Recent content by PhilipVU94

That doesn't mean some of them don't have a better case than others. I actually don't think it's TV. Duke and UConn wouldn't be in different pods at the same site, pushing Duke to the afternoon, if TV were pulling the strings. It absolutely, 1000% is committee politics. We suffered in 2000 as...

Florida's deemed the fourth #1 seed. Auburn, Duke, or Houston aren't going to be any easier. (Especially Duke -- worse résumé than Florida even but better predictive metrics.) But they could have you paired with UF as an 8, or even just reversed the uniform colors for #8 OU vs #9 UConn.

Congratulations on your strong finish! Can't say I was pulling for you when we were all sweating out the end of the season (although it's hard to say I was pulling for Kentucky either, because they're Kentucky). But now that the dust has settled it's really good y'all made it. How do you feel...

I've been thinking about this for a day. I want to try to find a replay (on YouTube or similar).

Google search. Or maybe Duck Duck. First it found the free Rivals board which has like one thread for whole basketball season. But it was definitely first page for some obvious search terms.

I imagine they "officially" don't discuss it but everyone knows each others' interests, especially now that football P4 conferences are all represented on the committee. And most of them are probably honest, but Greg Byrne from Alabama knows first hand how tough the SEC is without looking at...

Auburn's been playing with fire. Obviously they're really good but like a poker player who goes for weeks without their aces being cracked by six-four or something. At their place is a tough order but they can't keep pulling out all the close wins. Probably.

The best ones IMO are paywalled (247 and Rivals) and multisport, but pretty hoops-centric in season. They recently did some shuffling where one site merged with another and I haven't resubbed to either one. I've been hanging out at Vandymania and Anchor of Gold, both free. Neither is really...

Thanks y'all. I kinda want to go hide in the corner for a while, especially with our team going to Florida in three days, but I won't be a stranger. Talking hoops with SEC fans who care (especially non-Kentucky ones) is too much fun to pass up. Good luck the rest of the way. Congrats.

Congrats. I don't know what happened because mercifully I was with my kindergartner at the library and mostly relying on score updates in the 2nd. That was enough to get the gist. I hope somehow this 2nd half ends up helping your team realize their obvious potential for the rest of the season...

Since it's halftime I'll confess my favorite Oklahoma basketball memory. So in sports terms I'm a child of the 80s and I didn't really care for your monster teams then, mostly because Billy Tubbs was just so... Billy Tubbs. But there was one time I felt great admiration for him. No surprise I'm...

As long as we're in useless date-related trivia... it's the 2nd anniversary of the day Jerry Stackhouse's most decent team decided to stop screwing around and show up for a college basketball season. We lost by 57 points to Alabama on January 31 and then went on a 10 of 11 tear before losing in...

Sample size seems solid on that one. Vandy's doomed!

A more detailed VU-centric preview from my one of my message board idols: https://vandymania.com/viewtopic.php?t=5113 (There are more active VU forums but they are all paywalled btw.) As I mentioned on that thread, I suspect his assessment of OU's non-conf schedule is based on some weird KP...

Yeah, the part that gets counterintuitive (for both our teams) is having a bunch of games where you're/we're underdogs but not prohibitive underdogs. Y'all have a few games in the 40s-percent and a few more in the 20s and 30s. Every team has hot and cold nights so it's reasonable to think you'll...