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But without football, there's a lot less excess revenue to spread around to buy players for other sports. It is no coincidence that the Sweet 16 contains only one non-P4 school, and St. Johns is a traditional basketball powerhouse with an exceptional coach. Even traditional P4 powerhouse basketball schools such as UNC, Kentucky, and Kansas have had a steep dropoff in recent years while Michigan and Iowa where football is relatively strong, have risen in basketball.

Definitely a premier mid-major job, I agree. UConn should be part of that grouping, too.

Creighton should be one of the premier jobs in the country. Outside of UCONN, the entire Big East should be. Without football, the revenue share can all go towards basketball; don't need to rely on donors as much.

It's tough being a non-P4 coach, especially when you used to be in a major basketball league.

Then we didn't adjust like they did. This is loser talk

Inflate-gate. LOL.

Whoa.

100%. It magnifies less-than-perfect shooting IMO. TTU was pure on Friday - nothing but nylon. The NCAA is so so so so so bad. I question more and more if the NCAA governing body isn't more of a money laundering operation than anything.

I’m not saying the ball was the reason we lost, but it’s apparently an issue. And something that fundamental to the sport shouldn’t be.

I questioned this early in the game thread. Tavari had one layup bounce HARD off the backboard and he seemed to shy away from using the backboard the rest of the game. His floaters and reverse layups went straight for the cylinder which requires more precision, especially with over-inflated balls. Our bounce passes seemed to catch the recipient off guard as well. One team made their 3s - the other didn't and tried doing their damage in the paint. To completely dismiss this is silly.

both teams play with the same ball, this is nothing imo

But it could have affected Tavari especially with his layups. I can’t believe this is another thing we have to think about. Good grief!!

They didn't used to. You have to understand, the people working in college athletics don't care about the average fan. They are catering to drunks and degenerate gamblers. Those two groups tend to get their days started later than most. Since they also tend to be life's failures, they don't have much to do on Monday morning.

Groce is a member of the Summit Circle. It's completely legal, whether by design or not.

It's probably a loophole since they aren't paying any specific player directly.

I think Akron was the only Over because of TTU's hot 3P shooting.

In this country, how to spend one’s own money has come to be seen as an inalienable right. I wonder how this would play out in court. It seems like a bad idea for coaches to be able to do this.

It’s a really good question.

For some reason I thought coaches weren’t permitted to contribute. Then again, it’s not like rules are being enforced anymore

Alabama must have saw my earlier comments. They're putting on a shooting clinic in the 2nd half.

Yep, and it cements my opinion that the Zips definitely had a chance at an upset.

It's not even that Alabama is shooting particularly well. They're only 44% from the field and even that percentage is a bit inflated from the run outs. Even if they had a couple fewer 3s fall they would be up comfortably in this game. They're spanking Texas Tech with effort. They nearly have them outrebounded 2:1. Nearly have as many offensive rebounds as Texas Tech has total rebounds. They're not giving Atwell any opportunity to catch and shoot. Forcing Anderson into bad shots. Pretty much taking away what Texas Tech does well. Edit: This is an opponent that Texas Tech needed Toppin. They're too one dimensional offensively.

I've never understood why they go so late on Sunday night. I guess it's for the west coast.

TTU down by 25 at the half. They're getting Akron'd - Bama can't miss.

Also ridiculous that that game started at 9:45 p.m. Eastern standard Time.