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5 minutes ago, BigWillie said:
Pitino is too good for it.
He wasn't when he was at Louisville.
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2 minutes ago, MeanGreen22 said:
Add St John’s and Pitt to the list declining a NIT invite
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).
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1 hour ago, Matt from A700 said:
Yeah if it had to be in one of the school's markets, undoubtedly Memphis would have the best attendance. But Memphis and even Birmingham aren't exactly glorious cities on the rise.
Other centralized cities in the Appalachians like Chattanooga or Asheville scream minor league. Asheville already hosts the SoCon. I would love Nashville if it didn't already host the SEC Tourney.
I would be fine with Atlanta. For those who couldn't drive, it's a big hub for Delta, my preferred airline.
If we want it to be a destination where people would be fine spending their Spring Break, I was thinking somewhere like Pensacola but then saw that's where the Sun Belt has it lol. Maybe NOLA or Savannah.
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.
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That was the reason apparently.
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32 minutes ago, Matt from A700 said:
Since the low attendance at Dickies is getting widespread criticism on social media, I went and looked at what the midpoint of our weird 13-team league would be.
According to geomidpoint.com, the midpoint of our conference is in the sticks of Pickens County, Alabama, right on the state border with Mississippi, 100 miles west of Birmingham. The closest gym is New Hope High School in Columbus, MS. So I present to y'all the next host of the AAC Conference Tournament!:
Ironically, if you leave out Temple Island, you end up at Geyser Falls Waterpark in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
I was thinking somewhere in Tennessee might be as centralized as we can get. Maybe Knoxville just so Memphis wouldn't have homecourt advantage.
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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.
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Memphis has said they're not interested in playing. Not sure about any others.
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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.
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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).
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Previous trolling on the board is taken into account.
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I think Hodge is going to be just fine.
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Just now, BigWillie said:
Doesn't that hurt us more for NIT? Even if it was already a long shot.
We are NOT getting into the NIT.
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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.
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Okay, haven't been in the same league since the Korean War era.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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4 hours ago, outoftown said:
That game reaallly hurt FAUs metrics. Down to 39th from 33rd in NET. Those metrics were really one of the main argumnets in their favor. (apart from that win over Arizona). Frankly it would have been less dangerous had they lost a round earlier to UNT, as at least that would have been a Q2 rather than a Q4 loss. If the commitee really wants to get rid of them, they now gave them a good excuse with a third loss below Q2. If Temple wins, that really is the worst case for the conference.
Yeah, I actually wouldn't be stunned if FAU were left out to be honest. Quad 4 losses are brutal.
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We struggled down the stretch of Mac's first two years. Year two we started out like 15-1 before limping to the end.
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WKU wins CUSA.
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The geography of the league is such that I wouldn't even how there the center would be. Tennessee?
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1 minute ago, MCMLXXX said:
I would go with Purdue since we aren't in their way this year.
I wouldn't say that - quite a few teams have been able to trip them up in recent years. :)
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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.
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NCAA tournament/NIT selection show TV info
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It helps that several schools looked down their noses at the NIT, but I'll take it.