It's why I'll always prefer college basketball to college football. So much fun night in and night out.
Part of me loves it but part of me hates it. The best team usually wins the title in CFB, and that only happens MAYBE 50 percent of the time in CBB.
I'm sure the IU fans will chime in and talk about banners but one of the reasons I don't get so hung up on the tournament is because the truly best teams are the ones that are consistently great over a 30+ regular season; not necessarily the ones who win 6 games in a single elimination tournament.
#18 Marquette and #22 St Marys also lost.
This is why I hate all-time rankings that value one or two years’ Tournament runs too heavily. Sorry, but IU is not a better program than KU because KU has lost that final game a few too many times, and the gap is not close. San Francisco is not a better program than Illinois because they won 2 titles decades ago while Illinois had three years they were good enough to win it all and finished just short.
The difference between Indiana and KU in titles is literally one free throw in 1953.
It's the hardest championship in all of sports to win. So many years the best team didn't win the Championship. Duke lucked into at least two Championships because of the setup.
On the flip side, the divide would be larger if Memphis didn't miss a few.
I wonder if Self would still have a job if not for those missed FT's.?
True, but their FT% was 329th in the country. There's a reason that Self started fouling with over 2 min left. In the end, they actually shot above their average at the line.
True, but CDR was a 71% FT shooter and was 1-5 in the last minute plus, including 2 with 16 seconds left and Memphis up 2. And then, Derrick Rose, also a 71% FT shooter, missed the front end six seconds later.
Douglas Roberts definitely blew it, but there was a lot of pressure. He didn't quite go full Collison though.
I couldn't imagine stepping up to the free throw line in that situation.
Would be nice. I love college football but it will always be 2nd to hoops until they get some parody. Tired of seeing the same asshats at the top all the time.
The only reason that's true is because the best teams get all of the talent. There really is no parady at all in CFB
True, but again parody is much better in CBB.
/parity
Yes there is a lot of truth to that too. Very good example was tonights game of Purdue vs Michigan. Purdue a top offensive team couldn't hit the ocean tonight, and Michigan, a team that shoots 34% from 3 on the season hits for 60% in this game.
It doesn’t help that Purdue’s defense is Swiss cheese. It was basically an empty gym out there for Michigan’s shooters.
Tonight was especially bad. They actually played really well vs Illinois on D. Not great, but light years better than tonight. Not only that, but we usually outrebound teams and between rebounding and turnovers, Michigan had 16 more shot attempts than Purdue. So when one team gets 16 more attempts and almost doubles their shooting % and the other shoots almost half their shooting %, that's the difference in the game.
It's been very frustrating watching this team on D this year. Especially with how good we are on O. If our D was anywhere close to typical Painter teams we'd be the favorite to win it all.
Yeah, I don't know if we're that bad. We've had teams we have played that are really good that were without players or didn't play well for a good part of the season that are playing well now. Skews the stats a bit.
Agree....And more than just a favorite, but probably a HUGE favorite.
Yeah, I'm not sold they are that bad(dfensively)...In years past, Purdue could survive a night like tonight(shooting),, foul trouble, etc, etc..or at least give themselves a shot, b/c of their defense. But this year---not so much. Its the ONLY thing that concerns with me PU, and a deep run, i.e. Elite 8/FF.
Yes, Purdue is an example of a team that could absolutely win the national championship or lose to an 8th-seed.
Agree 100%. I just don't know if they are going to get much better this late in the season...
