****Official 2022-2023 College Basketball Thread****

[Pablo]

Games tipped off this week. Feel free to post any and all college basketball info and thoughts in this thread.

Here’s how the top 25 started out

[Rams Fan]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

I'm not falling for the bait of posting a go Big Blue chant at the Phog from a few weeks before that.

[Mr. Plow]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

We didn't split anything. Like so many other countless football programs last century, we were #1 in the AP and Coaches Poll at year's end.

If I remember correctly, weren't we #1 in every major metric used?

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by rfaulk34

Do you have a trophy from 2020?

If we don't, we should.

[Rams Fan]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

The polls determined who the national champion was for a century in college football without a "championship game." Why wouldn't that be the case in basketball if such a game wasn't played?

Because football is the only NCAA sponsored sport that doesn't have an official way of determining a champion. The polls/BCS/CFP aren't ran by the NCAA. It's all separate for $$$.

[rfaulk34]

Originally Posted by Rams Fan

That's like people saying a team that makes the playoffs consistently yet never wins shit (Super Bowl) is in a different league and should be treated as such for not winning it all.

Bengals make the playoffs in 2009 and 2011-15 and went one and done every year. 0-6

Anyone think they belonged in talks with the Patriots and Steelers of the world?

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Mr. Plow

If I remember correctly, weren't we #1 in every major metric used?

All of them. KU was so far and away the best team in the country in 2020 that it is laughable anybody would try to contest that they weren't. We're going for 3 titles in 4 years in a few weeks.

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by rfaulk34

Kansas and Arizona are the two teams that carry the choker banner the highest when it comes to tournament time.

Most recently, two years ago in a 34 pt loss to USC, as a #3 seed.

"Another way of looking at 2020-21: Self and Kansas had yet another disappointing finish where they underplayed their seed. A No. 3 seed clears the pathway to a Sweet 16, and instead it's a round of 32 exit. That's a frustrating March Madness trend KU fans know all too well. Self is in the Hall of Fame for guiding this program to the 2008 national title and 15 of the last 17 regular-season Big 12 titles. And yet, in the NCAA Tournament, Kansas has a slew of disappointing exits under Self."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...ds/6961735002/

Then he wins the title the next year. Great post, would read again

[Rams Fan]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

All of them. KU was so far and away the best team in the country that it is laughable anybody would try to contest that they weren't.

Gonzaga and Baylor say hi.

[rfaulk34]

Originally Posted by CasselGotPeedOn

Lmao you guys lost to a ****ing 15 seed last year.

http://thetailgatesociety.com/2017/0...-by-awfulness/

Wait. Don't read that. None of them happened last year.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Rams Fan

Gonzaga and Baylor say hi.

https://kenpom.com/index.php?y=2020

Are we looking at the same year? No one was even close.

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by Rams Fan

Gonzaga and Baylor say hi.

Vegas had Kansas the clear fave to win the title. They know more about odds than you

[Mr. Plow]

Originally Posted by rfaulk34

Do you have a trophy from 2020?

We got shirts to prove it.

[Rams Fan]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

https://kenpom.com/index.php?y=2020

Are we looking at the same year?

Yes, and are we going to note that Baylor was still 3rd overall according to Kenpom and split with Kansas head to head?

Or does that not fit your narrative?

[Rams Fan]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Vegas had Kansas the clear fave to win the title. They know more about odds than you

Just because they're the best regular season team doesn't mean they would have won the title.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Rams Fan

Because football is the only NCAA sponsored sport that doesn't have an official way of determining a champion. The polls/BCS/CFP aren't ran by the NCAA. It's all separate for $$$.

In the absence of a championship game, the only way to determine who the best team was that I can see is to look at the polls. If that same method was good enough for college football for a century, it's good enough for me.