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Tina Slinker's winning percentage after 8 years here was 35%. She stayed on for another 11 years. Jalie's percentage is at 47% after 8 seasons. Slinker's percentage for her entire 19 years was at 46%. Of course Slinker gets inducted into the UNT Hall of Fame. I agree that we need to make a change and I understand that leadership has changed; where 35% wouldn't be acceptable today. We desperately need some Hall of Fame standards in place for coaches and players. Is it asking too much for a coach to win 51% of their games?

Looks like UAB expended their blind luck in the first ten minutes against us last night* *Not saying UAB isn’t a quality squad, but they couldn’t have played like they did that first ten minutes (and had us play worse) if they got to script their wildest dreams

Yeah, 11, 12, 13 and 14 loss teams. It's a joke.

Pleasantly surprised by how high we still are. Don't think we have a chance to go Dancin'. But what will hack me off....is we will see numerous P5s with lower NET rankings than us.....get in as At Larges. Love this team.....looking forward to them doing some damage....in whatever postseason tourney we're in. (most likely the NIT).

Memphis is up 15 points at the half over #1 ranked Houston. I can’t wait for UNT to have a conference that should get multiple bids. Pulling for this upset

I disagree. Just like we don't need human judgment in the CFB playoff, we don't need it for the NCAA tourney. Human element in these instances are always going to lean to bigger brand for more eyeballs, always.

Never forget how NCAA logic works. Why is Team A ranked despite their losses? “Because they play in such a tough conference” And what makes that conference so tough? “Because it’s filled with ranked teams”

They’ll point to our lack of Q1 games and completely turn a blind eye to the fact that these same teams they’re putting in the dance wanted no part of scheduling us. It’s frustrating.

That would be a very winnable region. I’m still holding out a sliver of hope for NCAA tourney but having a legit chance to win the whole NIT would be awesome.

No. It's not definitely. Since the NET has been around, I believe only 5 teams with a NET of 40 or better have missed out on the big dance. We'd be number 6. The first 5 were actually power conference schools snubbed for mid-majors. There were no bid thiefs this year so we could still make it unless they want power conference teams with NETs in the 60s like Michigan, Arizona State, Pitt, and Clemson. Seems like a long shot but not all hope is gone.

We are at 38 in NET and 45 KENPOM. With very few if any bid steals and our 9-2 road 5-2 neutral records. We are a tournament team this year.

That's not how it works.

It’s a staffer. Don’t have a name. It will be announced after spring break. Heard they turned down P5 opportunity to come here

I think every conference needs a bid or you end up with the mess that is college football. Every now and then, a small program from a nobody conference makes a crazy run à la St Peter's last year. Those runs are what make March Madness great. My issue is actually how many bids conferences can get. I personally think bids should be earned by recent conference performance with a minimum of 1 bid allocated to each conference. If you're like the MWC and went 0-4 last year, maybe you shouldn't get 4 bids this year. If you're like the Big 10 and 8 of your 9 bids were out by the 2nd round in 2022, maybe you shouldn't get 9 bids in 2023. There's quality teams all over. It's problematic when a good team doesn't get a bid because they got upset in their conference tournament but an 18-14 power conference school can get in without showing anything. The little guy never gets a chance to show what they can do without the AQ.

This was his first losing season there and he dealt with a lot of injury problems. This was not really a 20 loss team. Giving autobids to "terrible" conferences is the only reason anybody other than the top 8 leagues gets anyone in.

Is it possible to have the success of a Grant McGasland but with a more entertaining brand of basketball; that packs the arena? Yes, I'd like to have some cake and eat it to.

The man can recruit and has an exciting branch of basketball. Ain't gonna happen but I'd sign on to a return. The bigger question is would he have enough fire left in his career @ age 61.

FAU. No analysis just a gut feeling.

NCAA men's selection show: 5pm CT on CBS, and livestream available... https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2023-03-12/2023-selection-sunday-date-schedule-tv-times NCAA women's selection show: 7pm CT on ESPN. NIT selection show: 9pm CT on ESPNU, live stream on Sling TV, ESPN+... https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-basketball/news/nit-selection-show-2023-time-date-channel/hdc6qmyqi14xktwpa0ckliln

The unsaid, overseen, and never said metric is TV obligations and filing those obligations during selection time.

Of course it doesn't matter. None of it does. It's bullshit in every way imaginable. And Toledo had arguably a better season and resum than us and they're on the outside looking in.

