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2024-2025 College Basketball General Discussion

I can't remember aTm ever being any better than decent. They've never been GREAT and this goes for football too. They're just consistently a slightly better than average sports school.
They're certainly not a basketball school. Six Sweet 16 appearances in A&M history, and only 3 of them within the last 40 years. Never advanced past the Sweet 16.
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2024 NCAA tournament & bracket discussion

I think the Crown is a stupid tournament. FOX thinks they needed to compete with ESPN having the NIT for some reason. So basically they decided to weaken the NIT and field a crappy tournament of their own in the middle of the transfer portal window. But that being said, as a competitor, take some pride in yourself and compete. I saw that no fewer than SIX B1G teams declined the Crown - OSU, IU, Iowa, Rutgers, PSU and Northwestern - in addition to some other programs like Kansas St, TCU and WVU. So the Crown ends up with 14-19 teams like Butler and DePaul because people don't want to play in the Crown. Obviously with the transfer portal being so big now, any postseason tournament needs to start right after the conference tournaments to help keep teams together a little bit.
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2024 NCAA tournament & bracket discussion

The Crown is the new tournament the B1G is contractually obligated to send their top-2 teams that don't make the NCAA tourney to, OSU turned it down & was not eligible for the NIT because it was either the Crown or nothing due to new B1G contract terms. I don't know if this played into the decision it all, and it may well have, but the college basketball transfer portal is March 24-April 22 & the Crown games are only played between March 31-April 6 this year.
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2025 scUM Shenanigans, Arguments, etc.

Racquetball is squash with training wheels. I played the former before taking up the latter. Worlds of difficulty between them. Handball, though I've never played it, is supposedly legit.

Pickleball is for 40 somethings no longer in good enough shape to play tennis. It's also The Devil.
Pickleball is for geriatrics or lazy people. Give me Tennis any day.

And FUCK Michigan!!!
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2024-2025 College Basketball General Discussion

NIL and the portal must be responsible for this. We should probably just get used to more predictable first rounds
I agree. It seems like mid-majors are more toothless these past couple of seasons than in years past. This is what happens when the big boys can recruit from the mid-majors and poach & pay whomever they want.
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