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Money, money, money that is where he is going.

My comments were based on your argument when you said some schools were left out because they would have probably lost their first game in the tournament. So I just pointed out using YOUR argument if those teams were left out because of that then the SEC teams that lost the first game weren’t deserving .

I like all 3 when SMU played TCU this year Peterson scored 30 points and pulled down 11 rebounds. Davidson is a good outside scoring threat. Skylar Jones is solid and can play the guard and the wing.

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He's going to Duke. I guarantee it. Idrc though, the dude may be talented...but he is a bean pole. I would rather have an experienced wing or big that has muscle.

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KozmasAgain said:

I don’t think all teams are chosen based on the quality of their team. I would say most teams are but it has been really obvious that politics are involved. Did Georgia, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, Oklahoma and Missouri deserve their place in the tournament? They all lost their first round game Missouri lost to a much lower seed when they lost to Drake. The SEC really showed how faulty the selection committee was.

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So did the Big East in 2011 deserve 11 teams? It's convenient we didn't rant about that back then and we beat our chests about it, yet didn't bring up only 2 of those 11 made the second weekend.

I mean did we deserve to make the tournament in 2011? I mean we did lose to a OVC team! E$PN CONSIPRACY TO BOOST THE BIG EAST! We had 9 losses going into March but were given a 4 seed due to conference bias!!

Because that's the truth based on your logic.

I just don't get worked up by it. If it was the Big Ten or Big 12, we wouldn't care. We care because you know who is in the SEC and their fans beat their chest about it. So because they get in our heads, we have to go against everything they are involved in. Even going on about how this crappy bubble team deserved it over this crappy bubble team.

And if you're saying Missouri didn't deserve to make the tournament, that's a big LOL from me. You really think WVU and IU just had great resumes? Neither were over .500 in their own league. Both were playing bad heading into the tournament. I mean I'm sure you think Wake Forest and SMU were much more deserving too lol. Or 10 loss Boise State from a Mid Major? That's the one!

And Arkansas actually had a worse resume than some of those you mentioned, you didn't mention them though because they beat the Big East champions and that doesn't help the argument. Arkansas beating them doesn't change my mind, they just were a decent tournament level team that had a good day. But they were a losing record SEC team that was a last second shot from the Elite 8. But that narrative isn't discussed.

But it's a travesty and a conspiracy by the SEC/ESPN (who doesn't air the tournament) to make sure that crap teams don't make it.

It wasn't ESPN bias. Missouri was ranked high on all the metrics. Kenpom, Bartorvick, NET, the polls, etc etc etc etc. But they're SEC and you know who that wears blue is SEC, so they're not good because of that.

If he goes to Duke he will face more competition for playing time then he will by going to Louisville at this point. If he is as good as he is projected to be playing time is crucial because he won’t be in college very long. I would think he will be in college 1 or 2 years at the most so the opportunity to display his talent is important. I don’t care if Boozer or anybody else is in his ear his decision is going to based on money. At this point he has no loyalty to any of the schools recruiting him.

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I don’t think all teams are chosen based on the quality of their team. I would say most teams are but it has been really obvious that politics are involved. Did Georgia, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, Oklahoma and Missouri deserve their place in the tournament? They all lost their first round game Missouri lost to a much lower seed when they lost to Drake. The SEC really showed how faulty the selection committee was.

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KozmasAgain said:

We were run off by a 9 seed who was also under seeded. Obviously the SEC was over represented they had 14 teams in the tournament and they only have 2 teams left. sUcK was obviously way over seeded as a 3 seed and it didn’t do them any good. The most confusing seed to me outside of UNC was Clemson. We were ranked higher than them in the national polls, beat them twice and finished higher than them in the cone but yet they get a higher seed.

Something was not right in the seeding of teams and everyone knows it. Take the human input out of the equation and feed all the information in to a computer and let it seed the teams. Use the metrics that the so called selection committee says they are using.

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Polls have never mattered for seeding, ever.

The NCAA tournament has too many team in my opinion. A true tournament has the teams capable of winning a title. There might be 5-6 of those on a given year. If those teams make it and are the 1-2 seeds, nothing else matters that much.

Also, there’s only 4 teams left. Would you say that the SEC only had 4 of their 14 teams make the Final Four if it was all SEC teams? People are making way too much about if it mattered that the SEC got 11 or 14 teams in. Did the tournament really miss out not having WVU, IU, and Boise State? No. They weren’t winning a title and would’ve all lost their first game.

At the end of the day, the top teams mostly all made it to the right round. Arkansas was the only outlier in beating the Big East Champions. The 1 seeds were picked correctly. The SEC might have gotten too many, but then again there weren’t many good options that they got in over either.

To pick 68 teams and seed them when there’s hundreds of teams playing unequal level of talent, there’s no real correct or right way to do it.

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BooneCo_Card said:

Tennessee had been a relatively successful program under Ray Mears and following a disastrous year under his replacement, they hired DeVoe. He started well, going 49-17 in 1st four years in SEC games. From there it was 9-9, 9-9, 8-10, 5-13, 7-11, 9-9 and finishing at 11-7 in his final year. And that was in a SEC that was not that strong. The program was going nowhere under his leadership.

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So what did Wade and the next 3 coaches do?

Beat me to it. I referred to Peterson as Davidson.

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JMS1947 said:

Who are the players? What are their stats? Where are they now?

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Jessica Peterson- SMU (6’2 Senior Center)
10.3 PPG, 12 RPG, .9 APG

Skylar Jones- Arizona (6’0 Sophomore Guard)
10.7 PPG, 3 RPG, 1.8 APG

Katie Davidson- IU Indianapolis (5’10 Senior Guard)
19.4 PPG, 4.4 RPG, 1.7 APG

JMS1947 said:

Who are the players? What are their stats? Where are they now?

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A lot to copy and paste. Probably easier to just google it. Davidson, 6’2” from SMU and I believe she averaged a dbl-dbl for SMU. She can rebound and we need that. The other two are guards - one is 6’0” and the other is 5’10”. That’s all I can recall.