Yeah. I won’t feel bad if the Zags lose this game. It was more fun when Dan Monson was the coach and they were Cinderella. That run they had in 1999 was nice.
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Jared Butler was at Alabama and wasn’t medically cleared. Got released and now is doing this for Baylor. sigh We never have anything go our way.
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Please…
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In hoops. Lol.
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Please…
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Baylor about to have the second best win over a team since the Runnin’ Rebs blew out Duke in 1990.
That one made me happy. Anytime Duke loses is good.
Well I successfully picked the championship game. Sadly too many misses throughout the rest of my bracket.
Not sure Zags can ever win a title when they are in the WCC. Too many games against the likes of LMU, San Fran, Pacific, Portland, etc., just doesn’t prepare you for the tourney. They’ve tried to beef up their pre-season schedule in recent years (this year a lot of those games didn’t take place) but after playing some strong teams in November and December, it’s onto 2 solid months of weak teams with the occasional game against Saint Mary’s or BYU in one of their good years.
Hilarious. Mark Few scapegoated here for the lackluster state of our program. How about putting the blame where it belongs. On us. That makes me feel better. It’s the kind of universe I want to be in.
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That’s two trips to the championship game in the last few years. Pretty damn good if you ask me. If they can get this far, why can’t they win it all?
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This basically is a good recap:
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Including a pre-conference game against … Baylor!
Baylor is an interesting study in contemporary college basketball success. Of its three best players, Butler, Teague, and Mitchell, the latter two are transfers. All three have played college basketball at least three years. All three came out of high school in the sweet spot of Utah’s realistic range of recruiting targets. None in the top 50. Teague was an unrated diamond in the rough who went to a mid-major before transferring. Mitchell was a bust at Auburn.
Meanwhile, every year Baylor has four star recruits. Most seem to have disappeared. Apparently transfers out.
I love Jeff Jonas. But he’s full of it. The game has changed since he played, but it’s very possible for Utah to excel in this climate.
I wish I could say that Baylor had better players than Gonzaga. But actually, Gonzaga has more splashy HS prospects.
And Baylor is hardly a blue blood program there in Waco.
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What really helped Baylor (who had little Big Dance success until the last couple of decades) is playing in a challenging conference which includes teams like Kansas, Kansas St., Oklahoma, Oklahoma St., Texas, Texas Tech, Iowa State, West Virginia, etc. It is a loaded conference and playing lots of great teams helps a team become great.
While some of those teams have down years, there are always at least a few great teams every season.
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Butler was also a transfer when Alabama couldn’t medically clear him.
Baylor played at an amazingly high level and Houston and Gonzaga were pretty much done after 10 minutes.
I didn’t follow a lot of leagues until late in the year, but they were saying their only losses were after Baylor had a few weeks off for Covid and came back a bit rusty. Otherwise might have had 2 undefeated teams in the final.
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last night was a matchup of the best 3 pointing shooting and the best 2 point shooting teams this year in college basketball
Pretty clear which one you’d rather be
41.3% from Three is ridiculous. 46.8% the last three games is absolute insanity.
We all should have learned this from Steve Kerr. Simple math. 40% from 3 is like 60% from 2.
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