2022 NCAA Basketball Discussion Thread

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://mobile.twitter.com/GoodmanHoops/status/1636903770616483840

[NewYorkExpress]

With Iona's elimination from the NCAA Tournament tonight, Head Coach Rick Pitino is expected to take the vacant Head Coach position at St. John's within days.

Iona's a pretty good mid-major school, and should have no trouble attracting a recently fired coach or a high-major assistant.

A couple of names to watch might be Hofstra's Speedy Claxton (he did just sign a contract extension, but this would be an impressive hire for Iona after Pitino, with ties to the NYC area) and Patrick Ewing (Ewing's ties to New York City as a long-time player for the New York Knicks make Iona a possible destination if he still wishes to coach in college.).

[Orwell]

With Iona's elimination from the NCAA Tournament tonight, Head Coach Rick Pitino is expected to take the vacant Head Coach position at St. John's within days.

Iona's a pretty good mid-major school, and should have no trouble attracting a recently fired coach or a high-major assistant.

A couple of names to watch might be Hofstra's Speedy Claxton (he did just sign a contract extension, but this would be an impressive hire for Iona after Pitino, with ties to the NYC area) and Patrick Ewing (Ewing's ties to New York City as a long-time player for the New York Knicks make Iona a possible destination if he still wishes to coach in college.).

Ewing is an awful coach

[NewYorkExpress]

With Iona's elimination from the NCAA Tournament tonight, Head Coach Rick Pitino is expected to take the vacant Head Coach position at St. John's within days.

Iona's a pretty good mid-major school, and should have no trouble attracting a recently fired coach or a high-major assistant.

A couple of names to watch might be Hofstra's Speedy Claxton (he did just sign a contract extension, but this would be an impressive hire for Iona after Pitino, with ties to the NYC area) and Patrick Ewing (Ewing's ties to New York City as a long-time player for the New York Knicks make Iona a possible destination if he still wishes to coach in college.).

Ewing is an awful coach

I think the problem was Georgetown's expectations of him. Iona doesn't have the same expectations (though following Rick Pitino would be a challenge at any program).

He is a subpar recruiter, but again, Iona isn't somewhere where recruits generally want to go to begin with, so it shouldn't matter much.

[FairBol]

I cannot believe Purdue just lost to FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON.  

"WHAT??"

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

LoL it's college ball not professional balll just think back to the days we were in college if you are as old as I am

So much for brackets again

Houston is gonna win as I said anyways

[muon2]

As busted as the brackets are after the first round, there are surprisingly few upsets. By an upset I mean a lower seed defeating a higher seed, except when they are adjacent seed which are statistically tossups. I've been tracking upset rates since the early 1990's and I've found most years have around a 25% upset rate. The first round had only 5 upsets in 28 games (8 vs 9 games don't count). That's 2 less than last year which was right on average with 7 upsets in the first round, before jumping up to 5 upsets out of 14 second round games.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Houston is the fav but I also had KS and AL and Zags winning they're broken brackets anyways

I have Duke v Houston , Mich St v Gonzaga, Arizona v KU and Northwest v Alabama something like that

[NewYorkExpress]

Western Kentucky to hire Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Head Coach Steve Lutz to fill their head coaching vacancy.

Before coming to Corpus Christi was an assistant at Stephen F. Austin, SMU, Creighton and Purdue, and is a pretty good recruiter, notably being responsible for Zach Edey's recruitment while at Purdue.

This is a pretty good hire.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Down goes Duke

[GeorgiaModerate]

Memphis got absolutely jobbed by the zebras in last night's loss to FAU.  Details here:

Memphis’ ignored timeout is the most controversial moment of March Madness

[NewYorkExpress]

Princeton is halfway to making to making the Sweet Sixteen. They lead Missouri 33-26 at the half.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Another #1 seed bites the dust, as Arkansas comes back from 14 down to beat Kansas 72-71.

[NewYorkExpress]

Princeton is running Missouri off the court right now. The New Jersey Tigers lead the Missouri Tigers 62-45 with about five minutes to go.

[NewYorkExpress]

Princeton is heading to the Sweet Sixteen, as they crush Missouri, 78-63.

Next up for the Tigers, either Creighton or Baylor.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

All the brackets are busted again, no need to worry about them it's college ball the best bracket I created was AL and Zags but Houston is the best team

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/tayloreldridge/status/1637246179728662528

This is the WSU beat writer, who usually has excellent inside information.

[NewYorkExpress]

Sadly, I can't directly post the video because it's not a YouTube link, but let's just say shirtless Eric Musselman is something I never wanted to see.

[FairBol]

And now Kansas goes down.  I'm screwed, LOL. 

[NewYorkExpress]

And now Kansas goes down.  I'm screwed, LOL. 

Honestly not sure if Alabama survives their Sweet Sixteen matchup with San Diego State. We could be looking at a Final Four with no #1 seeds. Has that ever happened?

[GeorgiaModerate]

Honestly not sure if Alabama survives their Sweet Sixteen matchup with San Diego State. We could be looking at a Final Four with no #1 seeds. Has that ever happened?

Seeding was introduced in 1979.  Since then, there have been three Final Fours with no #1 seeds:

1980 (48 teams total): #2 Louisville (champion), #5 Iowa, #6 Purdue, #8 UCLA

2006: #2 UCLA, #3 Florida (champion), #4 LSU, #11 George Mason

2011: #3 UConn (champion), #4 Kentucky, #8 Butler, #11 VCU (a First Four team)

In contrast, a Final Four of all #1 seeds has happened only once, in 2008 (Kansas, Memphis, North Carolina, UCLA).

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

My best bracket wasn't the money bracket it was a fantasy bracket Zags v Alabama in Finals

I am warming up to Miami, because FL is becoming a battleground not TX, I should of entered that bracket but I put Duke v Houston I knew Houston Cougars would win but Duke without Coach K sux

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

My best bracket had ALABAMA/MICH ST  and ZAGS/TX IN THE FINAL 4 AND zags winning at least I know now whom to pick, from now on, it's gonna be AL and Zags in the title game

Zags can finally get over the hump and win it

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/GoodmanHoops/status/1637563027225473026

[NewYorkExpress]

https://twitter.com/GoodmanHoops/status/1637563027225473026

I'd say fire Calipari, but Jeff Goodman is dramatically underselling this year's Kansas State team. They basically got jobbed out of a two seed in my opinion.