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2026 NCAA Tournament General Discussion

ScriptOhio
zwem said:
Teams in football or basketball that don’t invest in NIL are going to be left behind and that gap is going to increase in the next several years. The teams that had the best seasons in football and basketball this year had the biggest spending. Texas Tech has come out of nowhere with their spending in football. Schools need to adapt if they want to win. Is winning important or not? We are going to find out in the next several years.
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In the NBA players are a free agent after 5 years, 4 years if the team doesn't exercise the player's 5th year option. In college basketball players are a free agent right out of high school and can transfer at will. Some players have even been known to play at 4 different schools to complete their 4 years of college eligibility.

Yeah, for those teams that want to be a "contender" for a National Championship; the spending on NIL deals to get and/keep players is only going to go up. In addition, it would be impossible for the NCAA to establish a "salary cap" and enforce it without some "collective bargaining agreement". No elite or top college player in his/her right mind would ever want to unionize since it would ultimately restrict what they could earn. I'm sure they are happy with the "status quo" of several schools bidding for their services and no limit of what they can get. Now sometime in the future I could see the ≈ 90% of the lower tier players (i.e. have nots) get extremely jealous and/or resentful of the huge amounts of money the ≈ 10% top tier (i.e. haves) are getting and want to unionize to make the distribution of NIL dollars more equitable, etc.

Note: In the United States, unionizing a workplace generally requires a simple majority vote—defined as 50% of the votes cast plus one—in a secret ballot election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
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2026-27 Ohio State Men's Basketball

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Losing Cupps, Chatman, White and Royal means they need multiple bench additions now to help cover the 1-3 spots. The first and most critical decision is finding the right starting guard. After that, now they need some quality depth in the backcourt, at the wing, and in the post. They ought to get 4 rotation players from the portal to add to the core group of Mobley-Thompson-Bynum-Ojianwuna.
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When Ohio State made it to the Final Four

ScriptOhio
calibuck said:
Thanks for that write up. Saw most, remember less. Do still have burned in my skull, the two losses to Cincinnati. Paul Hogue (he of coke bottle glasses), and Moe Thacker took apart Jerry, Hondo, Mel, Larry twice.....probably spawned the lack of scheduling between the two schools for several decades.
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1961 was a close game and went OT; the game could of went either way. The Bucks played pretty solid. Lucas had 27 points & 12 rebounds. See box score:
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Ohio State vs. Cincinnati Box Score (Men), March 25, 1961 | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com

Ohio State vs. Cincinnati Box Score (Men), March 25, 1961
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1962 was a different story. Lucas had a knee injury and wasn't even close to 100%. Yeah, Hogue and Thacker dominated for the Juggalos. See box score:
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Ohio State vs. Cincinnati Box Score (Men), March 24, 1962 | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com

Ohio State vs. Cincinnati Box Score (Men), March 24, 1962
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March Madness

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The Weekender: NCAA Tournament Expected to Expand, NCAA Proposes Rule Change to Ban Players After Remaining in Draft, and Geno Auriemma Lashes Out at Dawn Staley During Postgame Handshake

The NCAA Tournament is expected to expand to 76 teams, NCAA proposes a rule change to ban players after opting in and remaining in the draft, and Geno Auriemma lashes out at Dawn Staley.
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NCAA Tournament Expected to Expand to 76 Teams​

Money. Money. Money.

College basketball fans didn't ask for it, and neither did the majority of coaches and players. However, money talks, and the NCAA is expected to expand March Madness from 68 teams to 76 as early as 2027, according to Yahoo Sports' Ross Dellenger.

Barring something unforeseen, “it will happen,” says one high-placed source.
According to a proposal socialized with members last year, eight games would be added to the current “First Four” played over Tuesday and Wednesday of the first week of the event. This new “opening round” — the verbiage used to describe it — would feature 24 teams playing in 12 games over the two days at two sites (Dayton and another). Those involved in the negotiations caution that plenty of this could change through the course of continuing talks with TV partners Warner Bros. Discovery and CBS.
The 12 winners of the opening-round games — likely six games pitting lower-seeded automatic qualifiers and six pitting at-large teams — advance to an awaiting 52 teams in the original bracket. Under this concept, eight teams are extracted from the main bracket, plus the eight new at-large selections from expansion.
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Whether we like it or not, this will likely mean more mediocre high-major teams rather than mid-major programs.

NCAA president Charlie Baker believes that giving more high-major teams a chance is a net positive, as evidenced by No. 11 seeds Texas and Miami (Ohio), who proved it in their own respective ways over the last couple of weeks.

“There are every year some really good teams that don’t get to the tournament for a bunch of reasons,” Baker said last fall. “One of the reasons is we have 32 automatic qualifiers [for conference champions]. I love that and think it’s great and never want that to change, but that means there’s only 36 slots left for everybody else.”

The NCAA Tournament has expanded over the last nine decades, but has done so more rapidly over the last 15 years, much like it did in the 1979-80 season.
  • 1939: The tournament started with eight teams
  • 1951: Expanded to 16
  • 1975: Expanded to 32
  • 1979: Expanded to 40
  • 1980: Expanded to 48
  • 1985: Expanded to 64
  • 2001: Expanded to 65
  • 2011: Expanded to 68, introducing the "First Four"
For what it's worth, the bubble teams this season, who barely missed the NCAA Tournament but will surely make it if it expands by six teams yet again, included Auburn (17-16), Indiana (18-14), New Mexico (23-10), Oklahoma (19-15) and San Diego State (22-11).
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Ohio State Wrestling (2015/2017/2018 B1G Champs, 2015 National Champs, 2019 National Runners-up)

bigdog3300
RB07OSU said:
They have by far the largest NIL pot. Some kids go there knowing they could be a paid backup. But the big names get a handsome payoff. Nobody is close to their NIL pool.
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I think Stanford coach called PSU at $1.8M and Iowa State even at $1M.
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C Ivan Njegovan (Official Thread)

otisu
Bestbuck36 said:
Was in Ace Hardware on 5th Ave yesterday and Ivan came in with Colin White. I'm about 6'5 with my shoes on and it was ridiculous standing next to him. I used to think it would be cool to be 7ft but F that! What a hassle that has to be.

Btw both kids were very polite. Told them keep their heads up it was a good year just tear em up next year. Definitely a fan of both but they both need to add some muscle to bang in the B1G
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You could have got the inside scoop on where White will be playing next year.
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BP Fantasy Baseball est. 2008 (Current Champion = Ahiacitian)

heisman
Bestbuck36 said:
Someone like to explain how Infinity gets calculated at the end of the week for K:BB?

I have 2 guys now, and sure you guys have it as well, that don't appear to be counting in that category yet for the week.
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Depends on if they have 0K’s and 0BB’s, or 1+K’s and 0BB’s.
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