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This UConn team might be the best College Basketball team we’ve ever seen.
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1. Power Forward
2. Point Guard
3. Center
4. Power Forward
5. Power Forward
6. Will play Power Forward
7. Power Forward
8. Center
9. Not a starter on own team
10. Not a starter on own team
The best small forwards for 2023-24 🔥
@TheAndyKatz
ranks his top 10 wings in the nation 🪽
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Pictured: The two best non-Zach Edey players in College Basketball:
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My Top-15 Players in College Basketball so far:
1.Zach Edey
2.Terrence Shannon
3.Kevin McCullar
4.RJ Davis
5.Hunter Dickinson
6.Tyler Kolek
7.Tristen Newton
8.Dalton Knecht
9.Kyle Filipowski
10.David Jones
11.PJ Hall
12.Caleb Love
13.Mark Sears
14.Johnell Davis
15.Oumar Ballo
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If you don’t think Edey is the best College Basketball player of this century, get lost.
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To me there are only eight teams that I think could win the title, order listed most-least likely to win it all:
1.Kentucky
2.Gonzaga
3.Duke
4.Auburn
5.Kansas
6.Purdue
7.Arizona
8.Baylor
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My predicted first round tip times
NOT OFFICIAL TIP TIMES.
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CBB Rankings by tier
Tier 1: Best of the best
1.Houston
2.Virginia
3.Kansas
4.Texas
5.North Carolina
6.Baylor
7.Illinois
8.Duke
Tier 2: Elite
9.Texas Tech
10.Gonzaga
11.Indiana
12.Michigan State
13.Creighton
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Illinois is a lot closer to Purdue than they are to the rest of the Big Ten. The league has two legit title contenders this year.
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Nebraska moves to 7-0 as they beat Cal State Fullerton 85-72.
Fred Hoiberg is 33 wins away from being the first coach to coach a perfect 40-0 season.
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Let’s turn away from this close game to see Coach K leaving a bus.
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Referee crews banned from the rest of the Tournament:
-UNC-Baylor
-Houston-Illinois
-Purdue-Texas
-Arizona-TCU
-Bo Borowski in general
Any other suggestions?
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Bracketology Stat of the day: Alabama is the only team with 9 combined Quadrant one/ Quadrant two wins.
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List of teams I could see winning the title:
Gonzaga
Duke
Kentucky
Kansas
Purdue
Auburn
Arizona
Baylor
Illinois
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The Big 12’s undisputed worst team has a win against the selection committees top overall seed. This year’s Big 12 is the greatest conference in the modern-era.
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One reason Purdue struggles in March? The refs don’t bail out Zach Edey for players breathing on him.
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The NCAA/ CBS really should not do a double header in the same arena to start the Round of 32. Just kills the flow of the day.
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Season Predictions
Elite Eight
North Carolina
Tennessee
Baylor
UConn
Illinois
Texas
Houston
Kansas
Final Four
North Carolina
Baylor
Illinois
Houston
Championship
North Carolina over Houston
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The 12 Teams that can win a National Championship ranked by most likely:
1.UConn
2.North Carolina
3.Tennessee
4.Houston
5.Duke
6.Purdue
7.Marquette
8.Baylor
9.Kentucky
10.Kansas
11.Arizona
12.Alabama
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Aidan Mahaney: “St. Mary’s plays too boring of basketball”
Also Aidan Mahaney: “Let me see what Virginia is all about”
Saint Mary's transfer Aidan Mahaney tells me that he will visit Virginia tomorrow.
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This officiating crew should be banned from Division 1 College Basketball.
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Basically every Bracketologist had Rutgers in and Nevada out. Looks like every Bracketologist was right and the committee was wrong.
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Baylor-Iowa State might take the cake for worst officiated game I’ve seen this year.
-Threw Scott Drew out
-Random tech on Baylor’s bench
-Called 48 fouls total
-Monitor reviews upon monitor reviews
-Blew last sequence leading to Iowa State getting an incorrect good look to win
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Bracketology Stat of the day: The Big 12 has all their teams ranked inside the Top-65 of the NET rankings. That means any conference road game is a Q1 game.
