If roundball is your blood, this is the place to discuss the Flames as they move into the Ritchie McKay era for the 2nd time.

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By Sly Fox
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Sunday, March 17th at 6 pm Eastern Time on CBS

Tourney Details:
  • First and Second Rounds

    March 21 and 23
    XL Center, Hartford, Connecticut (Host: University of Connecticut)
    Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, Iowa (Host: Drake University)
    Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena, Jacksonville, Florida (Host: Jacksonville University)
    Vivint Smart Home Arena, Salt Lake City, Utah (Host: University of Utah)

    March 22 and 24
    Colonial Life Arena, Columbia, South Carolina (Host: University of South Carolina)
    Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio (Host: Ohio State University)
    BOK Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma (Host: University of Tulsa)
    SAP Center, San Jose, California (Host: West Coast Conference)


    Sweet 16 & Elite Eight

    March 28 and 30
    West Regional, Honda Center, Anaheim, California (Host: Big West Conference)
    South Regional, KFC Yum! Center, Louisville, Kentucky (Host: University of Louisville)

    March 29 and 31
    East Regional, Capital One Arena, Washington, D.C. (Host: Georgetown University)
    Midwest Regional, Sprint Center, Kansas City, Missouri (Host: Missouri Valley Conference)


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    April 6 and 8
    U.S. Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, Minnesota (Host: University of Minnesota)
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By Cider Jim
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Ballcoach's sources might even say a 12-seed. :shock: Remember, we're not in the Big South any more, we beat UCLA, and beat Lipscomb twice.
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i could see us giving a lot of teams matchup problems, and i could see more than a few brackets picking us if we get on the 12/13 line
By ballah09
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Depends on what's happens with our opponents. 13 is most likely but if Georgia State (Sun Belt regular season champs) wins their conference tourney and UCLA + Kent State wins a couple games, it might get us a 12 seed.
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Cider Jim wrote:Ballcoach's sources might even say a 12-seed. :shock: Remember, we're not in the Big South any more, we beat UCLA, and beat Lipscomb twice.
Does Lipscomb have a shot at an at large bid ? Most of media and bracket gurus have had Lipscomb in NCAA tournament since November.
By ballah09
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ballcoach15 wrote:
Cider Jim wrote:Ballcoach's sources might even say a 12-seed. :shock: Remember, we're not in the Big South any more, we beat UCLA, and beat Lipscomb twice.
Does Lipscomb have a shot at an at large bid ? Most of media and bracket gurus have had Lipscomb in NCAA tournament since November.
A lot of pieces have to fall in place for this to happen.

Need Wofford to win their conference tournament. Bubble teams like Arizona State, Clemson, Creighton and Indiana to lose. Plus TCU, and Vermont to win to help strengthen their resume. They do have the Net ranking in their favor.

Belmont has the leg up since they beat them twice.
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Cider Jim wrote:Ballcoach's sources might even say a 12-seed. :shock: Remember, we're not in the Big South any more, we beat UCLA, and beat Lipscomb twice.
And we lost to a 9-22/0-18 Vanderbilt team. 12 would be nice, but 13-14 sounds about right.
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By Liberty22
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ElmersTwin wrote:
Cider Jim wrote:
And we lost to a 9-22/0-18 Vanderbilt team. 12 would be nice, but 13-14 sounds about right.
Not that it matters but didn’t they lose one of if not the best player on their squad after playing us?
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ballah09 wrote:
ballcoach15 wrote:
Cider Jim wrote:Ballcoach's sources might even say a 12-seed. :shock: Remember, we're not in the Big South any more, we beat UCLA, and beat Lipscomb twice.
Does Lipscomb have a shot at an at large bid ? Most of media and bracket gurus have had Lipscomb in NCAA tournament since November.
A lot of pieces have to fall in place for this to happen.

Need Wofford to win their conference tournament. Bubble teams like Arizona State, Clemson, Creighton and Indiana to lose. Plus TCU, and Vermont to win to help strengthen their resume. They do have the Net ranking in their favor.

Belmont has the leg up since they beat them twice.
IU has no business in the Tournament
By ballah09
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Agreed same with Clemson but it's your typical mediocre P5 team. The committee loves them 17-15 p5 teams.


That Vandy loss is sooo misleading. We played them when they had future lotto pick Darius Garland. Vandy is a top 3-5 SEC team with him. He's that good.
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ballah09 wrote:Agreed same with Clemson but it's your typical mediocre P5 team. The committee loves them 17-15 p5 teams.


That Vandy loss is sooo misleading. We played them when they had future lotto pick Darius Garland. Vandy is a top 3-5 SEC team with him. He's that good.
Clemson might ride in on the ACC coat tails. But and I say this as a native Hoosier, IU is such a dumpster fire, they don’t need to be rewarded. Garland is that good too
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By flameshaw
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I don't see how Lipscomb gets in. They were saying that we had no chance if we didn't win the conference championship. Being that Lipscomb didn't win the conference championship and we beat them twice at their place.................................... Play Basketball
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By Kricket
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What's good for Lipscomb is bad for us. We basically want bad teams to win their conference tournaments to push us up to higher seeds whereas Lipscomb needs the best teams to I win their conference tournaments to avoid other at larges taking their spot.
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Liberty22 wrote:
ElmersTwin wrote:
Cider Jim wrote:
And we lost to a 9-22/0-18 Vanderbilt team. 12 would be nice, but 13-14 sounds about right.
Not that it matters but didn’t they lose one of if not the best player on their squad after playing us?
Yes, Garland is a top 10 pick, ESPN/DraftExpress has him going 6th. He got hurt two minutes into the very next game.
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By Sly Fox
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The Hoosiers are an enigma. They probably have the most top quality victories on their resume of any team on the bubble. Then they have the dumpster fire Haize described filling out the rest of their schedule. It will be intersting to see if they are rewarded by the committee using the new tool.
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Sly Fox wrote:The Hoosiers are an enigma. They probably have the most top quality victories on their resume of any team on the bubble. Then they have the dumpster fire Haize described filling out the rest of their schedule. It will be intersting to see if they are rewarded by the committee using the new tool.
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