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  1. 1 minute ago, dcar00 said:

    the refs just fucked themselves.  they have to start calling the same shit on Houston.

    I mean they don't have to. They never really adjusted in the Auburn game. I don't think Broome was called for a foul until like 3 minutes left in the game.

  2. 3 minutes ago, Welshy said:

    All sorts of outrage with them having to travel 1000 miles for the regional. Conveniently ignored the MASSIVE home-field as long as Houston got to final 4.

    Huge benefit. 

    That's just awful. I can't imagine what it's like to have to travel like that for the tournament.

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  3. 4 minutes ago, Pancho said:

    Houston has clamped down Clayton. Florida cannot win without him getting hot.

    Feels like half of his shot attempts have been contested and 8 feet beyond the arc.

    Florida's only real success beyond the arc has been getting it into the paint and then right back out to Richard.

  4. 12 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

    I've been clear I don't think y'all will beat Houston but I think it'll be a good game. I think your best hope is to get up early and hope Houston can't hit multiple kill shots (10-0 runs, they're the best at this in college basketball last time I looked). The main reason I'm taking Houston is their defense is just next level compared to pretty much anyone but Duke. Y'all have some killers so anything can happen, though.

    I think A game vs A game, Florida probably wins.

    But we haven't brought our A game yet this tournament. Condon still is not 100% and our bigs have been starting soft.

    The biggest advantage has been depth and their ability to take control later in the game.

    Houston has the ability to slow the game down and are a very physical team. If the officiating we saw against Auburn happens again, Houston has a big advantage.

  5. 4 minutes ago, Blotto said:

    They probably didnt want their COTY winner sending out celebratory dick pics to all the voters. 

    That could have something to do with it. Although nothing came out of the investigation, there is still a shadow and something may still come out of it.

    It certainly makes one question the officiating last night. The refs were pretty blatant in their attempt to will Auburn the win.

    Everyone has already forgotten that Bruce had a 3 year show cause for NCAA violations as well as being found guilty of a cover it up and really wanted a reason to give him the award.

  6. 1 hour ago, gatormarc said:

    Looking back, I recall a common discussion with Florida is how young and inexperienced Golden is at this level (6th year coaching, 3rd at Florida, took over a team that had missed the tournament the year before), but for some reason that never came up with Scheyer (3rd year coaching, took over final four team).

    It's odd how certain narratives get locked in.

    Like everyone giving Pearl CotY in March even though he was very much outcoached by Golden this season.

    It's just wild to me that they essentially gave Pearl the CotY award like a month ago and made it official before the season was over like it was a gimme.

    Pearl (Auburn)
    Overall Record: 32-6
    vs Quad 1: 19-6
    vs Net Top 10: 5-5
    SEC: 15-3 (SEC Regular Season Champs)
    SEC Tournament: 1-1 (lost in seminfinals)
    vs. Florida: 0-2
    vs. Alabama, Tennessee: 2-2

    Golden (Florida)
    Overall Record: 35-4
    vs Quad 1: 15-4
    vs. Net Top 10: 7-2
    SEC: 14-4 (2nd place, Regular Season)
    SEC Tournament: 3-0 (SEC Tournament Champs)
    vs. Auburn: 2-0
    vs Alabama, Tennessee: 3-1

  7. Looking back, I recall a common discussion with Florida is how young and inexperienced Golden is at this level (6th year coaching, 3rd at Florida, took over a team that had missed the tournament the year before), but for some reason that never came up with Scheyer (3rd year coaching, took over final four team).

    It's odd how certain narratives get locked in.

    Like everyone giving Pearl CotY in March even though he was very much outcoached by Golden this season.

  8. https://www.sportico.com/leagues/college-sports/2025/ncaa-tournament-units-sec-payment-march-madness-1234845447/

    SEC to Net NCAA Record $70 Million From March Madness Units

    By   March 30, 2025 7:54pm
     

    The SEC entered March Madness with a record number of teams in the tournament. It will finish with the biggest payout in tournament history.

