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RE: Laughable Scores - 2018/19 Men's Basketball - pt 2
Pac 12 showing why 12 team/18 games is such a great setup....
They have 7 teams already with 9 or more wins, and if USC can beat Colorado, or Arizona can beat Arizona St- that number could grow up to 9. Now, they're not going to get bids due to being absolutely horrid OOC, but still, if they had done well OOC, they could have put a huge number up.
Heck, the AAC could wind up easily with 5 teams with 11+ wins and a 6th team at 10-8. And a 7th at 9-9.
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RE: Laughable Scores - 2018/19 Men's Basketball - pt 2
now, this fun factoid....
Cal is the first team this century to win its last 3 conference games after going 0-fer to that point.
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RE: Laughable Scores - 2018/19 Men's Basketball - pt 2
(03-07-2019 06:22 PM)leofrog Wrote: (03-07-2019 05:41 PM)jdgaucho Wrote: (03-07-2019 05:01 PM)The Cutter of Bish Wrote: (03-07-2019 02:35 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote: (03-07-2019 02:13 PM)stever20 Wrote: well we might just have an extra spot in the NCAA tourney after all.... Big accusations with LSU and their coach...
https://sports.yahoo.com/exclusive-wiret...46487.html
wouldn't be shocked if Wade never coaches LSU(or anyone else) again, and if LSU self bans themselves for this year.
VCU got the final laugh on that one.
LSU could likely defend that this import probably brought some of these issues with him. And VCU will get stung in some way.
We saw the committee pass on a major sitting in the reachable RPI numbers. If the committee decides to pass on LSU because of the likelihood of probation, vacating wins, etc., they could be the highest rated major to get the snub who were still technically eligible.
They would be. LSU's NET ranking as of today is 13. But to snub what might be the sole champion of a major conference seems highly unlikely.
LSU will not be left out of this years tournament unless they choose to sit out. Period.
We'll see. USC was snubbed when there was a spotlight on them. Perhaps for LSU, they could see something like what Arizona saw with a potential death bracket. Stick LSU in a place where they won't be able to dramatically impact the entire field by giving them a bad seed and setting them up for a quick exit.
Honestly, the last thing the NCAA wants is repeating something like 2013 Louisville, especially if it's suspected that sanctions will hit a program. Yes, it would suck seeing a good team not getting the bid. It sucks way worse when a team who likely shouldn't be there due to sanctions makes it and essentially invalidates the entire season for others.
As for VCU, when Wade says something like getting better players for less, you better believe folks are going to be making a visit to Richmond.
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RE: Laughable Scores - 2018/19 Men's Basketball - pt 2
(03-08-2019 01:03 AM)stever20 Wrote: now, this fun factoid....
Cal is the first team this century to win its last 3 conference games after going 0-fer to that point.
3 down, 10 to go...
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RE: Laughable Scores - 2018/19 Men's Basketball - pt 2
the thing that's so weird this year is lets take 2 teams who are right on the bubble....
Creighton
Temple
For Creighton, they have 8 Q1 conference games. Temple has only 6. So advantage you'd say for Creighton
But home Q1 conference- Creighton has 2, Temple has 3. Advantage for Temple.
in those Q1 conference games- Temple is 1-4 with home game left with UCF. Creighton is 1-7 and final game isn't a Q1 chance.
So even though Big East has 6 other top 75 teams and AAC has only 4 other- Temple's better positioned due to AAC having 3 top 30 teams to only 2 for the Big East.
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RE: Laughable Scores - 2018/19 Men's Basketball - pt 2
And LSU has suspended Wade. He's never coaching a game there again and very well may never coach a college game ever again.....
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RE: Laughable Scores - 2018/19 Men's Basketball - pt 2
(03-08-2019 02:18 PM)stever20 Wrote: And LSU has suspended Wade. He's never coaching a game there again and very well may never coach a college game ever again.....
Probably won't be the last either.
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RE: Laughable Scores - 2018/19 Men's Basketball - pt 2
The way he ran his mouth in those conversations, I’d love to know what he knows about some of these other transactions. It looks bad for him and LSU...VCU is going to feel it later...I’d be more worried what else he could say.
A lot of programs should go down for this. He’s the type to speed this thing up.
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RE: Laughable Scores - 2018/19 Men's Basketball - pt 2
VCU might be concerned about this comment, considering that Wade said this only 3 months after leaving VCU for LSU.
Quote:Wade told Dawkins that he had made deals for "as good of players as him" that were "a lot simpler than this."
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RE: Laughable Scores - 2018/19 Men's Basketball - pt 2
(03-08-2019 02:48 PM)The Cutter of Bish Wrote: The way he ran his mouth in those conversations, I’d love to know what he knows about some of these other transactions. It looks bad for him and LSU...VCU is going to feel it later...I’d be more worried what else he could say.
