Running 2023-24 NCAA Basketball Thread

And a nice way to start the day:

 

Keep Pounding, Dickie V.

 

Dickie was the keynote speaker at my then-employer's convention in 2018, and he truly was awesome, baby.

 

And some people still believe that cheaters never prosper.

 

Rothstein? This isn’t March.

 

Looking forward to another year of peaking somewhere between Valentine's Day and Presidents Day, and then having everything go to shit. With the fifth-year guard having progressed about as much as the sixth-year quarterback.

 

Imagine being one of 36 people chosen to vote for the women's preseason All-Americans and thinking Angel Reese isn't one of the five best players in the upcoming season.

 

Bill Raftery has been waiting a lifetime for this moment.

Autry marks post-Boeheim era by ditching zone D

 

Makes sense. When it didn’t work, it looked so easy to beat: flash a guy to the foul line and let him work.

 

Trial run for squeezing the smaller schools out of the main event.

https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketbal...ounces-changes-nit-and-use-experimental-rules

 

Seems pretty shitty! Especially since in recent years, plenty of power conference teams that are finishing like 10th in their conference could give less than a shit about playing in the NIT.

 

Then when they lose, it's like one of the less than major bowls. "Well, the guys were just disinterested once they didn't make the NCAA's..."