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Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame
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   Posted: 3/24/2026 10:50:48 PM 
BillyTheCat wrote:
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
Guys, giacomo is just doing his little bit about how nobody is allowed to comment on college basketball unless it's 100% supportive of all involved.


Actually, I think he was just acting like some of you after every loss. Saying players quit, didn’t care, fire the coach, embarrassed to be an alum.

And IMO he’s pretty spot on for a lot of you.


Thanks for sharing your opinion about BA posters, Billy.

What's your opinion on Jeff Boals' performance though?
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   Posted: 3/25/2026 11:48:21 AM 
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
BillyTheCat wrote:
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
Guys, giacomo is just doing his little bit about how nobody is allowed to comment on college basketball unless it's 100% supportive of all involved.


Actually, I think he was just acting like some of you after every loss. Saying players quit, didn’t care, fire the coach, embarrassed to be an alum.

And IMO he’s pretty spot on for a lot of you.


Thanks for sharing your opinion about BA posters, Billy.

What's your opinion on Jeff Boals' performance though?


Griping about fellow posters is a convenient way to avoid the topic of our 17 loss season with a team that started three seniors, isn't it?

It also avoids the FACT that the top mids have no transfers from NAIA or D-2 rosters.

Or that guys like (i.e. - comparable to) the much maligned Cornish and Wiz would have been our best subs this season.

Or that...maybe I'll save the rest for later...

Last Edited: 3/25/2026 11:53:18 AM by FishBates
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   Posted: 3/25/2026 9:15:06 PM 
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
BillyTheCat wrote:
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
Guys, giacomo is just doing his little bit about how nobody is allowed to comment on college basketball unless it's 100% supportive of all involved.


Actually, I think he was just acting like some of you after every loss. Saying players quit, didn’t care, fire the coach, embarrassed to be an alum.

And IMO he’s pretty spot on for a lot of you.


Thanks for sharing your opinion about BA posters, Billy.

What's your opinion on Jeff Boals' performance though?


He needs to do better and he understands that. He’s working on doing better as is his staff and players. If he doesn’t do better he will not be here much longer. That’s life in coaching. There is no blank check or alumi lifetime contract. But my personal feeling is he will get it right. If he doesn’t, he will move on. That’s coaching.
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   Posted: 3/25/2026 9:43:15 PM 
FishBates wrote:
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
BillyTheCat wrote:
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
Guys, giacomo is just doing his little bit about how nobody is allowed to comment on college basketball unless it's 100% supportive of all involved.


Actually, I think he was just acting like some of you after every loss. Saying players quit, didn’t care, fire the coach, embarrassed to be an alum.

And IMO he’s pretty spot on for a lot of you.


Thanks for sharing your opinion about BA posters, Billy.

What's your opinion on Jeff Boals' performance though?


Griping about fellow posters is a convenient way to avoid the topic of our 17 loss season with a team that started three seniors, isn't it?

It also avoids the FACT that the top mids have no transfers from NAIA or D-2 rosters.

Or that guys like (i.e. - comparable to) the much maligned Cornish and Wiz would have been our best subs this season.

Or that...maybe I'll save the rest for later...



Weird.






Anyway…. Flip it on over to ESPN, Elyjah Freeman is a starter for Auburn. Played D2 last season.




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   Posted: 3/25/2026 10:59:37 PM 
M.D.W.S.T wrote:
FishBates wrote:
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
BillyTheCat wrote:
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
Guys, giacomo is just doing his little bit about how nobody is allowed to comment on college basketball unless it's 100% supportive of all involved.


Actually, I think he was just acting like some of you after every loss. Saying players quit, didn’t care, fire the coach, embarrassed to be an alum.

And IMO he’s pretty spot on for a lot of you.


Thanks for sharing your opinion about BA posters, Billy.

What's your opinion on Jeff Boals' performance though?


Griping about fellow posters is a convenient way to avoid the topic of our 17 loss season with a team that started three seniors, isn't it?

It also avoids the FACT that the top mids have no transfers from NAIA or D-2 rosters.

Or that guys like (i.e. - comparable to) the much maligned Cornish and Wiz would have been our best subs this season.

Or that...maybe I'll save the rest for later...



Weird.






Anyway…. Flip it on over to ESPN, Elyjah Freeman is a starter for Auburn. Played D2 last season.






Too bad Lincoln Memorial is not in Columbus. Our staff probably doesn't know where it is.

Let's do some quick math. Out of 80 starters in the SEC, ONE played at D-2 school. Looks like 1.25%

Weird.
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   Posted: 3/25/2026 11:46:07 PM 
FishBates wrote:
Too bad Lincoln Memorial is not in Columbus. Our staff probably doesn't know where it is. . . .


