If anyone is planning to watch tonight’s Miss St/Pitt thriller, just remember, beating Pitt without your conference player of the year PG is only good enough to be 5 seeds worse than them.
The 2023 NCAA Division 1 Men's College Basketball Championship Tournament
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Seth Davis is an insufferable shill for the power 5. He’s visibly upset at the outcome of that game. No analysis from him on Princeton playing well, just on Arizona playing poorly. Predicable, but enraging nonetheless.
Princeton +15 was the lock of the year.
Princeton +15 was the lock of the year.
No amount of flexing fixing that offenseYeah it was Iowa State ugly on offense 😂
Xavier made it to the second weekend in 2012, Dayton in 2014. None since. Dayton, Joes and Rhody respectively in 15,16, 17 had real close shots at making it to the second weekend but fell short. Since then it hasn’t even been close. 2-8 since 2018 with both second round bow outs coming in ugly form.
I have the same thoughts as Bi. When?
I have the same thoughts as Bi. When?
After my LaSalle gaffe, I remembered looking stuff up is easy, and not looking stuff up is for the BW. Having said that, I looked it up to confirm my suspicions that we are, in fact, overestimating the frequency which we should have expected an A10 team to make a run.This is exactly my point. We've had 3 appearances since 2012. Get one, right? So close in 00 against UK too. At some point the A10 needs to turn a head, SBU included. I swear the effing MAAC and NEC produce more eye opening wins.
I've always had the optimistic "why not us?" going in, but it seemingly never is.
Looking at the last 10 tournaments, including this year, below is the list of conferences outside the P6 reaching multiple sweet 16s when you exclude Houston, Gonzaga and UConn (which don’t count on the same plane, for obvious reasons)
MVC - 4 (no current members)
MWC- 3
A10- 2
We collectively need to step up, SBU with its 2 major round of 64 chokes in that time included. However, as we see, it’s (hopefully) a matter of being on the wrong side of a dip in the mean, and will correct itself. Every year, even the worst years like this one and 2019, there’s been squads who could do it . But we’re not in notably worse shape than our non-P6 peers.
Having made it 4 years in a row, and not since, isn’t helping w the starkness.
To play the heel on Hurley- he’s a turd. There’s no doubt about it. He’s obnoxious and theatric to absurd levels.
That said- and maybe I’m way off here- but to BI’s point about being on his side- he seems he’s an overly intense guy, but not from a malicious place. There does seem to be a connection with his players, and clearly, he’s gets a lot out of them. So while he may be a total jackass, Im not convinced he’s an asshole on a personal level. He’s just one of those guys who’s a lot to handle, often to an off-putting degree.
Compared to say, McCaffrey, who seems like he’s just a prick.
That said- and maybe I’m way off here- but to BI’s point about being on his side- he seems he’s an overly intense guy, but not from a malicious place. There does seem to be a connection with his players, and clearly, he’s gets a lot out of them. So while he may be a total jackass, Im not convinced he’s an asshole on a personal level. He’s just one of those guys who’s a lot to handle, often to an off-putting degree.
Compared to say, McCaffrey, who seems like he’s just a prick.
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