Since around the 2004 season. For any program, not just your own team's most devastating loss.

IMO the COVID cancellation for Dayton outclasses any on-court loss, but I'll give one nonetheless.

• Kentucky-Wichita State 2014 Round of 32: Coming off a Final Four run, Wichita State was undefeated and facing an underseeded freshman-laden Kentucky team. It was one of the few times everyone wanted the big upset to not happen. Of course, it barely did. This outcome was both surprising and disappointing for much of the country.

Was thinking about a response to the "storybook" post and realized in 2001-2002 Maryland beat Duke, UNC (2x), UCONN (2x), Kentucky, Kansas, and Indiana. Only one they missed was UCLA. Debates about BB status aside, has a team ever beaten every BB in a single season?

Texas and Oklahoma are now a part of the SEC.

SMU is now a part of the ACC.

The Pac12 technically doesn’t depart until August 2nd, but for all intents and purposes:

USC, UCLA, Oregon, and Washington are now a part of the Big Ten.

Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and Arizona State are now a part of the Big 12.

Cal and Stanford are now a part of the ACC.

Mine would obviously be beating #2 and eventual national runner up Purdue with NPOTY Zach Edey at home just 4 days after firing Chris Holtmann. That whole time period just felt so bizarre.

Is there such a thing as fantasy college basketball? And if any of you have done it, how does it work and what platforms are used? Fantasy basketball for the NBA is fun but I don't follow/watch it near as much as college.

I was thinking about this because last night I was watching highlights of the 2003 Final Four and Roy Williams should have won at least 1 title at Kansas.

Then he moves on and we all know what he did at UNC.

John Thompson should have had more than one title but a fluke Villanova run and his point guard throwing the ball to a UNC player...

John Calipari should have won more than one title. Lost in the Final Four to maybe the greatest Kentucky team of all time (who he already beat that season) because Edgar Padilla forgot how to be good at basketball. I don't think we need to rehash Memphis or Kentucky.

Dean Smith. I will go to my grave saying he should have had more than 2.

Guy Lewis-They should hand out an award for snakebit coaches and call it the Guy Lewis award.

Every year there's always some type of reference regarding teams that have never made the NCAA Tournament. Obviously, for mid majors, this means they've never won their conference tournament.
I wanted to take it one step further, and determine the teams that have never won a conference tournament title or a regular season title.

1) Army
122 seasons (46 in Patriot, MAAC & ECACM)
1304-1330 = .495
Best Conf Regular Season: 8-6 (2012-13)
Conf Tournament Runner up: 0

2) The Citadel
112 seasons (88 in SOCON)
1050-1462 = .418
Best Conf Regular Season: 10-3 (1960-61)
Conf Tournament Runner up: 1 (1959)

3) Maine
94 seasons (82 in AEast, ECACN & Yankee) Yankee conf (1937-76) No conf tourney
973-1228 = .442
Best Conf Regular Season: 15-3 (1999-00)
Conf Tournament Runner up: 4 ('91, '92, '02, '04)

4) UT Rio Grande Valley (Texas Pan American)
56 seasons (28 in WAC, Sun Belt, Great West, American South)
671-912 = .424
Best Conf Regular Season: 7-3 (1989-90)
Conf Tournament Runner up: 2 (1980, '90)

5) Kansas City
35 seasons (29 in WAC, Summit & Mid Con)
448-592 = .431
Best Conf Regular Season: 12-4 (2004-05)
Conf Tournament Runner up: 0

6) Sacramento State
33 seasons (30 in Big Sky)
302-643 = .320
Best Conf Regular Season: 13-5 (2014-15)
Conf Tournament Runner up: 0

7) Sacred Heart
25 seasons in NEC
295-448 = .397
Best Conf Regular Season: 13-5 (2007-08)
Conf Tournament Runner up: 2 (2007, 2008)

