2022-23 NCAA Men's Basketball Thread

[tower912]

Thoughts on the Wisky/Rodent unis??  WTF?  Can you say hideous?

They will sell some merch based on that design scheme.

[PGsHeroes32]

Kansas vs Kstate is a fantastic game and atmosphere.

[GoldenEagles03]

They will sell some merch based on that design scheme.

Like a funeral.  Wearing black and it's silent in there.

[GoldenEagles03]

Kansas vs Kstate is a fantastic game and atmosphere.

Jalen Wilson is a unanimous 1st Team All American.  He's so good.

[MuggsyB]

Iowa St/Texas is another good one.

[mugrad_89]

Any chance Brey hangs it up at the end of the year? He seemed disengaged after our game and getting stomped by 6-13 FSU at home; just feels like he's playing out his hand.

He doesn't seem very engaged in the game.

[PGsHeroes32]

Jalen Wilson is a unanimous 1st Team All American.  He's so good.

Has his moments of being a chucker and needs to be a more consistent shooter at next level but yeah hes really good.

Has come into his own this year and is probably top 3 in the POY talks.

Lot of really good players in this game. Handful of them for KU are fouled out.

[Newsdreams]

ISU and K st win good for BE, Baylor winning....

[MuggsyB]

ISU and K st win good for BE, Baylor winning....

I've been impressed by Iowa St.  Those two Bonny players have helped a lot.

[brewcity77]

"Nate Oats told @UA_CTSN he spoke to former NFL LB Ray Lewis in the wake of Darius Miles' arrest.

"His daughter went to Alabama a year-and-a-half ago. He went through a similar situation in Atlanta. He played in the NFL. He told me what he thought guys needed to hear."

What!?!?

Patrick Leary summed this up well: "The logical leaps to go from 'a player on my team killed someone' to 'I should call another athlete who famously got away with killing someone' to 'I should tell the media about doing that' are completely mental."

[GoldenEagles03]

Patrick Leary summed this up well: "The logical leaps to go from 'a player on my team killed someone' to 'I should call another athlete who famously got away with killing someone' to 'I should tell the media about doing that' are completely mental."

For real.

Hears one of his guys killed a girl:

"Oh I gotta speak with Ray Lewis."

[WhiteTrash]

For real.

Hears one of his guys killed a girl:

"Oh I gotta speak with Ray Lewis."

Wouldn't OJ be a better consultant in the matter?

[lostpassword]

MU alum Craig Pintens with a tournament expansion idea, which also involves eliminating the NIT.

https://athleticdirectoru.com/articles/more-of-a-great-thing-expansion-to-96-teams-in-the-ncaa-basketball-tournament/

Has anyone ever floated the idea of an expansion that is something more like a "play-in-tournament" than just adding more rounds of play?  I would be intrigued by something like this:

Total of 76 teams
[1] Field of 60 - the 32 automatic qualifiers and the top 28 at-large teams
[2] Field of 16 - the next 16 best at-large teams
[3] The 16 funnel into one of the sweet-16 slots

This play-in-tournament could be someting like Tue (at host school) and then the following Sat/Sun/Mon (some rotating neutral site) and have a bit of a conference tournament feel to it.

I haven't given this a lot of thought, but I think this would might the regular season more (not less) important.  You'd have to win 4 games to get to the sweet-16.

[wadesworld]

If it ain't broke don't fix it.

[WhiteTrash]

If it ain't broke don't fix it.

If it makes more money, break it every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

[lostpassword]

Has anyone ever floated the idea of an expansion that is something more like a "play-in-tournament" than just adding more rounds of play?  I would be intrigued by something like this:

Total of 76 teams
[1] Field of 60 - the 32 automatic qualifiers and the top 28 at-large teams
[2] Field of 16 - the next 16 best at-large teams
[3] The 16 funnel into one of the sweet-16 slots

This play-in-tournament could be someting like Tue (at host school) and then the following Sat/Sun/Mon (some rotating neutral site) and have a bit of a conference tournament feel to it.

