@rcb05 It’ll be like the women’s tournament soon… all the talent is getting money-sucked to the top.
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Poop Citybitches
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14 of the 32 first round NCAA Tournament games were won by 20+ points. Only 4 of the 28 double digit seeds pulled off an upset.
Obviously there were some great moments, but as a whole, this year’s first round definitely fell a bit flat.
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@BryanDFischer I mean their non-con schedule is pretty good as far as no real crap teams this year… didn’t check out last years.
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The amount of gaslighting Nate Oats seems to do in February and March the past two years could fuel an entire town for six months.
Theodore Fernandez@TheoFernandez__
Nate Oats on mid-majors claiming to be unable to find high-level matchups: “Not sure how hard you try if you're playing three non Division I games.” Oats said Alabama would schedule any mid-major as long as they are good enough, and that all he cares about is avoiding Q4 games.
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@JaretGold Another retarded “college basketball fan” trying to ruin 10 days of games that are better than March Madness to “fix” March Madness.
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My solution to fix March Madness?
Actually get the best mid-major teams in the tournament.
18-11 Penn got in over 24-5 Yale
24-10 Hofstra got in over 26-5 UNCW
17-17 Lehigh got in over 26-6 Navy
Mid-majors should give the regular season champ the bid
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@GOrwell2020 @EsotericCD Imagine not knowing the rules and spouting off like you do. I would lol 😂, but I’m not a retard.
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@PoopCityBitches @EsotericCD Imagine watching this ending and complaining that March Madness sucks now lol 😂
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CBS Sports@CBSSports
THIS IS MARCH
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I'm not the only person who finds the current state of the NCAA Tournament mildly depressing, right?
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@GOrwell2020 @EsotericCD The ball wasn’t live… Kentucky guy picked ball up in the court of play and was headed to end line when Sendek was calling timeout…. That’s not a live play.. clock stops after made basket for this reason. Retard.
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@PoopCityBitches @EsotericCD What the fuck are you talking about, idiot?
Herb Sendik tried to call timeout while the play was live, which cannot be done…
There is no controversy in that unreal ending.
Go back to being miserable somewhere else
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@GOrwell2020 @EsotericCD You don’t “possess the ball” on an in-bound when you’re still inside the lines, non-ball knowing retard.
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@PoopCityBitches @EsotericCD Nah, you’re just a miserable guy who doesn’t know basketball lol
Coaches can’t call timeout when they dont possess the ball and after the play is live
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@erlee0217 I, too, love strictly right-handed layups along with double-digit shots in the paint rejected by the bottom of the rim.
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Honestly, if you wanna do March madness - go to a women’s game. The basketball is fantastic, the atmosphere is great, and it’s only $25 for a ticket.
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@SethDavisHoops Yeah… paying people who personally don’t really move the needle for promoting your product but they are tied to a university that moves the needle would’ve avoided this mess. If you didn’t get a job because of your dad 30 years ago we might not see these retarded tweets.
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I love seeing college athletes in commercials. If the NCAA had let them do that 20 years ago we might not be in the mess we're in.
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@GOrwell2020 @EsotericCD The TCU game I saw the guy making the game winning basket after standing in the lane for 8 seconds… the Kentucky game I saw a guy take four steps without a dribble before making a pass on a decisive fast break and a coach denied a timeout… even “excitement” is depressing.
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@EsotericCD Did you see the TCU vs Ohio State game?
What about High Point vs. Wisconsin?
Santa Clara vs. Kentucky is literally an all-time finish…
Respectfully, what the hell are you talking about?
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@margo19aa Championship week always provides much more entertainment than the NCAA Tournament… the people who “love college basketball” are uniting to kill it.
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How on earth are we still having this discourse
Matt Schick@ESPN_Schick
With NIL/portal hurting the mid-majors, it’s even more detrimental for Cinderella when the regular season champion gets upset in the conference tournament. Liberty, Belmont, Navy all won their leagues by 3+ games. UNC Wilmington went 26-6. All failed to win their conference tournaments. If mid-majors are going to continue to send their conference tournament champions to the NCAA Tournament, they need to give the regular season champions byes to the semifinals.