8) UC Riverside
23 seasons in Big West
266-419 = .388
Best Conf Regular Season: 14-6 (2022-23)
Conf Tournament Runner up: 0

9) Central Arkansas
18 seasons in Southland & ASun
170-372 = .314
Best Conf Regular Season: 10-8 (2017-18)
Conf Tournament Runner up: 0

10) Presbyterian
17 seasons in Big South
168-358 = .319
Best Conf Regular Season: 9-7 (2018-19)
Conf Tournament Runner up: 0

11) South Carolina Upstate
17 seasons in ASun & Big South
206-329 = .385
Best Conf Regular Season: 13-5 (2011-12)
Conf Tournament Runner up: 1 (2015)

12) SIU Edwardsville
16 seasons (13 in Ohio Valley)
160-314 = .338
Best Conf Regular Season: 9-9 (2022-23/'23-24)
Conf Tournament Runner up: 0

13) UMass Lowell
12 seasons (11 in AEast)
174-174 = .500
Best Conf Regular Season: 11-5 ('22-23/'24-25)
Conf Tournament Runner up: 3 (2021, '23, '24)

14) Omaha
12 seasons in the Summit
156-215 = .420
Best Conf Regular Season: 13-3 (2018-19)
Conf Tournament Runner up: 2 (2017, 2019)

15) Incarnate Word
11 seasons in Southland
125-195 = .391
Best Conf Regular Season: 12-6 (2015-16)
Conf Tournament Runner up: 0

16) North Alabama
6 seasons in ASun
78-103 = .431
Best Conf Regular Season: 10-8 (2022-23)
Conf Tournament Runner up: 1 (2021)

17) Cal Baptist
6 seasons in WAC
101-84 = .546
Best Conf Regular Season: 10-6 (2019-20)
Conf Tournament Runner up: 0

18) Tarleton State
4 seasons in WAC
66-54 = .550
Best Conf Regular Season: 16-4 (2023-24)
Conf Tournament Runner up: ineligible

19) Utah Tech (Dixie State)
4 seasons in WAC
46-70 = .397
Best Conf Regular Season: 7-13 (2023-24)
Conf Tournament Runner up: ineligible

20) UC San Diego
4 seasons in Big West
51-58 = .468
Best Conf Regular Season: 15-5 (2023-24)
Conf Tournament Runner up: ineligible

21) St Thomas
3 seasons in Summit
49-47 =.510
Best Conf Regular Season: 9-7 (2023-24)
Conf Tournament Runner up: 0

22) Lindenwood
2 seasons in Ohio Valley
20-43 = .317
Best Conf Regular Season: 6-12 (2022-23)
Conf Tournament Runner up: ineligible

23) Southern Indiana
2 seasons in Ohio Valley
24-41 = .369
Best Conf Regular Season: 9-9 (2022-23)
Conf Tournament Runner up: ineligible

24) Stonehill
2 seasons in NEC
18-44 = .290
Best Conf Regular Season: 10-6 (2022-23)
Conf Tournament Runner up: ineligible in '23

25) Texas A&M Commerce
2 seasons in Southland
26-40 = .394
Best Conf Regular Season: 9-9 (2022-23)
Conf Tournament Runner up: 0

26) Queens
2 seasons in ASun
32-34 = .485
Best Conf Regular Season: 7-9 (2023-24)
Conf Tournament Runner up: 0

27) Le Moyne
1 season in NEC
15-17 = .469
Conference Record: 9-7
Conf Tournament Runner up: 0

247: https://247sports.com/player/tyler-cochran-46076794/college-279237/

Source: https://x.com/captaintc23/status/1807164148637139045

OH IT'S TIME. IT'S TIME. IT'S DELTA TIME.

For those of you who are fans of teams in Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi, or Louisiana, your time is now.