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Reasons CBS needs to fire Jerry Palm immediately:
1.He’s bad at his job
2.He called New Mexico a lock, when they are not even be close to a lock
3.People are now spreading New Mexico is in propaganda as if they’re a lock
4.If they get left out, they’ll be a freak out over it
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Bracketology Stat of the day: There are three teams that have 9 or more Quadrant one wins. They are as followed: Baylor (11), Kansas (10), Iowa State (9).
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No team has had a better day than the Illini, who return two All-Big Ten level players and are now in position to contend for a Big Ten title.
Coleman Hawkins tells me that he will return to Illinois next season.
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CBB Rankings by tier
Tier 1: Top of the line
1.Houston
2.Kentucky
3.Baylor
4.Kansas
5.Duke
6.North Carolina
Tier 2: Great teams with flaws
7.Gonzaga
8.Texas Tech
9.Texas
10.Illinois
11.UCLA
12.Creighton
13.Arizona
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Parting thought on Gonzaga: If you’re going to trash talk about them playing in a weak conference, you conference better be able to win a National Championship. I’m looking at you Big Ten fans who claim greatness despite not winning it all in over 20 years.
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Texas Tech beats Oklahoma State 90-73.
Pop Isaacs led the Red Raiders with 24.
Texas Tech is the best Big 12 team you haven’t been paying enough attention to.
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Bracketology Stat of the day: There are four teams in the Top-25 of both the NET Rankings and overall strength of schedule. Three of those four teams are from the Big 12, the other team is Alabama.
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If Mark Sears returns, Alabama is the runaway favorite in the SEC.
BREAKING:
Grant Nelson will not declare for the NBA Draft and will use his final year of college eligibility at Alabama.
The soon-to-be 5th year senior averaged 12 ppg and 6 rebounds while playing out of position majority of the year.
Huge news for the Tide.
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Week 7: Top 32
Tier 1: Ahead in the race for a one seed
1.Purdue
2.Kansas
3.Houston
Tier 2: In the One Seed Race
4.Arizona
5.UConn
6.Illinois
7.Clemson
8.Marquette
9.Florida Atlantic
10.Memphis
11.Oklahoma
12.Wisconsin
13.Tennessee
14.Ole Miss
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My Top-15 Players in CBB
1.Oscar Tshiebwe
2.Kofi Cockburn
3.Johnny Davis
4.Ochai Agbaji
5.Chet Holmgren
6.Keegan Murray
7.EJ Liddell
8.Jaden Ivey
9.Drew Timme
10.Kendric Davis
11.Bennedict Mathurin
12.Jabari Smith
13.Paolo Banchero
14.Walker Kessler
15.David Roddy
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Eye-Test Top-25
1.Kansas
2.Purdue
3.Bama
4.Tennessee
5.KState
6.Houston
7.UConn
8.UCLA
9.Arizona
10.Iowa St
11.Xavier
12.Texas
13.Arkansas
14.Mia
15.Providence
16.Ohio St
17.Marquette
18.TCU
19.Virginia
20.Missouri
21.Clemson
22.SDSU
23.Rutgers
24.North Carolina
25.StMarys
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I count 8 National Championship caliber teams for next season at the moment:
Alabama
Baylor
Duke
Houston
Iowa State
Kansas
North Carolina
UConn
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If I’m Kentucky, here’s my coaching wish list:
1.Dan Hurley
2.Nate Oats
3.Scott Drew
4.Mark Few
5.Tommy Lloyd
6.Bruce Pearl
7.Mark Pope
8.T.J. Otzelberger
9.Shaheen Holloway
10.Chris Collins
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Zach Edey legitimately has the Wooden Award already won at this point. Hard to think of a time this early in the season where that award wasn’t in doubt.
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It’s time to face facts. The MAAC just prepares teams better for NCAA Tournament success than the Big Ten does. Having to play the Big Ten simply doesn’t prepare the Boilermakers for Tournament success. Purdue needs to move to a real conference like the MAAC to win a title.
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My Top-10 Conferences in College Basketball as of Nov. 25th.
