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Didn't even realize until Saturday, ACC Tourney is at the Barclays  :pickle:

Def hitting the finals if UNC gets there.

Nice 47 foot jumper for Iona, they only had 13 seconds and a timeout to set a play, I hope they lose.

 
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3/6 Results:

Colonial Championship: #2 Charleston 69 #1 NC-Wilmington 78

MAAC Championship: #4 Siena 86 #3 Iona 87 (OT) - what an amazing game!

Southern Championship: #3 ETSU 79 #1 NC-Greensboro 74

7 Tickets now punched!!!

Atlantic Sun: #1 Florida-Gulf Coast

Big South: #1 Winthrop

Colonial: #1 NC-Wilmington

MAAC: #3 Iona

Missouri Valley: #2 Wichita State

Ohio Valley: #4 Jacksonville

Southern: #3 East Tennessee State

MEAC:

#12 NC A&T 67 # 5 MD-Eastern Shore 74

#11 Howard 79 #6 Coppin State 73

America East:

#4 New Hampshire 41 #1 Vermont 74

#3 Albany 63 #2 Stony Brook 56

MAC:

#9 N. Illinois 69 #8 E. Michigan 72

#12 Miami, Oh 61 #5 W. Michigan 65

#10 Bowling Green 62 #7 Toledo 77

#11 C. Michigan 106 #6 Kent State 116 (OT)

Summit:

#4 South Dakota St. 74 #1 South Dakota 71 - another #1 Seed goes down!

#7 IUPUI 62 #3 Omaha 90

Horizon:

#9 Youngstown St. 74 #4 Northern Kentucky 84

#10 Milwaukee 74 #6 Illinois-Chicago 68 - a #10 (lowest in the Conference) Seed in a Championship Game!!! Better still, this is NKy's 1st year of eligibility for the Tournament!!!

West Coast:

#4 Santa Clara 68 #1 Gonzaga 77

#3 BYU 50 #2 St. Mary's 81

 
3/7 - Light day (16 games), but FOUR Championship Games, and the big boys are starting to come out and play!!!

Horizon Championship: 7pm ESPN #10 Milwaukee v #4 Northern Kentucky

***This is amazing - a a first-time eligible Team vs a last-place team who, until last night, had only won 2 straight games ONE TIME this season!

Northeast Championship: 7pm ESPN2 #4 St. Francis, Pa @ #1 Mount St. Mary's (true home game) - Emmitsburg, MD is just north of me...thinking about going...

Summit Championship: 9pm ESPN2 #4 South Dakota St. v #3 Omaha

West Coast Championship: 9pm ESPN #2 St. Mary's v #1 Gonzaga

ACC Opening Round: NYC - Weekday Daytime Hoops! Championship Week!!!

Noon: #13 NC State v #12 Clemson

2:30: #15 Boston College v #10 Wake Forest (Demon Deacons as bubble as it gets. MUST win today, may need to keep winning)

7:00: #14 Pittsburgh v #11 Georgia Tech (Tech on life support, but still breathing, probably need to win 3 games)

Big Sky Opening Round (Reno):

5:30 #9 Northern Arizona v #8 Portland

8:00 #10 Idaho v #7 Sacramento State

11:00 #11 Southern Utah v #6 Montana State

MEAC: (Norfolk)

#9 4:00 Bethune-Cookman v #8 Delaware State

#10 7:00 Florida A&M v #7 South Carolina State

SWAC: Campus Sites!

8:30 #8Alabama State @ #1Texas Southern

9:00 #5 Grambling @ #4 Prarie View

7:00 #7 Mississippi Valley State @ #2 Alcorn State

8:30 #6 Jackson State @ #3 Southern

 
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Gonzaga/St. Mary's should be interesting.  Gonzaga has looked like a completely different team (for the worse) over the last month or so than the one that started 29-0.  A St. Mary's win here wouldn't surprise me at all.  

 
nittanylion said:
3/7 - Light day (16 games), but FOUR Championship Games, and the big boys are starting to come out and play!!!

