EARLY NAMES FOR CENTRAL ARKANSAS
JEREMY COX UTEP
TJ CLEVELAND WICHITA ST
SOLOMON BOZEMAN UAPB
MATT SCHERBENSKE CAL
MARK DOWNEY ARKANSAS TECH

— Major Madness (@low_madness) March 3, 2024

Tarleton State University and head coach Billy Gillispie have agreed to an extension, pending board approval.

Story: https://t.co/YJrwtRMndL pic.twitter.com/t3IzBOljKW

— Tarleton Men's Basketball (@TarletonMBB) March 6, 2024

Kinda surprised on this. Figured they would have stuck with the interim coach. Joseph Jones has done a fantastic job as the interim.

Jacks1989 said:

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Tarleton State University and head coach Billy Gillispie have agreed to an extension, pending board approval.

Story: https://t.co/YJrwtRMndL pic.twitter.com/t3IzBOljKW

— Tarleton Men's Basketball (@TarletonMBB) March 6, 2024

Kinda surprised on this. Figured they would have stuck with the interim coach. Joseph Jones has done a fantastic job as the interim.

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This had been decided long ago.

Brad Underwood gets his 2nd Big 10 tournement title. Only the 6th B-10 coach to win two.

SFA Jack Fanatic said:

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Brad Underwood gets his 2nd Big 10 tournement title. Only the 6th B-10 coach to win two.

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Impressive. Still should be noticed that in his six previous seasons at Illinois that he has exactly as many tournament wins (2) as he had at SFA in three years. He still has not reached a Sweet 16 despite extremely favorable seeding including a 1 seed.

Now in his 7th season he should surpass his SFA success, but it just shows that he had something extremely special here - just not the millions of dollars in pay.

Grand Canyon got the 12 seed. Just putting it here that this is still an indication of what the committee thinks of the WAC. GCU had a pretty great resume and a final NET of 50. Let's just say multiple teams with worse NET got lower seeds. Mid majors are still peaking at 12 without serious success. The WAC is an improvement in some very key ways. Tournament placement is not one of them.

St. Mary's has to be one of the toughest draws for them.

I agree...and CBU WBB got the 15 seed playing a VERY GOOD UCLA...

Looks like not much better than the SLC

SLC
(Men's) McNeese State #12 Seed to play #5 Gonzaga
(Women's) Texas A&M CC #16 Seed to play #1 USC

WAC
(Men's) Grand Canyon #12 Seed to play #5 Saint. Mary's
(Women's) CBU #15 Seed to play #2 UCLA

McNeese State had a Brad Underwood type season going from (11-23; 6-12) in 2023 to (30-3; 17-1) in 2024 with new Head Coach Will Wade.

11 straight wins.

Wins over VCU, Texas State, UAB, ULL, and Michigan.

They also played the following schools

College of Biblical Studies (96-55)
Champion Christian (110-46)
Mississippi University for Women (92-23)

Their 3-losses were to
@Western Carolina 74-76
@Louisiana Tech 62-71
@Southeastern Louisiana 74-77

Better seeding was one of the big selling points for moving to the WAC.

Ha....yep better seeding and maybe a 2 bid league.

Big loss for UTA.

I can see McNeese MBB knocking off Gonzaga, or at least keeping it very close.

My son goes to McNeese and I have been watching most of there games. They are fun to watch. Very athletic. Shahada Wells is the real deal.

I had four 11 seeds making the Sweet 16. Maybe I'm crazy.

Jimel Cofer had a career high 19 points tonight as Grambling beat Montana State in a NCAA tournament play-in game.

Cofer was on SFA's roster in '21-'22, playing 9 minutes and scoring 2 points.

UTRGV has informed the WAC that they will be leaving the WAC to join the Southland. The move will cost them $2 million.

(Tired of getting their brains beat out of them in the WAC.)

Cofer is averaging 9 minutes and 2 points a game this season with Grambling. Consistent. Edit: oh I see, at SFA he played 3.5 minutes and averaged .7 points. Sorry, misread your comment.

Jacks1989 said:

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My son goes to McNeese and I have been watching most of there games. They are fun to watch. Very athletic. Shahada Wells is the real deal.

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Wells was a stud while he was here at TJC. Wished we could have picked him up back then. Amazing that this is his fourth college and I believe this is his sixth year as he will be 25 soon. I have them going to the Sweet 16.

nacluth said:

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I had four 11 seeds making the Sweet 16. Maybe I'm crazy.

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My long shot Duquesne made it through round one. Now they just have to keep Underwood from making his first Sweet 16.

nacluth said:

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nacluth said:

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I had four 11 seeds making the Sweet 16. Maybe I'm crazy.

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My long shot Duquesne made it through round one. Now they just have to keep Underwood from making his first Sweet 16.

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my bracket is perfect as of now. Should I start my bragging? Lol

This is THE time.

Oh well. I picked Nevada to break my perfect bracket. They were up 17 with 6 minutes left. Dayton went 24-4 over the final 6 minutes. Total collapse by the Wolfpack.

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nacluth said:

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I had four 11 seeds making the Sweet 16. Maybe I'm crazy.

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My long shot Duquesne made it through round one. Now they just have to keep Underwood from making his first Sweet 16.

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my bracket is perfect as of now. Should I start my bragging? Lol

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Yes. You definitely better do it now while you can. The window for bragging will soon close.

Kentucky flawed my bracket

New Mexico is good team, but I really need them to overcome this 14 point deficit at half.

nacluth said:

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New Mexico is good team, but I really need them to overcome this 14 point deficit at half.

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haven't missed any so far today. But today is still young

nacluth said:

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Nice total team game by GCU for the win tonight. Just want to point out that in the past 10 tournaments, teams in SFA's league have won 5 times. No 2020 tournament which would have resulted assuredly in more SFA wins.

SFA: 2014 (1st NCAA win), 2016
ACU: 2021 (1st NCAA win)
NMSU: 2022 (1st win in 31 years)
GCU: 2024 (1st NCAA win)

It's not all SFA, but we're going to take some credit for making all teams step up their competition. Both the SLC and the WAC struggled before SFA broke through. Now our peers are expecting success.

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Really important data. This GCU team is special. Like SFA in years past, they are a unique combination of players that can play defense while combining true offensive prowess.

TallTexan would know better than I, but because of these consistent wins, I think SFA has been getting NCAA revenue share from these wins for the last decade right?

It hurts to say it, but yeah, they are a special team. It wouldn't be a major shocker to me if they knock off Bama and make the Sweet 16.