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they absolutely want no repeat of an MVC team going to the Sweet 16 or Final Four
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The Valley can improve their schedule strength by improving their non conference schedules. Playing the likes of UI-Springfield, Chicago State for example are a joke and hurt the league. Bradley generally has one of the better non conference schedules in the league. Most of the teams play a pathetic non conference schedule. Playing better mid majors would help with the strength of schedules. When Wichita leaves it is only going to get worse. Until the teams in the league improve their schedules and tgemselves we will continue to see what we saw today. I don't think there is a big conspiracy against the Valley.Comment
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Wichita will be playing UCLA in the Sweet 16.Comment
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look at the crappy seeding they got...Originally posted by Da Coach View Post
it's not their fault - it's the fault of the weak conference they are in...
Coach Les and all their fans ought to be outraged at the rest of their conference for being so weak and scheduling so poorly...
the bad teams at the bottom of the Big West are dragging down and sabotaging the teams at the top...
UCD ought to look at leaving the Big West and jumping to the AAC or Mountain West to be treated more like the royalty that they are...
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Article from CBSSports.com college basketball expert Matt Norlander:
Six seeds the NCAA Tournament committee got wrong: Wichita State got jobbed
He lists 6 teams that the NCAA selection committee missed badly with their seeding, and Wichita State is his prime example-
Wichita State, a 30-4 nightmare of a basketball team that??™s viewed by unbiased oddsmakers as a top-10 squad in college hoops, has been mercilessly jobbed for the second year in a row. The Shockers, ranked eighth in KenPom, 11th in Sagarin are ...
... are you kidding me ...
... a 10 seed.
A top-10 team gets a double-digit seed. What world is this? A flat one, obviously.Comment
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JL makes it back to the dance.
Maybe we should have stuck with him?
Not saying our current coach can't do it but we just finished the 2nd year with him so it'll take awhile.Comment
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For those interested there are other Championships about to be determined...
The NCAA Division I Championship will be determined April 3 and of course, there are currently 68 teams still alive
The NCAA Division II Championship will be determined March 25, and there are currently just 8 teams still alive
The NCAA Division III Championship will be determined March 18, and they are down to the Final Four - Whitman, Babson, Williams, and Augustana (IL) (Augustana has Sam Koeppel from Limestone HS)
The NAIA Division I Championship will be determined March 21 and they are just starting tomorrow with 32 teams
The NAIA Division II Championship will be determined TONIGHT! The Championship game is set for 7pm on ESPN3 (if you can watch ESPN3, just click on this link to watch - LINK)
...The game is between Union College (KY) and Cornerstone Univ. (MI).
Cornerstone (Grand Rapids, MI) won in 2011 & 2015, and Union is in their 1st Title game ever but have been ranked #1 most of the season and have a 33 game winning streak!Comment
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NCAA games today, Tues. March 14-
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Union 72 - Cornerstone 69Originally posted by tornado View Post
I watched this game, and I think either one of these teams would have finished ahead of at last 5 MVC teamsComment
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Ooops...the BCS boys didn't do so good last night...especially the vaunted ACC who argued their entire conference deserved to be in the NCAA and get top seeds...
Wake Forest LOST to a team a whole lot of people said shouldn't even be in the NCAA
Clemson lost to a far lower seeded mid-major, Oakland
Alabama lost to Richmond in NIT
Pac-12 Utah lost to lower seed Boise State
Cal lost to Bakersfield
Syracuse lost to a few inches of snow
The other big school losing - Indiana...could be Tom Crean's last game there?
btw- Jim Les has averaged more than 19 wins per year over the last 3 years...for a team that had averaged less than 8 wins per year for the years that they were in DI up thru 2011 when Jim Les was hired thereComment
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a couple more big boys going down - Middle Tennessee just humiliated Minnesota..
and a lot of big boys struggling - Maryland, Virginia, WV and even Villanova for more than a half..
Go Aggies!Comment
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now Maryland goes down at the hands of an 11 seed midmajorComment
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Xavier is about as midmajor as Gonzaga, they make the Shockers look midmajor by comparison when it comes to winningOriginally posted by tornado View PostComment
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Xavier, no football, 6000 enrollment, total athletic budget about 1/12 of Texas or Michigan State... and 1/10 of Maryland's
it could be debated but it sure isn't MarylandComment
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