Way To Go South Alabama

UNTFan23 · March 16, 2008

South Alabama has a fair chance to advance to the 2nd round with a practical home field advantage in Birmingham, Alabama. Represent the Sun Belt well guys!

CMJ · March 16, 2008

Oh Jesus...Butler? That's a terrible matchup, Butler is WAY underseeded.

CMJ · March 16, 2008

WKU also got a bad draw IMHO. I'd rather play a 5 seed from a Power league than a 5 from the MVC with something to prove.

NT03 · March 16, 2008

SBaMa & WkU both have good shots at advancing to the 2nd round , I'm picking the HiLLToppeRs for sure N my BraCKeT

ParksAndRecRick · March 16, 2008

Both Belt Teams will WIN in round one! Congrats' to both! Go Sun Belt Hoops!!!!

atx2010 · March 16, 2008

anyone else catch the smack talking on ESPN about how South Alabama got in over Arizona State?

Kinda steamed me a little...

Way to go SUN BELT!

filmerj · March 16, 2008

anyone else catch the smack talking on ESPN about how South Alabama got in over Arizona State?
Kinda steamed me a little...
Way to go SUN BELT!

They aren't giving USA the time of day, they're already talking about a butler - tenn match up. Hope this gets USA fired up and ready to play.

untbowler · March 17, 2008

funny or ironic that the tournament committee puts two of the better Mid-Majors against other Mid-Majors in the opening round? Guess you gotta protect those big boys from getting KO'ed early.

chrisfisher · March 17, 2008

funny or ironic that the tournament committee puts two of the better Mid-Majors against other Mid-Majors in the opening round? Guess you gotta protect those big boys from getting KO'ed early.

I was thinking the same thing... but then I thought if they put the mids in against the top dogs in the first round, we'd say they just wanted to bump out mids.... no win situation for the tourny officials...

GoMeanGreen1999 · March 17, 2008

Oh Jesus...Butler? That's a terrible matchup, Butler is WAY underseeded.

This is a tough matchup for them - you are right - Butler is WAY underseeded for a team that has only 3 losses and has been ranked high this year.

jbchis · March 17, 2008

anyone else catch the smack talking on ESPN about how South Alabama got in over Arizona State?
Kinda steamed me a little...
Way to go SUN BELT!

Jay Bilas really annoyed me. He carries the flag for all the power conferences. I would not be surprised if some day he championed a "BCS type" NCAA tournament. He dogged the mid majors by stating that they "get a pass" when it comes to getting into the tournament as an at large while the schools from power conferences have to do more work to get in.

Of course, he was using South Alabama as his example when compared to Arizona State, VA Tech, etc. He used the fact that USA had so many wins against teams with RPI over 200. The fact is USA has to play non-con home games like every other school. Tell Bilas how difficult it is to get a "power" conference team to go on the road to play in Mobile or any other mid major home court.

:angry:

emmitt01 · March 17, 2008

Jay Bilas really annoyed me. He carries the flag for all the power conferences. I would not be surprised if some day he championed a "BCS type" NCAA tournament. He dogged the mid majors by stating that they "get a pass" when it comes to getting into the tournament as an at large while the schools from power conferences have to do more work to get in.
Of course, he was using South Alabama as his example when compared to Arizona State, VA Tech, etc. He used the fact that USA had so many wins against teams with RPI over 200. The fact is USA has to play non-con home games like every other school. Tell Bilas how difficult it is to get a "power" conference team to go on the road to play in Mobile or any other mid major home court.

And ask Jay Bilas to show you the impressive Va Tech resume he so clearly thinks they have...