Up 14 with 4 mins to go. With UAB and FAU coming too our basketball conference is about to be really solid. Gonna be fun playing SMU in basketball 🙂

Here is where the “big school” versus “small school” argument will never be truly fair. If I put the NBA Western Conference All-Star team in North Texas jerseys and had them play our current schedule, they would go 34-0 and win every game by a minimum of 30 points. And the selection committee would put them in the NCAA tournament with a worse seed than the champion of several “power 5” leagues. Granted, we’d pull off a couple “upsets” on our way to the title, but the rankings/seedings would be a joke.

But in the pros, say the NFL where all division winners get in the playoffs, you wouldn't put the 2nd best team from a division in the playoffs simply because you view their division and/or schedule as tougher. You win the games in front of you and after the division winners, whoever has the best record gets in. You don't get the benefit of your division-mates being good.

True. But the parameters are set and widely known and there is no pulling strings behind closed doors making sure X team makes the playoffs from Y division. They either do or they don't.

More NIT bracket predictions (good news and bad news).... This bracket lists NIT teams by Net, which we are not on, (implying we're in NCAA Tourney)... https://theresourcenexus.com/nit-bracketology/ This bracket lists us as a 3-seed in the NIT (along with UAB)... https://www.dratings.com/predictor/bracketology/

Kinda goofy, but if it inspires us into a winning culture, just roll with it.

Because it’s all a joke…..

I don't think the committee should only use the NET. It's one tool among several to look at. Still it sucks when schools that have 8-10 league records get in.

Absolutely horrible take.

I don't think we are under any serious consideration. And I love all my bracketology blogs and pods, but I don't think any of the major sports news guys are thinking of us in any way other than "on the outside looking in." The only glimmer of hope I can find is that, apparently, very few bid-stealers emerged this year. But I haven't read into that, so I don't know. Final thought: if by some miracle a second CUSA bid is given, wouldn't the edge be given to UAB?

If you went by NET alone, we would be in. The power conference bubble teams that ESPN has getting in all have NET ratings far below NT's. It's really ridiculous.

That luck carried them all game yesterday. I recall a defensive possession where the ball got loose. Ousmane and Jones both dive for the ball and neither come up with it. They actually got in each others' way. The UAB player watching the play ended up with the ball. Happened several times.

You gotta give everyone a shot. Saint Peter's got to the Elite 8 last season.

As much as I love him, I wouldn't want Coach Jones back. Not because I think we're too good for him, but because coaches who leave a place and then come back rarely have the success they did the first time.

“After an open and candid conversation with my wife, she understands that having three boyfriends was not my expectation. She will be retained because, frankly, child support is a motherf’er. She understands that, going forward, she is not to get caught again”

Maybe I watched a different game but yesterday's scoring drought to start the game was not due to offensive holes or lack of ball movement; players simply weren't finishing "easy" shots. I went back through the ESPN play-by-play for these numbers: Abou missed a dunk and a lay-up, huntsberry missed 2 free throws on 1 trip and missed 3 layups, and Perry missed a lay-up. All this in the first 10ish minutes. That doesn't include post shots and open jumpers that were missed. From lay-ups, a dunk, and Kai's early empty trip to the FT line, that's 14 points right there that we didn't get. UNT was not outmatched. Just couldn't get the shots to drop early. This team beats UAB almost any other day. Just a rough start yesterday. It happens to everybody but for our guys it happened at the worst time.

But it could be tweaked, to fit that narrative. Should 25-26-27 win teams really be on the outside looking in, regardless of conference affiliation? In my eyes, a 27 win team should never be sitting at home.

And UNM is coached by Pitino's kid.

Holy smokes, if that did end up being our bracket...I really like our chances of getting to Vegas. Tough teams, but no one who just out-talents us.

UAB gets the automatic bid to NIT by losing to FAU...hope we sneak in, too.

FAU doubling Jelly sure helps. Why we didn’t do more to deny him the ball, I don’t understand. Especially after he got hot and EVERYONE could see it. We trusted our system, instead of adjusting to the game being played.

UAB was never in this game.

Guess I am missing the connection to UNT Football.

Not all traditions are for the fans. This wasn’t an open practice. It was for the team. If Coach Morris wants to make it a regular thing they do and he thinks it makes the team better, great! If honoring his mentor with the pirate theme makes it not just another workout, great!

I remember doing midnight maneuvers when I was at UNT but it more involved walking from Lucky Lou's, to Fry Street Tavern and finishing up at R Bar for a Friday night