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SBU Men's Basketball / Re: Around the CAA / Country
« on: March 22, 2024, 09:53:27 pm »
Yeah. I was hoping for a close game. It’s the opposite. Alabama is too good for Charleston.
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I'm really confused about the tournament arrangements for WBB. Based upon what I see, the WNIT has Monmouth listed as an automatic qualifier and Charleston as an at-large qualifier. Remember who was the regular season champ (and had the best record)-SBU!?!? So, how come SBU ends up in the WBIT (it's 1st year, by the way)?
The WBIT is more prestigious than the WNIT, it seems, as the BIT bracket is filled first and conference champs get an auto-bid
The Hofstra board for your amusement …Good example of Emotional roller coaster and stages of grief.
https://www.flyingdutchmenfans.com/viewtopic.php?t=47679
If we had to lose to someone clearly it was not this other Long Island team. Disgusting! Anyone else and losing to a team we owned.
UMass is headed from the A-10 to the MAC for all sports (except hockey I'm guessing/I hope). That drops the A-10 to 14 teams. You wonder if they're content there or if they're still looking at adding a couple. There are a lot of sub-FBS/non-football schools in that conference, and we have a few attractive schools who fit that mold in our conference including, well, us . Yeah, but really, not happening.
https://twitter.com/PeteThamel/status/1762198328673006013
Man, even the CAA (19) is ranked higher than the MAC (24) in KenPom conferences right now.
UMass basketball enthusiasts are not pleased. In the KenPom ratings, you can list off seven A-10 schools before you reach Akron at #100, and another three A-10s before reaching a second MAC team. Does Frank Martin skip town? Can they recruit at the same level? I dunno. I'm skeptical.
Here's a good rundown of what it all means for the program. All you need to know is that UMass Lowell is in a better basketball conference than UMass. On Saturday, they had their best crowd in years .... YEARS (7,000+) ... and this news broke two days later. Brutal.
https://www.masslive.com/umassfootball/2024/02/umass-move-to-mac-is-brutal-blow-to-its-mens-basketball-program-vautour.html
I agree because by debating we see other views by other people. It would be pretty boring if we all agreed with each other
Good on Delaware to seize an opportunity, but that conference is such a hodgepodge of teams. When I think CUSA, I think Memphis, Tulane, Southern Miss, UCF, those types, but they're all gone. Now you have everybody from New Mexico to Delaware, with a significant lean south. If they were to double-dip in the CAA, Towson would make some sense. We would stick out like a sore thumb, much like NMSU. But with a built-in schedule, TV money and a pathway to a bowl, I'm sure most ADs would choose that over being independent.
UMass people are convinced that that's the next move for the CUSA. Also seems Tarleton is in the running. It's hard to just start up rivalries with these obscure schools though. Imagine Sam Houston or Jacksonville State coming into our building and that doing much for anybody? At least we had some history with some CAA schools in football where it felt natural to play them in other sports too.