Selection Sunday thread

Well, you've got national championship T-shirts and hats and all sorts of swag lying around. When you ain't got much, you gotta appreciate what you got. Whoa. Pass the bong.

 

Freelance, You know me. I've gotten to follow the Cats (last year) and the Cards (2005 and now).

Go over to Cats Pause. Those crazy Big Blue Nation fans are plotting the Cards' demise as we speak ...

 

Not that I should give a hoot in hell about the NIT, but their 1 seeds were all weird. Mississippi State, Clemson, West Virginia and Air Force -- of those, I MIGHT take one or both of the final two as a 1.

At least they don't reshuffle the deck after every round and hand out home games based on attendance like they did 10-15 years ago. Otherwise Drexel would never host.

 

I'm sure there will be a few who get in -- perhaps even the one who compared Pitino to Osama bin Laden. But Ohio State travels well and I'd wager that Texas A&M fans may as well, so that and the fact that Cardinal fans will gobble up any available tickets will make very few tickets available.

 

As it relates to the NIT, what I find odd is that Mississippi State and Ole Miss weren't set up for a second-round home game either in Starkville or Oxford.

So they can meet in New York? WTF?

 

How many Bama fans will travel to UMass? I'm guessing 12.

 

Amherst and Tuscaloosa have a lot in common, I think they're like sister cities or something.

Besides, if Nick goes, all of Bama Nation will go.

 

Yeah, but Mississippi State vs. Mississippi Valley State! MISSISSIPPI STATE VS. MISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE!!! Bragging rights for the state's higher education system is at stake!

 

The spring game is Saturday, so I don't think anyone is too interested in what the basketball team is doing. That might have even been the case if Bama made the NCAA tournament.

 

F Boeheim and F Syracuse. Maybe he should have thought about this when he was scheduling 12 OOC games at the Carrier Dome, and before they lost to Drexel and Wichita State at home, two of only legit teams that they actually hosted. What they did with their OOC schedule was an abomination, and now they're getting their just desserts.

Boeheim is incredulous that they didn't get in. Really, STFU. Some of these guys are incredibly arrogant. There isn't much ambiguity to the NCAA's formula: they want you to play a quality schedule and play quality teams on the road. Syracuse's OOC schedule was an embarrassment, and they're paying for it. Similar to Hofstra last year, they really don't have a legitimate gripe. You want to get the benefit of the doubt, play some quality teams in the OOC sked and get some quality wins.

And crowing about winning 10 games in the Big East doesn't add up to much when most of those wins were against lower-tier teams. Beating up on St. John's, Rutgers, South Florida, and even Providence isn't all that impressive.

Same token, Drexel's omission was a travesty. As a mid-major program, they followed the NCAA's advice on scheduling to a "T", and really couldn't have done much more to bolster their credentials. They did exactly what the committee asked for. Meanwhile, major conference jokers like Arkansas and Illinois get invites. It's a shame.

 

Uhh...Hofstra had a legitimate gripe last year. Beating George Mason twice in 11 days.

OK no more. I promise.