Running 2023-24 NCAA Basketball Thread

Which was more improbable: Dayton only finishing third in the A10 or having Nos. 1, 2 and 4 knocked out before they ever take the floor in Brooklyn?

 

I mean, if the Wolfpack lose this game, it’s going to an all-timer.

 

Memphis screws around and loses to a 15-18 (5-13) Wichita State team. MT.org in full meltdown mode.

 

As someone who follows the A-10, it's an odd league this year! Dayton has been the only serious at-large team the whole year, but at one point I think they had eight teams in that 70 to 120 NET range. Dayton is also more of a pretty good, bottom of the Top 25 kind of team, vs. a couple years ago when they had Toppin and were a legit Top 5.

 

The average gubernatorial campaign features less propaganda than SEC Network announcers trying to jawbone Texas A&M into the tournament every March.

 

Man, what could have been in a 2020 NCAA Tournament. Dayton had as good a chance as anyone to win the whole fucking thing.

 

Same thing happening on the ACC Network, where Cory Alexander just said six ACC teams will make it.

 

Having once been forced to pin my basketball hopes on Anthony Grant, no they did not.

Meanwhile in 2024 the Flyers become the fourth higher seed to lose in the A10 quarterfinals. Which means there are scenarios in play where Duquesne can steal a bid from Pitt or St. Joe’s from Villanova.

 

Marquette just missed out on the coolest buzzer-beater in ages by a tenth of a second.

 

Christ privy Georgia. If you get gifted the ball in your front court on a brain dead turnover with 15 seconds left in a one-possession game, you take it to the rim as hard as you can. Don’t settle for some funky one-armed floater from like a 30 degree angle.