1.Big 12
2.SEC
3.Big East
4.Big Ten
5.WCC
6.PAC-12
7.ACC
8.American
9.Mountain West
10.SoCon
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So does Illinois win a share of the Big Ten title now or are we rewarding teams for playing three less games than other teams?
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Was one of the 50-50 decisions out there. Shannon being back gives Illinois an elite guard, if the younger players develop the Illini could win the Big Ten.
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Duke’s defense is definitely capable of losing to a 7 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
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People said Terrence Shannon Jr returning would be a distraction and ruin the Illini’s team chemistry. Those people are wrong.
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College Basketball resumés by tier
Tier 1: One seed locks
1.Gonzaga
2.Baylor
Tier 2: One seed contenders
3.Michigan
4.Texas
5.Villanova
6.Iowa
7.Alabama
8.Houston
Tier 3: Two seed contenders
9.Missouri
10.Ohio State
11.Illinois
12.Tennessee
13.Wisconsin
14.Kansas
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Bracketology Stat of the day: The WCC has more Top-40 teams in the NET than the ACC.
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Adama Sanogo is likely the best player in the Big East and when he goes to the bench, UConn takes no drop off because Donovan Clingan is that good.
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“There are four guys on Arizona State wearing a headband, will that be key” -Bill Walton
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CBS trotting out bottom tier Bracketology projections from Palm just gives people 0 idea of what the Bracket is going to actually to look like. Seton Hall and Providence are both in, Seton Hall is like a 9/10 seed and Providence is in.
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Week 3: Top 32
Tier 1: Best of the Best
1.Arizona
2.Purdue
3.Kansas
4.UConn
5.Baylor
6.Marquette
Tier 2: Title Threats
7.Houston
8.North Carolina
9.Northwestern
10.Wisconsin
11.Colorado State
12.BYU
13.Illinois
14.Creighton
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Taking the
#1
spot in this weeks Fraud Power Rankings will be Jeff Goodman for Fraudulent behavior.
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He won’t get the exact praise he may deserve, but DaJuan Harris being stuck on McGusty like glue in the second half is a large reason they’re up
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CBB Rankings By Tier
Tier 1: Championship or Bust
1.Gonzaga
2.Baylor
Tier 2: Championship Contenders
3.Kansas
4.Rutgers
5.Villanova
6.West Virginia
7.Houston
8.Iowa
Tier 3: Final Four Contenders
9.Wisconsin
10.Texas
11.Michigan State
12.Creighton
13.Missouri
14.Tennessee
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This offseason has been an eventful one for College Basketball but it is time to turn the page to the 2021-22 season. That means it is time for the 4th annual Top 100 players in College Basketball rankings.
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Mid-Major Top-25
1.VCU
2.Utah State
3.Saint Mary’s
4. New Mexico State
5.Vermont
6.Liberty
7.Davidson
8.Dayton
9.Missouri State
10.Western Kentucky
11.Harvard
12.East Tennessee State
13.BYU
14.Harvard
15.San Diego State
16.Colgate
17.UC Irvine
18.Colgate
19.Charleston
1/2
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I don’t know if Alabama is planning on building a new basketball arena but they deserve a better building for how great this Alabama basketball team is.
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Week 3.5 rankings
1.Ohio St
2.Kansas
3.Gonzaga
4.Oregon
5.Dayton
6.Michigan
7.LVille
8.Baylor
9.Duke
10.Kentucky
11.Memphis
12.Mich St
13.Seton Hall
14.Virginia
15.Auburn
16.Villanova
17.UNC
18.Arizona
19.Maryland
20.Fla St
21.Florida
22.Utah St
23.Tex Tech
24.Butler
25.DePaul
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Duke announcing that they could play in the NCAA Tournament is like me announcing that I could go to the Moon. Could it happen? Technically yes but it won’t.
