NCAA Tournament Thread
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Cool, he won 2 games against the 6 and 4 seeds and had a day off the opponent didn't before the title. It's a very fraudulent trophy. Not that conference tourney wins should matter much either.
The conference tournament is the conference championship. You can argue that it's a dumb format, or that it wasn't fair, or that they didn't play the best teams, but that happens in playoff systems across all sports. At the end of the day the conference only has one champion and this is the only time it has ever been Texas.
Nothing like the first game potentially killing all your parlays for the day.
Considering how things have gone thus far, I suppose it’s shame on me for even assuming it was a good idea to try and pick some ML winners. Oh well..
Considering how things have gone thus far, I suppose it’s shame on me for even assuming it was a good idea to try and pick some ML winners. Oh well..
No idea how you allow an alley oop when you have 2 fouls to give on the last possession of the half.
I don’t understand why Illinois isn’t pressing. Drake did it with good success and they need to speed the game up.
I bought into the hype on Illinois. They were playing great ball heading into the tournament, but a team that can’t create multiple matchup problems for a mid-major team is going to have a hard time mounting a deep run. There was really no UI player that posed problems for Loyola, and their execution on both ends of the floor was close to flawless.
Not just down the stretch. They led by 6 or more the final 26 minutes of the game.
They dominated Ill for the duration of the game.
The Big Ten is having an appalling tournament. Off the top of my head, Rutgers has its only creditable result, right?
I believe Michigan, Iowa and Rutgers are still alive (in addition to Wisconsin, currently losing to Baylor). The Big 12, on the other hand, has done well -- except for Texas, who dropped the ball last night.
Wisconsin beat UNC and Maryland beat UConn as underdogs. Not having Illinois/Ohio State/Purdue go on runs is tough though.
Yeah, ignore my previous comment. 
(I still struggle to think of Maryland as a Big Ten team, mind you.)
(I still struggle to think of Maryland as a Big Ten team, mind you.)
I still struggle to think of Rutgers as a Big Ten team, and I'm an alum. The Scarlet Knights used to be quietly bad at most sports; being part of the Big Ten just highlights their suckitude.Yeah, ignore my previous comment.
I don't know about the $$ (which obviously was a huge increase from their previous situations), but from a sports perspective, Rutgers and Maryland joining the Big Ten has been a catastrophe.
I don’t know about Rutgers but this isn’t true for Maryland. Yes, football has been a disaster but in several other sports, men’s and women’s, Maryland has been very competitive. They have won a total of 23 conference championships since joining in 2014, per Wikipedia.
Rutgers has won zero.
Milton Friedman, a fellow Rutgers alum was right. The State University of New Jersey TM would have been better off burnishing its academic reputation. When I was an undergrad there, no one cared about the athletics program. You could sit three hours in Piscataway and watch bad football or you could take the NJ Transit and get to NYC in 45 minutes. It was a no-brainer for most of us.
I’m a Loyola faculty member since 2012, so I’ve had a decent view of Moser’s work. He’s built an incredible culture, but where he really shines is as a teacher. His teams consistently execute at high levels and always play fundamentally sound basketball. I think those things are portable provided Moser finds the right athletic department, including an AD that’s patient and supportive of Moser’s process-oriented approach. Because Moser doesn’t have that charismatic, fire up the campus personality, an AD has to sell the idea that the results will pop 2-3 years from now
(As an aside, I have been at a few different schools, including an Ivy, and none have had an athletic department as focused on academics as at Loyola. They are on top of the students, and I’ve yet to have a single issue with a Loyola athlete. Comparatively, I was at Miami (FL) for a year and I saw some shit. One old, long tenured professor told me “Don’t fight it. They’ll bury you .”)
Anyway, if I’m running the search at IU or any of the other big time programs, I’d be concerned that Moser has never coached - not even as an assistant - in a place with pitched politics. How is he going to navigate the donors, the boosters, the sneaker company reps, the recruiting middle men, the elected officials, and at IU, that Knight guy who hovers over everything?
I’d also have questions about Moser’s ability to recruit at the highest levels. He hasn’t really punched above his weight despite being located in one of the best basketball towns in the world. He’s also never been an assistant at a school that chased top-50 guys. If landing those kids is part of the job description, you have take a bit of a leap to hire Moser.
My brother-in-law grew up hanging out with the Moser family. He says Notre Dame is Porter’s dream job, so watch that.
I’d love Loyola to hang on to Moser. He’s such a great fit for what our university is. But after today’s win, I’m resigned to the fact that he’ll be poached.
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Syracuse could easily be leading this game by 18 if they didn't squander a bunch of TO's by West Virginia when they had a big lead. But they did nothing with it and now it's a 7 point game.
Interesting, I know another faculty member at Loyola (one of my former students actually).
But they do have a 10pm game tonight and that's great for people on the west coast.
Buddy has been awful and Dolezaj has three fouls and yet SU has a six point lead. Should be more and Dolezaj’s three fouls is a problem but SU will hopefully stay with them the whole way.
Big trouble. They had a chance to put this away in the first half. But they didn't and now we've got a little refball going on. These calls are funny.
I don’t like the rule that gives you more than 10 seconds to get the ball past halfcourt if you use a timeout.