CMJ

Holy cow

He wasn't when he was at Louisville.

Ironic given St Johns helped run it for around 70 years. I believe they've also won more NIT titles than anyone (many back when it was arguably as prestigious as the NCAA).

The SEC and ACC Title games used to go to Atlanta every few years (maybe once every six or so?). Not sure if either is scheduled to any time soon.

That was the reason apparently.

I was thinking somewhere in Tennessee might be as centralized as we can get. Maybe Knoxville just so Memphis wouldn't have homecourt advantage.

I mean, way back in the day NT made the SLC title game with like 6 wins (and that's with three wins in the conference tournament!). Sometimes a team who has been bad all year gets on a roll.

Memphis has said they're not interested in playing. Not sure about any others.

You should root for the league. If we only get in one team, who may end up as a 16 seed....the AAC looks like a lower tier SWAC type of conference.

Temple getting the bid with a losing record would be an embarrassment for the conference. Especially if FAU doesn't get in (which at this point I feel like has a 35-40% chance of happening).

Previous trolling on the board is taken into account.

I think Hodge is going to be just fine.

We are NOT getting into the NIT.

Not sure why you included the 1980 program - Houston was in the Southwest Conference by then. If you have to go back 65 years to the last time we shared a league with the Cougars, it's safe to assume most of us weren't following sports back then.

Okay, haven't been in the same league since the Korean War era.

Even for the FAU game, the crowd was sparse looking on TV when compared to most leagues like ours. Speaking of FAU, they fell to last four in in nearly every projection I've seen this morning. That means they very likely could get booted. Geez, if Temple wins today what a catastrophic tournament this will have been for the league.

Remind me again why we care about Houston? Never been in the same conference, we play each other like once every hundred years, and you are hours away from Denton geographically. Y'all have a great team, but I don't see UNC fans coming on our board to talk about how great they are. If they did though, I would give them crap about losing to NC State.

I was onboard with Mac from the beginning, but it doesn't mean that we didn't have struggles. The first season showed so much promise and year two started off so well that it was pretty devastating when we floundered the second half of the campaign.

Yeah, I actually wouldn't be stunned if FAU were left out to be honest. Quad 4 losses are brutal.

We struggled down the stretch of Mac's first two years. Year two we started out like 15-1 before limping to the end.

WKU wins CUSA.

The geography of the league is such that I wouldn't even how there the center would be. Tennessee?

I wouldn't say that - quite a few teams have been able to trip them up in recent years. :)

All kidding aside, I do think Houston has a decent shot to win the whole thing, but the betting favorite HAS to be Connecticut. Even though the Cougars were ranked #1, the Huskies have been the best team all season, bar none. Plus they're defending champs. I'm not saying they're unbeatable, and given I'm sure everyone will have them in their brackets I may go for someone else given crazy stuff happens every year, but when they're on no one can beat them.

I think most assumed they were gonna get blown out the last three games!