    Long considered more of a football conference than a basketball one, the SEC qualified 14 of its 16 teams into the men’s field this year, including No. 1 seeds Florida and Auburn. Both are still alive heading into the Final Four next week in San Antonio.

    The NCAA distributes hundreds of millions of dollars each year based on success in the men’s tournament. The money flows directly to each conference for every game its teams play in the tournament before the final. It’s a complex formula called “units”—which Sportico broke down in detail here—but in its simplest form, every game played in this year’s tournament will be worth an estimated $2 million for each conference. Now that the Final Four is set, we know exactly how many units each conference has earned.

    The SEC, which will play 35 games before the final and therefore earned 35 units, will receive roughly $70 million for its performance in the tournament. That’s by far the highest total ever, eclipsing the 25 units the ACC won in 2016. This year the Big Ten was second, with 21 units, which will pay an estimated $42 million. The Big 12 was third with 20 units for $40 million.

    Smaller conferences fared far worse. Twenty leagues earned just one unit, and another four earned just two.

    The SEC’s rise as a basketball conference began with Greg Sankey’s ascension to commissioner in 2015. At the time men’s basketball coaches in the league felt the SEC had given up on the sport to focus primarily on football. Sankey and advisor Mike Tranghese, former commissioner of the basketball-focused Big East, raised officiating standards, encouraged teams to spend up for top coaches, and pressed self-promotion. The rise of NIL, which has let richer schools flex their might; expansion; and a new batch of TV deals all helped as well.

    From 2014 to 2023, the average SEC men’s basketball budget jumped 76%, a bigger increase than in the Big Ten (69%), Big 12 (66%), ACC (61%) or Pac-12 (50%). The SEC now averages the second-highest men’s basketball budgets in the country, behind only the ACC.

    Units are distributed over six years, generating payments to the conferences in annual chunks starting the year after the tournament in which the units are earned. For units earned in 2025, that starts with a payment of roughly $360,000 next year and ends with a payment of roughly $345,000 in 2031, per Sportico’s rough calculations. The funds typically grow about 2.9% each year, but the value goes down temporarily because the canceled 2020 tournament concentrated payments for the following six years.

    Many conferences split their unit payouts evenly among their schools, but not all. The West Coast Conference, for example, gives a higher percentage of its distribution to the team that actually earned the units. The ACC, which won the most units in last year’s men’s tournament, also gives more money to the championship teams.

    This is also the first year of units in the women’s tournament, a much smaller pool of money ($15 million this year) that is paid out slightly differently. Those payouts can be fully calculated when women’s March Madness finishes its Elite Eight on Monday.

  9. 1 minute ago, Brian Fantana said:

    Yeah you're not wrong about that, that cost us the game straight up. It was an anomalous night for sure, we had been pretty nails at the FT line all year. Frustrating way to lose.

    Totally know what you mean. UF is a decent though not lights-out free throw shooting team -- a few percentage points behind TT -- but it almost cost us against UConn.

    But then UF was lights out against TT. If we shot our normal free throw percentage against TT, we lose.

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  10. Missing the front end of one and ones kinda contributed to the delta.

    Personal fouls were about the same between the two.

    Florida would have been better off fouling TT in the act of shooting. Would have probably won by double digits.

    Golden taking advantage of the single bonus at the end was a great strategy.

  11. 15 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    He was giving you the weather report. -10 feels like - 20….because, like the wind, Florida was blowing hard

    It definitely felt worse than it objectively was. 

    The game was essentially tied for 30 minutes. Then TT went on a 10-2 run and held it for about 4 minutes, and then Florida went on a 9-0 run to tie it up and then Clayton's ridiculous jog out 3 just left everyone shocked. Florida made free throws. Fin.

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  12. Just now, Gatorubet said:

    Yup.  That essentially ends the madness part of March Madness.  if you’re a bad ass mid major player, you enter the portal and go to a power five program for more money.

    It would scare the shit out of me to face a mid major with five guys who were seniors who played together forever.  Now Kentucky goes to the portal gets a brand new team who’s never even met each other - and might win the fucking tournament..

    It's like the 1 and done strategy only you actually know if they are good first.

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