2020-21 College Basketball thread

You don't think they can beat Okl?

 

I thought that postgame seemed rather odd, with the Bonnies players looking like they were ready to mix it up for a moment. Shooter is an athletic department employee.

Watch now: St. Bonaventure videographer restrained by security after A-10 title game

 

Did Louisville decline an NIT bid? Maybe assume someone will have COVID issues and they'll get the battlefield promotion to the NCAA Tournament?
They were the first team out, but were not part of the 16-team NIT bracket. Colorado State, Saint Louis and Ole Miss were the other "first four out" and are No. 1 seeds in the NIT.
It'll be wild if Virginia or Kansas have to opt out and Louisville goes from being out of the tournament to a No. 3 or 4 seed with a reasonably favorable path to the Sweet 16.

 

Louisville, Colorado State, Saint Louis and Ole Miss are designated "replacement" teams. If a team has to withdraw, the replacement teams (in order) will enter the bracket:

https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/ch.../2020-21D1MBB_TournamentReplacementPolicy.pdf

I'm trying to figure out how teams like KU, who had to bow out of the Big 12 tourney late last week, won't still be in COVID protocols when the tournament starts.

 

Full schedule with times and locations

2021 NCAA Tournament tip times and announcer teams announced for March Madness

 

Kansas and Virginia seem to be the two most questionable teams. Kansas is saying they'll be good to go, even if they're short-handed. Virginia appears to have more people that are in quarantine, and they'll be in quarantine until Thursday.
If Virginia can't go, would that be the strangest four-year cycle in NCAA Tournament history? Lose to a 16-seed in 2018, win it all in 2019, tournament canceled in 2020, and then put out by COVID in 2021.

 

There’s going to be some odd travel. Bama-Iona is scheduled for Hinkle Fieldhouse, but the game it is paired with for the next round (UConn-Maryland) is in West Lafayette. I’m sure there are plenty of other examples.

 

That might be the first time in history a white security guard ignored four black guys to put a choke hold on a white dude.

 

As long as Power Conference teams that didn't/barely reached .500 in their conference get at large bids over G5's who deserved to be in but dropped a game at the worst possible time, in their conference tournament, expect their fans to complain.

For instance, a team that tied for most wins on the season that didn't get in - to anything.

26-win Belmont miffed after missing out on NCAA and NIT fields

 

Michigan did that with Tractor Traylor in one of the first couple years of the B1G Tournament, and they probably did it again the year their plane nearly crashed on takeoff (they were the eight seed and had to win four games in four days).

 

The committee doesn't put automatic bid winners in the play-in games unless they're 16 seeds. Those 11-11/12-12 games are reserved for at-large teams.

On Oregon State, I didn't win $20K, but I did ride the Tinkle Train to two money line wins in the semifinals and final. Go Beavs.