that was the nova ending all over again, jfc.

Trigga Turd

how the **** do teams not coach to foul up 3 with under 10 sec left

Not to mention, inbounding the ball twice to a 60% ft shooter at the end. Lol

unrelated bilas looked super unhealthy

i think i saw on espn bottom line that it was the 2nd worst home loss by a ranked team to an unranked team in the AP era.

rhode island dropped 21 spots in kenpom tonight

holy ****, that never happens this late in the season

not saying it isn't deserved though

It was senior night and they don’t have any seniors.

lol how do you not have any seniors...

...oh wait...

Oklahoma played the toughest schedule in the nation and still went 17-12.

Top 30 KenPom wins over Kansas, TCU(twice), Texas Tech, Baylor, and Wichita State.

Would be shocked if they are anywhere close to the bubble.

They take care of business and beat ISU at home Friday they are probably good. Lose that, lose round 1 in the Big 12 tourney, then they are 17-14. I mean can you really put a 17-14 team in the tourney that lost 9 out of its 10 last games?

I still expect Oklahoma to take care of business and win at least one more game.

I'm like 100% the guys from One Shining Podcast are 2p2 readers.

Overwhelming love for SHUSTAHHHHHH, discussion of who plays the US Curling team in the movie after it was posted in the thread. Rumors that Simmons read 2p2 for years... All adds up.

Vandy got in at 19-15 last year and got in comfortably as a 9 seed.

They had no good non con wins and had some bad losses to Bucknell, Missouri, Ole Miss

Here is Oklahoma's "nitty gritty sheet."
http://warrennolan.com/basketball/20...edule/Oklahoma
(By the way thats a great site to look at snapshots of seasons)

Selection Committee has already said they will emphasize the RPI Groups/Tiers

Oklahoma is 6-9 vs RPI Group 1. To put that into perspective, Michigan State has only played 6 RPI Group 1 games and theyre 3-3 in those games.

Some teams that are projected to be comfortably in
Butler 3-8 vs Group 1
Creighton 2-7
Ohio State 3-5
Kentucky 3-7


So Oklahoma's just had the misfortune of playing half of their games against Group 1 opponents. But going 6-9 in those games probably for sure gets them in since theyre 8-0 vs Groups 3 and 4 combined(Ohio State got to play double the amount of 3+4 games and is 15-1 against that group.)

Michigan State went 20-0 against Tier 3+4 combined. MSU going 3-3 vs Tier 1 and then feasting with 20 wins on 3+4 seems worse to me than Oklahoma going 6-9 vs Tier 1 and only getting to pad win total with 8 total cupcakes.

not sure how they were a 9 seed

i like all the dropping bags references. his book was funny

Skewed towards really young (younger people more likely to have linkedin) and also college towns probably overrepresented (sometimes takes people a while to change their location after they move).

From my anecdotal personal experience, the age thing probably hurts NY relative to Chicago and places like that... people often move to NY and work for 10 or 20 years then go back from whence they came. So, the older folks are less likely to be NY relative to Chi.

These numbers make NY look more compelling than Chicago, since even though Chicago has a slight edge, NY is closer to Philly, Boston and DC.

Also, like, people want to go to New York. Nobody wants to go to Indianapolis or Cleveland. Hence a lot of the west coast confs putting our tournaments in Vegas.


An argument for Chicago though, is that the representation looks to be the most balanced, while half of New York's #s are made up of Rutgers people. I assume you'd care much less about catering to the worst team in the conference rather than the best teams.

A Chicago/NY rotation probably makes the most sense

People want to goto NYC but that comes with either an expensive plane ticket or an expensive hotel room (or both) which aren't great for both current students and young alums who might try to goto the games. NYC is great but the rooms and other expenses are much higher than a city like Indy or Chicago. How many locals are really going to games? I assume the large % of people who are going to these events are hardcore fans. While there will be some alums/passionate sports fans in the city in question, most if not all will be traveling.

I can't find accurate information about attendance for the last few conference tournies that have shown up in NYC. There might be a reason for that. But it looks like Big 10 tourney was a horrible failure in DC. Seems silly to try to change things that don't need fixing when it comes to these events. Locations should be central to the fanbases that are willing to travel while the costs should be fair for most. I don't see why the ACC championships should ever leave the Carolina/ATL area--there are so many teams within proximity of those two areas (especially Carolina) that it just makes sense. I think the conferences are just being greedy and the some of the fan bases aren't taking well to the change as seen by the move to DC. NYC shouldn't be an issue but it's only close to 1 ACC team (Cuse) and even then that's a 4 hour trek; BC is also 4 hours and the latter doesn't travel for basketball. While if a championship is in Charlotte or Greensboro; there are 5 teams within an hour and a half and another 5 teams within a 4-6 hour radius of the site.

5:30 on a February day and theres a live B1G tournament game being played in Madison Square Garden.

If a tree falls in the woods with no one around, does it make a sound?

Place is lit

Wait, it started TODAY? I saw that there were B1G tourney games on Thursday and I thought THAT was odd.

the BIG is never leaving Indy. Indy is an elite host city. guys like parrish and norlander who go to F4 every year think it should be in Indy every year.

If the teams that should take care of business tonorrow do indeed take care of business, Fridays B1G tourney games will be good.

MSU vs Maryland/Wisconsin
Michigan vs Nebraska
Ohio State vs Penn State (PSU is 2-0 vs OSU this season)
Purdue vs Indiana