🏀 NCAA Tournament Men's Basketball - Outside UVa Thread

Miami with some YOLO shot selection instead of killing clock.

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Toombs is a weird player - he’s not quite a center defensively but he doesn’t shoot 3s, he’s only had 2 dunks this season as a 6’10” guy who’s taken 50+ shots at the rim, doesn’t draw FTs. But he’s really good at that little push shot in lane right below the FT line that is technically a mid-range shot in the classifiers.

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It won’t hold, but as of right now, this is the 3rd season Andy Enfield has had a team ranked exactly #46 in T-Rank:

If you ever want to remind yourself which year Evan Mobley was in college, just consult the link above and find the year that’s outside the Enfield Zone.

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Thank god Miami U won. The worst people on twitter would be so annoying if they got blown out.

That being said, Ament is going to drop 35 in the paint on Friday

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Andy Enfield turned 2 March wins by Dunk City into 11 years at USC plus 2 more and counting at SMU.

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The ACC’s not looking so hot right now….

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Eh I’ll wait until the ACC teams not in the first 4 play to make a determination. I’ll preemptively say I don’t care about UNC’s result with Wilson out too.

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Tennessee is going to feast against the Miami OH team. They’ll have to hit a million 3’s to stay in it

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Enfield coached a horrific game last night. No idea what he was trying to do on either side of the ball. Whatever. Unfortunately Tennessee has gotten the worst 11.

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I said “what the hell is Enfield doing??” out loud about 10 times last night and only half of them were about his weird haircut

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Julius Caesar ass cut smh

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Beware the Threes of March

https://x.com/RealMattCarey/status/2034447298223087937?s=20

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Plus a Mobley brother along the way helped

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Not exactly encouraged by the ACC’s performance so far. Gonna be looking at 5 bids again if UNC, Louisville, Clemson, and Miami lose early too

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I only watched on and off, but from the parts I saw, Miami was taking good, clean, largely uncontested threes… just from 4 feet behind the line. For some reason SMU let them.

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Wake and Cal both won in the NIT, at least. Yeah big whoop no one cares. But they did avoid additional black eyes for the ACC.

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Seemed a number of Miami’s threes came on offensive rebounds. The maxim “long shots, long rebounds” seemed to apply. Shooting quickly after getting the O rebound meant SMU wasn’t ready to defend.

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It seemed like every loose ball found a miami shooter’s hands for a while there

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Biggest takeaway from the SMU-Miami game is the committee should get out of the business of considering injuries. The committee head explicitly said that Edwards’ return is why SMU got in the tourney… and then Edwards didn’t play… woof.

(And this is on top of the problem of accurately predicting the past and future game impacts of player availability, which is impossible.)

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Getting in or not should be totally resume based. Whatever a team did during the season earned them a spot or not. No need to try to project the future. If a team wins its conference championship, but loses its best players during or after the championship game, it doesn’t lose its spot. The same should apply to at large teams.

Regarding seeding though, I don’t know. You want to have the best tournament and be fair to all the teams. But no one provides full transparency about injuries. To win the tournament you have to beat all comers. I figure that if you lost to an underseeded team in the 2nd round because they have a key player back healthy, you would’ve lost to them in a later round if they were seeded higher. Like, the Celtics just got Tatum back and they’ll hit the playoffs seeded whatever they earned through their season results, mostly without Tatum. No one’s asking if that’s fair to their opponent.

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