Lincoln Memorial is very fine small school. A few years ago I got a tour of their relative new college of osteopathic medicine.

And, of course, I can't pass up this opportunity to pass on a little Civil War history related to the founding of LMU. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia:

"In 1896, General Oliver O. Howard, a former Union officer who had helped establish Howard University (named for him), embarked on a lecture tour. Howard's agent, Cyrus Kehr, suggested Howard establish a university as a living memorial to President Abraham Lincoln. On June 18, 1896, Howard spoke at the Harrow School, an elementary school at Cumberland Gap founded a few years earlier by Reverend A. A. Myers. After the lecture, Myers asked Howard for assistance in establishing a college for the Cumberland Gap region. Howard related to Myers a conversation he had with Lincoln in 1863 in which the president expressed a desire to do something to help the people of East Tennessee, a majority of whom remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War in spite of the greater state's secession, and, remembering Kehr's suggestion, agreed to help Myers establish a university in Lincoln's honor."

I might add that Lincoln very much wanted to create a loyal state of East Tennessee, much like he did by separating the western part of Virginia, and creating the new state of West Virginia. However, he lacked the legal nexus that he had in western Virginia where there was a legally recognized government for the whole state Virginia in Wheeling known as the Restored Government of Virginia, which could legally ask for the partitioning of the state. There was no such entity in eastern Tennessee.

Last Edited: 3/25/2026 11:52:21 PM by OhioCatFan

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   Posted: 3/26/2026 9:49:35 AM 
FishBates wrote:
M.D.W.S.T wrote:
FishBates wrote:
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
BillyTheCat wrote:
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
Guys, giacomo is just doing his little bit about how nobody is allowed to comment on college basketball unless it's 100% supportive of all involved.


Actually, I think he was just acting like some of you after every loss. Saying players quit, didn’t care, fire the coach, embarrassed to be an alum.

And IMO he’s pretty spot on for a lot of you.


Thanks for sharing your opinion about BA posters, Billy.

What's your opinion on Jeff Boals' performance though?


Griping about fellow posters is a convenient way to avoid the topic of our 17 loss season with a team that started three seniors, isn't it?

It also avoids the FACT that the top mids have no transfers from NAIA or D-2 rosters.

Or that guys like (i.e. - comparable to) the much maligned Cornish and Wiz would have been our best subs this season.

Or that...maybe I'll save the rest for later...



Weird.






Anyway…. Flip it on over to ESPN, Elyjah Freeman is a starter for Auburn. Played D2 last season.






Too bad Lincoln Memorial is not in Columbus. Our staff probably doesn't know where it is.

Let's do some quick math. Out of 80 starters in the SEC, ONE played at D-2 school. Looks like 1.25%

Weird.



Move those goal posts, son.

You seemed pretty confident it was FACT no former D2 athletes were in D1 programs.


- Chad Baker Mazarra also played D2. Averaged 18 points for USC this season. Not quite a mid-major, but close!
- Jadin Booth averaged 21 points for Samford.
- Keith Pallek averaged 17 / 6 / 4 for Missouri State after four years in D2.
- Adrian McIntyre averaged 10 points at San Diego State.
- Leo Beath is a starter at UC San Diego. 12/5.
- Tavarus Webb. Starter at Georgia Southern. 15.5/5/2.


How much more you want to do this?
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FishBates
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   Posted: 3/26/2026 10:53:23 AM 
M.D.W.S.T wrote:
FishBates wrote:
M.D.W.S.T wrote:
FishBates wrote:
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
BillyTheCat wrote:
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
Guys, giacomo is just doing his little bit about how nobody is allowed to comment on college basketball unless it's 100% supportive of all involved.


Actually, I think he was just acting like some of you after every loss. Saying players quit, didn’t care, fire the coach, embarrassed to be an alum.

And IMO he’s pretty spot on for a lot of you.


Thanks for sharing your opinion about BA posters, Billy.

What's your opinion on Jeff Boals' performance though?


Griping about fellow posters is a convenient way to avoid the topic of our 17 loss season with a team that started three seniors, isn't it?

It also avoids the FACT that the top mids have no transfers from NAIA or D-2 rosters.

Or that guys like (i.e. - comparable to) the much maligned Cornish and Wiz would have been our best subs this season.

Or that...maybe I'll save the rest for later...



Weird.






Anyway…. Flip it on over to ESPN, Elyjah Freeman is a starter for Auburn. Played D2 last season.






Too bad Lincoln Memorial is not in Columbus. Our staff probably doesn't know where it is.

