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Posted on 3/5/26 at 4:21 pm to rushball
Posted on 3/5/26 at 4:21 pm to rushball
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but we also beat illinois who beat purdue so that along with what happens to them the rest the way technically makes it a real possibility.
Yeah but I don't think they will consider that. They just see we lost to those teams.
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Posted on 3/5/26 at 4:22 pm to rushball
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we were sloppy in that one but made it a game. georgia is a solid team. a road loss against them isnt that bad for the resume.
right but they lost by double digits. Had that game come down to a last shot it might be different, just seeing the box score, it's a 10-point defeat.
Posted on 3/5/26 at 4:36 pm to rushball
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a road loss against them isnt that bad for the resume.
Georgia loss wasn't bad at all but that extra Q1 win would have had us protecting a #3 seed instead of chasing one. Especially, since a weak spot of most teams we're competing against like Iowa St, Purdue, Kansas etc is their mediocre finish.
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no chance of passing iowa st. or probably gonzaga but the rest are indeed possible. yes we lost to purdue but we also beat illinois who beat purdue so that along with what happens to them the rest the way technically makes it a real possibility.
Games to watch:
KANSAS Vs first good opponent in Big12 tourney. We already have a better resume than them head to head but they're named Kansas so they may need one more loss.
Iowa @ NEBRASKA
Wisconsin @ PURDUE
Ariz St @ IOWA ST (ISU has lost 3 of 4 and their resume is a lot closer to ours than you'd think)
TEXAS TECH @ BYU
Oregon St or San Fran Vs GONZAGA in WCC Tourney (long shot but Gonzaga dropping this game while others here or Bama beat 2 more tourney bound teams could drop them)
If three of those upsets were to happen Saturday, the road to a 3 seed opens a little by just getting to Sunday.
Posted on 3/5/26 at 4:49 pm to TS1926
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Yeah but I don't think they will consider that. They just see we lost to those teams.
well they are supposed to look at the entire body of work so you never know
Posted on 3/5/26 at 4:59 pm to wm72
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Georgia loss wasn't bad at all but that extra Q1 win would have had us protecting a #3 seed instead of chasing one. Especially, since a weak spot of most teams we're competing against like Iowa St, Purdue, Kansas etc is their mediocre finish.
true that the win wouldve mattered alot more. def wouldnt of cared about winning the sec tourney at that point but probably still wouldve needed to win atleast one more depending who against.
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KANSAS Vs first good opponent in Big12 tourney. We already have a better resume than them head to head but they're named Kansas so they may need one more loss.
true. sad but true. certainly wouldnt surprise me.
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If three of those upsets were to happen Saturday, the road to a 3 seed opens a little by just getting to Sunday.
yep, and i do think all of those except for the iowa st. game would be possible.
Posted on 3/5/26 at 8:36 pm to rushball
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florida has been on a tear but they arent perfect either. bama is one of the few teams capable of taking them but thats just how i see it.
Not sure who your dealer is, but they must be giving you some “good stuff.”
We would be lucky to keep it single digits if we played them at home, with Bediako available, and after we had plenty of rest/prep. Beating them in our 3rd game in 3 days on a neutral court with their front court depth compared to ours is nothing short of a hallucination.
This post was edited on 3/5/26 at 8:37 pm
Posted on 3/5/26 at 9:00 pm to BamaBravesPackers
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Beating them in our 3rd game in 3 days on a neutral court with their front court depth compared to ours is nothing short of a hallucination.
Right? We should just call it a season and get started on next year. No point in playing another game since we can't possibly beat Florida.
Posted on 3/5/26 at 9:30 pm to RollTide33
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Right? We should just call it a season and get started on next year
This is such a low effort post. We made a final four due to having a path with good matchups and the team we didn’t matchup with lost to Clemson. It could happen again. People can be knowledgeable basketball fans and joke about our limitations without giving up on the season.
Are you season ticket holder? Will you be there Saturday or traveling to support the team during the NCAA? If not, maybe you are the one that gave up on the season. If we play a 1 seed in the NCAAT this year, I’ll likely be there cheering us on in person regardless of whether we have a roster that can win or not. Some people are fair weather fans and don’t understand the game…they typically say things like “call it a season” and other nonsense like it.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 6:11 am to BamaBravesPackers
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Not sure who your dealer is, but they must be giving you some “good stuff.”
