***2025-26 Mens College Basketball Thread***

dahliaclone

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Oklahoma has wins against Missouri, Arizona, Louisville, Michigan, Arkansas in quad 1. Better than any win that drake has all year.
Drake to me isn’t about who they beat. They haven’t really had the chance to play really decent teams. So then you look at losses and three Q3 losses including two at home are extremely bad.
 
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Drake to me isn’t about who they beat. They haven’t really had the chance to play really decent teams. So then you look at losses and three Q3 losses including two at home are extremely bad.
They tried to schedule some good teams but unfortunately for them, Miami and Kansas State are not good.
 

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Maybe they should have won more SEC games then. Any team finishing 8 games under .500 in their conference shouldn't be an at-large team.
Maybe they should have. The SEC is the best conference this year, have played a ton of top 25 teams. Drake has 3 quad 3 losses, 2 at home.
 

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Will Coleman Hawkins get an all-conference honor? 10.6 points per game on 39.8% shooting.
 

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Maybe they should have. The SEC is the best conference this year, have played a ton of top 25 teams. Drake has 3 quad 3 losses, 2 at home.
Bradley at home isn't a bad loss. Learn how these smaller conferences work instead of just looking at the Quads. Bradley has clearly been the 2nd best MVC all season.

Drake, like any other good mid-major isn't good enough to just run through their conference. Look at VCU last night, very good team that deserves an at-large but lost to Dayton.
 

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Is Duke #1 team in the nation or a product of playing in a really bad conference?
Back when they were playing something other than terrible ACC teams, they lost to Kentucky and Kansas.

They have wins over two ranked teams (Auburn, Arizona).
 

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They tried to schedule some good teams but unfortunately for them, Miami and Kansas State are not good.
60 in kenpom and 57 in torvik. 59 in net.

"winning over 90% of their games" is meaningless when the schedule includes 24 quad 3/4 games.

Last place in the big 12 colorado is also undefeated in quad 3/4 games. Its not exactly an achievement to be undefeated in that category, and drake can't even say that.
I know you think Drake isn't a tournament team but I'm on the record right now saying they will make the tournament regardless of what happens tommorow. The win today just solidified it.

If I'm wrong I'll gladly admit it but I think you'll be on the wrong side of this.
 
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I think they'll make it regardless too, I'm just pointing out what I said (they tried to play some good teams non-con).