UNC ONLY BASKETBALL 2024-25 SEASON

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Carolina Fever said:
So, are the Heels in the big dance or not? It doesn't look good.
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From Lunardi today….”Here's the latest on Selection Sunday morning: Realistically, we are down to three teams (Indiana, Xavier, Boise State) for two spots. After them, Texas has too many losses and North Carolina doesn't have enough good wins for inclusion.”

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I don't know if we'll make it or not, but I'm going to have a hard time getting upset if we don't get in. Don't get me wrong, if we are in I'll cheer like crazy for us to win as many games as possible, but despite all the metrics about the tough schedule we played and that we are not ranked that low in some measurements like KenPom and NET, the fact remains that we are an awful 1-12 in Quad 1 games, finished fifth in a historically weak ACC, and went 0-5 against the Top 3 teams in the ACC this year (0-3 against dook and 0-2 against Louisville and Clemson, including a blowout loss at Clemson). It's not a good look, no matter how one tries to mitigate it using other measurements. If we get in today it will be less because we've earned it than because of our name brand and the viewers we bring to games, imo. At the same time if we do sneak in I'll certainly take it, as I said earlier.
 
The funny thing is the name might actually keep UNC out and other teams get in that are no as good from the mid-majors. People expect UNC to win. They played a much tougher schedule than the mid-majors that will get in. But people expect UNC to win those quad one games, at least some of them. It's tougher for the bigger schools to get in like UNC because the mid-majors don't have to win quad 1 games to get in. They get in because they were the best in their conference, even though there are other teams that are probably better than them that won't get in because they are in the major conferences.
 
Glad I didn't watch UAB-Memphis for nothing

Extremely happy for this team. Improved and put themselves in a position to be selected after about a month of elimination games

A play-in game is certainly fitting given their season. Now time to validate the selection

All things considered, a really good draw as an 11 seed
 
An 11 seed that has played in Dayton has won at least one additional game in every NCAAT in which there have been play-in games. I like UNC's chances to do the same should we beat SDSU in Dayton. Ole Miss is beatable on Friday, and then potentially getting Iowa State who will be without their best player on Sunday....
 
Massive amount of attention and nothing to talk about yet leads to stupid points being thrown out there.
 
Bigs23 said:
So the pundits seem to believe that the 14 SEC teams is fine but the ACC’s 4 is too many.

Eff them.
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Most of the pundits work for ESPN and ESPN's investment in the SEC is far greater than the ACC. It ain't just football where they are kissing the SEC's ass.
 
BlueSteel said:
My God. We've become that team that parties like it's 1999 just getting into the tourney. I miss the days when UNC being in the tourny was the rule, not the exception. FFS.
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You seem to have missed the point of the video. It’s about good vibes. Not your glory days b.s. Those kids have been through a lot and they’re happy as hell, and resolute and ready to fight.

If you think you’ve been through more than they have and in your entitlement you’re whining and pining for those good ol’ days, please beat it and stop screwing with the vibe over here in reality. FFS.
 
duluoz said:
You seem to have missed the point of the video. It’s about good vibes. Not your glory days b.s. Those kids have been through a lot and they’re happy as hell, and resolute and ready to fight.

If you think you’ve been through more than they have and in your entitlement you’re whining and pining for those good ol’ days, please beat it and stop screwing with the vibe over here in reality. FFS.
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No, I get the point. And I'm also entitled to have my opinion. Of course I'll be rooting for the Heels, but you can take your participation trophy and shove it up your ass. Prick.
 
I find it funny that people take these "who's in/who's out" arguments so seriously. The bad decision -- or what might appear to some as being a bad decision -- is the whole point. And it's why we have year-long bracketology.

I don't know if it was the NFL who first figured it out, but basically all of sports marketing has become finding ways to monetize content when there's no game. The NFL draft isn't just popular on TV -- it's a whole fucking mini-industry unto itself. That's where there are zillions of mock drafts, or mock draft 2.0, or Mel Kiper v1.0 drafting against Mel Kiper v.2.0.

Maybe ESPN pioneered the approach with its emphasis on the studio as a principal setting for sports action. It's why Stephen A Smith got $100M. He's not actually a commentator. He's the product. I rarely watch those shows, but I watched one a few years ago. They are sort of incomprehensible if you know nothing about the personalities. Same with Inside The NBA.

And so has college sports taken the same model. Multiple rounds of announcing the "leaders" for the CFP. Year round bracketology. Senseless arguments about who got robbed of an inclusion that is highly likely to end in imminent defeat.

Probably I was the same way once. I cared about bracketology. So I shouldn't be hard on people. And sometimes it can be entertaining (Inside the NBA more than a couple of others). It's just odd the way that the non-game content almost seems to overwhelm the actual game.
 
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