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

alarson

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Watch, after Oklahoma gets eliminated he'll start campaigning for 15 loss Ohio State.

I'll side with anyone who has a better resume than "a bunch of wins against terrible teams and a few losses. "

But yes, keep framing it as me being all about Oklahoma when you're the one that keeps bringing them up. I just demonstrate how even OU is more worthy. Yes, they have a few more losses because they played a bunch of top 20 teams. But they also didn't drop games to terrible teams like Murray State. We want the committee to reward taking on a tough schedule, and that means not punishing a team simply because they had an extremely difficult one.
 

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They lost to LSU at home! That was literally LSU's only road win of the entire season.

Which is still a much better loss than 2 of drakes losses, so that is pretty irrelevant. Losing to Murray State at home is so much worse

Not to mention Drake needed overtime to avoid a few quad 4 losses. Theyre not even remotely one of the best 37 at large teams.
 

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They should have replaced him by now but haven’t. I am not sure they care about basketball.
They got screwed when he made the run in the tournament with Beard's team there. They knew he wasn't the guy but there was no way they could fire him at that point.

Can't imagine they don't move on after this year.
 
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They got screwed when he made the run in the tournament with Beard's team there. They knew he wasn't the guy but there was no way they could fire him at that point.

Can't imagine they don't move on after this year.
Nonsense. You can always fire an interim. It was obvious he was out over his skis.
 

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Which is still a much better loss than 2 of drakes losses, so that is pretty irrelevant. Losing to Murray State at home is so much worse

Not to mention Drake needed overtime to avoid a few quad 4 losses. Theyre not even remotely one of the best 37 at large teams.
I'm done beating a dead horse over this. They'll be in the NCAA tourney regardless of what happens tommorow.

If they are are left out ill gladly admit you're right. I doubt you'll give the same courtesy though if I'm proven right.
 
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I'm done beating a dead horse over this. They'll be in the NCAA tourney regardless of what happens tommorow.

If they are are left out ill gladly admit you're right. I doubt you'll give the same courtesy though if I'm proven right.

You do love your straw men, that's not what I've ever been arguing.

The committee may very well do the wrong thing because (as we saw last year with our own seeding) it has a good number of members who can't wrap their heads around the metrics and are pretty simple. That doesn't make Drake one of the best 37 at larges regardless.
 

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I really think that they should bring back the “last 10 games” into the criteria. Obviously wouldn’t be great for ISU this year, but I feel like how you’re playing leading into the tournament should mean more than what you did in November.
Yikes, Oklahoma would definitely be in deep trouble if they brought that back.
 

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Ok, here's my final prediction, Drake is a lock to make the tournament right now.
What's your prediction? We'll come back to this next Sunday.

You're moving goalposts.

You've likely figured out you're wrong in arguing the actual resumes, and have now moved on to "well this is what i think the committee will do"
 
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