2026 NCAA Tournament General Discussion

[buckeyemania11]

It makes it easier. It doesn’t matter when it comes to winning. Michigan isn’t going to struggle with any of those teams at full strength based on matchups. There are just a few teams that matchup well with Michigan and none of them were in that region. May figured out his rotations just in time right after the Cason injury.

Bama was leading Michigan by 2 at halftime. If you think it's not a completely different game if Bama had Holloway you are delusional.

 

[ScriptOhio]

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.

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)

 

[zwem]

Bama was leading Michigan by 2 at halftime. If you think it's not a completely different game if Bama had Holloway you are delusional.

Holloway just adds more offense. He doesn’t change anything on the defensive side. It would also be a completely different game if Cason was healthy giving Michigan the ability to have 2 point guards on the floor at the same time with the ability to guard quicker guards. Cason’s excellent perimeter defense along with not putting all the pressure on EC has been missed. One again, you don’t even factor Michigan’s injures. Big shocker. If you don’t think it would have been completely different with Cason on the floor then you are delusional. After Alabama went up 11-2, Michigan outscored them by 22 points the rest of the game.