Players Era

Looks like the 4 Big 12 teams will end up 10-2 in the tourney.
Depending upon MD & Rutgers, B1G will end up between 6-6 and 4-8.
SEC depending upon Bama will be 6-3 or 5-4
Big East will be 3-3 or 2-4
ACC will be 1-5

edit: Dang, I never looked at thread and Pope beat me to it by 23 minutes
 
I haven’t read through all the comments but I could very well see the pundits talking about us over the next number of days with regards to getting screwed followed up by how good we are looking. That Purdue game gonna be nuts.
 
How did TCU hang with Michigan?
Wake Forest nearly beat them too. Michigan is very good but they're also riding an extremely hot shooting streak, they made 38 threes during this tournament. For a point of comparison, we also played really well and only made 21.

Mashburn had a take that I kind of liked yesterday at halftime of Houston's game, he said threes are great but they can give you a kind of misleading impression of how good you are when they are falling at an unsustainable rate.
 
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I was thinking the same thing. You cant go anywhere with out smelling it. I have no idea why you would go go vegas if you dont gamble or drink at all. You are paying a lot for hotel and such just to spend 2 hrs at a game and then sit around the rest of the time in your hotel room?
I’m in Vegas and we’ve had a blast. Been here many times before. We’ve watched basketball, went to the sphere to see Wizard of Oz (Amazing!), saw Tapeface on Monday (also very good), went to a Bob Marley deal yesterday, met some wonderful people, wives went to the pool for an afternoon, ate well…it’s all been a great trip. Today we do Thanksgiving at a friends place.
 
Pretty interesting that in many of our lifetimes, we've gone from buying an underprivileged recruit a quarter pounder for lunch before he boards his flight home being a punishable recruiting violation, to schools, boosters, and "tournaments" directly or indirectly paying players. And making a kid run suicides for shooting a three as time expires in a 15-point win, to paying kids who can achieve the biggest margins of victory. Wild.
Love the Johnny Orr/hamburger-gate reference. I imagine many have no idea what you are talking about.
 
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Pretty interesting that in many of our lifetimes, we've gone from buying an underprivileged recruit a quarter pounder for lunch before he boards his flight home being a punishable recruiting violation, to schools, boosters, and "tournaments" directly or indirectly paying players. And making a kid run suicides for shooting a three as time expires in a 15-point win, to paying kids who can achieve the biggest margins of victory. Wild.

Boy you said it.

I had an NCAA Rules Manual sitting on my desk for many years. Looked like a worn torn phone book. My biggest fear was us committing a violation because we forgot about some obscure rule like how many colors a certain brochure could have or who gave a recruit a campus tour.

Overnight we switched to a world where can openly promise recruits enormous bags of cash. Happy for the athletes, but I don't think it will ever feel normal for me.
 
Luca Staigger (sp?) not knowing a teammate got $500 vs Cam Newton supposedly not knowing his own dad got a quarter million will always be the absolute peak of ncaa evil to me.
That one. And the UNC MBB team getting college credit for a class with no coursework that had no attendance requirement. It was "okay" because there were one or two non-athlete-scholarship students who also took the course, so it wasn't like it was JUST for the athletes.