Boomhauer
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Right, but you can still get placed in FW even if you aren’t top 3. See it happen where a worse seed plays at home
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Right, but you can still get placed in FW even if you aren’t top 3. See it happen where a worse seed plays at home
geefrogs
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Spike
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A most HT idea sir! Get plastic!
Very creative, nice job.
Still don't understand the participation trophy mindset everyone seems to have, but oh well. Might as well invite another 68 teams and add another round, why not?
Just saw that Rutgers, Xavier, Memphis and Loyola (Chicago) are the "last four in" in the latest Bracketology as of today. Rutgers is 17-12, Xavier is also 17-12 (and 7-11 in their league), Memphis is 18-9 playing in the AAC, and Loyola, I guess going 13-5 in the Missouri Valley makes one a real contender for a D1 national championship.
The standard for making the tournament are a joke.
froglash88
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Or maybe just someone’s perspective is?
geefrogs
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Worst case scenario, we lose today and our first round game. I think we end at a 10 seed.
Best case we win today, maybe steal a game or two in the tourney. Get up as high to a 6 seed.
My best guess, we end up at a 9 seed.
But, lots of other madness can happen in other conference tourneys and whatnot.
Absolutely love this time of year. Especially when the Frogs are part of it.
Best case we win today, maybe steal a game or two in the tourney. Get up as high to a 6 seed.
My best guess, we end up at a 9 seed.
But, lots of other madness can happen in other conference tourneys and whatnot.
Absolutely love this time of year. Especially when the Frogs are part of it.
This Ain't Chopped Liver
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One can strongly argue that the four week period of conference tournaments, bracketology, and the NCAA tournament is the best most engaging gig in sports. @Wexahu enjoys that debate. And Wex, the regular season matters a lot - just look at the Frogs’ season hangin’ on the edge until its last win, and now it is about seeding and enjoying the anticipation that the Horned Frogs are in. Many Frog fans are apathetic because the regular season has not been good to their team for decades, thus excluding them from The Big Dance - the season matters a lot.
Brackets are dragged into most offices. Old and new friends have their annual bracketology with a lot of head scratching while filling in those blanks. I participate in a Calcutta auction which is much fun.
The titles “March Madness” and “The Big Dance” are for good reason and appropriate. No other gig has monikers like that.
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geefrogs
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A reminder that if you live in DFW, you could go watch some conference tourney hoops next week.
American Conference tourney (Houston, Smoo, etc.) will be at Dickies Arena March 10-13th.
C-USA tourney (North Texas, UAB, etc.) will be at Ford Center in Frisco March 8th-12th.
American Conference tourney (Houston, Smoo, etc.) will be at Dickies Arena March 10-13th.
C-USA tourney (North Texas, UAB, etc.) will be at Ford Center in Frisco March 8th-12th.
We're just gonna have to agree to disagree.
How important is the #14 Arkansas/#13 Tennessee game today? What about #12 TT vs Oklahoma State? Texas/KU? #16 USC/ #17 UCLA? The only "important" games in the last 3-4 weeks of the season involve teams that have already proven they aren't worthy of winning a championship by either only winning about 60% of their games or being some small school from a rinky dink conference that never had a chance anyway. Think about about much more interest there'd be in the games involving good teams in the last few weekends if the field was scaled way back.
The main problem is there is about 15 too many conference that are competing at the D1 level. It's like some 2A or 3A school competing against Allen, Duncanville and Southlake Carroll. It's just dumb. And you'll never convince me that the constant increasing of playoff fields in any sport doesn't reduce the importance of the regular season. Hell, load management is a thing now, because the games mean so little.
As for March Madness, brackets, and office pools, those would be replaced by something else. And the NIT would probably become a pretty big deal again. The last month of the season would be great with a 16-team field. Lots and lots of games involving teams that could win it all that would be very important.
To your point, why not increase the field to 128?
Indiana, currently 9th place in their league. “First team out”. LOL!!!!!
- There are probably at least 15 Division 1 conferences worse than the WCC. It's currently #9 in RPI out of 32 conferences.
- They beat Texas, UCLA, and Texas Tech in OOC (and played Duke and Alabama, which probably makes for the best OOC schedule in the country)
- They dominate their league (13-1 this year so far)
Your sarcasm aside, it's pretty simple really.
