Running 2022-23 NCAA Basketball Thread

It's like Vanderbilt minus the title.

 

The oldest one I remember is Dayton-UCLA. Pretty close, maybe 1967, the year after Texas Western-Kentucky?

 

Or the tournament appearances.
I was actually thinking of Arizona in the mid-90s when they seemed to go boom (three final fours, including one national championship, and another regional final) or bust (first-round losses to East Tennessee State, Santa Clara, Miami of Ohio and Oklahoma) every year for about a 10-year stretch.

 

I'll take it.
/Mizzou fan
/Vol fan

 

When you play a slower pace with fewer possessions, it leaves more room for variation and luck. If you have the better team, you want as many possessions as possible for talent to overcome luck.

 

Everybody makes that trade.....but at some point, the hot seat gets super hot

 

I picked Furman.

 

Does it? UVa seems actually sane when it comes to athletics.

 

I blame the ghost of Terry Holland.

 

I mean maybe? But how many coaches in a power conference survive if they go

Second round
First Round (lost to 16 as a 1)
First Round (lost to 13 as a 4)
NIT
First Round (lost to 13 as a 4)

because that's Virginia without a national title and a COVID year

 

Yup. They have no margin for error playing that slow. And it feels like playing that slow somehow helps fuel an opponent's comeback. Happens to Rutgers like six times a year.

 

Arizona looks pretty fucking good.Mizzou is going to have to be damn near perfect to have a chance.