***Official 2026 NCAA Tournament Thread***

They will play better Saturday. This was the chance

Duke is missing key players. They're going to be vulnerable AT LEAST until next weekend, if not until the Final Four. They may play better on Saturday, but they're also playing a team much better and much deeper than Siena in TCU. Just "playing better" isn't going to be enough alone.
 
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I see Fran recruits all over the court today. So maybe he wasn’t the terrible judge of talent we all saw him as. Maybe he was just that bad at coaching?

I always thought he used the wrong system for the kids he recruited. He always recruited slow it down type guys and tries to run with them. Maybe at Penn he will finally slow it down and use the talent right
 
Anybody who doubted that the NCAA still had teeth when it came to enforcing rules has been proved wrong today, though they don’t know it.

We might not know the particulars about how/why/etc, but we know they’re vacating at least one win from this post season.
 
I always thought he used the wrong system for the kids he recruited. He always recruited slow it down type guys and tries to run with them. Maybe at Penn he will finally slow it down and use the talent right
Offense was never the issue with Fran.
 
Not a bad start to the day. 3 really close games. One major upset. 1 close-ish game. Seems better than last year.