Maybe he won the powerball too and will miss our game
***2023-24 Mens College Basketball Thread***
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Virginia getting smoked at home like a Virginia ham. There goes the nation's longest home winning streak.
North Carolina down late as well.
North Carolina down late as well.
Indiana State gets beat at home by NET 215 Illinois State.
Resume crushing loss.
Resume crushing loss.
Baylor should be required to carve some seats out and get a decent ******* camera view. This looking at the tops of the players heads is so ******* stupid. It's like we're in 1950 or something.
So does the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Gulf, and all of the Great Lakes.
Carolina has lost 3 of 5 to unranked teams. Tell me again what they have done to have the number 7 next to their name, aside from history only? Tennessee seems to be their only great win.
CycloneErik
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Is anyone listening to Bilas babbling on about how league affiliation doesn’t affect how many teams get in the tournament? I swear Bilas keeps getting worse and worse.
If they go 5-2, they'll be 20-11, 9-9 in the Big 12, and think that puts them in. Their Net would still be good.
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They are playing better than earlier in the year. Their defense before was bad. Still not great but zone has helped. Missi the center has improved.
Feels like they might be a good bet to win the B12 tourney. May have some good odds and can get hot and make a run if they have an easier path.
I saw a stat the other day that said the winning % of unranked teams playing top-10 opponents at home is something like 53% this year, where it's normally something like 15-35%. Here's what's going on if you ask me:
Portal+NIL has lead to more parity than ever before. Good players want to play, they can't all get 30 minutes/game and 15 FGAs/game on the same ~20 teams, and if you want a big bag you can get it from basically anyone now, don't have to go to a blue blood and get it underwater. It is not coincidental that a few years into everyone being able to pay their players above-water, suddenly all of KU/UK/Duke/UNC are not so deep and dominant anymore. When you can get that playing time and that $$$ from lots of places in lots of good leagues, the selling point of "Come to KU and be a role-player at best for three years then maybe in your 4th year if you're still here and you beat out a fleet of other five-stars while we recruit over you the whole time, then you can be The Guy, here's a bag from Adidas" isn't as much of a draw.
Along with this, COVID Year has lead to lots of teams having 23-24+ year-old full-grown men playing against teenagers, not just BYU.
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