Running 2018 college rings postseason thread

Coward

 

I'm convinced this is why we see so many upsets in the first round. The lower seeds have a few days to prepare for their opponent. Not the case in the second round with just a day in between.

 

That goes both ways, though. I just think it's that in due time, teams will eventually be who they are, given the chance.

 

Northeastern is in the "if we make the NCAAs it's a big year" category.

 

Forgive me a moment of ignorance here (as opposed to all the times I'm ignorant without permission), but wasn't Boeheim being forced out in the last scandal to hit Syracuse? Can't tell the crises in college rings without a scorecard any more ...

 

The CFP? Hell, most Pac-12 teams would rather miss it and go to the Rose Bowl. (And they do!)

 

Thought he was talking about retiring. Even when the rest of the country thought he was a whiner, he pretty much was always loved
in Cuse. Even in the towns right outside of Hamilton, all you see are Cuse shirts and hats.

 

I recall he was no fan of joining the ACC. Hell, I can't even remember what the scandal was, just that Cleveland State got screwed again.

 

Although my beloved Jayhawks are one of the bluebloods everyone is talking about, this isn't a typical KU team. They're not real deep, they don't have a lot of size other than Azubuike and they're way too dependent on the 3-point shot. For this bunch to go on the road and win the games they did down the stretch (West Virginia, Texas Tech) to win another Big 12(10) regular-season title, then barrel through the tournament to get a No. 1 seed is a pretty salty coaching job by Bill Self. Nothing this team does from here on out will surprise me, whether it's cutting down the nets in San Antonio or getting run off the floor by Clemson in Omaha.

 

If you're Loyola-Chicago, UB, FGCU, Richmond, St. Bona's, Pacific, Davidson, La Salle. etc., making it to the Sweet 16 is like making the Final Four. Kent State, Stony Brook, The Citadel making the College World Series ... it's realistically, in almost every single year, the limit of how far you can advance. Coaching can only take you so far. In almost every instance, those teams just do not have the talent to advance any further.

My alma mater has made the Sweet 16 twice since 1986, the round of 32 three or four other times, and several one-and-dones. It's as much as I can realistically expect,

 

Worth a look. The difficulty there is that there will always be a greater mathematical chance for a major upset, defined by the NCAA as five seeds or more, in the first round than all others just because everybody plays in the first round. Everybody other than Virginia, that is.