(03-21-2024 11:25 PM)fsquid Wrote:  

(03-20-2024 01:33 PM)RCM1029 Wrote:  

(03-19-2024 11:18 PM)fsquid Wrote:  Small schools draw the first weekend but not after that

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Agree with the first part...disagree with the second part. If a "cinderella" slips into the Sweet 16, I think they're a decent draw just because of the underdog angle.

Stats say otherwise

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Okay, I'll play along. Post those stats.

(03-22-2024 08:35 AM)RCM1029 Wrote:  

(03-21-2024 11:25 PM)fsquid Wrote:  

(03-20-2024 01:33 PM)RCM1029 Wrote:  

(03-19-2024 11:18 PM)fsquid Wrote:  Small schools draw the first weekend but not after that

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Agree with the first part...disagree with the second part. If a "cinderella" slips into the Sweet 16, I think they're a decent draw just because of the underdog angle.

Stats say otherwise

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Okay, I'll play along. Post those stats.

From last year... Overall Men's Final Four viewers were down, but SDSU v FAU was up.

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2023/04...miami-cbs/

(03-21-2024 11:25 PM)fsquid Wrote:  

(03-20-2024 01:33 PM)RCM1029 Wrote:  

(03-19-2024 11:18 PM)fsquid Wrote:  Small schools draw the first weekend but not after that

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Agree with the first part...disagree with the second part. If a "cinderella" slips into the Sweet 16, I think they're a decent draw just because of the underdog angle.

Stats say otherwise

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Only because of degenerate gamblers skewing the statistics...

(03-19-2024 08:04 PM)UOFMGLENN Wrote:  Jay Bilas is a

Dukie, dukie.

(03-22-2024 01:56 PM)Antonio5fan Wrote:  

(03-19-2024 08:04 PM)UOFMGLENN Wrote:  Jay Bilas is a

Dukie, dukie.

Well not really it starts with a D but ends with head.

Guarantee that Kentucky would vote to not have the AQ champs

(03-22-2024 03:54 PM)tigerengineer Wrote:  Guarantee that Kentucky would vote to not have the AQ champs

Auburn will 2nd that motion

Sankey looks like such a fool and Jimmy Dikes who spent the last 5 months drooling over the power of the SEC looks like his usually dumb a$$ self too

(03-22-2024 06:08 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  

(03-22-2024 03:54 PM)tigerengineer Wrote:  Guarantee that Kentucky would vote to not have the AQ champs

Auburn will 2nd that motion

Sankey looks like such a fool and Jimmy Dikes who spent the last 5 months drooling over the power of the SEC looks like his usually dumb a$$ self too

Yes! I love seeing that moron get egg on his face. He hated Calipari when he was here at Memphis. Magically he wants him to father his children when Cal went to Kentucky. Dykes is a blithering idiot

(03-19-2024 07:51 PM)dcg141 Wrote:  Greg Sankey, Jay Bilas and now the Baylor AD Mack Rhoades have said within a week that although they don't want to take away opportunities, but they are gonna take away opportunities. Its like they all have the same marching orders. The attack on BB has started.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cunu4I8NYI0

Those AQs kicked some SEC ass

Conference tourneys are just another money grab. It's always seemed ridiculous to give the auto bid to a weekend winner and not the regular season champion. But they need a reason to have the tournament.

South Florida couldn't even get an at-large but FAU could?

If the B1G and SEC both left the ncaa tournament would it even miss it? SEC hasn’t won a title in 12 years and the B1G hasn’t won since the flintstones in 2000

(03-23-2024 09:32 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote:  If the B1G and SEC both left the ncaa tournament would it even miss it? SEC hasn’t won a title in 12 years and the B1G hasn’t won since the flintstones in 2000

It’ll be easier for them to win national championships when the 12 team football playoff is SEC top 6 & big 10 top 6 and the basketball tournament consists of about 40-44 teams that are the Big 10 and SEC. Where the rest of us wind up playing a postseason tournament, who knows. ESPN+ (can they afford it after paying massively for CFB playoff?), amazon prime, Apple TV?

(03-23-2024 11:15 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  

(03-23-2024 09:32 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote:  If the B1G and SEC both left the ncaa tournament would it even miss it? SEC hasn’t won a title in 12 years and the B1G hasn’t won since the flintstones in 2000

It’ll be easier for them to win national championships when the 12 team football playoff is SEC top 6 & big 10 top 6 and the basketball tournament consists of about 40-44 teams that are the Big 10 and SEC. Where the rest of us wind up playing a postseason tournament, who knows. ESPN+ (can they afford it after paying massively for CFB playoff?), amazon prime, Apple TV?

The public isn’t going to go for a 40 team tournament with only two conferences in basketball. Now football might be a different story

(03-23-2024 11:20 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote:  

(03-23-2024 11:15 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  

(03-23-2024 09:32 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote:  If the B1G and SEC both left the ncaa tournament would it even miss it? SEC hasn’t won a title in 12 years and the B1G hasn’t won since the flintstones in 2000

It’ll be easier for them to win national championships when the 12 team football playoff is SEC top 6 & big 10 top 6 and the basketball tournament consists of about 40-44 teams that are the Big 10 and SEC. Where the rest of us wind up playing a postseason tournament, who knows. ESPN+ (can they afford it after paying massively for CFB playoff?), amazon prime, Apple TV?

The public isn’t going to go for a 40 team tournament with only two conferences in basketball. Now football might be a different story

Maybe they do it like NBA playoffs without the matchups being a series. Those 2 leagues will do everything they can to choke off the $$ for the rest of college sports. And the TV networks will be compliant.