For comparison’s sake, this was last year’s: Villanova tops college basketball's Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2020-21
Villanova, Creighton, Gonzaga, Baylor, Kentucky, Duke, Iowa, Virgina, MSU, Kansas. So, they hit on a few and whiffed on a few. (Michigan at #19 last year didn’t seem quite as ridiculous, given what the team was losing).
To borrow a post from @CoryR in the general thread, this is far more reasonable as “rankings”:
2022 NCAA Tournament Odds, via
Gonzaga +550 Baylor +850 Michigan +1200 Duke +1500 UCLA +1600 Kansas +1800 FSU +1800 Kentucky +1800 Ohio State +2000 Illinois +2000 NOVA +2000 HOU +2000 Bama +2500 UNC +2800 ARK +2800 TEX +3000 MSU +3000 UVA +3000
Disappointed One Shining Moment didn’t have Javonte Smart’s backwards pass through his legs featured. Missed opportunity
LOL at Borzello praising the job Turgeon did with Maryland this year while completely ignoring the fact that he was the reason they weren’t very good to begin with. Color me skeptical that Russell is going to become an efficient guard in a tougher league.
I do think both things are true though. On one hand Turgeon in Year 11 fielded a team with no PGs and no Cs. On the other hand he made the dance despite that bizarre roster composition and beat a smoking hot opponent in the first round.
Turgeon stinks. He stinks at coaching. Good for the Turge that he did the one thing he’s good at and ‘cruited himself some more talent. I still don’t fear the turtle.
I know. Sometimes I forget that Turtle Boy has 34 years of doing things the right way. Silly me.
A lot of Maryland fans hated the Turgeon extension but they had no choice considering he only has one year left in his contract. He can recruit talent but somehow, they can’t get it all together to their potential. Maryland had just as many NBA draftee as top B1G teams yet they have little to show for it
In a league where people have touted Chris Collins or Steve Pikiell as great coaches at different points in time, I don’t think you can say Turgeon sucks. He’s just graded on a different curve.
I’m not convinced their transfers suddenly make them a top 10 team but they are the fresh news right now. They probably are top 20 team, though.
I knew there would be pushback, lol.
Alright, all I’m saying is that over the years, I’ve seen Turgeon lose so many games when he had the more talented team on the floor.
I’ve just always been glad the Turge isn’t the HC of my team.
(oh, and for the record, I’ve always been on Team Chris Collins Sucks 
) (part of the Coach K Coaching Shrub)
a great year and a great tournament. so grateful we got March Madness back this year. thanks to everyone on this board for making it so special. and huge thanks to Dylan for making it all happen. best site on the web!
see you all tomorrow
It’s already tomorrow in the EDT!
Good night
It’s official
Data through games of Monday, April 5 (4285 games)
Strength of Schedule NCSOS
Rk Team Conf W-L AdjEM AdjO AdjD AdjT Luck AdjEM OppO OppD AdjEM
1 Gonzaga 1 WCC 31-1 +36.48 126.4 1 89.9 11 73.8 7 +.022 127 +11.35 72 108.1 70 96.8 74 +6.21 112
2 Baylor 1 B12 28-2 +33.87 125.0 2 91.1 22 67.4 213 +.046 80 +13.25 54 108.7 64 95.5 44 -2.83 258
3 Michigan 1 B10 23-5 +29.67 117.6 9 87.9 4 66.6 256 +.007 156 +16.44 19 111.7 9 95.3 39 +2.51 178
4 Illinois 1 B10 24-7 +29.06 118.0 8 88.9 7 70.5 79 +.022 128 +18.17 5 112.3 5 94.1 13 +10.44 59
Yep, and subscribers can see it on the Big Ten history page: https://kenpom.com/confhistory.php?c=B10
“2021 Regular Season Champ: Michigan; Best Team: Michigan”
Yes, we got the KenPom B1G Title over Illini!
Dee brown, deron williams
I’m really hoping that the Illinois fan base (and the AD) don’t live this down for at least a decade.
It is going to be interesting what happens next year. Given their lack of recruiting success in this upcoming season and losing more players than they return…they are poised for a back slide. Maybe that changes with Kofi’s decision or new transfers…but if they struggle next season and the window closes on this era…definitely going to linger with this meme.
NCAAM already off ESPN’s front page.
Sad. I expected some nice homilies and memoirs about this season for a least a couple days.