Bracket Challenge & March Madness Thread

[Rzunz]

28yo Yaxel and 1st year transfer Cadeau winning the natty just makes sense. This sport is so dumb.

All 5 starters were transfers

 

[CEB]

All 5 starters were transfers

Dusty May is in his second year. Coaching changes these days always clean house… gotta build a team from somewhere. It’ll be interesting to see if this remains the norm, but I suspect more player continuity with coaching continuity

 

[lv20gt]

All 5 starters were transfers

Doesn't change much but it is worth noting Burnett was a transfer in his third year at Michigan.

In general they had 4 new transfers, 4 players that were held over from last year, and one freshman of their 9 regularly playing group, and their bench played quite a bit as well.

 

[g0lftime]

College football - Miami was a 10 seed and upset Texas A&M and a very large upset against reigning national champion Ohio State. Indiana went 3-9 including 1-8 in conference in 2023.

I consider that parity.

Whereas the NCAA tournament saw no large first round upsets, which is relatively uncommon. And ultimately the final four are top teams.

I almost stated 3 no 1s. But it was lovely watching dook choke it away.

The one common denominator in all of this is that the $EC doesn’t seem to be as dominant - largely due the playing field being leveled with teams being able to legally pay players for play.

B1G is now dominating CFB, MBB, and WBB. All three national championships.

 

[g0lftime]

The classic case where one team made a losing play yet the other team still had to make a winning play to actually win the game. Duke never should have given UCONN an opportunity to make a winning play. Duke did and UCONN made a great winning play.

Duke’s loss ensured I will Winn my extended family bracket challenge. Thank you little Boizer

Based on 3 point averages for most D1 shooters, he had about 60-65% chance of missing that winning shot.