Format:

Round 1 – The bottom 4 teams play a double round robin group, winner advances

Round 2 – The remaining teams will be drawn into 5 groups of 8 teams. Single Round Robin, all 5 group winners will qualify for the World Cup. All 2^nd and 3^rd place teams will qualify for the next round

Round 3 – All 2^nd and 3^rd place teams will play in a single round robin tournament. Top 2 teams advance to the world cup.

Participants:

1. Tennessee(7)
2. Kentucky(18)
3. Mississippi State(31)
4. McNeese State(56)
5. Memphis(75)
6. Ole Miss(90)
7. LSU(94)
8. Louisiana Tech(99)
9. Morehead State(106)
10. Arkansas(115)
11. Belmont(117)
12. Western Kentucky(136)
13. Tulane(138)
14. Chattanooga(140)
15. Arkansas State(148)
16. Louisiana(150)
17. Lipscomb(166)
18. Murray State(169)
19. Eastern Tennessee State(180)
20. Little Rock(182)
21. Northern Kentucky(183)
22. Vanderbilt(202)
23. UT Martin(204)
24. Louisville(216)
25. Eastern Kentucky(219)
26. Austin Peay(221)
27. Nicholls(237)
28. Southern Miss(239)
29. Southern(257)
30. Grambling State(279)
31. Tennessee State(282)
32. Middle Tennessee(288)
33. Alcorn State(299)
34. Jackson State(300)
35. Southeastern Louisiana(306)
36. Louisiana Monroe(309)
37. Bellarmine(318)
38. Arkansas Pine Bluff(328)
39. Northwestern State(332)
40. Tennessee Tech(336)
41. New Orleans(340)
42. Central Arkansas(344)
43. Mississippi Valley(362)

Pots:

Group A:

Group B:

Group C:

Group D:

Group E:

See you soon with the results

Square dance your way into this new round partners. The Lonestar happens now.

Link to the results - https://organizer.toornament.com/toornament/tournaments/7929548678893248512/

And here's a link to the main hub - https://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeBasketball/comments/1defy0q/introducing_the_college_basketball_world_cup_a/

PLAY IN(2/3):
Houston Christian 90, Incarnate Word 66
Houston Christian 82, Incarnate Word 67

Recap - HCU through, Incarnate Word will be uttered no longer in the terms of the CBBWC.

Recap - Everything paired off in 2s in this group. Texas Tech and Texas A&M were way above everyone else. Tech swept A&M, which launched them into the first spot from the Lonestar. The bottom 4 at one point was fairly close together and then split off as you can see above. Tarleton State and Texas State faced off in the group main event to determine who would take spot 3 and head into the next round, which was won by Tarleton.

Group B

Recap - Let's face it. This one was always more interesting as to who would be 2nd and 3rd over 1st. Baylor Did very well, only slipping up to Rice randomly. They will be going to the WC. But let's pause there and talk about Rice. They started off with a 2-1 record, defeating SFA and North Texas while only losing to Baylor by 1 in between. With a very good showing against the top contenders of the group, the seemed primed to advance. But then they lost a 1 point game to PVAM. Then dropped 2 straight to Lamar. They ended up going 2-1 until the final week with a win and in game against UNT, but North Texas ended up pulling that one off to move on to the next round. Man, what could have been. In other news, North Texas managed to hang onto a lose 2 win 2 pattern until they broke it in week 10. PVAM also turned in one of the worst performances I've seen so far, never scoring above 70 points and only cracking 60 in half of their games. Gross.

Group C

Recap - Kinda a snoozer here. SMU started off the group by randomly losing to UTSA and then not losing again, sweeping Texas and locking their WC bid in. Texas lost to nobody other than SMU and will be one of the favorites in the next round. Everything else was kinda a coinflip every game out there. Texas A&M Commerce, the final team above the play in round, somehow goes 5-5 and will participate in the next round.