Let's do some quick math. Out of 80 starters in the SEC, ONE played at D-2 school. Looks like 1.25%

Weird.





You seemed pretty confident it was FACT no former D2 athletes were in D1 programs.




I already named a number of prominent >mid-majors< who had NO d-2 transfers.

Maybe you can take remedial reading and comprehension this summer. You need it.
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M.D.W.S.T
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   Posted: 3/26/2026 11:15:29 AM 
FishBates wrote:
M.D.W.S.T wrote:
FishBates wrote:
M.D.W.S.T wrote:
FishBates wrote:
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
BillyTheCat wrote:
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
Guys, giacomo is just doing his little bit about how nobody is allowed to comment on college basketball unless it's 100% supportive of all involved.


Actually, I think he was just acting like some of you after every loss. Saying players quit, didn’t care, fire the coach, embarrassed to be an alum.

And IMO he’s pretty spot on for a lot of you.


Thanks for sharing your opinion about BA posters, Billy.

What's your opinion on Jeff Boals' performance though?


Griping about fellow posters is a convenient way to avoid the topic of our 17 loss season with a team that started three seniors, isn't it?

It also avoids the FACT that the top mids have no transfers from NAIA or D-2 rosters.

Or that guys like (i.e. - comparable to) the much maligned Cornish and Wiz would have been our best subs this season.

Or that...maybe I'll save the rest for later...



Weird.






Anyway…. Flip it on over to ESPN, Elyjah Freeman is a starter for Auburn. Played D2 last season.






Too bad Lincoln Memorial is not in Columbus. Our staff probably doesn't know where it is.

Let's do some quick math. Out of 80 starters in the SEC, ONE played at D-2 school. Looks like 1.25%

Weird.





You seemed pretty confident it was FACT no former D2 athletes were in D1 programs.




I already named a number of prominent >mid-majors< who had NO d-2 transfers.

Maybe you can take remedial reading and comprehension this summer. You need it.



Oh, sweet. You named some programs that don't have any? Cool man. How many wear black jerseys and play on Tuesday when it rains in China?



You clearly have a high embarrassment tolerance, I will give you that.

Shoot me a note if you want research tips. I teach children how to be better informed all the time.
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   Posted: 3/26/2026 11:28:24 AM 
M.D.W.S.T wrote:
FishBates wrote:
M.D.W.S.T wrote:
FishBates wrote:
M.D.W.S.T wrote:
FishBates wrote:
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
BillyTheCat wrote:
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
Guys, giacomo is just doing his little bit about how nobody is allowed to comment on college basketball unless it's 100% supportive of all involved.


Actually, I think he was just acting like some of you after every loss. Saying players quit, didn’t care, fire the coach, embarrassed to be an alum.

And IMO he’s pretty spot on for a lot of you.


Thanks for sharing your opinion about BA posters, Billy.

What's your opinion on Jeff Boals' performance though?


Griping about fellow posters is a convenient way to avoid the topic of our 17 loss season with a team that started three seniors, isn't it?

It also avoids the FACT that the top mids have no transfers from NAIA or D-2 rosters.

Or that guys like (i.e. - comparable to) the much maligned Cornish and Wiz would have been our best subs this season.

Or that...maybe I'll save the rest for later...



Weird.






Anyway…. Flip it on over to ESPN, Elyjah Freeman is a starter for Auburn. Played D2 last season.






Too bad Lincoln Memorial is not in Columbus. Our staff probably doesn't know where it is.

Let's do some quick math. Out of 80 starters in the SEC, ONE played at D-2 school. Looks like 1.25%

Weird.





You seemed pretty confident it was FACT no former D2 athletes were in D1 programs.




I already named a number of prominent >mid-majors< who had NO d-2 transfers.

Maybe you can take remedial reading and comprehension this summer. You need it.



Oh, sweet. You named some programs that don't have any? Cool man. How many wear black jerseys and play on Tuesday when it rains in China?



You clearly have a high embarrassment tolerance, I will give you that.

Shoot me a note if you want research tips. I teach children how to be better informed all the time.


You can get a life while you are at it. You obviously don't have one.
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   Posted: 3/26/2026 9:34:02 PM 
Outstanding game, Purdue-Texas
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   Posted: 3/27/2026 9:00:01 AM 
Ben McCollum is CBB’s equivalent of Curt Cignetti. An Elite 8 run in year 1 comparable to Cignetti getting Indiana to the playoffs in year 1.
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   Posted: 3/27/2026 9:46:59 AM 
FJC31 wrote:
Ben McCollum is CBB’s equivalent of Curt Cignetti. An Elite 8 run in year 1 comparable to Cignetti getting Indiana to the playoffs in year 1.


