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College Basketball 2009-10: The Road to the Road to Lucas Oil

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LynahFan said:
Perhaps, but I'd have expected the same thing in the TN game after being down by 1 to Cornell with ~50 seconds left. That should have been a bigger wake up call than actually losing to a pretty good team.
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Yeah but Tennessee was without one starter and three of their best reserve players. Kansas should have steamrolled them regardless of where the game was being played.

Cornell IS a pretty darn good team BTW:cool:

Jim Boeheim said that Cornell was the second toughest team that Syracuse had played this year after the Florida game.
 
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hockeyplayer1015 said:
UNC getting worked by Clemson. 64-48 Clemson with 10:30 left.
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That's because if the jerseys on this year's UNC team said "University of Northwest Carolina" they wouldn't deserve any top 25 votes. Very mediocre team.
 
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AMC said:
That's because if the jerseys on this year's UNC team said "University of Northwest Carolina" they wouldn't deserve any top 25 votes. Very mediocre team.
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Oh, no doubt, I've been saying it all year.
 
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hockeyplayer1015 said:
Oh, no doubt, I've been saying it all year.
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My friend that is a huge UNC fan has been saying the same thing as well all year.

Finally all their leaving early draft picks caught up to them and they just didn't have enough experienced talent returning to be able to keep pace with the top teams in the country.

UNC will still be a tournament team and they have the raw talent. Williams will have them a top 10 team by the middle of next year again after fine tuning some of the talent on this team and bringing in another stud class.

Look at UCLA too...same story with their struggles.
 
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I hope Marquette has spent the last 2 days shooting 70,000 free throws, after missing two key 1-and-1s late at effing DePaul - who had not won a Big East game since 2008. :(

I guess it was nice to see Tracy Webster get his first win as a head coach, since I liked him a lot as a player. But... ****. Three very close games against ranked teams, and they lose to Depaul?
 
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Minnesota wastes an opportunity and lets #7 MSU comeback and win 65-64. MN led the entire game.
 
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A source at ESPN is saying that the NCAA has a virtual done deal to expand the 65 team tournament to 96 teams.

So, let's get this straight. We can't get a football playoff system but we can make the basketball tournament a complete joke.

Good.
 
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GreatLakerMohawk said:
A source at ESPN is saying that the NCAA has a virtual done deal to expand the 65 team tournament to 96 teams.

So, let's get this straight. We can't get a football playoff system but we can make the basketball tournament a complete joke.

Good.
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So how do they do 96? Top 32 get byes to the round of 64, but when and where do they play the "extra" round? Tuesday night, the same as the current play-in game? And at campus sites or at the current first-round site?
 
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I can hear it now. "We deserved to be in the field of 96, to be left out is a dissapointment.":p
 
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And with going to 90+ teams, what happens to the CBI Tournament:eek: :mad:

I mean, I guess they can make money on a Chicago State vs Eastern IL game, right :p
 
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RaceBoarder said:
And with going to 90+ teams, what happens to the CBI Tournament:eek: :mad:

I mean, I guess they can make money on a Chicago State vs Eastern IL game, right :p
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Hey, don't mock the CBI! Sure Stanford lost a boatload of money when their vaunted matchup against Boise State last year didn't make back the money they had to pay to host the game, but give it time! And there's actually another tournament that comes after even the CBI.
 
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Since the NCAA owns the NIT these days, my guess is the NIT disappears (basically the NIT field gets absorbed into the larger NCAA field) and the CBI and CIT remain unaffected.
 
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GreatLakerMohawk said:
A source at ESPN is saying that the NCAA has a virtual done deal to expand the 65 team tournament to 96 teams.

So, let's get this straight. We can't get a football playoff system but we can make the basketball tournament a complete joke.

Good.
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Sweet. Lets take the greatest sporting event of the year and find some way to Lorena Bobbitt it.
 
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Why do people feel the need to **** up sports? The magic of making the dance is going to mean nothing now... This is ****ed.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Why do people feel the need to **** up sports? The magic of making the dance is going to mean nothing now... This is ****ed.
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I think that for small schools, the magic will still be there... Instead of the extra at-large spots going to #2-4 from say the Big South, SoCon, America East, Horizon League, etc., you'll see the #7-9 from the SEC, ACC, B10 and Big East :mad:
 
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