College Basketball 2022-2023

[gflore34]

Hopefully after time has passed you can at least take solace in the fact that Purdue won the regular season and conference tournament championship. But I totally get it if this completely ruins those accomplishments. I was talking with some Michigan fans after the game about whether you’d rather miss the tourney or be a 1 seed and lose to a 16. I think I’d rather actually miss the tourney of those scenarios

i'd rather have the entirety of Purdue's season, without a second thought, because this of course includes those 2 accomplishments you listed and banners that are hung forever

 

this thread is having a real atypical hot take fest re Purdue, sometimes stylistic bad matchups occur, that's part of the beauty of March Madness

 

If Painter and Underwood keep getting their teams invited, one of these years, the match up dominoes will fall and they'll get a breakthrough win(s). Look at Izzo last year lost in the second round, the year before in the first four, this year MSU is in the Sweet Sixteen with a legit chance to make the Final Four.

[champaignchris]

Hopefully after time has passed you can at least take solace in the fact that Purdue won the regular season and conference tournament championship. But I totally get it if this completely ruins those accomplishments. I was talking with some Michigan fans after the game about whether you’d rather miss the tourney or be a 1 seed and lose to a 16. I think I’d rather actually miss the tourney of those scenarios

i'd rather have the entirety of Purdue's season, without a second thought, because this of course includes those 2 accomplishments you listed and banners that are hung forever

 

this thread is having a real atypical hot take fest re Purdue, sometimes stylistic bad matchups occur, that's part of the beauty of March Madness

 

If Painter and Underwood keep getting their teams invited, one of these years, the match up dominoes will fall and they'll get a breakthrough win(s). Look at Izzo last year lost in the second round, the year before in the first four, this year MSU is in the Sweet Sixteen with a legit chance to make the Final Four.

 

Purdue got to the Final Four as a 6 seed way back in 1980. Since then Purdue and Illinois have both consistently made the NCAAT and never had that Final Four run as a lower seed. Purdue got to an Elite 8 in 2000 as a #6 only to get knocked out by #8 Wisconsin on the way to the Final Four. Illinois just plain never seems to outplay its seed, only making deep runs when they’re a #1.

 

Purdue’s amazingly only had two coaches during that time. Perhaps coaching is an issue there, but Illinois has been through several coaches, 4 of whom made deep runs as lower seeded teams in places other than Illinois. So I tend to chalk it up to fluky bad luck.

[Andy]

Mike Brey consistently sucked butt in the tournament until by pure luck he got a team with two NBA players on it and caught some matchup luck and all of a sudden he was a minute and a half away from beating an unbeaten team and making the Final Four. Then he caught even more matchup luck and made the Elite 8 again the next year. I think this stuff is pretty much like baseball - get as many cracks as you can and hope for lucky breaks.

[stitchface]

Mike Brey consistently sucked butt in the tournament until by pure luck he got a team with two NBA players on it and caught some matchup luck and all of a sudden he was a minute and a half away from beating an unbeaten team and making the Final Four. Then he caught even more matchup luck and made the Elite 8 again the next year. I think this stuff is pretty much like baseball - get as many cracks as you can and hope for lucky breaks.

 

This is probably about right. It seems like some coaches recruit well enough to have an all superstar team that can succeed without much coaching and perhaps some other coaches are just tactically better and can coach an average team to more wins. It's not like they have much time to prepare for the games though.

[mul21]

Mike Brey consistently sucked butt in the tournament until by pure luck he got a team with two NBA players on it and caught some matchup luck and all of a sudden he was a minute and a half away from beating an unbeaten team and making the Final Four. Then he caught even more matchup luck and made the Elite 8 again the next year. I think this stuff is pretty much like baseball - get as many cracks as you can and hope for lucky breaks.

 

This is probably about right. It seems like some coaches recruit well enough to have an all superstar team that can succeed without much coaching and perhaps some other coaches are just tactically better and can coach an average team to more wins. It's not like they have much time to prepare for the games though.

