NCAA tourney no longer has a place for the Cinderella story
Comments
-
Too much money made in the larger field.
8 of us are going to San Diego next year for NCAA 1st/2nd round games and golf for my brother’s 50th. I’ve been at least 10 times in various years to various sites.
-
You can always just pause Blippi at the local Olympia ball pit once the field trims down to that number?
-
I'm the guy that wants to shut down UW hoops, remember? I'm actually not joking when I say that I would rather have more parking and money for UW football.
-
They keep following the advice of people that inherently hate college sports. The colleges will be left with the fallout and the people that called for all these changes will happily move onto the next activism victim.
-
I’d legit watch the women’s tournament if some power team D-1 men’s small forward starter transitioned to female and started Juwanna Mann-ing the rest of the field to a title.
Coopertina Flagg would set ratings records Caitlyn Clark could only dream about.
-
it’s the tournament so I’ll still watch but anyone trying to say that March 2025 is as compelling as it was 15-20 years ago is fucking retarded.
Let’s look at the 2009 field
Pitino at top 5 Louisville
Roy Williams at #1 UNC
K at top 10 Duke
Izzo at top 10 Michigan State
Calhoun at top 5 UCONN
Howland at top 25 UCLA
Self at top 15 Kansas
Boeheim at top 15 Syracuse
Sampson at top 10 Oklahoma
Barnes at top 10 Texas
Steph Curry at Davidson
I mean that is a star studded field with hall of fame coaches and future NBA All stars littered all over the place. Curry and Davidson were the darlings of that tournament too.
It’s impossible to argue that college basketball or the nba for that matter, hasn’t regressed sharply over the last 2 decades.
-
I haven’t dooged for Husky hoops since IT was leading the team. Also haven’t watched a minute of the first weekend.
I stopped hating Gonzaga around the time they nearly beat UNC for the natty. I believe in the new era of college sports the Zagits won't be able to compete especially when Few retires.
-
The golden age was the 80s. You can look it up. Even Jordan stayed three year. Hakeem and Ewing 4.
Louisville and the Doctors of Dunk
Indiana
North Carolina
North Carolina State
Georgetown
Villanova
Louisville and Never Nervous
Indiana
Kansas
Michigan
UNLV
And that was coming off of Magic v Bird in 79
-
Would probably extend into the mid 90s too. UNLV and Duke, Arkansas 40 minutes of hell.
-
Different sport and point, but your post reminded me of Eugene Burkhalter. He was probably the first Husky to leave early and turn pro in 1989. Not only did he go undrafted, but he missed being a part of the 1990 Rose Bowl team.
