The Never-ending College basketball season thread

If Duke wins tonight, it’ll be K’s 100th career tournament win. If they lose, he walks away stuck on 99.

wreck em Tech

 

Not a fan of Dook. I hope they lose.

 

Floppy McFlopperson from Arkansas got another charge call he didn’t deserve. He was in the restricted area.

 

Flopper gets an offensive bailout call. No idea why he gets away with so much.

 

Of course Michigan misses 20 layups tonight.

 

[uck fay] Michigan.

The phantom "charges" pizz me off. So, [uck fay] arky.

 

3 or 4 fouls on Chet were arky players lunging into him. Biggest * was arky stepping clearly out of bounds then kicked out for a 3 by floppy. Momentum change that extended the lead and Zags never recovered.
That said, zags guard play didn’t look as good as the past. Some of that due to ark and some due to less talented than expected. No dominant pg

 

[uck fay] arky, because arky.

 

At Pete pressuring the hell out of purdue

 

Should we just get 2 giants like Purdue and throw it to them every time? Boring iyam

 

Maybe the worst team is going to win this tournament instead of the best. It’s like a reverse tournament

 

Maybe single elimination tournaments maximize variance, making weird runs like this more likely than they would be otherwise, even if still unlikely overall.

 

They do, but for St. Peter’s I also wouldn’t say these have been extreme outlier games. They are defending and just outplaying people.

 

From what I read LSUs entire team has either left or entered the transfer portal. Every single player.

 

Meet LSU's 2022-2023 basketball team!!

 

I just don’t get this approach to trying to bolster the women’s game.

The tweet is not a lie, but the insinuation that goes along with it is. People don’t like being lied to, so, naturally, they respond to the tweet, pointing out that the mens tournament isn’t played on ESPN.

And then people respond to those responses, aghast that anyone would dare question the viewership strength of the women’s game. One person says “We aren’t competing with the men. We are competing with any sport that gets less that 5 million viewers in that time slot, which is a lot.” … But the original tweet LITERALLY compared you to the men.

It’s a counterintuitive approach. You’re trying to trick people into thinking everybody is watching a game in an attempt to get more people to watch moving forward. But people don’t like being tricked, so when they recognize they’re being tricked, they become adversarial, even if they would normally be a supporter, or, at the least, not a detractor, of the women's game.

Say that it was the most watched womens college basketball game since ‘04 or whatever, make a general comment about how womens sports are important, and let everyone move on with their day.

 

What did she say that was factually wrong? Perhaps you are reading more into that there is? If she left out the (men or women) part, would it have changed anything? Because if she left it out, that would then simply be implied, so nothing would have changed.

 

Nothing she said was factually wrong. I said that in my post. The tweet is not a lie.

But she's being intentionally misleading by making an unbalanced comparison. And people don't like to be misled.

 

What is unbalanced about it? If she had said "highest rated basketball game on ESPN since 2008" would that be unbalanced? Or do you want her to say "highest rated women's game on ESPN since 2000"?

What is it she should have said and why would it be 'not misleading'?

 

Why is she limiting the data set to ESPN? What reason is there to do so, other than to eliminate the most watched college basketball games of any given year from the data?