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This is one hell of a tournament:

CollegeInsider.com Invitational
Rider at Liberty
Kent St. at Oakland University
The Citadel at Old Dominion
Mount St. Mary's at James Madison
Austin Peay at Bradley
Belmont at Evansville
Portland at Pacific
Drake at Evansville

So they have an N.I.T. for teams that don't make the NIT?

Go Pacific!

That's the NIT for teams that didn't make the NIT's NIT.

By which I mean to say, the hierarchy is:

NCAA
NIT
CBI
CI.com

The CBI first round schedule:

3/17/09 Northeastern vs. Wyoming 9 p.m. HDNet
3/17/09 UTEP vs. Nevada 11 p.m. HDNet
3/18/09 St. John's vs. Richmond 7 p.m.
3/18/09 Vermont vs. Green Bay 8 p.m.
3/18/09 Charleston vs. Troy 8 p.m.
3/18/09 Buffalo vs. Wichita State 8 p.m. HDNet
3/18/09 Houston vs. Oregon State 10 p.m. HDNet
3/18/09 Boise State vs. Stanford

This actually looks like a half-decent field, Oregon State notwithstanding. At least there are some top 100 teams in this bitch.

Just as a strange tidbit, this week's Coaches' Poll is the FIRST TIME IN HISTORY that Louisville has been ranked #1. Weird, innit?

Where's Bucknell?

I heard they might find an alternate site in San Diego...can you verify that?

Evansville plays twice, huh? Brutal.

They're so badass they're going to stand in for UDAHO.

Here we go:

Tuesday March 17
Rider (19-12) @ Liberty (22-11)
Kent State (19-14) @ Oakland (22-12)

Wednesday March 18
The Citadel (20-12) @ Old Dominion (21-10)
Mount St. Mary’s (19-13) @ James Madison (19-14)
Austin Peay (19-13) @ Bradley (18-14)
Belmont (19-12) @ Evansville (17-13)
Portland (19-12) @ Pacific (19-12)
Drake (17-15) @ Idaho (16-15)

I guess this guy from the Los Angeles NBC affiliate turned off last year's game with 10 seconds left:

"Cal State Northridge players will say they are not just happy to be in the tournament — but maybe they should be. The Matadors won the Big West but that earned them a 15 seed, and they drew defending national champion Memphis. Ranked third in the nation Memphis. That game takes place Thursday in Kansas City, part of the West bracket."

Since MU hasn't been to the Dance in eons, I doubt they know it is not friendly to their style of play. When Roy was at KU, we played even faster than MU does. And Roy blamed Tourney time out rules for his lack of winning it all. The timeouts last forever in the Dance and it lets your opponent rest when they otherwise would be gasping for air. Roy said he had time to take a nap during commercials. Anyhow, it is much harder to wear an opponent out in the Dance than it is during the season. Just so you know. We don't want you to get any surprises.

Go Shockers! Beat Buffaro.

Big Arizona fan here.

1) No doubt that Arizona didn't earn the right to be in the Tourney.
2) No doubt the 25 year streak played a role in their selection
3) We lost 5 of the last 6 games... win any one of them an we earn the spot we were handed.
4) I don't care, WE'RE IN BABY!!!! PBJ PBJ PBJ

HatGuy wrote a column dissing Memphis. Mine eyes have seen the glory!

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All you :KU: fans be sure to visit bisonville.com. It's open for business and is a nice little site. Vbulletin and all. Go on over and spread some cheer.

Did you watch the video I posted, Skip?

No. I can't see most of those Utube videos.

Well, I don't believe there is another venue in SD that could host it.

There is something here called the San Diego Sports Arena, but its the shittiest arena you can imagine. There is also the home of USD's Toreros. But that arena has less than 5000 seats.

I know that Miami is a worse seed than whatever team they are playing, but they are hosting the game due to scheduling conflicts.

Sounds like alot of trouble. Just flip a coin.

It just looks a like a bunch of trolling to me. I'm pretty sure that we all would be pissed if our board became overtaken with Dallas Cowboy fans next year when it's our week to play them. I really don't see the point in going over to that board to talk a bunch of smack on a team that hasn't even finished it's first season as a division 1 school.

I signed up. Put up one post. Been lurking for a while today. They are some cocky SOB's. I thought KU fans were confident, but damn, a lot of those guys already have this game won.