Group D:

Recap - Man what the actual fuck. I guess I'll start with the group winner Sam Houston State. They swept Houston. You read that right. I don't know either, I'm just pressing submit button. They also split with TCU, which makes a little more sense but is still pretty out there. Well, welcome to the show Sam Houston. This is going to get pretty wild now I think. Not much else to say here other than Houston overall didn't perform very well at all. 7-3 is solid but they had some head scratchers. Outside of Sam Houston sweeping them they had only a 1 point win over UTRGV to start the group and only beat Texas Southern by 6 and 10 points. They'll get another shot at it in the next round but man, wild.

Round 2:

Recap - Ok Houston, that makes more sense. Total table run there. Group was far more interesting than I expected after the Sam Houston shocker. A total war for survival here, a few pretty good teams will be sitting this one out.

Alright, today we saw Texas Tech, Baylor, SMU, and Sam Houston State all punch tickets to the WC while Houston shall await the next step of the interconference playoff games. I'll see you all soon for what will likely be either one of the bigger conferences left.

Should add some much-needed depth in the paint to round out next year’s roster.

https://247sports.com/college/baylor/article/baylor-mens-basketball-rounds-out-roster-with-commitment-from-croatian-center-marino-dubravi-233347976/amp/

https://basketball.eurobasket.com/player/Marino-Dubravcic/632824

https://painttouches.com/2024/06/28/the-big-easts-new-480-million-tv-deal-is-a-huge-win-for-all-basketball-fans/

This is a Marquette blog, but it's an absolutely fascinating read if you're interested in media rights and the details around it.

Summarizing the summary:

• Money: The Big East is going to get ~80 million a year for media rights. Basketball CAN exist in the same world with the football schools, but we'll always be paddling behind. So megadonors, university investment, etc - especially with most of the BE schools being small urban private schools, will drive how competitive teams in the league can be. Looking at you, DePaul.
• Money compared:
  • Football: AAC's ESPN football media rights are $83 million a year through 2032. So the Big East will be making more per-team in basketball than the AAC's football.
  • Basketball:
    • The A-10 got $6 million in 2022 for media rights, so each Big East team will be making more annually than the entirety of the A-10 as a league. Let's hope those guys get another raise soon.
    • It's not all rosy the Big East shares Fox with the Big Ten. If you assume the Big Ten's basketball is worth 15% of their total media rights, their basketball is worth $200 million a year. Regardless of how strong or poor the teams in the B10 are, their massive alumni bases are bound to draw more ratings.
• Just tell me everything will be on cable: Mostly, and broadly distributed which will get the league some nice exposure. FOX, FS1, FS2, and TNT will be broadcasting. Very excited about TNT's capabilities considering how well produced and fun the NBA analysis is with Shaq, Barkley, etc.
• Basketball is still worth something to linear cable broadcasters:
  • TNT, FOX, NBC, and CBS (before dropping out) were/are all partners of the Big East. That's a lot of networks wanting inventory. There's still a market for college basketball, despite some of the doom and gloom around no one caring about the regular season.
  • That said, the Big East has won 4 Nattys since they signed with FOX in 2012 after the C7 split off. They've had an unbelievable run. Hopefully it can stay competitive, as ratings correlate heavily with poll rankings.
• But I hate Peacock: Streaming, specifically on Peacock, is not going away. The author estimates ~25% of Big East games (including Noncon, Conference, and BE Tourney) will be on Peacock.
• We could still be screwed: The Big Ten/SEC might still ruin everything in 2032 when the NCAA tourney media deals are up for bidding and form some sort of frankenmegaconference. It's no surprise that the Big East's negotiated Madison Square Garden contract ends right around that time as well.

TLDR - basketball fans can breathe a sigh of relief, at least for ~6-8 more years when this is all going to start getting a little weird again in the 2030s.

Also, Val Ackerman, the conference's commissioner, deserves a fat raise for snagging UConn. back. My understanding is that that decision was not a unanimous one and was hard-fought to convince some university presidents to let them back in. What a phenomenal decision to invite them back one, and hike the exit fee to $30 million.

Source

ESPN

Source

ESPN

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