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When Ohio State made it to the Final Four

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The 1999 team is also notable for the fact that they turned around completely from being a single-digit winning team to a single-digit losing team that made the Final Four. I'm not sure that ever happened at another power conference team before. 8-22 in 1998, 27-9 in 1999. Miami FL this year had a huge turnaround (7-24 to 26-9) but it's not quite the same. With the transfer portal now, you can rebuild an entire team in one offseason, but no one did that in 1999.
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Michael Redd staying home is one of the most underrated great things that’s happened in OSU sports history.
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Ohio State Traditions: Buckeye Football

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Read the tradition post. Yeah, knew about all of them, even remembered a few had forgotten. Guess if you're up close and personal, one takes those traditions as something that one takes for granted, but all in all, not something that other schools do on a regular basis. This is stated not knowing (nor caring much), what other schools do. Would expect that they each have their own traditions, though.
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University of Tennessee Women's BBall

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Oliviyah Edwards decommits as Tennessee roster shrinks to 1

On the same day that Tennessee guard Jaida Civil announced she's entering the transfer portal, Oliviyah Edwards, the No. 2 recruit in the SC Next 100 class of 2026, requested a release from her national letter of intent with the Lady Volunteers on Monday.
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Oliviyah Edwards decommits as Tennessee roster shrinks to 1​

Tennessee guard Jaida Civil announced Monday that she is entering the transfer portal, and Oliviyah Edwards, the No. 2 recruit in the SC Next 100 class of 2026, has requested a release from her national letter of intent with the Lady Volunteers, leaving the program with just one player on the roster for next season.

The announcements add to the significant uncertainty surrounding the storied program, which went 16-14 this past season under second-year coach Kim Caldwell. Every player with remaining eligibility has entered the transfer portal -- including all of the highly touted, second-ranked freshmen class. Seniors Janiah Barker and Zee Spearman will be graduating, leaving the Lady Vols with just No. 62 wing Gabby Minus set to arrive for next season.
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Prior to Edwards' decision, Tennessee had the nation's No. 10 recruiting class. It will now drop out of the top 25. Caldwell figures to be active in the transfer portal as she tries to build her third roster in Knoxville.
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Just sayin': No kidding, that or having a team of walk-ons.

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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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C Ivan Njegovan (Official Thread)

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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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