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@IainMacBets “Nobody has been put in the electric chair since they got rid of capital punishment, but they fried someone the year before.”
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I don’t think back-to-back years of little to no upsets in the first round is worth freaking out over.
Could it be NIL? Maybe. Or maybe it’s just something that can happen in a small sample size.
Saint Peter’s went to the Elite 8 three years ago. Let’s relax.
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@therandomsec Anyone who doesn’t think NIL and unlimited transfers are problems is a certified retard in denial.
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People will probably run with the "chalk madness" narrative and I get it.
But there were at least 8 or 9 games this year that were a possession or two away from being generational upsets.
I don't think that this is an NIL problem necessarily, but just a side effect of us being spoiled in 2021 and 2023.
College Basketball Report@CBKReport
It’s official: no wins by a 13–16 seed for the second straight year. The last time that happened before 2025 was in 2017. The only "upsets" today were two 9 seeds over 8 seeds, both of which were favored by Vegas. I fear it is a second straight year of Chalk Madness.
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@UltimateReply @JonRothstein It’s the only thing I remember from last year’s Crown… Gus telling the audience 420 times each game how much money the advancing team would split.
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@PoopCityBitches @JonRothstein The fact that Gus Johnson is calling those games wasn't even close to on my radar yet.
You just completely ruined my day.
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Only 31 games left during the 2025-26 college basketball season.
Savor. Every. Second.
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@UltimateReply @JonRothstein With the insufferable Gus Johnson letting us know every 69 seconds what the amount of the NIL pot the teams will be splitting is.
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@JonRothstein You're forgetting an additional 7 games that will crown the true national champion.
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@JonRothstein Championship Week is better… sadly you all are doing everything you can to render conference tournaments meaningless.
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@SethDavisHoops It’s not odd… basketball is less of a depth sport.
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With all the chatter about what NIL/portal has done to Cinderellas, the real story is that there is more separation between the top teams vs. the middle/bottom INSIDE the power conferences. Which is odd because the opposite seems to be happening in football.
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@KevinIsHere1919 @BeardNeptune @JackMac It’s exactly what I’m saying. These players would have no value if they weren’t playing at a university. If the NBA said you had to go play in this “minor league” for a year before getting drafted nobody would buy tickets to see a team from Ames play a team from Tucson.
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@PoopCityBitches @BeardNeptune @JackMac That's like saying professional athletes wouldn't get paid if they didn't have a league 😂😂😂
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As you realize the college sports you grew up with doesn’t exist anymore, it hits you that it may have all been a facade.
The reason these teams below existed was largely to players being exploited with no ability to make money & punished for transferring.
NIL introduced….cream rises to the top. In 2012 a guy who fell through the cracks in recruiting would spend 4 years at a mid major and develop there…not anymore. 80% of those players trickle up to make the major conference teams that were losing in 2008 better in 2026.
College sports was prob better in 2010 but it was due to a model that unequivocally ripped off athletes.
I am open to being wrong here, but the game has changed forever and what we watched years ago was fake.
Sports TV News & Updates@TVSportsUpdates
Teams seeded 13 through 16 to win a first round game in the men's NCAA Tournament since 2008:
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@sportsrapport I’ve had bowel movements with more charisma than Nate Burleson.
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Have seen a few people asking why Nate Burleson is CBS March Madness studio host.
Ernie Johnson asked to step back from some of the dates in the role.
CBS is testing to see if Burleson could eventually replace James Brown as NFL Today host.
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@chriswithans Did you happen to mention anything about the future expansion fees, which will be close to $1 billion?
No, didn’t think so.
This league is going to continue to grow and be profitable for everyone.
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The league is basically allocating all their national TV money for player salaries and benefits and depending on stadium revenue for everything else. In other words, most teams are going to lose money every time they play.
Underdog WNBA@UnderdogWNBA
WNBA and WNBPA officially announce tentative agreement on a new 7-year CBA. Details:
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