***Official 2026 NCAA Tournament Thread***

So seriously, what am I hearing about Neb having 4 players on the floor? Seriously didn’t watch the game. What happened?
 
Fred has never been a very good head coach X’s and O’s wise IMO. At ISU he just had some really loaded teams talentwise. Outside of those few years…. he’s done nothing anywhere else he’s been. Some say he did this season, but I saw them play quite a bit this year and was never impressed.

Fred used to coach offense that’s it… His whole entire career, even @ Iowa State… This was an in pretty impressive run for them honestly
 
Fred has never been a very good head coach X’s and O’s wise IMO. At ISU he just had some really loaded teams talentwise. Outside of those few years…. he’s done nothing anywhere else he’s been. Some say he did this season, but I saw them play quite a bit this year and was never impressed.
It definitely appears Fred’s ceiling is sweet 16. He will never coach beyond that.
 
Hear me out: Iowa is going to get their TJ.

TJ was a coach many Cyclones were afraid would get the job initially.

After stints at two other schools (and a coaching hire whose tenure ISU fans would rather forget), TJ convinced many Cyclone fans he would deliver the results we wanted.

Who fits that description perfectly as the next Iowa coach if McCollum leaves for UNC?

Darian DeVries, that’s who.

It is destiny.
 
It was a great win by the squawks but Nebraska has been overrated the entire year in my book. The only decent teams they beat were Iowa at home, MSU and Illinois. Outside of that they lost to Michigan, Purdue, Illinois and Iowa. They beat the ranked the #9 and #13 teams before the tournament.
 
Houston game will end up starting 1 minute earlier than the Arizona game, Purdue games are foul fests.
In the 1st half of Iowa-NE game there was no stoppage of play to have the 16-minute TV TO until under 11 minutes to go, so they took 2 consecutive TV TOs for commercials with 11 or just under minutes to go in the 1st half for the under-16 AND the under-12. The 20 minute start time was eaten up right there
 
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That’s you…. I know quite a few Iowa and Iowa State fans out here in Chicago land. At some point in time it quits being that serious.

Well for some of us I guess
Dumb ***** like Aaron White and Jordan Bohannon make that real hard lol. I will say Iowa wins bother me less now because I'm not surrounded by Iowa fans every day.
 
Dumb ***** like Aaron White and Jordan Bohannon make that real hard lol. I will say Iowa wins bother me less now because I'm not surrounded by Iowa fans every day.

Don’t remember White doing anything but Bohannon was a douche, but he doesn’t have a monopoly on doing that kind of stuff
 
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seems like the announcers aren't used to watching Big 12 basketball. "Waaaaah, that's a foul. Waaaah, that's another foul".
They missed the face contact on Tugler, sure. But they didn't say anything when the Illinois big two hand shoved a Houston player out of bounds on that rebound.
 
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