FQ you're right, I overrated Georgetown and maybe Maryland. I checked Georgetown's board and saw that they are projected to be a 12 or 13 seed. Georgetown had beaten some top 5 Big East teams since they returned form the COVID pause, and I overlooked the fact that the Big East is down this year, Georgetown also lost to the quality OOC teams(West Virginia and Syracuse) that they played.

I thought Maryland could be a 7 or 8 because of how strong the Big 10 is, Maryland did win at Illinois and beat  other upper-tier Big 10 teams this year. I agree with you about middle-of-the-pack BCS teams like Maryland getting endless opportunities to beat great teams in conference, and being rewarded when they only go 6-9 against these teams, while elite non BCS schools only get about 3 chances against these teams, if they are lucky. If St.Louis or maybe even Drake got 15 chances to play Big 10 teams, they could at least go 6-9 too. 

About Villanova, there's no chance that the committee will screw over Villanova like they did to GW's 2006 team. Villanova will probably still get a 3 or 4 seed, but I don't see how they can beat the 5 or 6 seeded BCS team that they'll face in the 2nd round(they may even have trouble with their 1st round opponent!!). Jay Wright talked about how he's never had a key player get injured this late into the season. Gillespie got hurt in the 2nd to last game of the regular season. They did look okay for most of their game against Georgetown, but they haven't had enough time to adjust to playing without Gillespie.

The Dude,  I believe you or someone else on here pointed out that Pitino actually had NCAA infractions at Hawaii when he was very young, that's why I brought it up. I guess it shows that Pitino had the 'F@#K The Rules' mentality right out of the gate!! LOL  I agree about the 1995-1996 Kentucky team, that was probably one of the great teams in the history of teams sports period, they just destroyed everyone. I think there only loss was to Calipari's UMass team with Marcus Camby. 

Loyola(MD) vs Colgate   right now   CBS SportsNetwork  - we have another local team who can make the NCAAA tournament as Loyola plays for the Patriot League title. Loyola is the 9 seed and Colgate is the 2 seed even though they are 13-1. Loyola upset the top seed Navy in the quarterfinals. Navy must have been the team that beat Colgate if they earned the 1 seed. It's also surprising that Navy played so well this year(they beat Georgetown too) and lost in the quarterfinal round.

VCU vs St. Bonaventure   A-10 Championship Game   1   CBS  -  I'm interested to see how both teams come out for this game considering they've been off for 8 days and are both safely in the NCAA tournament.
LSU vs Alabama   SEC Championship Game               1    ESPN 
Ohio State vs Illinois   Big 10 Championship Game      3:30  CBS

I'll have to look up Pitino's Hawaii tenure, I did read somewhere that he had some rules infractions there, I thought I read it here or the old board. I agree that Pitino would stay at Kentucky if he could do it all over again. His motivation to leave Kentucky(besides the money and GM duties) must have been coaching a historic franchise like the Celtics and getting the #1 pick in Tim Duncan who everyone correctly projected as a dominant, franchise-changing, hall of fame player. There's no telling how many titles Pitino would have won if he stayed at Kentucky for all these years instead of leaving after the 96-97, that's a good question, maybe 7 or 8 more? Pitino would have had the type of run that Nick Saban is now having at Alabama.

St. Bonaventure and VCU are having a very physical, chippy game today. It looks like St. Bonaventure will pull this out as they've had an 8-15 point lead for pretty much the entire game. Seeing the best 2 teams in the A10 projected as 10(Bonnies) and 11 seeds(VCU) is a bit disappointing to me. 

The question with St Bona is will their lack of depth catch up with them in the second round or the Sweet 16. They are going to bust many people´s brackets (mine included) and there is not a team in the country that wants to be drawn in to their side of the bracket. If VCU plays defense as well as it can (like when they cut the deficit to 7 today), they will be a force to reckon with, otherwise teams have to be hoping to be drawn against them (as Team Olean showed for most of the game today). Hope SLU slips in (with Duke putting all undergrads on lockdown, their chances may have just improved) but realize it is a big ask unless CBS needs to increase its presence in the Missouri market.

GW Alum Abroad and FQ,  it certainly would be great to see St. Bonaventure get a 10 or 11 seed and then proceed to beat down the 5th or 6th place team from a BCS conference in the 1st round of the tournament, and have their fans wondering, "Who The Hell Is St. Bonaventure" during and after the game!! FQ, you could be right about St. Bonaventure actually being a couple spots higher than a 10 seed, I was just going by what they kept showing during the game from CBS' bracketology guy.

With four A-10 teams in the NIT, this thread continues.

Toledo at Richmond                    7   ESPN2 - Richmond was the preseason favorite to win the A10, most of their starters are seniors. The COVID pause after they won at Kentucky probably derailed their season. 

Western Kentucky at St. Louis    9  ESPN2 - when is it decided whether St. Louis gets to replace a team in the NCAA tournament?
 

Richmond beats Toledo, the A10 was a lot better this year, in a non Covid season could have played up to 4 teams in the Dance.  One of the conferences most impacted by Covid, I believe lost the most games to it.

Much deeper league than in most years, a very real chance one of the 4 A10 teams win the NIT 

Agreed, in fact Richmond entered the year the strongest A10 team and given a full normal season I think would have been.  

Fats is a 4th year senior, from Hurley's last recruiting class, does that mean that mean every guy who played this year, no matter eligibility, is eligible to play again next year if they chose to?

So, for the huge number of seniors, including the pedestrian solid player, and the lightly used players, do they come back? What happens where you recruited a class of Freshman expecting several seniors to run out of eligibility but they want to come back T?
 

If a senior stays for the extra year, it doesn't count towards the scholarship limit. But if they leave and use that extra year of eligibility somewhere else, they DO count towards the scholarship limit for that team. So Matt wouldn't count if he stayed but if we got Fatts or Kellen (just using those two as an example cause they were mentioned above, they are not coming here) they WOULD count. 

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