'24 NCAA Tourney Discussion Thread

StoopsBros said:
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Morter Poser should take notes from what NC state does on offense.. they just went 3-13 from 3 (23%) and still won comfortably by 12 to go to the final 4. If we shoot below 33% in any games under his terrible offense, we pretty much have no shot to win a game (and far from a 12 pt win)..
 
hoopsaustin said:
Morter Poser should take notes from what NC state does on offense.. they just went 3-13 from 3 (23%) and still won comfortably by 12 to go to the final 4. If we shoot below 33% in any games under his terrible offense, we pretty much have no shot to win a game (and far from a 12 pt win)
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NC State winning is good for college basketball. It proves that even in this age of NIL and transfers you don’t need a lot of money or super nice facilities or a tonne of fan support to win. Nobody can tell me NC State is an overall better program than OU. Get the right coach at OU first, and the rest will follow.
 
Boom Soon said:
NC State winning is good for college basketball. It proves that even in this age of NIL and transfers you don’t need a lot of money or super nice facilities or a tonne of fan support to win. Nobody can tell me NC State is an overall better program than OU. Get the right coach at OU first, and the rest will follow.
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Yup and as always a little luck.. but NC state has a much widers margin of winning than OU. Heck OU had like a career night shooting the 3 against houston and still couldn't get a W.

Contrast that with NC state shooting like crap from 3 but still beating a team by 12. Moser doesn't generate inside "easy" looks.
 
hoopsaustin said:
Yup and as always a little luck.. but NC state has a much widers margin of winning than OU. Heck OU had like a career night shooting the 3 against houston and still couldn't get a W.

Contrast that with NC state shooting like crap from 3 but still beating a team by 12. Moser doesn't generate inside "easy" looks.
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True statements
 
It would be nice to see Wolfpack win the championship in women and men basketball
 

NC Central Coach Levelle Moton makes a great point with this tweet. UVa guy makes this free throw in the semifinals of the ACC tournament, many lives are changed.

  • NC State fires Kevin Keatts and hires another coaching staff. This causes another set of dominoes to fall in the coaching carousel.
  • OU, as first team out, barely makes the tournament. We may have been one and done, or may have won a game or two. It takes some heat off of Porter.

Those are just two things that would have happened on a made free throw by the UVa player.
 
Boom Soon said:
NC State winning is good for college basketball. It proves that even in this age of NIL and transfers you don’t need a lot of money or super nice facilities or a tonne of fan support to win. Nobody can tell me NC State is an overall better program than OU. Get the right coach at OU first, and the rest will follow.
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NC state winning is going to get the tourney expanded to 72 teams very very soon ..
 
AnotherSoonerInTX said:

NC Central Coach Levelle Moton makes a great point with this tweet. UVa guy makes this free throw in the semifinals of the ACC tournament, many lives are changed.

  • NC State fires Kevin Keatts and hires another coaching staff. This causes another set of dominoes to fall in the coaching carousel.
  • OU, as first team out, barely makes the tournament. We may have been one and done, or may have won a game or two. It takes some heat off of Porter.

Those are just two things that would have happened on a made free throw by the UVa player.
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or if UVA uses 1 of their 3 fouls to give ..
 
Boom Soon said:
NC State winning is good for college basketball. It proves that even in this age of NIL and transfers you don’t need a lot of money or super nice facilities or a tonne of fan support to win. Nobody can tell me NC State is an overall better program than OU. Get the right coach at OU first, and the rest will follow.
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Nc state was one of the teams paying big adidas money to illegally recruit. They pulled some big names from the portal last year. I wouldn’t assume they are the feel good story they might seem to be.
 
Sooner04 said:
That's the grossest thing imaginable. Where are the adults? Is nothing sacred? I know the answer to that last question.
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the power 5 bball conf .. (really the power 2 ) want more spots for there teams .. they will say this shows that their 8th / 9th/ 10th team can get to the final 4 ..

so very likely we will have 4 more games (the First Eight ) instead of the first four .. and quad headers in dayton on the first tuesday and wednesday of the dance ..
 
BoulderSooner said:
the power 5 bball conf .. (really the power 2 ) want more spots for there teams .. they will say this shows that their 8th / 9th/ 10th team can get to the final 4 ..

so very likely we will have 4 more games (the First Eight ) instead of the first four .. and quad headers in dayton on the first tuesday and wednesday of the dance ..
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I have no issue with expanding the field to 72...but no more. Add those extra teams to the brackets that everyone picks. As long as you can get them on the page, it expands interest in the tournament. Moving to 80 or 96 teams cheapens the event and is a blatant money grab by the Power 2, though being in the SEC would get even a bad OU team into such a tournament in most years.

This year's last four teams out were OU, Seton Hall, Indiana State, and Pitt. Any of those teams could have won one or more games in the tournament. And any of those teams could also have done what Virginia did: lose by 30 in the first game. Indiana State, specifically, would have become America's darling with Robbie Avila, he with the the goggles and multiple nicknames (Larry Nerd, etc.).

Seed all automatic qualifiers into the 64 team bracket. Some of the smaller conferences (the SWAC, etc.) prefer the current setup so they can win a game and earn a tournament unit and the conference can get paid. To mollify those concerns, pay the smaller conferences a small amount of money every year in lieu of the chance to win a First Four game.

Assign the last 16 at-large teams to the Tuesday-Wednesday games. This generates interest in the event. No one is watching a 6:00 game between Wagner and Howard on TruTV.

Also, use Dayton for half of these Tuesday-Wednesday games, as they enjoy and do well at hosting the event. If possible, use a site in the Central or Mountain time zones for the other half for easier travel to next round sites west of the Mississippi.
 
AnotherSoonerInTX said:
I have no issue with expanding the field to 72...but no more. Add those extra teams to the brackets that everyone picks. As long as you can get them on the page, it expands interest in the tournament. Moving to 80 or 96 teams cheapens the event and is a blatant money grab by the Power 2, though being in the SEC would get even a bad OU team into such a tournament in most years.

This year's last four teams out were OU, Seton Hall, Indiana State, and Pitt. Any of those teams could have won one or more games in the tournament. And any of those teams could also have done what Virginia did: lose by 30 in the first game. Indiana State, specifically, would have become America's darling with Robbie Avila, he with the the goggles and multiple nicknames (Larry Nerd, etc.).

Seed all automatic qualifiers into the 64 team bracket. Some of the smaller conferences (the SWAC, etc.) prefer the current setup so they can win a game and earn a tournament unit and the conference can get paid. To mollify those concerns, pay the smaller conferences a small amount of money every year in lieu of the chance to win a First Four game.

Assign the last 16 at-large teams to the Tuesday-Wednesday games. This generates interest in the event. No one is watching a 6:00 game between Wagner and Howard on TruTV.

Also, use Dayton for half of these Tuesday-Wednesday games, as they enjoy and do well at hosting the event. If possible, use a site in the Central or Mountain time zones for the other half for easier travel to next round sites west of the Mississippi.
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Not Central time zone, but Hinkle Fieldhouse would be perfect for this.
 
IndySooner said:
Not Central time zone, but Hinkle Fieldhouse would be perfect for this.
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Close enough if no one in CTZ wants to do it. Hinkle is historic. It also helped host the Covid tournament in Indianapolis in 2021. Indy has an excellent airport...not a hub, but is a modern, convenient airport.

Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City would be great for it, too. All the history, not too big, not too small, recently remodeled. But they host the NAIA tournament around the same time.
 
Big night in WBB.

I can be honest, outside of OU WBB, I mostly ignore WBB all season.

But tonight, oh boy, I'm actually excited to tune in.

 
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