As reported by Jon Wilner. 

 

After Yale upset Auburn in the first round of Tournament play, the Yale site, '@YaleMBB' was bombarded by congratulatory messages.

 

An hour or so after the victory the site sent out the following message: "@YaleMBB is Yale's Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry account. Tag @YaleMBasketball instead."

 

It's only a movie.  

 

 

How can UConn lose with a Klingon on the roster? 

 

10 hot takes about the NCAA men's tournament entering the Sweet 16

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Indiana State was in the top 30 NET rankings and did not make the tournament field. 

 

The Big East advanced all 3 teams including Creighton (sigh) to the Sweet 16. Saint John's, Providence, and Seton Hall were all deserving of a bid. 

 

The SEC and B12 received 8 bids each. Both have 2 teams playing in the Sweet 16, 25% of the invitees. 

 

The B1G has 33.33%, 2 of 6 in the Sweet 16.

 

The ACC may be leaking oil but Tobacco Road owns 25% of the Sweet 16 with 4 teams still alive. 

 

The Pac-12 put 1 out of 4 teams in the field but came oh so close to having 3 in with CU and Oregon (sigh) losing in OT.

 

In the Committee's favor, all 4 of the 1 seeds and all 2 of the 2 seeds made it to the Sweet 16.

Easy in hindsight.
 

I didn’t have any huge issues with the field when it was announced aside from no conference should get 8 bids, ever. Seriously, do better than 8th place. Going in, everyone is guessing, no one knows if the 7th team from the SEC is worse than the 5th from the big east…but 8 is way too many for any conference.
 

Give Indian State (for instance) one of those spots, whoever finished 8th in the SEC already had their shot.

Edited March 25, 20241 yr by JabbaNoBargain

Agree that no conference should ever have 8 bids. A couple of years back I believe it was, the B1G had nine bids and I seem to remember that none of them or only one survived the third round.

 

The SEC was down this year and may come close to matching the historically bad B1G performance above. 

 

I was unaware of them, but after reading a little about Indiana State, it is a absolute travesty that they were snubbed in the NCAA selection over teams 7&8 in the Big-12 and SEC, a couple of dud B1G teams and such ACC powers as Virginia who were eliminated on the court in the play-in round. Good mid-majors have proved for many years that they can often make real noise in this tournament. One even played for the title last year for gosh sake.