Leviathan

He was on CBS this morning sporting a USF tie and pin.

The mighty SEC isn’t looking that great right now.

This tournament is showing why NET is flawed. These high NET teams just play more games against each other so when they lose it doesn’t hurt them and when they win it gives them a big boost. More than half the teams in a conference shouldn’t make a tournament and if you finish under .500 in conference play you shouldn’t make it. 
 

It’s only gonna get worse as the gap between the big and small conferences grows.

FAU should have never gotten an at-large. Frauds living off their Cinderella run from last season. Committee treated them like they were a Duke or Kentucky.

I prefer the slime green & yellow color scheme over the traditional green & gold. The white SoFlo home jerseys are my favorite. 

Both Big 12 teams lose tonight. I was told it was the best basketball conference this season. What happened?

LOL, the play-by-play guys name is Connor Onion.

When we can’t shoot the 3 we look so bad on offense.

Should be a technical.

How’d that 3 not fall? 

Getting hosed by the refs again. Calling everything against us and letting them get away with contact.

Surprised we didn’t even get a home game in this joke of a tournament. Would we even have gotten selected if all those teams opted out?

2 minutes ago, olafberserker said:

FAU OOC wins = Loyola Chi, Butler, Tex AM, Arizona, VA Tech, plus they went to the Final 4 a year ago

USF wasn’t as impressive because they beat teams in a bad conference (AAC) yet FAU failed to finish first and didn’t win the tournament in the same conference. 

It looks like even if we went undefeated in conference play we still wouldn’t have been selected. 
 

13 minutes ago, Dave_Glaser said:

Really interested to see Kasen Jennings.

Off topic, but are you related to Joe Glaser the guitar luthier? 

1 minute ago, flsportsfan83 said:

930pm selection show on espn2

Why so late? Is it because they have to check how many teams are gonna back out first?

We need to get out of the AAC ASAP. **** conference with **** teams, **** reputation, and even a ****** name.

They should have kept the Big East name. At least it had some respect. The American isn’t a conference it’s a waiting room to be invited to another conference. Purgatory. 

****, FAU losing to Temple really makes our loss hurt more. All we had to do was beat ECU, UAB and Temple.

The amount of top seeds going down in conference tournaments shows what a joke it is putting more weight in a week long tournament than a full conference schedule.

Has a  regular season AAC champ ever been kept out of the tournament? I’m assuming USF will be the first.

Such a shame it had to end like this. Would have loved to see this team make the tourney. 

Had 0 expectations coming into the season and was pretty much checked out on USF basketball. Might be controversial, but I think this is is the best USF team I have ever seen (didn’t follow before 2008). The 2012 run was fun but this team was more impressive. 

Same old USF… ugh

Funny how the talking heads on ESPN only bring up USF when they talk about how we are playing spoiler to bubble teams that didn’t even finish over .500 in their own conference.

Is there any chance FAU falls into the bubble watch if they lose tonight? 

10 minutes ago, belgianbull said:

Wins against Arizona and Illinois.

So a one-off win a couple days before Christmas on a neutral court is more impressive body of work than winning a 18-game regular season conference schedule?
 

Also, they lost to Illinois. 

If I’m coach I’m telling the team to only shoot 3s from here on out.

11 minutes ago, beefy620 said:

FAU is currently 33

 

Since 2018, one criterion for determining selection to the NCAA Tournament has been performance against certain RPI quadrants. Typically, a quadrant 1 win is considered a "good win", while a quadrant 4 loss is considered a "bad loss". The quadrants are defined as follows:

• Quadrant 1: Home games vs. RPI teams ranked in the top 30; neutral games vs. 1-50; away games vs. 1-75.
• Quadrant 2: Home vs. 31-75 teams; neutral vs. 51-100; away vs. 76-135.
• Quadrant 3: Home vs. 76-160 teams; neutral vs. 101-200; away vs. 136-240.
• Quadrant 4: Home vs. 161-plus teams; neutral vs. 201-plus; away vs. 241-plus.^[8]

The quadrant system is still in use under the new NET system, with RPI ranking replaced by NET ranking

And yet FAU is currently a lock for the tournament even though they lost 4 games in this godawful conference. NET is so dumb.

Now they’re saying we are 0-0 in quad 1 games? Does FAU not count as a quad 1? What is a quad 1 team?

27 minutes ago, Triple B said:

Was there an excuse before?

Beating Memphis was gonna be a major obstacle. Going forward we should be favored against everyone left except for FAU. 

No excuse not to reach the final now.