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Greatest teams over the past decade list (updated)
1.2012 Kentucky
2.2021 Baylor
3.2015 Kentucky
4.2018 Villanova
5.2021 Gonzaga
6.2019 Virginia
7.2020 Kansas
8.2016 Villanova
9.2016 North Carolina
10.2015 Duke
*Louisville - 2013 (vacated)
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Eye-Test Top-25
1.Alabama
2.Kansas
3.UCLA
4.Baylor
5.Houston
6.Purdue
7.Arizona
8.Texas
9.Marquette
10.Creighton
11.Virginia
12.Indiana
13.Tennessee
14.UConn
15.Northwestern
16.KState
17.Iowa St
18.Xavier
19.TCU
20.StMarys
21.Gonzaga
22.Mia
23.Providence
24.Duke
25.Texas A&M
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Eye-Test Top-25
1.Alabama
2.Purdue
3.Arizona
4.Kansas St
5.UCLA
6.Tennessee
7.TCU
8.Houston
9.Iowa St
10.Kansas
11.Texas
12.Marquette
13.Baylor
14.Virginia
15.Xavier
16.StMarys
17.Rutgers
18.Indiana
19.UConn
20.NMexico
21.NCarolina
22.Duke
23.Mia
24.NCSt
25.Boise St
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Baylor getting Jeremy Roach and Jonas Aidoo turns them into another Big 12 title and National title threat. Absolutely huge pickups on both accounts.
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Illinois obliterates Northwestern, winning 96-66.
Marcus Domask led the Illini with 32.
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Eye-Test Top-25
1.Bama
2.Kansas
3.Purdue
4.UCLA
5.Houston
6.Xavier
7.Iowa St
8.Texas
9.Kansas St
10.TCU
11.Marquette
12.Tennessee
13.Arizona
14.Virginia
15.Providence
16.Baylor
17.StMarys
18.Gonzaga
19.UConn
20.Rutgers
21.N Carolina
22.NCState
23.NMexico
24.FAtlantic
25.Mia
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Five programs that could have their best season of the century next season:
-Creighton
-Baylor
-Rutgers
-Arizona State
-Iowa
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This is a NPOTY type performance from Kofi Cockburn. Has made so many big shots.
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UConn fans: The good news is that every National Champion since 1995 has lost a February/ March game. Getting a loss out now makes the Huskies an even better shot at winning the National Championship in April.
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The whole Duke being mad at North Carolina for not honoring Coach K thing is dumb.
1.They’re your rival, they’re supposed to boo Coach K and say mean things at you, expecting them to honor you is dumb.
2.Did Duke honor Roy Williams for his last game in Durham? No.
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Huge pickup for the Illini. He’s a very good PG and if they can develop his ability to score, they could have an All-American player at some point.
🚨NEWS: Kylan Boswell will transfer to Illinois
He averaged 9.6 points, 2.3 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game this season at Arizona
@TheAthleticCBB
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My updated Top-25
1.Uconn
2.Purdue
3.UVA
4.Bama
5.Tenn
6.Kansas
7.Houston
8.Duke
9.Texas
10.Zona
11.Miss St
12.Baylor
13.Indiana
14.Maryland
15.WVU
16.Gonzaga
17.UCLA
18.VTech
19.Wisconsin
20.Illinois
21.Arkansas
22.Utah St
23.UNLV
24.Kentucky
25.UNLV
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Resumé-based Top-25
1.UConn
2.Purdue
3.Kansas
4.Houston
5.Arizona
6.Tennessee
7.Alabama
8.UCLA
9.Virginia
10.Baylor
11.Gonzaga
12.Texas
13.Arkansas
14.MIA
15.Duke
16.NewMexico
17.Wisconsin
18.Miss St
19.WVirginia
20.Indiana
21.VATech
22.Missouri
23.Zona St
24.Xavier
25.NCarolina
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To me there’s three keys to picking a National Champion:
1.Must be good offensively and defensively
2.Must have lost in March
3.Must pass the “can you picture this coach cutting the nets”
Here’s the five teams that can win it all: Alabama, Houston, Kansas, UCLA, and UConn.
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Rutgers collapsed to end the regular-season, but a win here is a statement to the committee that they belong in the NCAA Tournament.
