NCAA Basketball 2023-2024
CBB Almanac's top 100 players
1. Oats
The key takeaway of the entire tournament is that the SEC sucks and cannot come close to potentially attempting to compete with the ACC
Just FYI, we are taking Clemson and UNC away from the ACC
Starting with it's breakthrough title year of 1999, UConn is 49-11 in the NCAA Tournament, and of course now 10 straight routs. I'm counting my chickens on my "UConn no title" bet. No worries. 😀 Any chance Bama can gun their way past them? I don't care either way really. I love dynasties. I just found it a bit appalling at the beginning of the tourney when Hurley said, "Okay, let's go win 6." Who does that? Seemed ... I don't know. Hard to do?? An overconfident bluff? Not really.
Starting with it's breakthrough title year of 1999, UConn is 49-11 in the NCAA Tournament, and of course now 10 straight routs. I'm counting my chickens on my "UConn no title" bet. No worries. 😀 Any chance Bama can gun their way past them? I don't care either way really. I love dynasties. I just found it a bit appalling at the beginning of the tourney when Hurley said, "Okay
Looks like in the decade before that, 1990-1998, the Huskies were 16-7 in the tourney, including back-to-back heartbreaking losses to the Duke dynasty, this when UConn was making their bones preparing to be the #1 program. That makes them 65-18 in the tourney over the last 35 years. So did they really miss the tourney 10 times? Yup. And they did have a little hiccup between 2016-2022, going out in first or second round, a fate that befalls most everyone nowadays in certain stretches with so many good lower seed teams around.
Anyway #1 Program status in a landslide goes to the Huskies, starting with that uncanny upset of Duke in '99, where they sort of did what Mike and the Bulls did in slaying the Pistons in finally running down Duke and ascending. Who thought they'd post up at #1 and stay there, and then get much better? And through 3 coaches. Programs that have won 5-6(?) titles in 25 years in any era ... gotta be just UCLA, Duke and UConn.
In all 4 of their NCAA tourney games UConn has won a half by 20.
major conferences post-season records thru 3/30
(including NIT games)
ACC: 14-6, 0.700
P12: 9-4, 0.692
SEC: 11-7, 0.611
BIG: 12-8, 0.600
BE: 10-7, 0.588
MWC: 6-7, 0.462
B12: 9-11, 0.450
Purdue is probably the only remaining team that can beat UConn.
Painter vs Barnes
two underachievers
something has to give later today
Knecht is the best player on the court
silky smooth stroke
and a ton of confidence
Edey discharges the Vol to the ground w an elbow
foul on Rocky Top
smh
Game delivering so far
This Edey ******* fouls 100% of the time the ball goes up, and TEN has the most idiotic shot selection I've seen this tournament.
Ruh roh Boilers.
Knecht 4 (threes)
Ruh roh Vols.
TN got caught looking at the clock and patting themselves on the back during that TO when they had the big lead.
These shots Tenn is taking are capped at like 0.90 PPP. No concept of how basketball ****ing works.
I hope the 2nd half delivers as well as the first did.
anyone's game in the Motor City
at the half
34.3 possessions
Rocky Top: 0.99 ppp
Purdue: 1.05 ppp
Tennessee 7/13 from 3
Purdue 1/8 from 3
Purdue up 2.
