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Post by Pantherholic on Feb 2, 2011 18:12:08 GMT -6
"I'm sure UW-Mil is a good team, but didn't we play them recently? along with about 4 other UW-city teams? Whatever, go bulls and win the F out of this game." "We won UW Green Bay this year on the road, who beat Milwaukee. We could run the UW Satellite school system. " Do you need ANY more reasons for us to commit to Milwaukee and Milwaukee alone? You spoke too soon... ...Disappointed UB didn't draw a stronger opponent in a year they host a bracketbuster and get to play in the friendly confines, especially given the recent uptick in student energy, but UW's a good opponent from a competitive league.I didn't know the Badgers were in the BB. EDIT: It appears I spoke too soon too. Someone in a different thread referred to us a "W-Milwaukee"  |
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Post by pantherdon on Feb 3, 2011 11:39:37 GMT -6
"the UW Satellite school system. "
This school is simply known as "University at Buffalo" University of what?
Convenient how they omit the State of New York part, and rag on our name.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Feb 3, 2011 12:22:06 GMT -6
It's the State University of New York at Buffalo. Nancy Zimpher is the system's 12th -- and first female -- chancellor.
This never would have become an issue if there wasn't BracketBuster pool play among 92 non-qualifying teams.
Just skim off the top 20 or so mid-major programs and let them play in a televised showcase and leave the rest of us out of this humdrum non-event.
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Post by panthersteve on Feb 3, 2011 12:43:28 GMT -6
This event has all the appeal, relevance and marketability of bell bottom jeans
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Post by ghostofdylan on Feb 3, 2011 12:53:13 GMT -6
Steve, I'm about as interested in playing SUNY-Buffalo as I am in returning to Klotsche.
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Feb 3, 2011 13:08:10 GMT -6
Just skim off the top 20 or so mid-major programs and let them play in a televised showcase and leave the rest of us out of this humdrum non-event. I think they did that in the first year of the BracketBuster, which left many schools not playing on that weekend. |
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Post by panthersteve on Feb 3, 2011 13:31:25 GMT -6
Ouch Paul.... kind of fits into the whole Turn Back the Clock theme....the Death of Disco is a cool movie and thankfully literally true...hopefully same for Klotsche... maybe Victors pathetic dance that night was dancing on Klotsche Centers grave hopefully as it relates to regular season mens basketball
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Post by ghostofdylan on Feb 3, 2011 14:10:46 GMT -6
"I think they did that in the first year of the BracketBuster, which left many schools not playing on that weekend."
Did the teams not play at all ... or did they play within their conference?
My guess is that it was the latter.
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Post by GoPanthers33 on Feb 3, 2011 15:28:34 GMT -6
"I think they did that in the first year of the BracketBuster, which left many schools not playing on that weekend." Did the teams not play at all ... or did they play within their conference? My guess is that it was the latter. Due to the Bracket Buster scheduling on semi short notice I don't think they could play within their conference. A team would just not play and have a weekend off I guess. |
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Post by Rawls on Feb 3, 2011 16:21:24 GMT -6
"I think they did that in the first year of the BracketBuster, which left many schools not playing on that weekend." Did the teams not play at all ... or did they play within their conference? My guess is that it was the latter. Due to the Bracket Buster scheduling on semi short notice I don't think they could play within their conference. A team would just not play and have a weekend off I guess. To quote Lana Kane, Yyyup! No game, no chance to improve your RPI. |
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Post by ghostofdylan on Feb 3, 2011 18:14:11 GMT -6
Nope, the projected top three teams were Milwaukee, UIC and Detroit.
Milwaukee visited Southern Illinois, UIC hosted Bowling Green and Detroit visited UC Santa Barbara.
The rest of the league played conference games.
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Post by Rawls on Feb 3, 2011 19:02:49 GMT -6
So it was done by preseason projections? God, that'd be even worse. What about a team that wasn't projected to be as good (y'know, one that might need a game like this to put them over the edge for the committee)?
I'll take matching teams up based on results vs. projections any day. That means everyone has the same shot. The BB provides for evenly matched opponents in non-conference games for conferences that struggle to schedule noncon games. It's a crapshoot trying to predict how good your opponents will be months/years ahead of time. The BB gives you a good game.
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Post by GoPanthers33 on Feb 3, 2011 19:33:59 GMT -6
I'm with K-Raw...
Just choosing who they "think" will be the top 3 and having them play sounds awful. There are surprises every year and a surprise team would be totally shafted if they were not "chosen" to play that year.
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Post by nohopspanther on Feb 3, 2011 21:04:42 GMT -6
Nope, the projected top three teams were Milwaukee, UIC and Detroit. Milwaukee visited Southern Illinois, UIC hosted Bowling Green and Detroit visited UC Santa Barbara. The rest of the league played conference games. We got stuck moving a conference game in the middle of the week up by a day or two in order to play at SIU. It was an even worse system to deal with. |
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Post by GoPanthers33 on Feb 10, 2011 22:02:05 GMT -6
So we are now just over a week from the bracket buster game and after watching the game tonight it got me thinking.
We should give some of our guys who usually don't play much like Mitchel Carter a decent amount of playing time. I liked what I saw tonight and wouldn't mind seeing him get a little more playing time to prepare for the HLT. Were not in the running for an At-Large so this game has only small things to gain. We can gain playing time for the bench and possibly help out an NCAA tourney seed should we win the HLT.
Lets face it the HLT is a grind and it would be nice to have a deep bench ready to go!
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