Running 2023-24 NCAA Basketball Thread

[jr/shotglass]

And a nice way to start the day:

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Keep Pounding, deckie V.

 

[da man]

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

 

[micropolitan guy]

And some people still believe that cheaters never prosper.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Rothstein? This isn't March.

 

[BTExpress]

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

 

[Della9250]

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.

 

[dixiehack]

Bill Raftery has been waiting a lifetime for this moment.

Autry marks post-Boeheim era by ditching zone D

 

[tapintoamerica]

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.

 

[dixiehack]

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

For the 2024 NIT, conference regular season champions that do not win their conference tournament or are not otherwise selected to the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship will not receive an automatic bid to the NIT. Instead, the NIT will guarantee two teams (based on the NET rankings) from each of six conferences (Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and Southeastern). The top two teams in the NET rankings not qualifying for the NCAA men's basketball tournament from each conference, regardless of won-loss record, will be selected. Additionally, the 12 teams automatically selected will be guaranteed the opportunity to host a game in the first round of the NIT.

Once the 12 automatic qualifying schools have been selected, the NIT Committee will select the 20 best teams available to complete the tournament's 32-team field. Based on the NIT Committee's evaluation, the best four teams of the 20 at-large teams selected will complete the 16 first round hosts, with deference given to the "first four teams out" of the Division I Men's Basketball Championship, as determined by the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball. Additional teams from the six conferences with AQs are eligible to be selected as at-large teams and can be selected as hosts.

 

[sgreenwell]

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

 

[Neutral Corner]

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..."