sabremike Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 1 minute ago, Dolfan in NYC said: Only problem there is the NCAA desperately wants a jobber to the #1 seeds. And if #1 Purdue has to go against a theoretical #16 Wake Forest... hoo boy does that get spicy quick. My solution: make all 4 of them for the 12th seed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 (edited) Conference tournament title games for Tuesday: CAA - Charleston vs Stony Brook (1 vs 7) Horizon- Oakland vs Milwaukee (1 vs 6) Northeast- Wagner at Merrimack (6 vs 2) Summit- South Dakota State vs Denver (1 vs 7) WCC- St. Mary's vs the winner of Gonzaga/San Francisco because I didn't want to wait until the end of that game to make this post Edit: it's St. Marys vs Gonzaga for the WCC title, as per usual Edited March 12 by Cobra Commander Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 the newest autobids are.. Charleston, Oakland, Wagner, South Dakota State unless they choke a 12 point lead in 4 minutes, and St. Mary's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 3 autobids up tonight Patriot League: Lehigh at Colgate. Lehigh is sub-.500 and is down by double digits at the moment Southland: McNeese beat Nicholls in the rare "Conference Tournament final on a Wednesday Afternoon" Big Sky: Montana State plays Montana later tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 Montana State wins the Big Sky tournament by 15 in a intrastate rivalry game. Montana State is now 17-17, so the fun of crushing the hopes of your bitter rival in a title game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 The A10 tournament is an absolute bloodbath as all four top seeds (Richmond, Loyola-Chicago, Dayton and UMass) went down in flames yesterday after getting byes for the first two rounds. Dayton losing is particularly huge for the bubble teams because they just fucked someone over... it's gonna be a long weekend for Pitt, Colorado, Indiana State etc. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 (edited) the Saturday schedule if anybody is interested in constantly watching Conference title games American East: UMass Lowell at Vermont, 11am (Eastern) on ESPN2 MEAC: Howard vs Delaware State, 1pm on ESPN2 Mountain West: San Diego State vs New Mexico, 6 on CBS Big 12: Houston vs Iowa State, 6 on ESPN Big East: UConn vs Marquette, 6:30 on Fox MAC: Kent State vs Akron, 7:30 on ESPN2 MAAC: Saint Peters vs Fairfield, 7:30 on ESPNU ACC: North Carolina vs North Carolina State, 8:30 on ESPN CUSA: UTEP vs Western Kentucky, 8:30 on CBS Sports Network PAC 12: Oregon vs Colorado, 9 on FOX Big West: Long Beach State vs UC Davis, 9:30 on ESPN2 SWAC: Grambling State vs Texas Southern, 9:30 on ESPNU WAC: Grand Canyon vs UT Arlington, 11:30 on ESPN2 Edited March 16 by Cobra Commander Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 the magic of conference tournament season, when Houston is averaging under a point per minute in the title game (34 points with 3 minutes left in the game, on the way to being 30-balled by Iowa State) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 last Friday: a Temple game is under investigation for suspicious betting this weekend: Temple wins 4 games in a row to make the AAC title game as an 11 seed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 (edited) today's autobids so far American East: Vermont MEAC: Howard Mountain West: New Mexico Big 12: Iowa State Big East: UConn MAC: Akron MAAC: Saint Peters ACC: NC State CUSA: Western Kentucky still got Pac-12, SWAC (Grambling State aiming for their first bid ever), Big West (Long Beach State fired their coach this week and now they're playing for an autobid), and the WAC left tonight Tomorrow it's Brown/Yale for the Ivy League title, Florida/Auburn in SEC, Duquesne/VCU in A10, Temple/UAB in AAC, and Wisconsin/Illinois for the Big 10 So, there's a 16-19 Temple team playing for a title and Duquesne hasn't made a tournament since the 1970s and Brown hasn't made it since 1986 Edited March 17 by Cobra Commander Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 (edited) Oregon wins their tournament as the Pac 12 walks off into the sunset. Long Beach State wins their tournament with their head coach that they fired before the Big West tournament started. Also it's worth noting that the Akron/Kent State game ended in an astounding way (a Kent State player intentionally fouled with his team up 1) Edit: and Grambling is in the tournament for the first time ever Edited March 17 by Cobra Commander Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 Five nights ago, NC State was 12-14, tenth in the ACC, and at one point trailing then 8-22 Louisville by ten points. They are going dancing and just busted somebody's bubble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 Oh, and they are the first team to pull off the five wins in five nights to capture the conference title since UConn in 2011. You remember, the year Kemba Walker turned into Superman for 11 straight conference and NCAA tourney wins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contentious C Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 8 minutes ago, Brian Fowler said: Oh, and they are the first team to pull off the five wins in five nights to capture the conference title since UConn in 2011. You remember, the year Kemba Walker turned into Superman for 11 straight conference and NCAA tourney wins. Ten games, anyway. Butler had one of the all-time worst shooting performances in a title game in the final and basically handed them the championship. Not that I'm really complaining, as a part-time UConn fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 4 minutes ago, Contentious C said: Ten games, anyway. Butler had one of the all-time worst shooting performances in a title game in the final and basically handed them the championship. Not that I'm really complaining, as a part-time UConn fan. Man, I forgot just how bad the shooting in that title game was. UConn only shot 34.5% from the floor and that was still 14.7% better than Butler. Though Butler's 27.3% from three was sizzling compared to the Huskies 9.1%. I think I had legit blocked that game from my memory in remembering Walker rampaging through the entire tournament. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 and this Saturday of championship games ends with Grand Canyon winning the WAC, and one of their guys dunking at the end of the game, leading to a UT-Arlington player trying to knock him over and another player throwing the basketball at the dunker. Also Grand Canyon got to shoot like 800 free throws on the way to a victory. Sunday: time to find out if Brown or Duquesne can end their tourney drought, or if Temple can make the tournament despite all logic to the contrary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 and the Ivy League title game ends in brutal fashion for Brown as they choke away a 6 point lead with a minute left and Yale beats them with a layup at the buzzer after Brown missed 2 free throws (also Brown was playing for their first tourney bid since 1986) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 Duquesne is in the tournament for the first time since 1977 after taking a big lead in the first half and having a very sloggy 2nd half Semi-related: i'm gonna try to pick every defense-heavy team I can in the tournament because this style is clearly suffocating college basketball and winning tourney games in the process Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 NCAA doing their best to prevent another UConn/Florida Atlantic/Miami/San Diego State final four by putting UConn/FAU/SDSU in the same region this year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 got a play-in game for a 10 seed in case you wanted a reason to have to pay attention to play-in games before submitting your brackets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 in which Rick Pitino's son winning a conference tournament might have helped keep Rick Pitino out of the tournament 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 29 minutes ago, Cobra Commander said: in which Rick Pitino's son winning a conference tournament might have helped keep Rick Pitino out of the tournament And all other tournaments as well. Now I want to see the NIT invite them and go through the motions of setting up a game, only to dramatically announce to the crowd that they've decided not to show up and award a walkover. Spare a thought for Indiana State and Robbie Avila (AKA Cream Abdul Jabbar/Larry Nerd). Highest NET ranking of any school ever left out of the Dance at 29. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 my quick picks are trying to remember a few factors 1) teams that play scuzzy defense did well in the tournament last year and quite often in recent years 2) NCAA is randomly screwing a few teams geographically (especially in 7/10 matchups) 3) Rick Barnes always sucks in the tournament 4) Gonzaga is better in the tournament in years when they aren't great during the regular season So my quick picks for the final four are UConn, Arizona, Houston, and Gonzaga. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister TV Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 26 minutes ago, Pete said: And all other tournaments as well. Now I want to see the NIT invite them and go through the motions of setting up a game, only to dramatically announce to the crowd that they've decided not to show up and award a walkover. Spare a thought for Indiana State and Robbie Avila (AKA Cream Abdul Jabbar/Larry Nerd). Highest NET ranking of any school ever left out of the Dance at 29. Pitt also declined the NIT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 wondering what's a more interesting contrast between fanbases in a 16 seed play-in game.. Howard vs Wagner: Federally chartered HBCU vs a Lutheran college on Staten Island Grambling vs Montana State: Louisiana HBCU that used to be an Ag school vs Montana school that also used to be an Ag school Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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