***2023-24 Mens College Basketball Thread***

[CycloneErik]

Auburn just owns South Carolina.

 

[cycloneman003]

Yeah, he always gets talented guys, wins 25 games, and then chokes on applesauce in big games.

IDK if he gets out-smarted, or he gets tight and can't calm his guys down, or what. But his NCAA performance is atrocious. Here's the bottom of the PASE chart the past 10 years.
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Jesus Shaka. I guess I never realized how much his entire reputation rides on that crazy run in his first ever NCAA tourney. Made 9 tournaments since then with only 3 wins, hasn't made it past the first weekend.

 

[FriendlySpartan]

PASE is Performance Against Seed Expectations
- How many tournament games did you win vs how many games that seed is expected to win

That table is from barttorvik

Tourney Stats, PASE (Performance Against Seed Expectations) and PAKE

barttorvik.com

That’s a wild site, didn’t know something like that existed

 

[Malone]

Don’t know, don’t care who South Carolina’s playing in the first round. They’re losing in my bracket

 

[CycloneErik]

Wonder what that fan said to set off Hurley even more than usual?

 

[August]

Wonder what that fan said to set off Hurley even more than usual?

Strange to see fans sitting courtside right in the coaches box.

 

[AlaCyclone]

And folks in Tuscaloosa are now anxious

They just survived Nick Saban retiring.
I don't think they will trip much over the Nate Oats Sweepstakes.
FWIW, I think he will stay @ 'Bama until he wins a National Championship.

 

[ClonerJams]

Wonder what that fan said to set off Hurley even more than usual?

What happened? I missed it

 

[CloniesForLife]

High scoring first half in Madison Square Garden

 

[cyclones500]

Don’t know, don’t care who South Carolina’s playing in the first round. They’re losing in my bracket

Hunch: South Carolina will be a popular choice for the 12-over-5 upset.

Strictly using Matrix snapshot as hypothetical - possible opponents could be James Madison, South Florida, McNeese, Grand Canyon.

 

[CycloneErik]

What happened? I missed it

Hurley went off telling security to eject this fan. They didn't. I don't know exactly what led to it.

This game is a crazy fast pace.

 

[Malone]

Hunch: South Carolina will be a popular choice for the 12-over-5 upset.

Strictly using Matrix snapshot as hypothetical - possible opponents could be James Madison, South Florida, McNeese, Grand Canyon.

That’s a damn good group of mid/low majors.

 

[JP4CY]

Didn't realize Blake Hinson was 1st team all ACC

 

[aeroclone]

People are so locked in on Purdue and their history of early exits, so this year is the year they will probably make a run.

 

[RagingCloner]

How did this TT team beat BYU? They are terrible

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

My goodness Houston is just on another level.

 

[cycloneG]

How did this TT team beat BYU? They are terrible

It's a bad matchup for BYU. Plus, Houston is much better than BYU.

 

[JP4CY]

Not sure I wanna play Houston. Yeesh

 

[jdoggivjc]

How did this TT team beat BYU? They are terrible

Houston is probably going to make us look this bad offensively as well (assuming we win tonight). The only difference is we can return the favor on them.

 

[heitclone]

Houston beat Tech by over 20 the first time around, it's not a great matchup for them. Houston is obviously awesome but we match up much better, probably better than any other big 12 team. We've gone punch for punch with them twice, I'm not reading too much into this score. I'd love another shot at them.