Running 2023-24 NCAA Basketball Thread

If you are in Phoenix and feel a sudden need to lock your car door, you are near the GCU campus.

 

So after all the shit I’ve talked about Auburn everywhere today, I’ve got to spend the rest of the weekend praying Bama doesn’t lose to a hole in the ground.

 

Unfortunately for both of our schools, it's all about the money anymore.

 

Greg Gard’s seat is starting to sizzle.

Chris McIntosh fired Paul Chryst for a similar stagnation in football. And Gard has yet to make it out of the first weekend (unless you count being 2020 simulated national champions) since the last of Bo Ryan’s players graduated. The empty seats in the 300 level at Kohl Center grow with each passing year. Badger men’s basketball seems to be in an arrested state.

I think Gard will get another season — the run to the B1G final probably keeping the wolves at bay for now — but I would bet that within two years, UW-Madison’s coach will be either T.J. Otzelberger or Shaka Smart. For a great many years the hope was to bring Tony Bennett home, but I doubt McIntosh wants to have a program playing that style of basketball.

 

Does JMU exist in SankeyWorld? Fuck that guy. Hard.

"When Sankey alludes to excluding small-conference teams from the NCAA tournament, others are quick to bristle because it puts the very future of the event at stake. You half expect him to advocate for double-elimination for the SEC and single-elimination for everyone else."

SEC's NCAA flop makes Greg Sankey's push for tournament expansion look even more ridiculous [Video] (aol.com)

 

My wife went to law school with someone who tried to start a College Democrats at Hillsdale. It did not…go well. So there are some outliers there.

 

bingo, etc.

 

Just a reminder, the entire room might not want to watch a game that you have three different parlays linked to.

That is all.

 

The teams of Florida and Colorado say howdy.
I don’t know if that was really good offense of just really bad defense……but that was fun to watch.
Now……I’ve been saying since the bracket came out Sunday that possibly the funnest game to watch…..maybe the entire tournament……will be Alabama-Grand Canyon.
If you want to tune in to see a 61-54 slobber knocker…….dont be upset if that’s the score in the first half.
These 2 will fly up and down for 40 minutes…….they should put the shot clock at 20.

 

I’m very surprised they put Salt Lake City on first today.
10:45 am local time tip