Running 2018 college rings postseason thread

White and dirty. He’s Duke

 

Most amazing thing is that an all-out brawl did not result.
Has the perpetrator been identified and sufficiently shamed?

 

College basketball wasn't markedly improved because of conference tournaments; if anything, it's been the opposite because what's been brought into the mix is a team that proved its worth over 30 games and then had an off night and was sent to the cutting room floor because of it. Everything would be just fine if conference tournaments went away; who thinks it's an exceptionally great idea that a team that's 5-25 at the end of February needs a chance at the NCAA Tournament? OK, so ESPN would have to find something else to show for a week; that's hardly a crisis that's going to send the country into a deep funk.

 

"Lighten up Sandy baby" now becomes the second-most infamous thing a Centralia High athlete has done.

 

USC made it to the Pac-12 title game? LOL.

 

I was with you until the bolded line. Sorry, but the tourney needs fewer teams, not more. They should scrap that silly first four thing (which was nothing but a cynical ploy to squeeze in more bids for mediocre power conference teams) and go back to a 64 team field. 64 was the perfect symmetrical number for a three weekend tournament, they never should've expanded beyond it.

But I do wish they'd change the selection criteria where, if not an automatic bid, regular season conference champions should get some sort of benefit of the doubt presumption over teams that finished in the bottom half of their conference. I'm sick of seeing underachieving 18-13 type teams getting bids over teams that had stellar 28-4 type seasons. And winning your conference title should friggin count for something, otherwise why even have the things?

 

I've wondered about Arizona State. All the pre-tournament analysis said the Sun Devils were a lock for the NCAA. They were 20-10 overall, winning ALL of their nonconference games. They went 8-10 in the Pac-12 and finished in ninth place. And they lost their first game in the conference tournament. But they won all of their nonconference games.

 

I know nothing more than was in the article. I first saw the clip on twitter and it did not identify the school, but someone knew it was in Kansas. Apparently his teammates were poised enough not to jump in, so they didn't get suspended in the next tournament game.

 

The individual conferences can declare the regular-season champion the winner of the automatic berth if they choose, even if they have a tournament. They choose not to, and often it hurts the smaller leagues because the best team does not advance and have a better chance to win a game and earn the units that make money for the leagues. Contradictory thinking.

 

I have a simpler solution. Return to the rule the NCAA had back when I was in college. If your conference had a tournament, ONLY the tournament winner could go to the NCAAs. That's why only the ACC had one. Conference tournaments would disappear immediately.

 

At least they called it a foul. Joel Berry just put his fist through Kyle Guy’s head without a call.