***Official 2024 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Thread***
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And our only E8 and conference regular season titles were a quarter century ago.
You asked how a “school like that” could pull it off, I pointed out they have a far better basketball history than we do.
Go Wolf Pack
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Sometimes God gives the devil false hope. He will ultimately be defeated (either by NC State or UConn)I know this is a pun on Duke's nickname but the Devil is definitely also a Purdue fan so he still won somewhat.
Last year the Sum of the Final Four seeds was 23 (#4 UConn, #5 Miami, #5 San Diego State, #9 FAU). This year, the Sum of the Final Four seeds is 17 (#1 UConn, #1 Purdue, #4 Alabama, #11 NC State).
The two-year sum of 40 is the highest in the history of the tournament for two consecutive tournaments.
The two-year sum of 40 is the highest in the history of the tournament for two consecutive tournaments.
Now, you must tell us record for lowest seed-sum in consecutive tournaments.
I think 2007 & 2008 was 16. I assume there are chalkier combos, but that's the first back-to-back that came to mind.
DJ Burns is red hot. He's 63-97 or 65% from the floor over his last 9 games. He shot only 151-309 or 49% from the floor over his first 30 games. So as the competition has gotten tougher, he's gotten a lot better.
He's playing in his 5th year due to the Covid year.
NCST is just that team that's out there running around laughing while they're playing and it's a blast to watch.
It was those two years but it was 10, not 16.
And now the team that NC State plays next is the team that is trying to pull off the “Lose to 16 seed to Champions the following year” feat that Virginia did.
Cool! Thanks for info. I think I double-counted something, or something.
Man, I can't even imagine (unless I had so much money I could never burn through it). Risking $10 for our office pool is bad enough knowing that my bracket is going to go up in flames by midday Thursday.
Yeah, but that guy usually uses that as an insurance policy to offset sales at his mattress store. Typically, it’s buy a matttress and if Houston wins, it’s free. His volumes are large enough that the revenue from those sales offsets his betting.
So as long as he’s making 1/7.5 or 13% commission and selling 7.5m worth of mattresses, he’s not losing money. Granted, I have no idea if he’s actually selling that much, but that’s the idea.
DJ's comments immediately after the game were interesting to me. Asked what has been different over this run and basically said guys are bought in now, showing up to meetings on time, not being selfish on the court, having fun, playing for each other, etc.
Obviously there is a big piece of just catching fire and getting some luck, but it's always crazy to me just how impactful it is to have a team that is "bought in" regardless of talent level. They were 17-14, dead in the water, Keatts probably mostly lost the locker room because his job was in jeopardy. String together a couple wins early in the ACC tourney, start to believe you can make a run, attention to detail ratchets up, start doing the right thing and bam. A run like this falls into place. Culture matters!
Obviously there is a big piece of just catching fire and getting some luck, but it's always crazy to me just how impactful it is to have a team that is "bought in" regardless of talent level. They were 17-14, dead in the water, Keatts probably mostly lost the locker room because his job was in jeopardy. String together a couple wins early in the ACC tourney, start to believe you can make a run, attention to detail ratchets up, start doing the right thing and bam. A run like this falls into place. Culture matters!
