And Kent Pavelka IS going to get to call that first #Nebrasketball win. Can't imagine the emotion right now.
My first job was in Nebraska and I know some of those fans in Fairbury are jacked right now!
#Huskers
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Blake Cripps
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Blake Cripps
@becripps
Voice of @ESUSports, sports fan, nerd, and Jayhawk. So what else do you want to know?
Emporia, KS Katılım Nisan 2011
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Wow... this is going to happen for #Nebrasketball...
#Huskers
Welcome to the club Big Red.
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This is by far the best version of the @MarchMadnessMBB theme.
College Sports Only@CSOonX
Our annual plea for CBS Sports to bring back this old intro for NCAA Tournament games. 🙏 That 1st second hit like crack...
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@ChuckChaneyBCTG Well let me be clear, you DO call timeout and lose it in college: what I'm saying is that when you call TO to advance, you should just have to throw it in immediately: no time to actually huddle and draw up a play (maybe that's how it is in the NBA - I can't say I watch to know!)
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@becripps You should definitely lose your timeout for it. WNBA/NBA teams lose their timeouts. College should be no different.
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At the end of WBB games, the game becomes a TOfest of teams just advancing (usually to avoid a full-court press). So you just string TO's together and it's not a great viewing experience.
NOTE: I have not polled the Lady Hornet coach about this - she may feel differently!
Blake Cripps@becripps
Takes the press out of the game... overall not a fan. However, I STRONGLY advocate that IF you are going to have the advancement, you should LOSE a timeout to use it but NOT get the TO unless it is a full TO. So, call timeout, advance ball, timeout subtracted, no 30s in huddle.
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It's an uncomfortable reality - this is one of the reasons that MAYBE some sort of contract would be better to provide a limit on transfers, but also a limit on schools' ability to do this.
Protects schools, protects athletes, less roster turnover, better for the game.
Fran Fraschilla@franfraschilla
The sad reality is that in order to survive in college basketball, in next few weeks, you have to fire the highly paid, unproductive players the way coaches are fired. I think everyone is OK with that.
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@ChuckChaneyBCTG I think it's a novel idea and I've had good feedback on it!
Do I think coaches will ever vote to take their coaching time away?
Not a chance!!!!
But I do think it would make the end of games better to watch IF you are going to have advancing the ball as part of the game.
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@becripps I'm a big fan. I think it separates good coaches from average coaches because they're forced to draw up good ATOs.
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Takes the press out of the game... overall not a fan.
However, I STRONGLY advocate that IF you are going to have the advancement, you should LOSE a timeout to use it but NOT get the TO unless it is a full TO.
So, call timeout, advance ball, timeout subtracted, no 30s in huddle.
Coach Alex Popp@coachalexpopp
Here’s a “No brainer” for Men’s College Basketball… Timeout advances the basketball into the front court. The women do it. The NBA does it. No brainer
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E-State Earns Four All-American Awards at Indoor Nationals
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#StingersUp
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When there's no hotel space in Topeka for the regional due to a Lego convention, you stay in The Little Apple. Or something like that. @RSUHillcats @TheMIAA #D2Hoops
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Could not agree more.
Joshua Morgret@JoshuaMorgret
For those talking about the media fee/internet fee at BGSU, this is on the media application form. Absolutely ridiculous. @OHSAASports, @nwdabsports, @NWDAB, please move away from BGSU hosting next year. Charging media just to work? That is awful.
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@OklahomaLocalSN @d2kferg @MIAA_Racy @GAC_Commish It's even worse in some other sports.... Emporia State volleyball team was in the Top 25 in most RPI's this season, but because they are in the region with the two best volleyball conferences (MIAA/NSIC), the Lady Hornets were out while three 100+ RPI's got AT LARGE bids.
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@d2kferg @MIAA_Racy @GAC_Commish I’m not 100% sure to be honest.
I do know that this year a team ranked 130th got an at-large bid while the 53rd ranked team’s season is over.
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Serious questions for @MIAA_Racy and @GAC_Commish.
Everyone who follows NCAA Division II knows the regionalization system routinely leaves some of the best teams out of the national tournaments across multiple sports.
Who actually controls this system?
Is it really the NCAA DII Championships Committee? Individual sport committees? Conference commissioners? Or presidents?
And if the majority of coaches, media, fans, and players believe the system is flawed, why hasn’t it been changed?
Is the issue that the stronger conferences can’t get enough votes because smaller conferences don’t want to risk losing automatic access?
From the outside it looks like a system designed to guarantee representation rather than select the best teams nationally.
Would love some transparency on who is TRULY responsible for the creation and continuation of this format and what it would actually take to reform it.
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@JetCastJackson I think there's definitely something to be said to getting your team a few games to get your confidence up. I'd love to see some data on this, but I can't imagine WSU would be a team that would welcome a week off with how well they are playing right now.
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@becripps I think that's a great point. I hate them for the lower seeds and the gauntlet they face, but I hadn't even thought of that. Last night the 2 seed in the Sun Belt lost to the 10 seed who has now won 5 games in 5 days. Fascinating thought to if the time off contributed there
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So with all these leagues using 'stepladder' brackets... what do we think about them? Obviously having to win fewer games is an advantage, but if you're a team like WSU, do you really want to be off for a week when you've won 6 in a row and 8 of 9?
#WatchUs
#FearTheWheat
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To be clear, I'm not suggesting that ANY regionalization needs to be preserved.... but obviously somebody at @NCAA @NCAADII thinks it does.
Blake Cripps@becripps
I think there are plenty of good ways to do it, but @JakeLebahn's idea I think is the simplest and still preserves some pseudo-regionalization - combining two regions and seeding 1-16 and then breaking up the tournament into two sites from there. Not sure why DII doesn't try it.
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I think there are plenty of good ways to do it, but @JakeLebahn's idea I think is the simplest and still preserves some pseudo-regionalization - combining two regions and seeding 1-16 and then breaking up the tournament into two sites from there. Not sure why DII doesn't try it.
Greg Shirron@KJH05
@becripps @NCAADII Or just get rid of the tied to one region nonsense. I understand it makes travel harder but it’s more fair to just seed like D1.
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Really feel like @NCAADII needs to adopt conference protection to the extent possible. They actively do this in DI and try to make sure that teams from the same conference don't play each other in the 1st round. Why not swap Rogers State/Harding here?
NCAA Division II@NCAADII
The #D2MBB bracket has officially dropped! 🏀🏆 #MakeItYours | on.ncaa.com/26d2mbbbr
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It might have been a short stay, but my guess is people are going to look back and see how big of a difference this class made for the program.
#WatchUs
#FearTheWheat
Wichita State Men's Basketball@GoShockersMBB
E KB KG Forever Shockers 💛🖤
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