Running 2022-23 NCAA Basketball Thread

[tapintoamerica]

Last night Buck and Aikman said they'd be doing the London game Sunday then the Monday nighter in Cleveland. Cannot possibly do that except private.

Whether it's the NFL or ESPN, somebody needs to chronicle that travel experience.

 

[MileHigh]

Whether it's the NFL or ESPN, somebody needs to chronicle that travel experience.

Buck and Aikman aren't doing a doubleheader. The backup MNF crew is on the London game.

 

[dixiehack]

What if we made the entire conference a rolling ball of butcher knives?

Sources: Gonzaga in talks on joining Big 12

 

[DanOregon]

That would be too bad. Grew up on the WCC, a great little basketball conference made up of Catholic schools (Pepperdine excepted) up and down the west coast. A friend's brother played with John Stockton for the Zags.

 

[MileHigh]

What's in it for Gonzaga? It has proven it can contend for national titles in the junior varsity WCC. It delivers the tournament units as it progressively marches through the bracket. It's still lacking a national title, but the tourney is a crap shoot. It's not like it gets bounced in the Sweet 16 each year just because it's in the WCC.

 

[Della9250]

What's in it for Gonzaga? It has proven it can contend for national titles in the junior varsity WCC. It delivers the tournament units as it progressively marches through the bracket. It's still lacking a national title, but the tourney is a crap shoot. It's not like it gets bounced in the Sweet 16 each year just because it's in the WCC.

a lot more money??

 

[MileHigh]

a lot more money??

Let's see it. NCAA tournament is about units. You win, the more you get. Gonzaga isn't seeing any football money.

 

[Della9250]

Let's see it. NCAA tournament is about units. You win, the more you get. Gonzaga isn't seeing any football money.

I imagine the big 12 basketball contract is bigger than the WCC

 

[ChrisLong]

I can't imagine Gonzaga falling off a cliff, but when I covered that league, it was a doormat. The Zags lost in the first round of the conference tournament something like the first 7 years they had it.

 

[Chef2]

Few is a stumbling drunk when they go 35-4 every year.
Imagine what he’s like at 26-10 in n the B12?

 

[I Should Coco]

Few is a stumbling drunk when they go 35-4 every year.
Imagine what he’s like at 26-10 in n the B12?

Hey, if you had to hear all the political garbage spouted out in North Idaho, you’d drink heavily, too!

Seriously though, if Gonzaga is going to split from the WCC, the Big East is a better fit than the Big 12.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Those Spokane-to-Orlando road trips will get very old in very little time.