We would be lucky to keep it single digits if we played them at home, with Bediako available, and after we had plenty of rest/prep. Beating them in our 3rd game in 3 days on a neutral court with their front court depth compared to ours is nothing short of a hallucination.
what about their backcourt depth compared to ours? also sherrell is better than chinyelu, condon is a cuck, and amari is one of the few guys capable of making a guy like hough sweat. they may be the favorites but that game is by no means out of reach.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 6:23 am to BamaBravesPackers
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This is such a low effort post. We made a final four due to having a path with good matchups and the team we didn’t matchup with lost to Clemson.
that was not the only reason we made the final four. i think i even remember you being a guy who claimed it would take a miracle to beat that top seeded unc. a unc team with one of their most accomplished bigs and guards of all time, along with several pros. heres the thing, it didnt. ofcourse we had to play well and all but we didnt even have wrightsell.
also that clemson team was arguably a tougher matchup than what zona would have been anyway because they not only had an excellent frontcourt, which included a legit nba guy but unlike that zona team they could really shoot.
pretty sure you were also one of the ones who before this season thought aden couldnt be a legit starter and that sherrell would most likely suck.
as a fellow genuine basketball fan i do hear your points but heres the thing on mine, it wouldnt be the first time ive seen you have to eat crow and i doubt it would be last.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 7:44 am to rushball
On IBOB Eve, I want to congratulate former fAU bball player Jabari Smith on a historic accomplishment!
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Posted on 3/6/26 at 8:19 pm to rushball
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that was not the only reason we made the final four. i think i even remember you being a guy who claimed it would take a miracle to beat that top seeded unc. a unc team with one of their most accomplished bigs and guards of all time, along with several pros.
You’re confusing Duke 2025 with UNC in 2024 (which Duke probably wouldn’t appreciate given the rivalry). I said it would take a miracle to beat Duke, and we got crushed. I was ecstatic at the bracket in 2024 as it was absolutely the best we could have hoped for, including getting the 4 seed. I had F4 tickets if we made it and it was an awesome trip to Phoenix to watch us in our first ever F4.
The fact that SECT champ Auburn got the same 4 seed, a harder path, and got knocked out by Yale in the 1st round was just icing on the cake (another example of “hard evidence” that winning the conference tournament was bad. We got rest and prep after being bounced on Friday and made a run, they got tired winning the SECT and couldn’t overcome losing 1 player against a 13 seed).
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also that clemson team was arguably a tougher matchup than what zona would have been anyway because they not only had an excellent frontcourt, which included a legit nba guy but unlike that zona team they could really shoot.
AZ had a physicality that we couldn’t matchup with particularly at the guard position. They could run us off the 3 point line and had rim protection and rebounding to back up their physical guards. If we played them, we would have needed them to have a really bad shooting performance (which was possible with that particular team, but not something we could force them into given our small back court). Clemson was absolutely beatable as their front court was skilled but not dominant physically. We had guys that could play defense and rebound against those types of players (Grant, Pringle, etc.). There’s a reason AZ was the 2 seed and Clemson was the 6, and it wasn’t because Clemson was the harder team to matchup with.
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pretty sure you were also one of the ones who before this season thought aden couldnt be a legit starter
Literally said Holloway would be fine for 90% of the games we play, but his defense and lack of physicality would be a liability against the top 15 teams who have size advantages on their roster (similar to Duke, FL, and even AU from 2024-2025 season). Holloway has definitely played better defense this season, but guess who he was a liability against? Top 15 teams with size…AZ bullied him, FL, Purdue, even Tennessee dominated the glass partly because our less physical guards couldn’t rebound (we were very fortunate their lottery pick got injured and their offense sucks horribly without him). Aden is awesome at offense, but his defensive and physical liabilities showed up exactly where I said they would.
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and that sherrell would most likely suck.
Now you’re just making stuff up. I said our front court was a weakness and it would likely limit our ceiling…that has been 100% true so far. Sherrell was our strongest front court player we had last year and played the best 1:1 post defense against physically strong centers (better than Grant or Cliff). He was our best 3 point shooting front court player last year as well. In no way did I say Sherrell “would most likely suck.”
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it wouldnt be the first time ive seen you have to eat crow and i doubt it would be last.
While this is a factual statement, the tone of it is generally inaccurate. The only definitive take that I can remember having to eat crow over was when I claimed that I didn’t think Jalen Milroe was going to be good enough at reading defenses to win elite games and make a legit playoff run in 2024. I had to eat crow after the UGA win, only to watch him lose 4 out of the next 9 games including an awful win over USCe and proving my take to be correct in the end.
Feel free to bring receipts on others if you want, but I don’t consider game thread banter of responding to a poster that claimed it’s not worth watching the 2nd half of UT or joking about not being man enough to beat UT as “eating crow takes,” especially when it took an injury to their best player and flukish enough things to happen that the coaches joked after the game that we probably deserved to win last years game instead of this years. Feel free to disagree
This post was edited on 3/6/26 at 8:36 pm
Posted on 3/6/26 at 8:56 pm to rushball
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what about their backcourt depth compared to ours?
