***2025-26 Mens College Basketball Thread***
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Big ******* deal. what a title. This is as bad as Nebbys consecutive sellout streak.
NIT title game. Baylor is still dunking on them.
Oh I know. Gus Johnson made sure to remind everyone 20 times a game. I’m not going to discount $20,000 per player as it is good money for college kids. But that’s not going to make a big difference in power conference teams these days.
Damn, Utah really owned the Big 12 this year.
Yormark smiling after the Houston win and the Toy Poodle League comment.
National champions! And it's so important they had basically zero post game coverage and cut directly to LIV tournament replays, which I'm sure is a ratings monster. I guess it got them 300k, which maybe helps justify keeping Fred for another year.
That’s not right. 68 in NCAA, 32 in NIT. Nebraska won the tournament for the 101st best team in the country. Congrats.
I've had a change of heart on my feelings about the Crown. My view was probably skewed by some early exits by Big 12 schools, but more basketball is more basketball that will come to an end tonight. There is a possibility that with NIL the big dance could lean closer to chalk and as cinderellas become less frequent, teams may opt for the crown and chasing a bag (which is projected to increase) rather than a title. Presently, 64 (or 68) teams have an opportunity to win it all but how many actually believe they can? Given the option, which of those teams' players would rather finish in the top four and leave with cash than hang a Sweet Sixteen banner and go home? The Crown effectively killed big dance expansion as I see it. Times change.
I sort of wondered how the 300,000 gets split up? Do the players decide before the tourney? If it's minutes played some of those kids didn't get jack.
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If it somehow does have impact on that, I'll accept as many of these postseason tournaments as needed to keep field at current level. (Or unrealistic fantasy of contraction to 64 teams (keeping auto-qualifiers as-is, of course)
I hope you are right but it seems like everyone but the fans still want expansion because of money.
I still think players want a shot at the natty more than making money in the crown. However if that ever got to be an issue the NCAA tournament would find a way to get NIL involved. (Probably by finding a way of getting sponsors involved to pay for it. The “Ford Final Four”)