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Sweet 16 Matchups ranked best to worst:
1.Houston-Duke
2.Tennessee-Creighton
3.Iowa State-Illinois
4.Purdue-Gonzaga
5.NCState-Marquette
6.UConn-SDSU
7.Arizona-Clemson
8.North Carolina-Alabama
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January 16th Top-25
1.Auburn
2.Gonzaga
3.Arizona
4.Kansas
5.Baylor
6.Purdue
7.Duke
8.Wisconsin
9.Villanova
10.LSU
11.Tex Tech
12.Kentucky
13.Michigan St
14.Illinois
15.Iowa St
16.Xavier
17.Houston
18.UCLA
19.Prov
20.UConn
21.Ohio St
22.USC
23.Murray St
24.Loyola-Ill
25.S Hall
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Final regular-season Top-25
1.Kansas
2.Gonzaga
3.Baylor
4.Dayton
5.SDSU
6.Fla St
7.Creighton
8.Nova
9.S. Hall
10.Michigan St
11.Kentucky
12.Maryland
13.Duke
14.L’Ville
15.Oregon
16.Wisconsin
17.Butler
18.BYU
19.Ohio St
20.Illinois
21.Iowa
22.Penn St
23.WVU
24.ETSU
25.Rutgers
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Pretty much think it’s 11 teams for 7 spots:
Colorado
Mississippi State
Florida Atlantic
Michigan State
St. John’s
Oklahoma
Texas A&M
Providence
Virginia
Northwestern
Seton Hall
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Illinois completes a beatdown of epic proportions as they beat Missouri 88-63. Kofi Cockburn led the Illini with 25 points and 14 rebounds, Alfonso Plummer had 22.
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Bracketology Stat of the day: Auburn has joined Baylor and Wisconsin as the only teams with 6 or more Quadrant one wins.
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Houston is the best analytics guru’s best team
Kansas is the best résumé team
Alabama is the actual best team.
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I get Wisconsin rallying to win the Big Ten title was impressive but Steve Pikiell is taking Rutgers to the NCAA Tournament. Not having him as the Coach of the year is a bad look.
Greg Gard of
@BadgerMBB
named the 2019-20 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Coach of the Year by conference coaches and media.
#B1GMBBall
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Absolutely no one thinks the Big Ten or ACC Tournament are better than the Big East Tournament.
Big East tourney is kind of a zoo. Honestly it is perfect. It could never be the ACC nor Big Ten and that is just perfect for the event and style of East Coast Hoops. Personally I love it, but it is not for everyone
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FOX does such a great job of covering the Big East Tournament. The audio, the announcing crew, the TV angles, the shots of the coaches. No other network puts this much into making a conference tournament feel like a bigger game.
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ESPN has three Big 12 matchups and none of them are on ESPN2 because the Last Dance is on. Laughable programming.
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Purdue should still be ranked
#1
on Monday. The Boilermakers still have undeniably the best résumé in the sport and a close loss at a Top-25 team doesn’t change that.
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If the analytics weren’t so high on Houston, this team would be discussed of as a bubble team.
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ESPN made a graphic of the Top-10 Strength of Schedules remaining. Looks like Kentucky has cracked the Top-10.
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Tiering the title contenders (listed in order of likelihood)
Favorites:
Kentucky
Gonzaga
Other contenders:
Kansas
Duke
Auburn
Arizona
I don’t see it but I guess they could win:
Baylor
Purdue
Texas Tech
Villanova
Illinois
UCLA
Tennessee
Wisconsin
Providence
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Iowa State is one win away from clinching an NCAA Tournament bid thanks to a 75-54 win against Oklahoma. Izaiah Brockington led the Cyclones with 22, Tyrese Hunter had 14.
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Iowa State has now won 10 times as many games as a year ago as they get win
#20
by beating Kansas State on the road 74-73. Caleb Grill led the Cyclones with 18, Izaiah Brockington had 17.
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Purdue lost, Rutgers murders a Big East school. It is abundantly clear that the Big Ten title runs through the RAC.
Rutgers beat DePaul by 32 in a scrimmage today, per multiple sources.
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The Selection Committee only inviting 3 Big East teams to the NCAA Tournament just looks worse and worse as time goes on. I get there were bid stealers but we really included Virginia/ FAU/ Northwestern/ Mississippi State/ Texas A&M/ TCU over all these Big East teams.
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