HOLY CRAP! Seriously? I'm not even saying KU has this damn thing won yet.
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There's a guy there who's putting up a lot of posts, RockChalkBlog or something like that. Anyway, he seems like a pretty fair guy, just looking for info and looking to share and those guys seem to perceive him as some kind of infiltrator. They don't seem to be too interested in what KU fans say about KU, they just want to keep saying, "Ben Woodside is no joke!" over and over.

ROFL. Whaaaa??

They must be pretty protective of their ndsu basketball program.
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If I was a member there, I'd leave until either NDS won or the weekend after they lost. There are NDS fans that just assume they're going to win because that one guy is just that good, Kansas fans trolling and pointing at the name on the front of the jersey, and even a Missouri fan who registered so he could bash, er, tell the true story on Kansas... :shake:

Ya'lls (KU fans) is some hateful mother****ers. NDSU is in their 1st year of Division 1 post-season eligibility, and they've already made the tourney. Let 'em enjoy these next few days. Sheesh.

NDSU is a bag o' dicks. ****ers.

I hope KU takes a shit at midcourt and makes NDSU eat it.

ROFL

One of these royal ****tards came down to SDSU adorned in his inglorious regalia to attend a football game. Renaissance armor painted baby shit green.

He stood in front of the student section and started talking smaque.

I couldn't believe it.

Karma, bitch. We've beaten them two years in a row. :)

So hey, Basketball Prospectus has some valuable efficiency rankings that may help you figure out who's going to prevail in certain matchups.

CLICK THE LINK, SHIT'S INTERESTING

Did knights ride buffaloes, or something?

Kenpom's Pythagorean win % chart:

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/9634/log5.jpg

Whoa.

I know. Gonzaga's % is waaaaay too high.

So MU has a better chance at winning than KU eventhough both are 3 seeds?

Well if a team full of upper classman cant go deeper in the tourney than a team of mostly fresh and sophs.

Then yes, I can see where there is a problem...

I dunno man, Kenpom is insanely accurate. If you ever look at the money line, it is almost exactly what kenpom says it is. And when it's off, Kenpom usually was right. With that said, I used to be sold on Gonzaga but they are a bunch of wasted talent. I bet Gonzaga isn't much better than Arizona.

interesting

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...x.html?eref=T1

The loss of Dyson is why I think UDub has a shot at knocking off UConn. UKnow?

Gotta love the Dakota schools, nice addition to Valley football. Hopefully you bastards upgrade some more to get into the real MVC as well.

It won't be long before SDSU and NDSU are ruling the MVC in football, imo. Their lineage is too strong to suggest otherwise.

What Memphis has done this year is amazing. But I hesitate to give them TOO much credit due to the (lack of) competition in their conference. Yeah, hate to do that. I know people said that about them last year, as well. They are really good, no doubt. And I guess it would not surprise me to see them back in the FF this year. Just saying that I think it is hard judge them based on their records and stats due to lesser competition.

It is difficult to judge Memphis based on their conference, but it's easy to see they have great talent. Evans, Anderson, Dozier, Taggert, and they go 12 deep. They can score inside or outside and play great defense. I kind of expect them to roll through the West and on to the Final Four.

I have no idea how they are not a 1 seed. None. I know the Big East beats the piss out of each other, but it has shown weakness in their respective games. I don't think those guys are as good as everyone thinks they are. Calipari has Memphis playing some damn good ball. I'm certainly no fan of theirs, but they got hosed as a 2 seed.
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Oh and BTW I hope UCLA loses in the first ****ing round. I'm so tired of those posers.
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The coolest name ever?


Chief Kickingstallionsims, C Alabama State

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebask...erpage/1332488

How do you pronounce Grlenntys?

Glad to see that Self has pretty much the same opinion on the conference tourney as do I.

This year the Tigers generally play a rotation of 9, which can be tightened down to 7, and all of the starters are capable of doing fine with 30+ minutes played.

Now, next year's team will probably be able to go down to the 12th guy on the bench and still have more talent on the floor than just about anybody in the country.

Does anybody know where I can find a printable bracket that will fit on one page? TIA

BTW, CSUN is gonna win.

so ya

yep

http://assets.espn.go.com/i/ncaa/09mens_bracket.pdf

http://www.ncaa.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos...acketdivision1

Both are PDF printable brackets. They worked fine for me.

Yeah, I agree with this. I don't claim Mizzou is the big12 champ, but the big12 tournament champ. I've heard them called the big12 postseason champ too. I kind of like that one better :)

Anyone find a CBS regional coverage map yet?
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I found this breakout of W/L records by round by seeds last year. Not sure if it's already posted or not....



http://rotoguru2.com/hoop/mad/seedwl.html

Thanks, man, that worked great.