HuskerFever

It's hard to argue around tournament time that the Big East (former Horizon, A10, etc.) teams make for some real college hoops entertainment. I'm so glad it's March.

Not to make light of the situation, but at least it wasn't two blows to the head. That tends to do much more serious brain damage. Hopefully the kid is alright.

That's not good. Was his first injury related to the second one?

How did Providence get back in this game? Did Xavier steal Auburn's 2nd half playbook?

If only that layup fell down. This would be a 50-50 shot at the end of the game!

When life gives you trolls...troll back.

Richmond is such a tease. We all know how this is going to end.

Updated.

I found this interesting: https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/ncaa-tournament-selection-committee-leader-explains-why-even-easy-wins-matter/ "I had scheduled to come in and watch -- when we set this up before Christmas, and the expectation was six or eight teams in the Big Ten would be candidates for the tournament. I think there's a value in seeing teams in person. You see the physicality and the length. You see how they respond to things that don't go their way, maybe a call. You see a little bit more. You get a feel for the flow of the game and why the game ends up being the way it is. It gives you a point of reference, too. If I've seen Michigan State in person, when Michigan State's playing Purdue, I've got a benchmark. So physicality, size, speed and so forth. It isn't that you have to see a team in order to get a better feel for them, but if you've seen somebody that they play it gives you a benchmark."

Same. I tried searching if any of those assignments were public but couldn't find anything. So what about the 13 other conferences who have already played their tournaments?

It really seems like Richmond is starting to walk around in transition.

Might as well root for a quality URI/Bonnies A10 championship at this point?

Second batch of games tonight: Richmond/St. Bonaventure: 39-56 13:31 2nd Providence/Xavier: 29-43 Halftime Kent State/Buffalo: 29-39 Halftime Temple/Wichita State: 13-17 11:42 1st Mississippi State/Tennessee: 12-15 10:53 1st Kansas State/Kansas: 12-15 10:53 1st

This would be great for us any year before this year as this was highlighted on the team sheets. The quadrant system is overshadowing this and it might be a travesty to us if people on the committee are not exposed to this data cut. That's terrifying.

What I continue to struggle with is how fine of a line was forced on us 7 weeks ago to even have a shot at the tournament. That's an insane proclamation for any power conference team. Many of the current bubble teams didn't make their moves until about three weeks ago and are reaping those benefits we were never offered.

I want Marc Boehm's job security.

Lunardi probably paid the shoe-in teams to lose to the bubble teams just so Nebraska wouldn't make it.

That. And what's our two best nonconference wins?

Updating throughout the day.

Sadly, when you look at puzzling losses in the Big 12, there are none. This is a real thin bubble we're dealing with right now.

https://sports.yahoo.com/notre-dame-will-toughest-bubble-team-committee-evaluate-033437093.html "Notre Dame’s two quadrant 1 victories are the fewest among bubble teams in contention for the final at-large bids to the NCAA tournament." I guess we must have 3 or more quadrant 1 victories...

I was kind of worried about this one but wasn't sure if it was just in my head. There's a lot of contenders in the Atlantic 10 this year.

Simple. Computers. And the people using computers who call themselves bracketologists.

But the Big Ten is like the Mountain West, so.......