Running 2022-23 NCAA Basketball Thread

It was many years ago (2001), but there was one year where three D.C.-area schools — Maryland, Georgetown and George Mason, which are within 30 miles of each other — all wound up in a regional in Boise.

 

Only one I can think of is Servpro with its motto, "Like it never happened"

And fuck Discount Tire. Two years ago they broke my wheel stud when I took the car in for a simple tire rotation. Turns out it was such a common occurrence that they had a special form to fill out to take to a special repair place that would repair it for free. I walk in there holding a piece of paper, and the guy immediately says, "Broken wheel stud?"

 

The same Dale Earnhardt who still ran Busch Series on Saturdays the day before the big show? Do tell.

That said, I’m guessing Carolina’s plight isn’t dissimilar to a preseason football contender that limps home 7-5. But they may be able to paper over 7-8 bowl opt-outs from the top of the roster. Lot harder to fill those holes in basketball.

 

They should have broken them up by putting Auburn in the NIT.

 

JFC, NCAA. I know Selection Sunday is a busy time and all, but is it too much to ask you to have your start times and TV assignments for the women's tournament done by Monday morning?
I'm trying to type up the TV schedules for the week and everything is still listed as TBA. The men's tournament and NIT were both done last night.
Trying to find a readable schedule (not a bracket, but a day-by-day list) on the NCAA's website is also impossible.

 

So while a number of schools got handed bad west to east travel assignments, notably St. Mary's and S.D. State, the worst east to west travel I see offhand is Princeton going to Sacramento. And their fans and alumni could afford to travel to a game in Ulan Bator.

 

I know not everyone can be accommodated but I have to question the networks' decision to play St. Mary's at 2 pm on Friday (11 am PDT) and Indiana-Kent state at 9:55 pm. Both games are in Albany

 

That’s about where they have been projected but I was surprised losing to Ohio State didn’t drop them to 8 or 9
Doesn’t matter
They won’t get out of the first weekend

 

Penn State got robbed being a 10 while Michigan States is a 7. MSU went 5-5 down the stretch to PSU's 8-2. It reminds me of the old days of incredibly shitty Indiana teams under Knight at the end getting in with favorable seeds they didn't deserve.

 

A national school like Princeton probably has as many alums in California as it does in New Jersey.

 

Or this year's Indiana team getting a 4 seed? They're the 13th, 14th, 15th or 16th-best team in the country?

 

It's gonna be funny when we get through the first weekend of the tournament and the B1G, which has been propped up as "deep," has the same amount of teams remaining as the ACC, which had been scolded as being "weak."