Horizon Championship: 7pm ESPN #10 Milwaukee v #4 Northern Kentucky

***This is amazing - a a first-time eligible Team vs a last-place team who, until last night, had only won 2 straight games ONE TIME this season!
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Man, Milwaukee was poop all season long. I think they only had something like 9 wins, 5 in conference. As a Milwaukee resident I'm kinda torn on this one. If UWM wins, they completely invalidate the entire Horizon league season. I mean, they'll get waxed in the play-in or 1st round but still. On the other hand, a conference champion should be able to take care of a 9 win team. Meh, I'm probably overthinking it.

 
In The Zone said:
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Well, King Moses didn't do anything to stand in his way. Kingsley better wake up if he wants to make it in pro ball. Thornwell is a tremendous player, and I've liked Frank Martin from when I first took notice of him at K-State. I like fiery Coaches, and he's got a stare that could intimidate Freddy Kruger. As a Hogs fan, and follower of SEC hoops, while I didn't like the idea that his hire made the 'cocks better relative to Arkansas, it definitely was good for the Conference that he took over that program. Much respect.

 
St. Marys looks awful tonight against Gonzaga.   They have 13 points with 2 minutes left in the 1st half.  Not sure they belong in the tournament too be honest.  Vitale is slurping all over Gonzaga's #### though.  

 
Don't Noonan said:
St. Marys looks awful tonight against Gonzaga.   They have 13 points with 2 minutes left in the 1st half.  Not sure they belong in the tournament too be honest.  Vitale is slurping all over Gonzaga's #### though.  
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They're going to be 28-4 (3 losses to Gonzaga).  Who in the First 4 out lists deserves to be in over that?

 
My wife just commented that she has never seen so many white guys playing in a college game before.   :lmao:

Very true.  Not sure I have seen a black guy play on St. Marys yet.

 
Don't Noonan said:
My wife just commented that she has never seen so many white guys playing in a college game before.   :lmao:

Very true.  Not sure I have seen a black guy play on St. Marys yet.
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I was thinking the same thing during their last matchup. Weird to see 8-9 white dudes on the court. 

 
Zags doing everything they can right now to give this away.   Same thing happened in the byu loss. 

 
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nittanylion said:
Well, King Moses didn't do anything to stand in his way. Kingsley better wake up if he wants to make it in pro ball. Thornwell is a tremendous player, and I've liked Frank Martin from when I first took notice of him at K-State. I like fiery Coaches, and he's got a stare that could intimidate Freddy Kruger. As a Hogs fan, and follower of SEC hoops, while I didn't like the idea that his hire made the 'cocks better relative to Arkansas, it definitely was good for the Conference that he took over that program. Much respect.
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South Carolina's biggest problem is the supporting cast. PJ Dozier has a size advantage over most of his defenders but instead of driving to the basket he would rather shoot from behind the arc. He's a 6'6 PG and can be hard to defend. Chris Silva is very athletic, has all kinds of potential, and is far and away our best post player but he commits a lot of dumb fouls. He's fouled out of 10 games so far this season. It's not uncommon for him to play only 12-15 minutes a game because of this. He is also hard to defend. Duane Notice was the 6 man of the year in the SEC last season and can shoot the lights out from downtown, sometimes. He's very streaky. We need him to be more consistent. If these 3 guys can get it going and keep it going along with Thornwell then SC will be a tough out in the SEC and the NCAA tourney. I'm not gonna hold my breath though. 

 
3/8 - 34 games today, but it sure seems like more than that. Over a dozen Conference Tournaments starting or already in progress...

One Championship Game: 7:30PM (CBSSN) #3 Lehigh @ #1 Bucknell (true home game for the Bison).

4 more tickets punched yesterday!

Horizon Champion: #4 Northern Kentucky beat #10 Wisconsin-Milwaukee 59-53

Northeast Champion: #1 Mt. St. Mary's beat #4 St. Francis, Pa 71-61

Summit League Champion: #4 South Dakota State beat #3 Nebraska-Omaha 79-77

West Coast Champion: #1 Gonzaga beat #2 St. Mary's 74-56

Weekday, daytime hoops - prepping us for next Thursday/Friday!

