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2026 NCAA Tournament General Discussion

Yet, you won't even take into consideration Michigan's injuries. The main reason people like Clark Kellogg and Jay Bilas (two of the few guys I respect in the business) didn't pick Michigan is because of Cason's injury (Who upped his game late in the season and was consistently scoring in double figures while shooting 50% fg and 40% from 3). His injury had an impact on rotations that Dusty May had to figure out quickly which he did in time for the NCAA tournament. Michigan had an easier path due to injuries to other teams, but Michigan's guard depth was severely depleted when Cason tore his ACL. The versatilely he offered to counter smaller/quicker lineups and providing another shooter/driver was missed late in the season.
Iowa State lost their best player.
Alabama lost their second best player (and key weed distributor).
Cason was 5th in minutes/game at Guard for UM and was probably their 4th best guard at the end of the year. He's a good player, but they have 5 good guards.

How are these equal?
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"We Choose to Go To The Moon!"

Looking forward to pictures of the alien base on the dark side of the moon;-)

That's gotta be the most ignorant post I've seen so far today. There's no moon base built and/or operated by any aliens on any surface of the moon.
Everyone knows the moon is hollow and totally artificial. The aliens flew it into its current orbit. The bases are in the hollow center.
May Big Foot have mercy on your soul for your ignorance.
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2026-27 Ohio State Men's Basketball

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

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.


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:

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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March Madness

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.
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)

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.

I think Stanford coach called PSU at $1.8M and Iowa State even at $1M.
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C Ivan Njegovan (Official Thread)

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
You could have got the inside scoop on where White will be playing next year.
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