“They” have us (a # 1 seed) play one of the all around best teams of the last decade in round 2.
“They” put Purdue in our Region knowing good gosh darn that the Regional is in Indy.
“They” bring the astronauts back from wherever they were—Forget this last 1 but the first two make you think.
Just another road game for the Coogs, Last I checked, they’ve done fairly well away from Fertitta Center.
What do the stranded astronauts have to do with it? They were in space!
There is bias no doubt.
Texas and North Carolina got tournament bids for 1 reason. Ratings
These teams were not deserving but have huge followings whereas from a marketing perspective teams like UConn, Gonzaga, Houston do not move the ratings needle. At the end of the day It’s all about the money for the TV networks.
Does Texas really love the needle for ratings in basketball? Football, yeah. Basketball? I dunno
Most UT football fans don’t follow basketball.
My Longhorn coworkers only follow football.
And why is the #3 overall (us) in the same bracket as #1 overall Duke before the final ?
Typically you have the winner between #1 and # 4 play the winner between # 2 and # 3
Wasn’t Auburn the overall #1 seed?
So I’m thinking it’s normal.
That doesn’t matter. What matters is getting a favorable path. It’s win or go home for this team.
Normally I’d probably bite on this but, you know what? This year, we’re so good and so deep that I don’t really care who they throw at us and where. We can beat anybody.
Coogs vs the world and I take the Coogs this season.
I was looking at Kenpom rankings
Sorry not sure if this was sarcasm or not. How I interpret the brackets is this…there are 4 brackets to the Final Four. Therefore there are 4 No.1 seeds. The overall No1 seed did not go to Duke, it went to Aurburn.thus the other No1 seeds went as follow… Duke, Houston, and Florida. Your assessment the 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3 is accurate and then the Championship game.
Sorry if I misunderstood you.
I bit guys… NVM
I like to believe the extra diversity they put in our bracket is because IF we make the Final Four we have a short drive and should fill the stadium with Cougar Red.
Doesn’t matter. Roll through Purdue, beat Tennessee, then get ready for revenge games against Duke and Auburn.
To be the King, beat the challengers.
If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best.
I bet tv ratings for Houston are better than you’re implying here…
Now with respect to fanbases that travel well I would agree…
“They” also got the astronauts back quite literally just in time for the First Weekend. They are being very obvious about like like people wont notice these things. it really makes you think. its blatant
Not sure if you guys have been listening to Houston Sports radio shows but the Cougars Basketball Season, as a National Championship Contender, has received 100 times the coverage/calls as compared to the Longhorns recent football season, as a National Championship Contender.
That’s why I laugh at people who say the City of Houston is a Longhorn/ Aggie/ LSU/ Texas Tech/ Baylor city…HOUSTON IS A UH CITY first!
The Coogs just have to be good!
Don’t believe me, listen to 790 AM…and THEY are Houston’s UT Flagship station
That’s why if we keep building our brand and improve our football base/ratings plus improve our academics (i.e AAU), we just might be on the B1G’s radar in the early 2030s.
Why wouldn’t they want a UT version 2.0 in a bigger city in a powerful state like Texas?
The trend continues to be a P2…move the big pieces on either side.
The Sweet 16 finalists further proves that.
I have a friend who does software testing for Boeing for the recent crewed NASA missions. He says that NASA is the reason the astronauts were stranded. The vehicle they were supposed to come back on had triple redundancy in the thrusters, and the fault that the vehicle experienced brought one of the thrusters down to double redundancy. NASA’s safety tolerance usually allows for double redundancy but they are dissatisfied with their contract with Boeing so they made a big show about the astronauts being stranded in hopes of breaking ties with boeing in the future.
That’s his conspiracy anyway.
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