Six seed against VCU. Atlantic 10 Champs. Game is in Denver. Sounds like a decent draw. Win and they get the winner of Wisconsin/Montana. I like that draw. VCU is supposedly a good defensive team but they are not Houston. I think Wisconsin is a team BYU can beat. Not real athletic but very well coached.
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NC over West Virginia is a scam. The AD of NC is the committee chairman.
It seems like the committee was Gaga over the SEC. Looks like they got 14 teams in the tournament. Every single bubble team in thier league made it. That’s ridiculous. No way Auburn should have been the number 1 overall seed. It should have been Duke.
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It is a joke! I hope every SEC team gets busted in the 1st round. Pretty sick of the SEC and all the $$$$$$$$$ ESPN has dumped into the scam.
NC was 1-9 vs. Quad 1 games. WVU was 6-10. Big 12 ought to sue.
I like BYU’s Denver games. We will show well. VCU goes 5 Sr.s that play 30 min each. BYU will have a rough go while VCU’s starters are in but they drop way off once they sub.
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Being in Denver should help with stamina in the 2nd half. We have to start shooting well in the first half or we will struggle. Will we be aggressive enough and will the refs allow for Big12 physical play?
BYU doesn’t play physical.
But we are way bigger down low. They run a 4 guard and one skinny forward rotation so I guess BYU will be brawling inside with Foos and Keba.
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i hope the refs call it tight. We have the depth to survive foul trouble and it sounds like they do not.
Depth and altitude should really help. No excuse to lose this one.
Last year the officials let things go and BYU never adapted to it. If they do let things go it sounds like we have an advantage in size and theoretically in physicality.
Pound the ball inside on offense and play tough perimeter defense and that should be enough for a win. Hopper says sweet 16… I say just win a first round game and we will see about the rest.
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I checked the SEC and they have 16 teams in their league and 14 make the tournament. Texas was 19-15 and they were considered a bubble team and West Virginia goes 19-12 with a good quad one record and NC and Texas get invites. The loss to Colorado was enough excuse to keep WV out. Still if the committee is considering the whole body of work they should have made it and either Texas or Oklahoma should have stayed home. Probably both should have stayed home.
You could probably argue that Cincinnati had as good a resume as Texas.
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We should give this over to AI and let the computer decide without bias. Then, we should assign these new life like robots to fairly referee the game.
You sound surprised by this? Like I have said in the past the SEC controls the NCAA in most everything, including seeding March Madness.
Someone should call the new DOL to investigate the SEC monopoly conspiracy.
I don’t know that I am very surprised, but 14 teams in a 16 team conference is ridiculous. Four of those teams were bubble teams and every one of them made it. Texas in no way should have made the field.
I think this kind of favoritism tends to help the SEC stay on top in football and now basketball. The blue chip athletes want to play there because the SEC wins everything so it is self perpetuating. The SEC and Big Ten want 2 super conferences and to he!! with all the others. The football playoff will be exclusively for the two conferences with a bone thrown to one other team not a part of the club just to show they are fair. What a joke.
It is a great irony that the uber woke universities want all this DEI and woke stuff except on the athletic field where they benefit from being a part of an exclusive club that brings in the big bucks. Then they are all for the free enterprise system as long as the system is rigged in their favor. Then making the playing field even is out the window. They teach Marxism in the classroom, but the hypocrites love crony capitalism on the athletic field.
Who is DOL?
I see what you are saying but VCU is a team of 5 seniors. They know all the small tricks. case in point: Dallen Hall, when he drives in the lane, sometimes he will seek out contact by moving his butt into the defender to knock him back or clear space. everyone does it but they have called Hall twice now on that move. so inconsistent.
Last year, BYU had come real challenges as a defense. Johnson and Saunders were our two solid defenders. But we had Knell, Waterman, Khalifa=all very challenged on D.
Knell has gotten better
Waterman for Louisville is defending 4s and the center position and is much improved
Khalifa, I think he is also at Louisville but rehabbing that bad knee.
Last year vs. this Season comparisons, you decide:
Khalifa-Keba, Keba is probably a top 15 center in D1
Waterman-Mag, Mag is at top 10 defender 1-4.
Knell is Knell
Johnson-Saunders, as good as Johnson was, Richie is better.
Hall-Demin, Demin’s length is a game changer when covering the 3.
BYU couldn’t adapt, we did not have the players…this season, BYU can choose to put 5 defenders out there
Keba
Mag
Demin
Saunders
Stewert
Thats a stout defense right there. Our offense does not suffer much as both Mag and Stewart are 38% from 3land, and both can attack the basket.
WVU beat Gonzaga, Pitt, Az, Kansas all on the road. all Quad 1 wins
Tx beat Miss St and Oklahoma on road games, that is it!
