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2023-2024 NCAA Men's Basketball Thread

BlackjackMc said:
A point of information about bids to the NCAA tournament using Lunardi's Brackets. Joe has 6 Mountain West teams with bids to the Dance. Three Big 6 conferences get fewer than the MWC. The Big East gets 5. The ACC gets 4. The PAC gets 2.

There are 11 teams in the MWC. Those eleven teams have combined to play a total of 23 games against Big 6 conference teams, about 2 per team on the season. The Big 6 conferences are the SEC, The ACC, the Big 10, the Big East, the Big 12 and the PAC10. As a point of comparision, the 9 Big South conference teams have played 23 games against Big 6 conference teams. Wake Forest will play 25 Big 6 conference games in the regular season, more than the entire MWC combined. The same is true of most Big 6 conference teams. The MWC is a fraud. They avoid tough competition like the plague. Talk about stealing bids. I wonder why the Big 6 conferences put up with this crap.

Thanks for putting up with my rant. Just thought you folks might find it interesting.
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Just curious, what is the record of those MWC-Big 6 matchups.

This is a great post and should be tattooed to Numbers' forehead.
 
Top 6 MWC teams versus the Power 6 conferences:

1. Utah State 0-0
2. Boise State 0-4 (Ls to Washington St., Clemson, Butler and VT)
3. San Diego State 3-1 (L to BYU, Ws over Washington, Cal, Stanford); they also have a road win at Gonzaga and a nuetral win over St. Mary's
4. New Mexico 0-0
5. Colorado State 4-0 (Ws over BC, Creighton, Colorado and Washington)
6. Nevada 3-0 (Ws over Washington, TCU and GT)
 
MichDeac25 said:
Just curious, what is the record of those MWC-Big 6 matchups.

This is a great post and should be tattooed to Numbers' forehead.
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The 6 that matter are 10-5 upon quick review.

They also have a handful of games against (0-1) Gonzaga and Saint Mary's (2-2)

Pilch - Boise lost to Wazzu
 
Wake and Gonzaga are the only teams in the top 30 NET with only 1 Q1 win, Indiana State is just outside at 31.

SMU is the highest rated team with 0 Q1 wins at 36
 
BeachBumDeac said:
Wake and Gonzaga are the only teams in the top 30 NET with only 1 Q1 win, Indiana State is just outside at 31.

SMU is the highest rated team with 0 Q1 wins at 36
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This changes Saturday

(or maybe not, if Florida loses)
 
BlackjackMc said:
Good win last night. The Deacs start the day ranked #21 in kenpom, #23 in torvik, #22 in BPI and #26 in NET. If those numbers keep improving it will be difficult to omit the team from the Dance despite holes in the resume. I enjoyed Randolph's mention that the 46 wins at the Joel over the past three seasons are the most home victories in the NCAA.
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I like that stat but it also further highlights two things: 1) our OOC schedule has been absurdly easy and 2) our road record is abysmal. You’d think if you had the most home wins in the whole NCAA over a 4-year stretch that you’d be pretty good. We haven’t made the tourney. We haven’t been ranked. We’ve made the NIT once.
 
Deacsfan27 said:
They've won two natties since they last won an AP ranked road game.
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That's odd - I've been reliably assured by the ogboards bracketology team that road performance is heavily weighed in team evaluation and a good indicator of tournament success
 
Yale has a sophomore big named Danny Wolf that has risen from an unknown to getting NBA interest. Wolf is 19, 7-0 250. and after essentially riding pine last season he is averaging 15 ppg and 10 rpg and getting better every week. He shoots 38% from three. He has double doubles in 7 of his last 8 games. There are murmurs that UCONN, among others, are trying to lure Wolf into the transfer portal. Yale coach James Jones, won't go quietly in this, and can see this as a big off-season story as Yale has the gravitas for big media to listen. Yale is a really good team, but so is Princeton and Cornell. FWIW, Princeton has a similar player, sophomore guard Xavian Lee who similarly has exploded after limited PT as a frosh.


Whomever makes it out of the Ivy League is going to a handful in the NCAAT. Just like last year.

Danny Wolf:



Xavian Lee:

 
Pilchard said:
Yale has a sophomore big named Danny Wolf that has risen from an unknown to getting NBA interest. Wolf is 19, 7-0 250. and after essentially riding pine last season he is averaging 15 ppg and 10 rpg and getting better every week. He shoots 38% from three. He has double doubles in 7 of his last 8 games. There are murmurs that UCONN, among others, are trying to lure Wolf into the transfer portal. Yale coach James Jones, won't go quietly in this, and can see this as a big off-season story as Yale has the gravitas for big media to listen. Yale is a really good team, but so is Princeton and Cornell. FWIW, Princeton has a similar player, sophomore guard Xavian Lee who similarly has exploded after limited PT as a frosh.


Whomever makes it out of the Ivy League is going to a handful in the NCAAT. Just like last year.

Danny Wolf:



Xavian Lee:

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We go to a lot Brown games, so I follow Ivy League hoops sort of. They’re sleeping giants in the age of NIL.

PS: I realize that’s a hot take.
 
Not really. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are easily the most well-known universities that don’t have big time athletics. If they wanted to, they’d have no problem getting bankrolled.
 
PhDeac said:
Not really. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are easily the most well-known universities that don’t have big time athletics. If they wanted to, they’d have no problem getting bankrolled.
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Okay. So not a hot take?
 
This Big South guy doesn’t feel alone now that I know the Ivy may be represented. Little conferences matter to me!
 
Who wants to talk CAA basketball, particularly Northeastern? The Huskies are not only not very good, they're not even remotely entertaining and have no real upside over the next few years. Who wants to jump on board with me?
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
Who wants to talk CAA basketball, particularly Northeastern? The Huskies are not only not very good, they're not even remotely entertaining and have no real upside over the next few years. Who wants to jump on board with me?
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You know I will. That was HPU during the Tubby years and now HPU is right there. Just need the right transfers and recruiting. I’ll try to catch a Northeastern game this week. Are they on ESPN+?
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
Who wants to talk CAA basketball, particularly Northeastern? The Huskies are not only not very good, they're not even remotely entertaining and have no real upside over the next few years. Who wants to jump on board with me?
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Elon pulled one of the biggest CAA upsets beating UNCW in Trask. Almost never happens.
 
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