2020-2021 B1G Basketball Thread

[MaximumSam]

I just hope UCLA doesn't ruin basketball nirvana

[betarhoalphadelta]

Now all you have to do is propose replacements for these teams and support their inclusion over these that you've listed.

2014: Baylor or TCU. 

2015: OSU. 

[medinabuckeye1]

Ultimately Houston's easy path caught up with them. In their region:

• The #1, #3, and #4 seeds lost in the second round. 
• The #5, #6, and #7 seeds lost in the first round. 

They got to the final four by beating 15, 10, 11, 12 but then they ran into a #1 and got clobbered. 


I don't mean that to knock them. I wish my #2 seed team had beaten their #15. Houston beat the teams they needed to beat to get to the F4, good for them.

[betarhoalphadelta]

If Baylor wins it all, my wife will be in the money on her bracket--first time she's ever done a bracket challenge. 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Painter was recruiting Tyger Campbell pretty hard. But Painter seemed to have a reputation for not letting guards be guards. 

I think post-Carsen and post-Ivey, he's shedding that reputation.

[MaximumSam]

Good first half. Gonzaga shooting mostly layups and open threes, but UCLA has Johnny Juzang.

[MrNubbz]

They went to Elite 8s in 2010 and 2012, and have been to two more Sweet 16s since/

that's what having a playoff has done, in his experience

[OrangeAfroMan]

There isn't a Gonzaga in college football because the bowls aren't the tournament.  
Boise State COULD'VE been a Gonzaga with tougher scheduling and a halfway-decent bowl slot.  You're in a horse-shit conference if the champ goes to the Las Vegas bowl every year.  That's on them.
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If Boise kept going 11-1 every year (they didn't) AND gradually went to better bowls over time (they didn't), and won most of those bowls (not all), they'd eventually be a playoff participant.  
But Boise hasn't been as good as it needed to be and all of the other infrastructure hurdles that made it moot anyway.
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The point is, whenever Gonzaga started to matter, they were initially seeded poorly and after outperforming their seedings over many years, started to get seeded more highly.  That's not some sort of big reveal.

[MaximumSam]

There isn't a Gonzaga in college football because the bowls aren't the tournament. 
Boise State COULD'VE been a Gonzaga with tougher scheduling and a halfway-decent bowl slot.  You're in a horse-shit conference if the champ goes to the Las Vegas bowl every year.  That's on them.
.
If Boise kept going 11-1 every year (they didn't) AND gradually went to better bowls over time (they didn't), and won most of those bowls (not all), they'd eventually be a playoff participant. 
But Boise hasn't been as good as it needed to be and all of the other infrastructure hurdles that made it moot anyway.
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The point is, whenever Gonzaga started to matter, they were initially seeded poorly and after outperforming their seedings over many years, started to get seeded more highly.  That's not some sort of big reveal.

This isn't rocket science. Gonzaga can market getting to the playoffs. In football, this simply isn't possible. Either you like this or you don't.

[medinabuckeye1]

Heck of a game between Gonzaga and UCLA

[MaximumSam]

Well holy hell

[betarhoalphadelta]

Wow. Just wow. 

[OrangeAfroMan]

This isn't rocket science. Gonzaga can market getting to the playoffs. In football, this simply isn't possible. Either you like this or you don't.

Market to whom?

[bayareabadger]

Boise State COULD'VE been a Gonzaga with tougher scheduling and a halfway-decent bowl slot.  You're in a horse-shit conference if the champ goes to the Las Vegas bowl every year.  That's on them.
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If Boise kept going 11-1 every year (they didn't) AND gradually went to better bowls over time (they didn't), and won most of those bowls (not all), they'd eventually be a playoff participant. 
But Boise hasn't been as good as it needed to be and all of the other infrastructure hurdles that made it moot anyway.
.
The point is, whenever Gonzaga started to matter, they were initially seeded poorly and after outperforming their seedings over many years, started to get seeded more highly.  That's not some sort of big reveal.

Yep. That speaks to it. If you're stuck in a conference you can't get out of, you'll never break in. And frankly, unless you're in an auto-bid conference, there's no chance. No matter how you schedule, how undefeated you go, etc. 

Gonzaga made an Elite 8 their second tournament ever. Five years later, they were a 2 seed. Their best win was against 20-12 Maryland. The only lost two games, both to very excellent teams. 

This story you are spinning isn't really true or comparable at all. I'm sorry.