College Bball Thread

[Rico]

1 hour ago, HoosierAloha said:

How many people truly felt we were going to win @Rutger or neutral vs. Arizona in the second half? The only uncertainty for me was the final margin of defeat. 

I would say that I got pretty hopeful in that 2nd half of Arizona.  I thought there was a chance we could "steal" it.  

[IU Scott]

1 hour ago, HoosierAloha said:

How many people truly felt we were going to win @Rutger or neutral vs. Arizona in the second half? The only uncertainty for me was the final margin of defeat. This team doesn't have "it" and it shows. That doesn't make we're a bad team (we're not Minny or NW bad, although they could beat us on the road) but it does mean we're just somewhere in the middle of the Big 1.o.

In the Arizona game I did. Also when we had the lead in the second half at Rutgers I had no reason to think we couldn't pull the game out.

[LIHoosier]

NCAA recommending 25% of teams eligible to participate in championships. That would bump the men's and women's tourneys from 68 to 90 teams. 

You get a tourney bid! You get a tourney bid!

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/35372595/ncaa-recommendations-call-bigger-championship-events

[woodenshoemanHoosierfan]

NCAA recommending 25% of teams eligible to participate in championships. That would bump the men's and women's tourneys from 68 to 90 teams. 
You get a tourney bid! You get a tourney bid!
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/35372595/ncaa-recommendations-call-bigger-championship-events

Ha! Beat me to it.

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[Alford Bailey]

No bad losses to fret about yet

[RaceToTheTop]

2 hours ago, HoosierAloha said:

Using the same logic, purdoodoo (#1 in the coaches poll) would be #13 in the AP. That seems to make sense

Not sure what you are referring to.  Rutgers isn’t ranked in the coaches poll and didn’t receive votes.

[AKHoosier]

33 minutes ago, LIHoosier said:

NCAA recommending 25% of teams eligible to participate in championships. That would bump the men's and women's tourneys from 68 to 90 teams. 

You get a tourney bid! You get a tourney bid!

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/35372595/ncaa-recommendations-call-bigger-championship-events

Would be a step towards ruining a great product.

I'd have to imagine every team from a power conference over .500 would get a tournament bid if this gets adopted.  

Forget making the regular season meaningless, it would make the first round of the tournament meaningless.

But they've already ruined college football's postseason, so why stop them now?

[HoosierAloha]

1 hour ago, IU Scott said:

In the Arizona game I did. Also when we had the lead in the second half at Rutgers I had no reason to think we couldn't pull the game out.

That's truly remarkable. One day, after several years of consistently competing and winning under a good coach, I'll get the feeling of having a chance in those type of games again.

[Stuhoo]

17 hours ago, LIHoosier said:

NCAA recommending 25% of teams eligible to participate in championships. That would bump the men's and women's tourneys from 68 to 90 teams. 

You get a tourney bid! You get a tourney bid!

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/35372595/ncaa-recommendations-call-bigger-championship-events

Sure - why not?

I’d actually prefer if they did it high school style and let every team in, do away with conference tourneys, and have meaningful conference champs and the big NCAA tournament.

[HoosierAloha]

8 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

Not sure what you are referring to.  Rutgers isn’t ranked in the coaches poll and didn’t receive votes.

Touche, outstanding reasoning.

[HoosierAloha]

Are conference tourneys not the start of postseason play? Is this the NCAA's attempt to get a little more money and control before their eventual demise?

[IU Scott]

47 minutes ago, LIHoosier said:

NCAA recommending 25% of teams eligible to participate in championships. That would bump the men's and women's tourneys from 68 to 90 teams. 

You get a tourney bid! You get a tourney bid!

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/35372595/ncaa-recommendations-call-bigger-championship-events

Hell no, go back to 64, we don't need to see more sub .500 conference teams from major conferences 

[IU Scott]

9 minutes ago, HoosierAloha said:

That's truly remarkable. One day, after several years of consistently competing and winning under a good coach, I'll get the feeling of having a chance in those type of games again.

We were 7-0 going into Rutgers and up 3 why wouldn't you think we would hold on to the lead. We had already beaten a good Xavier team on the road. Some people look at the positive where others look at the negative 

[IU Scott]

9 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Sure - why not?

I’d actually prefer if they did it high school style and let every team in.

That would be horrible, never should have went past 64.  Every team is already in the tournament which is the conference tournament. If you want in the NCAA tournament then win your conference.  I don't want to see a 7-13 big ten team in the tournament. If they expand it, it will be for the power conference teams and not for more deserving mid majors team.

[IU Scott]

8 minutes ago, HoosierAloha said:

Are conference tourneys not the start of postseason play? Is this the NCAA's attempt to get a little more money and control before their eventual demise?

It is the whiny power conference coaches who don't want to lose their jobs for missing the tournament.

[Rico]

11 minutes ago, HoosierAloha said:

Are conference tourneys not the start of postseason play? 

Do away with the conference tournaments.  

[Stuhoo]

Good for him—if the spotlight of major bball isn’t serving him well he needs to step back.

[woodenshoemanHoosierfan]

Interesting take
https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/iu-basketball-fans-frustrated-with-purdue-being-no-1-can-blame-bob-knight/

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[HoosierHoops1]

4 hours ago, HoosierAloha said:

How many people truly felt we were going to win @Rutger or neutral vs. Arizona in the second half? The only uncertainty for me was the final margin of defeat. This team doesn't have "it" and it shows. That doesn't make we're a bad team (we're not Minny or NW bad, although they could beat us on the road) but it does mean we're just somewhere in the middle of the Big 1.o.

It doesn't mean that at all. Our games against Kansas and Arizona have no bearing on how we'll do in the B1G.

No one, and I mean NONE of the 14 B1G teams have shown where they will finish in the B1G.

 

[HoosierHoops1]

32 minutes ago, woodenshoemanHoosierfan said:

Interesting take
https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/iu-basketball-fans-frustrated-with-purdue-being-no-1-can-blame-bob-knight/

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They were #1 because of the extreme reactionary nature of todays voter, following a good week of basketball out West. Lose 1 of the next 2 for a 2 loss week and it'll likely be a precipitous fall from the top 15.