ACC (NYC):

Noon: #9 Miami, Fla v #8 Syracuse

2:30: #12 Clemson v #5 Duke - can Tigers be Cinderella? When was the last time Duke was a 5 Seed?!!

7:00: #10 Wake Forest v #7 Virginia Tech - Deacons still have work to do, I think...

9:30: #14 Pittsburgh v #6 Virginia - really wish Georgia Tech was still alive

Sun Belt (New Orleans):

12:30: #9 South Alabama v #8 Coastal Carolina

3:00: #12 Louisiana-Monroe v #5 Arkansas State

6:00 #10 Arkansas-Little Rock v #7 Louisiana-Lafayette

9:00 #11 Appalachian State v #6 Troy State

Conference USA (Birmingham)

12:30: #9 Texas-San Antonio v #8 Western Kentucky

3:00: #12 Southern Mississippi v #5 Rice

6:30: #10 UNC-Charlotte v #7 Alabama-Birmingham

9:00: #11 Florida Atlantic v #6 Marshall

Mountain West (Las Vegas) - was someone saying the MWC wasn't an upgrade over the WCC for Gonzaga? I beg to differ...

2:00: #9 San Jose State v #8 Utah State

4:30: #10 Air Force v #7 Wyoming

7:00 #11 UNLV v #6 San Diego State

PAC 12 (Las Vegas):

3:00: #9 Stanford v #8 Arizona State

5:30: #12 Oregon State  #5 California

8:00: #10 Washington State v #7 Colorado

10:30: #11 Washington v #6 USC

...that's the first 20, will finish later...

Big 10

Atlantic 10

Southland

MEAC

Big East

Big 12

SEC

 
It doesn't get said enough, but thanks for all the great work you guys do in here.  I'll be in Vegas during MM and this is great reference material.

 
One seed in the West just got interesting again.  In terms of RPI, it's Oregon, Arizona, Gonzaga at 8,9,10 respectively, with UCLA down at 15.  Gonzaga still tops on kenpom and sagarin by a decent margin, and #2 in BPI.  Right now I have to think Gonzaga is holding on to it, but obviously need to see how the P12 tourney plays out.  

 
Josh Jackson suspended for tomorrow's Game against the TCU/OU winner.

A few weeks ago Jackson backed his car into a parked car on campus, left the scene without leaving contact information.  

Note this is a different incident from when Vick and Jackson spotted Vick ex-girlfriend's car on Mass Ave and smashed it up.  

 
Here is this year's pre-tournament quality curve.  It graph's kenpom's overall efficiency of the top 50 teams for this year vs.the 10 year average.

I do this to give a general indicator of what to expect in the tournament overall.  This year, the top 25-30 teams are historically good according to kenpom, as in they are the most efficient of the kenpom era by a good margin.  Right now looking at this, I'm thinking there will be a lot fewer upsets in the opening rounds compared to years past. This means fewer of the popular 6-11. 12-5, 13-4, upset picks.

Of course this assumes seeding generally follows kenpom's rankings which it may not.      

 
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One seed in the West just got interesting again.  In terms of RPI, it's Oregon, Arizona, Gonzaga at 8,9,10 respectively, with UCLA down at 15.  Gonzaga still tops on kenpom and sagarin by a decent margin, and #2 in BPI.  Right now I have to think Gonzaga is holding on to it, but obviously need to see how the P12 tourney plays out.  
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Oregon State is so bad that when Oregon beat them by 20 at Oregon State they dropped from #4 in RPI to #8.  I still think Gonzaga is the 2 seed in the west if Oregon wins the tourney, probably a coin flip if UCLA wins, and the 1 seed if Arizona wins.  

Bottom line it doesn't matter much and I would just like Oregon to be in the West.

 
Bruce Dickinson said:
That center for Gonzaga looks like he's a dad playing in a father/son game.
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He also took over the All Time leader in wins with last night's victory, passing Shane Battier.  