Vandy best Tx A&M on the road, only 1 road win in the SEC.
JOKE!
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https://x.com/GillispieBill/status/1901450465671307456
Bubba Cunningham got 106,000 to pull this NC crap
Why isn’t the selection committee just 12 bracketologists who live and breathe this stuff instead of people with huge financial incentives to help or screw over certain teams/leagues Is that a crazy idea
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Whether North Carolina should be in or not is a good debate. Their AD is the chairman of the selection committee but cannot be in the room when the Tar Heels are discussed. But it’s human nature that it doesn’t hurt UNC’s chances when other members of the committee have spent so
WVU’s attorney general is suing the selection committee.
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Every year the same concerns are discussed and every year nothing changes. How blatant does it need to be until someone actually does something about it?
Does anyone really want to know?
It is NEVER going to change. I will tell you my theory on this and why and it may not be what you think I’m going to say. It is not a blatant conspiracy.
I believe all of this is a result of the negligent choices and decisions of a society that has lost its’ way. I am not talking about everybody, just a good percentage/number of people. It is a gospel principle that agency is dictated by making good choices. Choices that are morally correct, ethically right and follow God’s commandments. This does not exist anymore generally speaking. As a result of the continued abuse of agency and choice that people have brought on themselves (choosing evil over good, choosing wrong over right, etc.) they have lost the ability to use their agency to make good choices (choosing good over evil, right over wrong, etc.) and now…
Society is not capable of making righteous choices (that are correct, good and moral/ethical). This is a broad generalization but it is a gospel principle and human principle. A person who continually makes incorrect/evil choices and decisions loses the ability to make good decisions/choices even when it is in their best interest to do so. A person who lies all the time isn’t capable of telling the truth anymore, etc. If a person generally tells the truth and makes correct choices but has the occasionial slip-up of making a bad choice or committing some sin, they can change more easily and make good choices again because that is their general nature. It is why the principle of repentance is so important to maintaining agency. By continually making bad choices a person loses the ability to make a good choice. A person who makes good choices most of the time, although they make the occasional bad choice, can repent and make good choices. They maintain their agency and ability to choose right.
I don’t know if everyone will understand what I am saying. I know the Hopper won’t but am hopeful the rest of you will.
The selection committee isn’t capable of doing the right thing because they have done the wrong thing for far too long. They have lost their ability and agency to choose the right. The crazy thing is they have no idea that is what they are doing! They justify their decisions with bogus reasoning and defend themselves with comments that make no sense. They say things like “I am not a part of the decision for UNC to be invited, that is a discussion other committee members had” yet they know that as head of the committee they have influence and there is no way they aren’t getting an invite. Same with the other big money schools in the SEC. There is NO rational, logical reasoning or justification for taking teams like UNC or Texas over West Virginia… NONE!
Imagine that! There’s bias in decision making. I’ll remember that 
Well, Jim, as someone who once lived the kind of life you described, I have to say—I disagree.
I understand where you’re coming from, but I think your perspective has been shaped by living in a microcosm like California for so long. It feels like you assume the rest of the country mirrors California’s ways.
In my view, the majority of people in this country are good, honest individuals striving to live right and make the best choices they can.
The gospel teaches us about repentance and forgiveness, encouraging us to move forward despite our past mistakes. I’m living proof that someone once labeled as “evil” can repent and find the light.
As for the Selection Committee, it all boils down to greed, power, and influence. They hold the reins and seem unwilling to share that power with others.
I don’t always agree with Jim on sporting issues but if you re-read his lengthy post, he doesn’t label most people have lost the light of Christ to choose good. The fact is, California, New York, Massachusetts, Illinois and other blue states have a huge amount of the U.S. population. Then, add the other major cities including Houston, Salt Lake City and others run mostly by far left liberal Democrats and you have a majority of people living in woke infested population centers.
If you want to say those hundred million+ are trying the best they can with the bad influences they live in, I agree with you as well. Our beliefs are shaped by our family, friends, schools and society. Family generally gets booted out from between our ears over time. So, our choices of good diminish as that happens. And, we end up with cesspools running most things including companies and organizations like the NCAA Tournament Committee. There’s still many who think they are trying to be moral and/or ethical at least. But, for a long time, the loudest voices spewing hatred has been the small minority of elite politicians and in the media.
And, my opinion still is, okay, now what? Do we play in the game of life, sports, tournaments….? Or, do we check out and create walls between us? I say when the Lord says build walls, we do that. Until then, we be as good examples and friends that we can with people we come across. However, being friends doesn’t mean accepting what they do is okay. Just means we have to try and swing the pendulum back to good and what is right. That’s why I vote for the person who isn’t perfect and may have many faults, but will move that pendulum back to what’s right first for the good of the country and the world.