A lot of programs should go down for this. He’s the type to speed this thing up.
Where there's smoke, there's fire. Along those lines, he's the type to pour gasoline on it. Ouch.
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RE: Laughable Scores - 2018/19 Men's Basketball - pt 2
(03-08-2019 02:18 PM)stever20 Wrote: And LSU has suspended Wade. He's never coaching a game there again and very well may never coach a college game ever again.....
They almost got through the season. They could tie for an SEC championship tomorrow. The ongoing question was: would this hit them during or after the season? We now know.
The other question is: who else is going to get caught?
It's a dirty sport.
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RE: Laughable Scores - 2018/19 Men's Basketball - pt 2
(03-08-2019 03:40 PM)Wedge Wrote: VCU might be concerned about this comment, considering that Wade said this only 3 months after leaving VCU for LSU.
Quote:Wade told Dawkins that he had made deals for "as good of players as him" that were "a lot simpler than this."
I'm hoping that was bluster, but I've long ago learned not to be surprised at the depravity of man.
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RE: Laughable Scores - 2018/19 Men's Basketball - pt 2
(03-08-2019 03:46 PM)johnintx Wrote: (03-08-2019 02:18 PM)stever20 Wrote: And LSU has suspended Wade. He's never coaching a game there again and very well may never coach a college game ever again.....
They almost got through the season. They could tie for an SEC championship tomorrow. The ongoing question was: would this hit them during or after the season? We now know.
The other question is: who else is going to get caught?
It's a dirty sport.
Wouldn't be surprised to see another SEC school get tossed under the bus. Will Wade looks like the type to snitch.
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RE: Laughable Scores - 2018/19 Men's Basketball - pt 2
(03-08-2019 03:47 PM)Cyniclone Wrote: (03-08-2019 03:40 PM)Wedge Wrote: VCU might be concerned about this comment, considering that Wade said this only 3 months after leaving VCU for LSU.
Quote:Wade told Dawkins that he had made deals for "as good of players as him" that were "a lot simpler than this."
I'm hoping that was bluster, but I've long ago learned not to be surprised at the depravity of man.
I look more negatively on the NCAA with this one because we simply know all too often the little guy takes the beating for the bigger ones. It doesn’t matter how well VCU built its program. They were/are a smaller fish, and in an arena where the bigger and more prestigious the school, the entitlements follow.
I suspect the NCAA will come to call further on VCU, and run with the assumption that VCU couldn’t possibly have and sustain the program it does without some prohibited activity to prop it up. The kind of “hypothesis” that is only advanced by agenda rather than actual truth or facts.
There was speculation Smart pulled some flim-flam. I’d be worried for VCU if Wade talks and says anything like he carried on what he inherited there in Richmond and moved it along to Baton Rouge.
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RE: Laughable Scores - 2018/19 Men's Basketball - pt 2
No Clemons, now no Daum.
Massive upset.
#8 Leathernecks 79
#1 Jackrabbits 76
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RE: Laughable Scores - 2018/19 Men's Basketball - pt 2
The NIT field starts to fill.
Campbell, Loyola, Belmont, and SDSU.
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RE: Laughable Scores - 2018/19 Men's Basketball - pt 2
(03-09-2019 10:58 PM)The Cutter of Bish Wrote: The NIT field starts to fill.
Loyola, Belmont, and SDSU.
+ Fighting Camels
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RE: Laughable Scores - 2018/19 Men's Basketball - pt 2
(03-09-2019 10:59 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote: (03-09-2019 10:58 PM)The Cutter of Bish Wrote: The NIT field starts to fill.
Loyola, Belmont, and SDSU.
+ Fighting Camels
Yeah, I forgot they were actually the top seed in Big South and not Radford.
The way the top two seeds escaped upsets in MAAC make me think Iona's likely to join the list soon, too.
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RE: Laughable Scores - 2018/19 Men's Basketball - pt 2
Not really an upset but the score is very laughable...
7 seed San Diego 65
3 seed BYU 25
mid 2nd half
It's so funny these conferences have gone to the ladder system to protect better seeds and in the WCC the 7 and 8 seeds have made the semifinals. I really don't think it works. You get a team like a San Diego and they build up all sorts of momentum.....
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RE: Laughable Scores - 2018/19 Men's Basketball - pt 2
(03-09-2019 10:06 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote: No Clemons, now no Daum.
Massive upset.
#8 Leathernecks 79
#1 Jackrabbits 76
https://twitter.com/grandon_bilbeck/stat...0861974529
Probably not a good idea to have your very own God's Gift to College Basketball dish up some spicy billboard material before the game like this. WIU was out for blood.
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