Running 2023-24 NCAA Basketball Thread

Same, Coco. I think Affolter has the chance to be a real stud in future years. But they are dead in the water for the rest of this tournament if Clark doesn't get some help here.

Seeing a lot of "the refs saved Caitlin Clark" takes on social media. May be a blind spot for me since I'm an Iowa fan, but West Virginia turned the game into a rugby match and seemed to employ the "We're going to foul you so many times on every possession, there's no way the refs will call them all" strategy.

 

That's exactly what WVU did, and it was effective.

 

This story explains it.

'I was just numb': Utah forced to move hotels after racial hate crimes during NCAA Tournament

 

I wonder how often it happens that a B market like Spokane is hosting both tournaments the same weekend? I’d say that had a lot to do with why the second-highest seed in the pod was having to stay across the border in ground zero for American white nationalists.

 

One thing it doesn’t explain: Why the team is in Idaho. This is a four-team sub-region, right? The men’s tournament hosted eight in that same market last week. Would like to know where the men’s teams stayed.

 

Men’s rooms were booked probably a year or more in advance. They didn’t know until selection weekend that Gonzaga’s women would host, and indeed as a 4 seed they would have been on the knife’s edge the entire time. So you get the leftovers.

 

Not excusing the racism - but Coer d'alene is a 30 minute bus ride to Spokane. I'm guessing the teams in the Corvallis regional stayed in Eugene or Salem, which are both more than a 30 minute bus ride. A lot of these first-round sites are in small college towns, its not that much of a shock.
And it isn't like Spokane doesn't have its own hardcore racists.

 

I'm guessing the hotels in Spokane are mildly limited and they need to have a certain number for fans and whatever, but they couldn't put a women's team in the same place as a men's?

 

Kenny Brooks to Kentucky. I'm sorry, @Cosmo.

 

It's not like Idaho is far from Spokane. Spokane and Coeur d'Alene are part of the same MSA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spokane–Coeur_d'Alene_combined_statistical_area

 

Haters in Northern Idaho. Who knew? That entire state is batshit crazy.