During the TO, an animated Coach Sampson read Wilson the riot act.
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You tell me everyone doesnât get so much as a hangnail, Iâm right there with you. But no Big 12 tournament trophy is worth NCAA tourney health. Itâs obviously not a binary choice, but I lean on the side of disrespecting the Big 12 tournament to the benefit of our health.
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You play to win the Big 12 Tournament, but you donât play anyone heavy minutes. Starters get 20-25 minutes. Get Miller and Lath about 10-12 minutes cause they are the first guard and big out of the 8 man rotation if someone goes down or multiple foul issues in the NCAA Tournament.
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I would cut Sharp and TA by 50%. Sharp runs right into the melee on every play. Its why he gets so banged up
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Jojo Tugler last (3) games:
*vs Cincinnati: 1 foul
*vs Kansas: 1 foul
*at Baylor: 2 fouls
The previous 4 games, he had 4 fouls in each (opponent does matter, yes)
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Win one and cash out in the conf tourney
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No we have to play to win everything! I just happen to believe that after the first game, itâs Jefferson, Miller, and Lathâs job to do the heavy lifting in this incredibly meaningless scenario
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if we canât make it a double, that seems like the next best scenario
Who was the last P5 team to do the triple of a regular season conference champ, conference tournament champ, and national champion?
No, I donât count UConn as a P5 team.
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seems like thats another obscure Jayhawks accomplishment we have to match since they did that in 2021-22 lmao
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Not counting UConn (not sure why you arenât but whatever), it was Kansas in â22. So really not that special of a feat.
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I thought Baylor was the Big 12 regular season champ in 2022 but I found out that it was co-champs with Kansas.
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Does anyone seriously see the Big East as a power conference in basketball?
The only legit teams I know in the conference since they dropped football is UConn and Villanova.
@tcoog Marquette is a pretty solid program
Creighton made the Elite 8 in 2023. Under McDermott, theyâve been solid
Xavier should be better. When Chris Mack was there they made the NCAA tourney 8 of 9 years
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They have the most titles in the last decade. The only program in the league that doesnât have multiple tournament appearances in the last decade is DePaul. 6 of their 11 programs have a S16 in the last three years. So yes, the overwhelming majority of people consider it a power conference.
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Big East is legit, they just donât have 28 teams in their conference
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I absolutely do, but they are down this year for sure. Theyâre actually a little better bball product in the time after they dropped football, IMO.
Obviously UConn is a blue blood, but it really depends how Marquette Creighton Providence Xavier Butler St Johnâs Seton Hall are doing in a given year.
All capable of being top 25 programs at any given point in time, but all of them are objectively at least a little or a lot down right now, except maybe St Johnâs.
The other thing to consider is the financial advantage of not having to fund football NIL/overhead w/ private money advantages in big media markets.
The Big East MM model is something an east coast guy like Yormark is very aware of, and something weâre trying to emulate a bit in expansion.
But I certianly see where youâre coming from because the Big East is pretty noticeably down this year. Itâs disappointing.
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I agree 100%.
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Creighton landed an active LDS transfer out of USU because they were willing to give him more money than BYU.
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