 

I think there's also certain things that play up in the tournament too. MSU for example is almost always a great rebounding team and I can't count how many games I've watched where just basic blocking out wins the game because one team is doing it well and the other isn't. I definitely buy into the clutch factor at the end of games too. Some teams are just better prepared for the chaos in the last 2 minutes and protect the ball and hit free throws. The "do what you're good at" factor is important too. A ton of games I've watched turn because teams stopped doing what they were succeeding at or because a guy or two decided it was their turn to shoot (see: Illinois and Indiana chucking 3s when they weren't going in instead of continuing to go to the rim).

[Andy]

Micah Shrewsberry reportedly leaving Penn State for Notre Dame. Feels like an exciting move for the Irish, and excitement is something they really needed after this mess of a season.

[Derwood]

Micah Shrewsberry reportedly leaving Penn State for Notre Dame. Feels like an exciting move for the Irish, and excitement is something they really needed after this mess of a season.

 

Damn, I was just getting excited that PSU might put together back to back winning seasons.

[champaignchris]

Micah Shrewsberry reportedly leaving Penn State for Notre Dame. Feels like an exciting move for the Irish, and excitement is something they really needed after this mess of a season.

 

As an Illini fan, I’m not sorry to his backside heading out the door. He’s a really, really good offensive coach.

[gflore34]

Micah Shrewsberry reportedly leaving Penn State for Notre Dame. Feels like an exciting move for the Irish, and excitement is something they really needed after this mess of a season.

 

As an Illini fan, I’m not sorry to his backside heading out the door. He’s a really, really good offensive coach.

 

I was interested to see if could maintain success after losing all key contributors next season.

[Old Style]

[soccer10k]

One of San Diego St, Princeton, Creighton, Kansas St or Florida Atlantic will be in the title game.

 

And unless Houston pulls off a huge comeback, no 1 seeds will be in the Elite 8 and at most only 1 2 seed.

 

No coach remaining has ever won a title either.

[Soul]

Can’t be too often that no 1’s make it past the Sweet 16.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Can’t be too often that no 1’s make it past the Sweet 16.

 

There was a graphic during the Houston game that said it hasn't happened in the 45 year history of seeds in the tournament.

[soccer10k]

Can’t be too often that no 1’s make it past the Sweet 16.

 

There was a graphic during the Houston game that said it hasn't happened in the 45 year history of seeds in the tournament.

 

It's only the fourth time we've ever even had a Final Four without any 1 seeds.

[Old Style]

[UMFan83]

 

I feel bad for laughing so much

[Derwood]

FAU in the Final Four?

 

Sure, why not

[UMFan83]

FAU in the Final Four?

 

Sure, why not

 

If Gonzaga and Miami win (SDSU/Creighton doesn’t matter), there will be a combined 2 previous Final Four appearances between the 4 teams, both Gonzaga.

[Brian707]

UCONN should win this.  

[Andy]

I've watched less CBB this year than probably any year since I was 13 or something, so I knew any attempt at picking brackets would go hilariously wrong, but I predicted the Final Four teams to win exactly one combined game in this tournament (FAU; had each of the other 3 being upset). That's impressive.

[Rex Buckingham]

I've correctly picked the first two of the Women's Final Four correctly, with South Carolina and Ohio State picked in tonight's games, based on watching not a single women's game this year. 

On the Men's side, I got no final 4 teams right, but had correctly picked every game in the Midwest region until Miami's comeback last night. 

[Old Style]

37 people on ESPN.com picked the Final Four exactly. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE???????????????????

[Derwood]

UConn has been curb-stomping everyone. On paper, they should breeze to the title.

And yet...

[soccer10k]

1 hour ago, Old Style said:

37 people on ESPN.com picked the Final Four exactly. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE???????????????????

Most of them probably filled out a bunch of brackets and this was their “upset” bracket.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

There are 37 goobers who took the time to submit a bracket for every scenario.