Running 2022-23 NCAA Basketball Thread

Also got the WAC tourney this weekend at some beat up casino off the strip, right?

 

I can't even count the number of conference tourneys there.
Basically, if your conference is west of the Mississippi, its tournament is in Vegas.

Miles Brand is rolling over in his grave.

 

WACVegas was the unofficial name of my bedroom as a teenager.

 

Man there is NO ONE there for those games. I keep wondering how these tournaments keep getting played when they've got to be drowning in red ink. You're spending God knows how much to get 14 (!!!) teams to Vegas and for what?

 

First game today between Abilene Christian and Sam Houston: 1,866

 

ESPN money?

 

Marquette-UConn is the real shit that makes up for a dozen low majors holding tournaments in the lobby of a Comfort Inn.

 

I was watching the end of the Texas Southern-Alcorn State game in the SWAC Tournament on ESPN+ the other night. It was a close game, coming down to the end, and the announcers were trying to hype it up by saying, "The players are on the edge of their seat! The coaches are on the edge of their seat! The fans are on the edges of their seats!"
Right at that moment they had a wide shot where you could see most of the arena. There was a cluster of maybe a hundred behind the benches, but their number appeared to match those in the rest of the arena.