NCAA 2018-19 Season Thread

[rangerssharks414]

I’ll be attending each of the Pirates’ last five games of the regular season to do my part. If we win at home against Xavier and one of St. John’s or Georgetown away, we’ll be firmly in control of our own destiny.

This is the weakest the bubble has ever been since they expanded to 68. I think they're comfortably in even with a 2-3 finish.

 

[rangerssharks414]

I haven't done much bracket predicting this year, nor have I really followed as much as previous years. But I was looking at Bracket Matrix, and Oklahoma has an average seed of 9.96. Yes, they have a great SOS. Yes, their NCSOS is really good. Yes, they are in the top 40 of the NET rating. But they are 4-9 in their own conference! The Big 12 is really good, but come on. Let me repeat... they are 4-9 in their own conference! Yet people have them comfortably in.

 

[John Price]

I was about to post the ESPN article. That Hokie defense has Charlottesville nervous.

Hate to bring this up again but again they can't stop Guy

 

[John Price]

I just don't understand what is going on with Archie and his brother Sean @IU Hawks fan. Both have done a horrible job with elite blue blood programs who are expected to win every year. I am more strict on Sean because he has a standard to uphold with Arizona but what's with Archie? You go to Dayton and get one of the best prospects of the coaching carousel and then he can't even do anything in Indiana? If Tom Crean was lambasted at HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL GAMES for mediocrity how do you expect the fanbase will respond to flat out incompetence?

The Big Ten is kind of a mess right now other than Michigan and MSU.

 

[BigMac1212]

Hate to bring this up again but again they can't stop Guy

I'm tempted to post the McBain "That's the Joke" meme, but I'm pressing my luck. Better move on.

 

[New Jersey]

This is the weakest the bubble has ever been since they expanded to 68. I think they're comfortably in even with a 2-3 finish.

I'm cautiously optimistic. As a Seton Hall fan, being relevant in mid-February is about all I can ask for. The fact that we're gunning for our fourth consecutive tourney appearance for only the second time in program history is gravy.

 

[New Jersey]

Big East is a better basketball conference than the Big Ten.

Yeah, I said it. Fight me.

 

[John Price]

it's true

Villanova, St Johns, Marquette are pretty good

 

[New Jersey]

it's true

Villanova, St Johns, Marquette, and Seton Hall are pretty good

yes they are

 

[John Price]

Honestly no Pac-12 team might get a NCAA bid

Ah yes the automatic bid. Well, Washington is probably getting that unless they don't win their tourney

 

[New Jersey]

If Seton Hall win tomorrow and Saturday (at STJ) then just give us our bid now, tyvm.

 

[John Price]

 

[John Price]

Big Duke UNC game tonight

 

[John Price]

 

[Taro Tsujimoto]

 

[Avs_19]

Hopefully nothing serious. I'm guessing the conversation about whether he should play for Duke again will start up pretty soon.

 

[New Jersey]

Seton Hall with their same old f***ing shit, following up a Quad 1 road win with *that.*

St. Johns’ dismal loss at Providence sets up the biggest game between Hall Ball and Johnnies in years at the Garden on Saturday, for which I’ll be teetering on the edge of my sanity.

Go Pirates.

 

[Dr Pepper]

Man, that's gotta be some bad PR for Nike.

Greatest college baller we've seen in ages, hyped up to astronomical proportions and he's felled by a single, poorly-made, Nike shoe. Luckily it doesn't appear to be a major injury.

The worst part is that if that HAD been career-jeopardizing, it's not as though he could accept any sort of payout from Nike due to NCAA's frustratingly iron-clad rules.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

Jim Boeheim Reportedly Hits, Kills Man With Car

 

[John Price]

Jim Boeheim Reportedly Hits, Kills Man With Car

quite an unfortunate situation

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

Jim Boeheim Reportedly Hits, Kills Man With Car

i dont get the mindset of people that do that (the other guy, not Boeheim)...If you get in an accident on the highway, especially at night, stay in your damn car with your seatbelt on until the police arrive

 

[spintheblackcircle]

quite an unfortunate situation

Have a friend who struck and killed a jaywalker when she was 18...still affects her from time to time 30 years later

 

[John Price]

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Man, that's gotta be some bad PR for Nike.

Greatest college baller we've seen in ages, hyped up to astronomical proportions and he's felled by a single, poorly-made, Nike shoe. Luckily it doesn't appear to be a major injury.

The worst part is that if that HAD been career-jeopardizing, it's not as though he could accept any sort of payout from Nike due to NCAA's frustratingly iron-clad rules.

Nike's high-profile shoe failure costs $1.1 billion in stock value

 

[Dr Pepper]

Nike's high-profile shoe failure costs $1.1 billion in stock value

Probably a drop in the bucket for them. They'll make it back with a new LeBron shoe, or selling those custom Kaepernick jerseys. Keep right on selling shoes for hundreds of dollars that costs them pennies to manufacture. Maybe this latest debacle will actually get them to focus a bit more on quality, though.