 
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He also took over the All Time leader in wins with last night's victory, passing Shane Battier.  
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Considering he was a redshirted freshman when John Stockton was a senior, I'm surprised it took him 30+ years to break the record.

ETA: Seriously, that is impressive.  It's really, really tough for a program to put together four really strong years in a row regardless of conference.

 
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Emotional moment last weekend for a few friends of mine.  A couple I've been friends with for almost 20 years had their son have his Senior Day at Bucknell on Saturday.  Ben didn't play this season - a couple years ago he fractured his skill in a freak accident, couldn't clear concussion protocol in the fall, family and team worked out an agreement where he would sit out the season as a player but would get to keep his scholarship and participate in other team activities.  So it's been a bitter winter watching him sit out his senior year as the Bucknell Bison won the Patriot League and Ben will likely miss a chance to play in the NCAA Tournament.  But Ben worked hard at his classes, made the Dean's List, and will graduate at the end of the semester.

Anyway, Bucknell's opponent on Saturday, Navy, agreed to a plan that would allow Ben to suit up and take the court.  Ben got to start the game and be introduced with the starters, took the opening tip for Bucknell, and knocked the ball out of bounds.  Bucknell then immediately subbed Ben out, and Navy restarted the game with the ball side-out at midcourt.  

I'm looking for video posted of the event - I got emotional watching it, but I know that's because I've known Ben since he was in preschool.  

(Bucknell went on a 30-1 run in the game and won easily.)

By agreeing to do this, Ben waived his right to apply for a medical redshirt and be a graduate transfer next year.  But he's sure he's done playing high-level basketball.  Can't afford another shot to the dome.  

Spend so much time tracking CBB wondering where these guys will play as pros.  But for over 90% of players even on D-I rosters, this is it for them as high-level players.
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Bucknell won the Patriot League tournament tonight.  They are going to the NCAAs.  Ben got to help cut the nets down and keep a couple strands.  

 
Mizzou comes back from 10 down with 5 minutes left, hits a 3 to tie with less than 2 seconds left in regulation, then hits a 3 to win at the buzzer in OT.

 
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3/9 Biggest slate of Championship Week and I'm way behind. At some point today, I hope to catch up.

Congratulations, Bucknell!! Twelve reservations now confirmed for the Big Dance!!!

For now, 58 games today!!! NO Championship Games, but with the big boys now in full effect, many compelling matchups!

Daytime hoops, starting at noon with ACC, Big East, Big 10, MAC and Atlantic 10 games, followed closely by Big 12 and CUSA at 12:30...

 
Potential one seed "pretenders" this year if I'm looking at things correctly are Kansas, Oregon,and Gonzaga.  "Pretender" meaning they possess statistical outliers when compared to historical one seed Final Four teams.  Gonzaga because of their SoS.  Kansas because of a low Created Possession Margin and low kenpom ranking.  Oregon because of low kenpom ranking.  Obviously some of these can change over the next few days.

 
nittanylion said:
3/9 Biggest slate of Championship Week and I'm way behind. At some point today, I hope to catch up.

Congratulations, Bucknell!! Twelve reservations now confirmed for the Big Dance!!!

For now, 58 games today!!! NO Championship Games, but with the big boys now in full effect, many compelling matchups!

Daytime hoops, starting at noon with ACC, Big East, Big 10, MAC and Atlantic 10 games, followed closely by Big 12 and CUSA at 12:30...
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No schedule breakdown?

 
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Potential one seed "pretenders" this year if I'm looking at things correctly are Kansas, Oregon,and Gonzaga.  "Pretender" meaning they possess statistical outliers when compared to historical one seed Final Four teams.  Gonzaga because of their SoS.  Kansas because of a low Created Possession Margin and low kenpom ranking.  Oregon because of low kenpom ranking.  Obviously some of these can change over the next few days.
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I'm the dumbest person in the world when it comes to advanced stats. Of the three you mention, I've seen Kansas the most and they look like a legit championship contender to me. I don't think Gonzaga is too far behind and has the best team they've ever had (again, IMO). Oregon, I don't trust as far as I can throw them but they are really talented.

 
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