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USF could fight themselves into the tourny... It would be good for the Big East.
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Finally back after a 3 year hiatus!Comment
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At this point, UNC making the NIT would be a turn in the right direction.
I have no idea why this group of players are so weak-minded. A 6-0 run throws them into a shell that suddenly becomes a 20-3 run. Ginyard & Thompson aren't providing effective leadership. Players don't get angry or more determined when they play badly. They don't seem to trust each other. You wonder if they like each other. Roy Williams admits he doesn't know what to do. And when one phase is working, something else goes haywire. If the offense is good, the rebounding sucks. If the defense is good, the shooting tanks. If the inside game is going, the turnovers come in bunches.
This really looks like a bunch of mismatched talent w/mismatched personalities.Comment
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The question is can Dominique Jones continue to get away with blatant forearms to defenders?Comment
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Sources at ESPN and inside the administration at a powerhouse NCAA basketball school told me today that the NCAA basketball tournament going to 96 teams is a “done deal.
An ESPN source said, “It’s a done deal with the expansion of the tournament. Depending on how soon a (TV) deal is done, the added teams could start next year. The NCAA confirmed that bidders would be interested in 96 teams, so they’re going with it.”
Another ESPN source confirmed to me that the network was in the formative stages of pondering a bid for the expanded tournament.
John Ourand and Michael Smith of SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL reported this morning that if the NCAA opts out of its current broadcast rights deal with CBS, the governing body will consider, “expanding from a 65-team tournament to either 68 or 96 teams.”
The NCAA-CBS broadcast rights contract has three years and $2.131 billion remaining. The SBJ reports, “the NCAA has until Aug. 31 to exercise its right, though it hopes to conclude the process much earlier.”
A 68-team field would add three games to the current 65-team format, and a 96-team field would add 31 games to the tourney.
SBJ also notes that ESPN, Fox and a Turner-CBS collaboration may vie for broadcast rights of the tournament.
The broadcasters are basing their bids on an expanded tournament field, according to a request for proposal issued by the NCAA to potential bidders late last year.
The NCAA reportedly wants a new, 14-year deal with its network partner(s) with an early opt-out only available to the NCAA. (Overplaying its cards?)
As my sources indicate, the NCAA is already dead-set on expanding to a 96-team hoops tournament, so what affect will that have on interest in March Madness and the regular season?
I’m one of those guys who lightly follows the regular season but loves the postseason tournament. Going to 96 teams will render the regular season even more meaningless and I’m not so sure that March Madness will be as fervently embraced with the dilution of the field and added number of games. Like my bracket isn’t big enough already?
If they’re going to go to 96 teams, why not just make the whole season a double elimination tournament?
And if the NCAA is going to drag out the hoops tournament even more, causing players to miss more class, how can it continue to justify not having a college football playoff?
Someone needs to check the water in Indianapolis. Might wanna consider a boil warning.Comment
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Sportsbybrooks also reported that Jim Harbaugh was going to Kansas, so I'll believe this when I see it.
96 teams in the tournament would be awful.
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Louisville up 14 on UCONN at half
I think they might sneak into the tourney at this rateComment
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Louisville beat UCONN
Samuels is a beast when he stays out of Foul Trouble and Sosa is alot better when he remembers to pass every now and thenComment
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Why, Cal might actually make it now.Originally posted by TimmyComment
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FUCKKKKKK OKLAHOMA STATE LOST! MY FIRST BBALL GAME AS A STUDENT AND WE LOSE! GO FUCKIN FIGURE!
Who the fuck is Jordan Hamilton? Dude lit our asses up! And they shut James Anderson down in the second half. We need our fucking starting PG back...Ray Penn. He is a true freshman but he is a playmaker.
On a more positive note, I met OKC Thunder players Jeff green, DJ White, Russell Westbrook, and James Harden after the game. Thanks to twitter, they knew who i was once i told em my twitter name. Dudes are cool. We cracked jokes a bit. I was talkin trash how OSU would win tonite and there was no point in them all coming cause they'd be going to see a Longhorn beatdown. Boy was I wrongComment
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Just Blaze, stop meeting celebrities. Leave some for us, lol.
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wow 96 teams?
That's a third of fucking division 1 basketball. That's almost as bad as all these consolation bowls in football.
Now you'll have teams like UNC going 14-16 in the NCAA tournamentComment
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Commentator in the Kentucky-Ole Miss game just said that when it's all said and done this year he thinks Wall will go Number 1 pick and Cousins will go Number 2 pick.
I know it's a long way away but has this ever happened? Players from the same college going 1 and 2Comment
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Huge game tonight. Michigan State @ Wisconsin.
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