I haven't given this a lot of thought, but I think this would make the regular season more (not less as often contended with expansion) important.  You'd have to win 4 games to get to the sweet-16.

[The Sultan]

If it ain't broke don't fix it.

Said no sports league ever if more money is involved.

[brewcity77]

Has anyone ever floated the idea of an expansion that is something more like a "play-in-tournament" than just adding more rounds of play?  I would be intrigued by something like this:

Total of 76 teams
[1] Field of 60 - the 32 automatic qualifiers and the top 28 at-large teams
[2] Field of 16 - the next 16 best at-large teams
[3] The 16 funnel into one of the sweet-16 slots

This play-in-tournament could be someting like Tue (at host school) and then the following Sat/Sun/Mon (some rotating neutral site) and have a bit of a conference tournament feel to it.

I haven't given this a lot of thought, but I think this would might the regular season more (not less) important.  You'd have to win 4 games to get to the sweet-16.

Field of 80 is my proposal, but somewhat similar.

• Top-16 automatic qualifiers immediately go to the main field Thursday/Friday.
  
• Top 24 at-large bids seeded into the main field.
  
• All 15/16 seeds have to play their way in Tuesday/Wednesday.
  
• Last 16 at-large teams play their way in Tuesday/Wednesday.
  
• Add three static Tuesday/Wednesday sites (Dayton, Omaha,  Bloomington, Knoxville).
  
• 16 total Tuesday/Wednesday games, 2 per night at the First Four sites. Each site gets one 15/16 play-in and one at-large play-in per night. Winners funnel into the main field.

I think this would actually make the tournament better. Tuesday and Wednesday become legitimate options for viewing because you are getting motivated at-large caliber teams (last year's Rutgers/ND was awesome) and better quality 15/16 games due to it being made up of many 13 & 14 seeds. It would be more money for the small schools because there is a greater opportunity to earn credits Tuesday/Wednesday, but once you get to the main field the majority of credits will go to bigger leagues as there will be just 18 non-high-major auto-bids in the field of 64 as opposed to the 24 there now. The first weekend would be stretched to 6 days of awesomeness.

Here's what I wrote about it in August:

https://www.crackedsidewalks.com/2022/08/how-to-do-ncaa-tournament-expansion.html

[JakeBarnes]

"Nate Oats told @UA_CTSN he spoke to former NFL LB Ray Lewis in the wake of Darius Miles' arrest.

"His daughter went to Alabama a year-and-a-half ago. He went through a similar situation in Atlanta. He played in the NFL. He told me what he thought guys needed to hear."

What!?!?

"I didn't see anything"

[GoldenEagles03]

Ohio State drops to 10-8, 2-6 with a loss at Nebraska.  Were ranked just a few weeks ago.

[mugrad_89]

Ohio State drops to 10-8, 2-6 with a loss at Nebraska.  Were ranked just a few weeks ago.

"There are no easy games in the Big 10" - Big 10 apologists everywhere.  🙄

[GoldenEagles03]

I know a lot of you love to mock and disregard Crean and Buzz.

I for one am thankful for their contributions and also couldn't be happier with our current situation, but this right here from Buzz is spectacular.

Some of you may remember Patric Young from Florida.  He was somewhat recently paralyzed due to an automobile accident and Buzz had some incredible words for him last night in a postgame interview on SEC Network.

https://twitter.com/SECNetwork/status/1615944968387919872?t=b6JfNWU296oEPk7ZSKXcNw&s=19

[PGsHeroes32]

Any chance Brey hangs it up at the end of the year? He seemed disengaged after our game and getting stomped by 6-13 FSU at home; just feels like he's playing out his hand.

Official

[jfp61]

Mike Brey is stepping down at the end of the season.

Outside of the rivalry, that is an interesting job because that job can go a lot of different directions.

[tower912]

Wojo to ND!