list to jump in. 

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