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PostNouveau posted:Single-elimination tournaments to determine championships don't make a ton of sense in basketball. With two competent teams in any given game, the better team wins like ... 75% of the time? The March Madness tournament is a big lie everyone goes along with because it's exciting. I agree that the regular conference season winner should get the auto-bid, but March madness is really the only way to determine the national champ when you have 300 teams. You could make the argument there are too many teams in the tournament, but you gotta have something. I really hate the play-in games, they really should take it back to 64 teams, but I know they’ll never do that.
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Bird in a Blender posted:I agree that the regular conference season winner should get the auto-bid, but March madness is really the only way to determine the national champ when you have 300 teams. You could make the argument there are too many teams in the tournament, but you gotta have something. I'm fine with the play in games but they really shouldn't have auto bids as play-in games. Just make them all the last 8 in or whatever
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:If you play in a 1 bid league, the regular season is 100% meaningless and I don't know how you fix that short of scrapping the conference tourney Didn't the Ivy League used to give their auto bid to the regular season champ?
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Bird in a Blender posted:I agree that the regular conference season winner should get the auto-bid, but March madness is really the only way to determine the national champ when you have 300 teams. You could make the argument there are too many teams in the tournament, but you gotta have something. Yeah, that's my next step here. Should be a far smaller field and not single elimination if you really wanted to know who's the best team. There's a reason it's 7 games in an NBA playoff series. Logistics get in the way but basically all national title winners are illegitimate unless Texas wins this year and then it's a perfect system, no notes
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fan of power conference team arguing for smaller ncaa tournament, shocker
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a neat cape posted:I'm fine with the play in games but they really shouldn't have auto bids as play-in games. Just make them all the last 8 in or whatever Yea I feel bad for the 16 seeds that don’t even make it to the regular tournament. Take away some of those at-large teams that have no business in the tournament and give those small conference teams at least one game in the spotlight.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:conference tourneys should be scrapped, but good luck with that Yeah, that would be a good move. I'm fairly unclear on the point of them other than TV money.
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you can go ahead and scrap this ACC final now, good god today has been a real bummer so far, no bid thieves, no first-time NCAA entrants, hardly any bubble teams to speak of, very few games even competitive. all to get to what is one of the weakest tournament fields in years. Kent State-Toledo is pretty fun i guess also Iona apparently stopped playing against Marist for a while, Foxes have almost caught up elentar fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Mar 12, 2023 |
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This game sucks someone make a basket
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a neat cape posted:Didn't the Ivy League used to give their auto bid to the regular season champ? Yes, they always had the first ticket punched because of this method. Conference tournaments don't make the season 100% meaningless--seeding matters! And if you have a truly special season you can get in as an at-large. But they do devalue it. On the flipside it's fun that like 98% of teams are technically competing for a national championship in March with this setup.
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I feel like there was a time in this game that both teams were on a 5-minute FG drought
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boy uh how bout that ACC championship game eh
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PostNouveau posted:I feel like there was a time in this game that both teams were on a 5-minute FG drought Virginia is guaranteed at least one 5-minute FG drought per game, it's in the contract this looks like the game they'll also really be missing Vander Plas, who before breaking his hand was absolutely vital in some games and a total passenger in others
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A combined 15/44 from the field and 2/13 from 3. Some real fine basketball there.
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Bird in a Blender posted:A combined 15/44 from the field and 2/13 from 3. Some real fine basketball there. the perfect cap for a dreadful ACC season the Big West final is tipping off in a sec, that should be a little easier to watch
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I can appreciate what Tony Bennett has done at Virginia.....but drat if they don't play some of the most boring basketball possible.
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jesus loving christ they're not even making free throws
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yeah you'd think a team with UVA's profile generally would hit free throws but they don't just a huge messy poo poo on the Greensboro Coliseum floor, in advance of losing to whoever they draw in the first round the whole ACC, just terrible
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Only a 7 pt game, feels like 20
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Cal-Fullerton/UCSB is a one possession game at the half.
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Lol how is that not a foul, Duke rear end refs
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Lol how is that not a foul, Duke rear end refs Not worth getting worked up over, we never showed and deserve this loss
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Ungratek posted:Not worth getting worked up over, we never showed and deserve this loss yeah ACC refs in Greensboro are usually worth at least 6 or 7 points to Duke but frankly they've been begging UVA to take this game and Virginia just said no
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Nice, Bill Walton calling the this game Edit: It pains me to report that Bill Walton does not seem to be high on shrooms like he was for the semifinal. I do think he may be getting kickbacks from MGM for every time he mentions them. PostNouveau fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Mar 12, 2023 |
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Tyger is always one of my faves.
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UCLA's defense might be good enough to win it all this year.
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finals Sunday before the selection show Ivy, 12 PM: Yale’s legit but has to beat Princeton on their floor. potentially diverting SEC, 1 PM: don’t really want to see either the Alabama or TAMU fanbase happy but it can’t be worse than the ACC final A-10, 1 PM: Dayton vs. VCU for the title and the conference’s one berth this year, hopefully a decent game American, 3:15 PM: Houston has the 1 seed locked up and the field will be basically set by the time this finishes so this game probably means a lot more for Memphis, if that actually matters (it won’t) Big Ten, 3:30 PM: it would be pretty funny if Penn State ended up Big Ten champions, maybe Purdue will forget to get Edey out of his vat or something
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This is the most I've seen of UCLA this year. I'm a believer in this defense but Is their offensse usually this awkward?
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Ballo is like a head taller and 30 lbs heavier than every UCLA player and Arizona can't figure out how to get him the ball low
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UCLA is like a cockroach in NCAA tournaments, but that offense is giving me doubts this time.
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Woooo. Nice win. I can't complain about that win for Arizona; they played some very fun ball and getting to split the conference championship--albeit definitely a stupid rule to me--is a nice reward for for a nice season. I don't have high hopes in the tournament because this team is worse than last year's team. But one actual key difference this year is that Arizona has some wins in some very physical games, whereas last year that was their kryptonite. RC and Moon Pie posted:UCLA is like a cockroach in NCAA tournaments, but that offense is giving me doubts this time. Yeah you're probably right ultimately.
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it is highly shady that Grand Canyon is a for-profit running D1 sports programs but i guess it's working out for them* i assume some major conference team is gonna kick the tires on Bryce Drew again, or maybe he'll just go back to Valpo *all for-profit universities are highly shady but GCU has been credibly accused of securities fraud which is why they can't go back to being nonprofit, the NCAA of course is fine with it elentar fucked around with this message at 07:16 on Mar 12, 2023 |
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https://twitter.com/BruinReport/status/1634799477554053122?t=Xdx_7RrTKp3VEgPGfBE_iQ&s=19 My god is that Cincinnati Mick's music??
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RC and Moon Pie posted:UCLA is like a cockroach in NCAA tournaments, but that offense is giving me doubts this time. I probably have PTSD from watching Iowa state all season, but teams with great D and so-so offense like to crumble when they face another team with good D.
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