2022-2023 B1G Basketball Thread

[Kris60]

If you count all of the postseason men’s  tournaments  C-USA is 15-1.  FAU is in the NCAA FF, North Texas and UAB are in the NIT FF, and Charlotte has already won the CBI.

[847badgerfan]

^^^Interesting.

UW gets UNT in the NIT FF.

One P5 school in the NIT FF, just like the NCAA.

[FearlessF]

Doesn't suck for the fans.  Doesn't suck for the money-makers.

Kinda sucks for the athletes who go 31-4 and don't make the Sweet 16 because one opponent gets hot from 3.

was it SDSU or Miami that finished a great 2nd half comeback w/o hitting a 3?

[medinabuckeye1]

Iowa WBB is in the Final Four.

Iowa beat Louisville to get to the Women's F4 and LSU beat Miami, FL in the other E8 game yesterday. 

The last two Women's E8 games are tonight and the B1G has a team in each:

• UMD vs USCe at 7 on ESPN in Greenville 
• tOSU vs VaTech at 9 on ESPN in Seattle

Best-case-scenario for our league is three B1G and one SEC in the F4. Worst-case-scenario is two SEC, one ACC, and one B1G.


I don't have lines because apparently nobody bets Women's BB but going by seeds, our teams are both underdogs. UMD and tOSU are a #2 and #3 seed respectively while their opponents (USCe and VaTech) are both #1 seeds.

[ELA]

South Carolina is -14.5, VT is -3

[medinabuckeye1]

South Carolina is -14.5, VT is -3

Thanks.

Well, I'm rooting for underdogs tonight!

Go Terps!

Go Bucks!

[medinabuckeye1]

Back to men's BB:
This 4, 5, 5, 9 F4 is incredibly unlikely. 

In the 37 previous F4s there were 109 top-3 seeds and only 39 #4's and below:

• UCONN is the 14th #4 to make the F4.
• SDSU and Miami are the eighth and ninth #5 seeds to make the F4.
• FAU is the second #9 seed to make the F4.

Seeds to make the F4 in the 38 Tournaments since expansion (1985-2019, 2021-2023):

• 61
• 31
• 17
• 14
• 9
• 3
• 3
• 6
• 2
• 1
• 5

No #12's or below.


Going forward only three each #4 and three #5 seeds have made it to the CG. No #9 or below has ever won a F4 game. 

The seeds to never win a Championship are:

• #5 is 0-3 in CG's
• No #9 or below has ever been to a CG.

[medinabuckeye1]

NCAA Championships by seed since expansion:

• 24
• 5
• 4
• 1
• 0
• 1
• 1
• 1

No #9's or below.

[medinabuckeye1]

Thanks.

Well, I'm rooting for underdogs tonight!

Go Terps!

Go Bucks!

Maryland lost and Ohio State is in a close game.

[medinabuckeye1]

Worst-case-scenario is two SEC, one ACC, and one B1G.

So this happened

[OrangeAfroMan]

was it SDSU or Miami that finished a great 2nd half comeback w/o hitting a 3?

Don't know. 
Don't care.
I loooooove people who dwell on the exceptions, though.  Just great content.

[FearlessF]

exception probably isn't a strong enough term
and I'm not dwelling on it

[bayareabadger]

Don't know.
Don't care.
I loooooove people who dwell on the exceptions, though.  Just great content.

This is a little amusing.

It asks me not to interface with the basketball, the actual sport and the games played, but rather dwell on the complaints that make things line up.

yes, single elimination tournaments are exceptionally noisy. And a bad day is about as likely to sink you as a really good one is to knock you off. If you would like, you can celebrate each year‘s number one overall seed is the real national champion.

CONGRATS TIDE!

[847badgerfan]

@bayareabadger 

Any thoughts on the Badger game tonight? Sounds like UNT is a pretty tough team to score against.