It’s just as well. Not enough time for aggy to assemble a bonfire for the Texas-TAMU game. (Unless it was a teeny-weeny one.)
Astonishingly good shot. Makes me think of the basketball game in “The Absent-Minded Professor.” (1961)
Based on this photo, I do believe Rodney Terry could get a job with the Rockettes should he not be retained after this season.
I agree with Tom. I dunno about fines, but if you don't want to be in the NIT then play better. College Basketball Hall of Famer Tom Penders slams UNC's decision to skip NIT: 'Slap in the face' (msn.com)
The more I think about this I am tending to agree. Kansas' best win was Duke and they lost to Tennessee, K-State, TCU, and ISU. Texas' best wins were Arkansas and Gonzaga with losses to Tennessee and the same conference foes plus Tceh. At the end of the season Texas beat Kanas by 16 and 20 in a 7-day period (with the 20-point win basically on a Kansas Home Court). Something, other than being a defending Champion and an ESPN darling, should have been taken into consideration. Also how any team that could lose to the worst team in the Big XII by 20 at home could ever be the overall 1 seed? (Seems that was a gift to CBS and the $EC.)
And my uninformed $0.02: you shoudn’t be eligible for a No. 1 seed unless you win your [bleeping] tournament*. *or, failing that, you don't lose it by 15 or more points What a farcical sham.
It seems clear that the selection committee wanted Horns v. aggy (or at least the potential) in the second round and was going to set it up regardless of where the teams should have been seeded. Texas was never going to get a #1 seed when it lost 3 of 4 late and didn’t win the regular season. I suspect the committee was hoping the Horns would stumble in the conference tourney so they could drop them to the three line and put aggy at a 6 (probably thought aggy would lose to Kentucky but wildcats didn’t get that far. So Horns win the conference tournament staying at 2 so aggy had to be placed at a 7. Sorry, but aggy is way underseeded based on where they finished in the $ec. Second regular season and conference tourney runner-up. That conference got 8 of 14 teams in and the second place team is a 7? aggy probably should be a 5 certainly no lower than a 6. Aggy gets screwed on seeding and we get a potential tougher road to the sweet 16 if we have to face a jihadist fervor in the second round.
A very valid point, I will admit. And I suppose the Horns blowing out KU to win the conference tournament helped to ensure that they would have a #2 seed rather than a #3 or #4. It just kind of galls me that a team of the likes of KU or UH could (theoretically, of course!) just go through the motions and mail it in at the conference tournament championship game and still get their (preordained) #1 seed.
It's become apparent over the last 20 years that the only purposes of a conference tournament are to: a. sell tickets b. potentially get a sleeper in the tournament to share the $$$ And that's the end of the list. No one takes conference tournament games into seeding possibilities. Otherwise we wouldn't have gotten the 1-seed in 2003 either.
Morris' vertical leap is world class; while also slamming accurately at full speed. This is the beauty of basketball. click and enlarge the photo and check out the faces of Disu, the Texas bench and the KU player. Priceless.
Yes, I see your point. Big 12 has 70% of it's teams in. Which is higher than any other conference. But I'm having a hard time believing that OSU is not better than The Big's 8th team which was Penn State I think. P state was the 10th seed in their tournament but played in their final against Purdue and lost by 2.
A 2 is solid for sure. We were never a 4. Pegged as a 2 for the last several weeks as long as we didn't go out in early in the conference tourney. We were top 10 for 17 weeks this year. 2 is no big surprise. And we would have been a stretch for a 1. But dang we left no doubt on Kansas.
Except no love from ESPN and CBS until the $EC decides Texas and Oklahoma prove they are "$EC worthy". It is going to be a long 3 or 4 years, and you just thought the Big XII refs have been screwing Texas.
In general the higher the seed the less conference tourney matters because they've won so many regular season games, one loss doesn't matter. On the flip side, the lower the seed the more you can improve your seed with a good conference tourney result, but the loss will not hurt you...unless you're aggy of course. They got screwed.
I see where Texas Southern U is already out. TAMU-Corpus Christi (the Islanders) will play their second game later today, against Bama.
