He lit up Illinois. Loyola had some really good players and teams in that era
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Big Jack
- Decatur
Man he was a great high school coach. Produced same very good players for a small area like Lawrenceville
I went to his basketball camps when I was a kid
The Galloping Ghost
- Washington, DC
That's a bold strategy, Mark. Real glad this isn't us. What an absolute goober.
Honestly just looks like a loser.
Who told him this was a good idea?
chrisRunner7
- San Diego
He may have a reputation of being a goober, but I am impressed that he actually responded to a couple of negative questions about Kentucky's portal failures.
This comes off really weird and almost desperate. In places it starts to feel like an info commercial.
pruman91
- interviewing new NL's daily....I really really am
my UK friends are not fans of Pope........they want him gone yesterday...........they really really do..............This comes off really weird and almost desperate. In places it starts to feel like an info commercial.
Expanded NCAA Tournament is reportedly a done deal.
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Are we sure this wasn't part of a PIP and what seemingly is a punishment for not living up to expectations.
Glad Brad doesn't need to do this.
lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
OrangeBlue98
Iowa is not in a great spot right now (LvilleILL1)
- Des Moines, IA
drsmitty74
- Rochester
He doesn't need to.
here is the first ESPN bracketology with the new format. Illinois got a 1 seed but I still hate the expansion
Men's Bracketology: Florida debuts as No. 1 overall seed for 2026-27
The Gators return their leading scorer to top the first forecasted field for next season's NCAA tournament.
www.espn.com
Battle89
- Cary-Grove, the better Trojan team
All the changes, all the time passed, and we still end playing Kentucky in Kentucky.here is the first ESPN bracketology with the new format. Illinois got a 1 seed but I still hate the expansion
Men's Bracketology: Florida debuts as No. 1 overall seed for 2026-27
The Gators return their leading scorer to top the first forecasted field for next season's NCAA tournament.www.espn.com
Edit: and what a loaded region! 1 - Illinois 2 - Arizona 3 - Gonzaga 4 - Alabama 5 - Iowa State
This is really helpful for me to visualize what the changes actually mean.
TL/DR: I think this system improves the 10-16 seeds compared to what they would be under the system that's been in place.
The extra 15/16 play-ins weed out more of the worst autobid teams, bump the ~12-14 seeds one spot to ~13-15, and create room for 4 additional at-large teams in the R64 as ~12 seeds. If teams are (theoretically) selected by resume but seeded more in line with efficiency, the extra 11/12 play-ins shift more teams with good resumes but poor metrics into these play-ins, leaving better teams as 10/11 seeds (some of the additional 8 at-large teams will likely have better efficiency ranks than a bunch of the teams ahead of them in the resume rankings used for selection).
If I'm thinking about this correctly, it also creates an awkward void for autobid teams around the 12 seed line- they are exempt from the 11/12-seed at-large play-in games, right? If so, they have to be moved to either 13 or 11.