Iowa lost 7 of their final 10 games of the season too. Incredible run they're on right now.

Illinois as well. Ended the season on a 5/5 split.

If you want to feel real old, Peja Stojakovic's son had 13 last night. That win over Houston I don't think anyone who didnt go to Illinois called that.
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   Posted: 3/27/2026 11:58:26 AM 
"My team is on the floor." -Fred Hoiberg
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   Posted: 3/29/2026 7:26:32 PM 
shabamon wrote:
"My team is on the floor." -Fred Hoiberg


Unbelievable comeback and final second shot for UConn. My head hit the ceiling.
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   Posted: 3/29/2026 7:31:42 PM 
shabamon wrote:
shabamon wrote:
"My team is on the floor." -Fred Hoiberg


Unbelievable comeback and final second shot for UConn. My head hit the ceiling.


Nobody does less with more than John Scheyer.
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   Posted: 3/30/2026 10:36:26 PM 
shabamon wrote:
shabamon wrote:
"My team is on the floor." -Fred Hoiberg


Unbelievable comeback and final second shot for UConn. My head hit the ceiling.


One man lost the game for Duke. Ten seconds left, did Duke have a time out remaining? If so should have used it before the inbounds. But the little Boozer catching a pass and all he had to do was immediately dribble left or dribble right but he does the one thing that a coach teaches daily--Do Not try to pass the ball over the top. What a bonehead play.
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   Posted: 4/28/2026 6:33:24 PM 
The MAC Champion. Coming to a play-in game near you

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/4...
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   Posted: 4/28/2026 7:54:53 PM 
Barf.

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   Posted: 4/29/2026 7:29:31 AM 
It's easy to ignore 4 games and not pick them for the brackets, but 12 is a lot harder. I wonder if the large bracket pool services like ESPN and Yahoo will try to 48 hour turnaround on brackets and include these games in the picks. Probably not.

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   Posted: 4/29/2026 8:38:34 AM 
I thought it was pretty obvious but I'm still a little surprised they said it out loud:

"The primary driver of this move hasn't been money, but rather access for at-large bids for power conferences."

Because they don't have enough bids already. Because we have to have sub-.500 power conference teams in the field.
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Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame
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   Posted: 4/29/2026 10:14:31 AM 
It sucks, but not sure what the NCAA is supposed to do, exactly.

The consensus seems to be on BA.com that mid-majors are never gonna upset anybody anymore and the gap's widening between P5 and everybody else. If that's true and the goal of the NCAA tournament is for the best teams to compete for a championship, seems like this was the logical conclusion to reach.
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   Posted: 4/29/2026 10:28:26 AM 
I doubt this would happen, but if the rumors on the football side are true that the CFP is going to 24 and they're cutting out the conference championship games, I wonder if the basketball conference tournaments are changed in any way.
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   Posted: 4/29/2026 12:58:30 PM 
100%Cat wrote:
I thought it was pretty obvious but I'm still a little surprised they said it out loud:

"The primary driver of this move hasn't been money, but rather access for at-large bids for power conferences."

Because they don't have enough bids already. Because we have to have sub-.500 power conference teams in the field.


It's just getting harder and harder to care as much.

NIL/Portal has turned mid-majors into JUCO programs. We will always be lucky to have decent/good players to stay for two years. And if we catch lightning in a bottle with a great player, he's gone after one year.

And now expanding the NCAA Tournament to 76 teams is just gross. Congrats to the 16-16 Auburn's of the world getting those extra bids over a mid-major that goes 27-5.

Like I said...it's getting harder and harder to care as much for the Ohio alum and fan of mid-major hoops.

Last Edited: 4/29/2026 1:00:16 PM by FearLeon

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   Posted: 4/29/2026 1:00:23 PM 
FearLeon wrote:
100%Cat wrote:
I thought it was pretty obvious but I'm still a little surprised they said it out loud:

"The primary driver of this move hasn't been money, but rather access for at-large bids for power conferences."

Because they don't have enough bids already. Because we have to have sub-.500 power conference teams in the field.


It's just getting harder and harder to care as much.

NIL/Portal has turned mid-majors into JUCO programs. We will always be lucky to have decent/good players to stay for two years. And if we catch lightning in a bottle with a great player, he's gone after one year.

And now expanding the NCAA Tournament to 76 teams is just gross. Congrats to the 16-16 Auburn's of the world getting those extra bids.

Like I said...it's getting harder and harder to care as much as a mid-major alum and fan.


Imagine how weirdly abusive you'd be to underperforming OU basketball players if it weren't so hard to care.
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