And I don't cheer for the Big 12. I cheer for my alma mater, The University of Oklahoma.
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And I don't cheer for the Big 12. I cheer for my alma mater, The University of Oklahoma.
Michigan state trailed the whole time. They looked bad to everyone else I assure you.
Offensively MSU was very good yesterday but defensively they were not.
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We go thru this every year, it seems. Generally speaking, every team in the Big Dance has:
Going into the Big Dance, Cal State Bakersfield (CSBU) was 24-8, having won 10 of their last 11 games, and had won their conference tournament championship. In other words, they are winners. They are confident. And after seeing them in person, I think they are pretty darn good. They fight and play hard. They badly wanted to win the game. They were very disappointed to lose. They were not just "happy to be there."
I guess my point is this. I have been going to OU games for 40 years, and I enjoy each and every NCAA Tournament win. I certainly enjoyed being inside the Chesapeake Arena yesterday. I never take a win in the big dance for granted.
Also, I think this concept of conference perception being carried over to the next season is overrated. It appears to me that the NCAA Committee looks at each season, in and of itself.
Will the upsets by MTSU and UALR hurt the Big-10 perception with the Tournament Selection Committee next season? I doubt it.
No matter how good or how bad the Big-12 performed in The Dance in prior seasons, 70% of the conference teams were in The Dance in 2016. That is because the Big-12 had a really good season in 2015-16, and not because the Big-12 had a great run in the Big Dance in a prior season.
- Good players
- Good coaches
- Success leading into the Big Dance
Going into the Big Dance, Cal State Bakersfield (CSBU) was 24-8, having won 10 of their last 11 games, and had won their conference tournament championship. In other words, they are winners. They are confident. And after seeing them in person, I think they are pretty darn good. They fight and play hard. They badly wanted to win the game. They were very disappointed to lose. They were not just "happy to be there."
I guess my point is this. I have been going to OU games for 40 years, and I enjoy each and every NCAA Tournament win. I certainly enjoyed being inside the Chesapeake Arena yesterday. I never take a win in the big dance for granted.
Also, I think this concept of conference perception being carried over to the next season is overrated. It appears to me that the NCAA Committee looks at each season, in and of itself.
Will the upsets by MTSU and UALR hurt the Big-10 perception with the Tournament Selection Committee next season? I doubt it.
No matter how good or how bad the Big-12 performed in The Dance in prior seasons, 70% of the conference teams were in The Dance in 2016. That is because the Big-12 had a really good season in 2015-16, and not because the Big-12 had a great run in the Big Dance in a prior season.
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lol, good for you?
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Having a good season and having good teams are two different things though.
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How so? OU basketball in the 80's didn't often lose to lesser talented teams that ran the same press/run and gun style. OU never lost to Loyola Marymount, right?
I think what you are trying to say is that WVU needs a certain kind of matchup to be successful. And that is the definition of being overrated. WVU should have loved going up against a team that pressed/pressured, and ran. A truly bad matchup for them would have been a team that could break their press, but that also wanted to take the air out of the ball, and could match their athleticism inside. Or a team with multiple scoring options, since when you pressure like WVU does, it's often hard to focus your D on any single offensive player (though they did do that to Buddy in the 3rd game). But that wasn't SFA. Most of their offense came from one guy.
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True, although Michigan State had a good season and a good team. So did many other 1st round losers. Sometimes you lose. It hurts every time; even more in the Dance.
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for the all WVU love, we did beat them twice.
and they lost to a mediocre Florida team badly in the SEC-Big XII hoo-ha challenge.
they were a good team. good teams lose in the NCAA tournament. that's the definition of the event.
and they lost to a mediocre Florida team badly in the SEC-Big XII hoo-ha challenge.
they were a good team. good teams lose in the NCAA tournament. that's the definition of the event.
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They were a flawed team, just like pretty much every team this year. WVU's guards played like garbage last night. I haven't seen them have so many dumb turnovers in a game this year. But hats off to SFA, their guards played great and were composed the entire game. They played better than WVU the majority of the game, in particular the entire second half.
I agree, some of those mid majors can and often do a number on these so called power conf teams. Those teams are tough as nails for the most part
LOL, solid point.
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Exactly. A one game sample size does not cancel out 30+ games of data.
He's actually right. Tech was not one of the top 68 teams this year. OSU went on a long losing streak last year. We are not a 7 tram conference league.
The worst part of the tournament is these 4 play in games. Teams like Wichita state playing 3 games in 5 days is b.s. no reason Wichita state should be at a disadvantage when they play Miami.
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