Josh Pastner is about to win the ACC Tournament. I am unable to comprehend this.
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Love the emotion by Alvarado after that GT win. It’s funny: these conference tournaments feel like a waste of time when you don’t win, but for the one team that wins, they are awesome. It’s all or nothing.
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Bid thieves have been pretty few and far between in recent years I feel like. But could have 3 this year. After Georgetown, Oregon Stage is beating Colorado right now. And Cincinnati has a chance tomorrow.
I’m freaking pumped for Pat Ewing as a lapsed Knicks fan and a Georgetown Law graduate. Hoya saxa, baby
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I really have always thought of him as an unusually crappy coach - no idea what he has or hasn’t done at G Tech this year, though. A lot of ACC ball was hard to watch.
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Oregon State! Guy should have missed the last free throw, but it worked out.
The Big East and Pac12 should not get an extra bid. UConn and Colorado should pay the price for not being better in weak leagues…
It’s a pretty weak bubble, I think. I’m guessing both of those are probably good enough to make this year’s cut.
UConn is in Bouknight missed a fair part of their season and he’s a lottery pick. This won’t be any different when Oklahoma made it with Young. UConn is safely in. Colorado should be in as well.
Both teams will be in. I’ll just be surprised if any of the 9 teams in from those two conferences make it to the second weekend.
What does this UConn team have to do with Trae Young’s Oklahoma team? Trae Young played in every game that year. Some people were pissed Oklahoma made it because they ended the season losing 9 of their last 11 games but they still ranked high by metrics because of a tough SOS and plenty of good wins early in the year. The argument (which I disagreed with) was that the committee only put them in the tourney because Trae Young would get better ratings not because they deserved a bid.
That is a very different situation than this UConn team which is very good and happened to lose some games when their star player was out.
UConn is fine and should be in. The teams that will pay the price for the Big East being down are their bubble teams. Xavier, Seton Hall and St. John’s are all going to miss the tournament.
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James Bouknight is an all American caliber player and missed a fair bit of the year. The committee will give teams with those type of players the benefit of the doubt.
This is where I am at too. Never have liked Pastner as a coach. My first time seeing any Ga. Tech this year. I could see where that junk defense could give us problems, but then watching them on the other end I have no idea how they would score on us. Florida State turning the ball over and giving them run outs was basically their offense.
Also agree on the ACC. I’ve tried watching some of the games this year including last night and just have come away very unimpressed. I keep seeing Florida State as a bad matchup for us and when they are on they have some things that could give us problems but they are so inconsistent.
That is what I said. It is a completely different situation than the Trae Young Oklahoma team that you compared it to.
Ewing was very under appreciated for what he did in Georgetown, I said it when we hired Juwan and some media people compared him to Ewing. Like Juwan, Ewing always strikes me as a genuine person although he doesn’t have the same charm. I am very glad that his team finally won something. Coaches like him are always unfairly compared to what they achieved as players.
Are Juwan and Ewing the two tallest coaches in the country? Anyone else even close?
John Brannen of Cincinnati is 6-9, so right in the same ballpark.
Mark Pope at BYU
Larry Krystowiak (however the heck you spell it) at Utah was pretty tall as a player back in the 80s though may have shrunk since then.