Doesn’t matter when we can’t stop them from scoring 100 points because they get dunks/layups anytime they want.
quote:at 3s? That might be literally the only category that Sherrell is better at. I don’t study the mock drafts, but I can’t imagine Sherrell is higher on the prospect list for NBA success.
also sherrell is better than chinyelu
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condon is a cuck
Were you drunk posting? What a ridiculous thing to say about a critical piece of a team that won the NC last year, is closing in on a 1 seed this year, and has beaten the team you root for like a drum 3 times in a row (with a 4th potentially on the table). He has a NCAA MBB NC ring…you don’t. Might want to look in the mirror.
quote:Finally, a reasonable statement. While this is true and I love Allen as a player for us, I know who I would choose if I could only pick one and was choosing a team to coach to win $1B.
amari is one of the few guys capable of making a guy like hough sweat
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they may be the favorites but that game is by no means out of reach
Brother, I don’t know what to tell you. I believe in miracles so “anything is possible,” but we aren’t beating FL on Sunday of the SECT if they are healthy and didn’t party all night after the Sat game. The roster mismatch is so glaring, we would have to play our A+ game and they would have to play their D+ game to even give us a shot at pulling out a close victory (and they haven’t played a D+ game all year, not even in their loss to AU at home). It’s possible, in the same way it’s possible to win the lottery.
This post was edited on 3/6/26 at 8:57 pm
Posted on 3/7/26 at 12:54 am to BamaBravesPackers
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You’re confusing Duke 2025 with UNC in 2024
no i wasnt. while many were excited about the matchup you had make it clear you thought unc was the clear better team and that we would be a huge underdog if wrightsell didnt play. he didnt and we werent.
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AZ had a physicality that we couldn’t matchup with particularly at the guard position. They could run us off the 3 point line and had rim protection and rebounding to back up their physical guards. If we played them, we would have needed them to have a really bad shooting performance
yea muh caleb love so much more physical than mark. this is another great example of your 90s way of looking at the game. growing up were you like that lithuanian center at the end of the bench who insisted on telling the coach ''you had the good stuff?''
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Literally said Holloway would be fine for 90% of the games we play, but his defense and lack of physicality would be a liability against the top 15 teams
so yes, youre still saying it then. aden 6'1 or not has been the least of bamas issues this season. if you cant see that then youre hopeless.
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Now you’re just making stuff up.
nope, you thought it was very unlikely that sherrell specifically could be a good defender and you for some reason were sure that oats thought that as well. lol
This post was edited on 3/7/26 at 1:11 am
Posted on 3/7/26 at 1:09 am to BamaBravesPackers
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Doesn’t matter when we can’t stop them from scoring 100 points because they get dunks/layups anytime they want
so by your logic of the fatigue factor it doesnt matter that a tired boogie and lee will have to go up against arguably the top backcourt in the country in philon and aden because they will automatically get 100 points in layups. do you even hear yourself? how do you not come off as a florida homer in this or at the very least emo.
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at 3s? That might be literally the only category that Sherrell is better at. I don’t study the mock drafts, but I can’t imagine Sherrell is higher on the prospect list for NBA success.
sherrell is a superior rim protector and yes, a much better offensive player and i could care less what some sports journalists ranks them as pro prospects because that doesnt mean a damn thing.
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What a ridiculous thing to say about a critical piece of a team that won the NC last year,
i just knew a florida homer like you would be offended by it
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Finally, a reasonable statement. While this is true and I love Allen as a player for us, I know who I would choose if I could only pick one and was choosing a team to coach to win $1B.
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Brother, I don’t know what to tell you. I believe in miracles so “anything is possible,” but we aren’t beating FL on Sunday of the SECT if they are healthy and didn’t party all night after the Sat game. The roster mismatch is so glaring, we would have to play our A+ game and they would have to play their D+ game to even give us a shot at pulling out a close victory (and they haven’t played a D+ game all year, not even in their loss to AU at home). It’s possible, in the same way it’s possible to win the lottery.
spoken like a true florida homer. pathetic
Posted on 3/7/26 at 5:50 am to rushball
Are you guys married?
Posted on 3/7/26 at 9:00 am to Syd
the most absurd claim ive seen on this thread yet. lol
Posted on 3/7/26 at 10:08 am to rushball
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no i wasnt. while many were excited about the matchup you had make it clear you thought unc was the clear better team and that we would be a huge underdog if wrightsell didnt play. he didnt and we werent.
I’m not going to argue with someone that literally makes things up and 90% of your statements have no factual basis. Have a blessed day and RTR. Posted on 3/7/26 at 3:10 pm to BamaBravesPackers
ha well thats good, i was done trolling anyway. just know nothing was made up outside the obvious condon joke as hes clearly an annoying arse player to deal with, and as a word of advice perhaps next time you decide to downplay our final four run or glaze florida maybe try doing so in a manner where you dont come off as a complete tool about it. a blessed day to you as well sir.
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