2008-09 college basketball thread...

Except for the fact that those aren't very good. They're just more mediocre than the teams that will make the tournament. And no, there will be no good teams in the CBI. This is a weak year in college basketball. There are very few legitimately good teams out there.

 

actually, if he lives in the ACC's "footprint" and his local CBS station is also an ACC Raycom affiliate, it is fuck Raycom - the ACC final will be on 1-2 stations (his local CBS and ESPN unless ESPN is blacked out), while the SEC final will be on none.

used to happen to me every year when I lived in North Carolina. communists.

 

Even though the ACC final was an all-ESPN production? Raycom had nothing to do with televising the ACC final.

 

The NIT Final Four -- Penn State, Auburn, Providence and Virginia Tech -- in other words, the four best mediocre major program teams out there left over after slightly better mediocre teams have all been taken to the real tournament..... ..........

 

Speaking of the CBI, what's the over-under on how late the bracket will come out this year?

 

And will they beat the CollegeInsider.com bracket to the wires?

 

Well I've seen that Oregon State and Wichita State both accepted bids to the CBI, so only 14 more to go.

 

Does anyone know when the "other" tournaments will release their brackets?

 

Oregon State!? They were 13-17. I take back what I said earlier about some good teams maybe filtering down to that atrocity of a tournament.

 

I was under the understanding that the teams in both the CBI and collegeinsider.com tournaments had to be .500.
Am I wrong?

EDIT: Apparently for the collegeinsider.com tournament...

"Participating teams must finish the regular season with a winning record against division I opponents. Teams whose conferences have less than fifty-percent (50%) of their teams participating in the NCAA and NIT tournaments will be given higher priority for selection into the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament."

 

Maybe the CBI is trying to get Obama to notice them.

 

I think the CollegeInsider tournament is the one where you have to be .500 or better against D-I opponents.