NCAA bracket discussion
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Haven’t paid much attention this year, so can anyone tell me if there is a legit reason Syracuse and Louisville with 1-7 and 1-6 Quad 1 records were anywhere near the discussion?
We played the playin game one time and that was against Michigan and we almost won that game
So Michigan has come along way since then and we’ve gone the other way lol was that 2016?
Which is more lucrative for the conference: multiple basketball bids or the NY6 bowl bid?
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First time in awhile I thought the bracket was pretty well done. In terms of teams getting in anyway. Wished there were a few different matchups but overall it was well done
I was wrong about WSU out but so was Joey Brackets. Love the retro MVC match between Drake and WSU. No idea which team wins.
Expect Ohio State to rout ORU. 20+
Expect Missou to bounce OU in retro big 8 match
Like State over the fighting Falwells easily.
Interesting that 4 leagues all got 2 teams in.
Our league needs to do better and break out of that group.
Will we please hear that Haith is out tomorrow?
Expect Ohio State to rout ORU. 20+
Expect Missou to bounce OU in retro big 8 match
Like State over the fighting Falwells easily.
Interesting that 4 leagues all got 2 teams in.
Our league needs to do better and break out of that group.
Will we please hear that Haith is out tomorrow?
The Memphis fans are angry that they didn't get in again for the nth time also. And they just extended a jillon dollar contract. We caused them not to get in and that is the highlight of my year.
Liberty doesn’t have a good chance of knocking off OkState. OKState has the best player in the country on their team and as the season has gone along, the Boones, Likelele, and others have really upped their game. OkState got screwed with their seed. They have the most wins against NET top 25 teams of anyone in the country. As much as it pains me that OkState might have success in anything, they have a legit shot of making the final four.
the crappy thing is the implicit bias afforded to all teams from the PAC 10/12/14, B1G, and Big XII. The PAC 12 is not even the same level as the AAC but everyone thinks they are. I’ve watched several of their teams in games this year. USC and UCLA are not good. Oregon is meh. Colorado has a decent team and that’s it. When they beat each other the pundits call it parity. When teams in the AAC beat each other they think the conference is not good. The parity in the other conferences mistakes the mediocrity for quality. Houston and Wichita State are both better than every team in the PAC 12. Memphis may be as well and especially at the end of the year when the Tigers were really playing well.
The B1G has 3 really good teams and a whole bunch of meh. I can’t figure out how Maryland and Rutgers made the field as they are just not very good.
And let’s not get started about the Big East. Talk about mediocrity at its finest. Villanova meh. I like Creighton but good teams don’t get boat raced a bad team the way they did. After those two, that conference is crap, including UCONN (who would have struggled to finished 4th in the AAC).
Yeah, I saw that when they released the bracket and was surprised that I hadn’t seen it mentioned anywhere.
I agree.
Houston
Wichita State
Memphis
UConn
SMU
AAC finish this year with UCONN in the mix.
Just did some looking at the TV schedule, OSU/Liberty is on at the same time as Houston/Cleveland State. The other games I’m interested in watching Friday are pretty spread out but those two will have me flipping channels during commercials.
Wichita deserved to lose. They depended on a UCONN transfer to win it.
While I enjoyed watching ORU take down one of the big boys, my bracket hasn’t been this busted since Iowa State went down in the first round as a 2 seed and I had them in the FF.
The bowl bid and it’s not even close unless we are talking about multiple teams and they make deep deep runs over a sustained six year period.
This is why the Big East no longer tries to play football.
The Cincy bowl paid out $4 million divided roughly in equal shares to each member of the conference. Each member school also got $1 million for just agreeing to be part of the playoff ripoff. Compare that to $66 million paid out to each P5 conference.
TU gets about a $1 million for basketball too, but that amount can go up if we have more than one team in the tourney and those team win games.
Tourney pay out is governed by the past six years of performance with appearances in each round accounting for a single earned unit. More teams and more wins equals more units which equals more money.
Which is some BS when .500 P5 teams get in versus deserving mid and lower majors. Especially since the school pay outs to football to those P5s dwarfs anything you can imagine in lower level basketball.
I don’t know what the earned units are for the AAC since its creation. It’s not high. It’s never going to be high as long as we are dominated by football schools. We are a football conference.
Surfice it to say we made a little more from football this year than we did from basketball. Iirc, we made $1.25 million in gross tourney revenue the year of the play in game, but I could be wrong on that. And don’t forget that’s based on a six year time span.
Thanks for the explanation. I don’t really follow the units and credits, but I’ll never pull for Wichita or Houston. Ever.
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