Running 2022-23 NCAA Basketball Thread

I actually think San Diego State was close to being a 4. Virginia was the last 4 and they both have basically the same quad records, but Virginia has a Q3 loss and is 13 spots lower in the NET. I could have seen SDSU being that 4. In terms of playing non-power teams, all the 12s are non-power and two of the 5s are, so it was unavoidable.

 

If you ask me, Duke is the 5 seed that should be sweating bullets. A favorable draw if they can win the first one, but Oral Roberts is fully capable of fucking them up.

 

Couldn't agree more. KenPom loves UConn, but the eye test is another factor entirely. Hurley's not a great in-game coach. Pitino should terrify them.

And the Big East, outside of Villanova (granted, that's a pretty big qualifier), hasn't been great in the tournament since the league rebooted.

2022: 6 bids, two to the S16 (Providence, Nova), Nova to the F4
2021: 4 bids, two to the S16 (Nova, Creighton)
2019: 4 bids, no wins
2018: 6 bids, one to the S16, Nova wins it all
2017: 7 bids, two to the S16 (Butler, Xavier), Xavier to the E8
2016: 5 bids, one to the S16, Nova wins it all
2015: 6 bids, one to the S16 (Xavier)
2014: 4 bids, no wins

Marquette, Xavier & Creighton are all intriguing, but I won't be surprised if the Big East only has one rep after next weekend.

 

Just don’t wear that offensive shirt you wore to the game this weekend.

 

I think the point was, Daytona is the NCAA. Rockingham, which is no longer on the NASCAR circuit, was the NIT. He still raced there.

 

Marquette's lucky it got a 2 because if it was a 3 I could have seen them losing.

 

I think I would have given them both a four -- I think they are better than all of them; If the committee put Tennessee down as a four because of injury then fine, I understand so that leaves only the other slots. You gonna look at NET and say St Mary's is an 11 and SDSU is a 14 and they both get 5s, but Xavier is 22 in NET and they are a 3?

And I don't want to hear that we aren't going to put at larges at 12 -- VCU is higher in NET than Providence, Arizona State, Pitt at 11

 

That team just had to be a dysfunctional mess. Their best player called them out on selfish play in February and they still couldn't get in. I suspect Bacot just didn't want to work his tail off on the block only to watch in dismay as the ball passed over his head on the way to another clanked 3-pointer by five-star Caleb Love.
At the end of the day and season, UNC had three McD's All-Americans in its starting five and couldn't even make it to Dayton.

 

With no intent to upset anyone, this feels like "We've had a really bad year, and we'll be damned if we're going to cap it by going to the NIT." Call it "too good" or say that they don't want to risk an ignominious exit, whatever. "Ok, that's about enough of this nonsense, let's put this season to bed." UNC is a proud program, it would be hard to blame them.

 

LSU definitely did w/Ben Simmons.

 

Dysfunctional team in every way. And there were some bonkers rumors floating around that would take dysfunction to another level. Seemingly nothing was done to correct glaring deficiencies. And Hubert Davis refused to try to develop his bench in any meaningful way. For that reason, it would surprise no one if there is a stampede to the transfer portal. Davis looks more and more like a coach who is in way over his head at everything but recruiting and just happened to catch lightning in a bottle for about a month and a half last year. He has a top-ranked incoming class for the fall of 2024 lined up, but if any of those commits bail, he could be looking at a Matt Doherty-length tenure.

That said, this started under Roy Williams, who limped home with a 32-30 record in his final two seasons. The Tar Heels’ record over the last four seasons is 81-53 … which averages out to a 20-13 mark per 33 games; coincidentally (or perhaps not?), that was their exact finish this year. No major program seems to get less out of its McDonald’s All-Americans. They lost Walker Kessler after a year because Williams wouldn’t work him into the rotation. The run to the Final Four last year masked a lot of growing issues in the program.

Beyond that, the ACC as a whole is in crisis mode, as discussed in other threads. And even in men’s basketball, there will be a subregional in Greensboro next week without a single ACC team. No one was good enough to get the nod, because Virginia was only a 4 seed and Duke and Miami (Fla.) are 5s. The protected seeds for Greensboro are Kansas State and Xavier. For all the schadenfreude the Tar Heels’ rivals feel in this moment, the conference probably can’t afford to have a flagship UNC program in a prolonged downturn.