Sunbelt Final

[emmitt01]

Georgia State beat Georgia Southern...wait for it...38 to 36. Yes, they won a tournament final with THIRTY EIGHT points.

I hope they served coffee at that game.

[CMJ]

Georgia State beat Georgia Southern...wait for it...38 to 36. Yes, they won a tournament final with THIRTY EIGHT points.

I hope they served coffee at that game.

Remember the Elite 8 game between UCLA and Memphis about 8-9 years ago? I think it was 40-38.

In a regional final.

[UNT90]

Georgia State beat Georgia Southern...wait for it...38 to 36. Yes, they won a tournament final with THIRTY EIGHT points.

I hope they served coffee at that game.

Maybe they thought they were playing in the GMG.com basketball classic.

Lol.

[Cerebus]

UCLA scored 7 points in the first half against UK earlier this year. College BB needs some fixing.

[drex]

Sounds like these programs need some fixing.

[GMG24]

Hey, they got Kevin ware to transfer, he'd probably be ruled out as a cancer here.... Ugh

[oldguystudent]

College BB needs some fixing.

They could start by awarding FOUR free throws to teams that get hacked in the final two minutes of the game. I watched a replay of another conference tournament. It took 20 minutes to expire the final 1:08 of game clock. I find it really, really, really frustrating, so I think that if coaches are going to engage in this strategy, as they seem to do in every game of college basketball played in the history of ever, they should be soundly penalized for it.

[UNTFan23]

I have heard a 30-second play clock is around the corner. That will help speed things up a little. I also think they shouldn't reset the play clock to the full allotted time when a foul is committed. In the NBA they only give you back some of the time once the play clock has gone past a certain time.

[CMJ]

They could start by awarding FOUR free throws to teams that get hacked in the final two minutes of the game. I watched a replay of another conference tournament. It took 20 minutes to expire the final 1:08 of game clock. I find it really, really, really frustrating, so I think that if coaches are going to engage in this strategy, as they seem to do in every game of college basketball played in the history of ever, they should be soundly penalized for it.

A baseball guy should never criticize another sport for dragging certain situations out. And I LOVE baseball.

[oldguystudent]

A baseball guy should never criticize another sport for dragging certain situations out. And I LOVE baseball.

This baseball guy is basking in the glow of Orange County basketball success this weekend 25 years in the making. Still didn't like sitting through the last minute of the replay. One sport is designed to be leisurely, sit in the sun, enjoy the conversation. The other is supposed to be action packed edge of your seat excitement.

[oldguystudent]

I do have an actual question. Why are two of the four play-in games 11 seeds? I haven't paid much attention to this since they started the one play-in game however many years ago, but I thought it was always for 16 seed slots.

[CMJ]

I do have an actual question. Why are two of the four play-in games 11 seeds? I haven't paid much attention to this since they started the one play-in game however many years ago, but I thought it was always for 16 seed slots.

When they decided on the four game round back in....2011(?) they were a lot of debate on whether they should all be for 16s or not. Many people advocated they should all be played among the last eight bubble teams, since the 16s all were conference champions.

Obviously some folks wanted them all to be the little guys playing each other, to let more teams in that were power players. The NCAA ended up going with a hybrid. The bottom four conference champs play each other and the last four bubble teams do, each for two spots.

Edited March 16, 2015 by CMJ

[Arkstfan]

When they decided on the four game round back in....2011(?) they were a lot of debate on whether they should all be for 16s or not. Many people advocated they should all be played among the last eight bubble teams, since the 16s all were conference champions.

Obviously some folks wanted them all to be the little guys playing each other, to let more teams in that were power players. The NCAA ended up going with a hybrid. The bottom four conference champs play each other and the last four bubble teams do, each for two spots.

The NCAA wanted to reopen the TV contract and had to do something to get CBS to kick in more money. The original idea was to expand the tournament to 96 teams and that was received like feces in the punch bowl.

Then the NCAA cooked up the idea of the "first four" that was going to be the eight lowest seeded teams playing for the right to win and get the brains bashed in by the four 16 seeds. CBS yawned and said how about have the last eight at-large teams play to come into the bracket as the four 11 seeds. So they split the baby and two games feature teams playing to enter the field of 64 as 11 seeds and two games where teams play to enter as 16 seeds.

My idea of going back to 64 but spreading the first two rounds over six days instead of four and cutting out or back on the games during work hours was apparently not considered.

[THOR]

Play in games shouldn't include the 16 seeds...those teams earned their spot...

[Army of Dad]

Play in games shouldn't include the 16 seeds...those teams earned their spot...

I get where you are coming from, but those games might be the best thing to happen to those teams and those leagues.

Those games count like all tournament games and the winning teams in those two games just got their leagues two 'shares' instead of just one.

[Cerebus]

A share gets paid out over six years but per the last distribution is worth almost 2 million in total. So yes, getting those 16 seed winners two shares is a major win for their conference .

[GMG24]

They are doing a 30 second shot clock for the NIT tournament to give it a test run. I like it. Wish they would do something more like 28 second play clock. Be must more realistic and allows minimum of 3 possessions a minute.