Cmon man, I agree with alot of your takes, but this isn't it. Give me a coach like TJ everytime over aome coach who would rather embarrass his mentor for some sleazy Vegas money.
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I noticed a few of them in various locations on the Strip. There definitely weren't as many as in the past, but they were still "slapping".
We beat them by 18. Would 2 more have made a difference? Who knows. Would we have won the next game? Who knows. I'm not sure about the format. It wouldn't be realistic to use regular brackets for a 16-team tournament since that would be 5 games in a row. Maybe they should put more weight on AP rankings If every team does get a million appearance money, that's spreading the wealth pretty well. I think it's a great showcase fore college basketball and the Cyclones looked awesome. I'm not going to complain.
Sounds like a good chunk of money. You can have fun lots of places with enough money.
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Disappointed that it doesn’t appear that there was an all tournament team because Jefferson would certainly be on it, and made a strong case for MVP
It could be worse.
Instead of point differential as the 2nd criteria, the Tournament Organizers could have used point spreads set by MGM's Sports Book. Would have been a good sponsorship opportunity!!
Anything you do costs money. Worst thing about Vegas is food these days. Entertainment is no different than Iowa. Going to the Marley show was about the same as going to a movie in Des Moines.
Probably suggested somewhere by someone: Why not reduce the 1st-thru-4 payout slightly and give some of that (even equally) to the 5-thru-8? So if you do miss the cutoff due to a narrow difference in point spread, you get some reward for being top half (for a 16/18 team, obviously something will change when it's 32-team field).
I guess that could bring complaints from the 9th/10th place teams, but at that level nobody has won enough games anyway to validate.
I guess that could bring complaints from the 9th/10th place teams, but at that level nobody has won enough games anyway to validate.
It seems reasonable that every undefeated team would get some of the extra cash.
Spreading the money around a little bit more seems like a logical salve. None of the teams are in peak form yet. Obviously do not want to disincentivize winning the event (under whatever whacky terms are used), and the idea of $1 million to winner is great marketing. But a better distribution model could be implemented for 3rd place downward. It might even encourage better competition in all the matchups.
Yeah loved the results, just kind of a weird thing to practically penalize a team for winning.
Like what if ISU gets it to 20 and then Creighton heaves a full court shot and hits it at the buzzer?
I'm guessing TJ kept ISU's guys in there to see if they could score one more before like the 20 second mark or something and then decided not to be cheap with 5 seconds left (ISU's last possession).
You guys are so full of it. We won our first by 1 and the other teams played after. If we scored 2 more they would have just scored more as well.
So just beat St. John's by more? That's all? That was a tough, tough game where any sort of win was fantastic.
And if Creighton scores on their last possession ISU can't win by 20 so that stays moot too.
When the competition isn't even for every team, the winning point margin becomes a ******** measurement. Nothing about this event was supposed to be "fair". It's a TV product that aims to deliver the best matchups for the brands sponsoring the tournament.
As I said before, there is a huge difference in a 11u soccer tourney and a NCAA D1 College BB tourney with $1millions on the line.
The idea that because this works for a 11u soccer game where 5 points is a lot of scoring, where kids are just learning the sport, so it must works for all sports at all levels, and in a game where there are 100+ points scored and a point differential means the difference in getting nothing or millions of dollars is absolutely Ridiculous.
They do it in basketball too.
The point wasn’t that it’s a good thing, only that point differential being some tiebreaker is not the harbinger of the demise of the NCAA. It’s how sports are done for the first 10 years of these guys’ lives.
So since this event has signed on with big 12 top 8 teams and Arizona has decided to go to Maui in 2026, does it extend to 9th place? (Assuming Zona is a top half team this season)
