March Madness 2024

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Originally Posted by X-band '01

I also wonder how many people successfully sat through all 6 games of the Metro Atlantic tournaments (women AND men) at Boardwalk Hall today.

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Anyone who did deserves a medal!!!

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Originally Posted by X-band '01

I don't see either Charleston or Oakland winning their first round games, but they are going to be tough outs in Round 1. I'm a bit surprised it took Oakland as long as it did to return to the Big Dance. Congrats to both Kampe and Kelsey.

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Oaklands two post guys will give them a chance. They're still playing well like they did against us.

Agree on Charleston. Don't see them winning, but you never know.

Cincinnati over Kansas 38-25 after 1st half. Lahken not playing.

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Originally Posted by Three Point Pete

Cincinnati over Kansas 38-25 after 1st half. Lahken not playing.

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Bill Self mailed in the Big XII tournament. UC was actually favored.

Surely Baylor isn't going to mail it in, are they?

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Originally Posted by GoMuskies

Bill Self mailed in the Big XII tournament. UC was actually favored.

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So this is sort of new. We've seen a lot teams not play whole lot of urgency in conference tournaments, but this is the first time I can ever remember a team basically saying they don't care. Kansas has two key players that they chose to rest. Samford did this in a late regular season game that they also lost. I know we see this in baseball and in the NFL, but not really in college basketball. The thinking was that every game actually did matter. But, I guess Kansas felt this one didn't. Is this going to become more and more of a thing now??

Wasn’t Dickinson injured? I know McCullar has been injured off and on most of the year. I think it was more trying to get the team healthy than load management or something like that.

To your point though, I could see some teams certainly saying it's not worth the extra seed line to win the whole thing or whatever. (I wish that Uconn would do that today but Hurley is not that kind of guy lol )I'm sure at this point in the season, everyone is banged up so maybe rest is better. I'd be curious to see the correlation between conference tournament success and final four/championships.

Memphis must also really love the NIT. Not a good look losing to a Wichita State team that would finish in the bottom half of the Valley.

Dayton losing to Duquesne in the a10 quarters is hilarious. Does mean there is a bid stealer for our big East friends though

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Originally Posted by Xville

Dayton losing to Duquesne in the a10 quarters is hilarious. Does mean there is a bid stealer for our big East friends though

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Yep, only bad news, but still hilarious.