NCAA Tournament Thread

[GMUgemini]

The last two calls against the Bonnie’s were egregious. Especially the overruled foil against Adams. Hopefully they hang on.


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[GMUYoda]

Nice win by the Bonnies... play Florida next. Should be another good game

They get the late game on Thursday in Dallas at 9:57... Hope they will get some rest

 

[Patriotsince81]

I really want Rhode Island to beat Oklahoma. The Sooners have no business being in the dance.

 

[Bricker]

Really thoughtful piece on tourney snubs here; CAA and Mason mentions abound:

https://sports.yahoo.com/march-sadn...ble-getting-tougher-little-guy-041832135.html

 

[GMUgemini]

Really thoughtful piece on tourney snubs here; CAA and Mason mentions abound:

https://sports.yahoo.com/march-sadn...ble-getting-tougher-little-guy-041832135.html

Part of that shift is conference realignment with Wichita State, Creighton, Butler, TCU, Xavier, Temple, etc. all going into one of those top 7 conferences they mentioned. I’m sure if you looked back, most of the at-large bids were coming from those schools.


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[Bricker]

Part of that shift is conference realignment with Wichita State, Creighton, Butler, TCU, Xavier, Temple, etc. all going into one of those top 7 conferences they mentioned. I’m sure if you looked back, most of the at-large bids were coming from those schools.


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Correct -- making our move to the A-10 that much more important.

 

[GMUgemini]

Correct -- making our move to the A-10 that much more important.

Smart sports writers include the A-10 in the list of the other 7 conferences. There are at this point 8 conferences that get consistently multiple bids to the NCAA tournament.

 

[phoenix-arizona]

Former GMU opponent NC Central takes to the court.

 

[MasonSAE4]

The expanded conference slate shouldn't have been allowed. It's just a non-compete pact between conference members. If quadrant 1 wins are a large factor for the committee, then it's absolute bullshit that the ACC is just going to play each other more.

 

[sleeperpick]

We beat North Carolina central at the Pat Dome earlier this year. They are currently down by 10ish at the half versus Texas southern.

 

[phoenix-arizona]

Their day did not improve from there.

 

[Washingtonian]

http://buffalonews.com/2018/03/14/b...ventures-tourney-win-were-a-long-time-coming/

St. Bonaventure will play Florida on Thursday night for the right to play the winner of Texas Tech-Stephen F. Austin in the Round of 32. Five No. 11 seeds in the past seven years won at least one more game in the Big Dance after emerging from the First Four. It's best for now to not get too far ahead.

Instead, take a peek back.

Rewind the clock 15 years, when St. Bonaventure was caught up in scandal over an average player who gained admission into the program based on a welding certificate, not to mention the subsequent attempted cover-up. It was unbecoming of a university to be guilty of something it supposedly stood against.

Or go back 11 years, four years after coach Jan van Breda Kolff was dismissed in disgrace, when Anthony Solomon was sent on his way with a 24-88 record. St. Bonaventure won a grand total of 10 conference games during Solomon's tenure, turning the program into a tough sell for any coach worth hiring.

"When we came 11 years ago, I walked into a locker room, and we had three players," Schmidt said. "They had won 24 games in four years. Some people said I shouldn't take the job. For us to go from having three players to beating UCLA in 11 years, it's something I'm really proud of."

Just so you know, Schmidt's arrival in 2007 was greeted with yawns. He was hardly some coaching prodigy. He was 44 years old and had an 82-90 record at Robert Morris. After four straight losing seasons and finishing a game over .500 in another, the Colonials were 17-11 overall and 9-9 in the Northeast Conference in 2006-07.

St. Bonaventure didn’t need some no-name who failed to finish higher than third over six seasons in a marginal league. The Bonnies needed a real basketball coach, someone who would end the drama and steer the program from the misery and irrelevance it had suffered in the post-Jim Baron era.

It had reached a point in which Bona longed for the late 1980s under Ron DeCarli or the early 1990s with Tom Chapman. People wondered how long the program would survive, assuming it would remain in Division I. College basketball was changing rapidly, and Bona seemed stuck in neutral or traveling in reverse.

 

[GMUgemini]

Their day did not improve from there.

That was a 19 loss team they just lost to.


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[Five Two]

If URI can beat Oklahoma, its worth $1.6M to the A10

 

[FreeGunston12]

If URI can beat Oklahoma, its worth $1.6M to the A10

I know someone posted the revenue sharing splits somewhere, but I’m too lazy to look back right now.

Rhode Island would keep 3/4’s of that right? Then the final 1/4 is split among the other 13 schools? That would net us about 30k?

 

[GMUgemini]

I know someone posted the revenue sharing splits somewhere, but I’m too lazy to look back right now.

Rhode Island would keep 3/4’s of that right? Then the final 1/4 is split among the other 13 schools? That would net us about 30k?

I'm pretty sure it's 75% for the participating teams (so 75% split among URI, St. Bonaventure, and Davidson) and then the other 25% split among the other 11 teams.

Regardless, it's why making it into the tournament is such a huge deal.

 

[GMUYoda]

Trae Young putting the Sooners on his back late here as they retake the lead

ETA: Before URI goes back on top just now 69-67 with 55 secs to play... OK ball

 

[GMUYoda]

And so we have OT... darn

 

[GMUYoda]

URI WINS IN OT 83-78!!!

 

[GMUgemini]

Do not mind being wrong about URI’s 3-point shooting being an Achilles heel in his game.


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