General college hoops game thread

[cmdsooner]

It’s a dumb take for the basketball tournament. But in a small field like the football playoff, it should only be the best 12 (or 16) teams. The goal is to decide a champion, so don’t waste spots on teams that have no chance of winning and aren’t even close to being one of the best teams in the country.

It’s fine the way it is.

 

[hoopsaustin]

64 is the number. I’m fine with 68 though. I do not understand how one could call it unfair. The goal is very simple. Win.

And yeah, on the whole, teams are the best versions of themselves at the end of the season. Maybe not comparatively speaking, but all in all, the best basketball is played at the end. Each team’s goal is to become the best version it can be and put that on display in conference and national tournaments. This isn’t football and it doesn’t need to be.

People are so wrapped up in their own opinions on which teams are good or not, that they’ve begun to value it over actual results. I don’t need to hear about hypotheticals or projected point spreads for who Notre Dame would or wouldn’t be favored against in a football game. I don’t need someone to tell me that Michigan is our national champion in basketball in November. I do not care one bit that some guy who watched 4 total games all season and has never heard of Loyola-Chicago doesn’t like that they made the Final Four, or that a guy who watched 400 total games all season and thinks Kentucky is a FF team hates that they’re already knocked out of the tournament. They play the games. There are winners and losers. It’s completely fair, and social media’s chokehold on people has given rise to a bunch of narcissistic assholes whose value of their own opinion is now of greater importance to them than the results of actual games.

Why do we hate reality and do-or-die competition so much?

I think it's just that in bball your whole team can just have an off day shooting and thats that. In football there's less of that but also in a pass there's a receiver that can possibly adjust and make a bad pass work, while a shot is simply going to go in that rim or not.

 

[Sooner04]

The five winners of the Power 5 conferences
Three at-large teams
A Committee ranks them 1-8
Quarterfinals are played on campus
A fleet of Brinks trucks to transport the pyroclastic flow of cash.

It would've been so easy. It could've prevented the geographic tomfoolery of the Miami Hurricanes traveling to Berkeley for an ATLANTIC Coast Conference Game where the PACIFIC Ocean can be seen on a clear day.

 

[WichitaSooner]

It’s fine the way it is.

It’s awful. Both years, two of 12 teams have had no business being in the playoff. Half of the first-round games have been gigantic mismatches.

 

[cmdsooner]

It’s awful. Both years, two of 12 teams have had no business being in the playoff. Half of the first-round games have been gigantic mismatches.

You’re going to get blowouts no matter what. It definitely doesn’t need to be 16.

Tech has blown out current CFP #12 ranked BYU in both matchups. #13 Texas weeks ago lost to 3 seed UGA 35-10. Tennessee got demolished as bad as any school in the field last year as an at-large. #1 Oregon lost in their only game by 20.

Hell, 1 vs 2 in the BCS days was only producing competitive games at about a 60% rate (with only 38% being single digit margins) and that’s being generous with the term “competitive”.

In last year’s 11 playoff games, only two games were decided by single digits. I don’t believe that trend continues but the G6 isn’t the reason for last year’s results. In fact, in a 16 team playoff, every team that made the field last season still would’ve made it without auto-bids.

There will be competitive games featuring G6 teams going forward. It’s been one year. Let the games happen.

That concludes my football talk on this site and in this thread, specifically. Lol

 

[WichitaSooner]

You’re going to get blowouts no matter what. It definitely doesn’t need to be 16.

Tech has blown out current CFP #12 ranked BYU in both matchups. #13 Texas weeks ago lost to 3 seed UGA 35-10. Tennessee got demolished as bad as any school in the field last year as an at-large. #1 Oregon lost in their only game by 20.

Hell, 1 vs 2 in the BCS days was only producing competitive games at about a 60% rate (with only 38% being single digit margins) and that’s being generous with the term “competitive”.

In last year’s 11 playoff games, only two games were decided by single digits. I don’t believe that trend continues but the G6 isn’t the reason for last year’s results. In fact, in a 16 team playoff, every team that made the field last season still would’ve made it without auto-bids.

There will be competitive games featuring G6 teams going forward. It’s been one year. Let the games happen.

That concludes my football talk on this site and in this thread, specifically. Lol

And if a non-power team is in the top 12 or 16, they should get in. But they shouldn’t get an auto bid otherwise. I agree there is always a chance of blowouts regardless of format, but you shouldn’t have a format that significantly increases the odds of that.

 

[BoulderSooner]

if we are going to have games on Tuesday and Wednesday (we are ) .. then i would rather both days be quad headers .. so that would be 72 teams .. (but it looks like are going to 76 ) so 6 games each day .. and that is fine .. 3 of those games will be the at large bubble teams and the other 3 each day will be 16v16 and 1 of the 15v15 ..

 

[SoonerDutch]

if we are going to have games on Tuesday and Wednesday (we are ) .. then i would rather both days be quad headers .. so that would be 72 teams .. (but it looks like are going to 76 ) so 6 games each day .. and that is fine .. 3 of those games will be the at large bubble teams and the other 3 each day will be 16v16 and 1 of the 15v15 ..

Regular season is already so devalued but will be amazing to see what it becomes when the P5 bubble is degraded to that extent.