Griping about fellow posters is a convenient way to avoid the topic of our 17 loss season with a team that started three seniors, isn't it?

It also avoids the FACT that the top mids have no transfers from NAIA or D-2 rosters.

Or that guys like (i.e. - comparable to) the much maligned Cornish and Wiz would have been our best subs this season.

Or that...maybe I'll save the rest for later...

Weird.






Anyway…. Flip it on over to ESPN, Elyjah Freeman is a starter for Auburn. Played D2 last season.

Lincoln Memorial is very fine small school. A few years ago I got a tour of their relative new college of osteopathic medicine.

And, of course, I can't pass up this opportunity to pass on a little Civil War history related to the founding of LMU. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia:

"In 1896, General Oliver O. Howard, a former Union officer who had helped establish Howard University (named for him), embarked on a lecture tour. Howard's agent, Cyrus Kehr, suggested Howard establish a university as a living memorial to President Abraham Lincoln. On June 18, 1896, Howard spoke at the Harrow School, an elementary school at Cumberland Gap founded a few years earlier by Reverend A. A. Myers. After the lecture, Myers asked Howard for assistance in establishing a college for the Cumberland Gap region. Howard related to Myers a conversation he had with Lincoln in 1863 in which the president expressed a desire to do something to help the people of East Tennessee, a majority of whom remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War in spite of the greater state's secession, and, remembering Kehr's suggestion, agreed to help Myers establish a university in Lincoln's honor."

I might add that Lincoln very much wanted to create a loyal state of East Tennessee, much like he did by separating the western part of Virginia, and creating the new state of West Virginia. However, he lacked the legal nexus that he had in western Virginia where there was a legally recognized government for the whole state Virginia in Wheeling known as the Restored Government of Virginia, which could legally ask for the partitioning of the state. There was no such entity in eastern Tennessee.

I already named a number of prominent >mid-majors< who had NO d-2 transfers.

Maybe you can take remedial reading and comprehension this summer. You need it.

You can get a life while you are at it. You obviously don't have one.

Ben McCollum is CBB’s equivalent of Curt Cignetti. An Elite 8 run in year 1 comparable to Cignetti getting Indiana to the playoffs in year 1.

"My team is on the floor." -Fred Hoiberg

Nobody does less with more than John Scheyer.

The MAC Champion. Coming to a play-in game near you

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/4...

It's easy to ignore 4 games and not pick them for the brackets, but 12 is a lot harder. I wonder if the large bracket pool services like ESPN and Yahoo will try to 48 hour turnaround on brackets and include these games in the picks. Probably not.

It sucks, but not sure what the NCAA is supposed to do, exactly.

The consensus seems to be on BA.com that mid-majors are never gonna upset anybody anymore and the gap's widening between P5 and everybody else. If that's true and the goal of the NCAA tournament is for the best teams to compete for a championship, seems like this was the logical conclusion to reach.

It's just getting harder and harder to care as much.

NIL/Portal has turned mid-majors into JUCO programs. We will always be lucky to have decent/good players to stay for two years. And if we catch lightning in a bottle with a great player, he's gone after one year.

And now expanding the NCAA Tournament to 76 teams is just gross. Congrats to the 16-16 Auburn's of the world getting those extra bids over a mid-major that goes 27-5.

Like I said...it's getting harder and harder to care as much for the Ohio alum and fan of mid-major hoops.